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word: Deflector
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a
   cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help
   combustion).


word: Defluxion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as
   from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with
   inflammation.


word: Deforce
wordtype: v.
definition:
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully
   the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.


word: Deforce
wordtype: v.
definition:
To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as
   an officer in the execution of his duty.


word: Deforcement
wordtype: n.
definition:
A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful
   withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.


word: Deformed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity;
   misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.


word: Deformity
wordtype: a.
definition:
The state of being deformed; want of proper form or
   symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of
   shape or features; ugliness.


word: Deformity
wordtype: a.
definition:
Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety;
   irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established
   laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character.


word: Defraud
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a
   deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by
   embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a
   creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.


word: Defray
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide
   for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.


word: Defy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or
   obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.


word: Defy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to
   challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with
   contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to
   defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.


word: Degarnish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture,
   ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.


word: Degenerate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former
   state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated;
   degraded; unworthy; base; low.


word: Degenerate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was
   originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more
   vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.


word: Degenerate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy
   structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.


word: Degeneration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or state of growing worse, or the state of
   having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy;
   deterioration.


word: Degeneration
wordtype: n.
definition:
That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its
   vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a
   lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the
   liver.


word: Degeneration
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any
   class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs;
   hereditary degradation of type.


word: Degenerationist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A believer in the theory of degeneration, or
   hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that
   savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.


word: Degradation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation,
   or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or
   society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a
   general, or a bishop.


word: Degradation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being reduced in rank, character, or
   reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy;
   disgrace; abasement; debasement.


word: Degrade
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to
   lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as,
   to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.


word: Degrade
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to
   lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual
   character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace;
   as, vice degrades a man.


word: Degrade
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of
   structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or
   that genus or group of genera.


word: Degraded
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the typical characters or organs in a partially
   developed condition, or lacking certain parts.


word: Degraded
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose
   extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center;
   -- termed also on degrees.


word: Degree
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in
   quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression;
   grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow
   degrees; degree of comparison.


word: Degree
wordtype: n.
definition:
The point or step of progression to which a person has
   arrived; rank or station in life; position.


word: Degree
wordtype: n.
definition:
Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college
   or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of
   bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.


word: Degree
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent,
   determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of
   relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.


word: Degree
wordtype: n.
definition:
State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly,
   the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its
   literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree
   of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by
   the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any
   term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of
   the fourth degree.


word: Degree
wordtype: n.
definition:
A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part
   is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The
   degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.


word: Degree
wordtype: n.
definition:
A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or
   other instrument, as on a thermometer.


word: Dehiscence
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of
   attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or
   the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also,
   the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the
   expulsion of their contents.


word: Dehorn
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns
   of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.


word: Dehors
wordtype: n.
definition:
All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the
   main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.


word: Dehydration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of freeing from water; also, the
   condition of a body from which the water has been removed.


word: Dehydrogenation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also,
   the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.


word: Deicide
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of killing a being of a divine nature;
   particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.


word: Deify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to
   enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was
   deified.


word: Deism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of
   those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.


word: Deity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a
   god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in
   his works.


word: Delamination
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of
   the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are
   differentiated.


word: Delaware
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American grape, with compact bunches of small,
   amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.


word: Delawares
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of
   the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.


word: Delay
wordtype: n.
definition:
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard
   the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy
   fall of snow.


word: Del credere
definition:
An agreement by which an agent or factor, in
   consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del
   credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure,
   warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser,
   the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not
   punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due.


word: Dele
wordtype: imperative sing.
definition:
Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel
   something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar
   form of d, thus: /.


word: Delegate
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one
   deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a
   commissioner; a vicar.


word: Delegate
wordtype: n.
definition:
One elected by the people of a territory to represent
   them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of
   voting.


word: Delegate
wordtype: n.
definition:
One sent by any constituency to act as its representative
   in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating
   officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.


word: Delegate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To send as one's representative; to empower as an
   ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to
   depute; to authorize.


word: Delegation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of delegating, or investing with authority to
   act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.


word: Delegation
wordtype: n.
definition:
One or more persons appointed or chosen, and
   commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress,
   etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from
   Massachusetts; a deputation.


word: Delegation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated
   from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his
   stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.


word: Deleterious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a
   deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example.


word: Delftware
wordtype: n.
definition:
Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed
   earthenware made for table use, and the like.


word: Deliberate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or
   decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step;
   circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a
   deliberate judge or counselor.


word: Deliberate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully
   considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate
   measure or result.


word: Deliberate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for
   and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to
   deliberate a question.


word: Deliberate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the
   arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to
   consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about,
   concerning.


word: Deliberately
wordtype: adv.
definition:
With careful consideration, or deliberation;
   circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose
   deliberately formed.


word: Deliberation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining
   the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration;
   mature reflection.


word: Deliberation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for
   and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or
   council.


word: Deliberative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by
   deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a
   deliberative body.


word: Deliberative
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and
   convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.


word: Delicacy
wordtype: a.
definition:
The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness
   to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the
   like.


word: Delicacy
wordtype: a.
definition:
Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution;
   softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or
   weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand
   or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.


word: Delicacy
wordtype: a.
definition:
Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or
   tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an
   exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy
   in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest
   action.


word: Delicacy
wordtype: a.
definition:
The state of being affected by slight causes;
   sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.


word: Delicacy
wordtype: a.
definition:
That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or
   pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of
   taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.


word: Delicate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence,
   adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as,
   a delicate dish; delicate flavor.


word: Delicate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend;
   considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate
   behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness.


word: Delicate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail;
   effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate
   child; delicate health.


word: Delicate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily
   dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question.


word: Delicate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical;
   sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.


word: Delicious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or
   grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.


word: Delict
wordtype: n.
definition:
An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an
   offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.


word: Delight
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought
   state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction;
   joy.


word: Delight
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to
   please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony
   delights the ear.


word: Delight
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be
   greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.


word: Delineate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of;
   to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray;
   to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with
   the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and
   minuteness. See Delineation.


word: Delineation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as
   by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the
   delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving,
   representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation
   by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as
   distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates
   them excessively.


word: Delinquent
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an
   offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a
   culprit.


word: Deliquesce
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To dissolve gradually and become liquid by
   attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts,
   acids, and alkalies.


word: Deliquescent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air;
   capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid;
   as, deliquescent salts.


word: Deliquium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist
   place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.


word: Delirious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed;
   insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.


word: Delirium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions
   are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or
   wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other
   disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.


word: Deliver
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to
   release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to
   rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to
   deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.


word: Deliver
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of;
   to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; --
   often with up or over, to or into.


word: Deliver
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as,
   to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.


word: Deliver
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a
   child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.


word: Deliverance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of delivering or freeing from restraint,
   captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a
   captive.


word: Deliverance
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or
   intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the
   deliverance of consciousness.


word: Delivery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release;
   liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.


word: Delivery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of
   the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a
   fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.


word: Della Crusca
definition:
A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy
   in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for
   conserving the purity of the Italian language.


word: Deloul
wordtype: n.
definition:
A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling;
   the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.


word: Delphine
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin
   classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of
   Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).


word: Delphinic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur;
   specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria).


word: Delphinine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre
   (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.


word: Delta
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially
   when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a
   river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.


word: Deltohedron
wordtype: n.
definition:
A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a
   hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.


word: Delude
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or
   judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.


word: Deluge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an
   inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the
   days of Noah (Gen. vii.).


word: Deluge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread;
   to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged
   the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.


word: Delundung
wordtype: n.
definition:
An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis),
   resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely
   spotted.


word: Delusive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind;
   deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.


word: Demagogue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the
   multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious
   mob orator or political leader.


word: Demand
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek
   from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for
   urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.


word: Demand
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need
   of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.


word: Demand
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a
   peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due;
   requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.


word: Demand
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to
   possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is
   in great demand.


word: Demand
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing
   claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.


word: Demand
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The right or title in virtue of which anything may be
   claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.


word: Demantoid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in
   the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster,
   whence the name.


word: Dementia
wordtype: n.
definition:
Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in
   weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility;
   idiocy.


word: Demesne
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands
   belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house,
   and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.


word: Demicircle
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc.
   It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.


word: Demigorge
wordtype: n.
definition:
Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from
   the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.


word: Demilune
wordtype: n.
definition:
A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress,
   and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend
   the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.


word: Demimonde
wordtype: n.
definition:
Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept
   as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.


word: Demi-rilievo
wordtype: n.
definition:
Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures
   project from the background by one half their full roundness.


word: Demise
wordtype: n.
definition:
Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or
   successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of
   the crown or royal authority to a successor.


word: Demise
wordtype: n.
definition:
The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for
   life or for years, most commonly the latter.


word: Demisemiquaver
wordtype: n.
definition:
A short note, equal in time to the half of a
   semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.


word: Demisuit
wordtype: n.
definition:
A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body,
   as having no protection for the legs below the thighs, no vizor to the
   helmet, and the like.


word: Demitint
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is
   neither in full darkness nor full light.


word: Demiurge
wordtype: n.
definition:
According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by
   the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.


word: Demivolt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a
   horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.


word: Demobilization
wordtype: n.
definition:
The disorganization or disarming of troops which
   have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the
   change from a war footing to a peace footing.


word: Democracy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Government by the people; a form of government in which
   the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.


word: Democracy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Government by popular representation; a form of
   government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is
   indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated
   authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative
   government; a republic.


word: Democratic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or
   constructed upon the principle of government by the people.


word: Demogorgon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by
   some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was
   supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon.


word: Demoiselle
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Numidian crane (Anthropoides virgo); -- so called
   on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements.


word: Demolish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric
   of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.


word: Demolition
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a
   pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed
   to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a
   town, or of hopes.


word: Demon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place
   between men and deities in pagan mythology.


word: Demoniacal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a demon or evil
   spirit; devilish; as, a demoniac being; demoniacal practices.


word: Demoniac
wordtype: n.
definition:
A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one
   whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.


word: Demonstrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to
   prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of
   doubt or denial.


word: Demonstration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof;
   especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable
   evidence, to the senses or reason.


word: Demonstration
wordtype: n.
definition:
A course of reasoning showing that a certain result
   is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being
   definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions.


word: Demonstrative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the nature of demonstration; tending to
   demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.


word: Demonstrative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying
   feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.


word: Demonstrator
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who demonstrates; one who proves anything with
   certainty, or establishes it by indubitable evidence.


word: Demoralization
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of corrupting or subverting morals.
   Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage,
   hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline,
   courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.


word: Demoralize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or
   lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or
   untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to
   weaken in spirit or efficiency.


word: Demulcent
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature,
   supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or
   protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic, glycerin, olive oil, etc.,
   are demulcents.


word: Demur
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in
   view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the
   determination or conclusion of an affair.


word: Demurrage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the
   time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing.


word: Demurrer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment
   of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter
   alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the
   action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to
   answer or proceed further.


word: Den
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among
   rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment;
   as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.


word: Denarius
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents;
   the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth
   originally ten of the pieces called as.


word: Dendrite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures
   resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an
   oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral
   having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.


word: Dendritical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent
   crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.


word: Dendroc/la
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of the Turbellaria in which the
   digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided
   into smaller branchlets.


word: Dengue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever,
   cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling
   those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in
   India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely
   fatal.


word: Denial
wordtype: n.
definition:
A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge,
   imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or
   maintained; a contradiction.


word: Denial
wordtype: n.
definition:
A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with;
   disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault
   charged on one; a denial of God.


word: Denitrification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also,
   the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.


word: Denizen
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the
   rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an
   adopted or naturalized citizen.


word: Denominate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a specific name or denomination; specified in
   the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate
   quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound
   number, under Compound.


word: Denomination
wordtype: n.
definition:
That by which anything is denominated or styled; an
   epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name
   indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the
   denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings,
   or of tons.


word: Denomination
wordtype: n.
definition:
A class, or society of individuals, called by the
   same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.


word: Denominator
wordtype: n.
definition:
That number placed below the line in vulgar fractions
   which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.


word: Denominator
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of any expression under a fractional form
   which is situated below the horizontal line signifying division.


word: In antis
definition:
Between antae; -- said of a portico in classical style,
   where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the
   building. See Anta.


word: Inapplicable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not
   adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case.


word: Inappropriate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not instrument (to); not appropriate; unbecoming;
   unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for.


word: Inarch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without
   separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also
   called to graft by approach.


word: Inartificial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not artificial; not made or elaborated by art;
   natural; simple; artless; as, an inartificial argument; an inartificial
   character.


word: Inasmuch
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In like degree; in like manner; seeing that;
   considering that; since; -- followed by as. See In as much as, under
   In, prep.


word: Inattentive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object;
   heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator
   or hearer; an inattentive habit.


word: Inaugural
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an
   inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.


word: Inaugurate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To introduce or induct into an office with suitable
   ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or authority in a
   formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate
   a king.


word: Inaugurate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to begin, esp. with formality or solemn
   ceremony; hence, to set in motion, action, or progress; to initiate; --
   used especially of something of dignity or worth or public concern; as,
   to inaugurate a new era of things, new methods, etc.


word: Inauguration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office
   with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.


word: Inauguration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The formal beginning or initiation of any movement,
   course of action, etc.; as, the inauguration of a new system, a new
   condition, etc.


word: Inboard
wordtype: a. & adv.
definition:
Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the
   opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.


word: Inboard
wordtype: a. & adv.
definition:
From without inward; toward the inside; as, the
   inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.


word: Inca
wordtype: n.
definition:
An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the
   Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have
   been descendants of the sun.


word: Incameration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or
   revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.


word: Incandescent
wordtype: a.
definition:
White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as,
   incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.


word: Incantation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of using formulas sung or spoken,
   with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing
   enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment.


word: Incapable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or
   end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical
   strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of
   holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of
   comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.


word: Incapable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not capable of being brought to do or perform, because
   morally strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil;
   as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.


word: Incapable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not
   susceptible; not able to admit; as, incapable of pain, or pleasure;
   incapable of stain or injury.


word: Incapable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man
   under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of
   president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is
   thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under
   the government.


word: Incapable
wordtype: a.
definition:
As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence
   when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving
   his country.


word: Incapacitate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of capacity or natural power; to
   disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age
   incapacitated him for war.


word: Incapacitate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites,
   or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts;
   to disqualify.


word: Incapacity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Want of legal ability or competency to do, give,
   transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the
   inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.


word: Incapsulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The process of becoming, or the state or condition
   of being, incapsulated; as, incapsulation of the ovum in the uterus.


word: Incarceration
wordtype: n.
definition:
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it
   irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.


word: Incarnate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest,
   as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.


word: Incarnation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being
   so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and
   nature.


word: Incarnation
wordtype: n.
definition:
An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation;
   a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or
   act.


word: Incautious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the
   circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless;
   as, an incautious step; an incautious remark.


word: Incendiary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes
   quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.


word: Incendiary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious
   burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary
   crime.


word: Incense
wordtype: n.
definition:
The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when
   burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.


word: Incense
wordtype: n.
definition:
The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume
   when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.


word: Incentive
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on
   the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to
   determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive;
   spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two
   powerful incentives to action.


word: Inceptive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an
   inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning
   of action; -- called also inchoative.


word: Incessant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing;
   unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors;
   incessant pain, etc.


word: Incest
wordtype: n.
definition:
The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between
   persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by
   law.


word: Incesttuous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, the
   crime of incest; as, an incestuous person or connection.


word: Inch
wordtype: n.
definition:
An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off
   the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc.


word: Inch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly
   subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among
   mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called
   lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length
   supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end
   to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of
   twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic.


word: Inch
wordtype: a.
definition:
Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length,
   breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a
   four-inch plank.


word: Inchoate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not
   fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.


word: Incident
wordtype: a.
definition:
Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course
   of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to
   expectation; casual; fortuitous.


word: Incindental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity;
   coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern;
   subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental
   occurrence; incidental expenses.


word: Incendental
wordtype: n.
definition:
An incident; that which is incidental; esp., in the
   plural, an aggregate of subordinate or incidental items not
   particularized; as, the expense of tuition and incidentals.


word: Incipient
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial;
   as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.


word: Incision
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is produced by incising; the separation of the
   parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut;
   a gash.


word: Incisive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating,
   as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic;
   biting.


word: Incisor
wordtype: a.
definition:
Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors;
   incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth.


word: Incito-motor
wordtype: a.
definition:
Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which,
   in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and
   excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.


word: Dysentery
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of
   the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant
   desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.


word: Dysgenesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A condition of not generating or breeding freely;
   infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among
   themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.


word: Dyslysin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of
   cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.


word: Dyspepsy
definition:
A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its
   functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if
   others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss
   of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of
   weight or fullness in the stomach, etc.


word: Dyspeptone
wordtype: n.
definition:
An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and
   other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.


word: Dysteleology
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by
   Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary
   organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.


