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word: Sheepskin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A diploma; -- so called because usually written or
   printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.


word: Sheepsplit
wordtype: n.
definition:
A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made
   by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.


word: Sheer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere;
   downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.


word: Sheer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course;
   to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse
   sheers at a bicycle.


word: Sheer
wordtype: n.
definition:
The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and
   lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.


word: Sheet
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as
   paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded
   superficies.


word: Sheet
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for
   wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article
   of bedding next to the body.


word: Sheet
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded,
   whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper,
   etc.


word: Sheet
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other
   substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a
   leaf.


word: Sheet
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment
   of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to
   the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.


word: Sheet
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The space in the forward or the after part of a boat
   where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.


word: Sheet anchor
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist
   of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.


word: Sheik
wordtype: n.
definition:
The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also,
   the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to
   Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade.


word: Shekinah
wordtype: n.
definition:
The visible majesty of the Divine Presence, especially
   when resting or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat, in the
   Tabernacle, or in the Temple of Solomon; -- a term used in the Targums
   and by the later Jews, and adopted by Christians.


word: Sheldrake
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of
   the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and
   Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a
   goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.


word: Shelf
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally
   at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.


word: Shelf
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks,
   rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.


word: Shell
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of
   mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks,
   as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also,
   the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise,
   and the like.


word: Shell
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar
   or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse
   or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its
   fragments scattered. See Bomb.


word: Shell
wordtype: n.
definition:
The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and
   shot, used with breechloading small arms.


word: Shell
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior
   structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a
   house.


word: Shell
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument of music, as a lyre, -- the first lyre having
   been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.


word: Shell
wordtype: n.
definition:
The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used
   as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.


word: Shell
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the
   shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.


word: Shell
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat,
   oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.


word: Shell
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of
   the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.


word: Shellbark
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is
   loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.


word: Shellfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a
   shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or
   crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.


word: Shelter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to
   cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.


word: Shelve
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put
   aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve
   an officer; to shelve a claim.


word: Shelving
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of laying on a shelf, or on the shelf; putting
   off or aside; as, the shelving of a claim.


word: Shepherdia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and
   belonging to the same family as Elaeagnus; also, any plant of this
   genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.


word: Sherbet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice
   of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as,
   orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.


word: Sherbet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid,
   sugar, etc., variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; --
   called also sherbet powder.


word: Sherif
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of an Arab princely family descended from Mohammed
   through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima. The Grand Shereef is
   the governor of Mecca.


word: Sheriff
wordtype: n.
definition:
The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is
   intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and
   processes, and the preservation of the peace.


word: Sherry
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As
   prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by
   mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.


word: Sherryvallies
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather,
   buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect
   other trousers when riding on horseback.


word: Sheth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam,
   for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard,
   or post.


word: Shetland pony
definition:
One of a small, hardy breed of horses, with long mane
   and tail, which originated in the Shetland Islands; a sheltie.


word: Shibboleth
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word which was made the criterion by which to
   distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not
   being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.


word: Shield
wordtype: n.
definition:
A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, --
   formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See
   Buckler.


word: Shield
wordtype: n.
definition:
In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and
   containing the fructification, or asci.


word: Shield
wordtype: n.
definition:
The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in
   coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.


word: Shield
wordtype: n.
definition:
A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under
   ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.


word: Shield
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger;
   to defend; to protect from assault or injury.


word: Shield-bearer
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva
   makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves.


word: Shieldtail
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family
   Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small
   mouth which can not be dilated.


word: Shift
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To change the place of; to move or remove from one place
   to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to
   shift the blame.


word: Shift
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and
   to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the
   clothes; to shift the scenes.


word: Shiff
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a change or changes; to change position; to move;
   to veer; to substitute one thing for another; -- used in the various
   senses of the transitive verb.


word: Shiff
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the
   equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.


word: Shift
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or
   of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.


word: Shift
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a
   spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with
   other sets; as, a night shift.


word: Shift
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the
   overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses
   so as to break joints.


word: Shifting
wordtype: a.
definition:
Changing in place, position, or direction; varying;
   variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.


word: Shiftless
wordtype: a.
definition:
Destitute of expedients, or not using successful
   expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide
   for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy;
   improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.


word: Shiah
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the
   Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali
   as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not
   acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as
   any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by
   the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans.


word: Shillelah
wordtype: n.
definition:
An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called
   from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.


word: Shilling
wordtype: n.
definition:
A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and
   its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a
   pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States
   currency.


word: Shilling
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the United States, a denomination of money, differing
   in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized.


word: Shilling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar,
   or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States.
   See Note under 2.


word: Shiloh
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted
   variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest."


word: Shimmer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to
   shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.


word: Shin
wordtype: n.
definition:
The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of
   the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.


word: Shin
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it
   alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or
   the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.


word: Shin
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as
   for the payment of one's notes at the bank.


word: Shine
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
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.


word: Shine
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit
   brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in
   conversation.


word: Shine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as,
   in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on
   them.


word: Shiner
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of small freshwater American
   cyprinoid fishes, belonging to Notropis, or Minnilus, and allied
   genera; as the redfin (Notropis megalops), and the golden shiner
   (Notemigonus chrysoleucus) of the Eastern United States; also loosely
   applied to various other silvery fishes, as the dollar fish, or
   horsefish, menhaden, moonfish, sailor's choice, and the sparada.


word: Shingle
wordtype: n.
definition:
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a
   collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and
   elsewhere.


word: Shingle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one
   end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially
   roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row
   below.


word: Shingles
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way
   around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent
   neuralgic pain.


word: Shingling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by
   hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.


word: Shining
wordtype: a.
definition:
Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as,
   shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining
   armor.


word: Shinney
wordtype: n.
definition:
The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability
   of the players to receive blows on the shin.


word: Shinplaster
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly
   depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than
   a dollar.


word: Shintiism
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the two great systems of religious belief in
   Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes.


word: -ship
wordtype: n.
definition:
A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or
   art; as in lordship, friendship, chancellorship, stewardship,
   horsemanship.


word: Ship
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three
   masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is
   composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and
   square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.


word: Ship
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any
   conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by
   railroad.


word: Shipboard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found
   chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard.


word: Shipbuilder
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person whose occupation is to construct ships and
   other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.


word: Shipment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the
   shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.


word: Shipper
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who sends goods from one place to another not in the
   same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.


word: Shipping
wordtype: n.
definition:
The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging
   to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.


word: Shipworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo
   and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to
   wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.


word: Shipwreck
wordtype: n.
definition:
The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or
   other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals,
   etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.


word: Shipwreck
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on
   rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.


word: Shipwreck
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or
   passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy
   or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business.


word: Shire
wordtype: n.
definition:
A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision
   of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county,
   but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire,
   Richmondshire, Hallamshire.


word: Shirr
wordtype: n.
definition:
A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as
   to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called
   also shirring, and gauging.


word: Shirt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made
   of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the
   under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by
   men and boys.


word: Shittah tree
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the
   ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made;
   -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is
   hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.


word: Shive
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or
   pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.


word: Shiver
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle
   thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.


word: Shiver
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to
   shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.


word: Shoad
wordtype: n.
definition:
A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of
   ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather,
   and serve to direct in the discovery of mines.


word: Shoal
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more
   shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that
   which is less deep.


word: Shock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or
   the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve
   to sixteen; a stook.


word: Shock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow,
   collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a
   concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.


word: Shock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of
   pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also,
   a sudden agitating or overpowering event.


word: Shock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body,
   or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the
   nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.


word: Shock
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with
   the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the
   animal system, of electricity from a charged body.


word: Shock
wordtype: v.
definition:
To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to
   strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.


word: Shock
wordtype: v.
definition:
To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to
   cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.


word: Shocking
wordtype: a.
definition:
Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially,
   causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or
   disgusting.


word: Shoddy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing
   into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc.
   See Mungo.


word: Shoddy
wordtype: a.
definition:
Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as,
   shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham;
   pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy.


word: Shoe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather,
   having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs
   from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.


word: Shoe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the
   bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the
   snow.


word: Shoe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the
   wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.


word: Shoe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of
   the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water
   off from the building.


word: Shoe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part
   and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford
   means of adjustment; -- called also slipper, and gib.


word: Shoe
wordtype: n.
definition:
To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on;
   as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor.


word: Shoebill
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to
   the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen
   bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of
   Beak.


word: Shoeing-horn
wordtype: n.
definition:
A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used
   to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe.


word: Shogun
wordtype: n.
definition:
A title originally conferred by the Mikado on the military
   governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of
   power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the
   virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867.


word: Shole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a
   vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end
   of a shore or the like.


word: Shook
wordtype: n.
definition:
A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one
   hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in
   compact form.


word: Shoot
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which
   timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either
   natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly;
   esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend
   in the stream, so as to shorten the course.


word: Shoot
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an
   arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an
   object.


word: Shoot
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; --
   followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; --
   often with off; as, to shoot a gun.


word: Shoot
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile;
   often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting
   the person or thing hit, as an object.


word: Shoot
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden
   motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.


word: Shoot
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; --
   often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.


word: Shoot
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; --
   said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots
   better than he rides.


word: Shoot
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile;
   to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled;
   as, a shooting star.


word: Shooting
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the
   shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.


word: Shooting
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically
   (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.


word: Shopkeeper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in
   distinction from one who sells by wholesale.


word: Shoplifter
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods
   privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes
   occasion to steal.


word: Shore
wordtype: n.
definition:
A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against
   the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath
   anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.


word: Shorling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as
   distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a
   sheep of the first year's shearing.


word: Short
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as,
   a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.


word: Short
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty;
   as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.


word: Short
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied;
   scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the
   ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.


word: Short
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a
   measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.


word: Short
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed;
   as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short,
   n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.


word: Short
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance;
   -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English,
   the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long
   and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not
   of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of
   a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.


word: Short
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly;
   as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.


word: Shortage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some
   requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.


word: Short circuit
definition:
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of
   relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great
   conductivity.


word: Short-circuit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo
   or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.


word: Shortclothes
wordtype: n.
definition:
Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of
   trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.


word: Shorten
wordtype: a.
definition:
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as,
   to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.


word: Shorten
wordtype: a.
definition:
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to
   lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an
   allowance of food, etc.


word: Shorten
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in
   northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by
   cold.


word: Shorthand
wordtype: n.
definition:
A compendious and rapid method or writing by
   substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words,
   etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.


word: Shorthorn
wordtype: a.
definition:
One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having
   short horns. The breed was developed in England.


word: Short-jointed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having short intervals between the joints; -- said
   of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too
   short.


word: Short-lived
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not living or lasting long; being of short
   continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure;
   short-lived passion.


word: Shortly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express
   ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.


word: Shortness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being short; want of reach or
   extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the
   shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the
   shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of
   breath.


word: Shortsighted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to
   understand things deep; of limited intellect.


word: Short-winded
wordtype: a.
definition:
Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick,
   difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.


word: Shortwing
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic
   birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix,
   Callene, and allied genera.


word: Shoshones
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A linguistic family or stock of North American
   Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho
   into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to
   the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.


word: Shot
wordtype: a.
definition:
Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation,
   of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v.
   t., 8.


word: Shot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet;
   specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or
   cannon by the force of an explosive.


word: Shot
wordtype: n.
definition:
Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used
   chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.


word: Shot
wordtype: n.
definition:
The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can
   be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.


word: Shot-clog
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or
   reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.


word: Shotgun
wordtype: n.
definition:
A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled,
   especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing
   small game.


word: Should
wordtype: imp.
definition:
Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or
   contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also,
   to express moral obligation (see Shall); e. g.: they should have come
   last week; if I should go; I should think you could go.


word: Shoulder
wordtype: n.
definition:
The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore
   limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the
   projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.


word: Shoulder
wordtype: n.
definition:
The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint;
   the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is
   most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.


word: Shoulder
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which resembles a human shoulder, as any
   protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.


word: Shoulder
wordtype: n.
definition:
The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an
   animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.


word: Shoulder
wordtype: n.
definition:
An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an
   object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the
   end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects
   beyond the base of the raised character, etc.


word: Shoulder
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to
   shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of;
   as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.


word: Shout
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or
   exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.


word: Shout
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as,
   to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.


word: Shout
wordtype: n.
definition:
A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden
   outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation,
   or animated courage.


word: Shove
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To drive along by the direct and continuous application
   of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it
   move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the
   water; to shove a table across the floor.


word: Shove
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a
   pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.


word: Shovel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or
   less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth,
   coal, grain, or other loose substances.


word: Shovel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth
   into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.


word: Shovelboard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A board on which a game is played, by pushing or
   driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game
   itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.


word: Shovelboard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game played on board ship in which the aim is to
   shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the
   deck; -- called also shuffleboard.


word: Shoveler
wordtype: n.
definition:
A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and
   America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is
   handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the
   body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill,
   spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or
   shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.


word: Shovelhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and
   native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; --
   called also bonnet shark.


word: Shovelnose
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ganoid fish of the Sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus
   platyrhynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; -- called also white
   sturgeon.


word: Show
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to
   display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an
   indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as,
   to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods
   (show goods to customers).


word: Show
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to
   reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.


word: Show
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence,
   to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a
   parlor; to show one to the door.


word: Show
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or
   reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to
   show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.


word: Show
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is
   arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show;
   a cattle show.


word: Showbread
wordtype: n.
definition:
Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the
   term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and
   Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week
   placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were
   made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The
   loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They
   were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.


word: Shrew
wordtype: a.
definition:
Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of
   either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.


word: Shrew
wordtype: a.
definition:
Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied
   genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice,
   but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the
   smallest of all mammals.


word: Shrewd
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold;
   hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough;
   unfair; shrewish.


word: Shrewd
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Able or clever in practical affairs; sharp in
   business; astute; sharp-witted; sagacious; keen; as, a shrewd observer;
   a shrewd design; a shrewd reply.


word: Shriek
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some
   birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or
   anguish.


word: Shriek
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as
   is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.


word: Shrike
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the
   family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most
   shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius
   excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several
   others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns,
   and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.


word: Shrill
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp,
   piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a
   sound.


word: Shrimp
wordtype: v.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging
   to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long
   legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also
   prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda.


word: Shrimp
wordtype: v.
definition:
In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe
   Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.


word: Shrimp
wordtype: v.
definition:
In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some
   amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and
   brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.


word: Shrine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are
   deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.


word: Shrink
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to
   contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become
   compacted.


word: Shrink
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
   from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.


word: Shrinkage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension
   lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc.


word: Shrive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hear or receive the confession of; to administer
   confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.


word: Shrivel
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
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.


word: Shroud
wordtype: n.
definition:
A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The
   lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts
   and are passed around the head of the lower masts.


word: Shroud
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water
   wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.


word: Shroud-laid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a
   heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage.


word: Shrovetide
wordtype: n.
definition:
The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday,
   especially the period between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday
   and the morning of Ash Wednesday.


word: Shrub
wordtype: n.
definition:
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice,
   and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.


word: Shruff
wordtype: n.
definition:
Rubbish. Specifically: (a) Dross or refuse of metals.
   [Obs.] (b) Light, dry wood, or stuff used for fuel.


word: Shrug
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way
   of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.


word: Shuck
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of
   such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.


word: Submerge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or
   covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.


word: Submersion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of submerging, or putting under water or other
   fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water,
   or of drowning.


word: Submission
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or
   authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or
   government of another; obedience; compliance.


word: Submission
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of
   inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness;
   resignation.


word: Submission
wordtype: n.
definition:
An agreement by which parties engage to submit any
   matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators.


word: Submit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or
   authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.


word: Submit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of
   another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to
   arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a
   dependent proposition as the object.


word: Submultiple
wordtype: n.
definition:
A number or quality which is contained in another an
   exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the
   submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.


word: Submultiple
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a submultiple; being a
   submultiple; as, a submultiple number; submultiple ratio.


word: Subnasal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the
   middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.


word: Suborder
wordtype: n.
definition:
A division of an order; a group of genera of a little
   lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or
   family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae.


word: Subordinacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being subordinate, or subject
   to control; subordination, as, to bring the imagination to act in
   subordinacy to reason.


word: Subordinate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place in a lower order or class; to make or
   consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one
   creature to another.


word: Subordination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being subordinate or
   inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.


word: Subordinative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination;
   used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative
   conjunction.


word: Suborn
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by
   indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.


word: Subornation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person
   to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.


word: Suborner
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who suborns or procures another to take, a false
   oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.


word: Subovate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an
   egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.


word: Suboxide
wordtype: n.
definition:
An oxide containing a relatively small amount of oxygen,
   and less than the normal proportion; as, potassium suboxide, K4O.


word: Subpoena
wordtype: n.
definition:
A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness,
   of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by
   which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the
   plaintiff's bill.


word: Subpoena
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To serve with a writ of subpoena; to command
   attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of
   disobedience.


word: Subreader
wordtype: n.
definition:
An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the
   texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.


word: Subreption
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair
   representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.


word: Subrogation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The substitution of one person in the place of another
   as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former;
   the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his
   rights against the debtor.


word: Subscribe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as
   something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing
   one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man
   subscribes a bond.


word: Subscribe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers
   subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe
   copies or records.


word: Subscript
wordtype: a.
definition:
Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See
   under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters
   (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to
   distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix,
   n., 2, and Subindex.


word: Subscription
wordtype: n.
definition:
The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to
   promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the
   Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before
   ordination.


word: Subscription
wordtype: n.
definition:
A method of purchasing items produced periodically in
   a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the
   items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item
   individually; also, the purchase thus executed.


word: Subsequent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Following in time; coming or being after something else
   at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or
   years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.


word: Subserviency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being subservient;
   instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's
   purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.


word: Subservient
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior
   capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile,
   truckling.


word: Subsesqui-
definition:
A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting the combination
   of constituents (especially electro-negative and electro-positive
   bodies) in the proportion of two to three; as, a subsesqui acetate, i.
   e., a salt having two equivalents of acetic acid to three of the base.


word: Subside
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fall into a state of quiet; to cease to rage; to be
   calmed; to settle down; to become tranquil; to abate; as, the sea
   subsides; the tumults of war will subside; the fever has subsided.


word: Subsidiary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping;
   tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as,
   a subsidiary stream.


