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word: Premise
wordtype: n.
definition:
Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in
   the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor
   and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that
   precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.


word: Premise
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as,
   to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.


word: Premise
wordtype: n.
definition:
To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to
   be before something else; to employ previously.


word: Premise
wordtype: n.
definition:
To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main
   subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in
   understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first
   propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.


word: Premium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before
   another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a
   bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for
   discoveries, etc.


word: Premium
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus;
   -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally signifying a sum
   in addition to the capital.


word: Premium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for
   undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.


word: Premium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par
   value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he sold his stock at a
   premium.


word: Premonstratensian
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a religious order of regular canons
   founded by St. Norbert at Premontre, in France, in 1119. The members of
   the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants.


word: Prenotion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A notice or notion which precedes something else in
   time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge.


word: Preoccupation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of
   beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession.


word: Preparation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a
   particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or
   adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of
   wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.


word: Preparation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being prepared or made ready;
   preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for
   war.


word: Preparation
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is prepared, made, or compounded by a
   certain process or for a particular purpose; a combination.
   Specifically: (a) Any medicinal substance fitted for use. (b) Anything
   treated for preservation or examination as a specimen. (c) Something
   prepared for use in cookery.


word: Preparation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The holding over of a note from one chord into the
   next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the
   chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the
   preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See
   Suspension.


word: Preparative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tending to prepare or make ready; having the power of
   preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory.


word: Preparator
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for
   dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.


word: Preparatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of
   adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory;
   preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.


word: Prepare
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or
   condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application;
   as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.


word: Prepare
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to
   provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to
   prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment.


word: Prepare
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the
   necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.


word: Prepense
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand;
   preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the
   word it qualifies; as, malice prepense.


word: Preponderancy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being preponderant;
   superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an
   outweighing.


word: Preponderant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used
   literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant
   importance.


word: Preponderate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend,
   as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power,
   etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side
   preponderated.


word: Preposition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an
   adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used
   with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to
   make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually
   placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron;
   he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.


word: Prepossess
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to
   preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous
   inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable
   opinion beforehand, or at the outset.


word: Prepossessing
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence,
   favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.


word: Prepossession
wordtype: n.
definition:
Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or
   impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression;
   bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the
   prepossessions of childhood.


word: Preposterous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end;
   utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted.


word: Prepotency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as
   compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of
   characteristics to their offspring.


word: Preraphaelitism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine or practice of a school of modern
   painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael.
   Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and
   minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of
   the subject.


word: Preraphaelite
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the style called
   preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape.


word: Preraphaelite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who favors or practices art as it was before
   Raphael; one who favors or advocates preraphaelitism.


word: Prerequisite
wordtype: a.
definition:
Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to
   any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.


word: Prerogative
wordtype: n.
definition:
An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and
   indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used
   generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted
   without question, and for the exercise of which there is no
   responsibility or accountability as to the fact and the manner of its
   exercise.


word: Presbyopia
definition:
A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. It is
   due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of
   accommodation and recession of the near point of vision, so that
   objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use
   of convex glasses. Called also presbytia.


word: Presbyterian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical
   government by presbyters; relating to those who uphold church
   government by presbyters; also, to the doctrine, discipline, and
   worship of a communion so governed.


word: Presbyterian
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who maintains the validity of ordination and
   government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.


word: Presbyterianism
wordtype: n.
definition:
That form of church government which invests
   presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them;
   also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken
   collectively.


word: Presbytery
wordtype: n.
definition:
A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a
   certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each
   parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction
   with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches
   under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.


word: Prescribe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or
   rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to
   appoint; to direct.


word: Prescribe
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To write or to give medical directions; to indicate
   remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.


word: Prescribe
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing
   on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom
   having the force of law.


word: Prescription
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating;
   direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.


word: Prescription
wordtype: n.
definition:
A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease,
   and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed
   remedy.


word: Prescription
wordtype: n.
definition:
A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a
   thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title
   acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by
   law.


word: Prescriptive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or
   long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title;
   pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.


word: Prescutum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part,
   or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is usually small and
   inconspicuous.


word: Presence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The place in which one is present; the part of space
   within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the
   intervention of anything that forbids intercourse.


word: Presence
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of
   superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.


word: Presence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The whole of the personal qualities of an individual;
   person; personality; especially, the person of a superior, as a
   sovereign.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in
   view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future;
   as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the
   present instance.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at
   the moment contemplated; as, at this present.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a
   lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, " Know
   all men by these presents," that is, by the writing itself, " per has
   literas praesentes; " -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
To bring or introduce into the presence of some one,
   especially of a superior; to introduce formally; to offer for
   acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal
   pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's
   perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in
   charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a
   formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the
   bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
To lay before a public body, or an official, for
   consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a
   corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance,
   or indictment.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
To lay before a court as an object of inquiry; to give
   notice officially of, as a crime of offence; to find or represent
   judicially; as, a grand jury present certain offenses or nuisances, or
   whatever they think to be public injuries.


word: Present
wordtype: a.
definition:
To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a
   pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another.


word: Present
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be
   perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of
   an infant during labor.


word: Presentable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to
   be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set
   forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into
   society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not
   presentable in such a gown.


word: Presentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or
   ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a
   clergyman.


word: Presentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The particular position of the child during labor
   relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; --
   specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of
   the uterus; as, a breech presentation.


word: Presentative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the right of presentation, or offering a
   clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are
   presentative, collative, or donative.


word: Presentative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being directly known by, or presented to,
   the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of
   apprehending, as faculties.


word: Presentee
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
One to whom something is presented; also, one who is
   presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice.


word: Presentiment
wordtype: n.
definition:
Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous
   apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of
   something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen;
   anticipation of evil; foreboding.


word: Presentive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the
   mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; --
   distinguished from symbolic.


word: Presently
wordtype: adv.
definition:
At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less
   definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and
   by.


word: Lithophagous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various
   animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain
   sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus.


word: Lithophane
wordtype: n.
definition:
Porcelain impressed with figures which are made
   distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as
   a lamp shade.


word: Lithophyse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers,
   observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed
   to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name.


word: Lithophyte
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hard, or stony, plantlike organism, as the
   gorgonians, corals, and corallines, esp. those gorgonians having a
   calcareous axis. All the lithophytes except the corallines are animals.


word: Lithosian
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of various species of moths belonging to the
   family Lithosidae. Many of them are beautifully colored.


word: Lithotint
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted
   drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.


word: Lithotomist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in
   the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.


word: Lithotripsy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with
   an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.


word: Lithotype
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of stereotype plate made by lithotypy; also, that
   which in printed from it. See Lithotypy.


word: Lithotypy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or process of making a kind of hard,
   stereotypeplate, by pressing into a mold, taken from a page of type or
   other matter, a composition of gum shell-lac and sand of a fine
   quality, together with a little tar and linseed oil, all in a heated
   state.


word: Lithuanian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality
   united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory).


word: Litigate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law;
   to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and
   judicial debate in a court; as, to litigate a cause.


word: Litigious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of
   contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.


word: Litmus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella
   tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which
   consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring
   matters related to orcin and orcein.


word: Litotes
wordtype: n.
definition:
A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of
   avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the
   moderation shown in the form of expression; as, " a citizen of no mean
   city," that is, of an illustrious city.


word: Litter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick
   or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.


word: Litter
wordtype: n.
definition:
Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for
   animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.


word: Litter
wordtype: n.
definition:
Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or
   from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.


word: Litter
wordtype: n.
definition:
The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other
   multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.


word: Litter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew
   with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.


word: Litter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those
   which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in
   abhorrence or contempt.


word: Little
wordtype: a.
definition:
Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to
   big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of
   ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child.


word: Little
wordtype: a.
definition:
Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight;
   inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little
   care or diligence.


word: Little
wordtype: a.
definition:
Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow;
   contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.


word: Littorina
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick
   spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts.
   They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example.
   See Periwinkle.


word: Liturgy
wordtype: a.
definition:
An established formula for public worship, or the entire
   ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a
   formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church
   it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the
   world, for the celebration of Mass.


word: Lituus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve
   the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which
   the radius vector makes with a given line.


word: Live
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a
   plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent
   on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and
   plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.


word: Live
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain
   manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or
   affluence; to live happily or usefully.


word: Live
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be
   permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.


word: Live
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with
   on; as, horses live on grass and grain.


word: Live
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished,
   and actuated by divine influence or faith.


word: Live
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to
   subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.


word: Live
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat,
   etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.


word: Live
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue
   in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.


word: Live-forever
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which
   has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.


word: Liveliness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being lively or animated;
   sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of
   youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.


word: Liveliness
wordtype: n.
definition:
An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the
   liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.


word: Livelong
wordtype: a.
definition:
Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day
   or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of
   tediousness.


word: Liver
wordtype: n.
definition:
One whose course of life has some marked characteristic
   (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.


word: Liverwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty
   white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel
   cups.


word: Liverwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an
   irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.


word: Livery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their
   retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.


word: Livery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or
   gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery.


word: Livery
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, also, the peculiar dress or garb appropriated by any
   association or body of persons to their own use; as, the livery of the
   London tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the
   whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to
   the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of London.


word: Livery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation;
   boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.


word: Livery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily
   for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.


word: Liveryman
wordtype: n.
definition:
A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid
   certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of
   the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other
   privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor,
   sheriffs, chamberlain, etc.


word: Livery stable
definition:
A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where
   stabling is provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g).


word: Laving
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the
   mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living
   principle.


word: Laving
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing;
   as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant.


word: Livre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to
   20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.


word: Lixivial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts
   extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a
   lixivium.


word: Lixiviate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To subject to a washing process for the purpose of
   separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as
   ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.


word: Lixiviation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble
   substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as
   water; leaching.


word: Lixivium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes;
   hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.


word: Lizard
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to
   the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other
   orders, as the Hatteria.


word: Lizard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a
   heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.


word: Lizard's tail
definition:
A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus),
   growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender
   terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the
   name.


word: Llama
wordtype: n.
definition:
A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the
   camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a
   domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a
   beast of burden in the Andes.


word: Llandeilo group
definition:
A series of strata in the lower Silurian formations
   of Great Britain; -- so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See
   Chart of Geology.


word: Lloyd's
wordtype: n.
definition:
An association of underwriters and others in London, for
   the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance,
   classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the
   transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.


word: Lloyd's
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part of the Royal Exchange, in London, appropriated to
   the use of underwriters and insurance brokers; -- called also Lloyd's
   Rooms.


word: Loach
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of
   the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more
   barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The
   common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.


word: Load
wordtype: v.
definition:
A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for
   conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy
   load.


word: Load
wordtype: v.
definition:
The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified
   way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will
   constitute a cargo; lading.


word: Load
wordtype: v.
definition:
A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as
   may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the
   article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five
   quarters.


word: Load
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a
   cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or
   cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or
   embarrass; to heap upon.


word: Loaf
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly
   shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.


word: Loam
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with
   organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.


word: Loam
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making
   molds for large castings, often without a pattern.


word: Loanable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable
   funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.


word: Loaning
wordtype: n.
definition:
An open space between cultivated fields through which
   cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a
   lane.


word: Lobated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes
   having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.


word: Lobby
wordtype: n.
definition:
A passage or hall of communication, especially when large
   enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber
   in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to
   one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.


word: Lobby
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the
   official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who
   frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any
   persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its
   proceedings by personal agency.


word: Lobby
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To address or solicit members of a legislative body in
   the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.


word: Lobby
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members
   of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.


word: Lobbyist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a
   legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.


word: Lobelia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of plants, including a great number of species.
   Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North
   America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an
   acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic,
   expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for
   the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.


word: Lobeline
wordtype: n.
definition:
A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves
   of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a
   tobaccolike taste and odor.


word: Lobosa
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are
   thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.


word: Lobster
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of
   the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the
   European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops
   Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal
   claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to
   Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The
   fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.


word: Local
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite
   region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a
   local custom.


word: Local
wordtype: n.
definition:
A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight
   along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain
   district.


word: Locality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite
   place, or of being contained within definite limits.


word: Locality
wordtype: n.
definition:
Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a
   geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.


word: Locate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To designate the site or place of; to define the limits
   of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to
   locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.


word: Location
wordtype: n.
definition:
The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the
   place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given
   in an entry, plan, map, etc.


word: Locative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a
   locative adjective; locative case of a noun.


word: Locellate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where
   one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.


word: Lochaber axe
definition:
A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an
   axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scotch Highlanders.


word: Lock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or
   other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.


word: Lock
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a
   door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved
   by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.


word: Lock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing
   upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.


word: Lock
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in
   raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; --
   called also lift lock.


word: Lock
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is
   exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.


word: Lock
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to
   prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a
   river, etc.


word: Lock
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by
   fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock
   up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.


word: Lock
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as
   with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to
   lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's
   silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault;
   to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.


word: Locket
wordtype: n.
definition:
A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair,
   usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.


word: Lockout
wordtype: n.
definition:
The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer,
   usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a
   suspension of wages.


word: Lock step
definition:
A mode of marching by a body of men going one after
   another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the
   same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.


word: Lock stitch
definition:
A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two
   threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See
   Stitch.


word: Loco
wordtype: adv.
definition:
A direction in written or printed music to return to the
   proper pitch after having played an octave higher.


word: Loco
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern
   United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making
   them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of
   the same genus. Called also loco weed.


word: Locomotion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The power of moving from place to place, characteristic
   of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.


word: Locomotive
wordtype: n.
definition:
A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage,
   especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines
   which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, --
   used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars,
   etc. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Locular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary,
   etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.


word: Locus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The line traced by a point which varies its position
   according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or
   line that moves according to a given law.


word: Locust
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory,
   orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the
   grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium
   perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States
   the related species with similar habits are usually called
   grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.


word: Locust tree
definition:
A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R.
   Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant,
   papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In
   England it is called acacia.


word: Locutory
wordtype: n.
definition:
A room for conversation; especially, a room in
   monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.


word: Lodge
wordtype: n.
definition:
The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly
   constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.


word: Lodge
wordtype: n.
definition:
The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to
   permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called
   also platt.


word: Lodge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A family of North American Indians, or the persons who
   usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned
   from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred
   lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.


word: Lodge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to
   rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York
   Street.


word: Lodge
wordtype: n.
definition:
To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a
   sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.


word: Lodging
wordtype: n.
definition:
A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a
   sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.


word: Lodgment
wordtype: v.
definition:
The occupation and holding of a position, as by a
   besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to
   effect a lodgment.


word: Loess
wordtype: n.
definition:
A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish
   earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.


word: Lofty
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit,
   bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by
   pride; haughty.


word: Log
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily
   progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage;
   a log slate; a log book.


word: Log
wordtype: n.
definition:
A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an
   engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items
   relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.


word: Log
wordtype: n.
definition:
A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to
   prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.


word: Logaoedic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to
   produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.


word: Logarithm
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John
   Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical
   calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of
   multiplication and division.


word: Log-chip
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of
   a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. See 2d Log,
   n., 2.


word: Loggerhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over
   which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast.


word: Loggerhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very large marine turtle (Thalassochelys caretta, /
   caouana), common in the warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from Brazil
   to Cape Cod; -- called also logger-headed turtle.


word: Loggia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being
   more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main
   edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not
   for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.


word: Logging
wordtype: n.
definition:
The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and
   transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.


word: Logic
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal
   thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure
   thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and
   application of general notions; the science of generalization,
   judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement;
   correct reasoning.


word: Logistics
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of the military art which embraces the
   details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by
   some writers extended to include strategy.


word: Logogram
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of
   brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.


word: Logography
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand,
   -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four
   words.


word: Logogriph
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a
   chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its
   letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word
   chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc.


word: Logothete
definition:
An accountant; under Constantine, an officer of the
   empire; a receiver of revenue; an administrator of a department.


word: Logotype
wordtype: n.
definition:
A single type, containing two or more letters; as, ae,
   Ae, /, /, /, etc. ; -- called also ligature.


word: Logrolling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of rolling logs from the place where
   they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to
   market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist
   each other in turn.


word: Logrolling
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration
   of receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable
   mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends.


word: Logwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a
   native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a
   crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in
   dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent.
   Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.


word: -logy
definition:
A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine,
   theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.


word: Loin
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on
   either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false
   ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust.
   of Beef.


word: Loiter
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be
   dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.


word: Loki
wordtype: n.
definition:
The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief,
   answering to the African of the Persians.


word: Loligo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of
   squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used
   for fish bait.


word: Loll
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or
   a log when heated with labor or exertion.


word: Loll
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or
   other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the
   furrow.


word: Lombard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A money lender or banker; -- so called because the
   business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.


word: Lombar-house
wordtype: n.
definition:
A public institution for lending money to the poor at
   a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called
   also mont de piete.


word: Loment
wordtype: n.
definition:
An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two
   valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a
   single seed.


word: Lone
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being without a companion; being by one's self; also, sad
   from lack of companionship; lonely; as, a lone traveler or watcher.


word: Lone
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being apart from other things of the kind; being by itself;
   also, apart from human dwellings and resort; as, a lone house.


word: Lonely
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting
   from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.


word: Long
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length;
   protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and
   distinguished from broad or wide.


word: Long
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a
   considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a
   long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.


word: Long
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Extended to any specified measure; of a specified
   length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to
   the measure of a mile, etc.


word: Long
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance;
   -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to
   Pronunciation, // 22, 30.


word: Long
wordtype: n.
definition:
The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase,
   the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.


word: Long
wordtype: adv.
definition:
At a point of duration far distant, either prior or
   posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the
   foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.


word: Long
wordtype: a.
definition:
To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for
   something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or
   for.


word: Longan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an
   evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan).


word: Longboat
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel,
   corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.


word: Longbow
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in
   distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war.
   Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as
   distinguished from a much shorter one.


word: Long-horned
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat,
   or cow; having long antennae, as certain beetles (Longicornia).


word: Longicornia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of beetles, including a large number of
   species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in
   the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and
   some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple
   borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.


word: Longirostres
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of birds characterized by having long
   slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now
   regarded as an artificial division.


word: Longitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
Length; measure or distance along the longest line; --
   distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room;
   rare now, except in a humorous sense.


word: Longitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
The arc or portion of the equator intersected between
   the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from
   which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes
   from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The
   longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as,
   that of New York is 74¡ or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.


word: Longitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal
   equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic
   passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as,
   the longitude of Capella is 79¡.


word: Longitudinal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Extending in length; in the direction of the length;
   running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the
   longitudinal diameter of a body.


word: Long-lived
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities
   which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree;
   they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.


