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Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Object
Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
Cut
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
Gin
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Shy
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Rose
imp. of Rise.
Detrain
To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
Populate
Populous.
Vacillate
To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Grabble
To grope; to feel with the hands.
Pick
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
Upstairs
Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
Trundle
A round body; a little wheel.
Execrate
To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
Rally
A political mass meeting.
Salesman
One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Coldness
The state or quality of being cold.
Floorwalker
One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
Abysmal
Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
On
Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's ..
Roost
Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Settle
To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
Seesaw
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
Quits
See the Note under Quit, a.
Shell
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Watch
A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
Seesaw
A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Vie
To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
Treadle
The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
Pack
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
Jump
Exactly; pat.
Prompt
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
Mortar
A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
Alternate
That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
Rate
To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
Fire
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
Tallow
The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
Cry
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
Satinet
A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.
Feel
To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
Summer
One who sums; one who casts up an account.
Retire
To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
Force
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Chill
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Whip
The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
Bolt
To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
Snatch
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
Pick
The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to a..
Repulse
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
Caper
To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
Cavort
To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
Quit
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
Web
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feat..
Level
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
Spur
A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
Hurdle
A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as r..
Panic
A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
Akimbo
With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
Uptown
To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.
Alibi
The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prov..
Elapse
To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
Grease
Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
Carp
To talk; to speak; to prattle.
Quarter
A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.
Seller
One who sells.
Snivel
To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
Stay
Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
A spot.
Ape
A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of th..
Posthaste
Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier.
Rapidly
In a rapid manner.
Germ
That which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.
Skip
A charge of sirup in the pans.
Speedily
In a speedy manner.
Swiftly
In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
Apace
With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.
Puree
A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.
Promptly
In a prompt manner.
Arrogate
To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over king..
Colonize
To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Bivouac
The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
Alike
Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
Fold
That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
Embark
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
Remit
To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
Loaf
Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
Lounge
To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
Ram
To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
Sit
obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
Driblet
A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.
Haw
A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
Shunt
To shun; to move from.
Prance
To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
Fraternize
To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
Conserve
To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
Diversify
To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Mouldy
Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
Emblem
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
Slumbering
of Slumber
Perish
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
Sink
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Snappish
Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
Jib
A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying..
Flinch
To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinche..
Arduous
Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.
Evade
To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an ..
Raffle
A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole po..
Duck
To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
Vilify
To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
Before
In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.
Coxcomb
A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
Seclude
To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.
Cheval-de-frise
A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.
Embattle
To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
Ramp
To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
Revert
To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
Reappear
To appear again.
Inflict
To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a ..
Thresh
To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old stra..
Reside
To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time.
Inhabit
To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.
Startle
To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
Stampede
A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
Rotate
Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
Resound
To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
Henpeck
To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
Gin
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
Expedite
Free of impediment; unimpeded.
Dissociate
To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.
Combat
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
Cannonade
The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
Attain
To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
Achieve
To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
Accelerate
To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
Vituperate
To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
Repulse
To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
Interweaving
of Interweave
Foremost
First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.
Needy
Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
Deteriorate
To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.
Confess
To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
Mop
A made-up face; a grimace.
Scrabble
To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
Face
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.
Grimace
A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face..
Gambol
A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.
Whiff
A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
Dissipate
To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
Simplify
To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.
Impoverished
of Impoverish
Contend
To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
As
Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to w..
Adopt
To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Preserve
To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
Against
Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.
Usurp
To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or disposse..
Parry
To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
Inclemency
The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity.
Awake
To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Thoroughly
In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.
Iridium
A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum, which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle, and indifferent to most corrosive agents. With the exception of osmi..
Propel
To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
Upward
Alt. of Upwards
Skyward
Toward the sky.
Uphill
Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
Chaff
Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
Debauch
To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauc..
Equivocate
To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to misle..
Blackleg
A notorious gambler.
Lengthen
To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out.
Accroach
To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.
Prolong
To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.
Swindler
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Perpetuate
To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.
Immortalize
To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.