word: Subsidiary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy;
   being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary
   payments to an ally.


word: Subsidize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance
   of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private
   enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line.


word: Subsidy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in
   money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.


word: Subsidy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or
   nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such
   sovereign or nation in war.


word: Subsidy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation,
   or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment
   or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a
   subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.


word: Subsistence
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which furnishes support to animal life; means of
   support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as,
   a meager subsistence.


word: Subspecies
wordtype: n.
definition:
A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are,
   but based on characters more important than those which characterize
   ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.


word: Subspinous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the
   scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.


word: Substance
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which underlies all outward manifestations;
   substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether
   material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is
   real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of
   any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes
   anything what it is; real or existing essence.


word: Substance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The most important element in any existence; the
   characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part;
   essential import; purport.


word: Substance
wordtype: n.
definition:
Body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence,
   substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a
   garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance.


word: Substantial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as,
   substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.


word: Substantiate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To establish the existence or truth of by proof or
   competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or
   allegation; to substantiate a declaration.


word: Substantive
wordtype: n.
definition:
A noun or name; the part of speech which designates
   something that exists, or some object of thought, either material or
   immaterial; as, the words man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are
   substantives.


word: Substituent
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another,
   or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.


word: Substitute
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the
   place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu
   of something else


word: Substituted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing substitutions or replacements; having been
   subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts
   replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a
   substituted ammonia.


word: Substitution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of substituting or putting one person or
   thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent,
   attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the
   substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.


word: Substitution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The designation of a person in a will to take a
   devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by
   incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him.


word: Substitution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being
   substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.


word: Substitution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of substituting an atom or radical
   for another atom or radical; metethesis; also, the state of being so
   substituted. See Metathesis.


word: Stellion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern
   Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with
   black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard.


word: Stellionate
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; --
   chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons,
   or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.


word: Stem
wordtype: n.
definition:
The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind;
   the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or
   top.


word: Stem
wordtype: n.
definition:
A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with
   a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an
   apple or a cherry.


word: Stem
wordtype: n.
definition:
A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are
   united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and
   the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a
   vessel; the bow.


word: Stem
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a
   tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring,
   by which it is suspended, is attached.


word: Stem
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of
   leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.


word: Stem
wordtype: n.
definition:
The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the
   tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.


word: Stem
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except
   by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.


word: Stem
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to
   remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem
   tobacco leaves.


word: Stem
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel;
   to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a
   current.


word: Stencil
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in
   painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is
   then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over
   it. Called also stencil plate.


word: Stenoderm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of bat belonging to the genus Stenoderma,
   native of the West Indies and South America. These bats have a short or
   rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.


word: Stenodermine
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the genus Stenoderma, which
   includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.


word: Stenography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of writing in shorthand, by using
   abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.


word: Stenosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage,
   tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from
   stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized
   contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not
   spasmodic.


word: Stenostome
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a small or narrow mouth; -- said of certain
   small ground snakes (Opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their
   jaws.


word: Stentor
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus
   Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a
   bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the
   spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.


word: Stentorian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud;
   powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.


word: Step
wordtype: a.
definition:
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.


word: Step
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in
   ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.


word: Step
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in
   walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may
   be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he
   improved step by step, or by steps.


word: Step
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to
   receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform
   upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.


word: Step
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps
   of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the
   belt runs.


word: Step-
definition:
A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son,
   daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is
   not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent;
   as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him
   after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter,
   Stepson, etc.


word: Stepbrother
wordtype: n.
definition:
A brother by the marriage of one's father with the
   mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.


word: Stephanion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The point on the side of the skull where the temporal
   line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.


word: Stephanite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black
   color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver
   ore.


word: Stephanotis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of
   Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite
   leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes.


word: Steppe
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia,
   generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the
   prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.


word: Stepped
wordtype: a.
definition:
Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets
   or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.


word: -ster
definition:
A suffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a
   person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in
   spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (=
   bakester), youngster.


word: Stercobilin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of
   the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, --
   identical with hydrobilirubin.


word: Stercoranist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were
   alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo
   the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.


word: Sterculiaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sterculiaceae)
   of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical. The cacao (Theobroma
   Cacao) is the most useful plant of the order.


word: Stere
wordtype: n.
definition:
A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic
   meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic
   yards.


word: Stereobate
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal;
   -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.


word: Stereo-chemical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or illustrating, the hypothetical
   space relations of atoms in the molecule; as, a stereo-chemic formula.


word: Stereochromy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in
   which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in
   which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).


word: Stereoelectric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity
   by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one
   obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.


word: Stereogram
wordtype: n.
definition:
A diagram or picture which represents objects in such a
   way as to give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a
   stereograph.


word: Stereograph
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for
   exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by
   means of photography.


word: Stereographical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Made or done according to the rules of
   stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the
   earth.


word: Stereography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a
   plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all
   solids which are regularly defined.


word: Stereometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring the solid contents of a
   body, or the capacity of a vessel; a volumenometer.


word: Stereometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for determining the specific gravity of
   liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids.


word: Stereometry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of measuring and computing the cubical
   contents of bodies and figures; -- distinguished from planimetry.


word: Stereomonoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument with two lenses, by which an image
   of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to
   present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons
   at once.


word: Stereopticon
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic
   lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of
   a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a
   manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and
   accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic
   lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.


word: Stereoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An optical instrument for giving to pictures the
   appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one,
   through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the
   purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with
   two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are
   superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer.


word: Stereoscopical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the stereoscope; characteristic
   of, or adapted to, the stereoscope; as, a stereoscopic effect; the
   stereoscopic function of the eyeglasses; stereoscopic views.


word: Stereoscopy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or science of using the stereoscope, or of
   constructing the instrument or the views used with it.


word: Stereotomy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science or art of cutting solids into certain
   figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of
   stonecutting.


word: Stereotype
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or
   of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate
   with type-metal face, used for printing.


word: Stereotype
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the
   stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.


word: Sterhydraulic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic
   press; resembling such a press in action or principle.


word: Sterile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful;
   unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a
   sterile year.


word: Sterile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of
   offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a
   sterile flower, which bears only stamens.


word: Sterilize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render
   incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.


word: Sterilize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid
   or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial
   or other organisms.


word: Sterlet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian
   Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest
   caviare is made from its roe.


word: Sterling
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money
   of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling
   sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money
   of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.


word: Sterling
wordtype: a.
definition:
Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the
   highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of
   sterling good sense.


word: Stern
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having a certain hardness or severity of nature,
   manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed;
   unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a
   sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern
   decree.


word: Stern
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a
   boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.


word: Sternbergite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft
   flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black.


word: Sternforemost
wordtype: adv.
definition:
With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance;
   hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.


word: Sterno-
definition:
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection
   with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.


word: Sternpost
wordtype: n.
definition:
A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam,
   erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive
   the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.


word: Sternum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous
   plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most
   vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.


word: Stertorous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines
   inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely
   breathing; snoring.


word: Stet
wordtype: subj. 3d pers. sing.
definition:
Let it stand; -- a word used by proof
   readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission,
   is to remain.


word: Stet
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for
   omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or
   beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.


word: Stethal
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the higher alcohols of the methane series,
   homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal
   salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.


word: Stethometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a
   given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called
   thoracometer.


word: Stethoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument used in auscultation for examining the
   organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of
   the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.


word: Stew
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to
   seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without
   boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.


word: Steward
wordtype: n.
definition:
A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to
   manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the
   rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.


word: Steward
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a
   ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc.
   In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage
   steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide
   for the messes under their charge.


word: Steward
wordtype: n.
definition:
In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the
   students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to
   the accounts of the students.


word: Stewardess
wordtype: n.
definition:
A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in
   passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.


word: Sthenic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states
   attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and
   characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous
   system; as, a sthenic fever.


word: Stibine
wordtype: n.
definition:
Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas
   produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a
   characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame.
   Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.


word: Stibnite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic
   luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; --
   called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.


word: Sticcado
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at
   the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind
   of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the
   smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones
   are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to
   flexible sticks.


word: Stich
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures),
   one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old
   Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the
   Revised Version of the English Bible.


word: Stichometry
wordtype: n.
definition:
Division of the text of a book into lines; especially,
   the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense,
   -- a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.


word: Stick
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting,
   from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size,
   cut for fuel or timber.


word: Stick
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether
   in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the
   stick of a rocket; a walking stick.


word: Stick
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or
   stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.


word: Stick
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A composing stick. See under Composing. It is usually a
   frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is
   used.


word: Stick
wordtype: n.
definition:
To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab;
   hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.


word: Stick
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to
   pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.


word: Stick
wordtype: n.
definition:
To fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in;
   hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing;
   as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.


word: Stick
wordtype: n.
definition:
To attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick
   on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any
   manner.


word: Stick
wordtype: n.
definition:
To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in
   contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be
   stuck.


word: Stick
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle;
   as, to stick one with a hard problem.


word: Stick
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any
   position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to
   cleave; to be united closely.


word: Stick
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be
   deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.


word: Sticker
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part)
   a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.


word: Stickleback
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the
   genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or
   more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and
   construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and
   prickleback.


word: Stickler
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling
   things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender;
   as, a stickler for ceremony.


word: Stick-seed
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family,
   with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.


word: Sticky
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive;
   gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.


word: Stiff
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or
   flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.


word: Stiff
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated;
   neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.


word: Stiff
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected;
   starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.


word: Stiffness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness
   of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.


word: Stifle
wordtype: n.
definition:
The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the
   hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to
   the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.


word: Stifle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To stop the breath of by crowding something into the
   windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to
   choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle
   one with smoke or dust.


word: Stifle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to
   stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.


word: Stifle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother;
   to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle
   passion.


word: Stifle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or
   because some noxious substance prevents respiration.


word: Stigma
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish;
   stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful
   characterization.


word: Stigma
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is
   fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and
   is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of
   Flower.


word: Stigma
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied
   especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and
   to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute
   holes in such spots.


word: Stigma
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the
   extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of
   certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as
   in the case of drunkards.


word: Stigma
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects,
   myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.


word: Stigma
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A point so connected by any law whatever with another
   point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a
   plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same
   plane.


word: Stigma
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed
   upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the
   crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.


word: Stigmatic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded;
   one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.


word: Stigmatic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person bearing the wounds on the hands and feet
   resembling those of Jesus Christ caused by His crucifixion; -- for true
   stigmantics the wounds are supposed to have been caused miraculously,
   as a sign of great holiness.


word: Stilbene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large,
   fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.


word: Stilbite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous
   silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike
   aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or
   yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called
   also desmine.


word: Stile
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary
   members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.


word: Still
wordtype: a.
definition:
Notwithstanding what has been said or done; in spite of what
   has occured; nevertheless; -- sometimes used as a conjunction. See
   Synonym of But.


word: Still
wordtype: a.
definition:
To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet,
   or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the
   raging sea.


word: Still
wordtype: v.
definition:
A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of
   liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic
   liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus
   used in in vaporization and condensation.


word: Still-hunt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or
   under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object
   quietly and cautiously.


word: Stilpnomelane
wordtype: n.
definition:
A black or greenish black mineral occurring in
   foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a
   hydrous silicate of iron and alumina.


word: Stilt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to
   raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to
   the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the
   hand or arm.


word: Stilt
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and
   allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender.
   Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.


word: Stimulant
wordtype: n.
definition:
An agent which produces a temporary increase of vital
   activity in the organism, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used
   without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a
   stimulant.


word: Stimulate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or
   animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or
   by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the
   prospect of glory.


word: Stimulate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the
   activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.


word: Stimulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The irritating action of various agents (stimuli) on
   muscles, nerves, or a sensory end organ, by which activity is evoked;
   especially, the nervous impulse produced by various agents on nerves,
   or a sensory end organ, by which the part connected with the nerve is
   thrown into a state of activity; irritation.


word: Stimulism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The theory of medical practice which regarded life as
   dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by
   excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation.


word: Stimulus
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or
   spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to
   labor and action.


word: Stimulus
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That which excites or produces a temporary increase of
   vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts;
   especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the
   activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an
   impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific
   end organ.


word: Sting
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when
   connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by
   piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp
   is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is
   a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of
   a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.


word: Sting
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which
   secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs
   usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.


word: Sting
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the
   stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.


word: Sting
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an
   animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.


word: Stingbull
wordtype: n.
definition:
The European greater weever fish (Trachinus draco),
   which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of
   its dorsal fin. See Weever.


word: Stinging
wordtype: a.
definition:
Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting;
   inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon;
   pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.


word: Stingy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious;
   niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.


word: Stinkball
wordtype: n.
definition:
A composition of substances which in combustion emit a
   suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.


word: Stinker
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of the several species of large antarctic petrels
   which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive odor, as the
   giant fulmar.


word: Stinkpot
wordtype: n.
definition:
An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other
   materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in
   boarding an enemy's vessel.


word: Stinkstone
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar,
   which emit a fetid odor on being struck; -- called also swinestone.


word: Stinkwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant
   smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of
   the South African Ocotea bullata.


word: Stint
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the
   sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India
   (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.


word: Stint
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine;
   to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.


word: Stint
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person),
   upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the
   day or for a certain time; to stent.


word: Stipitate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds
   of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.


word: Perambulator
wordtype: n.
definition:
A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It
   consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an
   apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance
   traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.


word: Perameles
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any marsupial of the genus Perameles, which includes
   numerous species found in Australia. They somewhat resemble rabbits in
   size and form. See Illust. under Bandicoot.


word: Perbromide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than
   any other bromide of the same substance or series.


word: Percale
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often
   printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.


word: Perceive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive
   impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of
   the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to
   see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a
   discord.


word: Perceive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by
   the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark;
   to discern; to see; to understand.


word: Percentage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of
   interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.


word: Perception
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or
   intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what
   is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.


word: Perception
wordtype: n.
definition:
The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar
   part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the
   medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending
   material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from
   conception.


word: Perception
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by
   something external; sensation; sensibility.


word: Perceptive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving;
   having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.


word: Percesoces
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of fishes including the gray mullets
   (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So
   called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.


word: Perch
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other
   allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow
   perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P.
   fluviatilis).


word: Perch
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging
   to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more
   or less, the true perches.


word: Perch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support
   for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any
   elevated resting place or seat.


word: Perch
wordtype: n.
definition:
In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height,
   and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25
   cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.


word: Percheron
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche,
   an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.


word: Perchloric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid
   (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.


word: Perchloride
wordtype: n.
definition:
A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than
   any other chloride of the same substance or series.


word: Perchromic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the
   highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and
   is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.


word: Perciformes
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes,
   including the true perches (Percidae); the pondfishes (Centrarchidae);
   the sciaenoids (Sciaenidae); the sparoids (Sparidae); the serranoids
   (Serranidae), and some other related families.


word: Percolation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of percolating, or filtering;
   filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting
   the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly
   through it.


word: Percussion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of percussing, or striking one body against
   another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.


word: Percussion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body
   in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound
   emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to
   be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some
   interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called
   mediate.


word: Perdition
wordtype: n.
definition:
Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter
   loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future
   misery or eternal death.


word: Perdix
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of birds including the common European partridge.
   Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied
   genera.


word: Peregrinate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To travel from place to place, or from one country
   to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.


word: Peremptory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of
   question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.


word: Perennial
wordtype: n.
definition:
A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more
   than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.


word: Perennibranchiate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having branchae, or gills, through life; -- said
   especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to
   caducibranchiate.


word: Perfect
wordtype: a.
definition:
Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not
   defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities
   requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish;
   without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.


word: Perfect
wordtype: a.
definition:
To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave
   nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its
   nature and kind.


word: Perfection
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so
   that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate
   culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or
   degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science,
   or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.


word: Perfection
wordtype: n.
definition:
A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely
   excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of
   complete excellence.


word: Perfectionist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending
   to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to
   moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.


word: Perfidious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false
   to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious
   friend.


word: Perfidy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a
   promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.


word: Perfoliate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said
   of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.


word: Perforata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of corals including those that have a
   porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa.


word: Perforate
wordtype: v.
definition:
To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed
   instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to
   pierce or penetrate the surface of.


word: Perform
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit
   one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to
   act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform
   poorly; the musician performs on the organ.


word: Performance
wordtype: n.
definition:
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.


word: Performance
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done
   or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an
   action of an elaborate or public character.


word: Performer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good
   promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and
   training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the
   harp.


word: Perfume
wordtype: v.
definition:
The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a
   sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.


word: Perfunctory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed
   mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial
   manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions.


word: Peri-
definition:
A prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to
   give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee,
   point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed;
   perispherical, quite spherical.


word: Peri
wordtype: n.
definition:
An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy,
   represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise
   till penance is accomplished.


word: Perianth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the
   calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.


word: Perianth
wordtype: n.
definition:
A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in
   most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.


word: Periastron
wordtype: n.
definition:
That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star
   revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter.


word: Periblast
wordtype: a.
definition:
The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast,
   or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation.


word: Pericambium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem,
   in which layer certain new vessels originate.


word: Perichondrium
wordtype: n.
definition:
The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which
   closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.


word: Periclasite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A grayish or dark green mineral, consisting
   essentially of magnesia (magnesium oxide), occurring in granular forms
   or in isometric crystals.


word: Pericope
wordtype: n.
definition:
A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.),
   a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or
   used as a text for a sermon.


word: Periculum
wordtype: n.
definition:
In a narrower, judicial sense: Accident or casus, as
   distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the
   duty of performing an obligation.


word: Peridotite
wordtype: n.
definition:
An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of
   chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite,
   chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.


word: Perigastric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity
   of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.


word: Perigeum
wordtype: n.
definition:
That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to
   the earth; -- opposed to apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of
   the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc.
   Called also epigee, epigeum.


word: Perigenesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A theory which explains inheritance by the
   transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to
   another.


word: Perigynium
wordtype: n.
definition:
Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the
   bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some
   other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae.


word: Perigynous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne
   on the calyx; -- said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.


word: Perihelium
wordtype: n.
definition:
That point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is
   nearest to the sun; -- opposed to aphelion.


word: Perilla
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla
   ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or
   variegated foliage.