word: Dzeron
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a
   remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia,
   Thibet, and China.


word: Dziggetai
wordtype: n.
definition:
The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus
   hemionus).
   E () The fifth letter of the English alphabet.


word: E
definition:
E is the third tone of the model diatonic scale. E/ (E flat) is a
   tone which is intermediate between D and E.


word: Each
wordtype: a. / a. pron.
definition:
Every one of the two or more individuals composing
   a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used
   either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of
   you.


word: Eager
wordtype: a.
definition:
Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to
   pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest;
   zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.


word: Eagle
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the
   genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength,
   size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight.
   The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus); the
   imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik / imperialis); the American bald
   eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H.
   albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure
   of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic
   emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle,
   Harpy, and Golden eagle.


word: Eagle
wordtype: n.
definition:
The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of
   the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.


word: Eaglestone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size
   of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the
   eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of
   her eggs; aetites.


word: Eagre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height
   and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly
   called the bore. See Bore.


word: Ear
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of
   discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in
   the singular only.


word: Ear
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an
   animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for
   support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a
   skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the
   bow. See Illust. of Bell.


word: Ear
wordtype: n.
definition:
The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley,
   Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.


word: Earcockle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and
   contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.


word: Eared
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as,
   long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared.


word: Earing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the
   yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.


word: Earl
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a
   viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in
   France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called
   countess. See Count.


word: Earl marshal
definition:
An officer of state in England who marshals and orders
   all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor,
   arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The
   court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still
   the head of the herald's office or college of arms.


word: Early
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season;
   prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the
   early bird; an early spring; early fruit.


word: Early
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the
   first of successive acts, events, etc.


word: Earn
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that
   which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or
   not).


word: Earn
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve
   and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to
   earn honors or laurels.


word: Earnest
wordtype: a.
definition:
Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do;
   zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavor; heartfelt; fervent;
   hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers.


word: Earnest
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge;
   pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come.


word: Earnest
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by
   way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale.


word: Earning
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is earned; wages gained by work or services;
   money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.


word: Earth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in
   distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the
   dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of
   spirits.


word: Earth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of
   the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds,
   including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable
   to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground;
   as, loose earth; rich earth.


word: Earth
wordtype: n.
definition:
Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the
   pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.


word: Earthen
wordtype: a.
definition:
Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like
   substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.


word: Earthenware
wordtype: n.
definition:
Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like,
   made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.


word: Earthly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to
   man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal;
   worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.


word: Earthpea
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of pea (Amphicarpaea monoica). It is a climbing
   leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.


word: Earthquake
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due
   to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave
   of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and
   many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and
   earthshock.


word: Earthstar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the
   outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms
   a ball containing the dustlike spores.


word: Earthwork
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or
   permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which
   is chiefly earth.


word: Earthwork
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation connected with excavations and embankments
   of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals,
   railroads, etc.


word: Earthworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found
   in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe
   and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also
   angleworm and dewworm.


word: Ease
wordtype: n.
definition:
Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief
   from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.


word: Ease
wordtype: n.
definition:
Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or
   disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind.


word: Ease
wordtype: n.
definition:
Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty,
   embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner,
   style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address.


word: Ease
wordtype: n.
definition:
To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to
   relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; --
   often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind.


word: Ease
wordtype: n.
definition:
To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to
   lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in
   machinery.


word: Easel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright,
   or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.


word: Easement
wordtype: n.
definition:
A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor
   has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of
   the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the
   civil law calls servitude.


word: Easily
wordtype: adv.
definition:
With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this
   task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily
   foreseen.


word: East
wordtype: n.
definition:
The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the
   equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four
   cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles
   to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one
   who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.


word: East
wordtype: n.
definition:
The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries
   which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the
   word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China,
   etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East;
   the kings of the East.


word: East
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany
   Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the
   whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of
   Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as,
   the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the
   West.


word: East
wordtype: a.
definition:
Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun
   rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the
   east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.


word: Easter
wordtype: n.
definition:
An annual church festival commemorating Christ's
   resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good
   Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most
   nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha,
   pasque, paque, or pask.


word: Easterling
wordtype: n.
definition:
A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by
   the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.


word: Easterly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the
   easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage.


word: Easting
wordtype: n.
definition:
The distance measured toward the east between two
   meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of
   departure eastward made by a vessel.


word: Eastwards
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Toward the east; in the direction of east from some
   point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.


word: Easy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like;
   not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.


word: Easy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality;
   unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.


word: Easy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much
   exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having
   an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.


word: Easy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight;
   inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.


word: Easy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor;
   furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair
   or cushion.


word: Eat
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
   cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to
   disappear.


word: Eaves
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building,
   which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the
   roof.


word: Eavesdrop
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the
   door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence,
   to listen secretly to what is said in private.


word: Eavesdropper
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or
   door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.


word: Eavesdropping
wordtype: n.
definition:
The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and
   other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly
   listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is
   indictable at common law.


word: Ebb
wordtype: n.
definition:
The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the
   tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go
   out on the ebb.


word: Ebb
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to
   a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.


word: Ebionite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the
   church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They
   denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger,
   and rejected much of the New Testament.


word: Ebonite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and
   polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons,
   and for insulating material in electric apparatus.


word: Ebony
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine
   polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or
   green.


word: Ebullioscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for observing the boiling point of
   liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture
   by the temperature at which it boils.


word: Ebullition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion
   produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.


word: Ebullition
wordtype: n.
definition:
Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any
   other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform
   fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali.


word: Eburin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; --
   used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals,
   etc.


word: Eburnation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain
   diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density,
   and come to resemble ivory.


word: Eburnification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The conversion of certain substances into others
   which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.


word: Ecarte
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which
   the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive
   others from the pack.


word: Ecballium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the
   single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting
   cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds,
   together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful
   cathartic medicine, is prepared.


word: Ecbatic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Denoting a mere result or consequence, as distinguished
   from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase / /, if
   rendered "so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order
   that it might be." etc., is telic.


word: Ecbolic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions
   promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.


word: Ecboline
wordtype: n.
definition:
An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot;
   -- so named from its power of producing abortion.


word: Ecce homo
definition:
A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the
   people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.


word: Eccentric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line
   of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to
   deviation from the center or from true circular motion.


word: Eccentric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not having the same center; -- said of circles,
   ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or
   in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to
   concentric.


word: Eccentric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or
   established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way;
   departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as,
   eccentric conduct.


word: Eccentric
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of
   a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.


word: Eccentric
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center
   of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for
   operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion
   derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.


word: Eccentricity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ratio of the distance between the center and the
   focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis.


word: Eccentricity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit
   of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves
   to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.


word: Eccentricity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of
   an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw.


word: Ecchymose
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or
   effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive
   form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.


word: Ecchymosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the
   extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a
   contusion.


word: Ecclesiastic
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the
   service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a
   priest.


word: Ecclesiastical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the
   organization or government of the church; not secular; as,
   ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.


word: Ecdysis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular
   layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as,
   the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.


word: Echauguette
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel,
   usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.


word: Echelon
wordtype: n.
definition:
An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are
   drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in
   advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing.
   Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.


word: Echidna
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and
   New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines; -- called also
   porcupine ant-eater, and Australian ant-eater.


word: Echidnine
wordtype: n.
definition:
The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of
   certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and
   supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus.


word: Echinococcus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild
   animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in
   various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often
   cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small
   tapeworm peculiar to the dog.


word: Echinodermata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of the grand divisions of the animal
   kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata.


word: Echinoidea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The class Echinodermata which includes the sea
   urchins. They have a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or
   disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable
   spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid.


word: Echinus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the
   Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See
   Entablature.


word: Echinus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and
   dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman
   Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of
   the sea urchin.


word: Echiuroidea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of Annelida which includes the genus
   Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and
   called the armed Gephyreans.


word: Echo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to
   the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.


word: Echo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of
   Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.


word: Echometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds,
   and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals.


word: Eclampsia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of
   epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.


word: Eclectic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in
   doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an
   eclectic philosopher.


word: Eclectic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected;
   as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine.


word: Eclipse
wordtype: n.
definition:
An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun,
   moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body,
   either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that
   illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing
   through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between
   the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the
   shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon
   or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an
   occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or
   Venus is called a transit of the planet.


word: Eclipse
wordtype: n.
definition:
The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light,
   brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom;
   darkness.


word: Eclipse
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said
   of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.


word: Eclipse
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster,
   honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by
   surpassing.


word: Ecliptic
wordtype: a.
definition:
A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle
   with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the
   sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.


word: Ecliptic
wordtype: a.
definition:
A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an
   angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving
   astronomical problems.


word: Eclogite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green
   smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its
   beauty.


word: Eclogue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced
   conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of
   Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.


word: Economical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or
   unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in
   expenditure; -- said of character or habits.


word: Economical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or
   extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of
   money or of time.


word: Economical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to the means of living, or the resources and
   wealth of a country; relating to political economy; as, economic
   purposes; economical truths.


word: Economics
wordtype: n.
definition:
Political economy; the science of the utilities or the
   useful application of wealth or material resources. See Political
   economy, under Political.


word: Economist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who economizes, or manages domestic or other
   concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor,
   judiciously, and without waste.


word: Economize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to
   expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.


word: Economize
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal
   and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich.


word: Economizer
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes
   for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the
   chimney.


word: Economy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and
   government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or
   disbursement; as, a careful economy.


word: Economy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs
   of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and
   consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as,
   political economy.


word: Economy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The system of rules and regulations by which anything is
   managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of
   parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the
   author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy;
   the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.


word: Economy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss
   or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save;
   as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.


word: Ecorche
wordtype: n.
definition:
A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially
   man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes
   of study.


word: Ecoute
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis.
   They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.


word: Ecraseur
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument intended to replace the knife in many
   operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect
   produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage
   rarely follows.


word: Ecstasy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's
   self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary
   impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an
   extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of
   sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.


word: Ecstasy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility,
   of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and
   inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.


word: Ecstatic
wordtype: n.
definition:
Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive
   emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze;
   ecstatic trance.


word: Ectental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ
   layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of
   juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum.


word: Ectoderm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant,
   this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of
   Blastoderm.


word: Ectolecithal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the food yolk, at the commencement of
   segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process
   confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.


word: Ectomere
wordtype: n.
definition:
The more transparent cells, which finally become
   external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.


word: Ectopia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is
   congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.


word: Ectosarc
wordtype: n.
definition:
The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some
   unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.


word: Ectostosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process of bone formation in which ossification takes
   place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces
   the cartilage.


word: Ecumenical
wordtype: a.
definition:
General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which
   concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.


word: Eczema
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
   presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
   discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
   covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.


word: -ed
definition:
The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak,
   verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as,
   pigmented; talented.


word: Edda
wordtype: n.
definition:
The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian
   tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends,
   myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.


word: Edelweiss
wordtype: n.
definition:
A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium
   alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.


word: Edentata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths,
   and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely
   developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.


word: Edge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as,
   the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that
   which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.


word: Edge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme
   verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.


word: Edge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the
   beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.


word: Edge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing
   forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.


word: Edging
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe,
   trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.


word: Edh
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is
   sounded as "English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth."


word: Edict
wordtype: n.
definition:
A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the
   proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very
   act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors;
   the edicts of the French monarch.


word: Edification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a
   building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral,
   intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.


word: Edifice
wordtype: n.
definition:
A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; --
   chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a
   palace, a church, a statehouse.


word: Edingtonite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal
   crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta.


word: Edit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare
   for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for
   publication; as, to edit a newspaper.


word: Edition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A literary work edited and published, as by a certain
   editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers'
   edition of Shakespeare.


word: Edition
wordtype: n.
definition:
The whole number of copies of a work printed and published
   at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold.


word: Editor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends,
   revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for
   publication.


word: Editorial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by
   an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.


word: Editorial
wordtype: n.
definition:
A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an
   editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views
   of the editor.


word: Educate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to
   develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but
   more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand,
   strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and
   regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any
   calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train;
   to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.


word: Education
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of educating; the result of
   educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of
   character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a
   prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education
   for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.


word: Educe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce
   against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to
   educe a form from matter.


word: Edulcorator
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance used to supply small quantities of
   sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.;
   a dropping bottle.


word: -ee
definition:
A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification,
   to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to
   whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee,
   donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or
   doer.


word: Eel
wordtype: n.
definition:
An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels
   of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel
   is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute
   nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.


word: Eelgrass
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow
   leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic
   coast.


word: Eelpout
wordtype: n.
definition:
A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for
   producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and
   Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also
   mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both
   are edible, but of little value.


word: Efface
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or
   inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase;
   to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a
   monument, or the inscription on a coin.


word: Effect
wordtype: n.
definition:
In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause;
   the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the
   cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.


word: Effect
wordtype: n.
definition:
Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to
   embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from
   the town with their effects.


word: Effective
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the power to produce an effect or effects;
   producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable;
   operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in
   a regiment.


word: Effectual
wordtype: n.
definition:
Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce,
   an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.


word: Effeminacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness,
   luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man;
   womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men.


word: Effeminate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy,
   luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish;
   weak.


word: Effendi
wordtype: n.
definition:
Master; sir; -- a title of a Turkish state official and
   man of learning, especially one learned in the law.


word: Efferent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as
   are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous
   organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.


word: Effervesce
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble
   and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes
   in a gaseous form.


word: Effervesce
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To exhibit, in lively natural expression, feelings
   that can not be repressed or concealed; as, to effervesce with joy or
   merriment.


word: Effervescency
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a
   fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a
   gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the
   effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.


word: Effete
wordtype: a.
definition:
No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or
   fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy;
   incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.


word: Efficacious
wordtype: n.
definition:
Possessing the quality of being effective; productive
   of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious
   law.


word: Efficacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent
   or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of
   medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.


word: Efficiency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being efficient or producing an effect
   or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.


word: Efficient
wordtype: n.
definition:
Causing effects; producing results; that makes the
   effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or
   incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an
   efficient officer, power.


word: Effigy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether
   a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to
   sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads
   of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.


word: Effloresce
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To change on the surface, or throughout, to a
   whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition,
   esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as,
   Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce.


word: Effloresce
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become covered with a whitish crust or light
   crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the
   ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from
   an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes
   effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in
   consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere.


word: Efflorescence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the
   surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc.


word: Efflower
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave
   knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.


word: Effluvium
wordtype: a.
definition:
Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by
   the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the
   effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.


word: Efflux
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth;
   effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux
   of men's piety.


word: Effort
wordtype: n.
definition:
An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or
   mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less
   strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an
   object; as, an effort to scale a wall.


word: Effrontery
wordtype: n.
definition:
Impudence or boldness in confronting or in
   transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting
   presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.


word: Effulgence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a
   flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.


word: Effusion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either
   by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may
   pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface.


word: Egest
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete,
   as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to
   excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.


word: Egesta
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
That which is egested or thrown off from the body by
   the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.


word: Egg
wordtype: n.
definition:
The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other
   birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the
   "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.


word: Eggar
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa;
   as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.


word: Egg-bird
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna
   fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is
   applied to the tropic bird, Phaethon flavirostris.


word: Egg-glass
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for
   marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg,
   at table.


word: Eggplant
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin,
   allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped
   somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.


word: Eggshell
wordtype: n.
definition:
The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used
   figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.


word: Egilopical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an
   aegilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye.


word: Ego
wordtype: n.
definition:
The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical
   experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of
   reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.


word: Egoism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of
   Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of
   knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides
   for.


word: Egoism
wordtype: n.
definition:
Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding
   one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to
   altruism.


word: Egophony
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble
   the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in
   certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.


word: Egotism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a
   speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation;
   self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading
   one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.


word: Egotist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or
   magnifies his own achievements or affairs.


word: Egregious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad
   sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now
   joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an
   egregious ass; an egregious mistake.


word: Egret
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on
   the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are
   the American egret (Ardea, / Herodias, egretta); the great egret (A.
   alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe; and the American
   snowy egret (A. candidissima).


word: Egret
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress,
   or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.


word: Lapidary
wordtype: n.
definition:
An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious
   stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.


word: Lapidary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or
   engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary
   ornamentation.


word: Lapidescent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the
   capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of
   petrifying bodies.


word: Lapidescent
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any substance which has the quality of petrifying
   other bodies, or of converting or being converted into stone.


word: Lapling
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has been fondled to excess; one fond of ease and
   sensual delights; -- a term of contempt.


word: Lappish
wordtype: n.
definition:
The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related
   to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.


word: Lapps
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the
   northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.


word: Lapse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or
   imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to
   immaterial things, or to figurative uses.


word: Lapse
wordtype: n.
definition:
The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to
   exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some
   contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.


word: Lapse
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away;
   to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to
   figurative uses.


word: Lapse
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to
   fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by
   inadvertence or mistake.


word: Lapse
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from
   the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of
   some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.


word: Lapsed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
   position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative
   uses.


