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word: Freeze
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer
   loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the
   veins.


word: Freeze
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid
   to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.


word: Freeze
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of
   heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.


word: Freezer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a
   refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice
   cream.


word: Freight
wordtype: n.
definition:
That with which anything in fraught or laden for
   transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a
   railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.


word: Freight
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind,
   for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with
   freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.


word: Frenzy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to
   distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties;
   madness; rage.


word: Frequency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often
   repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency
   of miracles.


word: Frequent
wordtype: n.
definition:
Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often
   repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.


word: Fresh
wordtype: superl
definition:
Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not
   stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good
   condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.;
   recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh
   supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public;
   as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.


word: Fresh
wordtype: superl
definition:
In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated;
   uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.


word: Fresh
wordtype: superl
definition:
Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as,
   fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong;
   cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.


word: Fresh
wordtype: superl
definition:
Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that
   which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from
   that which is pickled or salted.


word: Fresh
wordtype: n.
definition:
The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as
   by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.


word: Freshen
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline
   ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.


word: Freshen
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where
   friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent
   chafing; as, to freshen a hawse.


word: Freshly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently;
   brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the
   wind blows freshly.


word: Freshman
wordtype: n.
definition:
novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a
   student during his fist year in a college or university.


word: Fresh-water
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as,
   fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water
   mussels.


word: Fret
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall;
   hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold
   or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.


word: Fret
wordtype: n.
definition:
The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or
   other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.


word: Fret
wordtype: n.
definition:
Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience;
   disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual
   fret.


word: Fret
wordtype: n.
definition:
The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones
   containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and
   thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.


word: Fret
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats
   intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical
   designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art.


word: Fret
wordtype: n.
definition:
The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver
   wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.


word: Fret
wordtype: n.
definition:
A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the
   finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the
   finger is to be placed.


word: Frett
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting
   of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.


word: Fretwork
wordtype: n.
definition:
Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in
   relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute
   play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.


word: Freya
wordtype: n.
definition:
The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the
   Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in
   Scandinavian, distinct.


word: Friar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A brother or member of any religious order, but especially
   of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or
   Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White
   Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.


word: Fricando
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of
   boned turkey, served as an entree, -- called also fricandel.


word: Fricassee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small
   animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.


word: Fricative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath,
   intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the
   mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete
   closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being
   continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v,
   s, z, etc.


word: Ftiction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that
   of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the
   hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy
   action.


word: Ftiction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The resistance which a body meets with from the surface
   on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to
   rolling motion.


word: Ftiction
wordtype: n.
definition:
A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or
   work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress.


word: Friend
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem,
   respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a
   wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.


word: Friend
wordtype: n.
definition:
One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also,
   one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may
   be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.


word: Friend
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a
   project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce,
   to poetry, to an institution.


word: Friend
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward
   rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and
   esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men.
   They are popularly called Quakers.


word: Friendly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed
   to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.


word: Friendly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious;
   serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.


word: Friendship
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being friends; friendly relation, or
   attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from
   mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.


word: Friesic
wordtype: n.
definition:
The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly
   occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern
   Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the
   province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of
   Germany and Denmark.


word: Frieze
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the entablature of an order which is between
   the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform
   or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other
   ornaments of sculpture.


word: Frieze
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or,
   by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.


word: Friezed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts,
   knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.


word: Frigate
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by
   sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to
   larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war
   vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates,
   from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar
   deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty
   guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of
   largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part
   of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of
   ironclads superseded them.


word: Frigatoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a
   mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.


word: Frigga
wordtype: n.
definition:
The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme
   goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.


word: Fright
wordtype: n.
definition:
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of
   danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden
   alarm.


word: Frightful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm;
   impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a
   frightful appearance.


word: Frigid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.;
   unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal;
   as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner;
   frigid obedience or service.


word: Prigidity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of
   affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as,
   frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.


word: Frill
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn
   back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.


word: Frill
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or
   of feathers, around the neck of an animal.


word: Frill
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at
   the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.


word: Frimaire
wordtype: n.
definition:
The third month of the French republican calendar. It
   commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendemiaire.


word: Fringe
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff,
   originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the
   woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting
   sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and
   sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of
   leather, or the like.


word: Fringe
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of
   objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a
   confine.


word: Fringe
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the
   interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference
   fringe.


word: Fringilla
wordtype: a.
definition:
A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill.
   It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now
   restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and
   brambling.


word: Engage
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel
   engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other
   part.


word: Engage
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or
   involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to
   engage in controversy.


word: Engaged
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections
   pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.


word: Engagement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied;
   specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.


word: Engagement
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment
   of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an
   enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of
   any office.


word: Engagement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is
   brought into engagement with the other part.


word: Engender
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow
   the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife.


word: Engine
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially,
   an instrument or machine of war or torture.


word: Engine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam
   vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by
   another.


word: Engineer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person skilled in the principles and practice of any
   branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.


word: Engineer
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform
   the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road.


word: Engineer
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the course
   of; to manage; as, to engineer a bill through Congress.


word: Engineering
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern
   and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical
   properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines;
   the occupation and work of an engineer.


word: English
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to
   the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.


word: English
wordtype: n.
definition:
The language of England or of the English nation, and of
   their descendants in America, India, and other countries.


word: English
wordtype: n.
definition:
A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it
   that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or
   another ball.


word: English
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it
   in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences
   its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.


word: Englishry
wordtype: n.
definition:
A body of English or people of English descent; --
   commonly applied to English people in Ireland.


word: Engouled
wordtype: a.
definition:
Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything;
   as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its
   two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend
   engouled.


word: Engrave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an
   inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with
   incisions.


word: Engrave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood,
   stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.


word: Engraver
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who engraves; a person whose business it is to
   produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.


word: Engraving
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or art of producing upon hard material incised
   or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the
   art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or
   blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface
   itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design
   may be printed on paper.


word: Engross
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in
   large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as,
   to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment.


word: Engross
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy
   wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.


word: Engross
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To purchase either the whole or large quantities of,
   for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to
   take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross
   commodities in market; to engross power.


word: Engrosser
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such
   quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a
   forestaller.


word: Enhance
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to
   make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of
   commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more
   heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime.


word: Enhancement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of increasing, or state of being increased;
   augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price,
   enjoyments, crime.


word: Enharmonical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of
   musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the
   ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and
   was regarded as the most accurate.


word: Enharmonical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as
   the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the
   ear, as the substitution of A/ for G/.


word: Enharmonical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which
   recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact
   tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.


word: Enigma
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a
   statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.


word: Enigma
wordtype: n.
definition:
An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be
   satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma.


word: Enigmatical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily
   explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an
   enigmatical answer.


word: Enjoin
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an
   injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.


word: Enjoy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or
   experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with;
   as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.


word: Enjoy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or
   have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something
   desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty.


word: Enjoyment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or
   satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession
   and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.


word: Enlace
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace;
   to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.


word: Enlarge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions;
   to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition;
   to enlarge one's house.


word: Enlarge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free
   scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and
   the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.


word: Enlarge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to
   expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good
   management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.


word: Enlargement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or
   apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further
   extension; expansion.


word: Enlargement
wordtype: n.
definition:
Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind;
   ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an enlargement of
   views, of knowledge, of affection.


word: Enlargement
wordtype: n.
definition:
A setting at large, or being set at large; release
   from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty.


word: Enlighten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed
   the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of
   knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.


word: Enlightener
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that
   which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.


word: Enlimn
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and
   decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript.


word: Enlist
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To engage for military or naval service, the name being
   entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.


word: Enlist
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing
   interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a
   charitable enterprise.


word: Enlist
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval
   service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the
   war.


word: Enlistment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted;
   voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.


word: Enliven
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or
   active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire.


word: Enliven
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay,
   or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company;
   enlivening strains of music.


word: Enmanche
wordtype: a.
definition:
Resembling, or covered with, a sleeve; -- said of the
   chief when lines are drawn from the middle point of the upper edge
   upper edge to the sides.


word: Ennui
wordtype: n.
definition:
A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of
   spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.


word: Enodation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of
   untying; hence, also, the solution of a difficulty.


word: Enomoty
wordtype: n.
definition:
A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army
   ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.


word: Enopla
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the
   presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.


word: Enormity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or
   of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.


word: Enormity
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense
   against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious
   villainy; an atrocity.


word: Enorthotrope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect
   figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the
   card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.


word: Enough
wordtype: a.
definition:
Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the
   want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to
   which it belongs.


word: Enough
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of
   the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready
   enough to embrace the offer.


word: Enough
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere
   acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity
   rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.


word: Enough
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is
   adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had
   enough to do take care of himself.


word: Enrich
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent;
   to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with
   knowledge.


word: Enrichment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of making rich, or that which enriches;
   increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration;
   embellishment.


word: Enroll
wordtype: n.
definition:
To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or
   catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records;
   to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree
   or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.


word: Ens
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues
   and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; essence.


word: Enshrine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or
   cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.


word: Ensign
wordtype: n.
definition:
A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a
   banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers;
   -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank
   of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.


word: Ensign
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried
   the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.


word: Ensign
wordtype: n.
definition:
A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy,
   corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army.


word: Ensign
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a
   crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it,
   is said to be ensigned.


word: Ensilage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks,
   rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a
   pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the
   ensilage of fodder.


word: Enstatite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in
   crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or
   greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a
   ferriferous variety.


word: Ensue
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence
   or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or
   effect; the year ensuing was a cold one.


word: -ent
definition:
An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent,
   excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant.


word: Entail
wordtype: n.
definition:
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a
   person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said
   especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.


word: Entangle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be
   easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to
   entangle yarn or the hair.


word: Entangle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To involve in such complications as to render
   extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to
   insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet
   in a net, or in briers.


word: Entanglement
wordtype: n.
definition:
State of being entangled; intricate and confused
   involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.


word: Entasia
wordtype: n.
definition:
Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease
   characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.


word: Entellus
wordtype: n.
definition:
An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus
   entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the
   caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and
   hungoor.


word: Enter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass
   within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to
   enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the
   sea.


word: Enter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a
   member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.


word: Enter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to
   commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.


word: Enter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put
   in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a
   piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse
   for a race, etc.


word: Enter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name,
   or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the
   particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of
   merchandise at the customhouse.


word: Enter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place in regular form before the court, usually in
   writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a
   writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.


word: Enter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the
   customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the
   original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating
   the duties. See Entry, 4.


word: Enter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office
   the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in
   order to entitle a person to a right pf preemption.


word: Enter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a
   book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."


word: Enter
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate;
   to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to
   share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as,
   a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into
   the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership
   with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his
   tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of
   pewter.


word: Enterocoele
wordtype: n.
definition:
A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or
   outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele,
   which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.


word: Enteropneusta
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along
   the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which
   are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the
   only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Enterprise
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is undertaken; something attempted to be
   performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy,
   and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking;
   as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.


word: Enterprise
wordtype: n.
definition:
Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which
   requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of
   great enterprise.


word: Enterprising
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by
   enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising
   man or firm.


word: Entertain
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's
   service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.


word: Entertain
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give hospitable reception and maintenance to; to
   receive at one's board, or into one's house; to receive as a guest.


word: Entertain
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To engage the attention of agreeably; to amuse with
   that which makes the time pass pleasantly; to divert; as, to entertain
   friends with conversation, etc.


word: Entertain
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give reception to; to receive, in general; to
   receive and take into consideration; to admit, treat, or make use of;
   as, to entertain a proposal.


word: Entertain
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To keep, hold, or maintain in the mind with favor; to
   keep in the mind; to harbor; to cherish; as, to entertain sentiments.


word: Entertainment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of receiving as host, or of amusing,
   admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or
   treatment, in general.


word: Entertainment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which entertains, or with which one is
   entertained; as: (a) Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of
   a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a
   feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention
   agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation,
   etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement.


word: Enthrone
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To seat on a throne; to exalt to the seat of royalty
   or of high authority; hence, to invest with sovereign authority or
   dignity.


word: Enthusiasm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power;
   ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of
   being directly subject to some divine impulse.


word: Enthusiasm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of
   fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm.


word: Enthusiasm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong
   excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and
   imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with
   enthusiasm.


word: Enthusiast
wordtype: n.
definition:
One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who
   imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special
   revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly
   possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a
   peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.


word: Enthymeme
wordtype: n.
definition:
An argument consisting of only two propositions, an
   antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise
   omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the
   major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be,
   Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures;
   therefore we should be humble.


word: Entice
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to
   attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead
   astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to
   listen.


word: Enticement
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which entices, or incites to evil; means of
   allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.


word: Entire
wordtype: a.
definition:
Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full
   and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business;
   entire confidence, ignorance.


word: Entireness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or condition of being entire; completeness;
   fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge.


word: Entitle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give a title to; to affix to as a name or
   appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to
   denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a
   man "Honorable."


word: Entitle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct
   object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with
   grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents
   entitle him to command.


word: Entogastric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied
   to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in
   certain hydroids.


word: Entomere
wordtype: n.
definition:
The more granular cells, which finally become internal,
   in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.


word: Entomophaga
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose
   larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2.


word: Entomophilous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of
   plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.


word: Entomostraca
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a
   large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces
   several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and
   Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.


word: Entoperipheral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being, or having its origin, within the external
   surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger,
   produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.


word: Entoplastic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the
   entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification
   of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.


word: Entoptic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp.,
   relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.


word: Entozoa
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes,
   roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of
   other animals; the Helminthes.


word: Entrance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the
   entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of
   taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an
   heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.


word: Entrance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the
   beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult
   entrance into business.


word: Entrance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or
   goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival
   was made the same day.


word: Entrap
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a
   trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch
   or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of
   evil men.


word: Entreat
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired;
   hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency;
   to supplicate; to importune.


word: Entree
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access;
   permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.


word: Entree
wordtype: n.
definition:
In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner
   to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served
   with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters,
   etc.


word: Entremets
wordtype: n. sing. & pl.
definition:
A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish
   usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat,
   served with a dinner.


word: Entrepot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores,
   etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot
   for shipping goods in transit.


word: Entrepreneur
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who creates a product on his own account; whoever
   undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen
   are employed.


word: Entresol
wordtype: n.
definition:
A low story between two higher ones, usually between the
   ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.


word: Entrochal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the
   joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble.


word: Entropy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable
   quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity
   remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity
   increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body
   when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the
   body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from
   some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the
   thermodynamic function.


word: Entry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance;
   ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person
   into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of
   air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.


word: Entry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in
   writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale;
   also, that which is entered; an item.


word: Entry
wordtype: n.
definition:
That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a
   house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a
   mine.


word: Entry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the
   customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account
   of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his
   permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.


word: Enumerate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell
   off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one;
   to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount;
   as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.


word: Enunciate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to
   pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.


word: Enunciation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or
   making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an
   important truth.


word: Enunciation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as
   regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a
   clear or impressive enunciation.


word: Enunciation
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is enunciated or announced; words in which
   a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a
   statement.


word: Envelop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose
   within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely;
   as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.


word: Envelop
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a
   wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document,
   as of a letter.


word: Envelop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a
   small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond
   it.


word: Envelop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a
   system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of
   the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law.
   Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.


word: Envelop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some
   type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used
   metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general,
   including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It
   is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current
   state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in
   general, not a specific machine.


word: Envenom
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance
   noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as
   food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to
   poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.


word: Envious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or
   proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act,
   etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another;
   maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an
   envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.


word: Environment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which environs or surrounds; surrounding
   conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced
   and modified in their growth and development.


word: Environs
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The parts or places which surround another place, or
   lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.


word: Envoy
wordtype: n.
definition:
One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp.,
   a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty,
   or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a
   minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below
   that of an ambassador.


word: Envoy
wordtype: n.
definition:
An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay,
   or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.


word: Envy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the
   sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some
   degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious
   grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of
   Caesar.


word: Envy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a
   feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising
   from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to
   possess it.


word: Envy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or
   repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of
   another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon;
   to begrudge.


word: Envy
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything
   with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.


word: Enzootic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the
   animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.


word: Enzyme
wordtype: n.
definition:
An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an
   organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin,
   pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.


word: Eocene
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions
   into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and
   alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era;
   as, Eocene deposits.


word: Eolis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial
   papillae along the back. See Ceratobranchia.


word: Eosaurus
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova
   Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known
   reptiles.


word: Eosin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of
   bromine on fluorescein, and named from the fine rose-red which it
   imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its
   solution is fluorescent.


word: Eosphorite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is
   generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name.


word: Eozoic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the
   Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoon has been found.


word: Eozoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of
   Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a
   species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion,
   without organic structure.


word: Epacris
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand,
   etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling
   heaths.


word: Epact
wordtype: n.
definition:
The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the
   number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of
   the year.


word: Epagoge
wordtype: n.
definition:
The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a
   universal conclusion; the argument by induction.


word: Epanadiplosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure by which the same word is used both at the
   beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord
   always: and again I say, Rejoice."