word: Perilymph
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of
   the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in
   which the labyrinth lies.


word: Perimysium
wordtype: n.
definition:
The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle,
   and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.


word: Perineum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The region which is included within the outlet of the
   pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.


word: Perineurium
wordtype: n.
definition:
The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle
   of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.


word: Period
wordtype: n.
definition:
A portion of time as limited and determined by some
   recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of
   the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months,
   or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and
   go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a
   comet.


word: Period
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an
   interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of
   years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch;
   as, the period of the Roman republic.


word: Period
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the
   Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.


word: Period
wordtype: n.
definition:
The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle,
   series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an
   end; a conclusion.


word: Period
wordtype: n.
definition:
A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a
   well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.


word: Period
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually
   marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in
   numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.


word: Periodical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Performed in a period, or regular revolution;
   proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical
   motion of the planets round the sun.


word: Periodical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning
   regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or
   appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics.


word: Periodicity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly
   recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.


word: Periodide
wordtype: n.
definition:
An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than
   any other iodide of the same substance or series.


word: Perioecians
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Those who live on the same parallel of latitude
   but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is
   midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.


word: Periosteum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely
   invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.


word: Periotic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the
   internal ear; as, the periotic capsule.


word: Peripatetic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle
   (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or
   to his followers.


word: Peripatus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South
   Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order
   Malacopoda.


word: Periphrase
wordtype: n.
definition:
The use of more words than are necessary to express the
   idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.


word: Periphrastical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are
   necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.


word: Periscii
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows,
   during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every
   point of the compass.


word: Periscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
an optical instrument of tubular shape containing an
   arrangement of lenses and mirrors (or prisms), allowing a person to
   observe a field of view otherwise obstructed, as beyond an obstructing
   object or (as in submarines) above the surface of the water.


word: Perish
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be
   lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.


word: Perishable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or
   death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.


word: Perissad
wordtype: a.
definition:
Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of
   radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder.
   Contrasted with artiad.


word: Perissodactyla
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of ungulate mammals, including those
   that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros;
   -- opposed to Artiodactyla.


word: Peristaltic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the
   intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive
   contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their
   contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement.


word: Peristeropodous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having pigeonlike feet; -- said of those
   gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and
   megapods.


word: Peristome
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of
   mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either
   single or double.


word: Peristyle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A range of columns with their entablature, etc.;
   specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a
   court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used
   in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a
   Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.


word: Peritoneum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of
   the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and,
   turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly
   closed, sac.


word: Peritricha
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of
   cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It
   includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.


word: Periwig
wordtype: n.
definition:
A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole
   head, and representing the natural hair; a wig.


word: Periwinkle
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus
   Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe
   extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on
   the American coast. See Littorina.


word: Perjure
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make
   oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to
   forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured
   himself.


word: Perjury
wordtype: v.
definition:
At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact
   material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent
   judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on
   the making of willfully false affirmations.


word: Perk
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make
   a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's
   head.


word: Perkinism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities
   of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part;
   tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn.
   See Metallotherapy.


word: Perlitic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the
   perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.


word: Permanency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in
   the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of
   institutions; the permanence of nature.


word: Permanent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Continuing in the same state, or without any change that
   destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding;
   durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.


word: Permanganic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids
   of manganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.


word: Permeable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding
   passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which
   allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is
   permeable to light.


word: Permeate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pass through the pores or interstices of; to
   penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; --
   applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose
   texture; as, water permeates sand.


word: Permeation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading
   throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.


word: Permian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the
   formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing
   the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era.


word: Permiss
wordtype: n.
definition:
A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing
   is committed to the decision of one's opponent.


word: Permission
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent;
   authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.


word: Permit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To grant (one) express license or liberty to do an act;
   to authorize; to give leave; -- followed by an infinitive.


word: Permit
wordtype: n.
definition:
Warrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a
   written license or permission given to a person or persons having
   authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty.


word: Permutation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The arrangement of any determinate number of things,
   as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the
   other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4.


word: Pernicious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive;
   very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.


word: Pernyi moth
definition:
A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon
   the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.


word: Peronate
wordtype: a.
definition:
A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi
   which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes
   powdery.


word: Peroration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final
   summing up and enforcement of an argument.


word: Peroxide
wordtype: n.
definition:
An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of
   the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest
   oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.


word: Perpender
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on
   both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also perbend,
   perpend stone, and perpent stone.


word: Perpendicular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith;
   at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line
   from any point toward the center of the earth.


word: Perpendicular
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line or plane falling at right angles on another
   line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.


word: Perpetrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To do or perform; to carry through; to execute,
   commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be
   guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed.


word: Perpetuate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be
   continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to
   eternize.


word: Perpetuation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from
   extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of
   time; continuance.


word: Perpetuity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or condition of an estate by which it
   becomes inalienable, either perpetually or for a very long period;
   also, the estate itself so modified or perpetuated.


word: Perplex
wordtype: a.
definition:
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated,
   and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with
   doubts.


word: Perplex
wordtype: a.
definition:
To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to
   confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.


word: Perplexity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled;
   complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through
   doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.


word: Perquisite
wordtype: n.
definition:
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.


word: Perquisite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased
   with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent.


word: Persalt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed
   respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides.


word: Persecute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict;
   to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict,
   harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular
   religious creed or mode of worship.


word: Persecution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the
   infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed
   or mode of worship.


word: Perseid
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about
   the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating
   from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once
   connected with a comet visible in 1862.


word: Perseus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and
   Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a
   nebula.


word: Perseverance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of persevering; persistence in anything
   undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or
   enterprise begun.


word: Perseverance
wordtype: n.
definition:
Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded
   by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the
   perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism.


word: Persevere
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
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
   give or abandon what is undertaken.


word: Persiflage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of
   treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.


word: Persimmon
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit,
   found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance,
   but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost,
   when it becomes palatable and nutritious.


word: Persist
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to
   continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of
   conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying
   an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.


word: Persistency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being persistent; staying or
   continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness;
   obstinacy.


word: Persistent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind
   sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or
   gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.


word: Person
wordtype: n.
definition:
A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or
   manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in
   literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.


word: Person
wordtype: n.
definition:
A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal
   or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.


word: Person
wordtype: n.
definition:
Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the
   Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.


word: Person
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking,
   that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a
   noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the
   subject.


word: Person
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound
   Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense,
   among the higher animals.


word: Personable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely;
   of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.


word: Personage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the
   external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.


word: Personage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or
   peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of
   stature tall.


word: Personal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or
   affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or
   proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal
   comfort; personal desire.


word: Personal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to an individual, his character, conduct,
   motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as,
   personal reflections or remarks.


word: Personality
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something said or written which refers to the person,
   conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a
   disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in
   personalities.


word: Personally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person;
   not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter
   personally.


word: Personally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
With respect to one's individuality; as regards one's
   self; as, personally I have no feeling in the matter.


word: Personate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To assume the character of; to represent by a
   fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to
   feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.


word: Personate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed
   by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower
   of the snapdragon.


word: Personification
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or
   abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality;
   prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands.


word: Personnel
wordtype: n.
definition:
The body of persons employed in some public service, as
   the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel.


word: Perspective
wordtype: a.
definition:
The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects,
   by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less
   measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater
   vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.


word: Perspective
wordtype: a.
definition:
The art and the science of so delineating objects that
   they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called
   also linear perspective.


word: Perspectograph
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a
   picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in
   their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.


word: Perspectography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science or art of delineating objects
   according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.


word: Perspicuous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly
   understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or
   ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements.


word: Perspire
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete
   fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.


word: Persuade
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To influence or gain over by argument, advice,
   entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by
   presenting sufficient motives.


word: Persuade
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or
   suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.


word: Persuasion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind
   by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or
   passions, or inclines the will to a determination.


word: Persuasion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled
   opinion or conviction, which has been induced.


word: Persuasion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A creed or belief; a sect or party adhering to a
   certain creed or system of opinions; as, of the same persuasion; all
   persuasions are agreed.


word: Persulphide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sulphide containing more sulphur than some other
   compound of the same elements; as, iron pyrites is a persulphide; --
   formerly called persulphuret.


word: Persulphocyanic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow
   crystalline substance (called also perthiocyanic acid), analogous to
   sulphocyanic acid, but containing more sulphur.


word: Persulphocyanogen
wordtype: n.
definition:
An orange-yellow substance, produced by the
   action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of
   potassium; -- called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and
   formerly sulphocyanogen.


word: Pertain
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
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.


word: Perthite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture
   of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.


word: Pertinacious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or
   design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as,
   pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.


word: Pertinency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of
   relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness;
   relevancy; suitableness.


word: Pertinent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand;
   fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite;
   material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent
   evidence.


word: Perturbation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion
   of a heavenly body, produced by some force additional to that which
   causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are
   caused by their attraction on each other.


word: Perverse
wordtype: a.
definition:
Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the
   right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.


word: Perversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted;
   a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or
   object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong
   end or use.


word: Pervert
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert
   from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to
   misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.


word: Pervert
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error,
   especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of
   Convert.


word: Pervious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another
   body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.


word: Pesade
wordtype: n.
definition:
The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he
   keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.


word: Peseta
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about
   nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.


word: Peshitto
wordtype: n.
definition:
The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament,
   translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New
   Testament.


word: Peso
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian,
   etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.


word: Pessary
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in
   the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.


word: Pessary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass,
   designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.


word: Pessimism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is
   ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; --
   opposed to optimism.


word: Pessulus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and
   ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the
   syrinx of birds.


word: Pest
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is
   troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.


word: Pestalozzian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of
   elementary education which combined manual training with other
   instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi
   (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher.


word: Pestiferous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health;
   malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.


word: Pestiferous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious;
   hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.


word: Pestilence
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence,
   any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and
   devastating.


word: Pet
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a
   fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.


word: Stipple
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches
   which together produce an even or softly graded surface.


word: Stipular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules;
   furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them;
   occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular
   tendrils.


word: Stipulate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make an agreement or covenant with any person or
   company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle
   terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting
   the armies of France.


word: Stipulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which
   is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a
   contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition,
   in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to
   furnish each his contingent of troops.


word: Stipulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in
   the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.


word: Stipule
wordtype: n.
definition:
An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually
   somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.


word: Stir
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as
   of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a
   pudding with a spoon.


word: Stirabout
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain
   consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed
   together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.


word: Stirrer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who
   moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.


word: Stirring
wordtype: a.
definition:
Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in
   business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a
   busy life.


word: Stirrup
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
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
   mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well
   as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.


word: Stirrup
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle,
   and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.


word: Stitch
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting;
   a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take
   up a stitch.


word: Stitch
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass
   of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.


word: Stitch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner
   as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch
   a shirt bosom.


word: Stitch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch
   printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.


word: Stitching
wordtype: n.
definition:
Work done by sewing, esp. when a continuous line of
   stitches is shown on the surface; stitches, collectively.


word: Stiver
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two
   cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of
   little worth.


word: Stoat
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown,
   but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to
   other brown weasels.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
The principal supporting part; the part in which others are
   inserted, or to which they are attached.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or
   like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood,
   which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body
   of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an
   anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which
   was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as
   the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family;
   the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in
   business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other
   company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount;
   money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in
   the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or
   in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the
   United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and
   the former shares.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a
   merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of
   provisions.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a
   farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live
   stock.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the
   players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which
   might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet
   and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common
   stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M.
   annua).


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a
   rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.


word: Stock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of
   meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in
   making soup, gravy, etc.


word: Stock
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill;
   to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to
   stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock
   land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of
   grass.


word: Stock
wordtype: a.
definition:
Used or employed for constant service or application, as if
   constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent;
   standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.


word: Stockade
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the
   earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a
   barrier, or defensive fortification.


word: Stockdove
wordtype: n.
definition:
A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called
   because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon,
   or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of
   trees.


word: Stockfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling,
   and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.


word: Stockholder
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the
   public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.


word: Stockinet
wordtype: n.
definition:
An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which
   stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.


word: Stockjobber
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose
   occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an
   intermediary between brokers.


word: Stockwork
wordtype: n.
definition:
A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in
   strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or
   stories.


word: Stockwork
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metalliferous deposit characterized by the
   impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests
   irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin
   ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.


word: Stoic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect
   which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or
   grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by
   which all things are governed.


word: Stoic
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one
   who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.


word: Stoichiology
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the science of physiology which treats
   of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues.


word: Stoichiometry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or process of calculating the atomic
   proportions, combining weights, and other numerical relations of
   chemical elements and their compounds.


word: Stokehole
wordtype: n.
definition:
The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in
   front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.


word: Stoker
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with
   fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam
   boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire.


word: Stole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A narrow band of silk or stuff, sometimes enriched with
   embroidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across
   both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to
   the ground. At Mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is
   used in various sacred functions.


word: Stolon
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extension of the integument of the body, or of the body
   wall, from which buds are developed, giving rise to new zooids, and
   thus forming a compound animal in which the zooids usually remain
   united by the stolons. Such stolons are often present in Anthozoa,
   Hydroidea, Bryozoa, and social ascidians. See Illust. under
   Scyphistoma.


word: Stoma
wordtype: n.
definition:
The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening
   into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile
   cells.


word: Stoma
wordtype: n.
definition:
The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is
   usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of
   Sporangium.


word: Stomach
wordtype: n.
definition:
An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior
   part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in
   which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See
   Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.


word: Stomacher
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ornamental covering for the breast, worn originally
   both by men and women. Those worn by women were often richly decorated.


word: Stomapoda
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The
   maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They
   have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the
   stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the
   gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.


word: Stomatogastric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as,
   the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.


word: Stomatoplastic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a
   mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.


word: Stone
wordtype: n.
definition:
Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular
   mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone;
   pebbles are rounded stones.


word: Stone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or
   bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.


word: Stone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly
   marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc.,
   before printing; -- called also imposing stone.


word: Stone
wordtype: n.
definition:
To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to
   stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.


word: Stone
wordtype: n.
definition:
To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones;
   as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.


word: Stonechat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, active, and very common European singing bird
   (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker,
   stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.


word: Stonecrop
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum
   acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in
   parts of America. See Orpine.


word: Stonehenge
wordtype: n.
definition:
An assemblage of upright stones with others placed
   horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally
   supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.


word: Stoneroot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a
   very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.


word: Stonewort
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they
   are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.


word: Stony
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding
   in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony
   cave; stony ground; a stony crust.


word: Stony
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate;
   perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony
   heart; a stony gaze.


word: Stool
wordtype: n.
definition:
A single seat with three or four legs and without a back,
   made in various forms for various uses.


word: Stoop
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the
   Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an
   out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with
   platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above
   the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance
   stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.


word: Stoop
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward;
   to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to
   assume habitually a bent position.


word: Stoop
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of stooping, or bending the body forward;
   inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.


word: Stop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing;
   as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.


word: Stop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut
   in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow
   of blood.


word: Stop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or
   efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress;
   to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the
   progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.


word: Stop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing
   them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any
   way the vibrating part.


word: Stop
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance
   of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check;
   obstruction.


word: Stop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for
   arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which
   another part shall be brought.


word: Stop
wordtype: n.
definition:
The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of
   the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify
   the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical
   instrument are regulated.


word: Stop
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the
   organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of
   pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.


word: Stop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and
   fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the
   place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to
   prevent a drawer from sliding too far.


word: Stop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A point or mark in writing or printing intended to
   distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of
   punctuation. See Punctuation.


word: Stop
wordtype: n.
definition:
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the
   marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.


word: Stop
wordtype: n.
definition:
The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the
   nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other
   breeds.


word: Stop
wordtype: n.
definition:
Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the
   tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or
   voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a
   front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but
   not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the
   consonants so formed.


word: Stopcock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning
   stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or
   gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas,
   etc., through or from a pipe, etc.


word: Stope
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working
   faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.


word: Prolate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the
   direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; --
   opposed to oblate.


word: Proleg
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of
   the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of
   Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and
   falseleg.


word: Prolepsis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The application of an adjective to a noun in
   anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as,
   to strike one dumb.


word: Proleptical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a
   periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every
   repetition.


word: Proletaire
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the common people; a low person; also, the
   common people as a class or estate in a country.


word: Proletary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not
   with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.


word: Proliferation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The production of numerous zooids by budding,
   especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.


word: Proliferous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within
   which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another
   rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae.


word: Prolific
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the quality of generating; producing young or
   fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing
   fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea
   of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and
   the like.


word: Prolific
wordtype: a.
definition:
Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a
   prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.


word: Prolification
wordtype: n.
definition:
Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a
   plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmae.


word: Prolix
wordtype: a.
definition:
Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in
   narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used
   except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix
   oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.


word: Prolixity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being prolix; great length;
   minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.


word: Prologue
wordtype: n.
definition:
The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or
   performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a
   discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance


word: Prolong
wordtype: a.
definition:
To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw
   out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days.


word: Prolonge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a
   gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other
   purposes.


word: Promerops
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of very brilliant birds
   belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related
   to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a
   long curved beak and a long graduated tail.


word: Promethea
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea).
   Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and
   suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.


word: Prometheus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene,
   fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to
   have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen
   from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind
   Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.


word: Prominent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of
   something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure
   on a vase.


word: Prominent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hence; Distinctly manifest; likely to attract attention
   from its size or position; conspicuous; as, a prominent feature of the
   face; a prominent building.


word: Promiscuous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass
   without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous
   crowd or mass.


word: Promiscuous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Distributed or applied without order or
   discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common;
   indiscriminate; as, promiscuous love or intercourse.


word: Promise
wordtype: a.
definition:
In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one
   person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to
   forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person
   to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or
   forbearance of a specified act.


word: Promise
wordtype: a.
definition:
An engagement by one person to another, either in words or
   in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or
   nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to
   denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the
   consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it
   is made.


word: Promise
wordtype: a.
definition:
That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance;
   especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a
   youth of great promise.


word: Promise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing,
   giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise
   a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment
   of money.


word: Promise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some
   benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the
   proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.


word: Promise
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to
   expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.


word: Promising
wordtype: a.
definition:
Making a promise or promises; affording hope or
   assurance; as, promising person; a promising day.