word: Laputan
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island
   described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers.
   Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy.


word: Lapwing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus
   cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted
   for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its
   back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the "plover's eggs" of
   the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit,
   dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.


word: Lar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector
   of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house;
   household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.


word: Laramie group
definition:
An extensive series of strata, principally developed
   in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly
   supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as
   Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains
   beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the
   lignitic group. See Chart of Geology.


word: Larboard
wordtype: n.
definition:
The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing
   toward the bow; port; -- opposed to starboard.


word: Larceny
wordtype: n.
definition:
The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal
   with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf.
   Embezzlement.


word: Lard
wordtype: n.
definition:
To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to
   insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as,
   to lard poultry.


word: Lardacein
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and
   sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the
   spleen, liver, etc.


word: Large
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk,
   capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent
   units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a
   large horse; a large house or room; a large lake or pool; a large jug
   or spoon; a large vineyard; a large army; a large city.


word: Large
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad
   sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind
   and heart.


word: Large
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable
   direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam
   and the quarter.


word: Largo
wordtype: a. & adv.
definition:
Slow or slowly; -- more so than adagio; next in
   slowness to grave, which is also weighty and solemn.


word: Lariat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A long, slender rope made of hemp or strips of hide, esp.
   one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc.,
   and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering.


word: Lariat
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To secure with a lariat fastened to a stake, as a horse
   or mule for grazing; also, to lasso or catch with a lariat.


word: Lark
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda
   and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe,
   Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore
   larks, or horned by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus
   Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws,
   and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.


word: Larkspur
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Delphinium), having
   showy flowers, and a spurred calyx. They are natives of the North
   Temperate zone. The commonest larkspur of the gardens is D. Consolida.
   The flower of the bee larkspur (D. elatum) has two petals bearded with
   yellow hairs, and looks not unlike a bee.


word: Larva
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg
   until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually
   molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The
   larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but
   have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the
   pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike
   the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars,
   grubs, maggots, etc.


word: Larva
wordtype: n.
definition:
The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of
   a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape.


word: Larvalia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of Tunicata, including Appendicularia, and
   allied genera; -- so called because certain larval features are
   retained by them through life. Called also Copelata. See
   Appendicularia.


word: Laryngology
wordtype: n.
definition:
Systematized knowledge of the action and functions of
   the larynx; in pathology, the department which treats of the diseases
   of the larynx.


word: Larungoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two
   mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its
   image.


word: Laryngotomy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation of cutting into the larynx, from the
   outside of the neck, for assisting respiration when obstructed, or for
   removing foreign bodies.


word: Laryngotracheotomy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation of cutting into the larynx and
   the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction
   to breathing.


word: Larynx
wordtype: n.
definition:
The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea,
   connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal
   cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are
   stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is
   connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in
   mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis.


word: Lascar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a
   menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower.


word: Laserwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Laserpitium, of
   several species (as L. glabrum, and L. siler), the root of which yields
   a resinous substance of a bitter taste. The genus is mostly European.


word: Lash
wordtype: n.
definition:
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting
   simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.


word: Lash
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat,
   or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the
   sea with his tail.


word: Lash
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten;
   as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back.


word: Lassitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary
   functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion
   of the will; languor; debility; weariness.


word: Last
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being after all the others, similarly classed or considered,
   in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final;
   hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a
   line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance.


word: Last
wordtype: a.
definition:
Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or
   condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last
   person to be accused of theft.


word: Last
wordtype: a.
definition:
At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those
   spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in
   New York.


word: Last
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To endure use, or continue in existence, without
   impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the
   fuel will last through the winter.


word: Last
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place
   smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.


word: Last
wordtype: n.
definition:
A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure,
   generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles
   and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white
   herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten
   quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one
   quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs;
   of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of
   leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool,
   twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.


word: Laster
wordtype: n.
definition:
A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or
   place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a
   last.


word: Latakia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called
   from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.


word: Latch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a
   notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate
   when closed, though it be not bolted.


word: Latching
wordtype: n.
definition:
A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by
   which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and
   lasket.


word: Latchstring
wordtype: n.
definition:
A string for raising the latch of a door by a person
   outside. It is fastened to the latch and passed through a hole above it
   in the door.


word: Late
wordtype: v.
definition:
Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper
   time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.


word: Late
wordtype: v.
definition:
Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now;
   lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop
   of London; the late administration.


word: Late
wordtype: v.
definition:
Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late
   rains; we have received late intelligence.


word: Late
wordtype: a.
definition:
After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after
   delay; as, he arrived late; -- opposed to early.


word: Late
wordtype: a.
definition:
Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as,
   to lie abed late; to sit up late at night.


word: Lateen
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the
   Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of
   Africa. See below.


word: Lateness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the
   lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the
   season.


word: Lateral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the
   mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial.


word: Lateran
wordtype: n.
definition:
The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church
   being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all
   churches in the Catholic world.


word: Lates
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates
   Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer) is found in
   the Ganges and other Indian rivers. They are valued as food fishes.


word: Latex
wordtype: n.
definition:
A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities
   (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar
   principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in
   many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.


word: Lath
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs,
   or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles,
   plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes
   used.


word: Lathe
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, a part or division of a county among the
   Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is
   confined to the county of Kent.


word: Lathe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of
   wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted
   upon by a cutting tool.


word: Lathe
wordtype: n.
definition:
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for
   separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay
   and batten.


word: Lath-shaped
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said
   of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in
   microscopic sections.


word: Laticiferous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing the latex; -- applied to the tissue or
   tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.


word: Laticlave
wordtype: n.
definition:
A broad stripe of purple on the fore part of the tunic,
   worn by senators in ancient Rome as an emblem of office.


word: Latin
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the
   Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom.


word: Latinism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also,
   a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin
   model.


word: Latinity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof;
   specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.


word: Latinize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or
   Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech.


word: Latinize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its
   ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.


word: Latitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.;
   extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc.


word: Latitudinarian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Indifferent to a strict application of any standard
   of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such
   standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian
   theology.


word: Latitudinarian
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is moderate in his notions, or not
   restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges
   freedom in thinking.


word: Latitudinarian
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of the Church of England, in the time of
   Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the
   authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally
   prevailed.


word: Latitudinarianism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of
   opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief.


word: Latria
wordtype: n.
definition:
The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; --
   distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior
   worship paid to saints.


word: Latten
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much
   used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; --
   called also latten brass.


word: Latter
wordtype: a.
definition:
Later; more recent; coming or happening after something
   else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.


word: Latter-day saint
definition:
A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of
   Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.


word: Lattice
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin
   strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called
   also latticework.


word: Lattice
wordtype: n.
definition:
The representation of a piece of latticework used as a
   bearing, the bands being vertical and horizontal.


word: Latticing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A system of bars crossing in the middle to form braces
   between principal longitudinal members, as of a strut.


word: Latus rectum
definition:
The line drawn through a focus of a conic section
   parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is
   the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter.


word: Laudable
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as,
   laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition.


word: Laudable
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to
   promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable
   pus.


word: Laudatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise;
   as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden.


word: Laugh
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar
   movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing
   a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the
   emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to
   indulge in laughter.


word: Laugh
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful,
   lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.


word: Laugh
wordtype: n.
definition:
An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the
   sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.


word: Laughter
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the
   face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes,
   indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended
   by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See
   Laugh, v. i.


word: Laumontite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is
   a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses
   water, becomes opaque, and crumbles.


word: Launch
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going;
   to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a
   son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.


word: Launch
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the
   stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch
   into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion;
   to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.


word: Launch
wordtype: n.
definition:
The movement of a vessel from land into the water;
   especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.


word: Launch
wordtype: n.
definition:
The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war;
   also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity,
   or the like.


word: Launder
wordtype: n.
definition:
A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from
   the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or
   other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore.


word: Launder
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a
   flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.


word: Laura
wordtype: n.
definition:
A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood
   occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.


word: Lauraceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order
   (Lauraceae) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and
   including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.


word: Laureate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done
   in bestowing a degree at the English universities.


word: Laurel
wordtype: n.
definition:
An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis),
   having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small,
   yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.


word: Laurel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; --
   especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.


word: Laurel
wordtype: n.
definition:
An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because
   the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.


word: Laurestine
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Viburnum Tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the
   south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths.


word: Laurin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of
   the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of
   glycerin ethers of several organic acids.


word: Laurinol
wordtype: n.
definition:
Ordinary camphor; -- so called in allusion to the family
   name (Lauraceae) of the camphor trees. See Camphor.


word: Laurus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of trees including, according to modern authors,
   only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger L. Canariensis of
   Madeira and the Canary Islands. Formerly the sassafras, the camphor
   tree, the cinnamon tree, and several other aromatic trees and shrubs,
   were also referred to the genus Laurus.


word: Lava
wordtype: n.
definition:
The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured
   sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also
   issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering
   many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.


word: Lavaret
wordtype: n.
definition:
A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the
   mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.


word: Lavender
wordtype: n.
definition:
An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera),
   common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and
   perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of
   spike), used in the arts.


word: Laver
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish
   tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.


word: Laver
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the
   offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.


word: Laver
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for
   making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima;
   purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by
   stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various
   condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.


word: Lavish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with
   prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.


word: Lav/sium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A supposed new metallic element. It is said to have been
   discovered in pyrites, and some other minerals, and to be of a
   silver-white color, and malleable.


word: Lavolta
wordtype: n.
definition:
An old dance, for two persons, being a kind of waltz, in
   which the woman made a high spring or bound.


word: Law
wordtype: n.
definition:
In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an
   authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode
   or order according to which an agent or a power acts.


word: Law
wordtype: n.
definition:
In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and
   conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a
   rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as
   obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.


word: Law
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it
   is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old
   Testament.


word: Law
wordtype: n.
definition:
An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing
   and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other
   organized community.


word: Law
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution,
   judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the
   controlling authority.


word: Law
wordtype: n.
definition:
In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or
   change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by
   the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of
   gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought;
   the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.


word: Law
wordtype: n.
definition:
In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the
   change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series,
   proceeds; mode or order of sequence.


word: Law
wordtype: n.
definition:
In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of
   procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim;
   or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of
   whist.


word: Law
wordtype: n.
definition:
Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject,
   or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings
   pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine
   law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.


word: Law-abiding
wordtype: a.
definition:
Abiding the law; waiting for the operation of law for
   the enforcement of rights; also, abiding by the law; obedient to the
   law; as, law-abiding people.


word: Lawless
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or
   of society; as, lawless men or behavior.


word: Lawm
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather
   open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress
   in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself.


word: Lawsonia
wordtype: n.
definition:
An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis),
   with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared
   from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian
   privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette.


word: Lawsuit
wordtype: n.
definition:
An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal
   proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.


word: Lawyer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose
   profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to
   prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and
   obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending
   attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and
   advocates.


word: Laxative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the effect of loosening or opening the intestines,
   and relieving from constipation; -- opposed to astringent.


word: Lay
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy;
   as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.


word: Lay
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession;
   unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.


word: Lay
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against
   something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the
   table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.


word: Lay
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with
   regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to
   lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.


word: Lay
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a
   particular county; to lay a scheme before one.


word: Lay
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their
   proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.


word: Lay
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been
   laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of
   stone or wood.


word: Lay
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as,
   when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.


word: Layer
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course,
   or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth;
   a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.


word: Layer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock,
   laid under ground for growth or propagation.


word: Layman
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of
   the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular
   profession, in distinction from those who do.


word: Lazaretto
wordtype: n.
definition:
A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the
   reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with
   contagious diseases.


word: Feeling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high
   degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not
   dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of
   feeling.


word: Feeling
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the
   capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong
   feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride
   or of humility.


word: Feeling
wordtype: n.
definition:
That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental
   emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the
   spectator.


word: Feign
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give a mental existence to, as to something not real
   or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate
   as if true.


word: Feint
wordtype: a.
definition:
A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is
   intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing,
   war, etc.


word: Feldspath
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in
   crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash,
   soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and
   crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in
   two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors
   are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.


word: Felicitate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To express joy or pleasure to; to wish felicity to;
   to call or consider (one's self) happy; to congratulate.


word: Felicitous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous;
   delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed;
   appropriate.


word: Felicity
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in
   painting portraits, or in writing or talking.


word: Feline
wordtype: a.
definition:
Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family
   Felidae; as, the feline race; feline voracity.


word: Felis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat,
   the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.


word: Fell
wordtype: n.
definition:
A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt;
   -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.


word: Fell
wordtype: n.
definition:
A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being
   folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.


word: Fellow
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to
   a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain
   perquisites and privileges.


word: Fellow
wordtype: n.
definition:
In an American college or university, a member of the
   corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate
   appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.


word: Fellowship
wordtype: n.
definition:
A state of being together; companionship; partnership;
   association; hence, confederation; joint interest.


word: Fellowship
wordtype: n.
definition:
A foundation for the maintenance, on certain
   conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the
   university.


word: Fellowship
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners;
   -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion.


word: Fellowship
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion
   according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian
   fellowship.


word: Felo-de-se
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence,
   or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or
   malicious act; a suicide.


word: Felon
wordtype: a.
definition:
A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum
   of a finger, usually of the last joint.


word: Felonious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious;
   villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent
   to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide.


word: Felony
wordtype: n.
definition:
An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands
   or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other
   punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.


word: Felsite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting
   essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.


word: Felt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and
   fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and
   pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.


word: Felucca
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and
   lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.


word: Female
wordtype: n.
definition:
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth
   young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.


word: Female
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive
   organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or
   fertilization; a pistillate plant.


word: Female
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to
   young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.


word: Female
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to an individual of the female sex;
   characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.


word: Female
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in
   cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.


word: Female rhymes
definition:
double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine
   rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables,
   an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line.


word: Female fern
definition:
a common species of fern with large decompound fronds
   (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.


word: Feminine
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate
   to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate,
   confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving,
   effeminate.


word: Feminine
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of those words which are the appellations of
   females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words;
   as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.


word: Fen
wordtype: n.
definition:
Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with
   water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants;
   boggy land; moor; marsh.


word: Fence
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any
   object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other
   material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from
   within.


word: Fence
wordtype: n.
definition:
Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice
   of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See
   Fencing.


word: Fence
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as
   against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.


word: Fence
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword
   or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.


word: Fence
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that
   is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.


word: Fencing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword,
   esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.


word: Fend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To keep off; to prevent from entering or hitting; to ward
   off; to shut out; -- often with off; as, to fend off blows.


word: Fender
wordtype: v. t. & i.
definition:
Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock
   when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.


word: Fenes-tella
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to
   show the relics within an altar, or the like.


word: Fenestra
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by
   membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.


word: Fenestration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used
   by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by
   means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and
   proportions.


word: Fenian
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of
   Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland.


word: Fennec
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale
   fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.


word: Fennel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A perennial plant of the genus Faeniculum (F. vulgare),
   having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the
   agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds.


word: Feoffment
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gift or conveyance in fee of land or other corporeal
   hereditaments, accompanied by actual delivery of possession.


word: Ferae
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of mammals which formerly included the
   Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often
   restricted to the Carnivora.


word: Ferae naturae
definition:
Of a wild nature; -- applied to animals, as foxes,
   wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property.


word: Fer-de-lance
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus
   lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the
   rattlesnake, but has no rattle.


word: Ferding
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is
   supposed to have consisted of a few acres only.


word: Fergusonite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a
   tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after
   Robert Ferguson.


word: Ferment
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be
   excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of
   an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.


word: Fermentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as
   by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the
   transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action
   of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind
   according to the nature of the ferment which causes it.


word: Fermentative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Causing, or having power to cause, fermentation;
   produced by fermentation; fermenting; as, a fermentative process.


word: Fern
wordtype: n.
definition:
An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have
   their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are
   usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and
   in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.


word: Ferocious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous;
   rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.


word: -ferous
definition:
A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as,
   auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.


word: Ferrara
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of
   Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the
   16th and 17th centuries.


word: Ferret
wordtype: n.
definition:
An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo),
   about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with
   red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in
   Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.


word: Ferret
wordtype: n.
definition:
To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does
   the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used
   with out; as, to ferret out a secret.


word: Ferret
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of
   cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.


word: Ferret
wordtype: n.
definition:
The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit
   to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.


word: Ferric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron.
   Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a
   higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric
   acid.


word: Ferrotype
wordtype: n.
definition:
A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a
   collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.


word: Ferrous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used
   of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as,
   ferrous sulphate.


word: Ferrugo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the
   rust, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.


word: Ferrule
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ring or cap of metal put round a cane, tool, handle, or
   other similar object, to strengthen it, or prevent splitting and
   wearing.


word: Ferrule
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it
   tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.


word: Ferry
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A place where persons or things are carried across a
   river, arm of the sea, etc., in a ferryboat.


word: Ferry
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A franchise or right to maintain a vessel for carrying
   passengers and freight across a river, bay, etc., charging tolls.


word: Fertile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able
   to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive;
   as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.


