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Periphrase
To use circumlocution.
Gossip
To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
Inculpate
To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt.
Punctually
In a punctual manner; promptly; exactly.
Misdoubt
To be suspicious of; to have suspicion.
Collect
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Whizzingly
With a whizzing sound.
Overjoy
To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.
Evermore
During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for.
Collectively
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
Misguide
To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
Disaccommodate
To put to inconvenience; to incommode.
Overjump
To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore.
Indagate
To seek or search out.
Self-reprovingly
In a self-reproving way.
Shabbily
In a shabby manner.
Demur
To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
Downwards
From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
Wantonly
In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.
Dilapidate
To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.
Encrust
To incrust. See Incrust.
Eerily
In a strange, unearthly way.
Edgeways
Alt. of Edgewise
Fabulize
To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions.
Supervene
To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.
Conciliate
To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.
Behappen
To happen to.
Hebraize
To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.
Levanter
One who levants, or decamps.
Quietly
In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.
Peculiarize
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession.
Prove
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
Blink
To trick; to deceive.
Outpace
To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind.
Edgewise
With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
Overlong
Too long.
Gnide
To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Object
Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
Glancingly
In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.
Gin
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Cavalierly
In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly.
Malapropos
Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
Logger
One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.
Configure
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.
Comport
To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
Contentment
The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.
Innately
Naturally.
Humanize
To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
Dilatorily
With delay; tardily.
Decollate
To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
Acquit
To clear one's self.
Aspirate
To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
Thieve
To practice theft; to steal.
Nay
To refuse.
Live
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
Increate
To create within.
Cock
To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
Desultorily
In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.
Estimate
To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the..
Previse
To inform beforehand; to warn.
Nol-pros
To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.
Exundate
To overflow; to inundate.
Tear
To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
Aflutter
In a flutter; agitated.
Machine
To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
Ungenerously
In an ungenerous manner.
Malignantly
In a malignant manner.
Recalcitrate
To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff.
Ploy
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
Downbear
To bear down; to depress.
Recline
To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
Overprize
Toprize excessively; to overvalue.
Sometimes
Formerly; sometime.
Close
Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
Diminish
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
Categorically
Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.
Advisedly
Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.
Prig
To cheapen.
Redeem
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Philosophize
To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.
Potter
To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.
Comprehensively
In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.
Spang
To spangle.
Connectedly
In a connected manner.
Main
The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
Moneyed
Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men.
Critically
In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly.
Fundamentally
Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
Evulgate
To publish abroad.
Outstart
To start out or up.
Historically
In the manner of, or in accordance with, history.
Empeople
To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people.
Nuncupate
To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally.
Metamorphose
To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
Creepingly
by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.
Flatwise
With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.
Decorticate
To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
Relevantly
In a relevant manner.
Unmanacle
To free from manacles.
Apprize
To appraise; to value; to appreciate.
Clinical
Alt. of Clinic
Hauberk
A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used syn..
Colloquialize
To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
Consecutively
In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively.
Affranchise
To make free; to enfranchise.
Disfigure
To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
Composite
Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
Drizzle
To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
Retund
To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.
Misspell
To spell incorrectly.
Detrain
To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
Entrain
To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
Perennially
In a perennial manner.
Judiciously
In a judicious manner; with good judgment; wisely.
Internally
Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface.
Miscall
To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
Beslabber
To beslobber.
Algebraize
To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.
Rechabite
One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in mo..
Obnubilate
To cloud; to obscure.
Bite
A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
Overstep
To step over or beyond; to transgress.
Hastings
Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease.
Becomingly
In a becoming manner.
Concernedly
In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
Designedly
By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
Embolden
To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
Profoundly
In a profound manner.
Envenom
To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to ..
Vacillate
To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Grabble
To grope; to feel with the hands.
Disentitle
To deprive of title or claim.
Surrejoin
To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
Wash
To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
Miscarry
To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.
Disedge
To deprive of an edge; to blunt; to dull.
Lingeringly
With delay; slowly; tediously.
Eke
To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply ..
Distrust
To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.
Disgust
To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.
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.
Virtually
In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
Upswarm
To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms.
Upstairs
Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
Upgrow
To grow up.
Trundle
A round body; a little wheel.
Therewithal
Over and above; besides; moreover.
Thereof
Of that or this.
Therefrom
From this or that.
Supra
Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.
Similarly
In a similar manner.
Parenthetically
In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.
Oversoon
Too soon.
Overhead
Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.
Lengthways
Alt. of Lengthwise
Acceptably
In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.