word: Promontory
wordtype: n.
definition:
A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea
   beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.


word: Promontory
wordtype: n.
definition:
A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle
   of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar
   vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the
   ear.


word: Promorphology
wordtype: n.
definition:
Crystallography of organic forms; -- a division of
   morphology created by Haeckel. It is essentially stereometric, and
   relates to a mathematical conception of organic forms. See Tectology.


word: Promote
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity
   of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to
   encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote
   disorder; to promote a business venture.


word: Promote
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to
   raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.


word: Promoter
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes;
   an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.


word: Promoter
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the
   preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a
   joint-stock company, or the like.


word: Promottion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the
   act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being
   advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.


word: Promt
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting
   requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or
   action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience
   or compliance; -- said of persons.


word: Promt
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately;
   given without delay or hesitation; -- said of conduct; as, prompt
   assistance.


word: Prompt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce
   purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.


word: Prompter
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the
   words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in
   a theater.


word: Promptitude
wordtype: a.
definition:
The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and
   action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience.


word: Promulgate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees,
   or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.


word: Prone
wordtype: a.
definition:
Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or
   affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.


word: Proneness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being prone, or of bending
   downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of
   man.


word: Proneness
wordtype: n.
definition:
Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension;
   disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.


word: Pronghorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of
   the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly
   yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and
   the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed
   annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned
   antelope.


word: Pronoun
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the
   repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you,
   he, she, it, we, ye, and they.


word: Pronounce
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to
   utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent
   as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.


word: Pronounce
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a
   decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.


word: Pronounce
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to
   be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.


word: Pronucleus
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female
   pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an
   impregnated ovum.


word: Pronunciation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of uttering with articulation; the act of
   giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of
   syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.


word: Pronunciation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly
   with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.


word: Proof
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or
   discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.


word: Proof
wordtype: n.
definition:
That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any
   truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that
   induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive
   evidence; demonstration.


word: Proof
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of having been proved or tried;
   firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to
   force; impenetrability of physical bodies.


word: Proof
wordtype: n.
definition:
A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or
   examination; -- called also proof sheet.


word: Proostracum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The anterior prolongation of the guard of the
   phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny
   or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone.


word: Prootic
wordtype: a.
definition:
In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to
   a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule.


word: Prop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something
   under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to
   sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.


word: Prop
wordtype: v.
definition:
That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which
   anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for
   a building.


word: Propaedeutical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary
   instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing
   beforehand.


word: Propagable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or
   multiplied by natural generation or production.


word: Propaganda
wordtype: n.
definition:
The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban
   VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the
   world.


word: Propagate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or
   successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to
   propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit
   tree.


word: Propagate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue
   forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.


word: Propagate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To spread from person to person; to extend the
   knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to
   disseminate; as, to propagate a story or report; to propagate the
   Christian religion.


word: Propagate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied
   by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate
   rapidly.


word: Propagation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication
   of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation
   of animals or plants.


word: Propagation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything;
   diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation
   of the gospel.


word: Propane
wordtype: n.
definition:
A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series,
   occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made
   artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.


word: Propel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to
   move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are
   propelled by gunpowder.


word: Propeller
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually
   consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to
   revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel.


word: Propensity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being propense; natural
   inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.


word: Propenyl
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, C3H5, isomeric with
   allyl and glyceryl, and regarded as the essential residue of glycerin.
   Cf. Allyl, and Glyceryl.


word: Propeptone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A product of gastric digestion intermediate between
   albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.


word: Proper
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to the natural or essential constitution;
   peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper
   instincts and appetites.


word: Proper
wordtype: a.
definition:
Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all
   respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper
   element for fish; a proper dress.


word: Proper
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the
   whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin
   is the proper name of a city.


word: Properly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly;
   as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.


word: Property
wordtype: a.
definition:
That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a
   thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to
   it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.


word: Property
wordtype: a.
definition:
An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by
   art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which
   constitute excellence.


word: Property
wordtype: a.
definition:
That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his
   possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or
   money; as, a man of large property, or small property.


word: Prophesy
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret
   or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to
   expound.


word: Prophet
wordtype: n.
definition:
One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or
   announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.


word: Prophetical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling
   events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of
   before the thing foretold.


word: Prophylaxis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease;
   the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health;
   preservative or preventive treatment.


word: Propidene
wordtype: n.
definition:
The unsymmetrical hypothetical hydrocarbon radical,
   CH3.CH2.CH, analogous to ethylidene, and regarded as the type of
   certain derivatives of propane; -- called also propylidene.


word: Propine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the
   manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.


word: Propiolic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called
   also propargylic acid) of the acetylene or tetrolic series, analogous
   to propionic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance.


word: Propionic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic
   acid which is produced in the distillation of wood, in the fermentation
   of various organic substances, as glycerin, calcium lactate, etc., and
   is obtained as a colorless liquid having a sharp, pungent odor.
   Propionic acid is so called because it is the first or lowest member of
   the fatty acid series whose salts have a fatty feel.


word: Propionyl
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hypothetical radical C3H5O, regarded as the
   essential residue of propionic acid and certain related compounds.


word: Propitiation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the
   favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.


word: Propitiation
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which propitiates; atonement or atoning
   sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of
   Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine
   favor.


word: Propitiatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to,
   or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice.


word: Proportion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The relation or adaptation of one portion to another,
   or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative
   relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of
   the body.


word: Proportion
wordtype: n.
definition:
Harmonic relation between parts, or between different
   things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment;
   symmetry; as, to be out of proportion.


word: Proportion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by
   a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot.


word: Proportion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of
   geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the
   quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the
   third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in
   distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the
   difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the
   third and fourth.


word: Proportion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three
   given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional.


word: Proportion
wordtype: v.
definition:
To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one
   part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its
   height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.


word: Proportional
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a due proportion, or comparative relation;
   being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are
   proportional.


word: Proportional
wordtype: a.
definition:
Constituting a proportion; having the same, or a
   constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional
   to quantity of matter.


word: Proportionally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively;
   as, all parts of the building are proportionally large.


word: Proportionate
wordtype: v.
definition:
To make proportional; to adjust according to a
   settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to
   proportionate punishment to crimes.


word: Proposal
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration
   or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer;
   as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for
   erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.


word: Proposal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an
   intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a
   contract.


word: Propose
wordtype: v.
definition:
To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or
   adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for
   discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.


word: Propose
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a
   scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.


word: Proposition
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for
   consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made
   propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.


word: Proposition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A statement of religious doctrine; an article of
   faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.


word: Proposition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting
   of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or
   propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is
   affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.


word: Proposition
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of
   the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or
   illustration.


word: Propositional
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition;
   considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense.


word: Propound
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose;
   as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.


word: Proprietary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to
   a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own
   right.


word: Proprietary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself,
   notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.


word: Proprietary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered
   as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.


word: Proprietor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has the legal right or exclusive title to
   anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of
   farm or of a mill.


word: Propriety
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an
   acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established
   principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety
   of behavior, language, manners, etc.


word: Propyl
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hypothetical radical C3H7, regarded as the essential
   residue of propane and related compounds.


word: Propylene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless gaseous hydrocarbon (C3H6) of the ethylene
   series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced
   artificially in various ways. Called also propene.


word: Prorogation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of
   Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command of the
   sovereign.


word: Prosaical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form
   of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic
   composition.


word: Proscribe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection
   of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each
   other's adherents.


word: Proscription
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile;
   outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a
   reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate,
   many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.


word: Prose
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing;
   language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished
   from verse, or metrical composition.


word: Prose
wordtype: a.
definition:
Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain;
   dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.


word: Prosector
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration;
   usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.


word: Prosecute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or
   accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to
   continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.


word: Prosecute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse
   of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment,
   before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to
   prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot.


word: Prosecution
wordtype: n.
definition:
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
   prosecution of war.


word: Prosecution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court
   of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some
   wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a
   complaining party, as distinguished from defense.


word: Prosecution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a
   criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an
   offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment
   on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.


word: Prosecutor
wordtype: n.
definition:
The person who institutes and carries on a criminal
   suit against another in the name of the government.


word: Proselyte
wordtype: n.
definition:
A new convert especially a convert to some religion or
   religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus,
   a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity,
   is a proselyte.


word: Proselytism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or practice of proselyting; the making of
   converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system,
   or party.


word: Proselytize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or
   the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.


word: Prosenchyma
wordtype: n.
definition:
A general term applied to the tissues formed of
   elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities,
   as the principal cells of ordinary wood.


word: Prosobranchiata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The highest division, or subclass, of
   gastropod mollusks, including those that have the gills situated
   anteriorly, or forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.


word: Prosody
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of
   syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical
   composition.


word: Prosopolepsy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion
   or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance.


word: Prosopop/ia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure by which things are represented as persons,
   or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a
   figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a
   deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes
   personification, but is more extensive in its signification.


word: Prosopulmonata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of pulmonate mollusks having the
   breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.


word: Prospect
wordtype: v.
definition:
That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which
   the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.


word: Prospect
wordtype: v.
definition:
That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation;
   expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.


word: Prospective
wordtype: n.
definition:
Being within view or consideration, as a future event
   or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective
   benefit.


word: Prospectus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed,
   affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the
   scheme of an unpublished literary work.


word: Prosperity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in
   anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or
   enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success;
   as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.


word: Prosperous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything
   desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a
   prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or
   nation.


word: Prosphysis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid
   adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball.


word: Prostate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in
   the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder
   where this joins the urethra.


word: Prosthesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The addition to the human body of some artificial part,
   to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also
   prothesis.


word: Prostitute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up
   to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute
   official powers.


word: Prostitution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or practice of prostituting or offering the
   body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a
   woman.


word: Prostitution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting
   to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of
   abilities; the prostitution of the press.


word: Prostrate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground
   or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.


word: Prostrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to
   prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.


word: Prostrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of
   efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a
   government; to prostrate law or justice.


word: Prostrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or
   adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as,
   he prostrated himself.


word: Prostration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or
   adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually
   applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.


word: Prostration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of being prostrate; great depression;
   lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.


word: Prostration
wordtype: n.
definition:
A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital
   energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.


word: Prosylogism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to
   another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a
   premise of the following syllogism.


word: Protactic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the
   plot or personages of a play; introductory.


word: Protagon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain
   tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other
   bodies.


word: Protagonist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one
   who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.


word: Protamin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic
   fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction,
   and unites with acids and metallic bases.


word: Protasis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The introductory or subordinate member of a sentence,
   generally of a conditional sentence; -- opposed to apodosis. See
   Apodosis.


word: Proteaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the Proteaceae, an order of
   apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the Cape of Good Hope or
   of Australia.


word: Protean
wordtype: a.
definition:
Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or
   forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.


word: Protect
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to
   guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.


word: Protection
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of protecting, or the state of being protected;
   preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the
   weak need protection.


word: Protection
wordtype: n.
definition:
A writing that protects or secures from molestation or
   arrest; a pass; a safe-conduct; a passport.


word: Protection
wordtype: n.
definition:
A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a
   country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition
   of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will
   restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade.


word: Protector
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury,
   evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.


word: Protector
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman
   Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome;
   also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious
   order, etc.


word: Protectorate
wordtype: n.
definition:
Government by a protector; -- applied especially to
   the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.


word: Protectorate
wordtype: n.
definition:
The authority assumed by a superior power over an
   inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter
   from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.


word: Proteid
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles,
   containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as
   blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc. Proteids are present in nearly all
   animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and
   organs. They are also important constituents of vegetable tissues. See
   2d Note under Food.


word: Proteidea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of aquatic amphibians having prominent
   external gills and four legs. It includes Proteus and Menobranchus
   (Necturus). Called also Proteoidea, and Proteida.


word: Protein
wordtype: n.
definition:
A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally
   considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its
   name.


word: Proteles
wordtype: n.
definition:
A South Africa genus of Carnivora, allied to the hyenas,
   but smaller and having weaker jaws and teeth. It includes the
   aard-wolf.


word: Proteroglypha
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A suborder of serpents including those that have
   permanently erect grooved poison fangs, with ordinary teeth behind them
   in the jaws. It includes the cobras, the asps, and the sea snakes.
   Called also Proteroglyphia.


word: Protest
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a solemn declaration (often a written one)
   expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your
   votes.


word: Protest
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to
   proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty.


word: Protest
wordtype: v.
definition:
A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal
   objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn
   declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a
   legislative body; as, the protest of lords in Parliament.


word: Protest
wordtype: v.
definition:
A solemn declaration in writing, in due form, made by a
   notary public, usually under his notarial seal, on behalf of the holder
   of a bill or note, protesting against all parties liable for any loss
   or damage by the nonacceptance or nonpayment of the bill, or by the
   nonpayment of the note, as the case may be.


word: Protest
wordtype: v.
definition:
A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a
   notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port
   after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any
   damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her
   officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may
   be, and protesting against them.


word: Protest
wordtype: v.
definition:
A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a
   tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal,
   denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims,
   in order to show that the payment was not voluntary.


word: Protestant
wordtype: v.
definition:
One who protests; -- originally applied to those who
   adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration
   of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of
   Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general
   council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who
   does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church.


word: Protestant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those
   Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as,
   Protestant writers.


word: Protestantism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being protestant, especially
   against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the
   Protestants.


word: Protestation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by
   which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some
   fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time
   avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.


word: Proteus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different
   shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or
   principles.


word: Proteus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in
   Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes
   are small and the legs are weak.


word: Prothallus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and
   other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric
   generation of ferns, etc.


word: Protonotary
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench
   and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master.


word: Protonotary
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts
   of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of
   twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office
   is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official
   record of beatifications.


word: Prothorax
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects.
   See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.


word: Pro thyalosoma
wordtype: n.
definition:
The investing portion, or spherical envelope,
   surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.


word: Protista
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A provisional group in which are placed a number of
   low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants,
   others animals.


word: Proto-
definition:
A combining form prefix signifying first, primary,
   primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive
   in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.


word: Proto-
definition:
Denoting the first or lowest of a series, or the one having
   the smallest amount of the element to the name of which it is prefixed;
   as protoxide, protochloride, etc.


word: Proto-
definition:
Sometimes used as equivalent to mono-, as indicating that the
   compound has but one atom of the element to the name of which it is
   prefixed. Also used adjectively.


word: Protocanonical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which
   contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; --
   opposed to deutero-canonical.


word: Protocatechuic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an
   organic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance from
   catechin, asafetida, oil of cloves, etc., and by distillation itself
   yields pyrocatechin.


word: Protocercal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the
   vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of
   fishes; diphycercal.


word: Protocol
wordtype: n.
definition:
An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results
   reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.


word: Proto-Doric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which
   the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.


word: Protohippus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They
   had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.


word: Protomartyr
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is
   sacrificed, in any cause; -- applied esp. to Stephen, the first
   Christian martyr.


word: Protonema
wordtype: n.
definition:
The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually
   consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem
   and leaf buds may be developed.


word: Protoorganism
wordtype: n.
definition:
An organism whose nature is so difficult to
   determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the
   vegetable kingdom.


word: Protophyte
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a
   plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell
   division.


word: Protoplasm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The viscid and more or less granular material of
   vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the
   processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called
   " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm,
   cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.


word: Protoplast
wordtype: n.
definition:
The thing first formed; that of which there are
   subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.


word: Protoplasta
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of fresh-water rhizopods including
   those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The
   genus Gromia is one of the best-known.


word: Protopodite
wordtype: n.
definition:
The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less
   consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.


word: Protopope
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of
   secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.


word: Protosilicate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A silicate formed with the lowest proportion of
   silicic acid, or having but one atom of silicon in the molecule.


word: Protosulphide
wordtype: n.
definition:
That one of a series of sulphides of any element
   which has the lowest proportion of sulphur; a sulphide with but one
   atom of sulphur in the molecule.


word: Prototype
wordtype: n.
definition:
An original or model after which anything is copied; the
   pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the
   like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.


word: Protovertebra
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which
   the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the
   anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral,
   somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm.


word: Protozoic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing remains of the earliest discovered life of
   the globe, which included mollusks, radiates and protozoans.


word: Protract
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space;
   to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a
   war.


word: Protraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the
   termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the
   protraction of a debate.


word: Protractor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring
   angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various
   forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular.


word: Protuberance
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond
   the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a
   prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.


word: Protuberant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond
   the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint;
   a protuberant eye.


word: Protyle
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the
   original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are
   recognized as distinct chemical elements.


word: Proud
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating
   one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.


word: Proud
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem;
   exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.


word: Proud
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Giving reason or occasion for pride or
   self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent;
   admirable; ostentatious.


word: Proustite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful
   cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also
   massive; ruby silver.


word: Prove
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or
   standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of
   ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.


word: Prove
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or
   fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.


word: Prove
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness
   of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference
   between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to
   the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.


word: Prove
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out
   to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.


word: Provection
wordtype: n.
definition:
A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a
   following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename.


word: Proveditor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a
   steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another.


word: Proverb
wordtype: n.
definition:
An old and common saying; a phrase which is often
   repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses
   some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a
   maxim; a saw; an adage.


word: Proverbial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb;
   hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was
   proverbial.


word: Proverbialist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or
   writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.


word: Proverbially
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence,
   commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is
   proverbially busy.


word: Provide
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to
   get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.


word: Provide
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as,
   the contract provides that the work be well done.


word: Provide
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To procure supplies or means in advance; to take
   measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need,
   especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to
   provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the
   education of a child.


word: Provide
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the
   agreement provides for an early completion of the work.


word: Provided
wordtype: conj.
definition:
On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding;
   if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act
   shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.


word: Providence
wordtype: n.
definition:
Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care
   which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as
   exercising a constant wise prescience.


word: Providence
wordtype: n.
definition:
A manifestation of the care and superintendence which
   God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine
   direction.


word: Provident
wordtype: a.
definition:
Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them;
   prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; --
   sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of
   the future.


word: Providential
wordtype: a.
definition:
Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or
   superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a
   providential escape.


word: Ticpolonga
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very venomous viper (Daboia Russellii), native of
   Ceylon and India; -- called also cobra monil.


word: Tidal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides;
   periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal
   waters.