word: Fertility
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful;
   fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of
   resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility
   of soil, or of imagination.


word: Fertilization
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or
   vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen
   renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless
   plants; fecundation; impregnation.


word: Fertilize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment
   for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land,
   soil, ground, and meadows.


word: Fertilizer
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which renders fertile; a general name for
   commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.


word: Fesse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A band drawn horizontally across the center of an
   escutcheon, and containing in breadth the third part of it; one of the
   nine honorable ordinaries.


word: Festivity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of being festive; social joy or
   exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.


word: Festoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in
   decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.


word: Festoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves,
   intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or
   depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.


word: Fetch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or
   thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and
   bring; to get.


word: Fetch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to
   perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap;
   to fetch a sigh.


word: Fetch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass,
   or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an
   artifice.


word: Fetish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A material object supposed among certain African tribes to
   represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural
   being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to
   control that being.


word: Fetlock
wordtype: n.
definition:
The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair,
   on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar
   animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great
   pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.


word: Fetter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal
   is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and
   rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.


word: Fetter
wordtype: p. pr. & vb. n.
definition:
To restrain from motion; to impose restraints
   on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.


word: Fettered
wordtype: a.
definition:
Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals
   which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.


word: Fetus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg;
   often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous
   and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.


word: Feu
wordtype: n.
definition:
A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service
   to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military
   services, makes a return in grain or in money.


word: Feud
wordtype: n.
definition:
A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done
   or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.


word: Feud
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife
   between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention
   satisfied only by bloodshed.


word: Feud
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service;
   the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable
   thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof
   hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as
   belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always
   remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.


word: Feudal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of, or founded upon, feuds or fiefs; embracing
   tenures by military services; as, the feudal system.


word: Feudalism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The feudal system; a system by which the holding of
   estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military
   service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.


word: Feudatory
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on
   condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.


word: Feuilleton
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the
   page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article
   or tale itself, thus printed.


word: Fever
wordtype: n.
definition:
A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat,
   acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions,
   including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which
   fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as,
   typhoid fever; yellow fever.


word: Fever
wordtype: n.
definition:
Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of
   strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has
   set my blood in a fever.


word: Feverfew
wordtype: n.
definition:
A perennial plant (Pyrethrum, / Chrysanthemum,
   Parthenium) allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white
   blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.


word: Feverish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a
   moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the
   patient is feverish.


word: Few
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; --
   indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole;
   often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.


word: Fez
wordtype: n.
definition:
A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a
   variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh.


word: Fiasco
wordtype: n.
definition:
A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical
   performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.


word: Fibre
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the
   tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of
   flax or of muscle.


word: Fibre
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a
   fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a
   plant.


word: Fibre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax,
   hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.


word: Fibre-faced
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; --
   applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.


word: Fibrillose
wordtype: a.
definition:
Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface
   of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as,
   fibrillose appendages.


word: Fibrin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the
   coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from
   the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the
   blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric
   and pancreatic juice.


word: Fibrin
wordtype: n.
definition:
The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean
   beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the
   fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.


word: Fibrin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in
   composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable
   fibrin.


word: Fibrinogen
wordtype: n.
definition:
An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in
   other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or
   paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.


word: Fibrinoplastin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An albuminous substance, existing in the blood,
   which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also
   paraglobulin.


word: Fibrocartilage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and
   approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.


word: Fibrolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A silicate of alumina, of fibrous or columnar structure.
   It is like andalusite in composition; -- called also sillimanite, and
   bucholizite.


word: Fibrous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat
   of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.


word: Fibrovascular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of
   all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.


word: Fibulare
wordtype: n.
definition:
The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates
   with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most
   mammals.


word: Fichu
wordtype: n.
definition:
A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the
   neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.


word: Fickle
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a
   changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant;
   capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.


word: Fico
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of
   one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig
   for you.


word: Fictile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art;
   relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.


word: Fiction
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially,
   a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story
   told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or
   reality.


word: Fiction
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of
   imagination; specifically, novels and romances.


word: Fiction
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing
   more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really
   at issue.


word: Ficus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica)
   produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.


word: Fid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast,
   being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the
   trestle trees.


word: Fiddle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table
   furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.


word: Fiddle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a
   fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy
   idleness; to trifle.


word: Fiddler
wordtype: n.
definition:
A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species.
   The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a
   position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the
   name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.


word: Fiddler
wordtype: n.
definition:
The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); --
   so called because it continually oscillates its body.


word: Fidelity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact
   observance of duty, or discharge of obligations.


word: Fidia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the
   grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.


word: Fidiciary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting;
   faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity.


word: Fief
wordtype: n.
definition:
An estate held of a superior on condition of military
   service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.


word: Field
wordtype: n.
definition:
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is
   shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of
   Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is
   argent (silver).


word: Field
wordtype: n.
definition:
A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor
   contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.


word: Field
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is
   outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.


word: Fieldfare
wordtype: n.
definition:
a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern
   Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of
   the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts,
   chestnut; -- called also fellfare.


word: Fieldpiece
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching
   army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.


word: Fiend
wordtype: n.
definition:
An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically
   wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the
   devil or a demon.


word: Fierasfer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their
   habit of living as commensals in other animals. One species inhabits
   the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama; another lives within
   an East Indian holothurian.


word: Fierce
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill
   or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.


word: Fieri facias
definition:
A judicial writ that lies for one who has recovered in
   debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the
   goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed.


word: Fife
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used
   chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.


word: Fifteenth
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on
   towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the
   personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.


word: Fifth
wordtype: n.
definition:
The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five
   diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.


word: Fig
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known
   from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward
   to the Canary Islands.


word: Figeater
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern
   United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale
   borders.


word: Fight
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in
   single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy,
   either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or
   against.


word: Fight
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to
   contend; to strive; to make resistance.


word: Fight
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or
   gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause.


word: Fight
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they
   fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate
   for three hours.


word: Fight
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a
   violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or
   between armies, ships, or navies, etc.


word: Fightwite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight
   or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.


word: Pigpecker
wordtype: n.
definition:
The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica,
   hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.


word: Figurant
wordtype: n. masc.
definition:
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in
   groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in
   its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any
   scene, without taking a prominent part.


word: Figurate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the
   freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony;
   as, figurate counterpoint or descant.


word: Figurative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not
   literal; -- applied to words and expressions.


word: Figure
wordtype: n.
definition:
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting,
   modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of
   the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.


word: Figure
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a
   design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.


word: Figure
wordtype: n.
definition:
A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the
   relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all
   sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when
   inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles,
   surfaces, etc.


word: Figure
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to
   another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or
   representative.


word: Figure
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words
   which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial
   language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of
   statement.


word: Figure
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a
   group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct
   impression.


word: Figure
wordtype: n.
definition:
A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain
   or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.


word: Figure
wordtype: n.
definition:
To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an
   image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate
   form; to shape.


word: Figure
wordtype: n.
definition:
To write over or under the bass, as figures or other
   characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.


word: Figurehead
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person who allows his name to be used to give
   standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or
   duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.


word: Figurine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very small figure, whether human or of an animal;
   especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from
   statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.


word: Figwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found
   in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.


word: Filacer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; --
   so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.


word: Filament
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp.
   (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.


word: Filanders
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of
   small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the
   rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm.


word: Filar
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by
   threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a
   filar micrometer.


word: Filaria
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species,
   parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.


word: Filbert
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval
   nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste,
   agreeable to the palate.


word: File
wordtype: n.
definition:
A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in
   contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing
   abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in
   the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion
   standing two deep, or in two ranks.


word: File
wordtype: n.
definition:
An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or
   classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of
   newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.


word: File
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers
   in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on
   file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.


word: File
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting
   proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.


word: File
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to
   note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.


word: File
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but
   one after another; -- generally with off.


word: File
wordtype: n.
definition:
A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by
   indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other
   substances, as metals, wood, etc.


word: Filefish
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera,
   balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly
   granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.


word: Filial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child
   in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.


word: Filibuster
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest
   of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting
   the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to
   designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and
   those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.


word: Filiform
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the
   filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See
   Illust. of AntennAe.


word: Filigree
wordtype: n.
definition:
Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now
   composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to
   which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a
   delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.


word: Filigree
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in
   filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely
   decorative.


word: Filipendulous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of
   tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender,
   threadlike rootlets.


word: Fill
wordtype: a.
definition:
To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or
   contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy
   the whole capacity of.


word: Fill
wordtype: a.
definition:
To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as
   is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or
   overrun.


word: Fill
wordtype: a.
definition:
To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an
   incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president
   fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills
   the chair.


word: Fill
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to
   have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm
   season; the sail fills with the wind.


word: Fillet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from
   which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin
   projecting band or strip.


word: Fillet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating
   other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a
   shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.


word: Fillet
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to
   the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.


word: Filleting
wordtype: n.
definition:
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet
   wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better
   work.


word: Filling
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or
   to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a
   depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls
   of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer
   and inner planks of a vessel, etc.


word: Fillip
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed
   against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a
   sudden spring; to snap with the finger.


word: Kumquat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small tree of the genus Citrus (C. Japonica) growing in
   China and Japan; also, its small acid, orange-colored fruit used for
   preserves.


word: Kurd
wordtype: n.
definition:
A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western
   Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies.


word: Kurilian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of
   islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of
   Kamschatka to Yesso.


word: Kusimanse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A carnivorous animal (Crossarchus obscurus) of tropical
   Africa. It its allied to the civets. Called also kusimansel, and
   mangue.


word: Kussier
wordtype: n.
definition:
(Mus.) A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body
   covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched.


word: Kyanize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To render (wood) proof against decay by saturating with
   a solution of corrosive sublimate in open tanks, or under pressure.


word: Kymograph
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically,
   the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living
   animal; -- called also kymographion.


word: Kynurenic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the
   urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base
   (called kynurin) and carbonic acid.


word: Kyrie eleison
definition:
Greek words, meaning "Lord, have mercy upon us," used
   in the Mass, the breviary offices, the litany of the saints, etc.


word: Kyrie eleison
definition:
The name given to the response to the Commandments, in
   the service of the Church of England and of the Protestant Episcopal
   Church.


word: Kyriology
wordtype: n.
definition:
The use of literal or simple expressions, as
   distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones.


word: Kyriological
wordtype: a.
definition:
Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or
   alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen
   letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure
   elementary sounds. See Curiologic.


word: Kytoplasma
wordtype: n.
definition:
See Karyoplasma.
   L () L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal
   consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and
   value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek
   letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob.
   Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in
   pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus).


word: L
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extension at right angles to the length of a main building,
   giving to the ground plan a form resembling the letter L; sometimes
   less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the
   direction of the length of the main building; a wing.


word: Labadist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the
   17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of
   mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among
   Christians.


word: Labarum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his
   conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk
   banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It
   bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in
   its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of
   this standard.


word: Label
wordtype: n.
definition:
A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything,
   usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.;
   as, the label of a bottle or a package.


word: Label
wordtype: n.
definition:
A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to
   hold the appended seal; also, the seal.


word: Label
wordtype: n.
definition:
A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points,
   usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an
   eldest or only son while his father is still living.


word: Label
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name now generally given to the projecting molding by
   the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture. It
   always has a /quare form, as in the illustration.


word: Labial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as
   / (f/d), / (/ld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and o, u in German.
   See Guide to Pronunciation, // 11, 178.


word: Labial
wordtype: n.
definition:
A letter or character representing an articulation or sound
   formed or uttered chiefly with the lips, as b, p, w.


word: Labialism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being labial; as, the labialism of an
   articulation; conversion into a labial, as of a sound which is
   different in another language.


word: Labiate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into
   two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a
   mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip.


word: Labiate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatae), of
   which the mint, sage, and catnip are examples. They are mostly aromatic
   herbs.


word: Labium
wordtype: n.
definition:
The organ of insects which covers the mouth beneath, and
   serves as an under lip. It consists of the second pair of maxillae,
   usually closely united in the middle line, but bearing a pair of palpi
   in most insects. It often consists of a thin anterior part (ligula or
   palpiger) and a firmer posterior plate (mentum).


word: Lablab
wordtype: n.
definition:
an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants
   related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean
   (Dolichos Lablab).


word: Labor
wordtype: n.
definition:
Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing,
   irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard,
   muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture,
   manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.


word: Labor
wordtype: n.
definition:
To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
   painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.


word: Labor
wordtype: n.
definition:
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's
   work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move
   slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; --
   often with under, and formerly with of.


word: Laboratory
wordtype: n.
definition:
The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to
   experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical,
   or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something
   is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the
   laboratory of the bile.


word: Labored
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought;
   not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.


word: Laborer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does
   work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from
   that of an artisan.


word: Laboring
wordtype: a.
definition:
That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse,
   heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring
   days.


word: Labradorite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play
   of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest
   specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.


word: Labroid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridae,
   an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which
   are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and
   cunner are American examples.


word: Labrum
wordtype: n.
definition:
An organ in insects and crustaceans covering the upper part
   of the mouth, and serving as an upper lip. See Illust. of Hymenoptera.


word: Laburnum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the
   Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It
   has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.


word: Labyrinth
wordtype: n.
definition:
An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which
   render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance;
   as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.


word: Labyrinth
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an
   ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.


word: Labyrinth
wordtype: n.
definition:
A series of canals through which a stream of water is
   directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different
   distances, the ground ore of a metal.


word: Labyrinthodon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the
   Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It
   is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.


word: Labyrinthodonta
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extinct order of Amphibia, including the
   typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the
   Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they
   are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.


word: Lac
wordtype: n.
definition:
A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but
   to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped
   insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from
   the margin of her body this resinous substance.


word: Laccolith
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds
   and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.


word: Lace
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a
   string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other
   holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of
   a shoe, of a machine belt, etc.


word: Lace
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often
   ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an
   ornament of dress.


word: Lace
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed
   through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively.
   with anything resembling laces.


word: Lace-bark
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so
   called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.


word: Lacerate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle;
   as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to
   lacerate the heart.


word: Lacewing
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the
   genus Chrysopa and allied genera. They have delicate, lacelike wings
   and brilliant eyes. Their larvae are useful in destroying aphids.
   Called also lace-winged fly, and goldeneyed fly.


word: Lache
wordtype: n.
definition:
Neglect; negligence; remissness; neglect to do a thing at
   the proper time; delay to assert a claim.


word: Lachrymatory
wordtype: n.
definition:
A "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in
   sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion
   that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it.
   Called also lachrymal or lacrymal.


word: Lacing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of
   a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.


word: Lacing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the
   middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.


word: Lacinia
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions
   which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some
   flowers.


word: Lacinia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous
   calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.


word: Laconical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the
   Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this
   sense laconic is the usual form.


word: Laconize
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To imitate the manner of the Laconians, especially in
   brief, pithy speech, or in frugality and austerity.


word: Lacquer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in
   alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for
   varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to
   varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of
   the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.


word: Lacrosse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game of ball, originating among the North American
   Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in
   England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled
   racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the
   crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry
   it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the
   field.


word: Lactamic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an amido acid related to
   lactic acid, and called also amido-propionic acid.


word: Lactamide
wordtype: n.
definition:
An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as
   a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is
   metameric with alanine.


word: Lacteal
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the
   small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a
   chyliferous vessel.


word: Lactic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey;
   as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc.


word: Lactiferous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the
   lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.


word: Lactifuge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel
   a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.


word: Lactim
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams, but
   of an imido type; as, isatine is a lactim. Cf. Lactam.


word: Lactimide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride
   of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.


word: Lactoabumin
wordtype: n.
definition:
The albumin present on milk, apparently identical with
   ordinary serum albumin. It is distinct from the casein of milk.


word: Lactodensimeter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A form of hydrometer, specially graduated, for
   finding the density of milk, and thus discovering whether it has been
   mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed.


word: Lactometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of
   milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other
   apparatus.


word: Lactone
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a series of organic compounds, regarded as
   anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids. In general, they are colorless
   liquids, having a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the
   typical lactone is derived from lactic acid.


word: Lactoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for estimating the amount of cream
   contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.


word: Lactose
wordtype: n.
definition:
Sugar of milk or milk sugar; a crystalline sugar present
   in milk, and separable from the whey by evaporation and
   crystallization. It has a slightly sweet taste, is dextrorotary, and is
   much less soluble in water than either cane sugar or glucose. Formerly
   called lactin.


word: Lactucin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white, crystalline substance, having a bitter taste and
   a neutral reaction, and forming one of the essential ingredients of
   lactucarium.


word: Lactucone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the
   milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential
   ingredient of lactucarium.


word: Lacturamic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an organic amido acid,
   which is regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.


word: Lacuna
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as
   a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left
   among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels
   for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually
   of very small size, in a mucous membrane.


word: Lacunar
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when
   it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands
   between the panels.


word: Lacwork
wordtype: n.
definition:
Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or
   simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of
   Oriental work of this kind.


word: Ladanum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gum resin gathered from certain Oriental species of
   Cistus. It has a pungent odor and is chiefly used in making plasters,
   and for fumigation.


