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Periphrase
To use circumlocution.
Gossip
To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
Demur
To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
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.
Hebraize
To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.
Gin
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Logger
One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.
Comport
To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
Live
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
Exundate
To overflow; to inundate.
Tear
To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
Ploy
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
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.
Outstart
To start out or up.
Clinical
Alt. of Clinic
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.
Detrain
To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
Grabble
To grope; to feel with the hands.
Surrejoin
To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
Miscarry
To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.
Upswarm
To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms.
Upgrow
To grow up.
Trundle
A round body; a little wheel.
Word
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
Pad
To wear a path by walking.
Doxologize
To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.
Dotard
One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
Emaciate
To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
Animadvert
To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
Efflorescent
That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.
Roost
Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Backbite
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Seesaw
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
Shall
To owe; to be under obligation for.
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.
Twinge
To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
Watch
A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
Vie
To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
Dotage
Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
Dawn
To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
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.
Beg
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
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 ..
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.
Baigne
To soak or drench.
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.
Spoon
See Spoom.
Fire
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
Consider
To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
Lisp
The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.
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.
Conjoin
To unite; to join; to league.
Cry
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
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.
Leam
See Leme.
Lurk
To lie hid; to lie in wait.
Lollop
To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.
Flake
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Gee
To agree; to harmonize.
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.
Snatch
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
Pamphlet
To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.
Waggle
To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
Tend
To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
Advert
To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.
Flunk
To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
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.
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.
Belong
To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
Bouge
To swell out.
Braze
To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.
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.
Rid
imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.
Grope
To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
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.
Happen
To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
Creak
To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.
Be
To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
Prig
To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.
Maffle
To stammer.
Blaze
To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
Lee
To lie; to speak falsely.
Smile
To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.
Elapse
To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
Inhere
To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.
Carp
To talk; to speak; to prattle.
Cuddle
To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
Snivel
To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
Goggle
Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.
Keelhaul
To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies.
Stink
To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
Melodize
To make melody; to compose melodies; to harmonize.
Wade
To go; to move forward.
Croon
To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
Dwell
To delay; to linger.
Same
Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.
Hang
To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.
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.
Chime
To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
Tattle
To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
Convene
To come together; to meet; to unite.
Prance
To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
Appropinquate
To approach.
Altercate
To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.
Collude
To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.
Partake
To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others.
Connive
To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
Fraternize
To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
Interlock
To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
Bungle
To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
Glimmer
To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly; to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
Peculate
To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
Desquamate
To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.
Jet
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
Recriminate
To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
Shrill
Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.
Brag
To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of ..
Secede
To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
Perspire
To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.
Budge
To move off; to stir; to walk away.
Despond
To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
Vanish
To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on la..
Perish
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
Wend
To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
Sink
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Virus
Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.
Aim
To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.
Lopper
To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
Punt
To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
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..
Scuttle
To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
Regale
To feast; t/ fare sumtuously.
Malinger
To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.
Quail
To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
Disputable
Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or q..
Legislate
To make or enact a law or laws.
Booze
To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple.
Dotage
Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
Ramp
To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
Collogue
To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.
Consult
To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
Reappear
To appear again.
Intromit
To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
Yuck
To itch.
Wrangle
To argue; to debate; to dispute.
Upspear
To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass.
Twattle
To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip.
Tussle
To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
Prevail
To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.
Abide
To wait; to pause; to delay.
Remain
To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or ..
Perdure
To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.
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.
Transude
To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.
Speechify
To make a speech; to harangue.
Snicker
To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.
Slumber
To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.
Slabber
To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool.
Skirmish
To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.
Siss
To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.
Shudder
To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
Department
Act of departing; departure.
Smolder
Alt. of Smoulder
Scrawl
See Crawl.
Scoot
To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.
Theorize
To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.
Presume
To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- o..
Retch
To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
Respire
To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.
Resound
To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
Purr
To murmur as a cat. See Pur.
Lisp
To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
Joust
To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
Hone
To pine; to lament; to long.