word: Epanody
wordtype: n.
definition:
The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular
   form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral
   condition.


word: Epanorthosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words,
   in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as,
   Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!


word: Eparch
wordtype: n.
definition:
In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province;
   in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.


word: Eparchy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A province, prefecture, or territory, under the
   jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of
   the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in
   Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.


word: Eparterial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to
   the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the
   pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.


word: Epaule
wordtype: n.
definition:
The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and
   flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.


word: Epaulement
wordtype: n.
definition:
A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled
   with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking
   fire of an enemy.


word: Epaulette
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval
   officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or
   device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.


word: Epeira
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of spiders, including the common garden spider (E.
   diadema). They spin geometrical webs. See Garden spider.


word: Epencephalon
wordtype: n.
definition:
The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain,
   including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated
   to epen.


word: Ependyma
wordtype: n.
definition:
The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and
   the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.


word: Epenthesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a
   word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. n/mol.


word: Epergne
wordtype: n.
definition:
A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of
   several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an
   ornamental design.


word: Epha
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and
   five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.


word: Ephemera
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral
   flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.


word: Ephemeral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no
   longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.


word: Ephemeris
wordtype: n.
definition:
A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly
   bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use
   of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the
   "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."


word: Ephemeris
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a
   heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days.


word: Ephod
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering
   for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps
   or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the
   same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen;
   that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The
   breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front.


word: Ephor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by
   the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the
   king.


word: Ephyra
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when
   they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila.
   See Strobila.


word: Epi-
definition:
A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above,
   over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek
   aspirate, as in ephemeral.


word: Epic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a
   kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or
   fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated
   in an elevated style.


word: Funiculus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the
   small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied
   also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord.


word: Funnel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone,
   terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a
   close vessel; a tunnel.


word: Funnel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance;
   specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or
   the like.


word: Funnelform
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the form of a funnel, or tunnel; that is,
   expanding gradually from the bottom upward, as the corolla of some
   flowers; infundibuliform.


word: Fur
wordtype: n.
definition:
The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick
   on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and
   coarser.


word: Fur
wordtype: n.
definition:
Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady
   (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).


word: Fur
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There
   are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.


word: Fur
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in
   order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide
   for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as
   inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.


word: Furfuran
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by
   distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic
   acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.


word: Furfurol
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor,
   obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an
   aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.


word: Furl
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll,
   as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or
   around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.


word: Furlough
wordtype: a.
definition:
Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer
   or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the
   document granting leave of absence.


word: Furnace
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the
   combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming
   a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air
   furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.


word: Furnish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To supply with anything necessary, useful, or
   appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as,
   to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for
   defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish
   one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or
   enterprise, a room or a house.


word: Furnish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To offer for use; to provide (something); to give
   (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish
   arms for defense.


word: Furniture
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Articles used for convenience or decoration in a
   house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets,
   curtains, pictures, vases, etc.


word: Furniture
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Pieces of wood or metal of a lesser height than the
   type, placed around the pages or other matter in a form, and, with the
   quoins, serving to secure the form in its place in the chase.


word: Furring
wordtype: n.
definition:
The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air
   space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See Fur, v. t.,
   3.


word: Furring
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler;
   also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit.


word: Furrow
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a
   wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.


word: Further
wordtype: superl.
definition:
More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance;
   farther; as, the further end of the field. See Farther.


word: Fury
wordtype: n.
definition:
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to
   inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.


word: Fury
wordtype: n.
definition:
pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto,
   and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.


word: Furze
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful
   yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain;
   -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.


word: Fusarole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter
   round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of
   architecture.


word: Fuse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of
   which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also
   fuzee. See Fuze.


word: Fusee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages
   allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will
   explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to
   provide a warning signal to the engineer.


word: Fusee
wordtype: n.
definition:
The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to
   equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the
   barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface
   of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point
   where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the
   spring.


word: Fusel oil
definition:
A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic
   liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable
   ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and
   compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically
   applied to amyl alcohol.


word: Fusion
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by
   heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.


word: Fusion
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state
   of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.


word: Fustet
wordtype: n.
definition:
The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of
   Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is
   not durable without a mordant.


word: Fustian
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which
   high-sounding words are used,' above the dignity of the thoughts or
   subject; bombast.


word: Fustic
wordtype: n.
definition:
The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the
   West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic.


word: Futtock
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to
   form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked
   transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.


word: Future
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any
   time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.


word: Future
wordtype: a.
definition:
Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the
   future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to
   happen in time to come.


word: Future
wordtype: a.
definition:
The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of
   prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him.


word: Futurist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who
   anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an
   expectant.


word: Futurist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the
   prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.


word: Fyke
wordtype: n.
definition:
A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass
   easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net.


word: Fyllot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a
   common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.


word: Fytte
wordtype: n.
definition:
See Fit a song.
   G () G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal
   consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the
   other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to
   Pronunciation, // 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246.


word: G
definition:
G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; --
   called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used
   as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character
   represented in the margin. See Clef. G/ (G sharp) is a tone
   intermediate between G and A.


word: Gabbro
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of
   serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used
   for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar
   pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine
   gabbro).


word: Gabion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a
   bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in
   building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.


word: Gabion
wordtype: n.
definition:
An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and
   sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.


word: Gabionade
wordtype: n.
definition:
A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their
   flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire.


word: Foliaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a
   leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike.


word: Foliage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature;
   leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.


word: Foliage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially,
   the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture,
   intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc.


word: Foliated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by being separable into thin plates or
   folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.


word: Foliated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated
   structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.


word: Foliation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged
   in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments. See
   Tracery.


word: Foliation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of
   dividing into plates or slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure
   of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes
   include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually
   independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding,
   it having been produced by pressure.


word: Folio
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book made of sheets of paper each folded once (four pages
   to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind. See Note under Paper.


word: Folio
wordtype: n.
definition:
The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages
   and the odd folios on the right-hand.


word: Folio
wordtype: n.
definition:
A page of a book; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book;
   sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.


word: Folio
wordtype: n.
definition:
A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a
   certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings
   72, and in chancery, 90; in New York, 100 words.


word: Fol'io
wordtype: a.
definition:
Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or
   four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.


word: Folium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite
   branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point,
   and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.


word: Folks
wordtype: n. collect. & pl.
definition:
People in general, or a separate class of
   people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a
   qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.


word: Folkland
wordtype: n.
definition:
Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk,
   or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his
   discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed
   to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.


word: Folkmote
wordtype: n.
definition:
a general assembly of the people to consider and order
   matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.


word: Follicle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds
   and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur
   and milkweed.


word: Follow
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or
   direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to
   attend.


word: Follow
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to
   obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good
   advice.


word: Follow
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed
   upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a
   speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand
   the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or
   argument.


word: Follow
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of
   the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a
   result; to imitate.


word: Follower
wordtype: n.
definition:
Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which
   is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.


word: Following
wordtype: a.
definition:
(In the field of a telescope) In the direction from
   which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's
   rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the
   direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.


word: Foment
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or
   sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.


word: Foment
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by
   excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a
   bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.


word: Fomentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft,
   medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing
   the skin, or of discussing tumors.


word: Fomes
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing,
   retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen
   clothes are said to be active fomites.


word: Fond
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful,
   indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of
   (formerly also by on).


word: Fondle
wordtype: v.
definition:
To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner;
   to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.


word: Fondness
wordtype: n.
definition:
Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite,
   propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.


word: Fondus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which
   the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.


word: Font
wordtype: n.
definition:
A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including
   a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small,
   points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that
   variety of types; a fount.


word: Fontanel
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted
   angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull;
   -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.


word: Food
wordtype: n.
definition:
What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being
   received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a
   plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for
   nourishment.


word: Food
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings,
   or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.


word: Fool
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or
   pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without
   judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.


word: Fool
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon;
   a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in
   motley, with ridiculous accouterments.


word: Fool
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying
   manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as,
   to fool one out of his money.


word: Foolish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding;
   weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.


word: Foolish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind
   or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a
   foolish act.


word: Foolscap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13
   inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.


word: Foot
wordtype: n.
definition:
The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the
   part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it
   rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes.


word: Foot
wordtype: n.
definition:
The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median
   organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a
   flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum.


word: Foot
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as,
   the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking.


word: Foot
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a
   mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or
   extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill;
   the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed.


word: Foot
wordtype: n.
definition:
Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually
   designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry.


word: Foot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a
   verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or
   length, but in modern poetry by the accent.


word: Foot
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with
   up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account.


word: Football
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in
   India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.


word: Footing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is
   added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.


word: Footman
wordtype: n.
definition:
A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to
   attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.


word: Foot pound
definition:
A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done
   in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the
   height of one foot.


word: Foot poundal
definition:
A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in
   moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal.


word: Footrope
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when
   reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.


word: Footstalk
wordtype: n.
definition:
The peduncle or stem by which various marine animals are
   attached, as certain brachiopods and goose barnacles.


word: Footstep
wordtype: n.
definition:
The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence,
   visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of
   divine wisdom.


word: Foppish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners;
   making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.


word: For-
definition:
A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or
   privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and
   sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in
   forbathe.


word: For
wordtype: prep.
definition:
In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration
   of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes
   place.


word: For
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action;
   the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state;
   the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.


word: For
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the
   end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves,
   or is done.


word: For
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which,
   anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side
   of; -- opposed to against.


word: For
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Indicating that toward which the action of anything is
   directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.


word: For
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything
   acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a
   compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.


word: For
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Indicating that in the character of or as being which
   anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.


word: For
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Indicating that instead of which something else controls in
   the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is
   done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of;
   -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.


word: For
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Indicating the space or time through which an action or
   state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.


word: For
wordtype: conj.
definition:
Since; because; introducing a reason of something before
   advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of
   an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly
   equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is
   sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by
   what has gone before.


word: For
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side;
   that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis
   of against, and commonly used in connection with it.


word: Forage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and
   cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.


word: Forage
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food,
   esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the
   country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.


word: Foraminifera
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extensive order of rhizopods which generally
   have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many
   of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are
   covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.


word: Foray
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence,
   any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.


word: Forbear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give
   up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.


word: Forbid
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual
   command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.


word: Forbidding
wordtype: a.
definition:
Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence,
   aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a
   forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.


word: Force
wordtype: n.
definition:
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor;
   might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of
   exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to
   persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity;
   special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a
   contract, or a term.


word: Force
wordtype: n.
definition:
Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval
   combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament;
   troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men
   prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a
   plantation.


word: Force
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to
   change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more
   generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation
   between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical,
   magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive
   force; centrifugal force.


word: Force
wordtype: n.
definition:
To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power
   not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to
   coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.


word: Force
wordtype: n.
definition:
To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to
   one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.


word: Force
wordtype: n.
definition:
To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or
   struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.


word: Force
wordtype: n.
definition:
To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength
   or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into,
   through, out, etc.


word: Force
wordtype: n.
definition:
To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge
   to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural
   effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force
   fruits.


word: Force
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to
   hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.


word: Forced
wordtype: a.
definition:
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by
   extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort
   or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh.


word: Forceps
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping,
   holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be
   inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one
   for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons,
   accoucheurs, dentists, etc.


word: Force pump
definition:
A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and
   forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a
   pump having a bucket, or valved piston.


word: Force pump
definition:
A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable
   height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction
   from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers
   it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.


word: Forcible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or
   energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.


word: Forcible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by
   compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.


word: Forcing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately,
   prematurely, or with unusual expedition.


word: Forcing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an
   earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of
   artificial heat.


word: Forcipal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so
   as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.


word: Fore
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the
   front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance;
   preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back
   or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day;
   the fore and of a wagon.


word: Forebode
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have
   an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to
   augur despondingly.


word: Forebrain
wordtype: n.
definition:
The anterior of the three principal divisions of the
   brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes
   restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain.


word: Forecastle
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the
   foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels.


word: Foreclosure
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which
   bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged
   estate.


word: Forefather
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in
   any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.


word: Forefend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the
   approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.


word: Forefoot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore
   end, connecting it with the lower end of the stem.


word: Forego
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up;
   to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one
   within reach, or anticipated.


word: Foreground
wordtype: n.
definition:
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic
   picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is
   nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the
   work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.


word: Foregut
wordtype: n.
definition:
The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth
   to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct.


word: Forehanded
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beforehand with one's needs, or having resources in
   advance of one's necessities; in easy circumstances; as, a forehanded
   farmer.


word: Forehead
wordtype: n.
definition:
The front of that part of the head which incloses the
   brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.


word: Forehook
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the
   bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.


word: Foreign
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or
   belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a
   foreign language; foreign fruits.


word: Foreign
wordtype: a.
definition:
Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected;
   not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not
   agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the
   purpose; foreign to one's nature.


word: Foreigner
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign
   country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under
   consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.


word: Forejudge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To expel from court for some offense or misconduct,
   as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the
   judgment of a court.


word: Foreland
wordtype: n.
definition:
That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the
   embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.


word: Forelock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent
   retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.


word: Foreman
wordtype: n.
definition:
The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on
   works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.


word: Foremilk
wordtype: n.
definition:
The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the
   birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.


word: Foremost
wordtype: a.
definition:
First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or
   dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.


word: Forensic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion
   and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions;
   argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.


word: Forerunner
wordtype: n.
definition:
A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach
   of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as,
   the forerunner of a fever.


word: Foreshorten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in
   a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in
   perspective.


word: Foreshot
wordtype: n.
definition:
In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit
   that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil.


word: Foresight
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the
   backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a
   forward direction.


word: Forest
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with
   trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of
   woodland which has never been cultivated.


word: Forest
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and
   woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game
   for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and
   protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.


word: Forestaff
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the
   altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called
   also cross-staff.


word: Forestall
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take possession of, in advance of some one or
   something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get
   ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior
   occupation, or by measures taken in advance.


word: Forestall
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage
   of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.


word: Forestay
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to
   the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.


word: Forester
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an
   officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.


word: Forester
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied
   genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the
   larval state is injurious to the grapevine.


word: Foretop
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock
   of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.


word: Fore-topgallant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the
   topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.


word: Fore-topmast
wordtype: n.
definition:
The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at
   the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.


word: Castrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous,
   or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.


word: Castrato
wordtype: n.
definition:
A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his
   voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.


word: Casual
wordtype: a.
definition:
Happening or coming to pass without design, and without
   being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.


word: Casualty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or
   other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.


word: Casuarina
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping
   branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some
   of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent
   quality, called beefwood from its color.


word: Casuistry
wordtype: a.
definition:
The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of
   conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or
   determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by
   rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of
   society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the
   application of general moral rules to particular cases.


word: Casuistry
wordtype: a.
definition:
Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching
   in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.


word: Casus
wordtype: n.
definition:
An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of
   circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.


word: Cat
wordtype: n.
definition:
An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The
   domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is
   much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild
   cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and
   Tiger cat.


word: Cat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and
   deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.


word: Cat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet,
   of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.


word: Cat
wordtype: n.
definition:
An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with
   which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according
   to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.


word: Cata
definition:
The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a
   prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed
   to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops
   the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as
   in cathartic, catholic.


word: Catachresis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another,
   or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take
   arms against a sea of troubles". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of
   a sound." Young.


word: Catachrestical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis;
   wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.


word: Catacomb
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent
   used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.


word: Catadioptrical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the
   reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light.


word: Catadromous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer
   the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching
   in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.


word: Catadromous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn;
   -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel.


word: Catafalque
wordtype: n.
definition:
A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral
   solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the
   remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.


word: Catalepsis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body
   and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the
   action of the heart and lungs continues.


word: Catallacta
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the
   type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia,
   and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.


word: Catalogue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged
   methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the
   students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.


word: Catalpa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the
   best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental
   North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical
   pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also
   Indian bean.


word: Catalysis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of
   certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by
   mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with
   the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by
   alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left
   unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of
   sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as
   diastase, or ptyalin) on starch.


word: Catamaran
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs
   or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; --
   used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East
   and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the
   lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.


word: Catamaran
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails
   or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats
   remarkable for speed.


word: Catapasm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to
   sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.


word: Cataphract
wordtype: n.
definition:
Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for
   the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern
   nations.


word: Cataphracted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates,
   scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony
   plates, hard, callous skin, etc.


word: Catapult
wordtype: n.
definition:
An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by
   the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.


word: Cataract
wordtype: n.
definition:
An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule,
   which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys
   the sight.


word: Cataract
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of
   pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.


word: Catarrh
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which
   there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and
   quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the
   bladder.


word: Catarrhine
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana,
   including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close
   together and turned downward. See Monkey.


word: Catastasis
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which
   the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.


word: Catastrophe
wordtype: n.
definition:
An event producing a subversion of the order or system
   of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature;
   hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.


word: Catastrophe
wordtype: n.
definition:
The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a
   denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.


word: Catastrophe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A violent and widely extended change in the surface of
   the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected
   by internal causes.


word: Catastrophism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine that the geological changes in the
   earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical
   causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.


word: Catawbas
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally
   inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the
   Santee.