word: Ladder
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for
   ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened
   cross strips or rounds forming steps.


word: Ladder
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence,
   that by means of which one attains to eminence.


word: Lade
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally
   followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.


word: Lade
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to
   lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.


word: Ladino
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a
   mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a
   yellowish orange tinge.


word: Ladle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as
   with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.


word: Lady
wordtype: n.
definition:
A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a
   mistress; the female head of a household.


word: Lady
wordtype: n.
definition:
A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a
   woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.


word: Lady
wordtype: n.
definition:
A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a
   title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower
   rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an
   earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by
   courtesy, but not by right.


word: Lady
wordtype: n.
definition:
A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; --
   the feminine correlative of gentleman.


word: Lady
wordtype: n.
definition:
The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so
   called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It
   consists of calcareous plates.


word: Ladybird
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus
   Coccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellidae); -- called also
   ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. Coccinella
   seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella.


word: Ladyfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found
   both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish,
   grubber, French mullet, and macabe.


word: Ladykin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen
   Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.


word: Lady's bedstraw
definition:
The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a
   slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white
   flowers in umbels.


word: Lady's comb
definition:
An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its
   clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.


word: Lady's mantle
definition:
A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the
   European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated
   lobes.


word: Lady's slipper
definition:
Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the
   labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United
   States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).


word: Ladies' tresses
definition:
A name given to several species of the orchidaceous
   genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a
   slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.


word: Laelaps
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from
   the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind
   legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the
   species were about eighteen feet high.


word: Laemodipoda
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the
   abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five
   pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.


word: Laetere Sunday
definition:
The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin
   word Laetare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit
   sung that day in the Roman Catholic service.


word: Lafayette
wordtype: n.
definition:
A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus),
   of the southern coast of the United States.


word: Lag
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the
   narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object,
   as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.


word: Lagena
wordtype: n.
definition:
The terminal part of the cochlea in birds and most
   reptiles; an appendage of the sacculus, corresponding to the cochlea,
   in fishes and amphibians.


word: Lager beer
definition:
Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense
   quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or
   stored for some months before use.


word: Lagging
wordtype: n.
definition:
The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a
   steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of
   lags; -- called also deading and cleading.


word: Lagemorpha
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of rodents, including the hares. They have
   four incisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata.


word: Lagoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one
   into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.


word: Lagoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion
   of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll.


word: Laissez faire
definition:
Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political
   economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to
   foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by
   restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire
   system government.


word: Laity
wordtype: a.
definition:
Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or
   medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.


word: Lake
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually
   by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium
   hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.


word: Lake
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large body of water contained in a depression of the
   earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less
   extended area.


word: Laky
wordtype: a.
definition:
Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the
   action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.


word: Lalo
wordtype: n.
definition:
The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans
   to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras.
   Cf. Couscous.


word: Lamaism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Thibet,
   Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name
   of its priests. See 2d Lama.


word: Lamarckism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The theory that structural variations, characteristic
   of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct
   influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals,
   by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.


word: Lamb
wordtype: n.
definition:
A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock
   Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.


word: Lambdacism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists
   in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.


word: Lambdacism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A defect in pronunciation of the letter l when doubled,
   which consists in giving it a sound as if followed by y, similar to
   that of the letters lli in billion.


word: Lambdoid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid
   suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.


word: Lambert pine
definition:
The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus
   Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The
   timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.


word: Lambrequin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of ornament drapery or short decorative
   hanging, pendent from a shelf or from the casing above a window, hiding
   the curtain fixtures, or the like.


word: Lambskin
wordtype: n.
definition:
The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the
   wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.


word: Lamb's-quarters
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot
   family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex
   patulsa.


word: Lame
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury,
   defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or
   muscle.


word: Lamella
wordtype: n.
definition:
a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing
   from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales
   of which certain shells are composed.


word: Lamellibranchiata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A class of Mollusca including all those that
   have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.


word: Lamellicorn
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having antennae terminating in a group of flat
   lamellae; -- said of certain coleopterous insects.


word: Lamentable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful;
   pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error.


word: Lamentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet
   Jeremiah, and taking its name from the nature of its contents.


word: Lames
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one
   upon the other and form a piece of armor.


word: Lamia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said
   to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a
   witch.


word: Lamina
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another;
   -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.


word: Laminable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being split into laminae or thin plates, as
   mica; capable of being extended under pressure into a thin plate or
   strip.


word: Laminaria
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds;
   kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are
   sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp.


word: Laminarian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to
   that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the
   seaweeds of this genus grow.


word: Laminate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates,
   scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.


word: Laminiplantar
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath
   continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.


word: Goggle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes,
   in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the
   eyes from cold, dust, etc.


word: Goggle-eye
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of two or more species of American fresh-water
   fishes of the family Centrarchidae, esp. Chaenobryttus antistius, of
   Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the
   Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent
   eyes.


word: Goggler
wordtype: n.
definition:
A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus),
   having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye,
   big-eyed scad, and cicharra.


word: Goitre
wordtype: n.
definition:
An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part
   of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism,
   and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts
   of Switzerland.


word: Goolde
wordtype: n.
definition:
An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold
   (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the
   turnsole.


word: Gold
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal
   used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic
   yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity
   19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite
   unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore
   well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic
   weight 196.7.


word: Goldcrest
wordtype: n.
definition:
The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus,
   or R. regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren.
   The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested
   kinglet. See Kinglet.


word: Golden-eye
wordtype: n.
definition:
A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern
   Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is
   larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre,
   and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less
   common.


word: Golden-rod
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow
   flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the
   species of the genus Solidago.


word: Goldfinch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis
   elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings.
   The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of
   the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's
   coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.


word: Goldfinny
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of two or more species of European labroid fishes
   (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); -- called also
   goldsinny, and goldney.


word: Goldfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus);
   -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have
   been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament,
   in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also
   golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.


word: Goldylocks
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; --
   so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems;
   also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.


word: Golf
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at
   the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small
   holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest
   strokes is the winner.


word: Goliard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's
   tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.


word: Gomarite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch
   disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the
   Arminians.


word: Gomer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy
   ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.


word: Gomphosis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard
   part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws.


word: Gomuti
wordtype: n.
definition:
A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained
   from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga
   saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage.
   Called also ejoo.


word: Gonad
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in
   both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a
   generative gland; a germ gland.


word: Gondola
wordtype: n.
definition:
A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in
   the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two
   oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for
   passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection
   against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that
   gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted
   now.


word: Gonfanon
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or
   states, such as the mediaeval republics of Italy, and in more recent
   times by the pope.


word: Gonfanon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a
   crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself.


word: Gong
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of
   copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing,
   when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.


word: Gong
wordtype: n.
definition:
A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small
   hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a
   stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; -- called also gong
   bell.


word: Goniatite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to
   the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation,
   the latest, in the Triassic.


word: Gonimia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens,
   as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.


word: Gonimous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that
   part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.


word: Goniometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring angles, especially the
   angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.


word: Gonochorism
wordtype: n.
definition:
In ontogony, differentiation of male and female
   individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs.


word: Gonococcus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus,
   occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to
   constitute the cause of this disease.


word: Gonophore
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a
   hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining
   attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and
   Gonosome.


word: Gonorrhoea
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary
   tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized
   by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.


word: Gonotheca
wordtype: n.
definition:
A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora),
   inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores
   are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea,
   and Illust. of Campanularian.


word: Gonozooid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a
   gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.


word: Good
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the
   end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable;
   useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil,
   noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc.


word: Good
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious;
   religious; -- said of persons or actions.


word: Good
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite;
   propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward,
   also formerly by unto.


word: Good
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be
   relied upon; -- followed especially by for.


word: Good
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious;
   valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of
   obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit.


word: Good
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not small, insignificant, or of no account;
   considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good
   degree, a good share or part, etc.


word: Good
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied;
   as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc.


word: Good
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success,
   welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind,
   benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil.


word: Good
wordtype: n.
definition:
Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity;
   advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc.


word: Good
wordtype: n.
definition:
Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the
   singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost
   all personal property as distinguished from land or real property.


word: Good
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Well, -- especially in the phrase as good, with a following
   as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as
   little harm as possible.


word: Goodly
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful;
   as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses.


word: Goodman
wordtype: n.
definition:
A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My
   friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically.


word: Goodness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being good in any of its various senses;
   excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber,
   of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct,
   etc.


word: Goosander
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe
   and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb,
   shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.


word: Goose
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and
   belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See
   Anseres.


word: Goose
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game played with counters on a board divided into
   compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.


word: Gooseberry
wordtype: a.
definition:
Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible
   berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes
   Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.


word: Goosewing
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a
   topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.


word: Goosewinged
wordtype: a.
definition:
Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set
   on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.


word: Gopher
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several North American burrowing rodents of the
   genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also
   pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.


word: Gopher
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several western American species of the genus
   Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher
   (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus);
   -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard
   spermophile. See Spermophile.


word: Gopher
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern
   United States, which makes extensive burrows.


word: Gordiacea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A division of nematoid worms, including the
   hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and
   Illustration in Appendix.


word: Gordian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied
   by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.


word: Gordius
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in
   insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in
   water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel,
   hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely
   diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.


word: Gore
wordtype: v.
definition:
A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc.,
   sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular
   part.


word: Gore
wordtype: v.
definition:
One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines,
   meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.


word: Gorge
wordtype: n.
definition:
The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; --
   usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.


word: Gorgerin
wordtype: n.
definition:
In some columns, that part of the capital between the
   termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space
   between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and
   hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.


word: Gorget
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate,
   defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part
   of the double breastplate of the 14th century.


word: Gorget
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn
   over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.


word: Gorget
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of
   gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full
   uniform in some modern armies.


word: Gorgon
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa,
   with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the
   beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.


word: Gorgonia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now
   restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia
   flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a
   flexible, horny axis.


word: Gorgoniacea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria,
   including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis,
   covered with a porous crust, or c/nenchyma, in which the polyp cells
   are situated.


word: Gorilla
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is
   larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and
   powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its
   anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee,
   resembles that of man.


word: Goshawk
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species
   and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the
   American (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are noted
   for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian
   goshawk (A. Novae-Hollandiae) is pure white.


word: Goslet
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus
   Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India,
   and Australia.


word: Gospel
wordtype: v.
definition:
One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus
   Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.


word: Gospel
wordtype: v.
definition:
Any system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of
   political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel.


word: Gossamer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the
   air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in
   stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small
   spiders.


word: Gossan
wordtype: n.
definition:
Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to
   oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.


word: Gossat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called
   also whistler and three-bearded rockling.


word: Gossypium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts.
   The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the
   common cotton plant, while the long-stapled sea-island cotton is
   produced by G. Barbadense, a shrubby variety. There are several other
   kinds besides these.


word: Goth
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe
   and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran
   and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.


word: Gothamist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called
   from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant
   blunders.


word: Gothic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed
   arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces,
   and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions --
   prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust.
   of Abacus, and Capital.


word: Gothic
wordtype: n.
definition:
The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that
   part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See
   Goth.


word: Goethite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hydrous oxide of iron, occurring in prismatic crystals,
   also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The
   color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.


word: Gouache
wordtype: n.
definition:
A method of painting with opaque colors, which have been
   ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture
   thus painted.


word: Goudron
wordtype: n.
definition:
a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue,
   used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light
   ditches and ramparts.


word: Gouge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for
   scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.;
   a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.


word: Gouge
wordtype: n.
definition:
An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves,
   envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.


word: Gouge
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a
   groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.


word: Goulards extract
definition:
An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used
   as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate
   containing this extract.


word: Goura
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several species of large, crested ground pigeons of
   the genus Goura, inhabiting New Guinea and adjacent islands. The Queen
   Victoria pigeon (Goura Victoria) and the crowned pigeon (G. coronata)
   are among the beat known species.


word: Gourami
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (Osphromenus
   gorami), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries,
   and highly valued as a food fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been
   made to introduce it into Southern Europe.


word: Gourd
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon,
   pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the
   bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of
   forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles,
   dippers, cups, and other dishes.


word: Gout
wordtype: n.
definition:
A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists
   in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints,
   and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints,
   after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended
   with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive
   organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the
   intestines, etc.


word: Goutwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Aegopodium
   Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.


word: Govern
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men,
   either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by
   authority.


word: Govern
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to
   manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse.


word: Govern
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive
   verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular
   case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case.


word: Governess
wordtype: n.
definition:
A female governor; a woman invested with authority to
   control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and
   instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.


word: Governing
wordtype: a.
definition:
Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a
   governing wind; a governing party in a state.


word: Government
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the
   administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
   church, or family government.


word: Government
wordtype: n.
definition:
The influence of a word in regard to construction,
   requiring that another word should be in a particular case.


word: Governor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the
   supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate;
   as, the governor of Pennsylvania.


word: Governor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and
   other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances
   and motive force are variable.


word: Governor general
definition:
A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors
   under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.


word: Gown
wordtype: n.
definition:
The official robe of certain professional men and scholars,
   as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence,
   the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from
   military.


word: Gownman
wordtype: n.
definition:
One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or
   lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a
   civilian, in distinction from a soldier.


word: Grab
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of
   raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills,
   etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.


word: Grace
wordtype: n.
definition:
The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to
   benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.


word: Grace
wordtype: n.
definition:
The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as
   distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts;
   divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the
   divine favor.


word: Grace
wordtype: n.
definition:
Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted
   to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.


word: Grace
wordtype: n.
definition:
Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness;
   commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.


word: Grace
wordtype: n.
definition:
Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses,
   represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo
   but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number;
   namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the
   inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love,
   and social intercourse.


word: Grace
wordtype: n.
definition:
Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the
   performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation
   signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.


word: Grace
wordtype: n.
definition:
An act, vote, or decree of the government of the
   institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree.


word: Grace
wordtype: n.
definition:
A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It
   consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means
   of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.


word: Graceful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant;
   easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment,
   speaker, air, act, speech.


word: Graceless
wordtype: a.
definition:
Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or
   deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.


word: Gracious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or
   bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed
   to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious
   majesty.


word: Gracious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the
   divine influence; as, gracious affections.


word: Grackle
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several American blackbirds, of the family
   Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the
   boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus
   quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.


word: Gradation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly
   arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the
   gradation of castes.


word: Gradation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a
   darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.


word: Grade
wordtype: n.
definition:
A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order;
   relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of
   every grade; grades of flour.


word: Grade
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a
   level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet
   per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal
   distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1
   in 264.


word: Grade
wordtype: n.
definition:
The result of crossing a native stock with some better
   breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better
   blood, it is called high grade.


word: Gradient
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude,
   or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.


word: Grading
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of
   bringing, as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or
   grade.


word: Gradual
wordtype: n.
definition:
Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step,
   as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly
   progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual
   decline.


word: Gradual
wordtype: n.
definition:
An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass,
   which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.


word: Graduate
wordtype: n.
definition:
To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps,
   grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of
   punishment or rewards, etc.


word: Graduate
wordtype: n.
definition:
To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp.,
   in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an
   honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale
   College.


word: Graduate
wordtype: n.
definition:
To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by
   degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to
   graduate the heat of an oven.


word: Graduate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off;
   as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes
   graduates into quartz.


word: Graduate
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has received an academical or professional
   degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any
   school or institution of learning.


word: Graduate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used
   by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.


word: Graduated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer
   feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer.


word: Graduation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated;
   as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in
   color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.


word: Graduator
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or
   vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.


word: Graffiti
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the
   walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at
   Pompeii.


word: Graft
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree,
   the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and
   become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.


word: Graft
wordtype: n.
definition:
To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to
   propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.


word: Graft
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with
   a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.


word: Graille
wordtype: n.
definition:
A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved
   face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers.


word: Grain
wordtype: n.
definition:
A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those
   plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.


word: Grain
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of
   man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves; -- used
   collectively.


word: Grain
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc.;
   hence, any minute portion or particle; as, a grain of gunpowder, of
   pollen, of starch, of sense, of wit, etc.


word: Grain
wordtype: n.
definition:
The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called
   because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle
   of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois,
   and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See
   Gram.


word: Grain
wordtype: n.
definition:
A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence,
   a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes
   used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.


word: Grain
wordtype: n.
definition:
The composite particles of any substance; that arrangement
   of the particles of any body which determines its comparative roughness
   or hardness; texture; as, marble, sugar, sandstone, etc., of fine
   grain.


word: Grain
wordtype: n.
definition:
The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in
   wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc.


word: Grain
wordtype: n.
definition:
The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation;
   hence, any residuum. Also called draff.


word: Grainer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize
   the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also
   grains and bate.


word: Grainer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,
   etc.; also, the brush or tool used in graining.


word: Grallae
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of birds which formerly included all the
   waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers,
   plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores.


word: -gram
definition:
A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing,
   writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.