Inwardly
In the inner parts; internally.
Inversely
In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly.
Hereinbefore
In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).
Heavenward
Toward heaven.
Erectly
In an erect manner or posture.
Environ
To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.
Downward
Alt. of Downwards
Briefly
Concisely; in few words.
Conversely
In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.
Contrarily
In a contrary manner; in opposition; on the other side; in opposite ways.
Interiorly
Internally; inwardly.
Bendwise
Diagonally.
Anywise
In any wise or way; at all.
Alongside
Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
Accidentally
In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
Foliage
To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
Italicize
To print in Italic characters; to underline written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word; Italicizes too much.
Knowingly
With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend.
Anglicize
To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
Aforetime
In time past; formerly.
Word
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
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.
Pad
To wear a path by walking.
Flickeringly
In a flickering manner.
Doxologize
To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.
Disrobe
To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.
Cross-examine
To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
Conformably
With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
Overcloud
To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.
Dotard
One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
Miscalculate
To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.
Capitally
In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally.
Emasculate
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
Desirably
In a desirable manner.
Adequately
In an adequate manner.
Debauchee
One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
Enrich
To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.
Emaciate
To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
Additionally
By way of addition.
Inebriate
To make drunk; to intoxicate.
Explore
To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
Dignify
To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Accentuate
To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
Whereupon
Upon which; in consequence of which; after which.
Whereunto
Same as Whereto.
Whereon
On which; -- used relatively; as, the earth whereon we live.
Whereat
At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively.
Onwards
Onward.
Astride
With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Astraddle
In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.
Grumbly
In a grum manner.
Bastardize
To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
Disinterestedly
In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.
Est
East.
Animadvert
To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
Cognize
To know or perceive; to recognize.
Condignly
According to merit.
Assever
See Asseverate.
Alternately
In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
Ascertain
To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
Expropriate
To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
Hereinto
Into this.
Achromatize
To deprive of color; to make achromatic.
Efflorescent
That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.
Stealth
The act of stealing; theft.
Behindhand
In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
Hunch
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
Roost
Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Blockade
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
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.
Supper
To supply with supper.
Rosin
To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
Noways
In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise.
Candy
A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flav..
Pommel
To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.
Colliquate
To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt.
Backbite
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Ponderously
In a ponderous manner.
Outtop
To overtop.
Usury
A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
Seesaw
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
Shall
To owe; to be under obligation for.
Sculp
To sculpture; to carve; to engrave.
Slyly
In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
Never
Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.
Shill
To shell.
Immit
To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit.
Wooer
One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.
Winch
To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
Sleep
To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
Thaw
To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.
Mark
To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing.
Punter
One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.
Twinge
To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
Inculcate
To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility.
Discharge
Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
Unlace
To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe.
Wildly
In a wild manner; without cultivation; with disorder; rudely; distractedly; extravagantly.
Oft
Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
Watch
A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
Disclaunder
To injure one's good name; to slander.
Amerce
To punish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.
Usance
Interest paid for money; usury.
Deacon
To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.
Tightly
In a tight manner; closely; nearly.
Vie
To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
Tote
To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.
Dotage
Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
Rase
To rub along the surface of; to graze.
Dawn
To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
Yean
To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.
Sojourn
To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.
Pine
To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
Entitle
To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "H..
Publish
To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
Acrook
Crookedly.
Liquefy
To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
Accurse
To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
Lessee
The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
Farthermore
See Furthermore.
Jump
Exactly; pat.
Beg
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
Impalpably
In an impalpable manner.
Prompt
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
Rejoin
To join again; to unite after separation.
Pollenize
To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.
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 ..
Hornet
A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike materia..
Furl
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten...
Must
To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
Consummate
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
Palmer
One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Baigne
To soak or drench.
Becalm
To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
Smatter
To talk superficially about.
Affray
To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
Outwear
To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
Sneap
To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.
Uncurl
To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly.
Behight
To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
Prediscover
To discover beforehand.
Annunciate
To announce.
Terrace
A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
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.
Erogate
To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend.
Finely
In a fine or finished manner.
Insipidly
In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly.
When
At what time; -- used interrogatively.
Outwind
To extricate by winding; to unloose.
Savior
One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.
Whisperously
Whisperingly.
Beware
To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided.
Listen
To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
Straddle
To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Decrepitate
To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
Empale
To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Newly
Lately; recently.
Verify
To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.
Jaunt
To jolt; to jounce.
React
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
F
The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F /) is a tone intermediate between F and G.
Spoon
See Spoom.