word: Catbird
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to
   the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other
   birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a
   cat.


word: Catboat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward
   as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See
   Illustration in Appendix.


word: Catcall
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in
   playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill
   instrument for making such a noise.


word: Catch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to
   grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a
   ball.


word: Catch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion,
   infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to
   catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.


word: Catch
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light
   obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to
   open.


word: Catch
wordtype: n.
definition:
The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold
   of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.


word: Catch
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the
   whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.


word: Catch-basin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter
   discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass
   readily through the sewer.


word: Catchdrain
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the
   surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the
   surplus water.


word: Catchfly
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other
   parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere.
   The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.


word: Catchpenny
wordtype: a.
definition:
Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from
   the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show.


word: Catchword
wordtype: n.
definition:
Among theatrical performers, the last word of the
   preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.


word: Catchword
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first word of any page of a book after the first,
   inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the
   assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.


word: Catchwork
wordtype: n.
definition:
A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on
   lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.


word: Catechetical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and
   receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.


word: Catechin
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a
   white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and
   catechuin.


word: Catechise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers,
   and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points
   of religious faith.


word: Catechise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To question or interrogate; to examine or try by
   questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a
   person answers which condemn his own conduct.


word: Catechism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book containing a summary of principles, especially of
   religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.


word: Catechu
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction
   and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants
   growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid,
   and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names
   terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc.


word: Catechumen
wordtype: L. catechunenus, Gr.
definition:
One who is
   receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a
   neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a
   Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full
   membership in the church.


word: Categorical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions
   or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a
   categorical proposition, or answer.


word: Category
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the highest classes to which the objects of
   knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged
   in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.


word: Catelectrotonus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of increased irritability of a nerve
   in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a
   current of electricity through it.


word: Catenary
wordtype: n.
definition:
The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density
   and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of
   suspension, not in the same vertical line.


word: Catenation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a
   regular or connected series. See Concatenation.


word: Catenulate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of
   indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells,
   etc.


word: Cater
wordtype: n.
definition:
By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at
   theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.


word: Caterpillar
wordtype: n.
definition:
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous
   insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other
   insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The
   true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of
   abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy,
   others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent
   vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly
   called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm,
   silkworm.


word: Catfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given in the United States to various species of
   siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat
   (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat
   (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also
   sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.


word: Catgut
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of
   animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.


word: Catharist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like
   than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See
   Albigenses.


word: Cat-harping
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in
   the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.


word: Cathartin
wordtype: n.
definition:
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a
   glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
   acid, and cathartina.


word: Cathay
wordtype: n.
definition:
China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have
   been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name
   for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)


word: Cathead
wordtype: n.
definition:
A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of
   vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.


word: Cathedral
wordtype: n.
definition:
The principal church in a diocese, so called because in
   it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.


word: Catheter
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name of various instruments for passing along mucous
   canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the
   bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.


word: Cathetometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for the accurate measurement of small
   differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the
   upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same
   column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling
   apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic
   standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or
   depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the
   differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated
   standard.


word: Cathetus
wordtype: n.
definition:
One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another;
   as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that
   include the right angle.


word: Cathode
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric
   current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at
   which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative
   pole; -- opposed to anode.


word: Catholic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person who accepts the creeds which are received in
   common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.


word: Catholicity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held
   by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held;
   orthodoxy.


word: Catholicos
wordtype: n.
definition:
The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides
   at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and
   consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and
   Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.


word: Cation
wordtype: n.
definition:
An electro-positive substance, which in
   electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion.


word: Catkin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a
   slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as
   in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the
   chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a
   cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.


word: Catmint
wordtype: n.
definition:
A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria),
   somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in
   medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.


word: Catoptrics
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of optics which explains the properties and
   phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected
   from mirrors or polished bodies; -- formerly called anacamptics.


word: Catoptromancy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of divination, which was performed by
   letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face
   in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill
   omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.


word: Cat's-eye
wordtype: n.
definition:
A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent
   reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to
   other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.


word: Catskill period
definition:
The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in
   America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill
   mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation.
   See the Diagram under Geology.


word: Cat's-paw
wordtype: n.
definition:
A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the
   water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.


word: Cat's-paw
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by
   another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes.


word: Cat-tail
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes,
   with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical
   spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for
   seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.


word: Cattle
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also,
   including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules,
   asses, and swine.


word: Caucasian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom
   the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.


word: Caucus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons
   belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to
   select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding
   measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.


word: Cauda galli
definition:
A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed,
   characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit.


word: Caudex
wordtype: n.
definition:
The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a
   palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous
   plant.


word: Caudle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of
   wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.


word: Caul
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or
   less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.


word: Caul
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the
   fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.


word: Caulicle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in
   the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.


word: Cauliculus
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks
   rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to
   support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.


word: Cauliflower
wordtype: n.
definition:
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of
   which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a
   vegetable.


word: Causal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a
   cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.


word: Cause
wordtype: v.
definition:
That which produces or effects a result; that from which
   anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.


word: Cause
wordtype: v.
definition:
That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground;
   reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.


word: Cause
wordtype: v.
definition:
A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a
   party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right;
   case; ground of action.


word: Cause
wordtype: v.
definition:
The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and
   upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which
   a person or party seeks to attain.


word: Cause
wordtype: n.
definition:
To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to
   bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by
   an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb.


word: Causey
wordtype: n.
definition:
A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground,
   serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.


word: Caustical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating
   away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.


word: Caustic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other
   organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an
   escharotic.


word: Cauterization
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of searing some morbid part by the
   application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such
   application.


word: Cautery
wordtype: n.
definition:
A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron,
   or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy
   animal tissue.


word: Caution
wordtype: n.
definition:
A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in
   order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to
   danger; provident care; wariness.


word: Cautious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of
   acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect;
   wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.


word: Cavalier
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as
   contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.


word: Cavalier
wordtype: n.
definition:
A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the
   level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.


word: Cavally
wordtype: n.
definition:
A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): --
   called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]


word: Cavatina
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a
   song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and
   vaguely used.


word: Cave
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a
   subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.


word: Cave
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence
   (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a
   disputed matter.


word: Caveat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A notice given by an interested party to some officer not
   to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a
   caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the
   taking out of letters of administration, etc.


word: Caveat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A description of some invention, designed to be patented,
   lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and
   operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person,
   respecting the same invention.


word: Cavicornia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and
   planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.


word: Cavo-rilievo
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking
   made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain
   surface around.


word: Cavy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea
   pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.


word: Cayugas
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western
   New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.


word: Cecidomyia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of small dipterous files, including several
   very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.


word: Cedar
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable
   for its durability and fragrant odor.


word: Cede
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede
   a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.


word: Cedilla
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mark placed under the letter c [thus, c], to show that
   it is to be sounded like s, as in facade.


word: Cedrat
wordtype: n.
definition:
Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large
   fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.


word: Cedrene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red
   cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of
   similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper,
   etc., of which cedrene proper is the type.


word: Ceil
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to
   furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.


word: Ceiling
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of
   the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.


word: Ceiling
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface,
   with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.


word: Celandine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the
   poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in
   jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure
   warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.


word: Celebrant
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied
   particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as
   distinguished from his assistants.


word: Celebrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and
   respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to
   keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.


word: Celebrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or
   solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to
   celebrate a marriage.


word: Celebrity
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the
   plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.


word: Celery
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which
   the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.


word: Celestite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its
   occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact
   massive and fibrous forms.


word: Celibacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a
   bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.


word: Cell
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a
   monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.


word: Cell
wordtype: n.
definition:
A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for
   holding the exciting fluid of a battery.


word: Cell
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater
   part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are
   composed.


word: Cella
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as
   distinguished from the open porticoes.


word: Cellar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the
   surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.


word: Cellarer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who
   has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.


word: Cellaret
wordtype: n.
definition:
A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of
   wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer
   in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.


word: Cellulitis
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue,
   esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.


word: Celluloid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and
   camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but
   variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite,
   etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles,
   as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.


word: Cellulose
wordtype: n.
definition:
The substance which constitutes the essential part of
   the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It
   is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates.
   It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is
   convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids.
   When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin.


word: Celsius
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders
   Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the
   centigrade thermometer or scale.


word: Celt
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a
   great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the
   present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the
   northern shores of France.


word: Celt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli,
   or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.


word: Celtiberian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district
   in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the
   Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus).


word: Cement
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay
   and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.


word: Cementation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process which consists in surrounding a solid body
   with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree
   not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body
   being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes
   steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain
   by cementation with sand.


word: Cenobite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a
   community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in
   solitude.


word: Cenogamy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual
   intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing
   communism.


word: Cenozoic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to the most recent division of geological time,
   including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age
   of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.


word: Censor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the
   number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of
   inspector of morals and conduct.


word: Censor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are
   committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain
   anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.


word: Censorious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in
   making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.


word: Censurable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable;
   reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.


word: Census
wordtype: n.
definition:
A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate,
   for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five
   years.


word: Census
wordtype: n.
definition:
An official registration of the number of the people, the
   value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.


word: Cent
wordtype: n.
definition:
A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar,
   formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.


word: Cental
wordtype: n.
definition:
A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in
   many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.


word: Centaurea
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large genus of composite plants, related to the
   thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus)
   and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).


word: Centaury
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is
   usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of
   Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to
   the unrelated Centaurea.


word: Centennial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of
   an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.


word: Center
wordtype: n.
definition:
A point equally distant from the extremities of a line,
   figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle;
   the middle point or place.


word: Center
wordtype: n.
definition:
A principal or important point of concentration; the
   nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an
   object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.


word: Center
wordtype: n.
definition:
Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who
   support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the
   legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the
   conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and
   the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left,
   See Right, and Left.


word: Center
wordtype: n.
definition:
A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault
   or arch are supported in position until the work becomes
   self-supporting.


word: Center
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon
   which the work is held, and about which it revolves.


word: Center
wordtype: n.
definition:
A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or
   other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can
   turn, as in a lathe.


word: Centreboard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or
   slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case
   amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the
   area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is
   beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast
   of the United States


word: Centrepiece
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table,
   ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.


word: Centilitre
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or
   capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic
   inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce.


word: Centimetre
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length
   equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch.
   See Meter.


word: Centinody
wordtype: n.
definition:
A weed with a stem of many joints (Illecebrum
   verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.


word: Centiped
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened,
   venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they
   are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet.


word: Centner
wordtype: n.
definition:
The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental
   countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.


word: Cento
wordtype: n.
definition:
A literary or a musical composition formed by selections
   from different authors disposed in a new order.


word: Central
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or
   middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the
   center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.


word: Centrale
wordtype: n.
definition:
The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus
   or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.


word: Centralism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or condition of being central; the
   combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.


word: Centralization
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of centralizing, or the state of
   being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several
   parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general
   government; the centralization of commerce in a city.


word: Centralize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into
   or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.


word: Centripetal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing
   toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.


word: Centrode
wordtype: n.
definition:
In two figures having relative motion, one of the two
   curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.


word: Centrolecithal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the food yolk placed at the center of the
   ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal.


word: Centrosome
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a
   cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the
   machinery of cell division is organized.


word: Centumvir
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try
   civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met
   usually in four sections.


word: Centurist
wordtype: n.
definition:
An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp.
   one of those who wrote the "Magdeburg Centuries." See under Century.


word: Century
wordtype: n.
definition:
A division of the Roman people formed according to their
   property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.


word: Century
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was
   divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.


word: Cephalaspis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red
   sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a
   broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.


word: Cephalata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A large division of Mollusca, including all except
   the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed.
   See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Cephalization
wordtype: n.
definition:
Domination of the head in animal life as expressed
   in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in
   or near the head, in animal development.


word: Cephalo
definition:
A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected
   with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod.


word: Cephaloptera
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta
   birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the
   coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow
   to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and
   weighing more than a ton.


word: Cephalothorax
wordtype: n.
definition:
The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and
   higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.


word: Cepheus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is
   in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the
   fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.


word: Ceramic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making
   earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.


word: Cerargyrite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale
   yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut
   by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).


word: Cerasin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry
   gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.


word: Cerate
wordtype: n.
definition:
An unctuous preparation for external application, of a
   consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so
   that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not
   melt when applied to the skin.


word: Ceratobranchia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on
   the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.


word: Ceratodus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first
   known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have
   been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed
   that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are
   called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.


word: Ceratosaurus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to
   the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length,
   and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See
   Illustration in Appendix.


word: Ceratospongiae
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of sponges in which the skeleton
   consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.


word: Cerberus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding
   the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian
   or guardian, esp. if surly.


word: Cercaria
wordtype: n.
definition:
The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a
   tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.


word: Cere
wordtype: n.
definition:
The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of
   prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.


word: Cereal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for
   their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or
   grain.


word: Cerealin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase,
   obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into
   dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid.


word: Cerebellum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above
   the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action.
   See Brain.


word: Cerebrifugal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain
   to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal
   impressions) outwards.


word: Cerebrin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from
   brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is
   uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of
   the decomposition of some more complex substance.


word: Cerebripetal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the
   spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal
   impressions) from the exterior inwards.


word: Cerebropathy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity,
   occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also
   brain fag.


word: Cerebroscopy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of
   disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of
   the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an
   ophthalmoscope).


word: Cerebrose
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the
   nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.


word: Cerebrum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the
   brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.


word: Ceremonial
wordtype: n.
definition:
A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or
   established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the
   courts of princes; outward form.


word: Ceremonial
wordtype: n.
definition:
The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic
   church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on
   solemn occasions.


word: Forewarn
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To warn beforehand; to give previous warning,
   admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.


word: Forewoman
wordtype: n.
definition:
A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work
   or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.


word: Forfeit
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from
   one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the
   right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or
   breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who
   murders pays the forfeit of his life.


word: Forfeit
wordtype: n.
definition:
To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault,
   offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be
   deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or
   crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a
   breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is
   forfeited.


word: Forfeiture
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right,
   privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime,
   breach of condition, or other act.


word: Forge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A place or establishment where iron or other metals are
   wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with
   its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.


word: Forge
wordtype: n.
definition:
The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the
   ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a
   shingling mill.


word: Forge
wordtype: n.
definition:
To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not
   genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed
   document.


word: Forge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are
   furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used
   especially in the phrase to forge ahead.


word: Forgery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely;
   esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or
   signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or
   material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the
   purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.


word: Forget
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory;
   to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of;
   to cease from doing.


word: Forgetful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a
   forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.


word: Forget-me-not
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris,
   incespitosa, etc.), bearing a beautiful blue flower, and extensively
   considered the emblem of fidelity.


word: Forgive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give up resentment or claim to requital on account
   of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said
   in reference to the act forgiven.


word: Forgive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cease to feel resentment against, on account of
   wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon
   (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.


word: Forgiving
wordtype: a.
definition:
Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses;
   mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.


word: Forisfamiliate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Literally, to put out of a family; hence, to
   portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to
   emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority.


word: Fork
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating
   in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel
   and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or
   pitching anything.


word: Fork
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided;
   a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an
   arrow.


word: Fork
wordtype: n.
definition:
The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or
   opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree,
   or a road.


word: Forkbeard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat
   head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.


word: Forked
wordtype: a.
definition:
Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into
   two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the
   forked lighting.


word: Forktail
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds,
   belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.


word: Fork-tailed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median
   ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from
   the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or
   arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive
   character; configuration; figure; external appearance.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.;
   system; as, a republican form of government.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of
   proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of
   prayer.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain,
   trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a
   matter of mere form.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school;
   a class; also, a class or rank in society.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be
   taken, arranged and secured in a chase.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
The particular shape or structure of a word or part of
   speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
The combination of planes included under a general
   crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a
   conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing
   to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and
   contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law
   of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the
   intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage,
   the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as
   contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter;
   subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent
   on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary
   accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of
   others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion
   into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to
   model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to
   train.


word: Form
wordtype: n.
definition:
To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the
   essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape
   of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in
   whole or in part.


word: Formal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished
   from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what
   it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms,
   so called, of the human intellect.


word: Formal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular
   method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his
   formal consent.


word: Formal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules;
   punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact;
   prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his
   conversation.


word: Formal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the form or appearance without the substance or
   essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy,
   etc.


word: Formaldehyde
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic
   or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol
   and formic acid.


word: Formalism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or
   dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.


word: Formalist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to
   them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes
   strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and
   spirit of religion.


word: Formality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted
   by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality
   and rationality are formalities.


word: Formally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically;
   expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely.


word: Formation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The manner in which a thing is formed; structure;
   construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the
   heart.


word: Formation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with
   reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers;
   alluvial formations; marine formations.


word: Formative
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of
   the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.


word: Formed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having structure; capable of growth and development;
   organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.


word: Formedon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a
   discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.


word: Former
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded,
   woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.


word: Formerly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or
   at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.


word: Formic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in
   an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as,
   formic ether.


word: Formidable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread;
   adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or
   undertaking; alarming.


word: Forming
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of giving form or shape to anything;
   as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.


word: Formula
wordtype: n.
definition:
A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or
   conventional method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said.