Trickster
One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Diverge
To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- oppose..
Subjugate
To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.
Defy
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
Swaddle
To beat; to cudgel.
Debris
Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
Adumbrate
To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Drawn
of Draw
Alight
To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
Torpedo
Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, ..
Loll
To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
Winnow
To separate chaff from grain.
Commensurate
To reduce to a common measure.
Insulate
To make an island of.
Default
A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.
Disconnect
To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.
Thrash
Alt. of Thresh
Isolate
To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
Depart
To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate.
Asleep
In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.
Womanize
To make like a woman; to make effeminate.
Sunder
To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder f..
Cool
To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
Hog
A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifi..
Wanton
Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
Lacing
of Lace
Knitting
of Knit
Lazy
Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
Whimper
To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers.
Rinderpest
A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
Decease
Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
Copyright
The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, ..
Continue
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
Soldier
One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
Fornicate
Alt. of Fornicated
Survive
To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.
Endure
To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
Apse
A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse w..
Reverberate
Reverberant.
Remit
To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
Resist
To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
Hay
A hedge.
Traitor
One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his ..
Pattern
Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
Tied
of Tie
Greet
Great.
Divorce
A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
Pillow
Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.
Undergird
To blind below; to gird round the bottom.
Teeter
To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.
Vary
To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to vary the properties, proportions, or nature o..
Fluctuate
To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
Spill
A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
Alternate
Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
Export
To carry away; to remove.
Vicissitude
Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
Disjoint
Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.
Swathe
To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers.
Last
of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.
Avow
To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
Shore
of Shear
Fast
To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
Come
of Come
Preempt
To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption.
Sheathe
To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.
Reap
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
Architecture
The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
Liquidate
To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedn..
Popple
To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble.
Bottomry
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayme..
Eagre
A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore.
Whaleboat
A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.
Own
To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
broke
of Break
Disembark
To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.
Unclasp
To loose the clasp of; to open, as something that is fastened, or as with, a clasp; as, to unclasp a book; to unclasp one's heart.
Jostle
To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against.
Mainstay
The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.
Costume
Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
Underlie
To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.
Loiter
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
Flounce
To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spas..
Acrid
Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.
Mug
A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.
Acknowledge
To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.
Encase
To inclose as in a case. See Incase.
Recur
To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
Preoccupy
To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.
Monopolize
To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopo..
Occupy
To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
Pounce
A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
Masquerade
An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
Recoil
To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
Pout
The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.
Absent
Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
Rebuff
Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
Brail
A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
Patronize
To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.
Hang
To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.
Rigor
Rigidity; stiffness.
Peck
The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
Sledge
A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a ..
Settle
A seat of any kind.
Harvest
The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.
Prop
A shell, used as a die. See Props.
Hackamore
A halter consisting of a long leather or rope strap and headstall, -- used for leading or tieing a pack animal.
Troll
A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
Switch
A small, flexible twig or rod.
Repeat
To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.
Push
A pustule; a pimple.
Avoid
To empty.
Relinquish
To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.
Sift
To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
Shun
To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
Tangle
To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
Battle
Fertile. See Battel, a.
Glean
To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
Quit
Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
Wrap
To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Anchor
A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular ..
Exclude
To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to ..
Metabolism
The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their ..
Jeer
A gear; a tackle.
Spur
A sparrow.
Alter
To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
Revive
To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
Gibe
To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
Analysis
A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as ..
Drive
To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke ..
Vacate
To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.
Out
In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to i..
Enlist
To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
Park
A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.
Barrier
A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
Severity
The quality or state of being severe.
Press
An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.
Revamp
To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.
Docket
A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
Suffer
To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
Taste
To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
Clammy
Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
Fleer
One who flees.
Swipe
A swape or sweep. See Sweep.
Berate
To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
Book
A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
Chill
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Withdraw
To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.
Divide
To have a share; to partake.
Crate
A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.
Fret
See 1st Frith.
Shipshape
Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly.
Tissue
A woven fabric.
Intimate
Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.
Fabrication
The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.