word: Longmynd rocks
definition:
The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits,
   schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the
   Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the
   Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.


word: Longshoreman
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves
   of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.


word: Longspur
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the
   genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland
   longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus),
   and other species, inhabit the United States.


word: Long-waisted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the
   armpits to the bottom of the waist; -- said of persons.


word: Long-waisted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Long from the part about the neck or shoulder, or
   from the armpits, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; -- said
   of garments; as, a long-waisted coat.


word: Loo
wordtype: n.
definition:
An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each
   player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is
   the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; --
   formerly called lanterloo.


word: Loo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players
   replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the
   pack.


word: Loof
wordtype: n.
definition:
The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant
   (Luffa Aegyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.


word: Loof
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in
   changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to
   help bring her head nearer to the wind.


word: Look
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to
   direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while
   keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special
   or figurative sense. See Phrases below.


word: Look
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as,
   the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.


word: Look
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a
   window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used
   figuratively.


word: Look
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in
   certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.


word: Looking
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a certain look or appearance; -- often compounded
   with adjectives; as, good-looking, grand-looking, etc.


word: Looking-glass
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mirror made of glass on which has been placed a
   backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver.


word: Loom
wordtype: n.
definition:
A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a
   weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or
   threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.


word: Loom
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to
   appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a
   ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the
   ship looms large; the land looms high.


word: Loom
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct
   appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a
   ship, seen by one at sea.


word: Looming
wordtype: n.
definition:
The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in
   particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.


word: Loon
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several aquatic, wed-footed, northern birds of the
   genus Urinator (formerly Colymbus), noted for their expertness in
   diving and swimming under water. The common loon, or great northern
   diver (Urinator imber, or Colymbus torquatus), and the red-throated
   loon or diver (U. septentrionalis), are the best known species. See
   Diver.


word: Loop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through
   which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be
   hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight.


word: Loop
wordtype: n.
definition:
The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between
   two nodes; -- called also ventral segment.


word: Loop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make a loop of or in; to fasten with a loop or loops;
   -- often with up; as, to loop a string; to loop up a curtain.


word: Loophole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in
   the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may
   be discharged at an enemy.


word: Looping
wordtype: n.
definition:
The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass,
   when the ore is only heated for calcination.


word: Loose
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened,
   fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.


word: Loose
wordtype: a.
definition:
To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove
   the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.


word: Loosen
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make loose; to free from tightness, tension,
   firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a
   string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth.


word: Looseness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as,
   the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of
   principles.


word: Loosestrife
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name of several species of plants of the genus
   Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow
   color.


word: Lop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/
   -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous
   parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.


word: Lophine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of
   amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is
   obtained in long white crystalline tufts, -- whence its name.


word: Lophiomys
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very singular rodent (Lophiomys Imhausi) of
   Northeastern Africa. It is the only known representative of a special
   family (Lophiomyidae), remarkable for the structure of the skull. It
   has handlike feet, and the hair is peculiar in structure and
   arrangement.


word: Lophobranchii
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills
   arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and
   pipefishes.


word: Loquacity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The habit or practice of talking continually or
   excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.


word: Loquat
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is
   as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or
   five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.


word: Lorcha
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having
   the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a
   Chinese junk.


word: Lord
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a
   governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.


word: Lord
wordtype: n.
definition:
A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a
   bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a
   duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a
   boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.


word: Lord
wordtype: n.
definition:
A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for
   honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord
   chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.


word: Lord
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal
   land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.


word: Lord
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or
   despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the
   manner of a transitive verb.


word: Lordly
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord;
   resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.


word: Lords and Ladies
definition:
The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those
   with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.


word: Lordship
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his
   or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who
   is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.


word: Lore
wordtype: n.
definition:
The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the
   corresponding region in reptiles and fishes.


word: Lore
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge
   gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of
   knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a
   particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal
   lore; folklore.


word: Lorette
wordtype: n.
definition:
In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her
   lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so
   called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which
   many of them resided.


word: Lorettine
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in
   Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or
   Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the
   cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors
   being chiefly confined to the Western United States.


word: Lorica
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of
   metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.


word: Loricate
wordtype: v.
definition:
Covered with a shell or exterior made of plates somewhat
   like a coat of mail, as in the armadillo.


word: Loricate
wordtype: n.
definition:
An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among
   reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.


word: Lorikeet
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots
   or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent
   islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their
   habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to
   Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.


word: Loris
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus
   Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal
   in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of
   the best known species.


word: Lorry
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in
   mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting
   baggage, as at railway stations.


word: Post
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger;
   as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.


word: Post
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted
   with the details of a subject; -- often with up.


word: Postage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance
   of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.


word: Postaxial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an
   animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or
   posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate
   limb.


word: Post-captain
wordtype: n.
definition:
A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was
   "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished
   from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used
   in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was
   ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.


word: Postcommissure
wordtype: n.
definition:
A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the
   roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral
   commisure.


word: Postdate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To date after the real time; as, to postdate a
   contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact
   made.


word: Post-disseizin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands
   which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ
   founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished.


word: Post-disseizor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person who disseizes another of lands which the
   disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.


word: Postea
wordtype: n.
definition:
The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried,
   after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on
   the nisi prius record.


word: Posterior
wordtype: a.
definition:
Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding
   or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.


word: Posteriority
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being later or subsequent; as,
   posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.


word: Posterity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to
   the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are
   descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted
   with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.


word: Postern
wordtype: n.
definition:
A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade
   and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the
   outworks.


word: Postero
definition:
- (/). A combining form meaning posterior, back; as,
   postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated
   back and at the side.


word: Post-fine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of
   lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's
   silver.


word: Postfix
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a
   letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to
   suffix.


word: Postfrontal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region
   of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the
   frontal in many animals.


word: Postgeniture
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of being born after another in the same
   family; -- distinguished from primogeniture.


word: Posthumous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Born after the death of the father, or taken from the
   dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.


word: Postil
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible,
   so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a
   comment.


word: Postil
wordtype: n.
definition:
A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as,
   the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.


word: Postilion
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a
   coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one
   pair only is used.


word: Postliminy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The return to his own country, and his former
   privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country,
   or had been banished, or taken by an enemy.


word: Postliminy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The right by virtue of which persons and things taken
   by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again
   under the power of the nation to which they belonged.


word: Postman
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of
   Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place
   where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.


word: Postmark
wordtype: n.
definition:
The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving
   the place and date of mailing or of arrival.


word: Postmaster
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has charge of a station for the accommodation
   of travelers; one who supplies post horses.


word: Postmaster-general
wordtype: n.
definition:
The chief officer of the post-office department
   of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a
   member of the cabinet.


word: Postmeridian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being
   in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)


word: Post note
definition:
A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified
   time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand.


word: Post-obit bond
definition:
A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of
   having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger
   sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual
   from whom he has expectations.


word: Postpliocene
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the period immediately following
   the Pliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.


word: Postpone
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also,
   to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to
   postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or
   indefinitely.


word: Postpone
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place after, behind, or below something, in respect
   to precedence, preference, value, or importance.


word: Postposition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word or particle placed after, or at the end of,
   another word; -- distinguished from preposition.


word: Postscript
wordtype: n.
definition:
A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and
   signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after
   the main body of the work has been finished, containing something
   omitted, or something new occurring to the writer.


word: Post-temporal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal
   region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually
   connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of
   fishes.


word: Postulate
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position
   or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as
   self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged,
   without argument or evidence.


word: Postulate
wordtype: n.
definition:
The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in
   distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident
   theorem.


word: Posture
wordtype: n.
definition:
The position of the body; the situation or disposition of
   the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a
   particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure
   with regard to the several principal members by which action is
   expressed; attitude.


word: Posture
wordtype: n.
definition:
State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or
   of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of
   defense; the posture of affairs.


word: Posture
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place in a particular position or attitude; to
   dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to
   posture one's self; to posture a model.


word: Posture
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort
   the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist;
   also, to pose.


word: Posy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment,
   motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.


word: Pot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great
   variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding
   liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.


word: Pot
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler,
   and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through
   which the molasses drains off.


word: Potamian
wordtype: n.
definition:
A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites,
   or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak.
   See Trionyx.


word: Potash
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle
   substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence
   called also caustic potash.


word: Potash
wordtype: n.
definition:
The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood
   ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline
   (pearlash).


word: Potassium
wordtype: n.
definition:
An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always
   combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the
   minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight
   39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).


word: Potato
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and
   its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties
   used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species
   is found native as far north as New Mexico.


word: Potboiler
wordtype: n.
definition:
A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic
   work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of
   living.


word: Potency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral
   power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose;
   capability; efficacy; influence.


word: Potent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant;
   mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.


word: Potent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great
   influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.


word: Potent
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are
   supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent
   and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.


word: Potential
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting
   in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the
   position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with
   respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at
   the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force
   function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is
   directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the
   distance from the center.


word: Potential
wordtype: n.
definition:
The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power
   to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some
   standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.


word: Potentiality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being potential; possibility,
   not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually
   exhibited.


word: Pothole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the
   grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what
   was at first a natural depression of the rock.


word: Potichomanie
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or process of coating the inside of glass
   vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance
   of painted ware.


word: Potoroo
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia,
   and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also
   kangaroo rat.


word: Potsdam group
definition:
A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in
   American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York.
   See Chart of Geology.


word: Pottage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both
   together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.


word: Potter
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little
   purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.


word: Potto
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family,
   found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also
   aposoro, and bush dog.


word: Pott's disease
definition:
Caries of the vertebrae, frequently resulting in
   curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so
   named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon.


word: Pot-walloper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before
   the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage
   was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.


word: Pouch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek
   pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.


word: Poultice
wordtype: n.
definition:
A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous
   substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a
   cataplasm.


word: Poultry
wordtype: n.
definition:
Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or
   feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.


word: Pounce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, --
   formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.


word: Pounce
wordtype: n.
definition:
Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making
   patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace
   makers, etc.


word: Pounce
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or
   upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.


word: Pound
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break
   into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to
   pound spice or salt.


word: Pound
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which
   cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when
   going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.


word: Pound
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow
   entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.


word: Pound
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard
   consisting of an established number of ounces.


word: Pound
wordtype: n.
definition:
A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to
   twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is
   no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same
   value.


word: Poundage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted
   to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.


word: Poundage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the
   amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly
   in the United States, at so much of the pound.


word: Poundal
wordtype: n.
definition:
A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second,
   being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second,
   causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per
   second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825
   dynes.


word: Poundcake
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the
   ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.


word: Pounder
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain
   number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon
   carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.


word: Poupart's ligament
definition:
A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most
   mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of
   the pubic bones.


word: Pour
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
   flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
   water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
   waters; to pour out sand or dust.


word: Pour
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to
   fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured
   out of the theater.


word: Pourpoint
wordtype: n.
definition:
A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th
   and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th
   centuries worn by civilians.


word: Pouter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent
   to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.


word: Poverty
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or
   scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.


word: Poverty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or
   desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of
   the blood; poverty of ideas.


word: Powen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C.
   ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.


word: Powder
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by
   pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay;
   dust.


word: Powder
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub
   into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty
   of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance;
   capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency;
   might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction;
   money gives power.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force,
   or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the
   power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of
   enthusiasm.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted
   upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of
   endurance.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the
   exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command;
   government.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual
   invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises
   control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman
   agent; a spirit; a divinity.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical
   work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working
   continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy
   is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the
   power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to
   drive other machinery; as, a dog power.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
The product arising from the multiplication of a number into
   itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of
   a number.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which
   are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking,
   reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical
   instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope,
   the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter
   of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it
   multiplies the apparent surface.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest
   vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by
   appointment.


word: Power
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the
   business was referred to a committee with power.


word: Powerful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
   kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or
   beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a
   powerful vessel.


word: Powpow
wordtype: n.
definition:
Conjuration attended with great noise and confusion, and
   often with feasting, dancing, etc., performed by Indians for the cure
   of diseases, to procure success in hunting or in war, and for other
   purposes.


word: Powwow
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the
   cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.


word: Pox
wordtype: n.
definition:
Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but
   chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the
   smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.


word: Pozzolana
wordtype: n.
definition:
Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the
   manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.


word: Praam
wordtype: n.
definition:
A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the
   Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.


word: Practicable
wordtype: a.
definition:
That may be practiced or performed; capable of being
   done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a
   practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.


word: Practical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in
   distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.


word: Practical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying
   knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.


word: Practically
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as,
   to look at things practically; practically worthless.


word: Practically
wordtype: adv.
definition:
By means of practice or use; by experience or
   experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted
   with a subject.


word: Practice
wordtype: n.
definition:
Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual
   performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit;
   custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making
   regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.


word: Practice
wordtype: n.
definition:
Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as,
   the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in
   music.


word: Practice
wordtype: n.
definition:
Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise
   of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine
   or law; a large or lucrative practice.


word: Practice
wordtype: n.
definition:
Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance
   or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a
   bad sense.


word: Practice
wordtype: n.
definition:
A easy and concise method of applying the rules of
   arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.


word: Practice
wordtype: n.
definition:
The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on
   suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the
   principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.


word: Practice
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To do or perform frequently, customarily, or
   habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.


word: Practice
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exercise one's self in, for instruction or
   improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice
   gunnery; to practice music.


word: Practice
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To perform certain acts frequently or customarily,
   either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the
   broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.


word: Practice
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way
   of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp.
   that of medicine or of law.


word: Practitioner
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of
   any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.


word: Praecipe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in
   the office out of which the writ is to be issued.


word: Praecommissure
wordtype: n.
definition:
A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the
   third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.


word: Praemunire
wordtype: n.
definition:
The offense of introducing foreign authority into
   England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress
   the civil power of the pope in the kingdom.


word: Praenomen
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first name of a person, by which individuals of the
   same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as
   Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.


word: Praetexta
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy
   before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the
   completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage.
   It was also worn by magistrates and priests.


word: Pragmatical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the
   nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or
   manner.


word: Pragmatical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and
   effects, rather than with details and circumstances; -- said of
   literature.


word: Prairial
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which
   dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See
   Vendemiaire.


word: Prairie
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of
   trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep,
   fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between
   the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.


word: Praise
wordtype: v.
definition:
To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on
   account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display
   the excellence of; -- applied especially to the Divine Being.


word: Praise
wordtype: v.
definition:
Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered
   because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.


word: Praise
wordtype: v.
definition:
Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage
   rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the
   Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer
   and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise.


word: Prakrit
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin
   to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a
   literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali
   is one of the Prakrit dialects.


word: More
wordtype: n.
definition:
A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or
   surpasses in any way what it is compared with.


word: More
wordtype: adv.
definition:
With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to
   form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more
   sweetly.


word: Moreen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; --
   used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.


word: Morel
wordtype: n.
definition:
An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of
   which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as
   food, and for flavoring sauces.


word: Morepork
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Australian crested goatsucker (Aegotheles
   Novae-Hollandiae). Also applied to other allied birds, as Podargus
   Cuveiri.


word: Morganatic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind
   of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of
   superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that
   neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the
   possessions of her husband.


word: Morgue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed,
   that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.


word: Morin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A yellow crystalline substance of acid properties extracted
   from fustic (Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); --
   called also moric acid.


word: Morinda
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly East
   Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The
   wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks.


word: Moringa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of trees of Southern India and Northern Africa.
   One species (Moringa pterygosperma) is the horse-radish tree, and its
   seeds, as well as those of M. aptera, are known in commerce as ben or
   ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben.


word: Morintannic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic
   acid extracted from fustic (Maclura, formerly Morus, tinctoria) as a
   yellow crystalline substance; -- called also maclurin.


word: Morisco
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language.
   (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who
   dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or
   architecture.


word: Mormon
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph
   Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved
   on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830.
   The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc.,
   has control of civil and religious matters.


word: Morne
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first or early part of the day, variously understood as
   the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from
   midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.


word: Morning
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day;
   being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light;
   morning service.


word: Morning-glory
wordtype: n.
definition:
A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome,
   funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated,
   sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.


word: Morocco
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin
   (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac
   and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the
   Moors.


word: Morphine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium,
   possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; --
   called also morphia, and morphina.


word: Morpho
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical
   American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very
   brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper
   surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with
   eyelike spots.


word: Morphogeny
wordtype: n.
definition:
History of the evolution of forms; that part of
   ontogeny that deals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished
   from physiogeny.


word: Morphology
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of biology which deals with the structure
   of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing
   their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and
   Promorphology.


word: Morphon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness
   of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology.


word: Morphophyly
wordtype: n.
definition:
The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny
   which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the
   tribal history of functions.


word: Morphotic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a
   living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or
   tissue, proteids.


word: Morris
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dance formerly common in England, often performed in
   pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed
   and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other
   fictious characters.


word: Morris
wordtype: n.
definition:
An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed
   angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board
   or ground on which the game is played.


word: Morris
wordtype: n.
definition:
A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent
   body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or
   some allied fish.


word: Morse alphabet
definition:
A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing
   by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are
   represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .-
   (A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or
   by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals
   between them.


word: Mortal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death;
   terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal
   wound; a mortal sin.


word: Mortality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a
   given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a
   specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or
   low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.


word: Mortar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in
   which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.


word: Mortar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs,
   carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even
   higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above
   described.


word: Mortar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster
   of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in
   masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in
   other ways.


word: Mortgage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for
   the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void
   upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also,
   the written instrument by which the conveyance is made.


word: Mortgage
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a
   debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or
   engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the
   conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject,
   however, to the right of redemption.


word: Mortification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The death of one part of an animal body, while the
   rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living
   animal; gangrene.


word: Mortification
wordtype: n.
definition:
Subjection of the passions and appetites, by
   penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.


word: Mortification
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval;
   abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.


word: Mortify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the
   carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into
   subjection; to abase; to humble.


word: Mortifying
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of,
   mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.


word: Mortise
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to
   receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and
   called a tenon.


word: Mortise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to
   mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.


word: Mortmain
wordtype: n.
definition:
Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to,
   dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.


word: Mortpay
wordtype: n.
definition:
Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead
   soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.


word: Mortuary
wordtype: a.
definition:
A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed
   by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
   It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation,
   intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of
   which the deceased had been guilty.


word: Morula
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed
   by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its
   development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and
   blastosphere. See Segmentation.


word: Mosaic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small
   pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called
   also mosaic work.


word: Mosaic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed
   by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also,
   composed of various materials or ingredients.


word: Mosaic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or
   established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or
   institutions.


word: Mosaism
wordtype: n.
definition:
Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which
   is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.


word: Mosasauria
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found
   in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike
   in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with
   large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were
   over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with
   paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.


word: Mosasaurus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the
   lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form
   of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was
   discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands.