Glower
to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
Genuflect
To bend the knee, as in worship.
Exfoliate
To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
Drool
To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.
Doze
To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.
Disagree
To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.
Depend
To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
Declaim
To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the ..
Combat
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
Climb
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
Clamber
To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.
Chitter
To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.
Bombinate
To hum; to boom.
Convalesce
To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.
Natter
To find fault; to be peevish.
Pendulate
To swing as a pendulum.
Schematize
To form a scheme or schemes.
Apostatize
To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.
Tergiversate
To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.
Recuperate
To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.
Calibrate
To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
Sound
To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.
Nomadize
To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.
Drowse
To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.
Nap
To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
Fumble
To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
Disport
Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.
Germinate
To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
Wheeze
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
Languish
To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.
Toot
To stand out, or be prominent.
Laugh
To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the ..
Meow
See 6th and 7th Mew.
Divaricate
To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
Enclitic
Alt. of Enclitical
Hibernate
To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects.
Wamble
To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
Fore
Journey; way; method of proceeding.
Whinny
To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.
Wayfare
To journey; to travel; to go to and fro.
Roar
To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
Roam
To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.
Roister
To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent.
Intercommunicate
To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.
Concenter
Alt. of Concentre
Smoulder
To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
Sizzle
To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
Converge
To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.
Retrospect
To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
Vegetate
To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
Ramble
To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world..
Intrude
To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of an..
Logroll
To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling.
Dine
To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Plagiary
To commit plagiarism.
Contend
To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
Drivel
To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.
Caprice
An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
Speculate
To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to sp..
Mountebank
To play the mountebank.
Soothsay
To foretell; to predict.
Infiltrate
To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.
Swim
To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
Rouse
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
Higgle
To hawk or peddle provisions.
Keck
To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit.
Puke
To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
Transpire
To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.
Edify
To build; to construct.
Peddle
To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.
Dismount
To come down; to descend.
Confide
To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
Knack
To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.
Baker
One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
Surmount
To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
Shrivel
To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.
Coexist
To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.
Symphonize
To agree; to be in harmony.
Accrete
To grow together.
Gamble
To play or game for money or other stake.
Patrol
To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Intercede
To pass between; to intervene.
Interfere
To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.
Encroach
To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach ..
Chirm
To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.
Pullulate
To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.
Elucubrate
See Lucubrate.
Tout
To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
Conventionalize
To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.
Conglobulate
To gather into a small round mass.
Sweltry
Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry.
Commentary
A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.
Flite
To scold; to quarrel.
Recidivate
To backslide; to fall again.
Digress
To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
Differ
To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.
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..
Cauponize
To sell wine or victuals.
Waddle
To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he ..
Swag
To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
Swelter
To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.
Welter
To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
Intonate
To thunder.
Etiolate
To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
Tell
To give an account; to make report.
Preach
To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
Spire
To breathe.
Craze
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
Quell
To die.
Wan
To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
Tipple
To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute..
Fulminate
To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
Agonize
To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
Alight
To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
Forswear
To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.
Detonate
To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.
Dawdle
To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Loll
To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
Laudable
Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as, laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.
Abscond
To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
Encamp
To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as a..
Winnow
To separate chaff from grain.
Absquatulate
To take one's self off; to decamp.
Jaunt
To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
Trudge
To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
Troat
To cry, as a buck in rutting time.
Scud
To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
Mutter
To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl.
Sol-fa
To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.
Cheep
To chirp, as a young bird.
Luxuriate
To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.
Sing
To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a c..
Turbinate
To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
Wrawl
To cry, as a cat; to waul.
Maunder
To beg.
Jell
To jelly.
Murmur
A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.
Neigh
To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.
Shout
To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
Rustle
To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
Whimper
To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers.
Death
The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Moan
To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
Lament
To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Snort
To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.
Continue
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
Suffice
To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
Fail
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from s..
Endure
To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
Intermeddle
To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with.
Dismay
To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
Moider
To toil.
Chipper
To chirp or chirrup.