word: Tide
wordtype: prep.
definition:
The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the
   ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs
   and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than
   twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and
   moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the
   former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the
   earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of
   the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence,
   when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon
   and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the
   usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the
   moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part
   counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under
   the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.


word: Tide
wordtype: n.
definition:
To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the
   tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.


word: Tidesman
wordtype: n.
definition:
A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant
   ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.


word: Tidewaiter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods
   from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties.


word: Tidy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept
   in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a
   tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and
   tidy.


word: Tidy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental
   work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.


word: Tidytips
wordtype: n.
definition:
A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the
   flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.


word: Tie
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties
   of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.


word: Tie
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which
   prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest,
   as a race.


word: Tie
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways,
   one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in
   place.


word: Tie
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes,
   or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they
   are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two
   notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.


word: Tie
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord;
   also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to
   knit; to knot.


word: Tie
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by
   knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.


word: Tiebeam
wordtype: n.
definition:
A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of
   principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See
   Illust. of Timbers, under Roof.


word: Tier
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed
   one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.


word: Tierce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is,
   forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or
   thirty-five imperial, gallons.


word: Tierce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or
   a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for
   shipment.


word: Tierce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce
   of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.


word: Tierce
wordtype: n.
definition:
The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the
   canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.


word: Tiers etat
definition:
The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to
   the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as
   inferior to, the nobles and clergy.


word: Tiewig
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls
   tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head.


word: Tiffin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; --
   originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and
   brought back to England in a special sense.


word: Tig
wordtype: n.
definition:
A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four
   handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial
   entertainment.


word: Tiger
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of
   Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or
   rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with
   black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it
   equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal
   tiger, and Bengal tiger.


word: Tiger-eye
wordtype: n.
definition:
A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant
   luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an
   altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.


word: Tiger's-foot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to some species of morning-glory
   (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.


word: Tight
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or
   other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room;
   -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as,
   water-tight; air-tight.


word: Tight
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied
   to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.


word: Tight
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; --
   said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.


word: Tiglic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7CO2H
   (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and
   obtained from croton oil (from Croton Tiglium) as a white crystalline
   substance.


word: Tilde
wordtype: n.
definition:
The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in
   Spanish words [thus, , /], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound
   of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or
   consonantal, y.


word: Tile
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the
   roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental
   mantel works.


word: Tile
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to
   cover vessels in which metals are fused.


word: Tilefish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus
   chamaeleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round,
   yellow spots.


word: Tiliaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of
   plants (Tiliaceae) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order
   includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.


word: Till
wordtype: n.
definition:
A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination,
   formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the
   melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river
   terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same
   manner.


word: Till
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in
   respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still
   so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked
   till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.


word: Till
wordtype: conj.
definition:
As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up
   to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or
   clause following; until.


word: Till
wordtype: prep.
definition:
To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise
   crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.


word: Tillage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing
   land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth
   of crops.


word: Tillandsia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the
   Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides,
   called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a
   very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on
   the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.


word: Tiller
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the
   bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread
   plants by tillering.


word: Tiller
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used
   for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is
   used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical
   appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.


word: Tilley seed
definition:
The seeds of a small tree (Croton Pavana) common in the
   Malay Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of Croton
   Tiglium.


word: Tillodontia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extinct group of Mammalia found fossil in the
   Eocene formation. The species are related to the carnivores, ungulates,
   and rodents. Called also Tillodonta.


word: Tilly-vally
wordtype: interj., adv., or a.
definition:
A word of unknown origin and
   signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when
   anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent.


word: Tilt
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the
   military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on
   horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or
   movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.


word: Tilt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants
   attacked each other with lances; a tournament.


word: Tilt hammer
definition:
A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works,
   which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving
   shaft; a trip hammer.


word: Timaline
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family
   Timalidae, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.


word: Timber
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines,
   sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins,
   in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.


word: Timber
wordtype: n.
definition:
That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for
   tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; --
   usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf.
   Lumber, 3.


word: Timber
wordtype: n.
definition:
A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for
   building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks
   of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in
   distinction from the covering or boarding.


word: Timber
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from
   the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is
   composed of several pieces united.


word: Timberhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and
   serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.


word: Timbre
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments;
   tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a
   violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.


word: Time
wordtype: n.
definition:
Duration, considered independently of any system of
   measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions
   thereof.


word: Time
wordtype: n.
definition:
A particular period or part of duration, whether past,
   present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was,
   or has been; the time is, or will be.


word: Time
wordtype: n.
definition:
The period at which any definite event occurred, or person
   lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the
   time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times;
   modern times.


word: Time
wordtype: n.
definition:
Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered
   with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself;
   repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or
   sixteen.


word: Time
wordtype: n.
definition:
The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with
   immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.


word: Time
wordtype: n.
definition:
The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of
   movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician
   keeps good time.


word: Time
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at
   the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.


word: Time
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as,
   to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.


word: Time-honored
wordtype: a.
definition:
Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of
   honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.


word: Timenoguy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to
   engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.


word: Timer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals
   of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing
   the speed of horses, machinery, etc.


word: Timeserver
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times;
   one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only
   in a bad sense.


word: Timeserving
wordtype: n.
definition:
An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times,
   or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's
   independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.


word: Time-table
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tabular statement of the time at which, or within
   which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a
   school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public
   conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.


word: Time-table
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plane surface divided in one direction with lines
   representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines
   representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings)
   representing the speed and position of various trains.


word: Timothy grass
definition:
A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long
   cylindrical spikes; -- called also herd's grass, in England, cat's-tail
   grass, and meadow cat's-tail grass. It is much prized for fodder. See
   Illustration in Appendix.


word: Tin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral
   cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable
   at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily
   oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it
   from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the
   reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal,
   and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic.
   Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.


word: Tincal
wordtype: n.
definition:
Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was
   once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.


word: Tinchel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive
   space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within
   a narrow compass.


word: Tincture
wordtype: n.
definition:
The finer and more volatile parts of a substance,
   separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body
   communicated to the solvent.


word: Tincture
wordtype: n.
definition:
A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in
   alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal
   substances in solution.


word: Tinean
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidae, which
   includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen
   and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.


word: Tinge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To imbue or impregnate with something different or
   foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in
   some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture,
   or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to
   stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a
   yellow color by saffron.


word: Tinge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or
   something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added
   to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste.


word: Tingis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by
   sucking the sap from the leaves. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Tinker
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.;
   to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.


word: Tinkle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a
   piece of metal does when struck; to clink.


word: Tinkling
wordtype: n.
definition:
A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It
   often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.


word: Tinning
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything
   with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the
   like.


word: Tinnitus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived
   in the ears; -- called also tinnitus aurium.


word: Tinsel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shining material used for ornamental purposes;
   especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven
   into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or
   silver, brass foil, or the like.


word: Tinsel
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something shining and gaudy; something superficially
   shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than
   valuable.


word: Tint
wordtype: n.
definition:
A color considered with reference to other very similar
   colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of
   scarlet are different tints.


word: Tintinnabulous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a
   bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular.


word: Tinto
wordtype: n.
definition:
A red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white
   sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port.


word: Tip
wordtype: n.
definition:
The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat
   sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a
   spear.


word: Tip
wordtype: n.
definition:
An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or
   point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an
   umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.


word: Tipcat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends,
   called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly
   into the air.


word: Tipper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a
   particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas
   Tipper.


word: Tippet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the
   neck and shoulders, -- usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm
   material.


word: Tipping
wordtype: n.
definition:
A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on
   the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth;
   double-tonguing.


word: Tipple
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
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 drunkeness.


word: Tippler
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of
   spirituous liquors, whether he becomes intoxicated or not.


word: Tipsy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered
   weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk;
   fuddled; intoxicated.


word: Tiptoe
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as
   possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.


word: Tipula
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects
   belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender
   bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.


word: Tirade
wordtype: n.
definition:
A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a
   rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and
   bitter language.


word: Tirailleur
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen
   in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to
   annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term
   is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.


word: Tire
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the
   wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.


word: Tire
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength
   fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.


word: Tire
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to
   exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the
   like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.


word: Tiresome
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome;
   fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.


word: Tironian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said
   to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.


word: Tirrit
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in
   Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.


word: Tisri
wordtype: n.
definition:
The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year,
   answering to a part of September with a part of October.


word: Tissue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.;
   specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed
   with figures.


word: Tissue
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform
   structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and
   plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective
   tissue.


word: Tissue
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected
   series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.


word: Tit
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging
   to the families Paridae and Leiotrichidae; a titmouse.


word: Titanic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient
   mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.


word: Titanic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to titanium; derived from, or containing,
   titanium; specifically, designating those compounds of titanium in
   which it has a higher valence as contrasted with the titanous
   compounds.


word: Titanium
wordtype: n.
definition:
An elementary substance found combined in the minerals
   manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible
   iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when
   heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.


word: Titano-
definition:
A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain
   double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as,
   titano-cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.


word: Titanotherium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the
   rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.


word: Titanous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that
   element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.


word: Tithe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the
   tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock,
   allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to
   religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and
   Wales are commuted by law into rent charges.


word: Tithing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near
   each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good
   behavior of each other; a decennary.


word: Tithingman
wordtype: n.
definition:
A parish officer elected annually to preserve good
   order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any
   disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath.


word: Titlark
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to
   Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in
   color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European
   meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).


word: Title
wordtype: n.
definition:
The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually
   containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names,
   the date, etc.


word: Title
wordtype: n.
definition:
A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book,
   specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book.


word: Title
wordtype: n.
definition:
An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preeminence
   (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable,
   esquire, etc.


word: Title
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession;
   that which is the foundation of ownership of property, real or
   personal; a right; as, a good title to an estate, or an imperfect
   title.


word: Titling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often
   chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.


word: Titmouse
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous
   singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit,
   and tomtit.


word: Titrate
wordtype: n.
definition:
To analyse, or determine the strength of, by means of
   standard solutions. Cf. Standardized solution, under Solution.


word: Titter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of
   the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to
   giggle.


word: Titular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title
   to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as,
   a titular prince.


word: Titulary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he
   holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or
   not.


word: Tmesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The separation of the parts of a compound word by the
   intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for
   whatsoever place.


word: To-
wordtype: prep.
definition:
An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of
   compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See
   these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under
   All, adv.


word: To
wordtype: prep.
definition:
The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival,
   motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it,
   access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward;
   -- opposed to from.


word: To
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a
   time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being
   regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going
   to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.


word: To
wordtype: prep.
definition:
In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of
   application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or
   indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs
   with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon
   that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation;
   as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this
   seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to
   the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous
   liquor.


word: To
wordtype: prep.
definition:
As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last
   defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it
   as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to
   go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my
   utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost
   constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no
   prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or
   subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's
   country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the
   infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed
   the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (Matt.
   xi. 8).


word: To
wordtype: prep.
definition:
In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to
   has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.


word: To
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as;
   as, they met us to the number of three hundred.


word: To
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to
   his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to
   the prejudice of the state.


word: To
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven;
   it is ten to one that you will offend him.


word: Toad
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the
   genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae.
   Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the
   breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow
   beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at
   night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that
   secrete an acrid fluid.


word: Retain
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose,
   part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.


word: Retain
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to
   hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.


word: Retainer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a
   cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the
   case; -- called also retaining fee.


word: Retaliate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act
   of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in
   a bad sense.]


word: Retaliation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like;
   retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an
   eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.


word: Rete
wordtype: n.
definition:
A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood
   vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.


word: Retene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It
   is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.


word: Retention
wordtype: n.
definition:
The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining
   property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly
   paid; a lien.


word: Retentor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in
   place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.


word: Retepore
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus
   Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of
   thin fenestrated fronds.


word: Reticence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping
   silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that
   which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.


word: Reticence
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing
   while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.


word: Reticular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with
   interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.


word: Reticularia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extensive division of rhizopods in which the
   pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points,
   forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera,
   together with some groups which lack a true shell.


word: Reticulated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the
   threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated
   surface; a reticulated wing of an insect.


word: Reticulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being reticulated, or
   netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling
   a net.


word: Reticule
wordtype: n..
definition:
A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag,
   or a little bag to be carried in the hand.


word: Reticulum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the
   mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb
   stomach.


word: Retiform
wordtype: a.
definition:
Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular;
   netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.


word: Retina
wordtype: n.
definition:
The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe
   of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve
   terminate. See Eye.


word: Retinaculum
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons
   close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.


word: Retinaculum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small gland or process to which bodies are attached;
   as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are
   attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous
   plants.


word: Retinalite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow
   or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.


word: Retineum
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds
   in function with the retina of a vertebrate.


word: Retinic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to resin; derived from resin;
   specifically, designating an acid found in certain fossil resins and
   hydrocarbons.


word: Retinite
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish
   brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal.


word: Retinophora
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of group of two to four united cells which occupy
   the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of
   invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust.
   under Ommatidium.


word: Retinue
wordtype: n.
definition:
The body of retainers who follow a prince or other
   distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.


word: Retinula
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the
   retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium.


word: Retirade
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion,
   which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled.
   It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.


word: Retire
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to
   take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.


word: Retire
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no
   longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as,
   to retire a military or naval officer.


word: Retire
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep
   aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy;
   as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.


word: Retire
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as,
   having made a large fortune, he retired.


word: Retirement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired;
   withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.


word: Retort
wordtype: n.
definition:
To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or
   incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.


word: Retort
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge,
   censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe
   response.


word: Retort
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A vessel in which substances are subjected to
   distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms
   and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak
   to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or
   semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.


word: Retrace
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over
   again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace
   one's proceedings.


word: Retract
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take
   back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.


word: Retraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of
   being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.


word: Retraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated,
   claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation.


word: Retraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction
   of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew.


word: Retraxit
wordtype: n.
definition:
The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court
   by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action.


word: Retreat
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially
   from what is dangerous or disagreeable.


word: Retreat
wordtype: n.
definition:
The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an
   enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the
   enemy, or from an advanced position.


word: Retreat
wordtype: n.
definition:
The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the
   purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.


word: Retreat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum
   or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is
   called), or for retiring from action.


word: Retreat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a
   religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as,
   to appoint or observe a retreat.


word: Retreat
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a retreat; to retire from any position or
   place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.


word: Retrench
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut
   down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live
   embarrassed.


word: Retrenchment
wordtype: n.
definition:
A work constructed within another, to prolong the
   defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the
   outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain
   terms for a capitulation.


word: Retribute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward,
   or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to
   retribute just punishment to a criminal.


word: Retribution
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is given in repayment or compensation;
   return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly,
   condign punishment for evil or wrong.


word: Retributory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of
   retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive
   justice; retributory comforts.


word: Retrieve
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from
   loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve
   independence.


word: Retrieve
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To discover and bring in game that has been killed or
   wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.


word: Retriever
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve,
   or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.


word: Retro-
definition:
A prefix or combining form signifying backward, back; as,
   retroact, to act backward; retrospect, a looking back.


word: Retroactive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned
   action; affecting what is past; retrospective.


word: Retrocedent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases
   which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.


word: Retrochoir
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a
   chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of
   the back or eastern face of the altar.


word: Retrograde
wordtype: a.
definition:
Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the
   succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.


word: Retrograde
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tending or moving backward; having a backward course;
   contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.


word: Retrograde
wordtype: a.
definition:
Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a
   retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.


word: Retrogression
wordtype: n.
definition:
Backward development; a passing from a higher to a
   lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal,
   approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be
   expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also
   retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.


word: Retrogressive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Passing from a higher to a lower condition;
   declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.


word: Retrospective
wordtype: a.
definition:
Looking backward; contemplating things past; --
   opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.


word: Retroversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A turning or bending backward; also, the state of
   being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion
   of the uterus.


word: Retting
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking,
   maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret.


word: Retund
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to
   be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.


word: Return
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To render, as an account, usually an official account,
   to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to
   return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of
   an election.


word: Return
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office,
   with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.


word: Return
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to
   return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.


word: Return
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the
   same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return
   of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.


word: Return
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the
   same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution;
   as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return
   in tennis.


word: Return
wordtype: n.
definition:
An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a
   duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election
   returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially,
   in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general
   information.


word: Return
wordtype: n.
definition:
The continuation in a different direction, most often at a
   right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a
   molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the
   longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of
   twenty feet north and south.


word: Return
wordtype: n.
definition:
The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in
   execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.


word: Return
wordtype: n.
definition:
An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the
   commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for
   duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions,
   etc.


word: Returnable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or
   rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict
   returnable to the court.


word: Reunion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A second union; union formed anew after separation,
   secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a
   reunion of parties or sects.


word: Reunion
wordtype: n.
definition:
An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a
   family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so
   composed.


word: Reveal
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be
   known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or
   agency).


word: Reveal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like,
   between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the
   wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole
   thickness of the wall; the jamb.


word: Reveille
wordtype: n.
definition:
The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to
   give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the
   sentinels to forbear challenging.


word: Revelation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon,
   containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.


word: Revenge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult,
   etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; --
   followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing
   wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object,
   and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.


word: Revenge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or
   malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.


word: Revenue
wordtype: n.
definition:
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.


word: Revenue
wordtype: n.
definition:
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.


word: Reverberate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to
   echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.


word: Reverberation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of reverberating; especially, the act of
   reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of
   rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the
   reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a
   furnace.


word: Revere
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To regard with reverence, or profound respect and
   affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to
   honor in estimation.


word: Reverence
wordtype: n.
definition:
Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and
   affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere;
   veneration.


word: Reverence
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to
   priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes
   poetically to a father.


word: Reverence
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with
   respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.


word: Reverent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive;
   humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples.


word: Reverent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or
   submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior.


word: Reverential
wordtype: a.
definition:
Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a
   reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.


word: Reversal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an
   opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the
   reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.


word: Reversal
wordtype: n.
definition:
A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment,
   which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal
   of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered
   void.


word: Reverse
wordtype: a.
definition:
Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction;
   hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.


word: Reverse
wordtype: a.
definition:
That which appears or is presented when anything, as a
   lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned
   contrary to its natural direction.


word: Reverse
wordtype: a.
definition:
The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence,
   total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from
   better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with
   a reverse.