word: Moschatel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the
   flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is
   found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root
   and musk crowfoot.


word: Mosquito
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex
   and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the
   sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they
   puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites,
   when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and
   swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are
   aquatic.


word: Moss
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct
   stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by
   an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species,
   collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks
   of trees, etc., and a few in running water.


word: Mossback
wordtype: n.
definition:
A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion
   that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.


word: Mosstrooper
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly
   infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called
   in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border
   country.


word: Most
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in
   number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all.


word: Moth
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among
   the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.


word: Moth
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain,
   etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under
   Clothes, Grain, etc.


word: Moth
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur
   goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the
   genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of
   Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.


word: Mother
wordtype: a.
definition:
Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as,
   mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother;
   producing others; originating.


word: Mother
wordtype: n.
definition:
A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of
   fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a
   means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other
   combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.


word: Mothering
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on
   Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother
   church to make offerings at the high altar.


word: Motherly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a
   mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care.


word: Mother-of-pearl
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of
   shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells;
   nacre. See Pearl.


word: Motion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
   movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another,
   whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.


word: Motion
wordtype: n.
definition:
Change in the relative position of the parts of anything;
   action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.


word: Motion
wordtype: n.
definition:
Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or
   impulse to any action; internal activity.


word: Motion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress;
   esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion
   to adjourn.


word: Motion
wordtype: n.
definition:
An application made to a court or judge orally in open
   court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to
   be done in favor of the applicant.


word: Motion
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the
   hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.


word: Motive
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which incites to action; anything prompting or
   exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement;
   object.


word: Motive
wordtype: n.
definition:
The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is
   reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short
   figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed.
   See also Leading motive, under Leading.


word: Motive
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which produces conception, invention, or creation in
   the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or
   controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.


word: Motley
wordtype: n.
definition:
Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously
   made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.


word: Motley
wordtype: n.
definition:
A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored
   cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.


word: Motmot
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds
   of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak. In most of the
   species the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip,
   when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into
   this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found
   from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note.


word: Moto
wordtype: n.
definition:
Movement; manner of movement; particularly, movement with
   increased rapidity; -- used especially in the phrase con moto,
   directing to a somewhat quicker movement; as, andante con moto, a
   little more rapidly than andante, etc.


word: Motor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of
   power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for
   doing mechanical work.


word: Motorial
wordtype: n.
definition:
Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of
   motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve
   fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles,
   thereby causing motion.


word: Motto
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay,
   discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject
   matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.


word: Mouflon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of
   Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular
   base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of
   the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon.


word: Mouille
wordtype: a.
definition:
Applied to certain consonants having a "liquid" or
   softened sound; e.g., in French, l or ll and gn (like the lli in
   million and ni in minion); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and ;
   in Portuguese, lh and nh.


word: Mound
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or
   other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious
   stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.


word: Mound
wordtype: n.
definition:
An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an
   embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural
   elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and
   isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.


word: Mount
wordtype: v.
definition:
A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably
   above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high
   hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper
   name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.


word: Mount
wordtype: n.
definition:
To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to
   tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.


word: Mount
wordtype: n.
definition:
To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold;
   especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.


word: Mount
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with
   animals for riding; to furnish with horses.


word: Mount
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for
   use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to
   prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a
   sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.


word: Mountain
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common
   level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated
   peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.


word: Mountain
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or
   living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among
   mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats;
   mountain air; mountain howitzer.


word: Mountebank
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other
   public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends
   medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.


word: Mounted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a
   mounted gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem.


word: Mounting
wordtype: n.
definition:
That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to
   advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a
   sword or diamond.


word: Mourn
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be
   sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.


word: Mourne
wordtype: n.
definition:
The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the
   end of the staff to which the hook is attached.


word: Mournful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express,
   sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening;
   grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.


word: Mourning
wordtype: a.
definition:
Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as
   appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning
   garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.


word: Mouse
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to
   the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The
   common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The
   American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes
   lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest
   mouse, under Harvest.


word: Mousehole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hole made by a mouse, for passage or abode, as in a
   wall; hence, a very small hole like that gnawed by a mouse.


word: Mousetail
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which
   the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so
   resembles the tail of a mouse.


word: Mousing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a
   metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to
   prevent its unhooking or straighening out.


word: Mouth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The opening through which an animal receives food; the
   aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity,
   containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the
   buccal cavity.


word: Mouth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied,
   charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of
   the lacteal vessels, etc.


word: Mouth
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to
   speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.


word: Mouthed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth,
   speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as,
   wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.


word: Mouthpiece
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of a musical or other instrument to which the
   mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a
   tobacco pipe.


word: Mouthpiece
wordtype: n.
definition:
An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or
   vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid.


word: Mouthpiece
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who delivers the opinion of others or of another; a
   spokesman; as, the mouthpiece of his party.


word: Movable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or
   conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of
   motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.


word: Movable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i.
   e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.


word: Movable
wordtype: n.
definition:
An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of
   property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the
   plural, goods; wares; furniture.


word: Move
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set
   in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another;
   to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a
   carriage.


word: Move
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to
   another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.


word: Move
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to
   rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.


word: Move
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to
   excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite,
   as an emotion.


word: Move
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose
   formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative
   assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to
   adjourn.


word: Move
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner,
   from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.


word: Movement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of moving; change of place or posture;
   transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or
   appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army
   in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the
   party of movement.


word: Movement
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in
   itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as,
   the several movements of a suite or a symphony.


word: Movement
wordtype: n.
definition:
A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a
   definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a
   watch.


word: Mover
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes
   movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition.


word: Mover
wordtype: n.
definition:
A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends
   anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution
   in a legislative body.


word: Moving
wordtype: a.
definition:
Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the
   sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving
   appeal.


word: Moving
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of
   changing one's dwelling place or place of business.


word: Mow
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in
   mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down
   whole ranks of men.


word: Moxa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of
   Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin;
   hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with
   niter, amadou.


word: Mozzetta
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cape, with a small hood; -- worn by the pope and other
   dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church.


word: Mrs.
definition:
The customary abbreviation of Mistress when used as a title of
   courtesy, in writing and printing.


word: Mucedin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A yellowish white, amorphous, nitrogenous substance found
   in wheat, rye, etc., and resembling gluten; -- formerly called also
   mucin.


word: Mucic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or derived from, gums and micilaginous
   substances; specif., denoting an acid obtained by the oxidation of
   gums, dulcite, etc., as a white crystalline substance isomeric with
   saccharic acid.


word: Mucilage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain
   plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of
   quinces, of flax, etc.


word: Mucilage
wordtype: n.
definition:
An aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to
   it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.


word: Mucilaginous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage;
   moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid.


word: Mucin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and
   gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character. It is found
   in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers
   of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.


word: Muckworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied
   to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles.


word: Mucocele
wordtype: n.
definition:
An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of
   the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon
   catarrhal inflammation of the latter.


word: Muconic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid,
   obtained indirectly from mucic acid, and somewhat resembling itaconic
   acid.


word: Mucor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender
   threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.


word: Mucous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or
   stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance.


word: Mucro
wordtype: n.
definition:
A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point
   or process, terminating a larger part or organ.


word: Mucronated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Ending abruptly in a sharp point; abruptly tipped with
   a short and sharp point; as, a mucronate leaf.


word: Mucus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves
   to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the
   cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose,
   lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.


word: Mucus
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial
   fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so
   used.


word: Mudar
wordtype: n.
definition:
Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis
   gigantea, and C. procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber.
   The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.


word: Mudarin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong
   emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar.


word: Muddiness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness;
   foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a
   stream.


word: Muddle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to
   muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.


word: Muddy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull;
   stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.


word: Mudfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African
   species (Protopterus annectens). See Lipedosiren.


word: Mudsill
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the
   soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a
   bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill.


word: Muffle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to
   wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to
   conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up.


word: Muffle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps
   bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.


word: Muffle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound
   of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which
   rests in the rowlock.


word: Muffle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a
   half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the
   direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of
   ore buttons, etc.


word: Muffle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted
   or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the
   furnace or kiln.


word: Muffler
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting
   the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet.


word: Mufti
wordtype: n.
definition:
Citizen's dress when worn by a naval or military officer; --
   a term derived from the British service in India.


word: Mug
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, --
   usually cylindrical and without a lip.


word: Muggletonian
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic
   Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be
   inspired.


word: Mugwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris),
   at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.


word: Mulatto
wordtype: n.
definition:
The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white
   woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.


word: Mulch
wordtype: n.
definition:
Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the
   ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought,
   etc., and to preserve moisture.


word: Mulct
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a
   fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.


word: Mule
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass
   and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.


word: Mule
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of
   one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called
   also hybrid.


word: Mule
wordtype: n.
definition:
A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool,
   etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also
   jenny and mule-jenny.


word: Muliebrity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being a woman or of possessing full
   womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.


word: Mulier
wordtype: n.
definition:
Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder
   brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.


word: Mull
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; --
   usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem.


word: Mull
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or
   the peelings and refuse of the larger.


word: Mullein
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs
   having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common
   species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus.


word: Muller
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at
   the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of
   similar material.


word: Mullet
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; -- called
   also gray mullets. They are found on the coasts of both continents, and
   are highly esteemed as food. Among the most valuable species are Mugil
   capito of Europe, and M. cephalus which occurs both on the European and
   American coasts.


word: Mullet
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of the genus Mullus, or family Mullidae; called
   also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus
   barbatus), and the striped surmullet (M. surmulletus) of Southern
   Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the
   brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet.


word: Mullet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a
   difference it indicates the third son.


word: Moolley
wordtype: a.
definition:
Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of
   animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle;
   a mulley (or moolley) cow.


word: Multiaxial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having more than one axis; developing in more than a
   single line or plain; -- opposed to monoaxial.


word: Multifarious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having multiplicity; having great diversity or
   variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing
   parts; manifold.


word: Multifariousness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fault of improperly uniting in one bill
   distinct and independent matters, and thereby confounding them.


word: Multifid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear
   sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla.


word: Multiple
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing more than once, or more than one; consisting
   of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or
   many, parts.


word: Multiplicand
wordtype: n.
definition:
The number which is to be multiplied by another
   number called the multiplier. See Note under Multiplication.


word: Multiplication
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing
   in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the
   human species by natural generation.


word: Multiplication
wordtype: n.
definition:
The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any
   given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the
   process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such
   repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed;
   -- the reverse of division.


word: Multiplicity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various;
   a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or
   objects.


word: Multiplier
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for multiplying or increasing by
   repetition or accumulation the intensity of a force or action, as heat
   or electricity. It is particularly used to render such a force or
   action appreciable or measurable when feeble. See Thermomultiplier.


word: Multiply
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a
   certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus
   7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See
   the Note under Multiplication.


word: Multipolar
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having many poles; -- applied especially to those
   ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.


word: Multispiral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having numerous spiral coils round a center or
   nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.


word: Multitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
A great number of persons collected together; a numerous
   collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.


word: Multitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
A great number of persons or things, regarded
   collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the
   multitude of stars; a multitude of cares.


word: Prangos
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of umbelliferous plants, one species of which (P.
   pabularia), found in Thibet, Cashmere, Afghanistan, etc., has been used
   as fodder for cattle. It has decompound leaves with very long narrow
   divisions, and a highly fragrant smell resembling that of new clover
   hay.


word: Prank
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip
   ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See
   Prink.


word: Praseodymium
wordtype: n.
definition:
An elementary substance, one of the constituents of
   didymium; -- so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps.
   Atomic weight 143.6.


word: Pratincole
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family
   Glareolidae, allied to the plovers. They have long, pointed wings and a
   forked tail.


word: Pratique
wordtype: n.
definition:
Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a
   certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations,
   permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used
   particularly in the south of Europe.


word: Prattle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly
   and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.


word: Pravity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral
   crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity
   of human nature.


word: Prawn
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea
   having slender legs and long antennae. They mostly belong to the genera
   Pandalus, Palaemon, Palaemonetes, and Peneus, and are much used as
   food. The common English prawn is Palaemon serratus.


word: Praxinoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for
   presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural
   motions of real objects.


word: Pray
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something
   desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity
   or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the
   Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and
   thanksgiving.


word: Prayer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest
   request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court
   or a legislative body.


word: Prayer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The act of addressing supplication to a divinity,
   especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession,
   supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer;
   secret prayer.


word: Prayer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The form of words used in praying; a formula of
   supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication
   addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat
   one's prayers.


word: Pre-
definition:
A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as,
   precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place
   before; preeminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes
   used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent.


word: Preach
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to
   proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or
   from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.


word: Preaching
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of delivering a religious discourse; the art of
   sermonizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious,
   earnest advice.


word: Preamble
wordtype: n.
definition:
A introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to
   a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a
   statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law.


word: Preataxic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; --
   applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.


word: Preaxial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of
   an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or
   cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.


word: Prebend
wordtype: n.
definition:
A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance
   granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate
   church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.


word: Prebendary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral
   church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at
   stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3.


word: Prebronchial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated in front of the bronchus; -- applied
   especially to an air sac on either side of the esophagus of birds.


word: Precarious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by
   courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as,
   precarious privileges.


word: Precarious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes
   or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for
   certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health;
   precarious fortunes.


word: Precaution
wordtype: n.
definition:
Previous caution or care; caution previously employed
   to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by
   precaution.


word: Precaution
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure
   good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against
   accident.


word: Precede
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; --
   used with by or with before the instrumental object.


word: Precedency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or state of preceding or going before in order
   of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.


word: Precedency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or state of going or being before in rank or
   dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place;
   superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners.


word: Precedent
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something done or said that may serve as an example to
   authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.


word: Precedent
wordtype: n.
definition:
A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future
   determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be
   followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in
   similar cases.


word: Precedential
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an
   example for imitation; as, precedential transactions.


word: Precent
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any commandment, instruction, or order intended as an
   authoritative rule of action; esp., a command respecting moral conduct;
   an injunction; a rule.


word: Preceptive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of
   precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.


word: Preceptor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically,
   the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.


word: Preceptory
wordtype: n.
definition:
A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate
   to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See
   Commandery, n., 2.


word: Precinct
wordtype: n.
definition:
The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a
   boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in
   the plural; as, the precincts of a state.


word: Precinct
wordtype: n.
definition:
A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial
   or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school
   precinct.


word: Precious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed;
   dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.


word: Precipice
wordtype: n.
definition:
A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or
   overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.


word: Precipitable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom,
   as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.)


word: Precipitancy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being precipitant, or
   precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving,
   forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the
   precipitancy of youth.


word: Precipitate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or
   done before the time; as, a precipitate measure.


word: Precipitate
wordtype: n.
definition:
An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a
   concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or
   of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the
   bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may
   float at or near the surface.


word: Precipitate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To urge or press on with eager haste or violence;
   to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as,
   precipitate a journey, or a conflict.


word: Precipitate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To separate from a solution, or other medium, in
   the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in
   solution with alcohol.


word: Precise
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined
   or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise
   rules of morality.


word: Precise
wordtype: a.
definition:
Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or
   exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.


word: Precisian
wordtype: n.
definition:
An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously
   exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to
   the English Puritans.


word: Precision
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation;
   exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard;
   definiteness.


word: Precisive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all
   that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure;
   precisive abstraction.


word: Preclude
wordtype: v.
definition:
To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder
   by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to,
   employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.


word: Precocious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early
   or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees.


word: Precocious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Developed more than is natural or usual at a given age;
   exceeding what is to be expected of one's years; too forward; -- used
   especially of mental forwardness; as, a precocious child; precocious
   talents.


word: Precocity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being precocious; untimely
   ripeness; premature development, especially of the mental powers;
   forwardness.


word: Precontract
wordtype: n.
definition:
a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient
   law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it.


word: Precoracoid
wordtype: n.
definition:
The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely
   united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and
   amphibians.


word: Precursor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates
   its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.


word: Precursory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Preceding as a precursor or harbinger; indicating
   something to follow; as, precursory symptoms of a fever.


word: Predate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an
   earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or
   letter.


word: Predatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine;
   plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.


word: Owing
wordtype: P. p. & a.
definition:
Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue,
   etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices;
   his failure was owing to speculations.


word: Owl
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They
   have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around
   each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits.


word: Owlet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small owl; especially, the European species (Athene
   noctua), and the California flammulated owlet (Megascops flammeolus).


word: Owling
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England
   contrary to the statute formerly existing.


word: Own
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess;
   to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have
   forfeited your love.


word: Own
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to;
   peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my,
   our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or
   intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive
   ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my
   own price.


word: Own
wordtype: a.
definition:
To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to
   be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.


word: Owner
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal
   or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.


word: Ownership
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive
   right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.


word: Ox
wordtype: n.
definition:
The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal
   when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is
   also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male
   and female.


word: Oxalan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A complex nitrogenous substance C3N3H5O3 obtained from
   alloxan (or when urea is fused with ethyl oxamate), as a stable white
   crystalline powder; -- called also oxaluramide.


word: Oxalantin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C6H4N4O5)
   obtained by the reduction of parabanic acid; -- called also leucoturic
   acid.


word: Oxalethyline
wordtype: n.
definition:
A poisonous nitrogenous base (C6H10N2) obtained
   indirectly from oxamide as a thick transparent oil which has a strong
   narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine.
   It is probably related to pyridine.


word: Oxalic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or
   oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic
   of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family.


word: Oxalis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting
   trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.


word: Oxaluric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid
   related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white
   silky crystalline substance.


word: Oxalyl
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hydrocarbon radical (C2O2) regarded as a residue of
   oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.


word: Oxamic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid NH2.C2O2.HO obtained
   as a fine crystalline powder, intermediate between oxalic acid and
   oxamide. Its ammonium salt is obtained by boiling oxamide with ammonia.


word: Oxamide
wordtype: n
definition:
A white crystalline neutral substance (C2O2(NH2)2) obtained
   by treating ethyl oxalate with ammonia. It is the acid amide of oxalic
   acid. Formerly called also oxalamide.


word: Oxamidine
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a series of bases containing the amido and the
   isonitroso groups united to the same carbon atom.


word: Oxanillamide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained
   indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an
   anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.


word: Oxanilic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or derived from, oxalic acid and aniline;
   -- used to designate an acid obtained in white crystalline scales by
   heating these substances together.


word: Oxanilide
wordtype: n.
definition:
a white crystalline substance, resembling oxanilamide,
   obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide
   of oxalic acid; -- called also diphenyl oxamide.


word: Oxbow
wordtype: n.
definition:
A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and
   embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing
   through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a
   river.


word: Oxidator
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance for causing a current of air to impinge on
   the flame of the Argand lamp; -- called also oxygenator.