word: Formula
wordtype: n.
definition:
A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.)
   of the constituents or constitution of a compound.


word: Formulary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of
   oaths, declarations, prayers, medical formulaae, etc.; a book of
   precedents.


word: Formulate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a
   clear and definite form of statement or expression.


word: Fornication
wordtype: n.
definition:
Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an
   unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a
   man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.


word: Fornicator
wordtype: n.
definition:
An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal
   intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.


word: Fornix
wordtype: n.
definition:
An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium;
   the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.


word: Fornix
wordtype: n.
definition:
Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue
   beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.


word: Forsake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to
   depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers
   forsake us in adversity.


word: Contention
wordtype: n.
definition:
A point maintained in an argument, or a line of
   argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or
   strife; a position taken or contended for.


word: Contest
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation,
   or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to
   oppose; to dispute.


word: Contest
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to
   defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.


word: Contest
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit;
   to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.


word: Contest
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to
   strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.


word: Contest
wordtype: n.
definition:
Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.;
   competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.


word: Contestant
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant;
   one who claims that which has been awarded to another.


word: Context
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part or parts of something written or printed, as of
   Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so
   intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.


word: Contexture
wordtype: n.
definition:
The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a
   thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing;
   system; constitution; texture.


word: Continency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires
   and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the
   sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation
   in sexual indulgence.


word: Continent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint
   upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual
   intercourse; chaste.


word: Continent
wordtype: a.
definition:
One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the
   main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing
   from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is
   that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of
   North America.


word: Continental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in
   distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a
   continental tour; a continental coalition.


word: Continental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies
   collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental
   money.


word: Continental
wordtype: n.
definition:
A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the
   Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.


word: Contingency
wordtype: n.
definition:
An event which may or may not occur; that which is
   possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.


word: Contingency
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certain possible event that may or may not happen,
   by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.


word: Contingent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as,
   the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can
   not control.


word: Contingent
wordtype: n.
definition:
An event which may or may not happen; that which is
   unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a
   contingency.


word: Contingent
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which falls to one in a division or apportionment
   among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.


word: Continuance
wordtype: n.
definition:
A holding on, or remaining in a particular state;
   permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance;
   constancy; duration; stay.


word: Continuance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one
   day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.


word: Continuation
wordtype: n.
definition:
That act or state of continuing; the state of being
   continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation;
   propagation.


word: Continue
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be steadfast or constant in any course; to
   persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a
   particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army
   continued to advance.


word: Continue
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the
   trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.


word: Continued
wordtype: p. p. & a.
definition:
Having extension of time, space, order of
   events, exertion of energy, etc.; extended; protracted; uninterrupted;
   also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of
   issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story.


word: Continuity
wordtype: n.
definition:
the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection
   or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of
   fibers.


word: Continuous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Without break, cessation, or interruption; without
   intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual;
   unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous
   line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.


word: Contorniate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a
   deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in
   the days of Constantine and his successors.


word: Contour
wordtype: n.
definition:
The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines
   representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.


word: Contourne'
wordtype: a.
definition:
Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; --
   said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the
   dexter, or the like.


word: Contra
definition:
A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary,
   in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many
   English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.


word: Contraband
wordtype: n.
definition:
A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was
   brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband
   of war.


word: Contrabass
wordtype: n.
definition:
Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same
   deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide;
   the contrabass tuba or bombardon.


word: Contract
wordtype: n.
definition:
To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass;
   to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.


word: Contract
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a
   habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.


word: Contract
wordtype: n.
definition:
To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing
   two or more vowels or syllables to one.


word: Contract
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or
   extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron
   contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.


word: Contract
wordtype: n.
definition:
The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient
   consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an
   agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular
   thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.


word: Contract
wordtype: n.
definition:
A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties,
   with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the
   obligation.


word: Contractibility
wordtype: n.
definition:
Capability of being contracted; quality of being
   contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.


word: Contractile
wordtype: a.
definition:
tending to contract; having the power or property of
   contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as,
   the contractile tissues.


word: Contraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of contracting, shortening, or
   shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart,
   of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by
   cold.


word: Contraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as
   liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject
   to; as, the contraction of a disease.


word: Contraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or
   phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal
   conversation, etc.


word: Contraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the
   omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or
   syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do
   not; it's for it is.


word: Contractor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one
   who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who
   contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price
   or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.


word: Contradict
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to
   take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or
   a speaker; to impugn.


word: Contradiction
wordtype: n.
definition:
An assertion of the contrary to what has been said
   or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary
   declaration; gainsaying.


word: Contradiction
wordtype: n.
definition:
Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency;
   incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.


word: Contradictory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what
   has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.


word: Contrafissure
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that
   which received the blow, or at some distance from it.


word: Contraindicate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of
   treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would
   seem to require.


word: Contralto
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music
   called contralto; as, a contralto voice.


word: Contraposition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A so-called immediate inference which consists in
   denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e.g.:
   Every S is P; therefore, no Not-P is S.


word: Contraries
wordtype: n.
definition:
Propositions which directly and destructively
   contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not
   establish the truth of the other.


word: Contrariness
wordtype: n.
definition:
state or quality of being contrary; opposition;
   inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy.


word: Contrary
wordtype: n.
definition:
the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition
   incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the
   contrary. See Converse, n., 1.


word: Contrast
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To set in opposition, or over against, in order to
   show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and
   defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as,
   to contrast the present with the past.


word: Contrast
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other
   object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure
   or object.


word: Contrast
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted;
   comparison by contrariety of qualities.


word: Contrast
wordtype: n.
definition:
Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities;
   unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.


word: Contrast
wordtype: n.
definition:
The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by
   such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.


word: Contrastimulant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating
   to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants.


word: Contravallation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by
   besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.


word: Contravene
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To meet in the way of opposition; to come into
   conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of;
   to defeat.


word: Contrayerva
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of Dorstenia (D. Contrayerva), a South
   American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in
   medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.


word: Contrecoup
wordtype: n.
definition:
A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other
   injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is
   received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts
   affected.


word: Contribute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give or grant i common with others; to give to a
   common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to
   give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute
   food or fuel for the poor.


word: Contribute
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance
   or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any
   act or effect.


word: Contribution
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is contributed; -- either the portion
   which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which
   is formed by the gifts of individuals.


word: Contribution
wordtype: n.
definition:
Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a
   share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for
   the common benefit.


word: Contributer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one
   who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.


word: Contributory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting
   the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to
   some common stock; contributive.


word: Contributory
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon
   to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.


word: Contrite
wordtype: a.
definition:
Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful
   for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly
   penitent.


word: Contrition
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance
   for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through
   repentance.


word: Contrivance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition
   of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.


word: Control
wordtype: n.
definition:
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or
   check another account or register; a counter register.


word: Control
wordtype: n.
definition:
Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or
   regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should
   be under parental control.


word: Control
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to
   check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to
   overpower.


word: Controller
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who
   has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.


word: Controller
wordtype: n.
definition:
An officer appointed to keep a counter register of
   accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.


word: Controller
wordtype: n.
definition:
An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for
   controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable
   tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until
   disengaged.


word: Controlment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The power or act of controlling; the state of being
   restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.


word: Controvert
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose
   by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to
   debate.


word: Contumacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful
   summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in
   court when legally summoned.


word: Contumely
wordtype: n.
definition:
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt;
   scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in
   act or speech; disgrace.


word: Contusion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bruise; an injury attended with more or less
   disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood
   beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.


word: Conundrum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic
   resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which
   the answer is or involves a pun.


word: Convalesce
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To recover health and strength gradually, after
   sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.


word: Convalescency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The recovery of heath and strength after disease;
   the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the
   time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to
   health.


word: Convallamarin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded
   as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria
   Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet.


word: Convallarin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating
   taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.


word: Convection
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or
   electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from
   changes of temperature and other causes.


word: Convener
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting;
   hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.


word: Conveniency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or
   suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.


word: Conveniency
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is convenient; that which promotes comfort
   or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation.


word: Convenient
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted
   to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.


word: Conventicle
wordtype: n.
definition:
An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an
   assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists
   or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used
   opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.


word: Convention
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of
   delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, --
   civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.


word: Convention
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or
   estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly
   which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the
   throne to be abdicated by James II.


word: Convention
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
An agreement or contract less formal than, or
   preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of
   armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states;
   also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a
   postal convention between two governments.


word: Conventional
wordtype: a.
definition:
Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit
   agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.


word: Conventional
wordtype: a.
definition:
Abstracted; removed from close representation of
   nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and
   what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional
   shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.


word: Conventionalism
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is received or established by
   convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the
   fashion, tradition, or usage.


word: Conventionality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being conventional; adherence to
   social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional
   use; one of the customary usages of social life.


word: Conventionalizw
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make conventional; to bring under the
   influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish
   by usage.


word: Conventionalizw
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To represent by selecting the important
   features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and
   omitting the others.


word: Conventionalizw
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To represent according to an established
   principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain
   artistic rules of supposed importance.


word: Conversant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed;
   versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in.


word: Converse
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange
   thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed
   by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a
   thing.


word: Converse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms
   of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the
   subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.


word: Converse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something
   supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion
   the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the
   conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle
   are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is
   true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.


word: Conversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of turning or changing from one state or
   condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation;
   change.


word: Conversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of changing one's views or course, as in
   passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the
   state of being so changed.


word: Conversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of
   another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a
   horse.


word: Conversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as
   by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.


word: Conversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A change or reduction of the form or value of a
   proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of
   proportions.


word: Conversion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spiritual and moral change attending a change of
   belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of
   the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of
   the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.


word: Convert
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To change or turn from one state or condition to
   another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to
   transmute; as, to convert water into ice.


word: Convert
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To change or turn from one belief or course to another,
   as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.


word: Convert
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To produce the spiritual change called conversion in
   (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart
   and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to
   that of holiness.


word: Convert
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or
   intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.


word: Convert
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To change (one proposition) into another, so that what
   was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.


word: Convert
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to
   another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed,
   religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed;
   especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of
   holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.


word: Convert
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for
   the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing
   in the choir.


word: Convertend
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any proposition which is subject to the process of
   conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after
   which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic).


word: Converter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten
   cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air
   forced through the liquid metal.


word: Convex
wordtype: a.
definition:
Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form;
   regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or
   curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.


word: Convexo-concave
wordtype: a.
definition:
Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The
   curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be
   different. See Meniscus.


word: Convey
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to
   serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to
   another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.


word: Convey
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as
   property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a
   title to real estate) by a sealed writing.


word: Conveyance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The instrument or means of carrying or transporting
   anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which,
   anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches,
   omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance
   for water.


word: Conveyance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act by which the title to property, esp. real
   estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing
   (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed
   from one person to another.


word: Conveyancing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of
   drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to
   property from one person to another.


word: Conveyor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place;
   esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw
   turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck
   running along a rope.


word: Convict
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one
   legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.


word: Convict
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged;
   to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.


word: Conviction
wordtype: n.
definition:
A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having
   jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of
   being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.


word: Conviction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being convinced or convicted; strong
   persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin,
   or by one's conscience.


word: Convivial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating
   and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay;
   jovial.


word: Conviviality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive
   occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.


word: Convolution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or
   doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of
   something rolled or folded upon itself.


word: Convolution
wordtype: n.
definition:
An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part;
   as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See
   Brain.


word: Convolvulaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of
   plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.


word: Convolvulin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a
   convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy
   mass of powerful purgative properties.


word: Convolvulus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers,
   including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the
   morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea.


word: Convoy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to
   attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.


word: Convoy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed
   in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence,
   clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.


word: Convoy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way
   from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or
   guidance.


word: Convoy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to
   check their velocity in going down a hill.


word: Convulse
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular
   parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in
   excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.


word: Convulsionist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of
   fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into
   convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the
   Convulsionists of St. Medard.


word: Cook
wordtype: n.
definition:
One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one
   who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.


word: Cook
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking,
   broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or
   heat.


word: Cook
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to
   garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.


word: Cookery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or process of preparing food for the table, by
   dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.


word: Cool
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty;
   deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate;
   indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.


word: Cool
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of
   minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and
   selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.


word: Cool
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of
   money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.


word: Cool
wordtype: n.
definition:
A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the
   temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day;
   the cool of the morning or evening.


word: Cooler
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled,
   as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.


word: Coolly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without
   passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.


word: Coolness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a
   moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or
   affection; calmness.


word: Coolie
wordtype: n.
definition:
An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported
   from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other
   country.


word: Coom
wordtype: n.
definition:
Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which
   comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.


word: Coontie
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the
   Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.


word: Coop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a
   narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.


word: Cooperation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of cooperating, or of operating together to
   one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.


word: Coordinate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give a common action, movement, or condition to;
   to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust;
   to harmonize; as, to coordinate muscular movements.


word: Coordinate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or
   more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.


word: Coordinate
wordtype: n.
definition:
Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of
   which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect
   to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and
   coordinate planes. See Abscissa.


word: Coordination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of coordinating; the act of putting in the
   same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coordination of the
   executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a
   government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce
   harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coordination of
   functions.


word: Coot
wordtype: n.
definition:
The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species
   of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.


word: Copaiva
wordtype: n.
definition:
A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter
   oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in
   South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is
   much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam
   of copaiba.


word: Copal
definition:
A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of
   Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum,
   T. verrucosum, and Hymenaea Courbaril), and dug from earth where
   forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes.


word: Copartner
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in
   business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.


word: Cope
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or
   concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.


word: Cope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form,
   reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front
   except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in
   processions and on some other occasions.


word: Cope
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle;
   to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with
   success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.


word: Copernican
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473,
   d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called
   the Copernican system.


word: Coping
wordtype: n.
definition:
The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often
   with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.


word: Copper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and
   malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat
   and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most
   useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.


word: Copperas
wordtype: n.
definition:
Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline
   substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black,
   as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the
   oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.


word: Copper-bottomed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or
   other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.


word: Copperhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix),
   closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also
   copper-belly, and red viper.


word: Copperhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States
   who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.


word: Copperworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms
   of vessels, where not protected by copper.


word: Coppice
wordtype: n.
definition:
A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood
   cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.


word: Copy
wordtype: n.
definition:
An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original
   work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.


word: Copy
wordtype: n.
definition:
An individual book, or a single set of books containing the
   works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of
   Addison.


word: Copy
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a
   pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for
   imitation.


word: Copy
wordtype: n.
definition:
To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or
   paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as,
   to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often
   with out, sometimes with off.


word: Copyhold
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for
   which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the
   steward of the lord's court.


word: Copyright
wordtype: n.
definition:
The right of an author or his assignee, under statute,
   to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all
   other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings,
   plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.


word: Coquet
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love
   of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to
   deceive and disappoint.


word: Coquet
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest;
   to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play
   (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.


word: Coquetry
wordtype: n.
definition:
Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the
   mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.


word: Coquette
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract
   admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly
   sometimes applied also to men.


word: Coquette
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very
   elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under
   Spangle, v. t.


word: Coquimbite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron;
   white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo,
   Chili.


word: Coquina
wordtype: n.
definition:
A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells
   and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds
   and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.


word: Coracle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or
   oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by
   fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used
   in Thibet and in Egypt.


word: Coracoid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most
   birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the
   scapula in most mammals.


word: Coral
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few
   Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.


word: Coral
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other
   appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.


word: Coral fish
definition:
Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon,
   Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.


word: Corallian
wordtype: n.
definition:
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion
   of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag.


word: Corallin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists
   chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic.


word: Coralline
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes
   applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.


word: Coralwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; --
   called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.


word: Corban
wordtype: n.
definition:
An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not
   to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment
   of a vow.


word: Corban
wordtype: n.
definition:
An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a
   treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.


word: Corbel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving
   the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic
   architecture.


word: Corbel-table
wordtype: n.
definition:
A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or
   filling between them; also, less properly used to include the
   stringcourse on them.


word: Corbiestep
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the steps in which a gable wall is often
   finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.


word: Corchorus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan
   globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in
   old-fashioned gardens.


word: Cord
wordtype: n.
definition:
A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of
   wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and
   four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.


word: Cord
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held,
   or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked;
   the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.


word: Cord
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon
   or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.


word: Cord
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with
   cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.


word: Cordage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope
   or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of
   ropes.


word: Cordelier
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of a French political club of the time of the
   first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met
   in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.


word: Headmould shot
definition:
An old name for the condition of the skull, in which
   the bones ride, or are shot, over each other at the sutures.


word: Headnote
wordtype: n.
definition:
A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports,
   an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion
   of the court.


word: Headpiece
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as
   distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.


word: Headquarters
wordtype: n. sing.
definition:
The quarters or place of residence of any chief
   officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police
   force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence,
   the center of authority or order.


word: Headstock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for
   supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine


word: Headstock
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and
   its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding
   part being called a tailstock.


word: Heal
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease,
   wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health.


word: Heal
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to
   free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions.


word: Heal
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb
   heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will
   heal up, or over.


word: Healall
wordtype: n.
definition:
A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris),
   destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.


word: Health
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or
   soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or
   pain.