word: Gram
wordtype: n.
definition:
The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and
   its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.


word: Gramme
wordtype: n.
definition:
The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to
   be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of
   one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal
   to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4.


word: Grama grass
definition:
The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in
   the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya.


word: Grammalogue
wordtype: n.
definition:
Literally, a letter word; a word represented by a
   logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t. pitman.


word: Grammar
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science which treats of the principles of language;
   the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the
   art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a
   language, in speaking or writing.


word: Grammar
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of speaking or writing with correctness or
   according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the
   rules of a grammar.


word: Grammar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A treatise on the principles of language; a book
   containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or
   writing.


word: Grammatical
wordtype: a.
definition:
According to the rules of grammar; grammatically
   correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not
   grammatical.


word: Grampus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp.
   G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows
   to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white
   streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.


word: Granadilla
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fruit of certain species of passion flower (esp.
   Passiflora quadrangularis) found in Brazil and the West Indies. It is
   as large as a child's head, and is a good dessert fruit. The fruit of
   Passiflora edulis is used for flavoring ices.


word: Granary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is
   thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in
   grain.


word: Grand
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence,
   relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a
   grand army; a grand mistake.


word: Grand
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or
   impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons);
   majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a
   grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand
   conception.


word: Grand
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance
   than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a
   grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.


word: Grand
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Standing in the second or some more remote degree of
   parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as,
   grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.


word: Grandee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A man of elevated rank or station; a nobleman. In Spain, a
   nobleman of the first rank, who may be covered in the king's presence.


word: Grandeur
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness;
   splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of
   thought or expression; nobility of action.


word: Grandfather
wordtype: n.
definition:
A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next
   degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.


word: Grandiose
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor;
   flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.


word: Grange
wordtype: n.
definition:
An association of farmers, designed to further their
   interests, aud particularly to bring producers and consumers, farmers
   and manufacturers, into direct commercial relations, without
   intervention of middlemen or traders. The first grange was organized in
   1867.


word: Granite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz,
   feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red
   color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and
   therefore in being destitute of a schistose structure.


word: Grant
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the
   possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.


word: Grant
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bestow or confer, with or without compensation,
   particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.


word: Grant
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved;
   to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.


word: Grant
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au
   appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land
   or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.


word: Granulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of forming or crystallizing into
   grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.


word: Granulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which
   form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient
   agents in the process of healing.


word: Granulite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and
   quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.


word: Granulose
wordtype: n.
definition:
The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in
   distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is
   colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by
   boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.


word: Grape
wordtype: n.
definition:
A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or
   bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy
   pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for
   making wine and raisins.


word: Grapeshot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls,
   put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom,
   with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a
   charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.


word: Grapevine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having
   small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called
   grapes.


word: Graphical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and
   impressive description; vivid; as, a graphic writer.


word: Graphics
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing
   according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the
   like.


word: Graphite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or
   granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to
   leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead
   pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called
   plumbago or black lead.


word: Graphoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An optical instrument for magnifying engravings,
   photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.


word: Graphotype
wordtype: n.
definition:
A process for producing a design upon a surface in
   relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc
   is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is
   drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it
   is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving
   the lines in relief.


word: -graphy
definition:
A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also,
   the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy,
   biography, geography.


word: Grapnel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small anchor, with four or five flukes or claws, used to
   hold boats or small vessels; hence, any instrument designed to grapple
   or hold; a grappling iron; a grab; -- written also grapline, and
   crapnel.


word: Grapple
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach
   one's self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize one
   another.


word: Graptolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of numerous species of slender and delicate
   fossils, of the genus Graptolites and allied genera, found in the
   Silurian rocks. They belong to an extinct group (Graptolithina)
   supposed to be hydroids.


word: Grasp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the
   fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.


word: Grass
wordtype: n.
definition:
An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally
   jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.


word: Grasshopper
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families
   Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The
   former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus
   spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region
   beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged
   (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species,
   but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the
   migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.


word: Grasshopper
wordtype: n.
definition:
In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make,
   the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and
   replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper.


word: Grass tree
definition:
An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a
   thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves,
   from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a
   dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants
   are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and
   blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called
   Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides.


word: Grate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars,
   with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows
   of prisons and cloisters.


word: Grate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another,
   causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh
   sound) by rubbing.


word: Grate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough
   material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce
   exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or
   importunity.


word: Grateful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed
   toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge
   and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart.


word: Grateful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying;
   delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate;
   grateful sleep.


word: Grater
wordtype: a.
definition:
One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument
   or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small
   particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.


word: Graticulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The division of a design or draught into squares, in
   order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions.


word: Graticule
wordtype: n.
definition:
A design or draught which has been divided into squares,
   in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.


word: Gratification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind,
   the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the
   appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.


word: Gratify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe;
   to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the
   desires, the mind, etc.


word: Grating
wordtype: n.
definition:
A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars;
   a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or
   convent.


word: Grating
wordtype: n.
definition:
A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or
   bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing
   spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating.


word: Grating
wordtype: n.
definition:
The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting
   light and air; also, a movable Lattice used for the flooring of boats.


word: Gratitude
wordtype: a.
definition:
The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling
   toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received;
   thankfulness.


word: Gratuitous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred
   without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim
   or merit; not required by justice.


word: Gratuitous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not called for by the circumstances; without reason,
   cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a
   gratuitous assumption.


word: Gravamen
wordtype: a.
definition:
The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the
   action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint.
   Bouvier.


word: Grave
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass,
   etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or
   greaves was formerly used for this purpose.


word: Grave
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate;
   serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment,
   character, influence, etc.


word: Grave
wordtype: n.
definition:
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any
   place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.


word: Gravel
wordtype: n.
definition:
Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles,
   often intermixed with particles of sand.


word: Gravel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and
   the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a
   symptom.


word: Gravel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run
   aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.


word: Lammergeier
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which
   inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa.
   When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is
   brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the
   forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It
   feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It
   has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height,
   and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore
   called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of
   the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.


word: Lamp
wordtype: n.
definition:
A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus;
   especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or
   other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial
   light.


word: Lamp
wordtype: n.
definition:
Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or
   morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a
   lamp.


word: Lamp
wordtype: n.
definition:
A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See
   Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.


word: Lampadrome
wordtype: n.
definition:
A race run by young men with lighted torches in their
   hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished,
   gained the prize.


word: Lampas
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof
   of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called
   also lampers.


word: Lampblack
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of
   carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the
   flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with
   sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as
   an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.


word: Lampoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and
   abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.


word: Lamp-post
wordtype: n.
definition:
A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or
   lantern for lighting a street, park, etc.


word: Lamprey
wordtype: n.
definition:
An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and
   allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws,
   but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on
   the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial
   openings on each side.


word: Lanarkite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral consisting of sulphate of lead, occurring
   either massive or in long slender prisms, of a greenish white or gray
   color.


word: Lacashire boiler
definition:
A steam boiler having two flues which contain the
   furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.


word: Lacasterian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of
   instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced
   pupils in a school teach pupils below them.


word: Lance
wordtype: n.
definition:
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a
   steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated
   with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and
   fishermen.


word: Lance
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the small paper cases filled with combustible
   composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.


word: Lance fish
definition:
A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially
   Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.


word: Lancelet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small fishlike animal (Amphioxus lanceolatus),
   remarkable for the rudimentary condition of its organs. It is the type
   of the class Leptocardia. See Amphioxus, Leptocardia.


word: Lanceolated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and
   sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.


word: Lancepesade
wordtype: n.
definition:
An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the
   duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.


word: Lancer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a
   member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the
   cavalry service of some nations.


word: Lancet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly
   sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening
   abscesses, etc.


word: Lancewood
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of
   gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which
   produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba),
   and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae).


word: Land
wordtype: n.
definition:
The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to
   water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and
   seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.


word: Land
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth,
   considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as
   a country, estate, farm, or tract.


word: Land
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several
   portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.


word: Land
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures,
   woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees,
   water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real
   estate.


word: Land
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of
   plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.


word: Land
wordtype: n.
definition:
In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or
   grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level
   part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of
   a rifled gun between the grooves.


word: Land
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or
   reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near
   the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one
   in difficulties or mistakes.


word: Landau
wordtype: n.
definition:
A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided
   into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a
   manner as to make an open carriage.


word: Landgrave
wordtype: n.
definition:
A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an
   earl in England and of a count in France.


word: Landing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of
   stairs, or connecting one flight with another.


word: Landlocked
wordtype: a.
definition:
Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls
   or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after
   spawning; as, the landlocked salmon.


word: Landlord
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or
   houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.


word: Landlordism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of
   a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords
   to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands.


word: Landmark
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or
   fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones)
   by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory
   may be known and preserved.


word: Landmark
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide;
   some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.


word: Landscape
wordtype: n.
definition:
A portion of land or territory which the eye can
   comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.


word: Landscape
wordtype: n.
definition:
A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or
   fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as
   fields, hills, forests, water. etc.


word: Landwehr
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has
   completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of
   peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.


word: Lane
wordtype: n.
definition:
A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled
   as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees,
   rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a
   narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field
   of ice.


word: Langaha
wordtype: n.
definition:
A curious colubriform snake of the genus Xyphorhynchus,
   from Madagascar. It is brownish red, and its nose is prolonged in the
   form of a sharp blade.


word: Langarey
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of numerous species of long-winged, shrikelike birds
   of Australia and the East Indies, of the genus Artamus, and allied
   genera; called also wood swallow.


word: Langrel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and
   rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron
   fastened together or inclosed in a canister.


word: Language
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any means of conveying or communicating ideas;
   specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice;
   sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat
   and mouth.


word: Language
wordtype: n.
definition:
The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to
   an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.


word: Language
wordtype: n.
definition:
The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of
   ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.


word: Language
wordtype: n.
definition:
The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or
   department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of
   chemistry or theology.


word: Langue d'oc
definition:
The dialect, closely akin to French, formerly spoken
   south of the Loire (in which the word for "yes" was oc); Provencal.


word: Languet
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif.,
   the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air
   toward its mouth.


word: Languid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to
   exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.


word: Languish
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become languid or weak; to lose strength or
   animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to
   wither or fade.


word: Languor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion
   of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness;
   lassitude; laxity.


word: Langya
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic
   fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their
   power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called
   also walking fishes.


word: Lanneret
wordtype: n. m.
definition:
A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern
   Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie
   falcon.


word: Lanolin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and
   certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues
   generally.


word: Lanseh
wordtype: n.
definition:
The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree
   (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid
   taste.


word: Lansquenet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A German foot soldier in foreign service in the 15th
   and 16th centuries; a soldier of fortune; -- a term used in France and
   Western Europe.


word: Lant
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes
   of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and
   the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in
   the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also
   launce, and sand eel.


word: Lantanuric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic
   acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of
   allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.


word: Lantern
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind,
   rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn,
   perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or
   candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street
   light, or of a lighthouse light.


word: Lantern
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below
   into the building or tower which it crowns.


word: Lantern
wordtype: n.
definition:
A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for
   ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the
   Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.


word: Lantern
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding
   a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber
   between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern
   brass.


word: Lanthanum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied
   to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite,
   gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of
   separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which
   it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La.


word: Lanugo
wordtype: n.
definition:
The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal
   fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.


word: Lanyard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in
   ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like;
   esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds,
   stays, etc.


word: Lanyard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook
   at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction
   tube.


word: Laocoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the
   priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents,
   as described by Virgil.


word: Laodicean
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major;
   like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion.


word: Lap
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when
   one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a
   place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.


word: Lap
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or
   lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a
   board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.


word: Lap
wordtype: n.
definition:
The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps
   a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move
   from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used
   alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).


word: Lap
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or condition of being in part extended over or by
   the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the
   second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.


word: Lap
wordtype: n.
definition:
One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a
   small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps.
   See Lap, to fold, 2.


word: Lap
wordtype: n.
definition:
In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of
   the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are
   counted in the score of the following game.


word: Lap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a
   cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in
   polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk,
   which revolves on a vertical axis.


word: Lap
wordtype: n.
definition:
To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover
   it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly
   over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by
   the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.


word: Lap
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side
   of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats
   lap; the edges lap.


word: Lapel
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of a garment which is turned back; specifically,
   the lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar.


word: Idolatrous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature
   of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as,
   idolatrous sacrifices.


word: Idolatrous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment
   or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.


word: Idorgan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids,
   which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock,
   in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.


word: Idrialite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines
   of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.


word: Idyl
wordtype: n.
definition:
A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls
   of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive
   poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by
   extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry
   or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.


word: Igneous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing
   fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.


word: Ignis fatuus
definition:
A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over
   marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal
   or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly
   called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and
   Jack-with-a-lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern.


word: Ignite
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat
   strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as,
   to ignite iron or platinum.


word: Ignitor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a
   contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.


word: Ignoramus
wordtype: n.
definition:
We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly
   written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not
   sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The
   phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill," or "Not found," though
   in some jurisdictions "Ignored" is still used.


word: Ignorance
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge
   in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being
   uneducated or uninformed.


word: Ignorance
wordtype: n.
definition:
A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which
   one may acquire and it is his duty to have.


word: Ignore
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said
   of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.


word: Ignore
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to;
   not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore
   certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person.


word: Iguana
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of the genus Iguana, a genus of large American
   lizards of the family Iguanidae. They are arboreal in their habits,
   usually green in color, and feed chiefly upon fruits.


word: Iguanodon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a
   birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of
   supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana,
   whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of
   England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Ihlang-ihlang
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rich, powerful, perfume, obtained from the
   volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree.


word: Ileocolic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or
   ileocaecal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large
   intestine.


word: Ileum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The last, and usually the longest, division of the small
   intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.


word: Ileus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is
   characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the
   abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by
   vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion.


word: Iliac
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ilium, or dorsal
   bone of the pelvis; as, the iliac artery.


word: liad
wordtype: n.
definition:
A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the
   destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.


word: Ilio-
definition:
A combining form used in anatomy to denote connection with, or
   relation to, the ilium; as, ilio-femoral, ilio-lumbar, ilio-psoas, etc.


word: Iliopsoas
wordtype: n.
definition:
The great flexor muscle of the hip joint, divisible into
   two parts, the iliac and great psoas, -- often regarded as distinct
   muscles.


word: Ilium
wordtype: n.
definition:
The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising
   either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip
   bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate.


word: Ill
wordtype: a.
definition:
Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to
   advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable;
   unfavorable.


word: Ill
wordtype: n.
definition:
Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success;
   evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of
   humanity.


word: Illapse
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into
   another; also, a sudden descent or attack.


word: Illation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons;
   perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred;
   inference; deduction; conclusion.


word: Illative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation;
   inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an
   illative word, as then, therefore, etc.


word: Illegal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary
   to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral;
   as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.


word: Illegality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or condition of being illegal;
   unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment;
   also, an illegal act.


word: Illegitimate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be
   born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.


word: Illiberal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like;
   ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.


word: Illicit
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as,
   illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.


word: Illicium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of Asiatic and American magnoliaceous trees,
   having star-shaped fruit; star anise. The fruit of Illicium anisatum is
   used as a spice in India, and its oil is largely used in Europe for
   flavoring cordials, being almost identical with true oil of anise.


word: Illimitable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable;
   limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space.


word: Illinition
wordtype: n.
definition:
A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is
   smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.


word: Illinois
wordtype: n.sing. & pl.
definition:
A tribe of North American Indians, which
   formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.


word: Illiteracy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of
   learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and
   write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.


word: Illiterate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed;
   uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.


word: Illogical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct
   reasoning; as, an illogical disputant; contrary of the rules of logic
   or sound reasoning; as, an illogical inference.


word: Illuminate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as
   a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.


word: Illuminate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial
   letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in
   manuscripts of the Middle Ages.


word: Illuminate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to
   by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a
   text, a problem, or a duty.


word: Illuminati
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Persons in the early church who had received
   baptism; in which ceremony a lighted taper was given them, as a symbol
   of the spiritual illumination they has received by that sacrament.


word: Illuminati
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Members of a sect which sprung up in Spain about the
   year 1575. Their principal doctrine was, that, by means of prayer, they
   had attained to so perfect a state as to have no need of ordinances,
   sacraments, good works, etc.; -- called also Alumbrados,
   Perfectibilists, etc.


word: Illuminati
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Members of certain associations in Modern Europe,
   who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise
   men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam
   Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly
   for a time, but ceased after a few years.


word: Illumination
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That which illuminates or gives light; brightness;
   splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.


word: Illuminator
wordtype: n.
definition:
One whose occupation is to adorn books, especially
   manuscripts, with miniatures, borders, etc. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.


word: Illusion
wordtype: n.
definition:
An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision;
   a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.


word: Illusion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sensation originated by some external object, but so
   modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the
   rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.


word: Illustrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to
   elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons,
   and examples.


word: Illustrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to
   elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.


word: Illustration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and
   distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being
   made clear and distinct.