word: Oxide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a
   compound which is regarded as binary; as, iron oxide, ethyl oxide,
   nitrogen oxide, etc.


word: Oxidize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add
   oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid.


word: Oxidize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of
   oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.


word: Oxidize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing
   agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound to an -ic
   compound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.


word: Oxidizer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or
   brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine,
   bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.


word: Oxime
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a series of isonitroso derivatives obtained by the
   action of hydroxylamine on aldehydes or ketones.


word: Oxindol
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C8H7NO) of the
   indol group, obtained by the reduction of dioxindol. It is a so-called
   lactam compound.


word: Oxonic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid
   (C4H5N3O4) not known in the free state, but obtained, in combination
   with its salts, by a slow oxidation of uric acid, to which it is
   related.


word: Oxtongue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to several plants, from the shape and
   roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss,
   and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs.


word: Oxyacid
wordtype: n.
definition:
An acid containing oxygen, as chloric acid or sulphuric
   acid; -- contrasted with the hydracids, which contain no oxygen, as
   hydrochloric acid. See Acid, and Hydroxy-.


word: Oxybenzoic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hydroxybenzoic; pertaining to, or designating, any one
   of several hydroxyl derivatives of benzonic acid, of which the
   commonest is salicylic acid.


word: Oxygen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring
   in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per
   cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier
   than nitrogen. Symbol O. Atomic weight 15.96.


word: Oxygenate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat
   with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).


word: Oxymoron
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification
   is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.


word: Oxyphenic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, the phenol formerly
   called oxyphenic acid, and now oxyphenol and pyrocatechin. See
   Pyrocatechin.


word: Oxyphenol
wordtype: n.
definition:
A phenol, /////, produced by the distillation of
   catechin; called also oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin.


word: Oyer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when
   a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing.


word: Oyez
wordtype: interj.
definition:
Hear; attend; -- a term used by criers of courts to
   secure silence before making a proclamation. It is repeated three
   times.


word: Oyster
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are
   usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water
   along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The
   common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea
   Virginiana), are the most important species.


word: Oyster
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in
   a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back
   of a fowl.


word: Oyster-green
wordtype: n.
definition:
A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing
   on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.


word: Ozena
wordtype: n.
definition:
A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly
   if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the
   bones of the nose.


word: Ozonation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of treating with ozone; also, the act of
   converting into, or producing, ozone; ozonization.


word: Ozone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless gaseous substance (O/) obtained (as by the
   silent discharge of electricity in oxygen) as an allotropic form of
   oxygen, containing three atoms in the molecule. It is a streng
   oxidizer, and probably exists in the air, though by he ordinary tests
   it is liable to be confused with certain other substances, as hydrogen
   dioxide, or certain oxides of nitrogen. It derives its name from its
   peculiar odor, which resembles that of weak chlorine.


word: Ozonometric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or used for, the determination of the
   amount of ozone; of or relating to ozonometry.


word: Ozonous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to or containing, ozone.
   P () the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal
   consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language
   the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician,
   its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely
   related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient,
   receive. See B, F, and M.


word: Pabulum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food;
   nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire;
   that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual
   pabulum.


word: Paca
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having
   blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its
   sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the
   Guinea pig.


word: Pace
wordtype: n.
definition:
The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from
   the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in
   measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.


word: Pace
wordtype: n.
definition:
Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot,
   canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a
   quick pace.


word: Pace
wordtype: n.
definition:
A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised
   above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.


word: Pace
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side
   together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.


word: Paced
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having, or trained in, [such] a pace or gait; trained; --
   used in composition; as, slow-paced; a thorough-paced villain.


word: Pachak
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from
   India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be
   the costus of the ancients.


word: Pachonta
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to
   adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata.


word: Pachydermata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the
   thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus,
   rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial
   group.


word: Pachyglossal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a thick tongue; -- applied to a group of
   lizards (Pachyglossae), including the iguanas and agamas.


word: Pacific
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore
   peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome;
   conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition.


word: Pacify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still;
   to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to
   tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride,
   appetite, or importunity.


word: Pack
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a
   bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of
   goods.


word: Pack
wordtype: n.
definition:
A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or
   practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.


word: Pack
wordtype: n.
definition:
An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic
   practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the
   method of treatment.


word: Pack
wordtype: n.
definition:
To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack;
   hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close
   order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.


word: Pack
wordtype: n.
definition:
To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and
   securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to
   repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as,
   to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.


word: Pack
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and
   fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury
   or a causes.


word: Pack
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings;
   esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as,
   to pack a boy off to school.


word: Pack
wordtype: n.
definition:
To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with
   suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving
   passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the
   piston of a steam engine.


word: Pack
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or
   storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a
   compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.


word: Package
wordtype: n.
definition:
A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods
   imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of
   aliens.


word: Packer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one
   who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.


word: Packet
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey
   dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches,
   mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail
   boat.


word: Packing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material
   inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.


word: Packing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and
   maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.


word: Pacu
wordtype: n.
definition:
A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the
   family Characinidae. It is highly esteemed as food.


word: Pad
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one
   formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting
   paper; a block of paper.


word: Paddle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle,
   or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat,
   etc.


word: Paddle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a
   fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.


word: Paddle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is
   made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.


word: Paddlefish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the
   rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout.
   Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.


word: Paddlewood
wordtype: n.
definition:
The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a
   tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.


word: Padella
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in
   which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St.
   Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.


word: Padlock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or
   pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being
   fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through
   a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.


word: Paean
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity,
   and, later, a song addressed to other deities.


word: Paeon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A foot of four syllables, one long and three short,
   admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long
   syllable.


word: Pagan
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who
   is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.


word: Pagan
wordtype: n.
definition:
Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the
   worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or
   superstitions.


word: Paganism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp.,
   the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions
   and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.


word: Page
wordtype: n.
definition:
A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high
   degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now
   commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on
   the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a
   boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.


word: Page
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the
   skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.


word: Pageant
wordtype: n.
definition:
An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a
   distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or
   display.


word: Pagination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of paging a book; also, the
   characters used in numbering the pages; page number.


word: Pagoda
wordtype: n.
definition:
A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and
   tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther
   India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol
   worship.


word: Pagoda
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values,
   formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three
   and a half rupees.


word: Pagodite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by
   the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.


word: Paguma
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals
   of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.


word: Pagurian
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which
   Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.


word: Pahoehoe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a
   relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava,
   called a-a.


word: Pail
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having
   a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a
   bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.


word: Pain
wordtype: n.
definition:
Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted
   as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime;
   penalty.


word: Pain
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness
   to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of
   functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily
   suffering; an ache; a smart.


word: Pain
wordtype: n.
definition:
To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with
   uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture;
   as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.


word: Pain
wordtype: n.
definition:
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to
   grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.


word: Painful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either
   physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.


word: Painful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with
   laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.


word: Pains
wordtype: n.
definition:
Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in
   form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.


word: Paint
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat
   surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to
   exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a
   portrait or a landscape.


word: Paint
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe
   vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.


word: Paint
wordtype: n.
definition:
The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or
   the like, for application to a surface.


word: Painter
wordtype: n.
definition:
An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a
   flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.


word: Painting
wordtype: n.
definition:
The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which
   objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored
   representation of any object or scene; a picture.


word: Painty
wordtype: a.
definition:
Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work
   is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.


word: Pair
wordtype: n.
definition:
A number of things resembling one another, or belonging
   together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads."
   Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or
   quite disused, except as to stairs.]


word: Pair
wordtype: n.
definition:
Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other,
   and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a
   pair of shoes.


word: Pair
wordtype: n.
definition:
A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other
   and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of
   bellows.


word: Pair
wordtype: n.
definition:
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a
   parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question,
   or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were
   two pairs on the final vote.


word: Pair
wordtype: n.
definition:
In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied
   to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.


word: Pair
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together,
   as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to
   one another.


word: Pair
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions
   not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.


word: Palace
wordtype: n.
definition:
The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of
   high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for
   ceremony and reception.


word: Palaetiology
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science which explains, by the law of causation,
   the past condition and changes of the earth.


word: Palamedeae
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and
   allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many
   anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they
   externally resemble the wading birds.


word: Palanquin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight
   feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders
   of men by means of two projecting poles, -- used in India, China, etc.,
   for the conveyance of a single person from place to place.


word: Palatable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence,
   acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.


word: Palate
wordtype: n.
definition:
Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the
   mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.


word: Palatial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace;
   resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures.


word: Palatine
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a
   palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.


word: Palatine
wordtype: n.
definition:
One invested with royal privileges and rights within his
   domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.


word: Palato-
definition:
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or
   connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.


word: Palatopterygoid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of
   the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the
   palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.


word: Palaver
wordtype: n.
definition:
In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a
   public conference and deliberation; a debate.


word: Palaver
wordtype: v. t. & i.
definition:
To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to
   talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver
   artfully.


word: Pale
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or
   fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a
   picket.


word: Pale
wordtype: n.
definition:
A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or
   place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.


word: Pale
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular
   stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and
   occupying one third of it.


word: Palea
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the
   receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower,
   etc.


word: Paleaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff;
   furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.


word: Palearctic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which
   includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.


word: Paleechinoidea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extinct order of sea urchins found in the
   Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates.
   Called also Palaeechini.


word: Paleface
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been
   applied to the whites by the American Indians.


word: Paleness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness
   or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.


word: Paleography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The study of ancient inscriptions and modes of
   writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and
   determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters;
   diplomatics.


word: Paleolithic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone
   implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the
   earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for
   the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.


word: Paleology
wordtype: n.
definition:
The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of
   prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities;
   archaeology .


word: Paleontology
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science which treats of the ancient life of the
   earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.


word: Paleotherium
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals,
   once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to
   have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama.


word: Paleozoic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division
   of geological time during which life is known to have existed,
   including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to
   the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.


word: Palette
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole
   at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his
   pigments.


word: Palewise
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular
   lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.


word: Pali
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead
   language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist
   religion in Farther India, etc.


word: Palilogy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the
   sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise
   thee."


word: Palimpsest
wordtype: n.
definition:
A parchment which has been written upon twice, the
   first writing having been erased to make place for the second.


word: Palindrome
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read
   backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I
   did dwel.


word: Palingenesy
wordtype: n.
definition:
That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral
   characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development;
   original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes,
   in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.


word: Palinurus
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for obtaining directly, without
   calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of
   the compass


word: Palisade
wordtype: n.
definition:
A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in
   the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such
   stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.


word: Palissy
wordtype: a.
definition:
Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made
   by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.


word: Pall
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a
   coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.


word: Pall
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on
   one side; -- used to put over the chalice.


word: Pall
wordtype: a.
definition:
To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose
   strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.


word: Palladian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the
   revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea
   Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.


word: Palladic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used
   specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a
   higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds.


word: Palladious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; -- used
   specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a
   lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.


word: Palladium
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous
   statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient
   Troy.


word: Palladium
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: That which affords effectual protection or
   security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our
   civil rights.


word: Palladium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rare metallic element of the light platinum group,
   found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a
   silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and
   untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its
   power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a
   thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated
   circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in
   dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid
   Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.


word: Pallah
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The
   male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay,
   with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.


word: Pallas
wordtype: n.
definition:
Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also
   Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.


word: Pallbearer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so
   called from the pall being formerly carried by them.


word: Pallet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc.,
   for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and
   of other forms.


word: Pallet
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of
   a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse
   of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.


word: Pallet
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon
   tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.


word: Pallial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of
   mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression,
   which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a
   bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.


word: Palliate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by
   excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.


word: Palliate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to
   mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.


word: Palliation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of palliating, or state of being palliated;
   extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.


word: Pallium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole
   person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name
   of a Greek garment.


word: Pall-mall
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden
   ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron.
   The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game
   was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall.


word: Palm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or
   to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; --
   used in measuring a horse's height.


word: Palm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of
   the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing
   sails, etc.


word: Palm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown
   fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its
   protruding fingers.


word: Palma Christi
definition:
A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and
   palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics,
   and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called
   also castor-oil plant.


word: Palmated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of
   a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.


word: Palmated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less
   divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.


word: Palmer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a
   branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its
   sacred places.


word: Palmerworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers,
   devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is
   applied also to other voracious insects.


word: Palmerworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
In America, the larva of any one of several moths,
   which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of
   Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.


word: Palmette
wordtype: n.
definition:
A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient
   architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.


word: Palmetto
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to palms of several genera and species
   growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the
   United States, the name is applied especially to the Chamaerops, /
   Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See
   Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.


word: Palmic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant
   (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi); -- formerly used to designate an
   acid now called ricinoleic acid.


word: Palmistry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or
   of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the
   hand; chiromancy.


word: Palmite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush
   family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for
   making brushes.


word: Palmitic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil;
   as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid
   series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil
   at 62¡ C.


word: Palmitin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals
   and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of
   animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive
   oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three
   molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl,
   and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl
   tripalmitate.


word: Palmitolic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of
   the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.


word: Palm Sunday
definition:
The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in
   commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the
   multitude strewed palm branches in the way.


word: Palmyra
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a
   straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native
   along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of
   the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is
   put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for
   building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for
   making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.


word: Palola
wordtype: n.
definition:
An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of
   the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific
   Islands, where it is collected for food.


word: Palpable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily
   perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable
   absurdity; palpable errors.


word: Palpicorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having
   short club-shaped antennae, and long maxillary palpi.


word: Palpitate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to
   throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to
   flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal,
   as from excitement.


word: Palpitation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal,
   rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong
   emotion, or by disease.


word: Palpus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs
   attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and
   annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi.
   The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See
   Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.


word: Palsgrave
wordtype: n.
definition:
A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and
   had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.


word: Palter
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false;
   to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.


word: Paltry
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible;
   pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.


word: Paludina
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of freshwater
   pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied
   genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often
   with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.


word: Palus
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several upright slender calcareous processes which
   surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.


word: Paly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines,
   and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.


word: Pampas
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Vast plains in the central and southern part of the
   Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a
   wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern
   Patagonia.


word: Pampero
wordtype: n.
definition:
A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps
   over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing
   great damage.


word: Pamphlet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper,
   stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short
   essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.


word: Panto-
definition:
Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama,
   pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as
   pamprodactylous.


word: Pan
wordtype: n.
definition:
The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing
   and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of
   a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the
   shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.


word: Pan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for
   many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking
   food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.


word: Pan
wordtype: n.
definition:
The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the
   upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.


word: Presentment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from
   their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid
   before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like;
   also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an
   official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an
   indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment
   itself.


word: Presentment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The official notice (formerly required to be given in
   court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.


word: Preservation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe;
   the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or
   decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a
   picture in good preservation.


word: Preservative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to
   preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.


word: Preservatory
wordtype: n.
definition:
A room, or apparatus, in which perishable things, as
   fruit, vegetables, etc., can be preserved without decay.


word: Preserve
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard
   or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.


word: Preserve
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To save from decay by the use of some preservative
   substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in
   a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.


word: Preserve
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept
   by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in
   the plural.


word: Preserver
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends,
   from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or
   character of another.


word: Preside
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to
   occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to
   direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a
   public meeting; to preside over the senate.


word: Presidency
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the three great divisions of British India, the
   Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of
   which its governor was president.


word: President
wordtype: n.
definition:
The chief executive officer of the government in certain
   republics; as, the president of the United States.


word: Presphenoid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated in front of the sphenoid bone; of or
   pertaining to the anterior part of the sphenoid bone (i. e., the
   presphenoid bone).


word: Press
wordtype: n.
definition:
An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is
   arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and
   varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.


word: Press
wordtype: v.
definition:
To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by
   pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel
   by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to
   compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press
   the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands,
   fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.


word: Press
wordtype: v.
definition:
To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to
   squeeze out, or express, from something.


word: Press
wordtype: v.
definition:
To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in
   order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales,
   paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.


word: Press
wordtype: v.
definition:
To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or
   over; to constrain; to force; to compel.


word: Press
wordtype: v.
definition:
To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or
   inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press
   divine truth on an audience.


word: Press
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way
   with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng;
   to encroach.


word: Press
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong
   or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.


word: Press
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is
   pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a
   body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or
   presses.


word: Press
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or business of printing and publishing; hence,
   printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or
   the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a
   blessing, a licentious press is a curse.


word: Pressiroster
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres)
   including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.


word: Pressman
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the
   naval service; also, one forced into the service.


word: Pressor
wordtype: a.
definition:
Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of
   pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the
   vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries
   and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed
   to depressor.


word: Pressure
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed;
   compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.


word: Pressure
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the
   pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on
   the mind; the pressure of civilization.


word: Pressure
wordtype: n.
definition:
The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing
   force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface,
   often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.


word: Presswork
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or
   engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.


word: Prest
wordtype: n.
definition:
A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account
   in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.


word: Prester
wordtype: n.
definition:
A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from
   the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.


word: Prestige
wordtype: v.
definition:
Weight or influence derived from past success;
   expectation of future achievements founded on those already
   accomplished; force or charm derived from acknowledged character or
   reputation.


word: Presto
wordtype: a.
definition:
Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively
   movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time
   except prestissimo.


word: Presumable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that
   seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.


word: Presume
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake
   without leave or authority previously obtained.


word: Presume
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief,
   without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to
   take for granted; to infer; to suppose.


word: Presume
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on
   grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by
   anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far.


word: Presume
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or
   authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the
   circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take
   liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence.


word: Presumption
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of presuming, or believing upon probable
   evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon
   incomplete proof.


word: Presumption
wordtype: n.
definition:
Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not
   conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the
   presumption is that an event has taken place.


word: Presumption
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is presumed or assumed; that which is
   supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable
   but not conclusive.


word: Presumption
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an
   overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward,
   overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness;
   arrogance; effrontery.


word: Presumptive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Based on presumption or probability; grounded on
   probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof.


word: Presumptuous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or
   venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant;
   insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct.


word: Presuppose
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to
   take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.


word: Pretend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise
   for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.


word: Pretend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or
   offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show
   hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign;
   as, to pretend friendship.


word: Pretend
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to
   allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually
   with to.


word: Pretend
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or
   performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to
   pretend to be asleep.


word: Pretender
wordtype: n.
definition:
The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of
   James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to
   the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law.


word: Pretence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of holding out, or offering, to others something
   false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical;
   deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false
   show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of
   patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.


word: Pretence
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or
   hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.


word: Pretension
wordtype: n.
definition:
A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or
   assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain
   character; as, pretensions to scholarship.


word: Preter-
definition:
A prefix signifying past, by, beyond, more than; as, preter-
   mission, a permitting to go by; preternatural, beyond or more than is
   natural.