word: Reverse
wordtype: a.
definition:
The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the
   reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse.
   See Obverse.


word: Reverse
wordtype: a.
definition:
To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to
   under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or
   decree.


word: Reversed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the
   contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a
   reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.


word: Reversible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a
   reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.


word: Reversible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both
   sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics.


word: Reversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs,
   by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue
   of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in
   possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or
   less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.


word: Reversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit
   which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death
   of a living person.


word: Reversionary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a
   reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a
   particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.


word: Reversioner
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands
   or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.


word: Revert
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent
   form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.


word: Revert
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state
   or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.


word: Reverted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or
   curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.


word: Revertent
wordtype: n.
definition:
A remedy which restores the natural order of the
   inverted irritative motions in the animal system.


word: Revest
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to
   former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation.


word: Revestiary
wordtype: n.
definition:
The apartment, in a church or temple, where the
   vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.


word: Revetment
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to
   sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural
   slope; also, a retaining wall.


word: Review
wordtype: n.
definition:
To go over with critical examination, in order to discover
   exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to
   review a new novel.


word: Review
wordtype: n.
definition:
To make a formal or official examination of the state of,
   as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.


word: Review
wordtype: n.
definition:
To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the
   proceedings and judgments of a lower one.


word: Review
wordtype: n.
definition:
A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective
   survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review
   of life.


word: Review
wordtype: n.
definition:
An examination with a view to amendment or improvement;
   revision; as, an author's review of his works.


word: Review
wordtype: n.
definition:
A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of
   interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.


word: Review
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force,
   by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of
   discipline, equipments, etc.


word: Reviewer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who reviews or reexamines; an inspector; one who
   examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their
   merits; a professional critic of books.


word: Revisal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of revising, or reviewing and reexamining for
   correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript;
   the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.


word: Revise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To look at again for the detection of errors; to
   reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to
   revise a writing; to revise a translation.


word: Revise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same
   matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the
   type.


word: Revise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to
   revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.


word: Revision
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of revising; reexamination for correction;
   review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a
   revision of statutes.


word: Revival
wordtype: n.
definition:
Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and
   decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.


word: Revival
wordtype: n.
definition:
Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; --
   applied to the health, spirits, and the like.


word: Revival
wordtype: n.
definition:
Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of
   something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.


word: Revival
wordtype: n.
definition:
Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as,
   the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked
   will, etc.


word: Revivalist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of
   religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically,
   a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote
   revivals. Also used adjectively.


word: Revive
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live
   anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.


word: Revive
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity,
   neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth
   century.


word: Revive
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To raise from coma, languor, depression, or
   discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.


word: Revivification
wordtype: n.
definition:
Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of
   recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.


word: Revivor
wordtype: n.
definition:
Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage
   of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor.


word: Revocation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act
   done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit
   conferred; repeal; reversal; as, the revocation of an edict, a power, a
   will, or a license.


word: Revoke
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal;
   to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special
   act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law,
   or the like.


word: Revoke
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit
   led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.


word: Revolt
wordtype: n.
definition:
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically,
   to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.


word: Revolt
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for
   another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise
   against a government; to rebel.


word: Revolt
wordtype: n.
definition:
To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to
   feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his
   nature revolts at cruelty.


word: Revolt
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with
   abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.


word: Revolt
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate
   authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a
   government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman
   empire.


word: Revolting
wordtype: a.
definition:
Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme
   repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty.


word: Revolution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a
   center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as,
   the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.


word: Revolution
wordtype: n.
definition:
Return to a point before occupied, or to a point
   relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an
   ellipse or spiral.


word: Revolution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The space measured by the regular return of a revolving
   body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time,
   or by a succession of similar events.


word: Revolution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a
   curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a
   point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic,
   nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of
   return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the
   nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about
   the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.


word: Revolution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point
   or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point
   generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of
   revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of
   revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of
   its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the
   diameter generates a sphere.


word: Revolution
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fundamental change in political organization, or in a
   government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one
   government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.


word: Revolutionary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a revolution in government;
   tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war;
   revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.


word: Revolve
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a
   wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.


word: Revolve
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect
   repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.


word: Revolver
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm
   ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to
   revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a
   repeater.


word: Revolving
wordtype: a.
definition:
Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used
   also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution
   of the earth.


word: Revulsion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of turning or diverting any disease from one
   part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually
   applied to a more active form of counter irritation.


word: Reward
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in
   a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.


word: Reward
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is given in return for good or evil done or
   received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some
   service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of
   something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.


word: Reward
wordtype: n.
definition:
Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money
   paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.


word: Rhabdocoela
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A suborder of Turbellaria including those that
   have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.


word: Rhabdolith
wordtype: n.
definition:
A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the
   surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a
   calcareous alga.


word: Rhabdom
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or
   more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of
   insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.


word: Rhabdopleura
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells
   have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed
   lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata


word: Rhachiglossa
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of marine gastropods having a
   retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the
   radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters,
   murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.


word: Rhachilla
wordtype: n.
definition:
A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the
   florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.


word: Rhachiodont
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification
   of the inferior spines of some of the vertebrae, as certain South
   African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these
   gular teeth to crush them.


word: Rh/tic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic
   strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the
   Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.


word: Rhamnaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and
   trees (Rhamnaceae, or Rhamneae) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the
   type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of
   the plants called lotus (Zizyphus).


word: Rhamnus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The
   California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used
   in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.


word: Rhaphe
wordtype: n.
definition:
The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an
   anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam.


word: Rhapsodist
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody;
   especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and
   other epic poets.


word: Rhapsodist
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, one who recites or sings poems for a livelihood;
   one who makes and repeats verses extempore.


word: Rhapsody
wordtype: n.
definition:
A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an
   epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time;
   hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.


word: Rhapsody
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed
   under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection;
   rambling composition.


word: Rhatanhy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian
   plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port
   wine.


word: Rhea
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike
   birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American
   ostrich.


word: Rheic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called
   chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum).


word: Rheochord
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a
   circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a
   greater or less length of it in the circuit.


word: Rheometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring currents, especially the
   force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer.


word: Rheostat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of
   electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of
   resistance which can be varied at will.


word: Rhetian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the ancient Rhaeti, or Rhaetians, or to
   Rhaetia, their country; as, the Rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol
   and the Grisons.


word: Rhetorical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or
   exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical
   treatise; a rhetorical flourish.


word: Rheumatic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or
   affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing
   rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day.


word: Rheumatism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A general disease characterized by painful, often
   multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and
   muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the
   heart.


word: Rhigolene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between
   gsolene and cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude
   petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.


word: Rhinencephalon
wordtype: n.
definition:
The division of the brain in front of the
   prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the
   olfactory nerves arise.


word: Rhinoceros
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros,
   Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidae, of
   which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are
   large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical
   median horns on the snout.


word: Rhinolophid
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family
   Rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.


word: Rhinophore
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the
   head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually
   retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are
   regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust.
   under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.


word: Rhinoplasty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to
   replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's
   cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.


word: Rhinopome
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any old-world bat of the genus Rhinopoma. The rhinopomes
   have a long tail extending beyond the web, and inhabit caves and tombs.


word: Rhinoscleroma
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the
   development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences,
   appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring
   parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat.


word: Rhinoscopy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The examination or study of the soft palate, posterior
   nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the
   pharynx.


word: Rhipidoglossa
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of gastropod mollusks having a large
   number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse
   row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Rhizocarpous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual
   flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.


word: Rhizocephala
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of Pectostraca including saclike
   parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head.
   See Illusration in Appendix.


word: Rhizogen
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on
   the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.


word: Rhizopoda
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extensive class of Protozoa, including those
   which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take
   their food. The principal groups are Lobosa (or Am/bea), Helizoa,
   Radiolaria, and Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See Protozoa.


word: Rhizostomata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A suborder of Medusae which includes very large
   species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes
   closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.


word: Rhodammonium
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, rhodium
   and ammonia; -- said of certain complex compounds.


word: Rhodanic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called
   sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts.


word: Rhodium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in
   platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is
   very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific
   gravity 12.


word: Rhodizonic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a colorless crystalline
   substance (called rhodizonic acid, and carboxylic acid) obtained from
   potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red,
   yellow, and purple salts.


word: Rhodochrosite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes
   occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage
   like calcite; -- called also dialogite.


word: Rhododendron
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having
   handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their
   flowers; rosebay.


word: Rhodonite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral
   occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an
   ornamental stone.


word: Rhodophane
wordtype: n.
definition:
The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the
   cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.


word: Rhomb
wordtype: n.
definition:
An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose
   sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be
   unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles
   may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.


word: Rhombohedral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a
   rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a
   system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.


word: Rhomboid
wordtype: n.
definition:
An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having
   only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.


word: Rhonchus
wordtype: n.
definition:
An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on
   auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially
   obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to
   rale in its widest sense. See Rale.


word: Rhopalic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word
   has one more syllable than the preceding.


word: Rhopalocera
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of Lepidoptera including all the
   butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped
   antennae.


word: Rhotacism
wordtype: n.
definition:
An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r;
   specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European
   languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.


word: Rhubarb
wordtype: n.
definition:
The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and
   other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used
   in cookery. Called also pieplant.


word: Rhumb
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant
   angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.


word: Rhusma
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of
   arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides.


word: Rhyme
wordtype: n.
definition:
An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a
   composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.


word: Rhyme
wordtype: n.
definition:
Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or
   syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or
   at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin
   with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must
   begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same,
   as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.


word: Rhyme
wordtype: n.
definition:
Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each
   other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.


word: Rhynchobdellea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A suborder of leeches including those that have
   a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type.


word: Rhynchocephala
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of reptiles having biconcave
   vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar
   osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but
   numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest
   of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia.


word: Rhysimeter
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument, acting on the principle of Pitot's tube,
   for measuring the velocity of a fluid current, the speed of a ship,
   etc.


word: Rhythm
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a
   regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc.,
   producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the
   like.


word: Rhythm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of
   accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and
   expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.


word: Rhythm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A division of lines into short portions by a regular
   succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice
   on words or syllables.


word: Rial
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten
   shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings
   in the reign of Elizabeth.


word: Rib
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and
   supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.


word: Thermetograph
wordtype: n.
definition:
A self-registering thermometer, especially one that
   registers the maximum and minimum during long periods.


word: Thermidor
wordtype: n.
definition:
The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, --
   commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under
   Vendemiaire.


word: Thermifugine
wordtype: n.
definition:
An artificial alkaloid of complex composition,
   resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, -- whence its name.


word: Thermochemistry
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of chemical science which includes the
   investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action
   and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of
   the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.


word: Thermochrosy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The property possessed by heat of being composed,
   like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are
   unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic
   substances.


word: Thermoelectrometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring the strength of an
   electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the
   heat developed by such a current.


word: Thermogenic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to heat, or to the production of heat;
   producing heat; thermogenous; as, the thermogenic tissues.


word: Thermometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on
   the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by
   proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.


word: Thermometrograph
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for recording graphically the
   variations of temperature, or the indications of a thermometer.


word: Thermopile
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine
   slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate
   bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different
   capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic
   galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current
   induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees
   of heat.


word: Thermoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for indicating changes of temperature
   without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected;
   especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified
   by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.


word: Thermoscopic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the thermoscope; made by means of
   the thermoscope; as, thermoscopic observations.


word: Thermostat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by
   the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat,
   as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the
   heat becomes greater or less than is desired.


word: Thermotaxic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or connected with, the regulation of
   temperature in the animal body; as, the thermotaxic nervous system.


word: Thermotension
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron
   by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in
   that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which
   the strength is afterward to be exerted.


word: Thermotype
wordtype: n.
definition:
A picture (as of a slice of wood) obtained by first
   wetting the object slightly with hydrochloric or dilute sulphuric acid,
   then taking an impression with a press, and next strongly heating this
   impression.


word: Thermovoltaic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially,
   relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action.


word: Theropoda
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet
   are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped,
   than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus,
   Creosaurus, and their allies.


word: Thesaurus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository,
   especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like
   a dictionary or cyclopedia.


word: Thesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A position or proposition which a person advances and
   offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.


word: Thesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or
   definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a
   diploma or degree.


word: Theta
wordtype: n.
definition:
A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in
   English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the
   judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being
   the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death.


word: Theurgy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria
   among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the
   will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites.


word: Theurgy
wordtype: n.
definition:
In later or modern magic, that species of magic in which
   effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in
   distinction from natural magic.


word: Thew
wordtype: n.
definition:
Manner; custom; habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind;
   disposition; specifically, good qualities; virtues.


word: They
wordtype: obj.
definition:
The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used
   adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to
   persons without an antecedent expressed.


word: Thialol
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless oily liquid, (C2H5)2S2, having a strong garlic
   odor; -- called also ethyl disulphide. By extension, any one of the
   series of related compounds.


word: Thick
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Measuring in the third dimension other than length and
   breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid
   body; as, a timber seven inches thick.


word: Thick
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having more depth or extent from one surface to its
   opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick
   cloth; thick paper; thick neck.


word: Thick
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or
   misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain.


word: Thick
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set;
   following in quick succession; frequently recurring.


word: Thick
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not having due distinction of syllables, or good
   articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.


word: Thicken
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to
   thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.


word: Thickhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of Australian singing birds
   of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are
   bright-colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes.


word: Thick wind
definition:
A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated
   with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.


word: Thienone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ketone derivative of thiophene obtained as a white
   crystalline substance, (C4H3S)2.CO, by the action of aluminium chloride
   and carbonyl chloride on thiophene.


word: Thienyl
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hypothetical radical C4H3S, regarded as the essential
   residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.


word: Thill
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a
   vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.


word: Thiller
wordtype: n.
definition:
The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and
   supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill
   horse.


word: Thimble
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the
   end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing
   the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has
   upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the
   needle.


word: Thimble
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference
   so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from
   chafing.


word: Thimblerig
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups,
   shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.


word: Thimblerig
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a
   pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to
   another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is;
   hence, to cheat by any trick.


word: Thimbleweed
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse
   herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their
   conical receptacles.


word: Thin
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to
   its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a
   thin covering.


word: Thin
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft
   mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.


word: Thin
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not
   having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or
   compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin;
   the corn or grass is thin.


word: Thin
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or
   depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering;
   as, a thin disguise.


word: Thin
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out,
   away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish
   in thickness until they disappear.


word: Thine
wordtype: pron. & a.
definition:
A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou,
   now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but
   maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual
   language of the Friends, or Quakers.


word: Thing
wordtype: n.
definition:
Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate
   entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable
   object of thought.


word: Thing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely
   existing; -- often used in pity or contempt.


word: Think
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of
   simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher
   intellectual faculties.


word: Think
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have
   sent the books, but I did not think of it.


word: Think
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude;
   to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.


word: Thinker
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in
   a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent
   thinker.


word: Thinking
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a
   regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.


word: Thinly
wordtype: a.
definition:
In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily;
   not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly
   inhabited.


word: Thinolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a
   large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of
   Nevada.


word: Thionaphthene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A double benzene and thiophene nucleus, C8H6S,
   analogous to naphthalene, and like it the base of a large series of
   derivatives.


word: Thionic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to sulphur; containing or resembling
   sulphur; specifically, designating certain of the thio compounds; as,
   the thionic acids. Cf. Dithionic, Trithionic, Tetrathionic, etc.


word: Thionine
wordtype: n.
definition:
An artificial red or violet dyestuff consisting of a
   complex sulphur derivative of certain aromatic diamines, and obtained
   as a dark crystalline powder; -- called also phenylene violet.


word: Thionol
wordtype: n.
definition:
A red or violet dyestuff having a greenish metallic
   luster. It is produced artificially, by the chemical dehydration of
   thionine, as a brown amorphous powder.


word: Thionoline
wordtype: n.
definition:
A beautiful fluorescent crystalline substance,
   intermediate in composition between thionol and thionine.


word: Thionyl
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hypothetical radical SO, regarded as an essential
   constituent of certain sulphurous compounds; as, thionyl chloride.


word: Thiophene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and
   benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which
   closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives.


word: Thiophenic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, thiophene;
   specifically, designating a certain acid analogous to benzoic acid.


word: Thiophenol
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive
   odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.


word: Thiophthene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2, analogous to
   thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds.


word: Thiosulphuric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an unstable acid,
   H2S2O3, analogous to sulphuric acid, and formerly called hyposulphurous
   acid.


word: Thiotolene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless oily liquid, C4H3S.CH3, analogous to, and
   resembling, toluene; -- called also methyl thiophene.


word: Thioxene
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of three possible metameric substances, which are
   dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the xylenes from benzene.


word: Third
wordtype: a.
definition:
Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the
   ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.


word: Third
wordtype: a.
definition:
Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which
   anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.


word: Third
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal
   parts into which anything is divided.


word: Third
wordtype: n.
definition:
The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which,
   by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.


word: Thirdings
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The third part of the corn or grain growing on the
   ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within
   the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.


word: Third-penny
wordtype: n.
definition:
A third part of the profits of fines and penalties
   imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed
   by the earl.


word: Thirlage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by
   contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his
   sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding.


word: Thirst
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a
   craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other
   cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the
   pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this
   sensation.


word: Thirst
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or
   longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst for gold.


word: Thirst
wordtype: n.
definition:
To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy sensation
   of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.


word: Thirsty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation
   from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.


word: Thirteenth
wordtype: a.
definition:
Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the
   tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.


word: Thirteenth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of
   thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.


word: Thirtieth
wordtype: a.
definition:
Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after
   the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the
   month.


word: Thirty
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being three times ten; consisting of one more than
   twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty
   days.


word: This
wordtype: pron. & a.
definition:
As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something
   that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned,
   or that is just about to be mentioned.


word: This
wordtype: pron. & a.
definition:
As an adjective, this has the same demonstrative
   force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this
   way to town.


word: Thistle
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially
   those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often
   also applied to other prickly plants.


word: Thither
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being on the farther side from the person speaking;
   farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the
   water.


word: Thole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to
   serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.


word: Thomean
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of the ancient church of Christians established
   on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been
   originally founded by the Apostle Thomas.