word: Healthful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Full of health; free from illness or disease; well;
   whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.


word: Healthful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome;
   salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet.


word: Healthy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale;
   sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.


word: Heap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or
   thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or
   stones.


word: Heap
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to
   accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures.


word: Heap
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as,
   to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as,
   to heap on wood or coal.


word: Hear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of
   by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.


word: Hear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give audience or attention to; to listen to; to heed;
   to accept the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a
   judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case
   will be heard to-morrow.


word: Hearing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound;
   the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is
   good.


word: Hearing
wordtype: n.
definition:
Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard;
   audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.


word: Hearing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A listening to facts and evidence, for the sake of
   adjudication; a session of a court for considering proofs and
   determining issues.


word: Hearken
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is
   uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.


word: Hearse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb
   of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy
   bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was
   placed during the funeral ceremonies.


word: Heart
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting
   rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.


word: Heart
wordtype: n.
definition:
The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or
   separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely,
   the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when
   no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the
   spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and
   character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual
   disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or
   selfish heart.


word: Heart
wordtype: n.
definition:
The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and
   within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the
   source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital
   portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action;
   as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.


word: Heart
wordtype: n.
definition:
Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile
   production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.


word: Heart
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a
   roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end,
   and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or
   representative of the heart.


word: Heart
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the
   figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.


word: Heartburn
wordtype: n.
definition:
An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often
   attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but
   is often a symptom of often complaints.


word: Hearted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the
   seat of the affections, disposition, or character).


word: Hearth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a
   chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a
   corresponding part of a stove.


word: Hearth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates
   and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.


word: Hearth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated
   lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted
   material settles.


word: Heartseed
wordtype: n.
definition:
A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having
   round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart.


word: Heartwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree,
   consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color
   from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and
   distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.


word: Hearty
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm;
   cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active;
   eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.


word: Hearty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar
   address and fellowship among sailors.


word: Heat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but
   especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as
   manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical
   combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of
   feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a
   form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to
   be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.


word: Heat
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when
   excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily
   feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the
   reverse of cold.


word: Heat
wordtype: n.
definition:
High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or
   cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin
   or body in fever, etc.


word: Heat
wordtype: n.
definition:
Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or
   color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color;
   flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated
   by appearance, condition, or otherwise.


word: Heat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a
   furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.


word: Heat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single
   course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two
   heats out of three.


word: Heat
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow
   warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.


word: Heat
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction,
   etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats
   slowly.


word: Heat
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of
   heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in
   the dunghill.


word: Heater
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other
   heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to
   contain something to be heated.


word: Heath
wordtype: n.
definition:
A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute
   evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in
   Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating
   ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.


word: Heath
wordtype: n.
definition:
Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are
   European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See
   Illust. of Heather.


word: Heath
wordtype: n.
definition:
A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country
   overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.


word: Heathen
wordtype: n.
definition:
An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or
   those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan;
   an idolater.


word: Heating
wordtype: a.
definition:
That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat;
   exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.


word: Heave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to
   lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the
   boat on land.


word: Heave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or
   colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead;
   to heave the log.


word: Heave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move;
   also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to
   heave the ship ahead.


word: Heave
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in
   heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as
   the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to
   expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.


word: Heave
wordtype: n.
definition:
An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the
   breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an
   earthquake, and the like.


word: Heaven
wordtype: n.
definition:
The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that
   which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the
   firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; --
   often used in the plural in this sense.


word: Heaven
wordtype: n.
definition:
The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the
   place or state of the blessed after death.


word: Heaven
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the
   blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.


word: Heaven
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect
   felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of
   delight.


word: Heavenly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven;
   celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.


word: Heavenly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect;
   pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng.


word: Heavenlyminded
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the thoughts and affections placed on, or
   suitable for, heaven and heavenly objects; devout; godly; pious.


word: Heave offering
definition:
An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before
   the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering.


word: Heaver
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed
   on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.


word: Heaves
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing,
   with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough;
   broken wind.


word: Heavily
wordtype: adv.
definition:
As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and
   laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering
   manner; sorrowfully.


word: Heaviness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being heavy in its various
   senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.


word: Heavy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty;
   ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent,
   quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy
   failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength;
   as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught.


word: Heavy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to
   endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes,
   expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.


word: Heavy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened;
   bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain,
   disappointment.


word: Heavy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate,
   stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy
   writer or book.


word: Heavy spar
definition:
Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of
   its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.


word: Hebdomadary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to
   officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on
   extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.


word: Hebe
wordtype: n.
definition:
The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was
   believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who
   had lost them.


word: Hebrew
wordtype: n.
definition:
An appellative of Abraham or of one of his descendants,
   esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew.


word: Hecatomb
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time;
   hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.


word: Hecatompedon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because
   measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.


word: Hecdecane
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34,
   of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of
   kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of
   carbon; -- called also hexadecane.


word: Heck
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets,
   as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.


word: Hectare
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred
   ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.


word: Hectic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow
   waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in
   disease; a hectic flush.


word: Hectocotylus
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the arms of the male of most kinds of
   cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the
   fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm
   of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the
   spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to
   the female for reproductive purposes.


word: Hectolitre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters;
   equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure,
   or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten
   decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels.


word: Hector
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence,
   to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by
   bullying.


word: Hectostere
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic
   meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States
   cubic feet.


word: Heddle
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with
   mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the
   lathe or batten in a loom.


word: Heddling
wordtype: vb. n.
definition:
The act of drawing the warp threads through the
   heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.


word: Hederic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as,
   hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.


word: Hedge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such
   a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also
   any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence;
   particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in
   rows to separate the parts of a garden.


word: Hedge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a
   thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a
   field or garden.


word: Hedge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from
   progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.


word: Hedge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty,
   responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk;
   to slink; to shirk obligations.


word: Hedge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so
   as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.


word: Hedgehog
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and
   other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper
   part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll
   itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every
   direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.


word: Hedgehog
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which
   are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.


word: Heel
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels
   aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.


word: Heel
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe,
   sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder
   part of the sole of a boot or shoe.


word: Heel
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human
   heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests


word: Heel
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In
   the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a
   rafter set sloping.


word: Heelball
wordtype: n.
definition:
A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers
   for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.


word: Heelspur
wordtype: n.
definition:
A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from
   the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See
   Illust. of Cheiropter.


word: Hegemony
wordtype: n.
definition:
Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; --
   usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its
   neighbors or confederates.


word: Hegira
wordtype: n.
definition:
The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622
   (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence,
   any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.


word: Height
wordtype: n.
definition:
The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above
   that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the
   sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the
   ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.


word: Height
wordtype: n.
definition:
Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning,
   arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or
   distinction in society; prominence.


word: Height
wordtype: n.
definition:
Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or
   condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly;
   the height of a tempest.


word: Heighten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment;
   to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of
   things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a
   tint.


word: Heinous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious;
   giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.


word: Heir
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession
   of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law
   bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter.


word: Heir
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation;
   as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues.


word: Heirloom
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law
   or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any
   piece of personal property that has been in a family for several
   generations.


word: Helenin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A neutral organic substance found in the root of the
   elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or
   oily material, with a slightly bitter taste.


word: Heliacal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it;
   rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun.


word: Helianthin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin,
   and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl
   orange.


word: Helical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral;
   as, a helical staircase; a helical spring.


word: Helichrysum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly
   white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are
   often called "everlasting flowers."


word: Helicin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by
   partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.)


word: Helicoid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A warped surface which may be generated by a straight
   line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a
   uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at
   the same time a uniform angular motion about it.


word: Helicon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks
   to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.


word: Heliconia
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of
   tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with
   green, crimson, and white.


word: Heliocentrical
wordtype: a.
definition:
pertaining to the sun's center, or appearing to be
   seen from it; having, or relating to, the sun as a center; -- opposed
   to geocentrical.


word: Heliolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fossil coral of the genus Heliolites, having
   twelve-rayed cells. It is found in the Silurian rocks.


word: Heliometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument devised originally for measuring the
   diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the
   distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily
   measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.


word: Heliometry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of
   heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer.


word: Helioscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without
   injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which
   reflect but a small portion of light.


word: Heliostat
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork,
   by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily
   directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a
   geodetic heliotrope.


word: Heliotrope
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also
   turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species
   with fragrant flowers.


word: Heliotrope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for making signals to an observer at a
   distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.


word: Heliotypy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A method of transferring pictures from photographic
   negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are
   produced on paper as by lithography.


word: Heliozoa
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or
   less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun
   animalcule.


word: Helix
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to
   a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of
   the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the
   convolutions of which are in the plane.


word: Hell
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave;
   -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.


word: Hell
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The place or state of punishment for the wicked after
   death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.


word: Hell
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a
   place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.


word: Hellbender
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis
   horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very
   tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.


word: Hellebore
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot
   family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous
   qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose,
   blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the
   officinal hellebore of the ancients.


word: Hellebore
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous
   genus Veratrum, especially V. album and V. viride, both called white
   hellebore.


word: Helleborein
wordtype: n.
definition:
A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in
   several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline
   substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the
   heart, resembling digitalin.


word: Helleborin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A poisonous glucoside found in several species of
   hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp
   tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; --
   called also elleborin.


word: Hellenic
wordtype: n.
definition:
The dialect, formed with slight variations from the
   Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander.


word: Hellenism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and
   construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism.


word: Hellenism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed
   at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human
   well-being and perfection.


word: Hellenist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek
   manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek
   language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece,
   Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews
   (Acts vi. 1).


word: Hellespont
wordtype: n.
definition:
A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the
   Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora.


word: Hellgramite
wordtype: n.
definition:
The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect
   (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It
   belongs to the Neuroptera.


word: Helm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder,
   tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.


word: Helmet
wordtype: n.
definition:
The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of
   arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.


word: Helmet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other
   suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen,
   etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the
   sun.


word: Helminthes
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of the grand divisions or branches of the
   animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species,
   most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha.


word: Helminthite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many
   stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.


word: Destine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To determine the future condition or application of; to
   set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny
   or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to
   appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.


word: Destiny
wordtype: n.
definition:
That to which any person or thing is destined;
   predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human
   will; fate; lot; doom.


word: Destiny
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a
   resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future,
   whether in general or of an individual.


word: Destitute
wordtype: a.
definition:
Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary,
   or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.


word: Destitute
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition
   of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.


word: Destitution
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being deprived of anything; the state or
   condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency;
   lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general
   destitution.


word: Destroy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate
   virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and
   organic existence of; to demolish.


word: Destruction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to
   naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.


word: Destructionist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who delights in destroying that which is
   valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing
   institutions; a destructive.


word: Destructionist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who believes in the final destruction or
   complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist.


word: Destructive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin,
   death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil;
   mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is
   destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of
   youth.


word: Desultory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to
   another, without order or rational connection; without logical
   sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.


word: Desultory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not
   connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.


word: Desynonymize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of synonymous character; to
   discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as
   synonyms.


word: Detach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the
   opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each
   other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.


word: Detach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To separate for a special object or use; -- used
   especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or
   a company from a regiment.


word: Detachment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or
   part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service.


word: Detail
wordtype: n.
definition:
A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an
   item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or
   transaction.


word: Detail
wordtype: n.
definition:
The selection for a particular service of a person or a
   body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.


word: Detail
wordtype: n.
definition:
To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report
   minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all
   the facts in due order.


word: Detainer
wordtype: n.
definition:
The keeping possession of what belongs to another;
   detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may
   have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.


word: Detect
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light;
   as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.


word: Detecter
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one
   who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.


word: Detection
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed
   or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of
   fraud, forgery, or a plot.


word: Detective
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in
   detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.


word: Detent
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or
   dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the
   wheelwork in striking.


word: Deter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from
   action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.


word: Detergent
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a
   medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc.


word: Determinant
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sum of a series of products of several numbers,
   these products being formed according to certain specified laws


word: Determinant
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or
   predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more
   definite and precise.


word: Determination
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is determined upon; result of
   deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.


word: Determination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act, process, or result of any accurate
   measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the
   determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the
   determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.


word: Determination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The addition of a differentia to a concept or
   notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.


word: Determination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of determining the relations of an object,
   as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or
   animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am
   indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.


word: Determine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To set bounds to; to fix the determination of; to
   limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish.


word: Determine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a
   remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this
   course.


word: Determine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To ascertain definitely; to find out the specific
   character or name of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to
   determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name.


word: Determine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring to a conclusion, as a question or
   controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide;
   as, the court has determined the cause.


word: Determine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to
   cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined
   him to go immediately.


word: Determine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To ascertain the presence, quantity, or amount of;
   as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water.


word: Detest
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe;
   as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.


word: Detestable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely
   hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.


word: Detonation
wordtype: n.
definition:
An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous
   decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation
   of gun cotton.


word: Detour
wordtype: n.
definition:
A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct
   course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.


word: Detract
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To take away a part or something, especially from one's
   credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with
   from.


word: Detraction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of taking away from the reputation or good name
   of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the
   act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.


word: Detriment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm;
   diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to
   property, religion, morals, etc.


word: Detritus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by
   attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.


word: Detritus
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which
   they belonged; any product of disintegration.


word: Deuce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has
   won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and
   reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures
   two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the
   game.


word: Deuterocanonical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical
   writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain
   Epistles, etc.


word: Deuterogamy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A second marriage, after the death of the first
   husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old
   canon law. See Bigamy.


word: Deuteroscopy
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond
   the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification.


word: Deuterozooid
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids
   produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals
   having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are
   deuterozooids.


word: Deut-
definition:
A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a
   regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition,
   but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi-or di-,
   although little used.


word: Deutohydroguret
wordtype: n.
definition:
A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of
   hydrogen united with some other element or radical.


word: Deutoplasm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or
   a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk
   substance; yolk.


word: Deutoxide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of
   oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called
   dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide.


word: Develop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold;
   to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to
   disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor
   that develops 100 horse power.


word: Develop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to
   bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is
   preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to
   cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher
   state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a
   flower; to develop the mind.


word: Develop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression,
   by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.


word: Develop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent
   image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to
   view.


word: Develop
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To go through a process of natural evolution or growth,
   by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more
   highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to
   one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom
   develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo
   develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.


word: Develop
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on
   sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the
   conspirators develop.


word: Developer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a
   photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is
   developed and visible.


word: Development
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of developing or disclosing that which is
   unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as
   a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual
   advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also,
   the result of developing, or a developed state.


word: Development
wordtype: n.
definition:
The series of changes which animal and vegetable
   organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to
   maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.


word: Development
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of changing or expanding an
   expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.


word: Development
wordtype: n.
definition:
The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding
   of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a
   leading theme or motive.


word: Developmental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of
   development; as, the developmental power of a germ.


word: Deviate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a
   method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.


word: Deviation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of deviating; a wandering from the way;
   variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.;
   departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.


word: Deviation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from,
   or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage
   insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.


word: Device
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance;
   an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a
   stratagem; an artifice.


word: Device
wordtype: n.
definition:
An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more
   figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the
   historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person
   adopting it. See Cognizance.


word: Devilfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of
   the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related
   species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.


word: Devise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new
   applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate
   by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme;
   as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or
   an argument.


word: Devise
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; --
   sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.


word: Devitrification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of devitrifying, or the state
   of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy
   matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the
   formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which
   are then called devitrification products.


word: Devoir
wordtype: n.
definition:
Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect;
   -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the
   ladies.


word: Devolve
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To transfer from one person to another; to deliver
   over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.


word: Devolve
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed
   over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into;
   as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next
   officer in rank.


word: Devon
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of
   Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small,
   longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the
   superiority of its working oxen.


word: Devote
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a
   solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to
   devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames.


word: Devote
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of
   wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as,
   to devote one's self to science, to one's friends, to piety, etc.


word: Devotee
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to
   religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and
   ceremonies; a bigot.


word: Devotion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination;
   strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward
   God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness.


word: Devotional
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a
   devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.


word: Devour
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to
   feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.


word: Devour
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily,
   selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste;
   to annihilate.


word: Devout
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties;
   absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent;
   religious.


word: Dew
wordtype: n.
definition:
Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon
   their surfaces, particularly at night.


word: Dewberry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in
   England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in
   America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low
   blackberries.


word: Dew-point
wordtype: n.
definition:
The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies
   with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.


word: Dewretting
wordtype: n.
definition:
Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter
   of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward
   to dew, rain, and sunshine.


word: Dexter
wordtype: a.
definition:
On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the
   right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial
   representation, this would be the left side.


word: Dexterity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease
   in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the
   chisel.


word: Dexterity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers;
   quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair;
   adroitness.


word: Dexterous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs;
   skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand;
   a dexterous workman.


word: Dextrality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the
   quality of being right-handed; right-handedness.


word: Dextrin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly
   tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc.,
   and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It
   is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates
   which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so
   named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; --
   called also British gum, Alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. See
   Achroodextrin, and Erythrodextrin.


word: Dextro-
definition:
having the property of turning the plane of polarized light
   to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid.