word: Preterition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure by which, in pretending to pass over
   anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is
   valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis.


word: Preternatural
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beyond of different from what is natural, or
   according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural
   or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon;
   irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural
   stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor.


word: Pretext
wordtype: n.
definition:
Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color
   or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.


word: Pretorian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial;
   exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or
   authority.


word: Pretty
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not
   striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color;
   having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation
   or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a
   pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.


word: Pretty
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost;
   -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty
   cold weather.


word: Prevail
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to
   gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed;
   -- sometimes with over or against.


word: Prevail
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to
   be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the
   practice prevails this day.


word: Prevailing
wordtype: a.
definition:
Predominant; prevalent; most general; as, the
   prevailing disease of a climate; a prevailing opinion.


word: Prevalence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior
   strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or
   practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion,
   or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.


word: Prevalent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Gaining advantage or superiority; having superior force,
   influence, or efficacy; prevailing; predominant; successful;
   victorious.


word: Prevalent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Most generally received or current; most widely adopted
   or practiced; also, generally or extensively existing; widespread;
   prevailing; as, a prevalent observance; prevalent disease.


word: Prevaricate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To shift or turn from one side to the other, from
   the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to
   shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.


word: Prevarication
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling,
   to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the
   truth and fair dealing.


word: Prevenancy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires,
   etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness.


word: Preventer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which
   hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.


word: Preventive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the
   access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.


word: Preventive
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which
   intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a
   prophylactic.


word: Previous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Going before in time; being or happening before something
   else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.


word: Prey
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything
   taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.


word: Prey
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be
   devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.


word: Priapean
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be
   divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a
   trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the
   third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed
   as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.


word: Priapulacea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A suborder of Gephyraea, having a cylindrical body
   with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills.


word: Price
wordtype: n. & v.
definition:
The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued,
   or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which
   something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money
   or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in
   market or in barter; cost.


word: Pollock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both
   of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like
   it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley,
   podling, pollack, etc.


word: Pollucite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz,
   occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a
   silicate of alumina and caesia. Called also pollux.


word: Pollute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint;
   to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.


word: Pollute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit
   for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse.


word: Pollution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in
   any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.


word: Polonaise
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning
   always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on
   the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance
   adapted to such music; a polacca.


word: Polverine
wordtype: n.
definition:
Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash,
   brought from the Levant and Syria, -- used in the manufacture of fine
   glass.


word: Poly-
wordtype: a.
definition:
A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as,
   polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms;
   polychord, polyconic.


word: Poly
wordtype: n.
definition:
A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order
   Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with
   sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the
   same genus.


word: Polyacid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several
   molecules of a monobasic acid; having more than one hydrogen atom
   capable of being replaced by acid radicals; -- said of certain bases;
   as, calcium hydrate and glycerin are polyacid bases.


word: Polyadelphia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A Linnaean class of plants having stamens united
   in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.


word: Polyandria
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite
   plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in
   the receptacle.


word: Polyandrous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to the class Polyandria; having many
   stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.


word: Polyandry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The possession by a woman of more than one husband at
   the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.


word: Polyanthus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The oxlip. So called because the peduncle bears a
   many-flowered umbel. See Oxlip. (b) A bulbous flowering plant of the
   genus Narcissus (N. Tazetta, or N. polyanthus of some authors). See
   Illust. of Narcissus.


word: Polyautography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's
   own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a
   species of lithography.


word: Polybasic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several
   molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of
   being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as,
   sulphuric acid is polybasic.


word: Polybasite
wordtype: n.
definition:
An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver,
   sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.


word: Polychaeta
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of the two principal groups of Chaetopoda. It
   includes those that have prominent parapodia and fascicles of setae.
   See Illust. under Parapodia.


word: Polychroite
wordtype: n.
definition:
The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called
   because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; --
   called also crocin, and safranin.


word: Polychromate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A compound which exhibits, or from which may be
   prepared, a variety of colors, as certain solutions derived from
   vegetables, which display colors by fluorescence.


word: Polychromic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several
   acids (known only in their salts) which contain more than one atom of
   chromium.


word: Polychromy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or practice of combining different colors,
   especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.


word: Polyclinic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated;
   especially, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in
   all kinds of disease.


word: Polycrotic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to polycrotism; manifesting
   polycrotism; as, a polycrotic pulse; a polycrotic pulse curve.


word: Polycrotism
wordtype: n.
definition:
That state or condition of the pulse in which the
   pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or
   elevations; -- contrasted with monocrotism and dicrotism.


word: Polycystina
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of Radiolaria including numerous minute
   marine species. The skeleton is composed of silica, and is often very
   elegant in form and sculpture. Many have been found in the fossil
   state.


word: Polyembryony
wordtype: n.
definition:
The production of two or more embryos in one seed,
   due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one
   embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic
   sac.


word: Polygala
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens
   and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering
   wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.


word: Polygalic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, Polygala;
   specifically, designating an acrid glucoside (called polygalic acid,
   senegin, etc.), resembling, or possibly identical with, saponin.


word: Polygamia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A Linnaean class of plants, characterized by having
   both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.


word: Polygamous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to polygamy; characterized by, or
   involving, polygamy; having a plurality of wives; as, polygamous
   marriages; -- opposed to monogamous.


word: Polygamy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the
   same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or
   the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to
   monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note
   under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.


word: Polygastric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which
   are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.


word: Polygeny
wordtype: n.
definition:
The theory that living organisms originate in cells or
   embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; --
   opposed to monogenesis.


word: Polygenist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who maintains that animals of the same species have
   sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.


word: Polyglot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book containing several versions of the same text, or
   containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the
   Scriptures in several languages.


word: Polygon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many
   sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any
   figure having many angles.


word: Polygonaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous
   plants (Polygonaceae), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum)
   are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat,
   rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera.


word: Polygonometry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine of polygons; an extension of some of
   the principles of trigonometry to the case of polygons.


word: Polygonum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of plants embracing a large number of species,
   including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.


word: Polygordius
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of marine annelids, believed to be an ancient
   or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and
   want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or
   Gymnotoma. See Loeven's larva.


word: Polygraph
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a
   subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such
   as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these
   parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions
   designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to
   deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector


word: Polyhalite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a
   brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the
   sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.


word: Polymer
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of two or more substances related to each other by
   polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance
   by chemical polymerization.


word: Polymeric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the same percentage composition (that is, having
   the same elements united in the same proportion by weight), but
   different molecular weights; -- often used with with; thus, cyanic acid
   (CNOH), fulminic acid (C2N2O2H2), and cyanuric acid (C3N3O3H3), are
   polymeric with each other.


word: Polymerize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers
   from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic
   proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde.


word: Polymerize
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To change into another substance having the same
   atomic proportions, but a higher molecular weight; to undergo
   polymerization; thus, aldehyde polymerizes in forming paraldehyde.


word: Polymnite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stone marked with dendrites and black lines, and so
   disposed as to represent rivers, marshes, etc.


word: Polymorph
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct
   forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph.


word: Polymorphism
wordtype: n.
definition:
Existence in many forms; the coexistence, in the same
   locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not
   connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.


word: Polymorphosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The assumption of several structural forms without a
   corresponding difference in function; -- said of sponges, etc.


word: Poly-mountain
wordtype: n.
definition:
The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly
   called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe.


word: Polyneme
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of
   the family Polynemidae. They have several slender filaments, often very
   long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good
   quality. Called also threadfish.


word: Polynesian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the
   eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.


word: Polynomial
wordtype: n.
definition:
An expression composed of two or more terms, connected
   by the signs plus or minus; as, a2 - 2ab + b2.


word: Polynomial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of two or more words; having names
   consisting of two or more words; as, a polynomial name; polynomial
   nomenclature.


word: Polypetalous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of, or having, several or many separate
   petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant.


word: Polyphemus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very large American moth (Telea polyphemus) belonging
   to the Silkworm family (Bombycidae). Its larva, which is very large,
   bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on
   the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other
   trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American
   silkworm.


word: Polyphonic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts,
   progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint;
   contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic,
   or monodic.


word: Polyphony
wordtype: n.
definition:
Composition in mutually related, equally important parts
   which share the melody among them; contrapuntal composition; -- opposed
   to homophony, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others
   filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint.


word: Polyphyletic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more
   than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; --
   opposed to monophyletic.


word: Polypite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral,
   hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.


word: Polyplastic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Assuming, or having the power of assuming, many forms;
   as, a polyplastic element which does not preserve its original shape.


word: Polypodium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of plants of the order Filices or ferns. The
   fructifications are in uncovered roundish points, called sori,
   scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are
   numerous species.


word: Polypteroidei
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A suborder of existing ganoid fishes having
   numerous fins along the back. The bichir, or Polypterus, is the type.
   See Illust. under Crossopterygian.


word: Polyptoton
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure by which a word is repeated in different
   forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own
   heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."


word: Polypus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tumor, usually with a narrow base, somewhat resembling a
   pear, -- found in the nose, uterus, etc., and produced by hypertrophy
   of some portion of the mucous membrane.


word: Polysilicic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to compounds formed by the
   condensation of two or more molecules of silicic acid.


word: Polyspast
wordtype: n.
definition:
A machine consisting of many pulleys; specifically, an
   apparatus formerly used for reducing luxations.


word: Polyspermy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than
   one spermatozoon into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum.


word: Polystyle
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially
   of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall.


word: Polysulphide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sulphide having more than one atom of sulphur in
   the molecule; -- contrasted with monosulphide.


word: Polysyllabical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to a polysyllable; containing, or
   characterized by, polysyllables; consisting of more than three
   syllables.


word: Polysyllable
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word of many syllables, or consisting of more
   syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called
   monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.


word: Polysyndeton
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated,
   as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores."
   Opposed to asyndeton.


word: Polysynthesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The formation of a word by the combination of
   several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America;
   agglutination.


word: Polytechnic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences;
   -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and
   science are taught with especial reference to their practical
   application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.


word: Polytheistical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by
   polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic
   worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.


word: Polytomous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Subdivided into many distinct subordinate parts, which,
   however, not being jointed to the petiole, are not true leaflets; --
   said of leaves.


word: Polytype
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter
   in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief.


word: Poluria
wordtype: n.
definition:
A persistently excessive flow of watery urine, with low
   specific gravity and without the presence of either albumin or sugar.
   It is generally accompanied with more or less thirst.


word: Pomacentroid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the Pomacentridae, a family of
   bright-colored tropical fishes having spiny opercula; -- often called
   coral fishes.


word: Pomaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeae) of rosaceous
   plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service
   berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs,
   etc.


word: Pomade
wordtype: n.
definition:
Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair;
   pomatum; -- originally made from apples.


word: Pomander
wordtype: n.
definition:
A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by
   ladies, as at the end of a chain; -- more properly pomander box.


word: Pome
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels
   inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and
   partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.


word: Pome
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot
   water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during
   the service.


word: Pomegranate
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree
   itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is
   successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in
   colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard
   rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered
   with crimson, acid pulp.


word: Pomfret
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the
   genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and
   Asia.


word: Pommel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with
   something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.


word: Pompadour
wordtype: n.
definition:
A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low
   and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it
   straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the
   Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.


word: Pompano
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of marine fishes of the genus
   Trachynotus, of which four species are found on the Atlantic coast of
   the United States; -- called also palometa.


word: Pompon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by
   soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.


word: Poncho
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the
   form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass
   through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by
   the mounted troops in the United States service.


word: Ponderosity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being ponderous; weight;
   gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold.


word: Pondfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water
   fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidae; -- called also pond
   perch, and sunfish.


word: Pondweed
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many
   species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers.


word: Pons
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others,
   but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue
   situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at
   each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See
   Brain.


word: Pontee
wordtype: n.
definition:
An iron rod used by glass makers for manipulating the hot
   glass; -- called also, puntil, puntel, punty, and ponty. See Fascet.


word: Pontiff
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the
   supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which
   was the Pontifex Maximus.


word: Pontifical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as,
   pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal.


word: Pontoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a
   frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable
   float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.


word: Pontoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with
   cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising
   weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.


word: Ponvolant
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a
   post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.


word: Poodle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing
   remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.


word: Pool
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water,
   as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a
   reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.


word: Pool
wordtype: n.
definition:
The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards,
   etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare;
   also, the receptacle for the stakes.


word: Pool
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a
   certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard
   rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who
   engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool
   table.


word: Pool
wordtype: n.
definition:
In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a
   certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided
   among the winners.


word: Pool
wordtype: n.
definition:
A combination of persons contributing money to be used for
   the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks,
   grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so
   contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit;
   he put $10,000 into the pool.


word: Pool
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the
   receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according
   to agreement.


word: Pool
wordtype: n.
definition:
An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to
   different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with
   common liabilities.


word: Pool
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the
   basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common
   interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.


word: Pooling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an
   aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view
   to common liabilities or profits.


word: Poon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the
   masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C.
   inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.


word: Poonga oil
definition:
A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling
   with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a
   leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra).


word: Poop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost
   or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck.
   See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse.


word: Poor
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean;
   emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.


word: Poor
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Without prosperous conditions or good results;
   unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick
   man had a poor night.


word: Poor
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a
   term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a
   word of contempt.


word: Poorly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or
   sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly.


word: Poorly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
With little or no success; indifferently; with little
   profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.


word: Pop
wordtype: n.
definition:
An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop
   from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc.


word: Pop
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to
   move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in, out, upon, off,
   etc.


word: Pop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring
   suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the
   door.


word: Pop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains
   of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.


word: Popelote
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word variously explained as "a little puppet," "a
   little doll," or "a young butterfly." Cf. Popet.


word: Popery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending
   doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.


word: Popgun
wordtype: n.
definition:
A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with
   a popping noise, by compression of air.


word: Popish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the
   pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often
   used opprobriously.


word: Poplin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and
   worsted, -- used especially for women's dresses.


word: Popliteal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham,
   or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space.


word: Poppy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy
   polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver
   somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to
   some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule.


word: Poppyhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final.
   It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which
   terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.


word: Populace
wordtype: n.
definition:
The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, --
   comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education,
   or profession.


word: Popular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole
   body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the
   popular voice; popular elections.


word: Popular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or
   obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as,
   popular prices; popular amusements.


word: Popular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in
   general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a
   popular administration.


word: Popularity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being popular; especially, the
   state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at
   large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the
   popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.


word: Popularity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to
   common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority;
   vulgarity.


word: Popularize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to
   the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize
   philosophy.


word: Popularly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or
   accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was
   popularity reported.


word: Populate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural
   increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited;
   to people.


word: Population
wordtype: n.
definition:
The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a
   country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.


word: Inhabit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled
   residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and
   houses.


word: Inhabitancy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of inhabiting, or the state of being
   inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy.


word: Inhabitancy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of having legal right to claim the
   privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support
   in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.


word: Inhabitant
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as
   distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of
   a house, a town, a city, county, or state.


word: Inhaler
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus for inhaling any vapor or volatile substance,
   as ether or chloroform, for medicinal purposes.


word: Inhaler
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance to filter, as air, in order to protect the
   lungs from inhaling damp or cold air, noxious gases, dust, etc.; also,
   the respiratory apparatus for divers.


word: Inhere
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or
   permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as
   attributes or qualities.


word: Inherency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of inhering; permanent existence in something;
   innateness; inseparable and essential connection.


word: Inherent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached
   or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as,
   polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of
   men to life, liberty, and protection.


word: Inherit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by
   inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other
   person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title
   descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir
   inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a
   nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits
   the crown.


word: Inherit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to
   derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as,
   he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.


word: Inheritable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by
   descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.


word: Inheritance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of
   an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.


word: Inheritance
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is or may be inherited; that which is
   derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a
   possession which passes by descent.


word: Inheritance
wordtype: n.
definition:
A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp.
   one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.


word: Inheritance
wordtype: n.
definition:
A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his
   heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir
   to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate
   derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.


word: Inhibition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stopping or checking of an already present action; a
   restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive
   fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by
   the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.


word: Inhibition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge
   from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a
   higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.


word: Inhibitory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition;
   consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the
   inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.


word: Inhibitory-motor
wordtype: a.
definition:
A term applied to certain nerve centers which
   govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions
   issue.


word: Inhospitable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to
   strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.


word: Inhuman
wordtype: a.
definition:
Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a
   human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person
   or people.


word: Inhumation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to
   expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being
   thus exposed.


word: Inia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It is
   ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.


word: Inimical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly;
   unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public,
   enmity.


word: Inimical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic;
   inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.


word: Inimitable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not capable of being imitated, copied, or
   counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless;
   unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable
   eloquence.


word: Iniquity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of
   rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness;
   as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.


word: Iniquity
wordtype: n.
definition:
A character or personification in the old English
   moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and
   sometimes of another. See Vice.


word: Initial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the
   commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a
   disease.


word: Initial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a
   list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.


word: Initiate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with;
   to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.


word: Initiate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To introduce into a society or organization; to confer
   membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious
   rites or ceremonies.


word: Initiation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of initiating, or the process of being
   initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business,
   literature, etc.


word: Initiation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced
   into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially,
   the rite of admission into a secret society or order.


word: Initiative
wordtype: n.
definition:
The right or power to introduce a new measure or course
   of action, as in legislation; as, the initiative in respect to revenue
   bills is in the House of Representatives.


word: Initiatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by
   instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies;
   elementary; rudimentary.


word: Inject
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold
   water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of
   the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.


word: Inject
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or
   other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.


word: Injection
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied
   particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aeriform body,
   by means of a syringe, pump, etc.


word: Injection
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine
   thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an
   enema.


word: Injector
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler
   by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven
   into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes
   condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; --
   also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.


word: Injudicious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not judicious; wanting in sound judgment;
   undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser.


word: Injunction
wordtype: n.
definition:
A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and,
   insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is
   required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the
   exigency of the writ.


word: Injure
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to
   hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or
   wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage
   or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or
   impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as
   happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the
   feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.


word: Injurious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental;
   mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation,
   property, etc.


word: Injury
wordtype: a.
definition:
Any damage or violation of, the person, character,
   feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which
   injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt;
   loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe
   injury; slander is an injury to the character.


word: Injustice
wordtype: n.
definition:
Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of
   another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.


word: Ink
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds
   (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.


word: Inkhorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small bottle of horn or other material formerly used for
   holding ink; an inkstand; a portable case for writing materials.


word: Inkstand
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small vessel for holding ink, to dip the pen into;
   also, a device for holding ink and writing materials.


word: Inland
wordtype: a.
definition:
Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from
   open water; interior; as, an inland town.


word: Inland
wordtype: a.
definition:
Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the
   seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland
   transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.