word: Thomsen's disease
definition:
An affection apparently congenital, consisting in
   tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring
   after a period of muscular inaction.


word: Thomsonianism
wordtype: n.
definition:
An empirical system which assumes that the human
   body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and
   that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr.
   Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.


word: Thomsonite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a
   radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and
   soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.


word: Thoracentesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to
   let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.


word: Thoracic
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed
   beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.


word: Thoracica
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of cirripeds including those which have
   six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common
   barnacles are examples.


word: Thoracoplasty
wordtype: n.
definition:
A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially,
   the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural
   cavity in cases of empyema.


word: Thoracostraca
wordtype: a.
definition:
An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal
   shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites
   to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar
   species.


word: Thorax
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen,
   containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are
   supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which
   the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.


word: Thorax
wordtype: n.
definition:
The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region
   which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites,
   each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in
   Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.


word: Thorax
wordtype: n.
definition:
The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean,
   arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea,
   some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments
   bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing
   the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.


word: Thoria
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of
   thorium; -- formerly called also thorina.


word: Thorite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety
   orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.


word: Thorium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as
   thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray
   metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly
   called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0.


word: Thorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem;
   usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.


word: Thorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any
   species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur
   thorn.


word: Thorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was
   used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then.
   So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.


word: Thornbill
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored
   American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender,
   sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar
   cane.


word: Thornbird
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to
   the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and
   complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.


word: Thorntail
wordtype: n.
definition:
A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia
   Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and
   pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.


word: Thorny
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny;
   as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.


word: Thorough
wordtype: a.
definition:
Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect;
   as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a
   thorough poet.


word: Thorough bass
definition:
The representation of chords by figures placed under
   the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous
   with harmony.


word: Thorough-brace
wordtype: n.
definition:
A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage,
   and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.


word: Thoroughbred
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bred from the best blood through a long line;
   pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the
   characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant
   form, or the like.


word: Thoroughfare
wordtype: n.
definition:
A passage through; a passage from one street or
   opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public
   road; hence, a frequented street.


word: Thoroughpin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a
   horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent
   excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called
   because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg,
   appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.


word: Thorpe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A group of houses in the country; a small village; a
   hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and
   persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe.


word: Thoth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient
   Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy.
   He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually
   represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.


word: Thou
wordtype: obj.
definition:
The second personal pronoun, in the singular number,
   denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in
   addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.


word: Though
wordtype: adv.
definition:
However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in
   familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.


word: Thought
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of
   its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.


word: Thought
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception,
   whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.


word: Thoughtful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the
   mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in
   seeking truth.


word: Thousand
wordtype: n.
definition:
The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting
   of ten times one hundred units or objects.


word: Thousandth
wordtype: a.
definition:
Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming
   last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of
   thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.


word: Thousandth
wordtype: a.
definition:
Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts
   into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.


word: Thousandth
wordtype: a.
definition:
Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very
   great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a
   thing for the thousandth time.


word: Thousandth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a
   thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.


word: Thresh
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the
   straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of
   grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.


word: Thresh
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the
   business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.


word: Thresher
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable
   for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it
   beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and
   the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher,
   swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.


word: Thread
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other
   fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord
   consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and
   twisted.


word: Thread
wordtype: n.
definition:
A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as
   of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.


word: Thread
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to
   effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.


word: Threadfin
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of fishes belonging to
   Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral
   filaments.


word: Threadfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having
   the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the
   form of long threads.


word: Threap
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction;
   also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide;
   as, he threaped me down that it was so.


word: Threat
wordtype: n.
definition:
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on
   another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace;
   threatening; denunciation.


word: Threaten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with
   apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of
   something evil or disagreeable; to warn.


word: Threaten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or
   unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the
   conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death.


word: Three-coat
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to
   plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing
   coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and
   finishing coat.


word: Three-handed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Said of games or contests where three persons play
   against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of
   cards.


word: Three-ply
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in
   weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.


word: Three-sided
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as,
   a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.


word: Three-square
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral
   triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.


word: Threshold
wordtype: n.
definition:
The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a
   door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the
   doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.


word: Thrid
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to
   make or find a course through; to thread.


word: Thrifty
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by
   economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.


word: Thrifty
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the
   acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty
   farmer or mechanic.


word: Thrill
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or
   pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite
   sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.


word: Thrill
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially,
   to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a
   slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.


word: Thrill
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement;
   as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.


word: Thrips
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera,
   especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips
   (Thrips cerealium).


word: Thrive
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of
   property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good
   husbandry.


word: Thrive
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or
   luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich
   pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.


word: Throat
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the
   pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.


word: Throat
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of
   the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.


word: Throat
wordtype: n.
definition:
The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube
   of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.


word: Throatwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a
   remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.


word: Throb
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or
   rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of
   the heart, pulse, etc.


word: Throe
wordtype: n.
definition:
Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one
   of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.


word: Thrombosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at
   the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is
   produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance.


word: Throne
wordtype: n.
definition:
A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the
   seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.


word: Throne
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who
   occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted
   or dignified personage.


word: Service
definition:
A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus,
   as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of
   mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush,
   under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.


word: Service
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the
   performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's
   command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a
   superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and
   love.


word: Service
wordtype: n.
definition:
Office of devotion; official religious duty performed;
   religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial
   service.


word: Service
wordtype: n.
definition:
Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or
   charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty;
   performance of the duties of a soldier.


word: Service
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat
   it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels
   ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a
   service of plate or glass.


word: Service
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of bringing to notice, either actually or
   constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service
   of a subp/na or an attachment.


word: Serviceable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Doing service; promoting happiness, interest,
   advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use;
   beneficial; advantageous.


word: Serviceable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit
   for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.


word: Servile
wordtype: a.
definition:
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 fear; servile obedience.


word: Servifor
wordtype: n.
definition:
An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds,
   whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to
   a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.


word: Servitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a
   master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a
   slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence.


word: Servitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or
   person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.


word: Sesame
wordtype: n.
definition:
Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum
   (S. Indicum, and S. orientale), from the seeds of which an oil is
   expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants,
   sometimes used as food. See Benne.


word: Sesqui-
definition:
A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting that three
   atoms or equivalents of the substance to the name of which it is
   prefixed are combined with two of some other element or radical; as,
   sesquibromide, sesquicarbonate, sesquichloride, sesquioxide.


word: Sesquialtera
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of
   pipes which reenforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone,
   and make the sound more brilliant.


word: Sesquioxide
wordtype: n.
definition:
An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two
   atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a
   sesquioxide.


word: Sesquipedalian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a
   sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.


word: Sesquiplicate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Subduplicate of the triplicate; -- a term applied to
   ratios; thus, a and a' are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b', when
   a is to a' as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of
   the cube of b', or a:a'::Ãb3:Ãb'3.


word: Sesquisulphide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing
   three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly
   called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic
   sesquisulphide.


word: Sessile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a
   petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.


word: Session
wordtype: n.
definition:
The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc.,
   or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the
   transaction of business.


word: Session
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a
   court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the
   space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or
   adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech
   from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial
   court is called a term.


word: Sesterce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the
   fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a
   half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or
   four cents.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
   attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to
   set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a
   dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make to assume specified place, condition, or
   occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the
   accompanying words); to cause to be.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
   render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
   spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a
   coach in the mud.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding
   or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's
   countenance.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place
   in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a
   setting; as, to set glass in a sash.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd;
   to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to
   set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
   time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
   variegate with objects placed here and there.


word: Set
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
   assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.


word: Set
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to
   germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i.
   e., not blasted in the blossom).


word: Set
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on;
   to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the
   windward.


word: Set
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the
   dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.


word: Set
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body;
   descent; hence, the close; termination.


word: Set
wordtype: n.
definition:
Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain,
   as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a
   spring.


word: Set
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the
   latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of
   such an intervening piece.


word: Set
wordtype: n.
definition:
A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or
   classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement
   each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set
   of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books,
   etc.


word: Set
wordtype: n.
definition:
A number of persons associated by custom, office, common
   opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique.


word: Set
wordtype: n.
definition:
In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a
   quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.


word: Set
wordtype: n.
definition:
The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which
   causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the
   blade.


word: Set
wordtype: n.
definition:
A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one
   side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie,
   the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of
   the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.


word: Seta
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part;
   as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the
   hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the
   leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.


word: Seta
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid.
   They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in
   locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form.


word: Setdown
wordtype: n.
definition:
The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a
   retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect.


word: Setigerous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or
   setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an
   annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle.


word: Set-off
wordtype: n.
definition:
A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim
   filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.


word: Seton
wordtype: n.
definition:
A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the
   like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form
   an issue; also, the issue so formed.


word: Settee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or
   three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean.


word: Setter
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition
   with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a
   setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.


word: Setter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a
   cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually
   trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed
   position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.


word: Setterwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called
   because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the
   dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.


word: Setting
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting
   of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of
   moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.


word: Settle
wordtype: n.
definition:
To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm,
   steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to
   fix in business, in a home, or the like.


word: Settle
wordtype: n.
definition:
To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install
   as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a
   minister.


word: Settle
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to
   render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.


word: Settle
wordtype: n.
definition:
To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink;
   to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or
   the grounds of coffee.


word: Settle
wordtype: n.
definition:
To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable
   condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear
   weather settles the roads.


word: Settle
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to
   render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag
   by shaking it.


word: Settle
wordtype: n.
definition:
To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or
   question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or
   constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind
   when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to
   a throne; to settle an allowance.


word: Settle
wordtype: n.
definition:
To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to
   compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.


word: Settle
wordtype: n.
definition:
To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the
   French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth
   was settled in 1620.


word: Settle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to
   establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition,
   direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.


word: Settle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or
   home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.


word: Settle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the
   effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late
   in the spring.


word: Settle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to
   clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather
   settled; wine settles by standing.


word: Settle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs
   of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.


word: Settle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an
   agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.


word: Settlement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of
   planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the
   settlement of a new country.


word: Settlement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of adjusting or determining;
   composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of
   accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of
   accounts, etc.


word: Settlement
wordtype: n.
definition:
Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction;
   the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent
   manner.


word: Settlement
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disposition of property for the benefit of some
   person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the
   benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a
   wife, or the act of granting it.


word: Settlement
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the
   sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her
   marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property
   formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.


word: Settlement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the
   yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of
   the joints or the material.


word: Settlement
wordtype: n.
definition:
A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing
   out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a
   particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a
   pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.


word: Settler
wordtype: n.
definition:
Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or
   a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.


word: Settler
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore
   suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.


word: Settling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of
   establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.


word: Seven-shooter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or
   chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without
   reloading.


word: Seventeenth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of
   seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.


word: Seventh
wordtype: a.
definition:
Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which
   anything is divided; as, the seventh part.


word: Seventh
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven
   equal parts into which anything is divided.


word: Seven-thirties
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A name given to three several issues of United
   States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of
   $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths
   (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all
   redeemed or funded.


word: Sever
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To separate, as one from another; to cut off from
   something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by
   cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.


word: Sever
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to
   cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.


word: Several
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many;
   divers; sundry; as, several persons were present when the event took
   place.


word: Severance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or
   more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or
   separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of
   the unity of interest in a joint estate.


word: Severe
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government;
   harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; as, severe criticism; severe
   punishment.


word: Severe
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle;
   exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary
   ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc.


word: Severe
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as,
   severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold.


word: Severity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor;
   harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of
   discipline or government; severity of penalties.


word: Severity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme
   degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or
   anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.


word: Sewel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string,
   hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.


word: Sewellel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus),
   native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It
   somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary
   tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish
   above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidae. Called
   also boomer, showt'l, and mountain beaver.


word: Sewer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges
   of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris
   nubeculana)


word: Sewer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under
   ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.


word: Sewer
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on
   and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the
   hands of the guests.


word: Sewerage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general
   drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.


word: Sex
wordtype: n.
definition:
The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both
   animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female;
   the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is
   distinguished from female.


word: Sex
wordtype: n.
definition:
The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being
   fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.


word: Sexenary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a
   system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.


word: Sextant
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring angular distances between
   objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and
   longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's
   quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic
   sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a
   circle. See Quadrant.


word: Sextile
wordtype: n.
definition:
The aspect or position of two planets when distant from
   each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus:
   /.


word: Sextillion
wordtype: n.
definition:
According to the method of numeration (which is
   followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit
   with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a
   million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit
   with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration.


word: Sextodecimo
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the
   size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make
   sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.


word: Sextodecimo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into
   sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a
   book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16¡.


word: Sexton
wordtype: n.
definition:
An under officer of a church, whose business is to take
   care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging
   to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform
   other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the
   bell, etc.


word: Sexual
wordtype: a.
definition:
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 based
   upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection,
   or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation.


word: Sforzato
wordtype: a.
definition:
Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to
   signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; --
   marked fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or /.


word: Sfumato
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as
   to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.


word: Sgraffito
wordtype: a.
definition:
Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain
   style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through,
   so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.


word: Shackle
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent
   their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or
   wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to
   something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.


word: Shackle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt,
   so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.


word: Shackle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free
   motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.


word: Shad
wordtype: n. sing. & pl.
definition:
Any one of several species of food fishes of the
   Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is
   abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring
   to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or
   alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important
   species.


word: Shadbird
wordtype: n.
definition:
The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So
   called because it appears at the same time as the shad.


word: Shaddock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large
   species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.


word: Shade
wordtype: n.
definition:
Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption
   of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of
   something between the space contemplated and the source of light.


word: Shade
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct
   rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents
   of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.


word: Shade
wordtype: n.
definition:
The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called
   because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to
   the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes.


word: Shade
wordtype: n.
definition:
Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger
   or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.


word: Shade
wordtype: n.
definition:
A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief,
   expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is
   distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades
   of meaning in synonyms.


word: Shading
wordtype: n.
definition:
That filling up which represents the effect of more or
   less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or
   a drawing.


word: Shadoof
wordtype: n.
definition:
A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for
   raising water from the Nile for irrigation.


word: Shadow
wordtype: n.
definition:
Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of
   light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body
   which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree,
   or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.


word: Shadow
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which follows or attends a person or thing like a
   shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.


word: Shadow
wordtype: n.
definition:
An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration;
   indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation;
   type.


word: Shadow
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw
   a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.


word: Shadow
wordtype: n.
definition:
To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch
   closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective
   shadows a criminal.


word: Shadrach
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has
   failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the
   three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of
   Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)


word: Shady
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to
   be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt.


word: Shafiite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites, or
   Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed
   al-Shafei.


word: Shaft
wordtype: n.
definition:
The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the
   weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or
   darted; as, shafts of light.


word: Shaft
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an
   arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical.


word: Shaft
wordtype: n.
definition:
The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the
   capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney
   above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple.


word: Shaft
wordtype: n.
definition:
A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more
   journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or
   more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion;
   as, the shaft of a steam engine.


word: Shaft
wordtype: n.
definition:
A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail
   feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also
   cora humming bird.


word: Shaft
wordtype: n.
definition:
A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly
   so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc.


word: Shagreen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the
   East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to
   be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface
   is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when
   moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between
   them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had
   been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is
   used for covering small cases and boxes.


word: Shagreen
wordtype: n.
definition:
The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when
   having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium
   furnish a large part of that used in the arts.


word: Shake
wordtype: v.
definition:
To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move
   rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to
   agitate.


word: Shake
wordtype: v.
definition:
Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to
   cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.


word: Shake
wordtype: v.
definition:
To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or
   vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as
   off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.


word: Shake
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering
   motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or
   shivering; agitation.


word: Shake
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another
   represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.


word: Shakedown
wordtype: n.
definition:
A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the
   floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of
   straw for this purpose.


word: Shaker
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so
   called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms a part
   of their worship.


word: Shall
wordtype: v. i. & auxiliary.
definition:
As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or
   necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you
   shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus
   ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a
   threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is
   made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is
   also employed in the language of prophecy; as, "the day shall come when
   . . . , " since a promise or threat and an authoritative prophecy
   nearly coincide in significance. In shall with the first person, the
   necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than
   in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a
   less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated
   by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a
   foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough,
   a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the
   shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the
   expression approximates in meaning to our emphatic "I will go." In a
   question, the relation of speaker and source of obligation is of course
   transferred to the person addressed; as, "Shall you go?" (answer, "I
   shall go"); "Shall he go?" i. e., "Do you require or promise his
   going?" (answer, "He shall go".) The same relation is transferred to
   either second or third person in such phrases as "You say, or think,
   you shall go;" "He says, or thinks, he shall go." After a conditional
   conjunction (as if, whether) shall is used in all persons to express
   futurity simply; as, if I, you, or he shall say they are right. Should
   is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall,
   as its imperfect. It also expresses duty or moral obligation; as, he
   should do it whether he will or not. In the early English, and hence in
   our English Bible, shall is the auxiliary mainly used, in all the
   persons, to express simple futurity. (Cf. Will, v. t.) Shall may be
   used elliptically; thus, with an adverb or other word expressive of
   motion go may be omitted.


word: Shallot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in
   clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.


word: Shallow
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not intellectually deep; not profound; not
   penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial;
   as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.


word: Sham
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device
   that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture,
   humbug.


word: Shama
wordtype: n.
definition:
A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India,
   noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it
   imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy.
   Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump
   white, the under parts chestnut.


word: Shamanism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The type of religion which once prevalied among all the
   Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still
   survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard
   priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the
   good spirits of ancestors.


word: Shamble
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above
   another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to
   platform, and thus raised to a higher level.


word: Shame
wordtype: n.
definition:
A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or
   impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or
   of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.


word: Shame
wordtype: n.
definition:
The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach,
   and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace.


word: Shame
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness
   of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put
   to shame.


word: Shameless
wordtype: a.
definition:
Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace;
   indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.


word: Shammy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin
   of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat,
   kid, deer, and calf. See Shamoying.


word: Shamoying
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather,
   which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply
   the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used
   in tanning.


word: Shampoo
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a
   person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in
   connection with the hot bath.


word: Shampoo
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To wash throughly and rub the head of (a person), with
   the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more
   thorough cleansing.


word: Shamrock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the
   Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use
   in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.


word: Shank
wordtype: v.
definition:
Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing,
   which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it
   is held or moved.