Protuberate
To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.
Abut
To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
Darkle
To grow dark; to show indistinctly.
Scowl
To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
Fulgurate
To flash as lightning.
Evanesce
To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.
Glow
To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
Seep
Alt. of Sipe
Glisten
To sparkle or shine; especially, to shine with a mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.
Gaze
To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Repair
To return.
Lurch
To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
Swagger
To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
Predominate
To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart.
Brawl
To quarrel noisily and outrageously.
Hiss
To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake wh..
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.
Topple
To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
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.
Dib
To dip.
Lout
To bend; to box; to stoop.
Belch
To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
Dally
To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
Forgo
To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
Burgeon
To bud. See Bourgeon.
Snub
To sob with convulsions.
Begin
To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
Gluttonize
To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize.
Fast
To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
Speak
To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
Gormandize
To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.
Crackle
To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
Witness
Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
Popple
To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble.
Gloat
To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.
Wane
To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
Assonate
To correspond in sound.
Uprise
To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
Cluck
To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
Rebellion
The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding..
Converse
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.
Stickle
To separate combatants by intervening.
Chat
To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
Chirp
To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.
Updive
To spring upward; to rise.
Gallivant
To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
Debouch
To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
Backwash
To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
Unlatch
To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.
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..
Synchronize
To agree in time; to be simultaneous.
Overbrim
To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow.
Hallucinate
To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.
Sigh
To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, ..
Powwow
To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.
Gravitate
To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.
Curdle
To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
Appear
To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
Flute
A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed ..
Pertain
To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.
Correlate
To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.
Shine
To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
Recur
To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
Commence
To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.
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 ..
Appertain
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate.
Gleam
To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Chatter
To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
Glare
To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
Jut
To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.
Recoil
To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
Wriggle
To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
Reciprocate
To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
Gloam
To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
Swear
To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, o..
Vamp
To advance; to travel.
Overstrain
To strain one's self to excess.
Twill
To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.
Urinate
To discharge urine; to make water.
Dribble
To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
Dissertate
To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.
Dissert
To discourse or dispute; to discuss.
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.
Confabulate
To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
Inflow
To flow in.
Squirrel
Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the family Sciuridae. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong..
Parade
To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.
Frown
To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
Palpitate
To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as ..
Intrigue
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
Smatter
To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.
Dap
To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.
Skulk
To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk.
Nestle
To make and occupy a nest; to nest.
Judgment
The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual con..
Preside
To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a ..
Adhere
To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
Dawn
To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
Frill
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
Abound
To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.
Gangway
A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.
Conspire
To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.
Salient
Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
Atone
To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.
Cleave
To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
Revive
To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
Stirrup
A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in..
Gibe
To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
Toughen
To grow or make tough, or tougher.
Fledge
Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
Ripen
To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
Sag
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sa..
Twink
To twinkle.
Trust
To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
Sprinkle
To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
Yard
A rod; a stick; a staff.
Calculate
To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
Resolve
To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
Hanker
To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
Smirk
To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.
Mope
To be dull and spiritless.
Wince
To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.
Blench
To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
Tautologize
To repeat the same thing in different words.
Root
To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
Wax
To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
Drudge
To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
Grub
To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
Divide
To have a share; to partake.
Jabber
To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter.
Twaddle
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
Whiz
To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.
Commune
To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
Traipse
To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.
Chick
To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
Birr
To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.
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.
Wander
To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
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.
Levitate
To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.
Plain
To lament; to bewail; to complain.
Officiate
To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.
Respond
To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
Truck
A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.
Pronounce
To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
Drug
To drudge; to toil laboriously.
Starve
To die; to perish.
Gape
To open the mouth wide
Stall
A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.
Auscultate
To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
Eavesdrop
To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private.
Obsolesce
To become obsolescent.
Guggle
See Gurgle.
Braggart
A boaster.
Relent
To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.
Shelf
A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
Rover
One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
Circulate
To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
Guzzle
To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
Whir
To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.
Radiate
To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