word: Illustration
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which illustrates; a comparison or example
   intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.


word: Illutation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or operation of smearing the body with mud,
   especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.


word: Im-
definition:
A form of the prefix in- not, and in- in. See In-. Im- also
   occurs in composition with some words not of Latin origin; as, imbank,
   imbitter.


word: Image
wordtype: n.
definition:
An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person,
   thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made
   perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness;
   an effigy; a picture; a semblance.


word: Image
wordtype: n.
definition:
A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from
   sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an
   extended metaphor.


word: Image
wordtype: n.
definition:
The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a
   lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object
   symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such
   focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the
   retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass,
   as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by
   reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.


word: Image
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake
   imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.


word: Image
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of
   by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.


word: Imagery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The work of one who makes images or visible representation
   of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.


word: Imagery
wordtype: n.
definition:
Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid
   descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects;
   figures in discourse.


word: Imaginal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to
   the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.


word: Imagination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to
   create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived;
   the power to call up mental imagines.


word: Imagination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The representative power; the power to reconstruct or
   recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex
   faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.


word: Imagination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The power to recombine the materials furnished by
   experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose;
   the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.


word: Imaginative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Proceeding from, and characterized by, the
   imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.


word: Imaginative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.;
   having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.


word: Imagine
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a
   mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.


word: Imaum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites
   in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.


word: Imbankment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound
   raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.


word: Imbecile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble;
   impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the
   imbecile and insane.


word: Imbed
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly
   inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand,
   etc.


word: Imbibe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive
   as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes
   moisture.


word: Imbitter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more
   distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.


word: Imbricated
wordtype: a.
definition:
Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break
   joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds
   of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes;
   overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation.


word: Imbricated
wordtype: a.
definition:
In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the
   other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface;
   an imbricated pattern.


word: Imbrication
wordtype: n.
definition:
An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or
   shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration
   representing such a structure.


word: Imbue
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or
   penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.


word: Imide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif.,
   a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a
   monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of
   hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; --
   frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide.


word: Imitate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form,
   character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to
   counterfeit; to copy.


word: Imitate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or
   inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits,
   so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake
   imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect
   imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.


word: Imitation
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is
   made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent
   purposes; likeness; resemblance.


word: Imitation
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the principal means of securing unity and
   consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially
   the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of
   pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.


word: Imitation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of condition of imitating another species of
   animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.


word: Imitative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating;
   exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or
   model; dependent on example; not original; as, man is an imitative
   being; painting is an imitative art.


word: Imitative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a
   plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection
   from enemies; having resamblance to something else; as, imitative
   colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals
   are imitative.


word: Immanent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding;
   intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency,
   or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant,
   transitory, transitive, or objective.


word: Immaterial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of no substantial consequence; without weight or
   significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
   so or not.


word: Immaterialism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to
   mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or
   phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the
   soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.


word: Immature
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full
   development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character;
   immature plans.


word: Immediate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not separated in respect to place by anything
   intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.


word: Immediate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without
   the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency;
   acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.


word: Immediately
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In an immediate manner; without intervention of any
   other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately;
   as, immediately contiguous.


word: Immediateness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or relations of being immediate in
   manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.


word: Immemorial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or
   tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.


word: Immensity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or
   immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk;
   greatness.


word: Immerse
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers,
   especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.


word: Immersion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a
   sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the
   Styx.


word: Immersion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either
   behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as
   in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.


word: Immigrant
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the
   purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.


word: Immigrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To come into a country of which one is not a native,
   for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.


word: Immigration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a
   country for the purpose of permanent residence.


word: Imminence
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition or quality of being imminent; a
   threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any
   danger or distress.


word: Imminent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand;
   impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.


word: Immobilize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a
   naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened
   bandages.


word: Immoderate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable
   bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands;
   immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.


word: Immodest
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which
   decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as,
   immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc.


word: Immolator
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect
   of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilatio and sacrifice.


word: Immoral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good
   morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust;
   dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.


word: Immortal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying;
   imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance.


word: Immortal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding;
   exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.


word: Immortality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from
   death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the
   soul.


word: Immortelle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre,
   as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See
   Everlasting.


word: Immovability
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness;
   steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of
   purpose.


word: Immovable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of
   material things; as, an immovable foundatin.


word: Immovable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of
   the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remain
   immovable.


word: Immovable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure;
   fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n.


word: Immovable
wordtype: n.
definition:
Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees;
   by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their
   destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which
   they are applied, as servitudes.


word: Immunity
wordtype: a.
definition:
Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation,
   office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege;
   as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the
   clergy.


word: Imp
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it
   out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted
   in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.


word: Imp
wordtype: n.
definition:
To graft with new feathers, as a wing; to splice a broken
   feather. Hence, Fig.: To repair; to extend; to increase; to strengthen
   to equip.


word: Impaction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that
   the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the
   skull or of the hip.


word: Impaction
wordtype: n.
definition:
An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in
   a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the
   strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of
   man or beast.


word: Impair
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value,
   excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health,
   character, the mind, value.


word: Impalement
wordtype: n.
definition:
The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical
   line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband
   and wife. See Impale, 3.


word: Impanation
wordtype: a.
definition:
Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and
   union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the
   elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; --
   distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous
   change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to
   consubstantiation.


word: Impanel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called
   a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice.


word: Imparidigitate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either
   one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.


word: Imparisyllabic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as,
   an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables
   in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.


word: Imparlance
wordtype: n.
definition:
Time given to a party to talk or converse with his
   opponent, originally with the object of effecting, if possible, an
   amicable adjustment of the suit. The actual object, however, has long
   been merely to obtain further time to plead, or answer to the
   allegations of the opposite party.


word: Impart
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or
   communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the
   poor; the sun imparts warmth.


word: Impart
wordtype: n.
definition:
To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by
   words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.


word: Impartial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not partial; not favoring one more than another;
   treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable;
   fair; just.


word: Impartiality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or
   favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as,
   impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc.


word: Impassible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain;
   not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not
   showing feeling; without sensation.


word: Impassioned
wordtype: p. p. & a.
definition:
Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal;
   showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an
   impassioned orator or discourse.


word: Impastation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of making into paste; that which is formed
   into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different
   substances by means of cements.


word: Impasto
wordtype: n.
definition:
The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by
   the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition
   of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole.


word: Impatience
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of
   pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for
   something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness;
   passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid.


word: Impatiens
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of plants, several species of which have very
   beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when
   touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also
   touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called
   lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.


word: Impatient
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant;
   uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager
   for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often
   followed by at, for, of, and under.


word: Impeach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse;
   especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal,
   with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of
   official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See
   Impeachment.


word: Impeach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to
   bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives
   or conduct.


word: Impeach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a
   witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.


word: Impeachment
wordtype: n.
definition:
A calling in question as to purity of motives,
   rectitude of conduct, credibility, etc.; accusation; reproach; as, an
   impeachment of motives.


word: Impend
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome
   near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See Imminent.


word: Impenetrability
wordtype: n.
definition:
That property in virtue of which two portions of
   matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space.


word: Impenetrable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not
   admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious;
   as, an impenetrable shield.


word: Impenetrable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the property of preventing any other substance
   from occupying the same space at the same time.


word: Impenetrable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy,
   etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an
   impenetrable mind, or heart.


word: Impennes
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of birds, including only the penguins, in
   which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight.


word: Imperative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Expressive of command; containing positive command;
   authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as,
   imperative orders.


word: Imperator
wordtype: n.
definition:
A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an
   appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general
   after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a
   recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it
   carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of the
   Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to
   have the meaning now attached to the word emperor.


word: Imperceptible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized
   by the souses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.


word: Imperfect
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not
   conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or
   conscience; esthetically or morally defective.


word: Imperfection
wordtype: a.
definition:
The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of
   perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.


word: Imperial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an
   imperial government; imperial authority or edict.


word: Imperial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one
   who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme.


word: Imperial
wordtype: n.
definition:
The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so
   called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.


word: Imperial
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large
   decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drowing,
   printing, or writing paper, etc.


word: Imperial
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or
   other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.


word: Imperishable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible;
   enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable
   renown.


word: Lazarite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a
   religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly
   called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris,
   which was occupied by them until 1792.


word: Lazuli
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a fine azure-blue color, usually in small
   rounded masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina, lime, and
   soda, with some sodium sulphide, is often marked by yellow spots or
   veins of sulphide of iron, and is much valued for ornamental work.
   Called also lapis lazuli, and Armenian stone.


word: Lazulite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a light indigo-blue color, occurring in
   small masses, or in monoclinic crystals; blue spar. It is a hydrous
   phosphate of alumina and magnesia.


word: Lazzaroni
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance
   work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which
   serves as their refuge.


word: Leach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to
   the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or
   coffee.


word: Leachy
wordtype: a.
definition:
Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of
   retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils,
   and the like.


word: Lead
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal,
   having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both
   malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for
   tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is
   easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of
   solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It
   is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.


word: Lead
wordtype: n.
definition:
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence,
   pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.


word: Lead
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some
   physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads
   a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.


word: Lead
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain
   place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going
   with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to
   counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.


word: Lead
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or
   charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to
   lead a political party.


word: Lead
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be
   foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the
   Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.


word: Lead
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to
   prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse
   a righteous cause.


word: Lead
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a
   certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or
   course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow
   in (a certain course).


word: Lead
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before,
   showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have
   precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the
   senses of lead, v. t.


word: Lead
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain
   place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.


word: Lead
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to
   take the lead; to be under the lead of another.


word: Lead
wordtype: n.
definition:
precedence; advance position; also, the measure of
   precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's
   length, or of half a second.


word: Lead
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the
   card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.


word: Lead
wordtype: n.
definition:
The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve,
   for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston
   is at end of its stroke.


word: Leader
wordtype: n.
definition:
A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an
   orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of
   the first violins.


word: Leader
wordtype: n.
definition:
A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a
   line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.


word: Leader
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first, or the principal, editorial article in a
   newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.


word: Leader
wordtype: n.
definition:
a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of
   contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or
   number.


word: Leadhillite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a yellowish or greenish white color,
   consisting of the sulphate and carbonate of lead; -- so called from
   having been first found at Leadhills, Scotland.


word: Leading
wordtype: a.
definition:
Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading
   motive; a leading man; a leading example.


word: Leadwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of maritime herbs (Plumbago). P. Europaea has
   lead-colored spots on the leaves, and nearly lead-colored flowers.


word: Leaf
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of
   a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is
   elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant
   which collectively constitute its foliage.


word: Leaf
wordtype: n.
definition:
A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral
   outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or
   as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.


word: Leaf
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and
   having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one
   edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two
   pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that
   slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The
   movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A
   portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth
   of a pinion, especially when small.


word: Leaf-footed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having leaflike expansions on the legs; -- said of
   certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Leptoglossus phyllopus).


word: Leaf-nosed
wordtype: n.
definition:
Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of
   certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See
   Vampire.


word: League
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of length or distance, varying in different
   countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet
   each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe,
   and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and
   the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of
   6080 feet each.


word: League
wordtype: n.
definition:
An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties,
   or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a
   continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance
   of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.


word: League
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint
   purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league
   heterogeneous elements.


word: Leak
wordtype: v.
definition:
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or
   other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat;
   a leak in a gas pipe.


word: Leak
wordtype: v.
definition:
The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure,
   or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps.


word: Leak
wordtype: n.
definition:
To let water or other fluid in or out through a hole,
   crevice, etc.; as, the cask leaks; the roof leaks; the boat leaks.


word: Leak
wordtype: n.
definition:
To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc.
   ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or
   out.


word: Leakage
wordtype: n.
definition:
An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of
   casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.


word: Lean
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to
   be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the
   window; a leaning column.


word: Lean
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not
   plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.


word: Lean
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or
   productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant;
   barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean
   harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.


word: Lean
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning
   the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.


word: Lean-faced
wordtype: a.
definition:
slender or narrow; -- said of type the letters of which
   have thin lines, or are unusually narrow in proportion to their height.


word: Lean-to
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a
   larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also
   penthouse, and to-fall.


word: Leap
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to
   vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse.


word: Leap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially
   by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate
   intervals.


word: Leapfrog
wordtype: n.
definition:
A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another
   leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.


word: Leap year
definition:
Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year
   which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February
   twenty-nine days. See Bissextile.


word: Learn
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by
   inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to
   fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn
   the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to
   learn the violin; to learn the truth about something.


word: Learn
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in
   acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction;
   as, this child learns quickly.


word: Learned
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized
   by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a
   learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.


word: Learning
wordtype: n.
definition:
The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning
   of languages; the learning of telegraphy.


word: Learning
wordtype: n.
definition:
The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study;
   acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature;
   erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning.


word: Lease
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of
   lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner
   leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.


word: Lease
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments
   to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less
   interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a
   specified rent or compensation.


word: Leash
wordtype: n.
definition:
A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any
   kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number
   three in general.


word: Least
wordtype: a.
definition:
Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most
   unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space.


word: Least
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all
   others; as, to reward those who least deserve it.


word: Leather
wordtype: n.
definition:
The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned,
   tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.


word: Leatherback
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony
   shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the
   Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also
   leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.


word: Leatherwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a
   white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in
   the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy.


word: Leave
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a
   leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave,
   i. e., literally, to take permission to go.


word: Leave
wordtype: v.
definition:
To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue,
   in distinction from what is removed or changed.


word: Leave
wordtype: v.
definition:
To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his
   reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.


word: Leave
wordtype: v.
definition:
To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to
   submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your
   hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.


word: Leave
wordtype: v.
definition:
To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left
   a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.


word: Leaved
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used
   in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate;
   long-leaved.


word: Leaven
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce,
   fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting
   dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general
   change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.


word: Lebban
wordtype: n.
definition:
Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common
   beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.


word: Lecanomancy
wordtype: n.
definition:
divination practiced with water in a basin, by
   throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was
   sought.


word: Lecanoric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid which is
   obtained from several varieties of lichen (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.),
   as a white, crystalline substance, and is called also orsellic, /
   diorsellinic acid, lecanorin, etc.


word: Lecher
wordtype: n.
definition:
A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive
   degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with
   women.


word: Lecithin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A complex, nitrogenous phosphorized substance widely
   distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the
   brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood
   corpuscles.


word: Lecture
wordtype: n.
definition:
A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or
   methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar
   discourse, in contrast with a sermon.


word: Lecturn
wordtype: n.
definition:
A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from
   which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a
   reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.]


word: Lecythis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the
   order Myrtaceae, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid.
   Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria
   produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin
   sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.


word: Ledge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which
   resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part,
   or a molding or edge in joinery.


word: Keeper
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
   anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc.
   ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a
   defender; a preserver.


word: Keeper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object
   in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock
   protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the
   finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the
   strap.


word: Keeping
wordtype: n.
definition:
Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a
   work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.


word: Keilhau-ite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a brownish black color, related to
   titanite in form. It consists chiefly of silica, titanium dioxide,
   lime, and yttria.


word: Keitloa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus
   keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one,
   or even longer.


word: Kelp
wordtype: n.
definition:
The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the
   manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.


word: Kelpfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus),
   living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus
   Platyglossus.


word: Kelpy
wordtype: n.
definition:
An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form,
   vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those
   who are to be drowned.


word: Kendal
definition:
A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen,
   formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England.


word: Keno
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with
   balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.


word: Kenogenesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters
   make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the
   embryo to the peculiar conditions of its environment; -- distinguished
   from palingenesis.


word: Kent bugle
definition:
A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means
   of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; --
   called also keyed bugle, and key bugle.


word: Kephalin
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles,
   supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.


word: Keramographic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Suitable to be written upon; capable of being
   written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of
   globe.


word: Kerasin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to
   be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.


word: Keratin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances,
   containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the
   chemical basis of epidermal tissues, such as horn, hair, feathers, and
   the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not
   dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with
   sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called
   also epidermose.


word: Keratonyxis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a
   needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.


word: Keratosa
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of
   hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.


word: Keratose
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tough, horny animal substance entering into the
   composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; --
   called also keratode.


word: Kerchief
wordtype: n.
definition:
A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for
   the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for
   ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as,
   neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief.


word: Kerite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal
   or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely
   resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in
   telegraphy.


word: Kermes
wordtype: n.
definition:
The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus
   ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species
   of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea,
   contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing.
   They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used
   in medicine.


word: Kermes
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which
   the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.


word: Kern
wordtype: n.
definition:
A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland
   and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a
   term of contempt.


word: Kernel
wordtype: n.
definition:
The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed
   walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence,
   anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a
   nut. See Illust. of Endocarp.


word: Kernel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a
   nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.


word: Kernel
wordtype: n.
definition:
The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the
   gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.


word: Kerosene
wordtype: n.
definition:
An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained
   from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence
   called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly
   by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly
   of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.


word: Kestrel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied
   to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted
   with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is
   also applied to other allied species.