word: Shank
wordtype: v.
definition:
A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or
   knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.


word: Shank
wordtype: v.
definition:
Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the
   edges of pieces of glass to make them round.


word: Shank
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of
   disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off.


word: Shanny
wordtype: n.
definition:
The European smooth blenny (Blennius pholis). It is
   olive-green with irregular black spots, and without appendages on the
   head.


word: Shape
wordtype: n.
definition:
To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a
   particular form; to give proper form or figure to.


word: Shape
wordtype: n.
definition:
Character or construction of a thing as determining its
   external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the
   shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.


word: Shape
wordtype: n.
definition:
Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or
   conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.


word: Shape
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron,
   etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.


word: Shape
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it
   will receive when completely forged or fitted.


word: Shapeless
wordtype: a.
definition:
Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of
   dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely.


word: Shaper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of planer in which the tool, instead of the work,
   receives a reciprocating motion, usually from a crank.


word: Shaper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A machine with a vertically revolving cutter projecting
   above a flat table top, for cutting irregular outlines, moldings, etc.


word: Shard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle
   substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.


word: Share
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which
   cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.


word: Share
wordtype: v.
definition:
Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any
   property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an
   apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend.


word: Share
wordtype: v.
definition:
Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which
   any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten
   shares.


word: Share
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a
   portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with
   another.


word: Sharp
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to
   cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.


word: Sharp
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded;
   somewhat pointed or edged; peaked or ridged; as, a sharp hill; sharp
   features.


word: Sharp
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen,
   penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as
   ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill,
   as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant,
   dazzling, as a sharp flash.


word: Sharp
wordtype: superl.
definition:
So high as to be out of tune, or above true pitch; as,
   the tone is sharp; that instrument is sharp. Opposed in all these
   senses to flat.


word: Sharp
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Very trying to the feelings; piercing; keen; severe;
   painful; distressing; as, sharp pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air.


word: Sharp
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Cutting in language or import; biting; sarcastic;
   cruel; harsh; rigorous; severe; as, a sharp rebuke.


word: Sharp
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Of keen perception; quick to discern or distinguish;
   having nice discrimination; acute; penetrating; sagacious; clever; as,
   a sharp eye; sharp sight, hearing, or judgment.


word: Sharp
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interest; close
   and exact in dealing; shrewd; as, a sharp dealer; a sharp customer.


word: Sharp
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone, without
   voice, as certain consonants, such as p, k, t, f; surd; nonvocal;
   aspirated.


word: Sharp
wordtype: n.
definition:
The character [/] used to indicate that the note before
   which it is placed is to be raised a half step, or semitone, in pitch.


word: Sharp
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the
   most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.


word: Sharp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To raise above the proper pitch; to elevate the tone of;
   especially, to raise a half step, or semitone, above the natural tone.


word: Sharp-cut
wordtype: a.
definition:
Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear,
   well-defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the
   like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.


word: Sharpen
wordtype: a.
definition:
To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as,
   to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.


word: Sharper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats
   in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.


word: Sharpie
wordtype: n.
definition:
A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts
   carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies,
   after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.


word: Sharp-set
wordtype: a.
definition:
Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected
   by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set.


word: Shastra
wordtype: n.
definition:
A treatise for authoritative instruction among the
   Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the
   Vedas.


word: Shatter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or
   part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion
   shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is
   shattered by lightning.


word: Shatter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be
   shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were
   shattered.


word: Shatter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley
   in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.


word: Shave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a
   razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor;
   as, to shave the beard.


word: Shave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the
   surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from
   with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair
   of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself.


word: Shave
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely;
   hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to
   cheat.


word: Shave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery
   or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any
   particular.


word: Shave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at
   each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.


word: Shaving
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically,
   the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.


word: Shaving
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off
   with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument.


word: Shawl
wordtype: n.
definition:
A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other
   textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose
   covering for the neck and shoulders.


word: Shawm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to
   have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.


word: Shawnees
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A tribe of North American Indians who occupied
   Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely
   dispersed by the Iroquois.


word: She
wordtype: obj.
definition:
This or that female; the woman understood or referred to;
   the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which
   was spoken of.


word: Sheading
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which
   there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six
   sheadings.


word: Sheaf
wordtype: n.
definition:
A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other
   grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.


word: Sheaf
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any collection of things bound together; a bundle;
   specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the
   allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.


word: Shear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a
   like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.


word: Shear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument;
   to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.


word: Shear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but
   formerly also in the singular. See Shears.


word: Shear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to
   cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other
   in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called
   shearing stress, and tangential stress.


word: Shear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body,
   consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a
   perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third
   direction.


word: Shear
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become more or less completely divided, as a body
   under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts
   relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of
   contact.


word: Shearing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a
   shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.


word: Shearing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The product of the act or operation of clipping with
   shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the
   shearings from cloth.


word: Shears
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel
   edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material
   to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.


word: Shears
wordtype: n.
definition:
A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of
   a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.


word: Shears
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for
   stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or
   more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top,
   steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle.


word: Shears
wordtype: n.
definition:
The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide
   rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under
   Lathe.


word: Shearwater
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic
   birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the
   petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky
   shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are
   well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.


word: Sheatfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the
   cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes
   becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.


word: Sheath
wordtype: n.
definition:
A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or
   other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.


word: Sheathbill
wordtype: n.
definition:
Either one of two species of birds composing the genus
   Chionis, and family Chionidae, native of the islands of the Antarctic
   seas.


word: Sheathe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To case or cover with something which protects, as thin
   boards, sheets of metal, and the like; as, to sheathe a ship with
   copper.


word: Sheathed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube,
   which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses;
   vaginate.


word: Sheathing
wordtype: p. pr. & a.
definition:
Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing
   leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.


word: Sheathing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The casing or covering of a ship's bottom and sides; the
   materials for such covering; as, copper sheathing.


word: Sheathing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a
   frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering;
   ceiling boards in general.


word: Shea tree
definition:
An African sapotaceous tree (Bassia, / Butyrospermum,
   Parkii), from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is
   obtained; the African butter tree.


word: Sheave
wordtype: v.
definition:
A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in,
   and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.


word: Shebeen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and
   other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold.


word: Shed
wordtype: n.
definition:
A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter
   something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut;
   as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.


word: Shed
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self;
   to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out;
   to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed
   rain.


word: Shed
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair,
   feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed
   their skins; trees shed leaves.


word: Shed
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight
   roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.


word: Throng
wordtype: n.
definition:
A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or
   pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.


word: Throng
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To crowd together; to press together into a close body,
   as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.


word: Throstle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove,
   consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and
   differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and
   the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing
   noise.


word: Throstling
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling
   under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.


word: Through
wordtype: prep.
definition:
From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one
   surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite,
   or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through
   a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.


word: Through
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride
   through the country; to look through an account.


word: Through
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage;
   as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a
   thicket.


word: Through
wordtype: prep.
definition:
From the beginning to the end of; to the end or
   conclusion of; as, through life; through the year.


word: Through
wordtype: a.
definition:
Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving
   from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line;
   a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through;
   as, a through bridge.


word: Throughout
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Quite through; from one extremity to the other of;
   also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house.


word: Throw
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of
   the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.


word: Throw
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance
   from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw
   stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine
   throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.


word: Throw
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form
   one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to
   the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole
   class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.


word: Throw
wordtype: n.
definition:
The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating
   reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel;
   stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of
   the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the
   throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the
   piston.


word: Throw
wordtype: n.
definition:
The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; --
   according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a
   downthrow.


word: Thrower
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists
   silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.


word: Thrum
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as,
   to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted
   surface.


word: Thrum-eyed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible
   at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the
   reverse of pin-eyed.


word: Thrush
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to
   Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their
   songs.


word: Thrush
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less
   resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the
   thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown
   thrush.


word: Thrush
wordtype: n.
definition:
An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly
   born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. See
   Aphthae.


word: Thrush
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in
   certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.


word: Thrust
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel;
   to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an
   instrument.


word: Thrust
wordtype: n.
definition:
A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved
   in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any
   instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.


word: Thrust
wordtype: n.
definition:
The force or pressure of one part of a construction against
   other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward
   pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against
   the wall which support them.


word: Thrusting
wordtype: n.
definition:
The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the
   curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.


word: Thud
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by
   striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance;
   also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a
   cannon ball striking the earth.


word: Thug
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who
   practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives.
   They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.


word: Thuja
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for
   the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike,
   closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.


word: Thule
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost
   part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway,
   according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of
   the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest
   Thule.


word: Thulium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and
   identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.


word: Thumb
wordtype: n.
definition:
The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing
   from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See
   Pollex.


word: Thumb
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil,
   or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as,
   to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.


word: Thumbscrew
wordtype: n.
definition:
A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it
   may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.


word: Thummim
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of
   the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.


word: Thunder
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report
   of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.


word: Thunder
wordtype: n.
definition:
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a
   discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as,
   it thundered continuously.


word: Thunderbird
wordtype: n.
definition:
An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala
   gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow,
   and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated
   thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural
   thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.


word: Thunderbolt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of
   electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from
   the clouds to the earth.


word: Thunderer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of
   L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods,
   esp. to Jupiter.


word: Thunderhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a
   cumulus, -- often appearing before a thunderstorm.


word: Thunderstrike
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something
   terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle.


word: Thunderworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard
   (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; -- so
   called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.


word: Thurible
wordtype: n.
definition:
A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various
   forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at
   mass, vespers, and other solemn services.


word: Thuringite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral occurring as an aggregation of minute scales
   having an olive-green color and pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate
   of aluminia and iron.


word: Thus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the
   Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.


word: Thuyin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance extracted from trees of the genus Thuja, or
   Thuya, and probably identical with quercitrin.


word: Thwart
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to
   contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.


word: Thy
wordtype: pron.
definition:
Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of
   thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and
   chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in
   the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine.


word: Thyine wood
definition:
The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree
   (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is
   of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach.


word: Thyme
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus. The garden thyme
   (Thymus vulgaris) is a warm, pungent aromatic, much used to give a
   relish to seasoning and soups.


word: Thymol
wordtype: n.
definition:
A phenol derivative of cymene, C10H13.OH, isomeric with
   carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline
   substance of a pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties;
   -- called also hydroxy cymene.


word: Thyro-
definition:
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with,
   or relation to, the thyroid body or the thyroid cartilage; as,
   thyrohyal.


word: Thyrohyal
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often
   consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its
   great horns, as in man.


word: Thyrsus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone,
   or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an
   attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic
   rites.


word: Thysanoptera
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of insects, considered by some writers
   a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera.
   They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with
   rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of
   plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to
   crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips.


word: Thysanura
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of wingless hexapod insects which have
   setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a
   spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or
   bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also
   Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.


word: Thyself
wordtype: pron.
definition:
An emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the
   second person; -- used as a subject commonly with thou; as, thou
   thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. It is sometimes
   used, especially in the predicate, without thou, and in the nominative
   as well as in the objective case.


word: Tiara
wordtype: n.
definition:
A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According
   to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high
   and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned
   over.


word: Tiara
wordtype: n.
definition:
The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap,
   but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second,
   and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.


word: Tibia
wordtype: n.
definition:
The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two
   bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.


word: Tibiale
wordtype: n.
definition:
The bone or cartilage of the tarsus which articulates with
   the tibia and corresponds to a part of the astragalus in man and most
   mammals.


word: Tibio-
definition:
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with,
   or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.


word: Tibiotarsus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus
   in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of
   the tarsus with the tibia.


word: Tic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles;
   especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face;
   twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.


word: Tical
wordtype: n.
definition:
A money of account in China, reckoning at about $1.60; also,
   a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois.


word: Tichorrhine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum
   supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.


word: Tick
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which
   attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many
   other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen,
   and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach
   themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first
   but six legs.


word: Tick
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a
   flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird)
   and sheep tick (see under Sheep).


word: Tick
wordtype: n.
definition:
The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains
   the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.


word: Ticker
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound,
   as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.


word: Ticket
wordtype: v.
definition:
A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as
   a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.


word: Ticket
wordtype: v.
definition:
A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of
   assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a
   railroad or steamboat ticket.


word: Ticket
wordtype: v.
definition:
A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other
   scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.


word: Ticket
wordtype: v.
definition:
A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an
   election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.


word: Ticketing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A periodical sale of ore in the English mining
   districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the
   bids of the buyers.


word: Ticking
wordtype: n.
definition:
A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which
   ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of
   different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.


word: Tickle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling
   sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which
   become dengerous if too long protracted.


word: Ticklish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole
   of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not
   ticklish.


word: Ticklish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the
   slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.


word: Stage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large vehicle running from station to station for the
   accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.


word: Stage
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several marked phases or periods in the development
   and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa
   stage; zoea stage.


word: Stagecoach
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or
   place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.


word: Stageplayer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to
   represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated
   stageplayer.


word: Stager
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has long acted on the stage of life; a
   practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long
   experience.


word: Stagger
wordtype: n.
definition:
To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in
   standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to
   reel or totter.


word: Stagger
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median
   line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler
   seam.


word: Stagger
wordtype: n.
definition:
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing,
   as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in
   the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.


word: Stagger
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease of horses and other animals, attended by
   reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers;
   appopletic or sleepy staggers.


word: Staggerbush
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters
   of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to
   poison lambs and calves.


word: Stag-horned
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched
   somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.


word: Staghound
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the
   stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.


word: Stagnant
wordtype: a.
definition:
That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or
   steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a
   stagnant lake or pond; stagnant blood in the veins.


word: Stagnate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood
   stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by
   want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room.


word: Stagnate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or
   inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.


word: Stagnation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing
   or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the
   stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation
   of vapors.


word: Stagnation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state
   of being dull; as, the stagnation of business.


word: Stagworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic
   upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath
   the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.


word: Stahlian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or taught by, Stahl, a German physician
   and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of phlogiston.


word: Staidness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being staid; seriousness;
   steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or
   levity.


word: Stain
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make
   foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with
   blood.


word: Stain
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by
   processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to
   tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the
   substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint
   rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.


word: Stair
wordtype: n.
definition:
One step of a series for ascending or descending to a
   different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.


word: Stair
wordtype: n.
definition:
A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house
   to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the
   singular only.


word: Staith
wordtype: n.
definition:
A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for
   discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.


word: Stake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one
   end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as,
   a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc.


word: Stake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at
   the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods
   from falling off.


word: Stake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a
   hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light
   work, punching upon, etc.


word: Stake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a
   future contingency; to wager; to pledge.


word: Stake-driver
wordtype: n.
definition:
The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus);
   -- so called because one of its notes resembles the sound made in
   driving a stake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.


word: Stakehead
wordtype: n.
definition:
A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the
   yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.


word: Staktometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small
   orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding
   the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See
   Pipette.


word: Stalactite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate
   resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are
   found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by
   deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially
   dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.


word: Stalagmite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A deposit more or less resembling an inverted
   stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of
   caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.


word: Stale
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life,
   spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer.


word: Stale
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to
   draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon.


word: Stalemate
wordtype: n.
definition:
The position of the king when he can not move without
   being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.


word: Stalk
wordtype: n.
definition:
The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye,
   or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.


word: Stalk
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk
   of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.


word: Stalk
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy,
   noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.


word: Stalk
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of
   approaching game; to proceed under clover.


word: Stalk
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the
   affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used,
   however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.


word: Stalk-eyed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; --
   opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans.


word: Stalking-horse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind
   which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.


word: Stall
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
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.


word: Stall
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed
   for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.


word: Stall
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the
   officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the
   back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and
   elaborate carving.


word: Stall
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly
   inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.


word: Stamen
wordtype: n.
definition:
The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the
   pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.


word: Stamina
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The fixed, firm part of a body, which supports it or
   gives it strength and solidity; as, the bones are the stamina of animal
   bodies; the ligneous parts of trees are the stamina which constitute
   their strength.


word: Stamina
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Whatever constitutes the principal strength or support
   of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a
   constitution or of life; the stamina of a State.


word: Stamineous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the stamens; possessing stamens;
   also, attached to the stamens; as, a stamineous nectary.


word: Stammer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or
   words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and
   diffivulty; to stutter.


word: Stammering
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due
   essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm,
   by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a
   spasmodic inspiration.


word: Stamp
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the
   foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.


word: Stamp
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush
   by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.


word: Stamp
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc.,
   into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp
   or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.


word: Stamp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or
   tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the
   stamp on a bill of exchange.


word: Stamp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the
   government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or
   stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are
   paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.


word: Stamp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as
   paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.


word: Stamp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything
   as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons
   have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine
   origin.


word: Stamp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or
   steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used
   for pounding or bathing.


word: Stampede
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number
   of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or
   dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.


word: Stanch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to
   stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.


word: Stanch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a
   boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.


word: Stanch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty;
   steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.


word: Stand
wordtype: n.
definition:
To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect
   position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc.


word: Stand
wordtype: n.
definition:
To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed
   by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.


word: Stand
wordtype: n.
definition:
To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be
   situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.


word: Stand
wordtype: n.
definition:
To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against
   tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last;
   hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.


word: Stand
wordtype: n.
definition:
To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be
   fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.


word: Stand
wordtype: n.
definition:
To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude;
   to keep from falling into error or vice.


word: Stand
wordtype: n.
definition:
To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a
   particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in
   the rank of gifts.


word: Stand
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A halt or stop for the purpose of defense, resistance, or
   opposition; as, to come to, or to make, a stand.


word: Stand
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A place or post where one stands; a place where one may
   stand while observing or waiting for something.


word: Stand
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A raised platform or station where a race or other
   outdoor spectacle may be viewed; as, the judge's or the grand stand at
   a race course.


word: Stand
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A small table; also, something on or in which anything
   may be laid, hung, or placed upright; as, a hat stand; an umbrella
   stand; a music stand.


word: Stand
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut;
   also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from
   one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another
   kind of tree.


word: Standard
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is established by authority as a rule for the
   measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original
   specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard
   pound, gallon, or yard.


word: Standard
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is established as a rule or model by
   authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.


word: Standard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not
   dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon
   a wall or trellis.


word: Standard
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of
   beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies
   horizontally.


word: Standard
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being, affording, or according with, a standard for
   comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and
   measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or
   silver.


