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Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Tactics
Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Imaginative
Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.
Deliberative
Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.
Litigation
The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.
Headway
The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
Comportment
Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
Judicial
Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proce..
Earnings
of Earning
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Work
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Aldine
An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign ..
Journey
The travel or work of a day.
Denary
Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.
Pose
To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as ..
React
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
Revenue
The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
Brief
Briefly.
Record
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
Active
In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.
Alias
Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, ..
Metric
Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
Exceed
To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, pow..
Behave
To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
Elapse
To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
Zetetic
Seeking; proceeding by inquiry.
Accrue
To increase; to augment.
Rise
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
Lawsuit
An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.
Gesture
Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
Gradual
Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decl..
Nonprofessional
Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.
From
Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, o..
Decimal
Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.
Aftermath
A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
Posterity
The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted ..
Distraint
The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
Ensue
To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake.
Prosecution
The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the pr..
Programme
That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in ..
Fore
Journey; way; method of proceeding.
Demeanor
Management; treatment; conduct.
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.
Caprice
An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
Adventure
That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Product
Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the produ..
Hansard
An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
Annual
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Malady
Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
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..
Ongoing
The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events.
Posterior
Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.
Genuine
Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine prod..
Anomalous
Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.
Process
The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
Newspaper
A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, pr..
Yearbook
A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.
Iniquitous
Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding.
Superstitious
Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.
Ambages
A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
Elephant
A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks..
Radiant
Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.
Continue
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
Endure
To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
Pose
Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
Serve
To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.
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.
Incident
Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
Income
A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
Repair
To return.
Emanation
The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
Last
of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.
Onward
Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.
Voluntary
Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
Algorithm
The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
Affectation
An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
Transaction
The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.
Praxis
Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object.
Militancy
The state of being militant; warfare.
Moving
of Move
Doings
of Doing
Chicane
The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
Royalty
The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.
Spurious
Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
Hinge
The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.
Effort
An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an objec..
Gross
Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
Emerge
To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from ..
Mien
Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.
Cruel
See Crewel.
Introductory
Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
Feat
An act; a deed; an exploit.
Handiwork
Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.
Pour
Poor.
Proceeding
of Proceed
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.
Exploit
A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.
Fatally
In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.
Pursue
To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.
Push
A pustule; a pimple.
Conduct
The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
Tackle
Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.
Bona fide
In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.
Undertake
To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.
Methodology
The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.
Stormy
Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
Progressing
of Progress
Hoard
See Hoarding, 2.
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 ..
Gleaning
of Glean
Tone
Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
Gate
A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be clos..
Intake
The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.
Informal
Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, ..
Vintage
The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
Times
of Time
Humoral
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.
Store
That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
Hearty
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
Outgrowth
That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
Judiciary
Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding.
Start
To leap; to jump.
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 ..
Reverential
Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.
Act
That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
Advance
To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
Fatal
Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
Amicable
Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement.
Arise
To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cl..
Telluric
Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
Emanate
To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.
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.
Punctilio
A nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, or proceeding; particularity or exactness in forms; as, the punctilios of a public ceremony.
Coup
A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.
Stem
Alt. of Steem
Authoritative
Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.
Life
The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or an..
Progressive
Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.
Maneuver
Alt. of Manoeuvre
Technique
Same as Technic, n.
Jail
A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
Preparation
The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of ..
Deportment
Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.
Senile
Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.
Sept
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.
Prudential
Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives.
Activity
The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.
Minute
The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
Straightforward
Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.
Radical
Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.
Fruit
Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
Yield
To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
Continual
Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding.
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.
Wise
Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
Posture
The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure ..
Port
A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
Address
To aim; to direct.
Desist
To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
Progression
The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.
Homologate
To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding.
Southern
Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.
Function
The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
Step
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
Commission
The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
Slide
To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
Originate
To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
Expire
To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
Of
In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; -- used in a variety of applications; as:
Presence
The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.
Output
The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time.
Travel
To labor; to travail.
Make
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
Suspense
Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
Sunny
Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; hence, shining; bright; brilliant; radiant.
Custom
Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
Wealth
Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
Pleadings
The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is ..
Legitimate
Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an ..
Affair
That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affa..
Performance
The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.
Inadvertency
The quality of being inadvertent; lack of heedfulness or attentiveness; inattention; negligence; as, many mistakes proceed from inadvertence.
Proceeds
That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
Receipt
The act of receiving; reception.
Sexual
Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or ..
Forward
An agreement; a covenant; a promise.
Pelf
Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.
Revenue
That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
Suit
The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
Attack
To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
Killing
of Kill
Dividend
A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among ..
Gest
A guest.
Undertaking
of Undertake
Stroke
Struck.
Popularity
The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popul..
Thing
Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.
Proceed
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
Forensic
Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.
Concern
To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
Persevere
To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to ..
Nonplus
A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.
Glide
The glede or kite.
Case
A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
Statement
The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
Cause
That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
Gloss
Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.
Air
The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
Carriage
That which is carried; burden; baggage.
System
An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or ..
Flit
To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
Motion
The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
Passage
The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird..
Tally
Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
Polar
Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds.
Majesty
The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftin..
Fly
To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
Method
An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
Spring
To leap; to bound; to jump.
March
The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
Trot
To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
Poise
Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.
Order
Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
Fare
To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
Assume
To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
Job
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
Credit
Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.
Action
A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by ..
Guise
Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit ..
Stream
A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any..
Enterprise
That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; ..
Doing
of Do
Procession
The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.
Achievement
The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.
Hand
That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
Issue
The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
Stunt
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
Accomplishment
The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
Get
Jet, the mineral.
Progress
A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
Do
A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical to..
Serve
To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired ..
Flow
imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
Run
of Run
Work
Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.
Derive
To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.
Net
To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.
Percentage
A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
Profit
Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sal..
Bulletin
A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.
Restrain
To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.
Brief
Short in duration.
Report
To refer.
Accounting
of Account
Lucre
Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
Tactics
The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and ..
Account
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
Slip
To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
Take
Taken.
Carry
To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
Record
To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
Business
That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular ..
Movement
The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in ..
Crop
The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
Matter
That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyze..
Go
Gone.
Interest
To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work.
Venture
An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
Lapse
A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
Produce
To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
Return
To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
Routine
A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
Procedure
The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
Irregular
Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to establis..
Cordial
Proceeding from the heart.
Blow
To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
Line
Flax; linen.
Manner
Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
Tack
A stain; a tache.
Practice
Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular e..
Extend
To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.
Fatality
The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Usage
The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.
Perquisite
Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service.
Mode
Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
Measure
A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is ..
Attempt
To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
Shape
To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
Hie
To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.
form
A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
Deed
Dead.
Accept
To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
Fashion
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution...
Production
The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.
Approach
To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
Condition
Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
Pass
To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motio..
Turn
To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change positi..
Stir
To change the place of in any manner; to move.
Servile
Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile f..
Play
To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
Result
To leap back; to rebound.
Holograph
A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.
Endeavor
To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
Way
Away.
Head
The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.
Sprout
To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
Operation
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Course
The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
Bearing
of Bear
Walk
To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot ..
Rise
To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a ..
Style
An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothi..