Lately
Not long ago; recently; as, he has lately arrived from Italy.
Fire
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
Consider
To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
Ravish
To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
Lisp
The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.
Tousle
To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Hang
To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.
Slate
Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
Conjoin
To unite; to join; to league.
Often
Frequently; many times; not seldom.
Overgo
To travel over.
Avenge
To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
Wholly
In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
Embay
To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.
Fallibly
In a fallible manner.
Pregnantly
In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
Circumflex
To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
See
To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
Rubify
To redden.
Apoise
Balanced.
Cry
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
Yodel
Alt. of Yodle
Ruddle
To raddle or twist.
Far
To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
Waylay
To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.
Overdo
To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.
Apiece
Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece.
Solely
Singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.
Purfle
To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.
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.
Warmly
In a warm manner; ardently.
Flatly
In a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily; positively, plainly.
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.
Entreat
To invite; to entertain.
Chill
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Leam
See Leme.
Roisterly
In a roistering manner.
Feign
To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
Detest
To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
Pace
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
Miscolor
To give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts.
Aliene
To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.
Duly
In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.
Humbly
With humility; lowly.
Whip
The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
Efform
To form; to shape.
Anyway
Alt. of Anyways
Aboard
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
Embox
To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.
Becalm
To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.
Bask
To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
Bigg
See Big, n. & v.
Nuzzle
To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
Ray
To array.
Lurk
To lie hid; to lie in wait.
Lollop
To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.
Unsay
To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.
Excel
To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.
Bemist
To envelop in mist.
Dully
In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.
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.
Flake
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Gee
To agree; to harmonize.
Tamely
In a tame manner.
Sneak
To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.
Spay
To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).
Infest
Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
Recure
To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
Snatch
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
Cypher
See Cipher.
Brief
Briefly.
Evilly
In an evil manner; not well; ill.
Pamphlet
To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.
Aweigh
Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.
Hard
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
Forger
One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
Enmist
To infold, as in a mist.
Adduct
To draw towards a common center or a middle line.
Couche
Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
Waggle
To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
Record
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
Tend
To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
Leer
To learn.
Nought
See Naught.
Advert
To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.
Behead
To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
Wigwag
To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose.
Byname
To give a nickname to.
Despecificate
To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.
Kidnap
To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.
Flunk
To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
Cadge
To carry, as a burden.
Caper
To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
Befool
To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.
Adieu
Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
Cavort
To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
Ruth
Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.
Adown
From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.
Ladle
A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
Astir
Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.
Quit
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
Loathe
To feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for.
Besnow
To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
Hereto
To this; hereunto.
Debark
To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
Prank
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.
Aport
On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.
Outvie
To exceed in vying.
Vend
To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
Paddle
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
Calve
To bring forth a calf.
Fitly
In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.
Belong
To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
Bouge
To swell out.
Violate
To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.
Dizen
To dress; to attire.
Beseem
Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.
Felly
In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely.
Bren
Alt. of Brenne
Conn
See Con, to direct a ship.
Trimly
In a trim manner; nicely.
Skirl
To utter in a shrill tone; to scream.
Accent
To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
Braze
To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.
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, ..
Basely
In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
Unturn
To turn in a reserve way, especially so as to open something; as, to unturn a key.
Calmly
In a calm manner.
Swoon
To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
Manure
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
Rough
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
Ambush
A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.
Claps
Variant of Clasp
Dryly
In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Aright
Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.
Amply
In an ample manner.
Curtly
In a curt manner.
Rid
imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.
Inarch
To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach.
Blond
Alt. of Blonde
Ossify
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
Grege
Alt. of Gregge
Resent
To be sensible of; to feel
Throne
To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
Participantly
In a participant manner.
Hither
To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.
Covet
To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.
Grope
To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
Engild
To gild; to make splendent.
Meetly
Fitly; suitably; properly.
Allude
To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.
Oxidate
To oxidize.
Illumine
To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
Surcharge
To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
Exhume
To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
Broker
One who transacts business for another; an agent.
Nimbly
In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.
Cozily
Snugly; comfortably.
Happen
To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
Idly
In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.
Creak
To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.
Abeam
On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.
Be
To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
Cham
To chew.
Elute
To wash out.
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..
Baldly
Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.
Abduce
To draw or conduct away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part.
Exert
To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
Prig
To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
Anneal
To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
Align
To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
Meekly
In a meek manner.
Slowly
In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.
Uptown
To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.
Ceil
To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
Dimly
In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.
Argufy
To argue pertinaciously.
Maffle
To stammer.
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