word: Dextrorotatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand;
   esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the
   right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory.


word: Dextrorse
wordtype: a.
definition:
Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending
   line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common
   morning-glory.


word: Dextrose
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6
   (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right),
   occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by
   the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar.
   Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch,
   and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food
   by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic
   juice.


word: Dhole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the
   mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the
   tiger and other wild animals in packs.


word: Dhow
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian
   Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail.


word: Di-
definition:
A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder,
   across. Before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc.


word: Diabase
wordtype: n.
definition:
A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock,
   consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with
   magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It
   includes part of what was early called greenstone.


word: Diabetes
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive
   discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in
   quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is
   generally fatal.


word: Diabolical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or
   appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious;
   nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or
   act.


word: Diacaustic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a
   species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface,
   under Caustic.


word: Diacaustic
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which burns by refraction, as a double convex
   lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as
   a cautery.


word: Diachylum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plaster originally composed of the juices of several
   plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and
   consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat
   acids.


word: Diacid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of
   saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a.,
   and Biacid.


word: Diacoustics
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the
   properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums;
   -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.


word: Diacritical
wordtype: a.
definition:
That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points
   or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different
   sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc.


word: Diadelphia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A Linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united
   into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.


word: Diadelphous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the
   stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or
   flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the
   filaments (said of stamens).


word: Diadem
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by
   Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown,
   in general.


word: Diadem
wordtype: n.
definition:
An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a
   coronet), and uniting with others over its center.


word: Dieresis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mark consisting of two dots [/], placed over the second
   of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as
   distinct letters; as, cooperate, aerial.


word: Diageotropism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to
   assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the
   center of the earth.


word: Diaglyphtic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Represented or formed by depressions in the general
   surface; as, diaglyphic sculpture or engraving; -- opposed to
   anaglyphic.


word: Diagnosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease
   from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the
   decision arrived at.


word: Diagnosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such
   scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and
   character.


word: Diagnostics
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of medicine which has to do with
   ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or
   signs.


word: Diagometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which
   the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity
   transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting
   power.


word: Diagonal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or
   multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at
   an angle with one of the sides.


word: Diagonal
wordtype: n.
definition:
A right line drawn from one angle to another not
   adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two
   parts.


word: Diagram
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific
   purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a
   mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.


word: Diagraphics
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially,
   the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical
   rule.


word: Diaheliotropism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to
   have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.


word: Dial
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day
   from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface;
   esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or
   gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may
   be either horizontal or vertical.


word: Dialect
wordtype: n.
definition:
The form of speech of a limited region or people, as
   distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or
   subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities
   or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of
   Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.


word: Dialectics
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes
   of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive
   reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error;
   logical discussion.


word: Dialing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the
   bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other,
   are determined by means of the circumferentor.


word: Diallyl
wordtype: n.
definition:
A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting
   of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series.


word: Dialogue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A conversation between two or more persons; particularly,
   a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic
   exercises.


word: Dialogue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A written composition in which two or more persons are
   represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues
   of Plato.


word: Dialysis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The separation of different substances in solution, as
   crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion,
   especially through natural or artificial membranes.


word: Dialyze
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To separate, prepare, or obtain, by dialysis or osmose;
   to pass through an animal membrane; to subject to dialysis.


word: Diamagnetic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of,
   diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right
   angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic.


word: Diamagnetic
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc.,
   which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the
   ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a
   position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is
   repelled by either pole of the magnet.


word: Diameter
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any right line passing through the center of a figure or
   body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by
   the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of
   parallel chords drawn in a curve.


word: Diameter
wordtype: n.
definition:
The length of a straight line through the center of an
   object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree
   or rock.


word: Diameter
wordtype: n.
definition:
The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a
   column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See
   Module.


word: Diamide
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any compound containing two amido groups united with one
   or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine.
   Cf. Amido acid, under Amido, and Acid amide, under Amide.


word: Diamine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A compound containing two amido groups united with one or
   more basic or positive radicals, -- as contrasted with a diamide.


word: Diamond
wordtype: n.
definition:
A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and
   beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme
   hardness.


word: Diamond
wordtype: n.
definition:
A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight
   lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a
   rhombus; a lozenge.


word: Diamond
wordtype: n.
definition:
The smallest kind of type in English printing, except that
   called brilliant, which is seldom seen.


word: Diana
wordtype: n.
definition:
The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who
   presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the
   Greek goddess Artemis.


word: Dianthus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of
   cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.


word: Diapason
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they
   extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds,
   as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like.


word: Diapedesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood
   from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of
   the walls of the blood vessels.


word: Diaper
wordtype: n.
definition:
Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the
   constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design
   evenly spaced.


word: Diaphanotype
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colored photograph produced by superimposing a
   translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.


word: Diaphragm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The muscular and tendinous partition separating the
   cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.


word: Diaphragm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plate with an opening, which is generally circular,
   used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as
   at the focus of a telescope.


word: Diarrhoea
wordtype: n.
definition:
A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or
   fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or
   looseness of the bowels; a flux.


word: Diarthrosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A form of articulation which admits of considerable
   motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.


word: Diary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record;
   a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a
   diary of the weather; a physician's diary.


word: Diaspore
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar
   masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its
   decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.


word: Diastatic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase;
   effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.


word: Diaster
wordtype: n.
definition:
A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when,
   during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into
   two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See
   Karyokinesis.


word: Diastole
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and
   arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.


word: Diathesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit
   which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.


word: Diathetic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special
   constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.


word: Diatom
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular
   Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual
   multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called
   Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.


word: Diatribe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an
   acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing
   language; a philippic.


word: Diazeutic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which,
   like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and,
   being joined to either, made a fifth.


word: Diazo-
definition:
A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining
   to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two
   nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as,
   diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH.


word: Diazotize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo
   compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange
   or substitution.


word: Dibasic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by
   basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids,
   as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.


word: Dibble
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in
   which no set out plants or to plant seeds.


word: Dibranchiata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of cephalopods which includes those with
   two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or
   ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids.
   See Cephalopoda.


word: Dibutyl
wordtype: n.
definition:
A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series,
   being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf.
   Octane.


word: Dicarbonic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or
   radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.


word: Dice
wordtype: n.
definition:
Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also,
   the game played with dice. See Die, n.


word: Dicentra
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred
   or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the
   more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis).


word: Dichogamy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of certain species of plants, in which the
   stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants
   can never fertilize themselves.


word: Dichotomy
wordtype: n.
definition:
That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or
   shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.


word: Dichotomy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a
   plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its
   origin; successive bifurcation.


word: Dichotomy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Division into two; especially, the division of a class
   into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the
   division of the term man into white and not white.


word: Dichroism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The property of presenting different colors by
   transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors
   being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.


word: Dichroite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different
   colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.


word: Dichromate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of
   the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.


word: Dichromatic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in
   color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.


word: Dichromic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective
   vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two
   elements instead of three.


word: Dicrotic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in
   the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.


word: Dicrotism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the
   arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.


word: Dictamnus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with
   strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is
   highly inflammable.


word: Dictate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To tell or utter so that another may write down; to
   inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.


word: Dictate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to
   deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to
   impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders
   to his troops.


word: Dictate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A statement delivered with authority; an order; a
   command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription;
   as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the
   gospel.


word: Dictation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an
   overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with
   friends, was that of dictation.


word: Dictator
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims
   authoritatively for the direction of others.


word: Dictator
wordtype: n.
definition:
One invested with absolute authority; especially, a
   magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with
   unlimited power.


word: Dictatorial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical;
   overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner.


word: Diction
wordtype: n.
definition:
Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the
   construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with
   regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression;
   language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.


word: Dictionary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book containing the words of a language, arranged
   alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a
   vocabulary; a wordbook.


word: Dictionary
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any
   system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a
   dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.


word: Dictum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do
   not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.


word: Dictyogen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous
   embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for
   the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc.


word: Dicyanide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen
   groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.


word: Dicyemata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are
   remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo
   exists in two forms.


word: Dicynodont
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws
   armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon,
   supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in
   triassic strata of South Africa and India.


word: Didactical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction;
   preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic
   essays.


word: Didelphous
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted
   to an American genus which includes the opossums, of which there are
   many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration
   in Appendix.


word: Hamshackle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to
   one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind
   or restrain; to curb.


word: Hamster
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is
   remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin,
   and for its migrations.


word: Hamstring
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the great tendons situated in each side of the
   ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the
   back of the thigh.


word: Hamstring
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham
   or knee; to hough; hence, to cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.


word: Hanaper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of basket, usually of wickerwork, and adapted for
   the packing and carrying of articles; a hamper.


word: Hand
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man
   and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus;
   paw. See Manus.


word: Hand
wordtype: n.
definition:
A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one
   of the four extremities of a monkey.


word: Hand
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm.
   Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.


word: Hand
wordtype: n.
definition:
An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or
   competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less
   skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.


word: Hand
wordtype: n.
definition:
Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy
   at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand,
   that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.


word: Handcuff
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist,
   usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; --
   usually in the plural.


word: Handfast
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in
   order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage.


word: Handicap
wordtype: n.
definition:
An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in
   starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior
   advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the
   one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as
   possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or
   ten pounds, and the like.


word: Handicap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility,
   strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance,
   weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.


word: Handicap
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in
   general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily
   handicapped.


word: Handkerchief
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and
   elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.


word: Handkerchief
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be
   worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth.


word: Handle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's
   hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of
   goods, or a large stock.


word: Handle
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in
   the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a
   door, the bail of a kettle, etc.


word: Handling
wordtype: n.
definition:
A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the
   hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.


word: Handsel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another;
   especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a
   series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an
   earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the
   morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first
   present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.


word: Handsel
wordtype: n.
definition:
To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make
   fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.


word: Handsome
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a
   pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and
   dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than
   beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house,
   tree, horse.


word: Handsome
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and
   ease; graceful; becoming; appropriate; as, a handsome style, etc.


word: Handspike
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or
   capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various
   purposes.


word: Handwheel
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which
   serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is
   adjusted.


word: Hand-winged
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having wings that are like hands in the structure and
   arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. See Cheiroptera.


word: Handy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the
   hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are
   handy; a handy volume.


word: Handyy-dandy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A child's play, one child guessing in which closed
   hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and
   forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit.


word: Hang
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without
   support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on
   a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.


word: Hang
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon
   the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a
   door, gate, etc.


word: Hang
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fit properly, as at a proper angle (a part of an
   implement that is swung in using), as a scythe to its snath, or an ax
   to its helve.


word: Hang
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of
   capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer.


word: Hang
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures
   trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; --
   said of a wall, a room, etc.


word: Hang
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or
   position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.


word: Hang
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without
   support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.


word: Hang
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To hold for support; to depend; to cling; -- usually with
   on or upon; as, this question hangs on a single point.


word: Hang
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To hover; to impend; to appear threateningly; -- usually
   with over; as, evils hang over the country.


word: Hang
wordtype: n.
definition:
The manner in which one part or thing hangs upon, or is
   connected with, another; as, the hang of a scythe.


word: Hangbird
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called
   because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore
   oriole.


word: Hanger
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the
   side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.


word: Hanger-on
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or
   service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he
   is wanted.


word: Hanging
wordtype: a.
definition:
Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging
   post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.


word: Hanging
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a
   room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window;
   -- used chiefly in the plural.


word: Hangman
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of
   hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach,
   without reference to office.


word: Hanker
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to
   have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker
   after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.


word: Hankey-pankey
wordtype: n.
definition:
Professional cant; the chatter of conjurers to
   divert attention from their tricks; hence, jugglery.


word: Hansard
wordtype: n.
definition:
An official report of proceedings in the British
   Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.


word: Hanse
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of an elliptical or many-centered arch which has
   the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.


word: Hansom cab
definition:
A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the
   driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top.


word: Han't
definition:
A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate
   speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.


word: Hap
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also,
   the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident;
   casual event; fate; luck; lot.


word: Haplostemonous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having but one series of stamens, and that equal in
   number to the proper number of petals; isostemonous.


word: Happiness
wordtype: n.
definition:
An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising
   from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession
   of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended
   enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction;
   felicity; blessedness.


word: Happy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate;
   successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a
   happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.


word: Happy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having
   the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of
   enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort;
   contented; joyous; as, happy hours, happy thoughts.


word: Hapuku
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large and valuable food fish (Polyprion prognathus) of
   New Zealand. It sometimes weighs one hundred pounds or more.


word: Hara-kiri
wordtype: n.
definition:
Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in
   Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced
   officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari.


word: Harangue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular
   oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous
   speech; declamation; ranting.


word: Harass
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting
   efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause
   to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out.


word: Harbinger
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of
   the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when
   traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings.


word: Harbor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water,
   either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of
   safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.


word: Harbor
wordtype: n.
definition:
To afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to
   give a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill
   thought).


word: Hard
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not
   yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material
   bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.


word: Hard
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily
   apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.


word: Hard
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious;
   fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.


word: Hard
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or
   consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust;
   grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard
   conditions or terms.


word: Hard
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding;
   obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard
   heart; hard words; a hard character.


word: Hard
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated,
   sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one
   position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g
   in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.


word: Hard
wordtype: adv.
definition:
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with
   force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to
   press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.


word: Hardbake
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with
   almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc.


word: Harden
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
   constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in
   wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.


word: Harden
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more
   compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.


word: Hardened
wordtype: a.
definition:
Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made
   obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.


word: Harderian
wordtype: a.
definition:
A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of
   the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating
   membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.


word: Hard grass
definition:
A name given to several different grasses, especially to
   the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of
   which it is contended that wheat has been derived.


word: Hardhack
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very astringent shrub (Spiraea tomentosa), common in
   pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.


word: Harddihood
wordtype: n.
definition:
Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind;
   bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.


word: Hardness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body,
   determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself
   scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc
   form the extremes.


word: Hardness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral
   salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with
   soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.


word: Hardy
wordtype: a.
definition:
Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of
   endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.


word: Hardy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for
   insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.


word: Hare
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short
   tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by
   leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.


word: Harebell
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula
   rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans,
   which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell.


word: Harefoot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tree (Ochroma Laqopus) of the West Indies, having the
   stamens united somewhat in the form of a hare's foot.


word: Haricot
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string
   bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the
   same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.


word: Harl
wordtype: n.
definition:
A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or
   ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies.


word: Harlequin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays
   tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an
   audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.


word: Harmattan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dry, hot wind, prevailing on the Atlantic coast of
   Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior
   or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.


word: Harmel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of rue (Ruta sylvestris) growing in India. At Lahore
   the seeds are used medicinally and for fumigation.


word: Harmine
wordtype: n.
definition:
An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum
   harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline
   substance.


word: Harmonical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody;
   harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which
   accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or
   sonorous body.


word: Harmonical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance
   to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios,
   proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like.


word: Harmonic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which
   is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See
   Harmonics.


word: Harmonica
wordtype: n.
definition:
A musical instrument, consisting of a series of
   hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened
   finger, give forth the tones.


word: Harmonicon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the
   notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.


word: Harmonics
wordtype: n.
definition:
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any
   principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the
   fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the
   artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the
   impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or
   column vibrate; overtones.


word: Harmonious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Acting together to a common end; agreeing in action or
   feeling; living in peace and friendship; as, an harmonious family.


word: Harmoniphon
wordtype: n.
definition:
An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which
   the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of
   thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.


word: Harmonist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding
   passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.


word: Harmonist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who understands the principles of harmony or is
   skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.


word: Harmonite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the
   last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had
   all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled
   in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.


word: Harmonium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and
   especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced
   by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of
   free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has
   pedals and stops.


word: Harmonize
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the
   mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism
   harmonize.


word: Harmonize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to
   show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.


word: Harmonometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of
   sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.


word: Harmony
wordtype: n.
definition:
The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system
   or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a
   connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a
   design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of
   the universe.


word: Harmony
wordtype: n.
definition:
Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners,
   interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good
   citizens live in harmony.


word: Harmony
wordtype: n.
definition:
A literary work which brings together or arranges
   systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same
   events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the
   Gospels.


word: Harmotome
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring
   usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.


word: Harness
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military
   sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.


word: Harness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing
   a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.


word: Harness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their
   means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are
   alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.


word: Harness cask
definition:
A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted
   provisions for daily use; -- called also harness tub.


word: Harp
wordtype: n.
definition:
A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame
   furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and
   played with the fingers.


word: Harp
wordtype: n.
definition:
To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously
   in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or
   continually; -- usually with on or upon.


word: Harp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to
   develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from
   a harp; to hit upon.


word: Harpa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; -- so
   called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.


word: Harpoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as
   whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad,
   fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand,
   or discharged from a gun.


word: Harpsichord
wordtype: n.
definition:
A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on
   legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the
   fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for
   striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano.


word: Harpy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the
   face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the
   face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.


word: Harpy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large and powerful, double-crested, short-winged American
   eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). It ranges from Texas to Brazil.


word: Harquebuse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made
   in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty
   inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus
   with matchlock.


word: Harrier
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several species of hawks or buzzards of the genus
   Circus which fly low and harry small animals or birds, -- as the
   European marsh harrier (Circus aerunginosus), and the hen harrier (C.
   cyaneus).