word: Inland
wordtype: a.
definition:
Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as,
   an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange.


word: Inlay
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl,
   iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other
   material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with
   insertions.


word: Inlay
wordtype: n.
definition:
Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared
   for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety.


word: Inlet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large
   river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between
   islands.


word: Inmate
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who lives in the same house or apartment with another;
   a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or
   prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or
   dwelling.


word: Inn
wordtype: n.
definition:
A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or
   wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.


word: Inn
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for
   students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of
   Chancery; Serjeants' Inns.


word: Innate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the
   intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas.
   See A priori, Intuitive.


word: Innervation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Special activity excited in any part of the nervous
   system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence
   necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various
   organs.


word: Innerve
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased
   energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate.


word: Inning
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket,
   baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; --
   often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in
   power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.


word: Innocence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from
   that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.


word: Innocence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or
   guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the
   prisoner was clearly shown.


word: Innocent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious;
   innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.


word: Innocent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as,
   a man is innocent of the crime charged.


word: Innominate
wordtype: a.
definition:
A term used in designating many parts otherwise
   unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the
   aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava.


word: Innovation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A change effected by innovating; a change in customs;
   something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.


word: Innuendo
wordtype: n.
definition:
An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually
   derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.


word: Innuendo
wordtype: n.
definition:
An averment employed in pleading, to point the
   application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative
   parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or
   words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he
   (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief.


word: Innumerable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered,
   for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely
   numerous; of great number.


word: Inocarpin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A red, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the
   colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus edulis).


word: Inoceramus
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extinct genus of large, fossil, bivalve
   shells,allied to the mussels. The genus is characteristic of the
   Cretaceous period.


word: Inoculable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being inoculated; capable of communicating
   disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation.


word: Inoculate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting
   infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with
   the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.


word: Inoculate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially
   of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with
   treason or infidelity.


word: Inoculation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or practice of communicating a disease to a
   person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.


word: Inoffensive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no
   uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer,
   appearance.


word: Inofficial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy;
   not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as,
   inofficial intelligence.


word: Inofficious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural
   duty; unkind; -- commonly said of a testament made without regard to
   natural obligation, or by which a child is unjustly deprived of
   inheritance.


word: Inogen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A complex nitrogenous substance, which, by Hermann's
   hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles,
   during their life.


word: Inoperative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as,
   laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.


word: Inordinacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being inordinate;
   excessiveness; immoderateness; as, the inordinacy of love or desire.


word: Inordinate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds;
   irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world.


word: Inorganic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not organic; without the organs necessary for life;
   devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as,
   all chemical compounds are inorganic substances.


word: Inosculation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or
   passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by
   mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of
   veins, etc.


word: Inosite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in
   certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the
   heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato
   sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite.


word: In posse
definition:
In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or
   come to pass; -- contradistinguished from in esse.


word: Inquest
wordtype: n.
definition:
Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a
   jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death.


word: Inquest
wordtype: n.
definition:
A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire
   into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or
   sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is
   sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.


word: Inquiry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking
   questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.


word: Inquiry
wordtype: n.
definition:
Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination
   into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical
   inquiries.


word: Inquisition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment
   of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its
   operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their
   dependencies, and a part of Italy.


word: Inquisitional
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to inquiry or inquisition; inquisitorial;
   also, of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Inquisition.


word: Inquisitiveness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being inquisitive; the
   disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn
   what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity.


word: Inquisitorial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and
   unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power.


word: Inroad
wordtype: n.
definition:
The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of
   hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid;
   encroachment.


word: Insane
wordtype: a.
definition:
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad;
   deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.


word: Insane
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical;
   unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.


word: Insanity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of
   delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong,
   with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual
   responsibility.


word: Insatiable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased;
   very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.


word: Inscribable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of
   solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or
   figures.


word: Inscribe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot
   address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.


word: Inscription
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is inscribed; something written or
   engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid
   substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on
   monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.


word: Inscription
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous
   inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.


word: Inscription
wordtype: n.
definition:
An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of
   a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.


word: Inscrutable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and
   understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained
   or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an
   inscrutable design or event.


word: Insect
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often
   loosely applied to various small invertebrates.


word: Insecta
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that
   have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air
   by means of tracheae, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body.
   In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the
   Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See Insect, n.


word: Insectivorous
wordtype: a.
definition:
plants which have some special adaptation for
   catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap,
   Sarracenia, etc.


word: Insecure
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence;
   distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.


word: Insecurity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition or quality of being insecure; want of
   safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to
   fire; insecurity of a debt.


word: Insensibility
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being insensible; want of
   sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by
   a fall, or by opiates.


word: Insensible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling;
   apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear,
   love, etc.; -- often used with of or to.


word: Insensible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Incapable of being perceived by the senses;
   imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow;
   gradual; as, insensible motion.


word: Insert
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To set within something; to put or thrust in; to
   introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to
   insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a
   composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper.


word: Inserted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part;
   -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla,
   and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle.


word: Insertion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in
   stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.


word: Insertion
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is set in or inserted, especially a narrow
   strip of embroidered lace, muslin, or cambric.


word: Insertion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The point or part by which a muscle or tendon is
   attached to the part to be moved; -- in contradistinction to its
   origin.


word: Insessores
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of birds, formerly established to include
   the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group.


word: Inset
wordtype: n.
definition:
One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before
   binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of
   books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the
   folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called
   offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.


word: Inside
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained;
   interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside
   decoration.


word: Insidious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or
   entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the
   insidious foe.


word: Insight
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep
   inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.


word: Insignia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Distinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor;
   badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an
   order.


word: Insignia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Typical and characteristic marks or signs, by which
   anything is known or distinguished; as, the insignia of a trade.


word: Insignificance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition or quality of being insignificant;
   want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of
   words or phrases.


word: Insignificance
wordtype: n.
definition:
Want of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness;
   inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art.


word: Insincere
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere;
   dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false; -- said of
   persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as, insincere declarations.


word: Insincerity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or
   of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation;
   hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the
   insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of
   regard.


word: Insinuate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To introduce gently or slowly, as by a winding or
   narrow passage, or a gentle, persistent movement.


word: Insinuate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hint; to suggest by remote allusion; -- often used
   derogatorily; as, did you mean to insinuate anything?


word: Insinuate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To push or work (one's self), as into favor; to
   introduce by slow, gentle, or artful means; to ingratiate; -- used
   reflexively.


word: Insinuating
wordtype: a.
definition:
Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or
   stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly.


word: Insinuation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by
   gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good sense, as of
   friendly influence or interposition.


word: Insinuation
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion or
   intimation by distant allusion; as, slander may be conveyed by
   insinuations.


word: Insipid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste;
   without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.


word: Insipid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting;
   weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid
   composition.


word: Insist
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to
   something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or
   pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that;
   as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he
   insists that he must have money.


word: Insistence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing;
   the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence;
   urgency.


word: In situ
definition:
In its natural position or place; -- said of a rock or
   fossil, when found in the situation in which it was originally formed
   or deposited.


word: Insnare
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in
   difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to
   allure; to entangle.


word: Insociable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not sociable or companionable; disinclined to social
   intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn.


word: Insolation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun
   fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of
   rendering acid, as vinegar.


word: Insole
wordtype: n.
definition:
The inside sole of a boot or shoe; also, a loose, thin
   strip of leather, felt, etc., placed inside the shoe for warmth or
   ease.


word: Insolence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness
   manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others;
   arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.


word: Insolent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or
   language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful;
   saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant.


word: Insoluble
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved,
   as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water.


word: Insolvable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or
   explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty.


word: Insolvency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of being insolvent; the state or
   condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is
   unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of
   trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency.


word: Insolvent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's
   debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary
   course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.


word: Insolvent
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; -- in
   England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders.


word: Insomuch
wordtype: adv.
definition:
So; to such a degree; in such wise; -- followed by that
   or as, and formerly sometimes by both. Cf. Inasmuch.


word: Inspect
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in
   order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to
   examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.


word: Inspect
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods
   offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend.


word: Inspecttion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of inspecting or looking at
   carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny;
   investigation.


word: Inspector
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the
   supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or
   examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a
   supervisor; an overseer.


word: Inspeximus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first word of ancient charters in England,
   confirming a grant made by a former king; hence, a royal grant.


word: Inspiration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif.
   (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals
   by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the
   opposite of expiration.


word: Inspiration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or power of exercising an elevating or
   stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of
   such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of
   occasion, of art, etc.


word: Inspiration
wordtype: n.
definition:
A supernatural divine influence on the prophets,
   apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to
   communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural
   influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth;
   also, the truth communicated.


word: Inspire
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit;
   to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose
   preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.


word: Inspire
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or
   supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or
   exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with
   sentiments of virtue.


word: Inspired
wordtype: a.
definition:
Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence;
   affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired
   writers.


word: Inspired
wordtype: a.
definition:
Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine
   inspiration; having divine authority; hence, sacred, holy; -- opposed
   to uninspired, profane, or secular; as, the inspired writings, that is,
   the Scriptures.


word: Inspissation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening
   a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so
   thickened.


word: Instability
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or condition of being unstable; want of
   stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail;
   insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.


word: Instability
wordtype: n.
definition:
Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy;
   fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character,
   temper, custom, etc.


word: Instable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to
   change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant.


word: Install
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with
   any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to
   install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a
   college president.


word: Installation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of installing or giving possession of an
   office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the
   installation of an ordained minister in a parish.


word: Installation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and
   accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in
   electric lighting, transmission of power, etc.


word: Installment
wordtype: n.
definition:
A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided
   into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by
   installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and
   times being often definitely stipulated.


word: Instance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency;
   solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.


word: Instance
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative
   case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an
   example.


word: Instant
wordtype: a.
definition:
A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short
   to be estimated; also, any particular moment.


word: Instant
wordtype: a.
definition:
A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth
   instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the
   month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3.


word: Instantaneous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Done or occurring in an instant, or without any
   perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to
   be instantaneous.


word: Instate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or
   condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness
   or in favor.


word: Instep
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals,
   between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.


word: Instigate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to
   incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate
   one to a crime.


word: Instigation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of instigating, or the state of being
   instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness.


word: Instill
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart
   gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed.


word: Instinct
wordtype: a.
definition:
Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or
   impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.


word: Instinct
wordtype: a.
definition:
Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or
   unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental,
   without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be
   accomplished.


word: Instinct
wordtype: a.
definition:
Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an
   animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of
   improvement in the method.


word: Instinct
wordtype: a.
definition:
A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an
   instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.


word: Instinctive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or
   prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural
   impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning,
   deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous.


word: Institute
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept,
   maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in
   the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a
   comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the
   Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf.
   Digest, n.


word: Institute
wordtype: n.
definition:
An institution; a society established for the promotion
   of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of
   Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute;
   as, the Cooper Institute.


word: Institution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of instituting; as: (a)
   Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.


word: Institution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the
   spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed
   to his charge.


word: Institution
wordtype: n.
definition:
An established or organized society or corporation; an
   establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a
   community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable
   institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such
   organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.


word: Institutor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a
   rector or assistant minister over a parish church.


word: Instruct
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the
   mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach;
   to discipline.


word: Instructive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform;
   as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.


word: Instrument
wordtype: n.
definition:
That by means of which any work is performed, or result
   is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a
   mechanic; astronomical instruments.


word: Instrument
wordtype: n.
definition:
A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to
   some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a
   deed, contract, writ, etc.


word: Instrument
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused
   to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent.


word: Instrument
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an
   instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.


word: Instrumental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Acting as an instrument; serving as a means;
   contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was
   instrumental in conducting the business.


word: Instrumental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an
   instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music,
   distinguished from vocal music.


word: Instrumental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the
   instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in
   Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In
   Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a
   few anomalous forms.


word: Instrumentality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or condition of being instrumental;
   that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.


word: Instrumentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a
   series or combination of instruments; means; agency.


word: Instrumentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The arrangement of a musical composition for
   performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration;
   instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military
   band.


word: Instrumentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or manner of playing upon musical
   instruments; performance; as, his instrumentation is perfect.


word: Insufferable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured;
   insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold,
   or pain; insufferable wrongs.


word: Insufferably
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance;
   intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably
   proud.


word: Insufficiency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being insufficient; want of
   sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of
   provisions, of an excuse, etc.


word: Insufficiency
wordtype: n.
definition:
Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity;
   incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.


word: Insufficient
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need,
   use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and
   defective in quality.


word: Insufficient
wordtype: a.
definition:
Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or
   skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to
   discharge the duties of an office.


word: Populin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of
   certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white
   crystalline substance.


word: Populous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many
   inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.


word: Porbeagle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet
   long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also
   mackerel shark.


word: Porcelain
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of
   earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and
   America; -- called also China, or China ware.


word: Porcelainized
wordtype: a.
definition:
Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales
   that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.


word: Porch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken
   from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main
   wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the
   porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage
   porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.


word: Porcupine
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the
   back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a
   foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is
   the best known.


word: Porcupine
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of
   America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter
   spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine
   (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species.


word: Pore
wordtype: v.
definition:
One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable
   membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.


word: Pore
wordtype: v.
definition:
A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the
   constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.


word: Pore
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix
   the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now
   usually with over.


word: Porgy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes,
   of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other
   fishes, as the bur fish.


word: Porifera
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the
   sponges; -- called also Spongiae, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The
   principal divisions are Calcispongiae, Keratosa or Fibrospongiae, and
   Silicea.


word: Porism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such
   conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate
   or capable of innumerable solutions.


word: Porites
wordtype: n.
definition:
An important genus of reef-building corals having small
   twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are
   branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.


word: Porkwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree
   (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon
   wood, beefwood, and corkwood.


word: Pornography
wordtype: n.
definition:
Licentious painting or literature; especially, the
   painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to
   bacchanalian orgies.


word: Porous
wordtype: n.
definition:
Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the
   substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids;
   permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.


word: Porphyritic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is,
   characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar,
   quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic
   or cryptocrystalline.


word: Porphyrogenitism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The principle of succession in royal families,
   especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if
   born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to
   an elder son who was not so born.


word: Porphyry
wordtype: n.
definition:
A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock
   consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which
   crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red,
   purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.


word: Porpita
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in
   the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and
   disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side,
   surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender
   dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or
   pneumatocyst.


word: Porpoise
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P.
   communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American
   species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler
   beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter
   snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and
   snuffer.


word: Porporino
wordtype: n.
definition:
A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming
   a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediaeval artists, for the sake of
   economy, instead of gold.


word: Porridge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous
   substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or
   thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.


word: Port
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It
   contains a large percentage of alcohol.


word: Port
wordtype: v.
definition:
A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered
   inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.


word: Port
wordtype: v.
definition:
In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are
   admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and
   where they finish their voyages.


word: Port
wordtype: n.
definition:
An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through
   which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which
   close such an opening.


word: Port
wordtype: n.
definition:
A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam,
   water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder
   of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.


word: Port
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with
   the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and
   the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder;
   as, to port arms.


word: Port
wordtype: n.
definition:
The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment;
   carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a
   proud port.


word: Port
wordtype: n.
definition:
The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern
   toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard.
   Also used adjectively.


word: Port
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; --
   said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as,
   port your helm.


word: Portable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported;
   conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.


word: Portague
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously
   estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half
   pounds sterling.


word: Portal
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from
   the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to
   another apartment.


word: Portal
wordtype: n.
definition:
By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers
   for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes
   the doorways and porches of a church.


word: Portal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the
   liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and
   divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.


word: Portamento
wordtype: n.
definition:
In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual
   carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note
   to another; a gliding from tone to tone.


word: Portative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative
   force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.


word: Portcullis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung
   over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance
   of an enemy.


word: Portcullis
wordtype: n.
definition:
An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for
   the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the
   figure of a portcullis on the reverse.


word: Porte
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire,
   officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the
   sultan's palace at which justice was administered.


word: Porte-cochere
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or
   through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon
   the passage of the porte-cochere. Also, a porch over a driveway before
   an entrance door.


word: Portend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future;
   to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious
   signs.


word: Portent
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which
   portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.


word: Porter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one
   who waits at the door to receive messages.


word: Porter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is
   made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is
   attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in
   hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.


word: Porter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste,
   possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.


word: Portfire
wordtype: n.
definition:
A case of strong paper filled with a composition of
   niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the
   priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.


word: Portfolio
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: The office and functions of a minister of state
   or member of the cabinet; as, to receive the portfolio of war; to
   resign the portfolio.


word: Portico
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical
   styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a
   building.


word: Portion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or
   descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of
   the estate; an inheritance.


word: Portionist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain
   academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster.


word: Portland cement
definition:
A cement having the color of the Portland stone of
   England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime
   and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It
   contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.


word: Portland stone
definition:
A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle
   of Portland in England, much used in building.


word: Portland vase
definition:
A celebrated cinerary urn or vase found in the tomb of
   the Emperor Alexander Severus. It is owned by the Duke of Portland, and
   kept in the British Museum.


word: Portrait
wordtype: n.
definition:
The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
   commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.


word: Portraiture
wordtype: n.
definition:
A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence,
   that which is copied from some example or model.


word: Port-royalist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of
   Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the
   Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and
   other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.


word: Portulacaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants
   (Portulacaceae), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes
   also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.


word: Pose
wordtype: a.
definition:
Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of
   the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.


word: Pose
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The attitude or position of a person; the position of the
   body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally
   assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of
   an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.


word: Pose
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of
   effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied
   manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a
   portrait.


word: Pose
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied
   arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize;
   figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as
   a prude.


word: Pose
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by
   questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.


word: Position
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in
   which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined,
   or an upright position.


word: Position
wordtype: n.
definition:
The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a
   place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in
   creation; the fleet changed its position.


word: Position
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or
   controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a
   discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a
   proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a
   false position.


word: Position
wordtype: n.
definition:
Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as,
   a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.


word: Position
wordtype: n.
definition:
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions;
   -- called also the rule of trial and error.


word: Positive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in
   fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.


word: Positive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on
   changing circumstances or relations; absolute; -- opposed to relative;
   as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different
   tastes individuals.


word: Positive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly
   expressed; -- opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or
   promise.


word: Positive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition,
   qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or
   probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience;
   peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive
   truth; positive proof.


word: Positive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes,
   overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons.


word: Positive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Corresponding with the original in respect to the
   position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades
   reversed; as, a positive picture.


word: Positive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative,
   and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.


word: Positive
wordtype: n.
definition:
A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in
   position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a
   negative.


word: Positively
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly;
   with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to
   negatively.