Stumble
To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
Web
A weaver.
Deviate
To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
Dissension
Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife..
Par
See Parr.
Formation
The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
Unclog
To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty.
Moor
One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
Hotfoot
In haste; foothot.
Spin
To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
Exterminate
To drive out or away; to expel.
Flout
To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
Checker
One who checks.
Yawning
of Yawn
Mock
To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
People
The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
Upon
On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.
Broadside
The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
Resign
To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, o..
Bug
A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
Resume
A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
Unconscious
Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
Couch
To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
Enfold
To infold. See Infold.
Revolve
To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
Barrage
An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.
Wallow
To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
Nut
The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
Urge
To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
Comatose
Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.
Jibe
To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.
Snap
To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
Relieve
To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
Start
To leap; to jump.
Enslave
To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
Soundless
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable.
Cradle
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle ..
Maintain
To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to ..
Withstand
To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.
Move
To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a ..
Jump
A kind of loose jacket for men.
Protract
To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
Fire
The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
Antagonize
To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
Ship
Pay; reward.
Relocate
To locate again.
Advance
To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
Impel
To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.
Meliorate
To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
Pedal
Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
Like
Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are l..
Undergo
To go or move below or under.
Grab
A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
Experience
Trial, as a test or experiment.
Oblivious
Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness.
Divide
To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
Save
The herb sage, or salvia.
Seize
To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
Rubbish
Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.
Tamp
In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
Sleeping
of Sleep
Despair
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
Clerk
A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
Canter
A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
Sciatica
Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the ..
Jiggle
To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.
Sidle
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Shift
To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
Buck
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
Blubber
A bubble.
Perch
Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch ..
Repel
To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
Contest
To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
Cope
A covering for the head.
Peroration
The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.
Gain
A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
Revolt
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
Log
A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
Bull
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
Land
Urine. See Lant.
Enter
To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters t..
Stem
Alt. of Steem
Hop
To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
Philander
To make love to women; to play the male flirt.
Aid
To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
Extirpate
To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error..
Shy
Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
Deplore
To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
Bombard
A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
Romp
To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
Remonstrate
To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
Prod
A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
Fault
Defect; want; lack; default.
Exit
He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
Tight
of Tie
Hastily
In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
Rig
A ridge.
Trade
A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
Know
Knee.
Modulate
To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
Sieve
A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair..
Interspace
Intervening space.
Disengage
To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from br..
Feel
To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thi..
Abdicate
To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
Billet
A small paper; a note; a short letter.
Straitened
of Straiten
Yap
To bark; to yelp.
Change
To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance.
Cull
To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
Cushion
A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.
Embalm
To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may ..
Mess
Mass; church service.
Keep
To care; to desire.
Taunt
Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
Completely
In a complete manner; fully.
Subtract
To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.
Disunite
To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
Laze
To be lazy or idle.
Wool
The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the shee..
Cannon
of Cannon
Pinched
of Pinch
Cornered
of Corner
Transmit
To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatc..
Scoff
Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
Frisk
Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
Encounter
To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppos..
Worsen
To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.
Swerve
To stray; to wander; to rope.
Touching
of Touch
Snipe
Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
Slam
To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.
Taut
Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
Renew
To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re/stablish; to recreate; to rebuild.
Concede
To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
Revile
To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.
Rake
An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for brea..
Equal
Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subj..
Estrange
To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.
Minute
The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
Eliminate
To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
Uproot
To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
Ensign
A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the arm..
Insinuate
To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.
Quickly
Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
Juggler
One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.
Dock
A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.
Mow
A wry face.
Overrun
of Overrun
Patent
Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
Hallow
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence.
Jolt
To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.
Leave
To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
Knock
To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
Roll
To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
Freight
That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.
Avert
To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."
Bawl
To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
Proportionate
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.
Fusillade
A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Poke
A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic a..
Hurtle
To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
Lope
of Leap.
Niggle
To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
Allow
To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
Boot
Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
Disjoin
To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.
Gallop
To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
Fend
A fiend.