word: Harrow
wordtype: n.
definition:
An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of
   timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth.
   It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir
   the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.


word: Harrow
wordtype: n.
definition:
To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods
   and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.


word: Harsh
wordtype: a.
definition:
Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere;
   crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.


word: Hartbeest
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama),
   formerly much more abundant than it is now. The face and legs are
   marked with black, the rump with white.


word: Hartford
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at
   Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape. Its large
   dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds.


word: Harvest
wordtype: n.
definition:
The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of
   the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer
   or early autumn.


word: Harvest
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a
   crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.


word: Harvest-home
wordtype: n.
definition:
A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the
   Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
   States.


word: Hash
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables,
   especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces
   and mixed.


word: Hashish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp
   (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm
   climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product
   is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its
   intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.


word: Hasp
wordtype: n.
definition:
A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end
   to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is
   fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a
   door.


word: Hastated
wordtype: n.
definition:
Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the
   basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.


word: Haste
wordtype: n.
definition:
Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition;
   -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.


word: Haste
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry;
   urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance;
   vehemence.


word: Hasten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to
   precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.


word: Hastener
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used
   for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.


word: Hastings sands
definition:
The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so
   called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.


word: Hasty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence,
   acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.


word: Hasty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a
   hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.


word: Hat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made
   of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head
   from the sun or weather, or for ornament.


word: Hatband
wordtype: n.
definition:
A band round the crown of a hat; sometimes, a band of
   black cloth, crape, etc., worn as a badge of mourning.


word: Hatch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation,
   or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when
   hatched.


word: Hatch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring
   into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch
   mischief; to hatch heresy.


word: Hatch
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the
   egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.


word: Hatch
wordtype: n.
definition:
An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse
   which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or
   door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.


word: Hatchel
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for
   cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of
   large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.


word: Hatchel
wordtype: n.
definition:
To draw through the teeth of a hatchel, as flax or hemp,
   so as to separate the coarse and refuse parts from the fine, fibrous
   parts.


word: Hatching
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature
   painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at
   angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.


word: Embracery
wordtype: n.
definition:
An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly,
   by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other
   improper inducements.


word: Embrasure
wordtype: n.
definition:
An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet,
   through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See
   Illust. of Casemate.


word: Embrocate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid
   substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.


word: Embroil
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or
   discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to
   distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife.


word: Embryo
wordtype: n.
definition:
The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically,
   before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).


word: Embryology
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science which relates to the formation and
   development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual
   development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.


word: Emend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to
   make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by
   textual criticism, generally verbal.


word: Emendation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of altering for the better, or correcting what
   is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.


word: Emendation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as
   to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a
   document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations.


word: Emerge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which
   anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and
   appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from
   behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.


word: Emergence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from
   envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or
   appearance.


word: Emergency
wordtype: n.
definition:
An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances
   which calls for immediate action or remedy; pressing necessity;
   exigency.


word: Emeritus
wordtype: a.
definition:
Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty
   on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of
   an officer of a college or pastor of a church.


word: Emersion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as,
   emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties.


word: Emersion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or
   occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth;
   the emersion of a star from behind the moon.


word: Emery
wordtype: n.
definition:
Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts
   for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with
   more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.


word: Emetine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from
   ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.


word: Emication
wordtype: n.
definition:
A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or
   fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation.


word: Emigrate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To remove from one country or State to another, for
   the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.


word: Emigration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of emigrating; removal from one country or
   state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to
   America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.


word: Emigre
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first
   Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.


word: Eminence
wordtype: n.
definition:
An elevated condition among men; a place or station above
   men in general, either in rank, office, or celebrity; social or moral
   loftiness; high rank; distinction; preferment.


word: Eminent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth,
   high station, merit, or virtue; high in public estimation;
   distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent
   historian, statements, statesman, or saint.


word: Emeer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An Arabian military commander, independent chieftain, or
   ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants
   of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks,
   likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials.


word: Emissary
wordtype: n.
definition:
An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the
   interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war
   with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.


word: Emission
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending
   forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light
   from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank
   notes.


word: Emission
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at
   one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood.


word: Emissivity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Tendency to emission; comparative facility of emission,
   or rate at which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of a
   heated body.


word: Emit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to
   give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke;
   boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.


word: Emit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send
   into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.


word: Emmetropia
wordtype: n.
definition:
That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays
   of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus
   upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism.


word: Emodin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained
   from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of
   anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).


word: Emollescence
wordtype: n.
definition:
That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt
   which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.


word: Emolument
wordtype: n.
definition:
The profit arising from office, employment, or labor;
   gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary.


word: Emotion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
   whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
   a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
   body.


word: Emotional
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable;
   easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.


word: Emperor
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title
   of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of
   Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia.


word: Emphasis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice,
   given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification
   the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.


word: Emphasis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of
   thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a
   subject with great emphasis.


word: Emphasize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of
   voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.


word: Emphatical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by
   a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or
   emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in am
   emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic
   reasoning.


word: Emphyteusis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A real right, susceptible of assignment and of
   descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled
   with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the
   estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent.


word: Empire
wordtype: n.
definition:
The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries
   under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king),
   usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety
   in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent
   and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.


word: Empire
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule;
   sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason.


word: Empiric
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who confines himself to applying the results of mere
   experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who
   deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant
   and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan.


word: Empirical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or
   experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in
   experiments.


word: Empirical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Depending upon experience or observation alone, without
   due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical
   practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as,
   empiric skill, remedies.


word: Empiricism
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere
   experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles;
   ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery.


word: Empiristic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or
   experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to
   nativistic.


word: Emplecton
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall
   are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and
   mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders.


word: Employ
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in
   doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and
   sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a
   material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen
   in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to
   employ the mind; to employ one's energies.


word: Employ
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To have or keep at work; to give employment or
   occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a
   hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.


word: Employment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which engages or occupies; that which consumes
   time or attention; office or post of business; service; as,
   agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments;
   in the employment of government.


word: Emporium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or
   town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.


word: Empower
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give authority to; to delegate power to; to
   commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the
   Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal;
   the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the
   debtor.


word: Emptiness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being empty; absence of contents; void
   space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.


word: Emptiness
wordtype: n.
definition:
Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness;
   inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of
   earthly glory.


word: Empty
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Containing nothing; not holding or having anything
   within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said
   of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room,
   purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.


word: Empty
wordtype: n.
definition:
An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp.
   in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."


word: Empty
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or
   destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a
   vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.


word: Empyema
wordtype: n.
definition:
A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity
   of the body, especially that of the pleura.


word: Empyreal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial
   substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.


word: Empyreuma
wordtype: n.
definition:
The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of
   decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close
   vessels.


word: Emu
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius
   Novae-Hollandiae and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the
   ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly.


word: Emulate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions;
   to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival;
   as, to emulate the good and the great.


word: Emulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities
   or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.


word: Emulous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another;
   eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with
   another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues.


word: Emulsify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to
   reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat
   globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of
   solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.


word: Emulsin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in
   other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain
   glucosides.


word: Emulsion
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency
   resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture
   of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In
   photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver,
   used in the photographic process.


word: Emunctory
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin,
   etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.


word: Emu wren
definition:
A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus),
   having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.


word: En-
definition:
A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words,
   chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written
   indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly
   changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is
   sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause
   to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an
   intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.


word: -en
definition:
A suffix from AS. -an, formerly used to form the plural of many
   nouns, as in ashen, eyen, oxen, all obs. except oxen. In some cases,
   such as children and brethren, it has been added to older plural forms.


word: -en
definition:
A suffix corresponding to AS. -en and -on, formerly used to form
   the plural of verbs, as in housen, escapen.


word: -en
definition:
A suffix signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from
   nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must
   not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS.
   infinitive ending -an.


word: Enable
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer
   sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the
   like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.


word: Enact
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act;
   to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with
   reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.


word: Enactment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of
   legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is
   established as a law.


word: Enactment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a
   decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory
   enactment; a social enactment.


word: Enaliosauria
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing
   both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct
   orders.


word: Enallage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of
   one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same
   word, for another.


word: Enamel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A variety of glass, used in ornament, to cover a
   surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in
   color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.


word: Enamel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That which is enameled; also, any smooth, glossy
   surface, resembling enamel, especially if variegated.


word: Enamel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the
   composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth
   of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the
   dentine and cement.


word: Enamor
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with
   of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a
   lady; to be enamored of books or science.


word: Enantiomorphous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to
   each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain
   hemihedral crystals.


word: Enantiosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure of speech by which what is to be understood
   affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by
   contraries.


word: Enargite
wordtype: n.
definition:
An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in
   small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur,
   arsenic, copper, and often silver.


word: Enarthrosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation
   represented by such a joint. See Articulation.


word: Enation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a
   petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.


word: Encamp
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in
   temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch
   tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as
   an army or a company traveling.


word: Encampment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an
   army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.


word: Encampment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The place where an army or a company is encamped; a
   camp; tents pitched or huts erected for temporary lodgings.


word: Encapsulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a
   membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.


word: -ence
definition:
A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, that
   which relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence,
   diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See -ance.


word: Enceinte
wordtype: n.
definition:
The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a
   fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.


word: Encenia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or
   the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and
   Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors.


word: Encephalopathy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to
   disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms
   attending chronic lead poisoning.


word: Enchantment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of enchanting; the production of certain
   wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed
   spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation.


word: Enchantment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which captivates the heart and senses; an
   influence or power which fascinates or highly delights.


word: Enchase
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround
   with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose;
   to adorn.


word: Enchodus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from
   their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).


word: Enchoric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic;
   popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed
   by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the
   hieroglyphics. See Demotic.


word: Enchylemma
wordtype: n.
definition:
The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or
   granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other
   parts of the nucleus are imbedded.


word: Enchyma
wordtype: n.
definition:
The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues,
   particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.


word: Encircle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or
   ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled
   the city.


word: Enclave
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another
   territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.


word: Enclitical
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle
   which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it,
   and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the
   accent of the preceding word.


word: Enclitic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose
   its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).


word: Encompass
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To circumscribe or go round so as to surround
   closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses
   the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the
   world.


word: Encore
wordtype: adv. / interj.
definition:
Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and
   spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a
   repetition of a particular part.


word: Encoubert
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several species of armadillos of the genera
   Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind
   feet.


word: Encounter
wordtype: adv.
definition:
To come against face to face; to meet; to confront,
   either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in
   opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to
   oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two
   armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to
   encounter strong evidence of a truth.


word: Encounter
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet,
   esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies
   encountered at Waterloo.


word: Encourage
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit,
   or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate;
   enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage.


word: Encouragement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to
   practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.


word: Encouragement
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which serves to incite, support, promote, or
   advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of
   confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude
   people.


word: Encratite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from
   marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.


word: Encrinite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fossil crinoid, esp. one belonging to, or resembling,
   the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid.


word: Encrinoidea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of
   the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin
   of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts.
   under Comatula and Crinoidea.


word: Encroach
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the
   possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench;
   -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach
   on the highway.


word: Encroachment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of entering gradually or silently upon the
   rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.


word: Encumber
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden;
   to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or
   embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is
   encumbered with useless learning.


word: Encumbrance
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action,
   or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See
   Incumbrance.


word: -ency
definition:
A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more
   commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency.
   See -ancy.


word: Encyclical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or
   for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter
   of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.


word: Encyclopaedia
wordtype: n.
definition:
The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive
   summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in
   which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately,
   and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.


word: Encyclopedism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also,
   possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.


word: Encyclopedist
wordtype: n.
definition:
The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists
   in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range
   of the sciences.


word: Encystment
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process which, among some of the lower forms of life,
   precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.


word: Encystment
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in
   their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles,
   liver, etc. See Trichina.


word: End
wordtype: n.
definition:
The extreme or last point or part of any material thing
   considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence,
   extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit;
   as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a
   discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of
   anything having a first part.


word: End
wordtype: n.
definition:
Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion;
   issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event;
   consequence.


word: End
wordtype: n.
definition:
The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and
   effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private
   or public ends.


word: End
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a
   close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter
   ends.


word: Endanger
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to
   expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.


word: Endaspidean
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus
   on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.


word: Endearment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of endearing or the state of being endeared;
   also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection.


word: Endeavor
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exert physical or intellectual strength for the
   attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach;
   to try; to attempt.


word: Endeavor
wordtype: n.
definition:
An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward
   the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an
   effort; a trial.


word: Endecane
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series,
   C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum.


word: Endeictic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue,
   in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.


word: Endive
wordtype: n.
definition:
A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided
   and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad.


word: Endless
wordtype: a.
definition:
Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual;
   interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless
   line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.


word: Endoderm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures
   derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.


word: Endodermis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of
   the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular
   bundle.


word: Endogamy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a
   man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; --
   opposed to exogamy.


word: Endogen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant which increases in size by internal growth and
   elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or
   threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not
   forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the
   endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in
   three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a
   single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens
   constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all
   palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple,
   etc. See Exogen.


word: Endogenous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the
   summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood,
   and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.


word: Endogeny
wordtype: n.
definition:
Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous
   division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of
   a parent cell.


word: Endoparasite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an
   animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite.
   See Entozoon.


word: Endorhizous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the
   cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many
   monocotyledonous plants.


word: Endorse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its
   width (according to some writers, one eighth).


word: Endosarc
wordtype: n.
definition:
The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular
   organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm;
   endoplasta.


word: Endoskeleton
wordtype: n.
definition:
The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework
   of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.


word: Endosmosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward
   in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose.


word: Endostosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process of bone formation in which ossification takes
   place within the substance of the cartilage.


word: Endotheca
wordtype: n.
definition:
The tissue which partially fills the interior of the
   interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists
   of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another.


word: Endow
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent
   fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income
   upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow
   a public institution.


word: Endow
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a
   gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as,
   man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or
   benefits.


word: Endowment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an
   institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any
   object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.


word: Endowment
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind;
   gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually
   in the plural.


word: Endurance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain
   or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance;
   patience.


word: Endure
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer
   patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.


word: Endure
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support
   without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of
   heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.


word: Endure
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or
   without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to
   put up with; to tolerate.


word: Endysis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of
   feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.


word: Enemy
wordtype: n.
definition:
One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or
   attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of
   or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.


word: Energetical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for
   vigorous action or for exerting force; active.


word: Energetical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and
   effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures;
   energetic laws.


word: Energetics
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of science which treats of the laws
   governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital,
   forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general
   investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical
   phenomena.


word: Energy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating,
   or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing
   energies may suffer them to lie inactive.


word: Energy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or
   effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.


word: Energy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to
   impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of
   speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.


word: Enervate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to
   render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral
   powers of.


word: Enfeeble
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the
   strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.


word: Enfeoff
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a
   fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process
   of feoffment.


word: Enfilade
wordtype: n.
definition:
A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a
   line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.


word: Enfilade
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction
   of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.


word: Enfiled
wordtype: p. a.
definition:
Having some object, as the head of a man or beast,
   impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing
   which it pierces.


word: Enforce
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge
   with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.


word: Enforce
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give
   effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.


word: Enforcement
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which enforces, constraints, gives force,
   authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.


word: Enfranchise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a
   body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to
   admit to the privileges of a freeman.


word: Enfranchisement
wordtype: n.
definition:
Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body
   politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens.


word: Engage
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under
   obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or
   promise; to bind by contract or promise.


word: Engage
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To gain for service; to bring in as associate or aid; to
   enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for
   service.


word: Hatchment
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased
   person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his
   dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is
   used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death
   of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc.
   Called also achievement.


word: Hatchway
wordtype: n.
definition:
A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording
   passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.


word: Hate
wordtype: n.
definition:
To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil
   should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to
   dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate
   hypocrisy.


word: Hate
wordtype: n.
definition:
To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a
   substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate
   that anything should be wasted.


word: Hate
wordtype: v.
definition:
Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall
   the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward
   things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love.


word: Hatred
wordtype: n.
definition:
Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the
   mind awakened by something regarded as evil.


word: Hatteria
wordtype: n.
definition:
A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character,
   differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living
   representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic
   fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, and Tuatera.


word: Hauberk
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of
   the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is
   shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used
   synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon.


word: Haul
wordtype: n.
definition:
Transportation by hauling; the distance through which
   anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or
   short haul.


word: Haulm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and
   the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.


word: Haunch
wordtype: n.
definition:
The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the
   pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.


word: Haunt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking
   saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.


word: Hausen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the
   Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.


word: Hautboy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in
   shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly
   called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.


word: Hauynite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani/
   rocks. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and soda, with sulphate of
   lime.


word: Have
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used
   reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one;
   to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to
   attack; to have with a companion.


word: Haven
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river,
   which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.


word: Haversack
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a
   soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from
   knapsack.


word: Haversian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an
   English physician of the seventeenth century.


word: Havildar
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer
   of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.


word: Haw
wordtype: n.
definition:
An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat
   like haw! also, the sound so made.