word: Positiveness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being positive; reality;
   actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See
   Positive, a.


word: Positivism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte,
   which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything
   but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together
   with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as
   occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which
   are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This
   philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to
   be useless and unprofitable.


word: Pospolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry,
   which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.


word: Posse comitatus
definition:
The power of the county, or the citizens who may be
   summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a
   riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed.


word: Possess
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to
   be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a
   book.


word: Possess
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to
   fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.


word: Possess
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of
   property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed
   by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used
   reflexively.


word: Possession
wordtype: n.
definition:
The having, holding, or detention of property in one's
   power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether
   rightful or wrongful.


word: Possession
wordtype: n.
definition:
The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns,
   or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth;
   dominion; as, foreign possessions.


word: Possession
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an
   evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal
   possession.


word: Possessioner
wordtype: n.
definition:
An invidious name for a member of any religious
   community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as
   contrasted with mendicant friars.


word: Possessor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or
   controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of
   that which is desirable; a proprietor.


word: Possessory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a
   right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a
   possessory lord.


word: Posset
wordtype: n.
definition:
A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong
   infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly.


word: Possibility
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or
   event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or
   personal estate.


word: Possible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived
   or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to
   the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme
   improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he
   is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.


word: Possibly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by
   extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of
   power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.


word: Post
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or
   to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as
   a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a
   fence post; the posts of a house.


word: Post
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were
   chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.


word: Post
wordtype: n.
definition:
A station, or one of a series of stations, established for
   the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized
   route; as, a stage or railway post.


word: Post
wordtype: n.
definition:
A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of
   troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.


word: Post
wordtype: n.
definition:
A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially,
   one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels
   regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.


word: Post
wordtype: n.
definition:
An established conveyance for letters from one place or
   station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country
   for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the
   mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.


word: Post
wordtype: n.
definition:
A station, office, or position of service, trust, or
   emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.


word: Post
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of
   affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post
   playbills.


word: Post
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise
   opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for
   cowardice.


word: Lien
wordtype: n.
definition:
A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for
   the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or
   hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former
   is paid or satisfied.


word: Lienculus
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the small nodules sometimes found in the
   neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.


word: Lierne rib
definition:
In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from
   the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or
   intersection of the principal ribs to another.


word: Lieutenant
wordtype: n.
definition:
An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his
   absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the
   performance of any duty.


word: Lif
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fiber by which the petioles of the date palm are bound
   together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.


word: Life
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or
   germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this
   state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any
   of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions;
   -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.


word: Life
wordtype: n.
definition:
Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the
   duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence
   of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life.


word: Life
wordtype: n.
definition:
The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of
   animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of
   their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether
   regarded as physical or spiritual.


word: Life
wordtype: n.
definition:
Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the
   period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a
   natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a
   machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.


word: Life
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions,
   circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human
   affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or
   type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of
   miners.


word: Life
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon
   which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company,
   or of the enterprise.


word: Life
wordtype: n.
definition:
The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a
   picture or a description from the life.


word: Life
wordtype: n.
definition:
Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a
   spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.


word: Lifeless
wordtype: a.
definition:
Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing,
   or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead;
   spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a
   lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.


word: Lifelike
wordtype: a.
definition:
Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate
   representation; as, a lifelike portrait.


word: Life-preserver
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of
   various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body
   while in the water.


word: Life-saving
wordtype: a.
definition:
That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from
   drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station.


word: Lift
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to
   raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to
   upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the
   higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the
   hand; to lift a chair or a burden.


word: Lift
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition,
   estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.


word: Lift
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the
   fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.


word: Lift
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard
   below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.


word: Lifter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a
   contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope
   is lifted.


word: Ligament
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective
   tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.


word: Ligament
wordtype: n.
definition:
A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which
   supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament,
   connecting the diaphragm and stomach.


word: Ligan
wordtype: n.
definition:
Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that
   they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam.


word: Ligature
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thread or string for tying the blood vessels,
   particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage.


word: Ligature
wordtype: n.
definition:
A double character, or a type consisting of two or more
   letters or characters united, as ae, /, /.


word: Ligeance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The connection between sovereign and subject by which
   they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of
   justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance.


word: Light
wordtype: n.
definition:
That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of
   which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or
   luminous.


word: Light
wordtype: n.
definition:
The medium through which light is admitted, as a window, or
   window pane; a skylight; in architecture, one of the compartments of a
   window made by a mullion or mullions.


word: Light
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which illumines or makes clear to the mind; mental or
   spiritual illumination; enlightenment; knowledge; information.


word: Light
wordtype: n.
definition:
The manner in which the light strikes upon a picture; that
   part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light
   is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other
   scene; -- opposed to shade. Cf. Chiaroscuro.


word: Light
wordtype: n.
definition:
Appearance due to the particular facts and circumstances
   presented to view; point of view; as, to state things fairly and put
   them in the right light.


word: Light
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is conspicuous or noteworthy; a model or example;
   as, the lights of the age or of antiquity.


word: Light
wordtype: n.
definition:
A firework made by filling a case with a substance which
   burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame; as, a Bengal light.


word: Light
wordtype: superl
definition:
White or whitish; not intense or very marked; not of a
   deep shade; moderately colored; as, a light color; a light brown; a
   light complexion.


word: Light
wordtype: n.
definition:
To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to ignite;
   to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light the gas; --
   sometimes with up.


word: Light
wordtype: n.
definition:
To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to
   spread over with light; -- often with up.


word: Light
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having little, or comparatively little, weight; not
   tending to the center of gravity with force; not heavy.


word: Light
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not burdensome; easy to be lifted, borne, or carried by
   physical strength; as, a light burden, or load.


word: Light
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as,
   light food; also, containing little nutriment.


word: Light
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not copious or heavy; not dense; not inconsiderable;
   as, a light rain; a light snow; light vapors.


word: Light
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not pressing heavily or hard upon; hence, having an
   easy, graceful manner; delicate; as, a light touch; a light style of
   execution.


word: Light
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Easy to admit influence; inconsiderate; easily
   influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile;
   as, a light, vain person; a light mind.


word: Light
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; wanting dignity
   or solemnity; trifling; gay; frivolous; airy; unsubstantial.


word: Light
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to
   alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in.


word: Lighten
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or
   like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.


word: Lighten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to
   lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.


word: Lighten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to
   relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by
   unloading; to lighten a load or burden.


word: Lighten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate;
   as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.


word: Lighter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading
   vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or
   delivery.


word: Light-horseman
wordtype: n.
definition:
A West Indian fish of the genus Ephippus,
   remarkable for its high dorsal fin and brilliant colors.


word: Lighthouse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tower or other building with a powerful light at top,
   erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a
   coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.


word: Lightness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not
   heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.


word: Lightning
wordtype: n.
definition:
A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a
   vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes
   from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in
   passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.


word: Lightning
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of making bright, or the state of being made
   bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.


word: Light-o'-love
wordtype: n.
definition:
An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a
   proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.


word: Lightroom
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel
   is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.


word: Light-ship
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light,
   and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for
   mariners.


word: Lightwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the
   Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for
   kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.


word: Lignification
wordtype: n.
definition:
A change in the character of a cell wall, by which
   it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of
   lignin.


word: Lignin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from
   cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.


word: Lignite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which
   it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more
   recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper
   coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.


word: Lignoceric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic
   acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling
   certain kinds of wood, as the beech.


word: Lignum rhodium
definition:
The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees,
   especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the
   West Indian Amyris balsamifera.


word: Lignum-vitae
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm
   latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured.
   Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical
   purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the
   like. See Guaiacum.


word: Ligroin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A trade name applied somewhat indefinitely to some of the
   volatile products obtained in refining crude petroleum. It is a complex
   and variable mixture of several hydrocarbons, generally boils below
   170¡ Fahr., and is more inflammable than safe kerosene. It is used as a
   solvent, as a carburetant for air gas, and for illumination in special
   lamps.


word: Ligula
wordtype: n.
definition:
The central process, or front edge, of the labium of
   insects. It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees.


word: Liguliflorous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large
   suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, lettuce, hawkweed,
   etc.


word: Ligustrin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet
   (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance
   with a warm, bitter taste; -- called also ligustron.


word: Like
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance,
   qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike;
   -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are
   like each other in features, complexion, and many traits of character.


word: Like
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape
   narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like,
   a.


word: Likely
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; --
   followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain.


word: Likely
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having such qualities as make success probable; well
   adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely
   servant.


word: Liken
wordtype: a.
definition:
To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to
   compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.


word: Likeness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being like; similitude;
   resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is
   remarkable.


word: Liking
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some
   thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; --
   often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no
   liking for.


word: Lilac
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives
   of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica,
   the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and
   beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies
   various other shrubs have this name.


word: Liliaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily,
   tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.


word: Lilly-pilly
wordtype: n.
definition:
An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii),
   having smooth ovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers. The
   wood is hard and fine-grained.


word: Lily
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous
   plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens,
   and a superior three-celled ovary.


word: Lily
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera,
   having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium,
   Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc.


word: Lily
wordtype: n.
definition:
That end of a compass needle which should point to the north;
   -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or
   fleur-de-lis.


word: Limacina
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic
   and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.


word: Limax
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common
   garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore
   is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in
   gardens. See Slug.


word: Limb
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates
   into branches and twigs; a large branch.


word: Limbat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing
   from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day
   or later.


word: Limber
wordtype: n.
definition:
The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of
   two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On
   top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.


word: Limbus
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or
   confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.


word: Lime
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree
   which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is
   intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is
   only slightly sour.


word: Lime
wordtype: n.
definition:
Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance,
   usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells,
   the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great
   heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential
   ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.


word: Lime
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to
   manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime
   sails in order to whiten them.


word: Limestone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or
   carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and
   is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone
   is called marble.


word: Limit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or
   confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit
   of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or
   endeavor.


word: Limit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A determinate quantity, to which a variable one
   continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given
   difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can
   never become exactly equivalent.


word: Limit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate,
   circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the
   acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's
   ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.


word: Limitation
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The act of limiting; the state or condition of being
   limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the
   council.


word: Limitation
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a
   restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception;
   as, limitations of thought.


word: Limitation
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A certain precinct within which friars were allowed
   to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they
   were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.


word: Limitation
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A certain period limited by statute after which the
   claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.


word: Limited
wordtype: a.
definition:
Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted;
   as, our views of nature are very limited.


word: Lim naea
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant
   in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail.


word: Limonite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron,
   occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown
   color, and yellowish brown powder. It includes bog iron. Also called
   brown hematite.


word: Limpet
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order
   Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.


word: Limpkin
wordtype: n.
definition:
Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus
   Aramus, intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins are
   remarkable for the great length of the toes. One species (A. giganteus)
   inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (A. scolopaceus) is
   found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird.


word: Limu
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as
   food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc.


word: Limuloidea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of Merostomata, including among living
   animals the genus Limulus, with various allied fossil genera, mostly of
   the Carboniferous period. Called also Xiphosura.


word: Limulus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a
   few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the
   Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab,
   horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.


word: Linden
wordtype: n.
definition:
A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light
   yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.


word: Lindia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of
   ciliated disks. By some zoologists it is thought to be like the
   ancestral form of the Arthropoda.


word: Line
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with
   silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.


word: Line
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place persons or things along the side of for security
   or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line
   works with soldiers.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a
   cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for
   snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or
   route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote
   from lines of travel.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a
   row of words extending across a page or column.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of
   argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of
   houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given
   person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the
   line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an
   established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of
   stages; an express line.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with
   subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of
   land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as
   to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the
   engine is in line or out of line.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by
   side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from
   militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting
   a front in but one direction to an enemy.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes
   on and between which the notes are placed.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
A series of various qualities and values of the same general
   class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.


word: Line
wordtype: n.
definition:
The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or
   the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.


word: Lineage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race;
   descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.


word: Lineal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary;
   derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent
   or a lineal descendant.


word: Lineal
wordtype: a.
definition:
In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line;
   measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.


word: Lineament
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive
   marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form;
   mark; -- usually in the plural.


word: Linear
wordtype: a.
definition:
Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except
   at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.


word: Lineman
wordtype: n.
definition:
A man employed to examine the rails of a railroad to see
   if they are in good condition; also, a man employed to repair telegraph
   lines.


word: Linen
wordtype: n.
definition:
Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in
   a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels,
   tablecloths, etc.


word: Liner
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a
   line-of-battle ship; a ship of the line.


word: Liner
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lining within the cylinder, in which the piston works and
   between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to
   form a steam jacket.


word: Liner
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly
   straight line not far from the ground.


word: -ling
definition:
A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory
   force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling,
   underling.


word: Ling
wordtype: a.
definition:
A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern
   Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted
   and dried. Called also drizzle.


word: Ling
wordtype: a.
definition:
A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is
   also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton
   fish, and the cobia.


word: Lingam
wordtype: n.
definition:
The phallic symbol under which Siva is principally
   worshiped in his character of the creative and reproductive power.


word: Linger
wordtype: a.
definition:
To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or
   reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in
   suspense; to hesitate.


word: Lingism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by
   gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.


word: Lingua
wordtype: n.
definition:
A median process of the labium, at the under side of the
   mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.


word: Linguadental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Formed or uttered by the joint use of the tongue and
   teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth;
   dentolingual, as the letters d and t.


word: Lingua Franca
definition:
The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of
   the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders.


word: Lingual
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the
   tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter.


word: Lingual
wordtype: n.
definition:
A consonant sound formed by the aid of the tongue; -- a
   term especially applied to certain articulations (as those of t, d, th,
   and n) and to the letters denoting them.


word: Linguatulina
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic
   arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth.
   Called also Pentastomida.


word: Lingula
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of brachiopod shells belonging
   to the genus Lingula, and related genera. See Brachiopoda, and
   Illustration in Appendix.


word: Liniment
wordtype: n.
definition:
A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence
   thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one
   used as a sedative or a stimulant.


word: Lining
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which covers the inner surface of anything, as of a
   garment or a box; also, the contents of anything.


word: Link
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds
   together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a
   tie; a bond.


word: Link
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as
   the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by
   which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.


word: Link
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or
   motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end;
   specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to
   the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means
   of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.


word: Link
wordtype: n.
definition:
The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the
   hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in
   length. Cf. Chain, n., 4.


word: Link
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; --
   applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.


word: Linkage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A system of straight lines or bars, fastened together by
   joints, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. It is used
   to describe straight lines and curves in the plane.


word: Link motion
definition:
A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their
   rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar,
   called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be
   reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in
   locomotives and marine engines.


word: Linkwork
wordtype: n.
definition:
Mechanism in which links, or intermediate connecting
   pieces, are employed to transmit motion from one part to another.


word: Linnaeite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster,
   occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of
   cobalt containing some nickel or copper.


word: Linnet
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the
   genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European
   species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut
   brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its
   head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet,
   red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse
   thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll
   linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See
   Redpoll, and Twite.


word: Linoleic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil;
   specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil,
   found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp,
   and certain nuts.


word: Linoleum
wordtype: n.
definition:
Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by
   some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment
   with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the
   purposes to which India rubber has been applied.


word: Linoleum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil
   mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.


word: Linsang
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting
   the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P.
   gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang
   (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.


word: Lint
wordtype: n.
definition:
Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy
   substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down,
   fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.


word: Lintel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the
   superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise
   fracture.


word: Lion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in
   Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring
   in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a
   thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is
   less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes
   eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or
   yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail
   is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a
   slight mane.


word: Lion
wordtype: n.
definition:
An object of interest and curiosity, especially a person who
   is so regarded; as, he was quite a lion in London at that time.


word: Lion's ear
definition:
A name given in Western South America to certain plants
   with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.


word: Lion's foot
definition:
A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which
   several species are found in the United States.


word: Lion's leaf
definition:
A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L.
   leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that
   they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.


word: Lion's tail
definition:
A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from
   a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's
   tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.


word: Lip
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the
   mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of
   speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they
   denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech
   itself.


word: Lip
wordtype: n.
definition:
An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a
   kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.


word: Lipans
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting the
   northern part of Mexico. They belong to the Tinneh stock, and are
   closely related to the Apaches.


word: Lipic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or derived from, fat. The word was formerly
   used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the
   oxidation of oleic acid, tallow, wax, etc.


word: Lipochrin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A yellow coloring matter, soluble in ether, contained in
   the small round fat drops in the retinal epithelium cells. It is best
   obtained from the eyes of frogs.


word: Lipogram
wordtype: n.
definition:
A writing composed of words not having a certain letter
   or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the
   first book, no B in the second, and so on.


word: Lipogrammatic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a
   certain letter or letters; as, lipogrammatic writings.


word: Lipped
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a lip or lips; having a raised or rounded edge
   resembling the lip; -- often used in composition; as, thick-lipped,
   thin-lipped, etc.


word: Liquefacient
wordtype: n.
definition:
An agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes
   the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.


word: Liquefaction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or operation of making or becoming liquid;
   especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency
   of heat.


word: Liquefaction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or
   vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of
   oxygen or hydrogen.


word: Liquefy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to
   melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.


word: Liquid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being in such a state that the component parts move freely
   among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the
   particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as,
   liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of
   vapor.


word: Liquid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance whose parts change their relative position on
   the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any
   substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.


word: Liquid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows
   smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are
   called liquids.


word: Liquidambar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having
   star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is
   the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.


word: Liquidambar
wordtype: n.
definition:
The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees
   by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.


word: Liquidate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To determine by agreement or by litigation the
   precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to
   more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each
   indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and
   certain.


word: Liquidate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the
   several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an
   indebtedness).


word: Liquidator
wordtype: n.
definition:
An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a
   company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do
   all necessary acts on behalf of the company.


word: Liquor
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either
   distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.


word: Liriodendron
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of large and very beautiful trees of North
   America, having smooth, shining leaves, and handsome, tuliplike
   flowers; tulip tree; whitewood; -- called also canoewood. Liriodendron
   tulipifera is the only extant species, but there were several others in
   the Cretaceous epoch.


word: Liripoop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a
   tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc.


word: Liroconite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse
   pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.


word: Lisbon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the
   province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in
   Portugal.


word: Lisp
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s
   and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.


word: Lisp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with
   words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence,
   to express by the use of simple, childlike language.


word: Lissencephala
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A general name for all those placental mammals
   that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia,
   Insectivora, etc.


word: List
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of
   ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or
   field inclosed for a race or combat.


word: List
wordtype: n.
definition:
A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth,
   particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a
   strip of cloth; a fillet.


word: List
wordtype: n.
definition:
A roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of names;
   as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.


word: List
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list
   on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.


word: Listerism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of
   operations and the treatment of wounds; -- so called from Joseph
   Lister, an English surgeon.