word: Haw
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of
   cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and
   most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.


word: Hawk
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the
   family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the
   prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less
   pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some,
   as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general
   sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as
   the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.


word: Hawk
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks
   trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice
   falconry.


word: Hawk
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike
   like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.


word: Hawk
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an
   expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the
   depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the
   removal of foreign substances.


word: Hawk
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry
   (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to
   hawk goods or pamphlets.


word: Hawkbill
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the
   best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.


word: Hawk moth
definition:
Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are
   numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly
   mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking
   the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large,
   hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors,
   and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and
   Tomato worm.


word: Hawkweed
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant of the genus Hieracium; -- so called from the
   ancient belief that birds of prey used its juice to strengthen their
   vision.


word: Hawse
wordtype: n.
definition:
The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two
   anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.


word: Hawse
wordtype: n.
definition:
The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as,
   the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our
   hawse, or athwart hawse.


word: Hawthorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having
   deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a
   fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for
   standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which
   has the leaves but little lobed.


word: Hayrack
wordtype: n.
definition:
A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used
   in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.


word: Hayward
wordtype: n.
definition:
An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep
   cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to
   impound animals found running at large.


word: Haze
wordtype: n.
definition:
Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes
   vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air;
   hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.


word: Haze
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks
   upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college
   students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.


word: Hazel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C.
   avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous
   taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which
   produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert.


word: Hazel
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel;
   pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.


word: He
wordtype: obj.
definition:
The man or male being (or object personified to which the
   masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the
   masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already
   indicated.


word: Head
wordtype: n.
definition:
The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the
   brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the
   higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon.


word: Head
wordtype: n.
definition:
The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an
   inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head
   of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or
   extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the
   point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast,
   a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a
   hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler.


word: Head
wordtype: n.
definition:
The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of
   a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers
   the head.


word: Head
wordtype: n.
definition:
The most prominent or important member of any organized body;
   the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a
   state, and the like.


word: Head
wordtype: n.
definition:
The place or honor, or of command; the most important or
   foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a
   column of soldiers.


word: Head
wordtype: n.
definition:
Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural
   sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.


word: Head
wordtype: n.
definition:
The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the
   mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never
   entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own
   thought or will.


word: Head
wordtype: n.
definition:
The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or
   river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or
   the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above
   an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the
   height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a
   mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also,
   that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea.


word: Head
wordtype: n.
definition:
A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be
   expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.


word: Head
wordtype: a.
definition:
Principal; chief; leading; first; as, the head master of a
   school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.


word: Head
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To be at the head of; to put one's self at the head of; to
   lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army, an
   expedition, or a riot.


word: Head
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder
   or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of
   cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.


word: Headbeard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of
   anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.


word: Headborrow
wordtype: n.
definition:
The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary,
   consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead,
   boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder.


word: Head-cheese
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet,
   of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.


word: Headdress
wordtype: n.
definition:
A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether
   with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.


word: Headed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Furnished with a head (commonly as denoting intellectual
   faculties); -- used in composition; as, clear-headed, long-headed,
   thick-headed; a many-headed monster.


word: Header
wordtype: n.
definition:
In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two
   trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the
   tailpieces.


word: Head-hunter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the
   custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as
   trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters.


word: Heading
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a
   drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.


word: Headlight
wordtype: n.
definition:
A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head
   of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at
   night, or in going through a dark tunnel.


word: Flee
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an
   alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This
   is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.


word: Fleece
wordtype: n.
definition:
The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other
   similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at
   one time.


word: Fleece
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife
   from the cylinder of a carding machine.


word: Fleece
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially
   by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions.


word: Fleer
definition:
To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to
   deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.


word: Fleet
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels;
   also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.


word: Fleet
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; --
   obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.


word: Flesh
wordtype: n.
definition:
The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which
   cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the
   muscles.


word: Flesh
wordtype: n.
definition:
Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat;
   especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished
   from fish.


word: Flesh
wordtype: n.
definition:
In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure;
   desire for sensual gratification; carnality.


word: Flesh
wordtype: n.
definition:
The character under the influence of animal propensities or
   selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.


word: Flesh
wordtype: n.
definition:
The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a
   root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.


word: Flesh
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion;
   to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding
   them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon
   flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the
   first time.


word: Fleur-de-lis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and
   having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter,
   the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is
   identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.


word: Flews
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The pendulous or overhanging lateral parts of the upper
   lip of dogs, especially prominent in hounds; -- called also chaps. See
   Illust. of Bloodhound.


word: Flexibility
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness;
   pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory,
   whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.


word: Flexible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being
   turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to
   pressure; not stiff or brittle.


word: Flexible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not
   invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and
   compliant; wavering.


word: Flexion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint
   which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the
   axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.


word: Flexor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of
   the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.


word: Flexural
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the
   nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.


word: Flexure
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving;
   flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.


word: Flexure
wordtype: n.
definition:
The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused
   by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from
   the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this
   distortion.


word: Flick
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to
   flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.


word: Flicker
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air,
   or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.


word: Flicker
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden
   and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying
   flame.


word: Flicker
wordtype: n.
definition:
The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so
   called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder,
   pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.


word: Flight
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of
   wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.


word: Flight
wordtype: n.
definition:
Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a
   flight of imagination, ambition, folly.


word: Flight
wordtype: n.
definition:
A number of beings or things passing through the air
   together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds
   that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a
   flight of arrows.


word: Flighter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a
   cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.


word: Flighty
wordtype: a.
definition:
Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of
   imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and
   extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.


word: Flimsy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or
   solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or
   plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.


word: Flinch
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain
   or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or
   of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from
   the combat.


word: Fling
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart;
   to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone
   into the pond.


word: Fling
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate;
   hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.


word: Fling
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to
   sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.


word: Flint
wordtype: n.
definition:
A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color
   usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal
   fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.


word: Flint glass
definition:
A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially
   of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for
   optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of
   dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was
   obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass.


word: Flintlock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the
   hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming.


word: Flintlock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the
   old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.


word: Flinty
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Consisting of, composed of, abounding in, or
   resembling, flint; as, a flinty rock; flinty ground; a flinty heart.


word: Flipe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the
   foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.


word: Flippant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease
   and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.


word: Flippant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or
   consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.


word: Flirt
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly;
   as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a
   handkerchief.


word: Flirt
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a
   desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at
   courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.


word: Flirt
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or
   plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.


word: Flit
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a
   rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud
   flits along.


word: Flitch
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates,
   which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or
   built beam.


word: Float
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid,
   as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark
   the place of, something.


word: Float
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which
   floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.


word: Float
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an
   inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life
   preserver.


word: Float
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to
   the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.


word: Float
wordtype: n.
definition:
To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift
   along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a
   fluid, or through the air.


word: Float
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the
   surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.


word: Float
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial
   scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or
   continue in, operation.


word: Floccillation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person,
   as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in
   acute diseases.


word: Flocculus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum,
   near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.


word: Flock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially
   applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural)
   to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.


word: Flock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Christian church or congregation; considered in their
   relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.


word: Flock
wordtype: n.
definition:
Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc.,
   reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing
   unpholstered furniture.


word: Flock
wordtype: sing. / pl.
definition:
Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that
   from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to
   give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable
   fiber used for a similar purpose.


word: Flock
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface
   of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine
   flock.


word: Flood
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the
   flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising,
   swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a
   freshet; an inundation.


word: Flood
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise
   of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.


word: Flood
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a
   flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely
   diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes;
   a flood of paper currency.


word: Flood
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with
   water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill
   to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a
   depreciated currency.


word: Flooding
wordtype: n.
definition:
The filling or covering with water or other fluid;
   overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.


word: Floor
wordtype: n.
definition:
The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we
   stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.


word: Floor
wordtype: n.
definition:
The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper
   covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in
   sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.


word: Floor
wordtype: n.
definition:
The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we
   walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.


word: Floor
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock
   down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor
   an opponent.


word: Floorer
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that
   knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds
   one's abilities.


word: Flop
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish
   with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim
   of a hat flops.


word: Flora
wordtype: n.
definition:
The complete system of vegetable species growing without
   cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or
   description of, or treatise on, such plants.


word: Floreal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The eight month of the French republican calendar. It
   began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendemiare.


word: Floret
wordtype: n.
definition:
A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which
   compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle,
   and dandelion.


word: Florid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess
   with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.


word: Florid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures,
   divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little
   ornamentations.


word: Florideae
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A subclass of algae including all the red or
   purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from
   the rosy or florid color of most of the species.


word: Florin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth
   century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins
   in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is
   worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands,
   about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.


word: Flos-ferri
wordtype: n.
definition:
A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white
   coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.


word: Floss
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace,
   produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.


word: Flota
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly
   sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to
   Spain the production of Spanish America.


word: Flounce
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to
   spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as
   a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm,
   often as in displeasure.


word: Flounce
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress,
   consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around
   the skirt, and left hanging.


word: Flounder
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to
   move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to
   roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.


word: Flour
wordtype: n.
definition:
The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain;
   especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the
   fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of
   mustard.


word: Floured
wordtype: p. a.
definition:
Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has
   been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process.


word: Flourish
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor,
   comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be
   prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to
   be in a state of activity or production.


word: Flourish
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton
   movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with
   fantastic and irregular motion.


word: Flourish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either
   natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.


word: Flourish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn
   with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set
   off with a parade of words.


word: Flourish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about
   in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.


word: Flourish
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or
   vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.;
   ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification;
   parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of
   wit.


word: Flourish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of
   triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition;
   a cal; a fanfare.


word: Flow
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move with a continual change of place among the
   particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a
   liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the
   eyes.


word: Flow
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties;
   as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to
   be uttered easily.


word: Flow
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought,
   diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a
   river; a stream.


word: Flower
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the
   showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from
   the foliage.


word: Flower
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence
   including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of
   the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar
   parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the
   stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and
   callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves
   surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and
   Corolla.


word: Flower
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as,
   the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness
   and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.


word: Flower
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance in the form of a powder, especially when
   condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.


word: Flower
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant;
   to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.


word: Flower-de-luce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike
   leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but
   probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.


word: Flower-fence
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia,
   pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; --
   so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West
   Indies.


word: Flowering
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with
   many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering
   almond, etc.


word: Fluavil
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow,
   resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.


word: Fluctuate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to
   wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating
   field of air.


word: Fluctuate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move now in one direction and now in another; to
   be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to
   vacillate.


word: Fluctuation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that
   direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.


word: Fluctuation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a
   natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to
   pressure or percussion.


word: Flue
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a
   current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage


word: Flue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through
   surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds
   water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or
   simply tubes.


word: Fluent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words
   at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a
   fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language;
   as, fluent speech.


word: Fluent
wordtype: n.
definition:
A variable quantity, considered as increasing or
   diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or
   integral.


word: Fluework
wordtype: n.
definition:
A general name for organ stops in which the sound is
   caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge
   above; -- in distinction from reedwork.


word: Fluid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having particles which easily move and change their relative
   position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to
   pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.


word: Fluinity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a
   liquid, aeriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity.


word: Fluke
wordtype: n.
definition:
A parasitic trematode worm of several species, having a
   flat, lanceolate body and two suckers. Two species (Fasciola hepatica
   and Distoma lanceolatum) are found in the livers of sheep, and produce
   the disease called rot.


word: Fluke
wordtype: n.
definition:
An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a
   scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected
   advantage; as, he won by a fluke.


word: Flume
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the
   water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for
   hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber
   down a declivity.


word: Flunlyism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or characteristics of a flunky; readiness to
   cringe to those who are superior in wealth or position; toadyism.


word: Fluocerite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden.
   Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral.


word: Fluoranthene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white crystalline hydrocarbon C/H/, of a complex
   structure, found as one ingrdient of the higher boiling portion of coal
   tar.


word: Fluorene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a
   beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher
   boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.


word: Fluorescein
wordtype: n.
definition:
A yellowish red, crystalline substance, C20H12O5,
   produced by heating together phthalic anhydride and resorcin; -- so
   called, from the very brilliant yellowish green fluorescence of its
   alkaline solutions. It has acid properties, and its salts of the
   alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.


word: Fluorescence
wordtype: n.
definition:
That property which some transparent bodies have of
   producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different
   in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor
   spar afford blue reflections. It is due not to the difference in the
   color of a distinct surface layer, but to the power which the substance
   has of modifying the light incident upon it. The light emitted by
   fluorescent substances is in general of lower refrangibility than the
   incident light.


word: Fluorescin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless, amorphous substance which is produced by
   the reduction of fluorescein, and from which the latter may be formed
   by oxidation.


word: Fluorine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or
   negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the
   halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs
   combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for
   most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared
   nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the
   containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a
   pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19.


word: Fluorite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors,
   white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful,
   crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also
   massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental
   vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.


word: Fluosilicate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually
   basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; --
   called also silicofluoride.


word: Flush
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm
   with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of
   cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.


word: Flush
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the
   blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.


word: Flush
wordtype: n.
definition:
A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame,
   modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.


word: Flush
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a
   sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush
   on the clouds at sunset.


word: Flush
wordtype: a.
definition:
Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent
   surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush
   joint.


word: Fluster
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence,
   to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.


word: Flute
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow
   cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers
   or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed
   at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.


word: Flute
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of
   a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and
   pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.


word: Flute
wordtype: n.
definition:
A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material,
   esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.


word: Flute a bec
definition:
A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a
   mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.


word: Fluted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted
   column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.


word: Fluting
wordtype: n.
definition:
Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or
   flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the
   fluting of a lady's ruffle.


word: Fluviatile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about
   rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta,
   plants.


word: Flux
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as
   of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.


word: Flux
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals
   or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.


word: Flux
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially,
   an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery.
   See Bloody flux.


word: Fluxion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or
   flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of
   time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.


word: Fluxion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the
   conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in
   their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are
   the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which
   it differs little except in notation and logical method.


word: Fluxionary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood
   to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass
   or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate
   rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an
   enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly
   or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a
   bomb flies apart.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as,
   the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black
   fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes,
   the length from the "union" to the extreme end.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a
   fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the
   resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a
   revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by
   means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance
   to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining
   press. See Fly wheel (below).


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged
   loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning
   wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a
   power printing press for doing the same work.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn
   over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at
   no other place.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers,
   overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.


word: Fly
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance,
   usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it
   was caught on the fly.


word: Flybane
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous
   mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric.


word: Flyblow
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to
   cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with
   flyblows.


word: Flyer
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a
   theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.


word: Flyer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as
   in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.


word: Flyer
wordtype: n.
definition:
The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning
   frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from
   their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.


word: Flyer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's
   capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.


word: Flying
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving
   lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.


word: Flying fish
definition:
A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a
   considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins.
   These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are
   found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.


word: Flying squirrel
definition:
One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus
   and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from
   the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps.


word: Flysch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to the series of sandstones and schists
   overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in
   the Eocene Tertiary.


word: Flytrap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap,
   the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together
   when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing
   insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards
   digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.


word: Foam
wordtype: n.
definition:
The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles,
   which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an
   animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as,
   the foam of the sea.


word: Foam
wordtype: n.
definition:
To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam
   boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of
   chemical action.


word: Foam
wordtype: v.t.
definition:
To cause to foam; as,to foam the goblet; also (with out),
   to throw out with rage or violence, as foam.


word: Focus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A point in which the rays of light meet, after being
   reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus
   of a lens or mirror.


word: Focus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A point so related to a conic section and certain straight
   line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any
   point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from
   the directrix is constant.


word: Fodder
wordtype: n.
definition:
A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly
   sold, in England, varying from 19/ to 24 cwt.; a fother.


word: Fog
wordtype: n.
definition:
Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and
   disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near
   the ground, and from mist in not approaching so nearly to fine rain.
   See Cloud.


word: Fog
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To show indistinctly or become indistinct, as the picture
   on a negative sometimes does in the process of development.


word: Foggy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations;
   misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.


word: Fogy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dull old fellow; a person behind the times,
   over-conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old.


word: Foil
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to
   baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.


word: Foil
wordtype: n.
definition:
A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in
   the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.


word: Foil
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and
   afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; --
   employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior
   stones.


word: Foil
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn
   or set off another thing to advantage.


word: Foil
wordtype: n.
definition:
The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded
   or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is
   called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number
   of arcs of which it is composed.


word: Foin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken
   from the ferret or weasel of the same name.


word: Foist
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without
   warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or
   counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.


word: Fold
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over
   another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.


word: Fold
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over
   another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the
   door fold.


word: Fold
wordtype: v.
definition:
A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over
   on another part; a plait; a plication.


word: Fold
wordtype: v.
definition:
Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in
   composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical
   ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four
   times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.


word: Help
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To furnish with strength or means for the successful
   performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to
   assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the
   following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale
   yon balcony."


word: Help
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as,
   to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.


word: Help
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of
   avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain
   or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.


word: Help
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or
   deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or
   thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.


word: Helpless
wordtype: a.
definition:
Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend
   one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.


word: Helvetic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant
   of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of
   the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.