word: Listing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the
   verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock
   Exchange.


word: Listing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The throwing up of the soil into ridges, -- a method
   adopted in the culture of beets and some garden crops.


word: Litany
wordtype: n.
definition:
A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of
   various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former
   leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually
   of a penitential character.


word: Litchi
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fruit of a tree native to China (Nephelium Litchi). It
   is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic
   pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the
   pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form.


word: Litre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic
   decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or
   1.76 English pints.


word: Literal
wordtype: a.
definition:
According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not
   figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.


word: Literalism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The tendency or disposition to represent objects
   faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.


word: Literalize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make literal; to interpret or put in practice
   according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to
   spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.


word: Literally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
According to the primary and natural import of words;
   not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one
   flesh.


word: Literary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to
   learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history;
   literary conversation.


word: Literary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with
   literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of
   letters; as, a literary man.


word: Literate
wordtype: n.
definition:
One educated, but not having taken a university degree;
   especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.


word: Literator
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp.
   trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.


word: Literature
wordtype: n.
definition:
The collective body of literary productions, embracing
   the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also,
   the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given
   subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of
   knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of
   Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.


word: Literature
wordtype: n.
definition:
The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style
   or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from
   scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge;
   belles-lettres.


word: Lith
wordtype: n.
definition:
A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by
   growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.


word: Litharge
wordtype: n.
definition:
Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an
   amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead
   moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or
   carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in
   making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.


word: Lithia
wordtype: n.
definition:
The oxide of lithium; a strong alkaline caustic similar to
   potash and soda, but weaker. See Lithium.


word: Lithiasis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any
   part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.


word: Lithic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions
   (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic
   diathesis.


word: Lithium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in
   several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc.,
   and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.


word: Lithobilic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the
   tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it,
   obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones.


word: Lithocyst
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sac containing small, calcareous concretions
   (otoliths). They are found in many Medusae, and other invertebrates,
   and are supposed to be auditory organs.


word: Lithodome
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes
   in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus
   Lithodomus.


word: Lithodomus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the
   mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in
   solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus.


word: Lithofellic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic
   acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal
   concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.


word: Lithograph
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To trace on stone by the process of lithography so
   as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a
   design; to lithograph a painting. See Lithography.


word: Lithographical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to lithography; made by
   lithography; as, the lithographic art; a lithographic picture.


word: Lithography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or process of putting designs or writing, with
   a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions
   therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between
   grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from
   adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See
   Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.


word: Lithological
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as
   derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral
   contents.


word: Lithology
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science which treats of rocks, as regards their
   mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence
   in nature.


word: Lithontriptic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the quality of, or used for, dissolving or
   destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys; as, lithontriptic forceps.


word: Redbud
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species
   of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.


word: Reddendum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved
   out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is
   reserved in a lease.


word: Redeem
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged
   property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.


word: Redeem
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To regain by performing the obligation or condition
   stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note,
   bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.


word: Redeem
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or
   bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be
   forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to
   recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.


word: Redeem
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as
   an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem
   an error.


word: Redeemable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held
   under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the
   payment of money is redeemable.


word: Redeemable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon
   a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc.
   , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.


word: Redemise
wordtype: n.
definition:
The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised
   it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under
   Demise.


word: Re-demption
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed;
   repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of
   prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.


word: Re-demption
wordtype: n.
definition:
The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the
   taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or
   conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and
   reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under
   Equity.


word: Re-demption
wordtype: n.
definition:
Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill,
   bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder.


word: Re-demption
wordtype: n.
definition:
The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and
   death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage
   of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.


word: Redemptioner
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to
   America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of
   his passage.


word: Redemptionist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called
   because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of
   Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also
   Trinitarian.


word: Redemptorist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer,
   founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was
   introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of
   the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp.
   in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in
   the instruction of youth.


word: Redfin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis
   megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins.
   Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of
   the Mississippi valley.


word: Red-gum
wordtype: n.
definition:
An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms,
   in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus.


word: Red-handed
wordtype: a. / adv.
definition:
Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as
   if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of
   homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken
   red-hand or red-handed.


word: Redhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a
   game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and
   its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard,
   grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.


word: Redhibition
wordtype: n.
definition:
The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer
   of the article sold, on account of some defect.


word: Redhorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including
   the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennae are
   usually red.


word: Red-hot
wordtype: a.
definition:
Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron;
   red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot
   radical.


word: Redia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the
   sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn
   produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else
   cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See
   Illustration in Appendix.


word: Redintegration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The law that objects which have been previously
   combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one
   another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of
   the association of ideas.


word: Redisseizin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to
   have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ
   which lay in such a case.


word: Redmouth
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the
   genus Diabasis, or Haemulon, of the Southern United States, having the
   inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.


word: Redolent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent;
   scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of.


word: Redouble
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To double again or repeatedly; to increase by
   continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.


word: Redouble
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be
   multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.


word: Redoubt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or
   outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and
   without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and
   passes, and positions in hostile territory.


word: Redoubtable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable
   hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque.


word: Redound
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven
   back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to
   contribute; to result.


word: Redowa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a
   waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in
   use.


word: Redpoll
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of small northern finches of
   the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of Europe and America.
   The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common
   species (A. linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also
   redpoll linnet. See Illust. under Linnet.


word: Redraft
wordtype: n.
definition:
A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected
   bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount
   of the protested bill with costs and charges.


word: Redress
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to
   make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.


word: Redress
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of
   anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.


word: Redress
wordtype: n.
definition:
A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as,
   the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation;
   indemnification.


word: Redroot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name of several plants having red roots, as the New
   Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the
   Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from
   Rhode Island to Florida.


word: Redshank
wordtype: n.
definition:
A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris),
   having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is
   larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and
   clee.


word: Redshank
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation
   formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare
   legs.


word: Redstart
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla
   phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail,
   brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name
   is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied
   genera, native of India.


word: Redstart
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla).
   The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides,
   wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.


word: Redthroat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus
   brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.


word: Redtop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the
   United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English
   grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in
   Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.


word: Reduce
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size,
   quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to
   impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to
   reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.


word: Reduce
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to
   capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.


word: Reduce
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding,
   pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder,
   or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.


word: Reduce
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification,
   etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and
   terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or
   vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in
   astronomy; to reduce language to rules.


word: Reduce
wordtype: n.
definition:
To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another
   without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of
   the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or
   to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or
   minutes to days and hours.


word: Reduce
wordtype: n.
definition:
To change the form of a quantity or expression without
   altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a
   common denominator, etc.


word: Reduce
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bring to the metallic state by separating from
   impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to
   combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron
   is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; --
   opposed to oxidize.


word: Reduce
wordtype: n.
definition:
To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced
   organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.


word: Reduction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of reducing, or state of being reduced;
   conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the
   reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the
   reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious
   province.


word: Reduction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6.
   and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.


word: Reduction
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The preparation of the facts and measurements of
   observations in order to deduce a general result.


word: Reduction
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The process of making a copy of something, as a
   figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper
   proportions.


word: Reduction
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called
   imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.


word: Reduction
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the
   reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from
   alcohol.


word: Redundancy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected
   by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.


word: Redundant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant;
   exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.


word: Reduplication
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less
   modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying
   the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus
   added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.


word: Reduvid
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family
   Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some
   species also attack man.


word: Redwing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts
   are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American
   passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male
   is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange,
   on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial,
   marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.


word: Redwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of
   California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.


word: Redwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus
   santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.


word: Reed
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike
   plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various
   kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North
   America (Phragmites communis).


word: Reed
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of
   certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the
   clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is
   double, forming a compressed tube.


word: Reed
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which
   produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine;
   also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.


word: Reed
wordtype: n.
definition:
A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between
   which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a
   loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.


word: Reedbird
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera
   Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.


word: Reeding
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of
   Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface;
   also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.


word: Reedling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); --
   called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.


word: Reef
wordtype: n.
definition:
A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the
   water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.


word: Reef
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia.
   Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.


word: Reef
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means
   of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force
   of the wind.


word: Reef
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding
   a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.


word: Reef-band
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it
   in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.


word: Reek
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be
   full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.


word: Reel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the
   music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.


word: Reel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an
   axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log
   reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.


word: Reel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and
   hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for
   worsted, thirty inches.


word: Reel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats,
   connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in
   position to be cut by the knives.


word: Reenforce
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material,
   or support; as, to reenforce an argument; to reenforce a garment;
   especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort,
   or with additional ships, as a fleet.


word: Reenforce
wordtype: v.
definition:
That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker
   than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist the force of the
   exploding powder. See Illust. of Cannon.


word: Reenforcement
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which reenforces; additional force; especially,
   additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or
   ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.


word: Reenter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut deeper, as engraved lines on a plate of metal,
   when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become
   worn in printing.


word: Reentering
wordtype: n.
definition:
The process of applying additional colors, by
   applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.


word: Reentry
wordtype: n.
definition:
A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately
   foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the
   premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the
   covenants in the lease.


word: Reestablish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to
   restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.


word: Reeve
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a
   block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.


word: Reeve
wordtype: n.
definition:
an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly
   in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc.


word: Reexchange
wordtype: n.
definition:
The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft
   which has been dishonored in a foreign country, and returned to the
   country in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up.


word: Refer
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct
   elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make
   over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to
   refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court
   refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers
   a question of law to a superior tribunal.


word: Refer
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to
   assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of
   explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.


word: Refer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as,
   the preacher referred to the late election.


word: Refer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any
   kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability,
   and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his
   story.


word: Referee
wordtype: n.
definition:
One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter
   in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.


word: Reference
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which refers to something; a specific direction of
   the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.


word: Reference
wordtype: n.
definition:
The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a
   cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain
   facts and report to the court.


word: Referendary
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of
   procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.


word: Referendum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from
   his government concerning a particular matter or point.


word: Refine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free
   from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from
   extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or
   silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.


word: Refine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant,
   low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to
   refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect,
   or the moral feelings.


word: Refined
wordtype: a.
definition:
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished;
   cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined
   sentiments.


word: Refinement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as,
   the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.


word: Refinement
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to
   excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic.


word: Refit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore
   after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war.


word: Reflect
wordtype: v.
definition:
To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back;
   especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a
   mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.


word: Reflect
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to
   contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within
   the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use
   attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in
   relation to moral truth or rules.


word: Reflection
wordtype: n.
definition:
The reverting of the mind to that which has already
   occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence,
   also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of
   its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially
   in view of a moral rule or standard.


word: Reflection
wordtype: n.
definition:
Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
   attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts
   suggested by truth.


word: Reflection
wordtype: n.
definition:
The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber
   to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex
   action, under Reflex.


word: Reflex
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation
   without the necessary intervention of consciousness.


word: Reflexive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to
   the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as,
   the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to
   pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective.


word: Reform
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put into a new and improved form or condition; to
   restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change
   from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate
   man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.


word: Reform
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own
   character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom
   reform.


word: Reform
wordtype: n.
definition:
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or
   depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.


word: Re-form
wordtype: v. t. & i.
definition:
To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form
   again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.


word: Reformado
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his
   command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay.


word: Reformation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed;
   change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners,
   or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners;
   reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.


word: Reformation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious
   movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which
   resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.


word: Re-formation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of forming anew; a second forming in order;
   as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.


word: Reformed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence;
   said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches
   originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of
   those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation,
   etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point.
   The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France,
   Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches.


word: Reformed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Retained in service on half or full pay after the
   disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.


word: Reformer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who
   labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.


word: Reformer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in
   the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.


word: Refract
wordtype: n.
definition:
To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat,
   when passing from one transparent medium to another of different
   density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct
   from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they
   pass into it from a rare medium.


word: Refraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or
   the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from
   that through which it has previously moved.


word: Refraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The change in the direction of a ray of light, and,
   consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it
   emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; --
   hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical
   refraction.


word: Refraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The correction which is to be deducted from the
   apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric
   refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.


word: Refractive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a
   direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces;
   refractive powers.


word: Refractor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed
   is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.


word: Refractory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn;
   unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.


word: Refractory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion,
   reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like,
   which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory
   ore.


word: Refractory
wordtype: n.
definition:
OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux
   and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.


word: Refrain
wordtype: v.
definition:
The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at
   the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic
   composition.


word: Refrangible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct
   course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.


word: Refresh
wordtype: a.
definition:
To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit,
   animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to
   reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the
   body and the mind.


word: Refresher
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been
   adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted.


word: Refreshment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of refreshing, or the state of being
   refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness;
   relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression.


word: Refreshment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which refreshes; means of restoration or
   reanimation; especially, an article of food or drink.


word: Refrigerant
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a
   medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of
   fever; -- used also figuratively.


word: Refrigeratory
wordtype: n.
definition:
In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water,
   surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed.


word: Refringency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray;
   as, different substances have different refringencies.


word: Refringent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive;
   refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar.


word: Refuge
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which shelters or protects from danger, or from
   distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a
   sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible
   to an enemy.


word: Refugee
wordtype: n.
definition:
Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political
   commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the
   French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of
   Nantes.


word: Mogul
wordtype: n.
definition:
A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs
   of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.


word: Mohair
wordtype: n.
definition:
The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia
   Minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such
   fabric.


word: Mohawk
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five
   Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.


word: Mohawk
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London
   in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians.


word: Moho
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New
   Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight.
   See Notornis.


word: Mohr
wordtype: n.
definition:
A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which
   are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species
   which produce bezoar.


word: Muharram
wordtype: n.
definition:
A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held
   during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum.


word: Moiety
wordtype: a.
definition:
One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate,
   of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation.


word: Moire
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an
   Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered
   appearance is given in the process of calendering.


word: Moire
wordtype: n.
definition:
A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon
   either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.


word: Moire metallique
definition:
A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by
   some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.


word: Molar
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the
   properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of
   molecules or atoms.


word: Molar
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The
   molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as
   premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are
   sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.


word: Molasses
wordtype: n.
definition:
The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid,
   uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of
   manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice
   or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.


word: Mould
wordtype: v.
definition:
Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the
   remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of
   plants; soil.


word: Mould
wordtype: n.
definition:
A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the
   great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or
   decaying organic matter.


word: Mould
wordtype: n.
definition:
The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from
   which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity;
   as, a sand mold; a jelly mold.


word: Mould
wordtype: n.
definition:
That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is
   modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form,
   etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or
   mason.


word: Mould
wordtype: n.
definition:
A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or
   doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile,
   section, or combination of parts.


word: Mould
wordtype: n.
definition:
A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is
   drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.


word: Mouldboard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the
   share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.


word: Moulder
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape;
   specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for
   castings.


word: Moulder
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by
   natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of
   the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble
   away.


word: Moulding
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of
   making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.


word: Moulding
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as
   grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.


word: Moulding
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or
   projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon
   its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used
   in groups, the different members of each group projecting or
   retreating, one beyond another. See Cable, n., 3, and Crenelated
   molding, under Crenelate, v. t.


word: Mole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human
   body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one
   or more hairs.


word: Mole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones,
   etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc
   of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence
   of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the
   harbor itself.


word: Mole
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes
   and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.


word: Molecular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or
   consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of
   atoms, etc.


word: Molecule
wordtype: n.
definition:
The smallest part of any substance which possesses the
   characteristic properties and qualities of that substance, and which
   can exist alone in a free state.


word: Molecule
wordtype: n.
definition:
A group of atoms so united and combined by chemical
   affinity that they form a complete, integrated whole, being the
   smallest portion of any particular compound that can exist in a free
   state; as, a molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and
   one of oxygen. Cf. Atom.


word: Molehill
wordtype: n.
definition:
A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working
   under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or
   difficulty.


word: Moleskin
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a
   mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.


word: Molinist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit
   (in respect to grace); an opposer of the Jansenists.


word: Mollah
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish
   title of respect for a religious and learned man.


word: Mollebart
wordtype: n.
definition:
An agricultural implement used in Flanders, consisting
   of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man.


word: Mollemoke
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and
   fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several
   species of Aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar.


word: Mollify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness,
   harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.


word: Mollify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as
   excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.


word: Mollusca
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom,
   including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and
   Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented
   bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not
   repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses
   either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or
   less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be
   univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.


word: Molluscoidea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of Invertebrata which includes the
   classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; -- called also Anthoid Mollusca.


word: Molluscum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of
   various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the
   resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals.


word: Moloch
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human
   sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.


word: Moloch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on
   the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable
   appearance.


word: Molten
wordtype: a.
definition:
Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid
   state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.


word: Molten
wordtype: a.
definition:
Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which
   the thing is formed; as, a molten image.


word: Moly
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fabulous herb of occult power, having a black root and
   white blossoms, said by Homer to have been given by Hermes to Ulysses
   to counteract the spells of Circe.


word: Molybdenite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated
   masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.


word: Molybdenum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in
   nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced
   obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo.
   Atomic weight 95.9.


word: Molybdic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif.,
   designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence,
   as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.


word: Molybdous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif.,
   designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as
   contrasted with molybdic compounds.


word: Moment
wordtype: n.
definition:
An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or
   consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.


word: Momentum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always
   proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity;
   impetus.


word: Momier
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given in contempt to strict Calvinists in
   Switzerland, France, and some parts of Germany, in the early part of
   the 19th century.


word: Mona
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey
   (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on
   the haunches.


word: Monacid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having one hydrogen atom replaceable by a negative or acid
   atom or radical; capable of neutralizing a monobasic acid; -- said of
   bases, and of certain metals.


word: Monad
wordtype: n.
definition:
The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived
   of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo,
   and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena.


word: Monad
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species
   of the genus Monas, and allied genera.


word: Monad
wordtype: n.
definition:
An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can
   combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen.


word: Monadelphia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens
   united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family.


word: Monadiform
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in
   having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform
   young.


word: Monarch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler;
   an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.


word: Monarchian
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a sect in the early Christian church which
   rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.


word: Monas
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are
   many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.


word: Monastery
wordtype: n.
definition:
A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from
   ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely
   applied to such a house for females.


word: Monastical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants,
   rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.


word: Monatomic
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Having the equivalence or replacing power of an atom
   of hydrogen; univalent; as, the methyl radical is monatomic.


word: Monera
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which
   resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.


word: Monerula
wordtype: n.
definition:
A germ in that stage of development in which its form is
   simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the
   one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.


word: Monesia
wordtype: n.
definition:
The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes
   from South America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the
   tree Chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative and
   astringent.


word: Monetization
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of converting into money, or of
   adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver.


word: Money
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or
   stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange
   in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also,
   any number of such pieces; coin.