word: Ketch
wordtype: n.
definition:
An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a
   mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons
   burden.


word: Ketine
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a series of organic bases obtained by the reduction
   of certain isonitroso compounds of the ketones. In general they are
   unstable oily substances having a pungent aromatic odor.


word: Ketol
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances,
   represented by methyl ketol and related to indol.


word: Ketone
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a large class of organic substances resembling the
   aldehydes, obtained by the distillation of certain salts of organic
   acids and consisting of carbonyl (CO) united with two hydrocarbon
   radicals. In general the ketones are colorless volatile liquids having
   a pungent ethereal odor.


word: Kettle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a
   cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.


word: Kettledrum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A drum made of thin copper in the form of a
   hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.


word: Kettledrum
wordtype: n.
definition:
An informal social party at which a light collation is
   offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.


word: Key
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or
   drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of
   a particular lock and operated by turning in its place.


word: Key
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or
   adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.


word: Key
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the
   means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte,
   or of a typewriter.


word: Key
wordtype: n.
definition:
A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr
   possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a
   country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to
   unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as,
   the key to a riddle; the key to a problem.


word: Key
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the plastering which is forced through between
   the laths and holds the rest in place.


word: Key
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling,
   etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by
   friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing,
   being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank,
   pulley, etc.


word: Key
wordtype: n.
definition:
An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the
   fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.


word: Key
wordtype: n.
definition:
A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic
   tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or
   three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six,
   supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary
   members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc.
   Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.


word: Key
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations
   are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.


word: Keyhole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined
   together, to receive the key which fastens them.


word: Keynote
wordtype: n.
definition:
The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or
   passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the
   modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone.


word: Keystone
wordtype: n.
definition:
The central or topmost stone of an arch. This in some
   styles is made different in size from the other voussoirs, or projects,
   or is decorated with carving. See Illust. of Arch.


word: Khan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A king; a prince; a chief; a governor; -- so called among the
   Tartars, Turks, and Persians, and in countries now or formerly governed
   by them.


word: Khaya
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lofty West African tree (Khaya Senegalensis), related to
   the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark
   is used as a febrifuge.


word: Khutbah
wordtype: n.
definition:
An address or public prayer read from the steps of the
   pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed
   and his descendants, and the ruling princes.


word: Kibitka
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rude kind of Russian vehicle, on wheels or on runners,
   sometimes covered with cloth or leather, and often used as a movable
   habitation.


word: Kick
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike
   out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to
   strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so.
   Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility;
   to spurn.


word: Kick
wordtype: n.
definition:
The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife,
   which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See
   Illust. of Pocketknife.


word: Kickapoos
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the
   region of Northern Illinois, allied in language to the Sacs and Foxes.


word: Kidderminster
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English
   town where formerly most of it was manufactured.


word: Kidnap
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's
   will, with intent to carry to another place.


word: Kidney
wordtype: n.
definition:
A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste
   products from the animal body; a urinary gland.


word: Kier
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action
   of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.


word: Kieselguhr
wordtype: n.
definition:
Siliceous earth; specifically, porous infusorial earth,
   used as an absorbent of nitroglycerin in the manufacture of dynamite.


word: Kilderkin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing
   eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United
   States measure.


word: Kill
wordtype: n.
definition:
A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the
   channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or
   the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.


word: Kill
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or
   by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.


word: Kill
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in
   seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.


word: Killifish
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of
   the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh
   and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or
   barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.


word: Killing
wordtype: a.
definition:
Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a
   colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.


word: Killock
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone
   inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together.


word: Kiln
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a
   heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying
   anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln
   for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.


word: Kilogramme
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to
   2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight
   of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum
   density, or 39¡ Fahrenheit.


word: Kilogrammetre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of energy or work done, being the amount
   expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in
   the latitude of Paris.


word: Kilolitre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measure of capacity equal to a cubic meter, or a
   thousand liters. It is equivalent to 35.315 cubic feet, and to 220.04
   imperial gallons, or 264.18 American gallons of 321 cubic inches.


word: Kilt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the
   knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by
   young boys; a filibeg.


word: Kilting
wordtype: n.
definition:
A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each
   plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding
   one.


word: Kin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from
   five to twenty-five silken strings.


word: Kin
wordtype: n.
definition:
Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth
   or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having
   common descent.


word: Kind
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial;
   sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.


word: Kind
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and
   confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant;
   gracious.


word: Kind
wordtype: a.
definition:
Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety;
   description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style,
   and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.


word: Kindergarten
wordtype: n.
definition:
A school for young children, conducted on the theory
   that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal
   aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction;
   -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced
   this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.


word: Kind-hearted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized
   by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.


word: Kindle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite;
   to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match,
   or shavings.


word: Kindle
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke;
   to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to
   kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a
   flame.


word: Kindliness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being kindly; benignity;
   benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of
   treatment, or of words.


word: Kindly
wordtype: n.
definition:
Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good
   to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words,
   acts, etc.


word: Kindly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a
   disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.


word: Kindness
wordtype: a.
definition:
The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various
   senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.


word: Kindred
wordtype: n.
definition:
Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former;
   relations; persons related to each other.


word: Kindred
wordtype: a.
definition:
Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as,
   kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.


word: Kinematics
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science which treats of motions considered in
   themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of
   motions.


word: Kinesiatrics
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular
   movements; -- also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the
   movement cure.


word: Kinesodic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; -- applied
   esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth
   voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by
   motor impulses applied to it directly.


word: Kinetogenesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for producing curves by the
   combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.


word: King
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones
   or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood,
   and struck with a hammer.


word: King
wordtype: n.
definition:
A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme
   authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary
   succession; a monarch; a prince.


word: King
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a
   chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of
   the lobby; the king of beasts.


word: Kingbird
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T.
   Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even
   hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the
   breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various
   insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head
   and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is
   white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on
   the head of the adults show a bright orange basal spot when erected.
   Called also bee bird, and bee martin. Several Southern and Western
   species of Tyrannus are also called king birds.


word: Kingbolt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and
   wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with
   the other parts.


word: King Charles spaniel
definition:
A variety of small pet dogs, having, drooping
   ears, a high, dome-shaped forehead, pug nose, large, prominent eyes,
   and long, wavy hair. The color is usually black and tan.


word: Kingdom
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal
   authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.


word: Kingdom
wordtype: n.
definition:
The territory or country subject to a king or queen; the
   dominion of a monarch; the sphere in which one is king or has control.


word: Kingdom
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading
   or ruling characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the
   mineral kingdom.


word: Kingfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus,
   especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; --
   called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.


word: Kingfisher
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the
   family Alcedinidae. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by
   diving and seizing then with the beak; others feed only upon reptiles,
   insects, etc. About one hundred and fifty species are known. They are
   found in nearly all parts of the world, but are particularly abundant
   in the East Indies.


word: Kingly
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Belonging to, suitable to, or becoming, a king;
   characteristic of, resembling, a king; directed or administered by a
   king; monarchical; royal; sovereign; regal; august; noble; grand.


word: King-post
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It
   is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in
   the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they
   often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post.


word: King's Bench
definition:
Formerly, the highest court of common law in England;
   -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted
   of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the
   reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its jurisdiction was
   transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court
   of justice created by that legislation.


word: Kingston valve
definition:
A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth
   of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water
   line.


word: Kink
wordtype: n.
definition:
A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous
   doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a
   cord.


word: Kinkajou
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nocturnal carnivorous mammal (Cercoleptes
   caudivolvulus) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It
   has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative
   of a distinct family (Cercoleptidae) allied to the raccoons. Called
   also potto, and honey bear.


word: Kinnikinic
wordtype: n.
definition:
Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; -- used by
   the Indians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or
   as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel
   (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi).


word: Kino
wordtype: n.
definition:
The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in
   tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.


word: Kioways
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A tribe of Indians distantly related to the Shoshones.
   They formerly inhabited the region about the head waters of the North
   Platte.


word: Kipper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so
   called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being
   good when fresh.


word: Kipskin
wordtype: n.
definition:
Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle,
   intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.


word: Kirk
wordtype: n.
definition:
A church or the church, in the various senses of the word;
   esp., the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed
   churches, or from the Roman Catholic Church.


word: Kirmess
wordtype: n.
definition:
In Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, and
   outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor
   entertainment and fair combined.


word: Kirumbo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bird of Madagascar (Leptosomus discolor), the only
   living type of a family allied to the rollers. It has a pair of loral
   plumes. The male is glossy green above, with metallic reflections; the
   female is spotted with brown and black.


word: Kiss
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make or give salutation with the lips in token of love,
   respect, etc.; as, kiss and make friends.


word: Kiss
wordtype: v.
definition:
A salutation with the lips, as a token of affection, respect,
   etc.; as, a parting kiss; a kiss of reconciliation.


word: Kit
wordtype: m.
definition:
A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom;
   as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.


word: Kit
wordtype: m.
definition:
A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used
   with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.


word: Kitcat
wordtype: a.
definition:
Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele
   belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served
   the club with mutton pies.


word: Kitcat
wordtype: a.
definition:
Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size,
   viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called
   because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits
   he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club.


word: Kitcat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood,
   called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.


word: Kitchen middens
definition:
Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of
   Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high,
   one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied
   also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to
   Florida, made by the North American Indians.


word: Kite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many
   species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and
   usually a forked tail.


word: Kite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or
   cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.


word: Kite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to
   sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a
   bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation
   check or bill.


word: Kiteflying
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by
   the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting.


word: Kittiwake
wordtype: n.
definition:
A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the
   coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the
   wings, and has but three toes.


word: Kiwikiwi
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of Apteryx, esp. A. australis; -- so called
   in imitation of its notes. Called also kiwi. See Apteryx.


word: Klamaths
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A collective name for the Indians of several tribes
   formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but
   now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets
   and Hamati.


word: Kleeneboc
wordtype: n.
definition:
(Zool.) An antelope (Cerphalopus pygmaeus), found in
   South Africa. It is of very small size, being but one foot high at
   shoulder. It is remarkable for its activity, and for its mild and timid
   disposition. Called also guevi, and pygmy antelope.


word: Kleptomania
wordtype: n.
definition:
A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible.
   This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.


word: Klipdachs
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small mammal (Hyrax Capensis), found in South Africa.
   It is of about the size of a rabbit, and closely resembles the daman.
   Called also rock rabbit.


word: Klipspringer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus
   oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another
   with great agility; -- called also kainsi.


word: Knacker
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely
   between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called
   also clapper.


word: Knap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising
   ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.


word: Knapsack
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back
   a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler.


word: Knapweed
wordtype: n.
definition:
The black centaury (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from
   the knoblike heads of flowers. Called also bullweed.


word: Knavish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery;
   trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a
   knavish trick.


word: Knead
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands;
   esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well
   mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough.


word: Knebelite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a gray, red, brown, or green color, and
   glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese.


word: Knee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in
   the shape of the human knee when bent.


word: Kneebrush
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of
   antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.


word: Kneebrush
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees,
   by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; --
   usually in the plural.


word: Kneed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the
   knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass.


word: Kneejoint
wordtype: n.
definition:
A toggle joint; -- so called because consisting of two
   pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee
   when bent.


word: Kneeler
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to certain catechumens and penitents who were
   permitted to join only in parts of church worship.


word: Kneepan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in
   front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.


word: Knell
wordtype: n.
definition:
The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a
   person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning
   of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything.


word: Knell
wordtype: n.
definition:
To sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or
   funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen.


word: Drill press
definition:
A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being
   pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.


word: Drink
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other
   purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of
   thirst; as, to drink from a spring.


word: Drink
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in
   merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic
   liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or
   spirituous liquors; to tipple.


word: Drink
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the
   stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.


word: Drink
wordtype: n.
definition:
Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the
   stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee,
   or decoctions.


word: Drinkable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable.
   Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.


word: Drinker
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker;
   also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.


word: Drip
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal
   member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to
   throw off the rain water.


word: Drive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from
   one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to
   communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke
   drives persons from a room.


word: Drive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which
   draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a
   carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair
   of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.


word: Drive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain;
   to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by
   necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and
   the like.


word: Drive
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by
   directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the
   coachman drove to my door.


word: Drive
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as
   for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on
   horseback.


word: Drive
wordtype: n.
definition:
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a
   forced or hurried dispatch of business.


word: Driver
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that
   urges or compels anything else to move onward.


word: Driver
wordtype: n.
definition:
The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a
   charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a
   locomotive.


word: Driver
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact
   with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear
   which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link,
   etc. Specifically:


word: Drizzle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water
   from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles;
   drizzling drops or rain.


word: Dryfland
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the
   king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle
   through a manor to fairs or markets.


word: Drogher
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off
   sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting
   lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher.


word: Droitural
wordtype: a.
definition:
relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished
   from the right of possession; as, droitural actions.


word: Drollery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery;
   droll stories; comical gestures or manners.


word: Dromedary
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump
   or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel,
   which has two humps.


word: Drone
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull
   sound; as: (a) A drum. [Obs.] Halliwell. (b) The part of the bagpipe
   containing the two lowest tubes, which always sound the key note and
   the fifth.


word: Drongo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually
   black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and
   Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.


word: Droop
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an
   animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of
   nourishment, or the like.


word: Droop
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like
   causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits
   drooped.


word: Drop
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical
   mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily
   measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.


word: Drop
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid
   drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a
   chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or
   slug.


word: Drop
wordtype: n.
definition:
Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated
   position; also, a contrivance for lowering something


word: Drop
wordtype: n.
definition:
A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part
   of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged;
   hence, the gallows itself.


word: Drop
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a
   drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.


word: Drop
wordtype: n.
definition:
To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to
   discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.


word: Drop
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an
   indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of
   counsel, etc.


word: Drop
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe
   fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.


word: Droplight
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a
   chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant.


word: Dropper
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly
   that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.


word: Dropper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights
   game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the
   setter.


word: Dropsy
wordtype: n.
definition:
An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous
   cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue.


word: Dropworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees
   by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.


word: Drosera
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of
   which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.


word: Drosky
wordtype: n.
definition:
A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia,
   consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers
   ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground.
   Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria
   drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German
   cities.


word: Drosometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the
   surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a
   plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight
   protected from the deposit of dew.


word: Dross
wordtype: n.
definition:
The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls
   from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting;
   recrement.


word: Drought
wordtype: n.
definition:
Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such
   dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of
   plants; aridity.


word: Drove
wordtype: n.
definition:
A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for
   driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a
   body.


word: Drover
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it
   his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.


word: Drug
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the
   composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical
   operations.


word: Drugget
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one
   side; generally used as a covering for carpets.


word: Druggist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and
   sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or
   apothecary.


word: Druid
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed
   among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls
   and Britons.


word: Druid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London
   in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids.
   Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries.


word: Druidism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction,
   received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the
   Druids.


word: Drum
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow
   cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or
   vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere
   (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common
   instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of
   tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.


word: Drum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for
   warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a
   cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.


word: Drum
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of
   which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether
   circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.


word: Drum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of
   driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its
   periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or
   chain is wound.


word: Drum
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with
   a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten
   drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.


word: Drum
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to
   draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.


word: Drum
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
(With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as,
   to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.


word: Drum
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
(With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to
   collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to
   drum up customers.


word: Drumfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud
   noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.


word: Drumhead
wordtype: n.
definition:
The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for
   levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.


word: Drumlin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till,
   usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former
   local glacial motion.


word: Drumming
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the
   noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating
   his wings upon his sides.


word: Drummond light
definition:
A very intense light, produced by turning two streams
   of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of
   ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a
   flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium
   light, or lime light.


word: Drumstick
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the
   tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl.


word: Drunk
wordtype: a.
definition:
Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated;
   drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the
   man is drunk (not, a drunk man).


word: Drunkard
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately;
   one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.


word: Drunkenness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic
   liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the
   habit.


word: Drupe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp,
   without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is
   succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and
   subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.


word: Druse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with
   crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.


word: Dry
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid;
   not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of
   moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the
   weather: Free from rain or mist.


word: Dry
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or
   comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.


word: Dry
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or
   hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry
   wit.


word: Dry
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or
   the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in
   coloring.


word: Dry
wordtype: a.
definition:
To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind,
   and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's
   tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.


word: Dry
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or
   a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.


word: Dry goods
definition:
A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens,
   linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.


word: Dry nurse
definition:
A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in
   distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.


word: Dryobalanops
wordtype: n.
definition:
The genus to which belongs the single species D.
   Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo
   camphor and camphor oil.


word: Drysalter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces,
   etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving
   various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline
   substances and miscellaneous drugs.


word: Dual
wordtype: a.
definition:
Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to
   two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.


word: Dualin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or
   wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro
   compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.


word: Dualism
wordtype: n.
definition:
State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any
   system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction


word: Dualism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary
   decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the
   elect and the reprobate.


word: Dub
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the
   hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.


word: Dubbing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture
   of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.


word: Dubious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal;
   questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.


word: Duboisine
wordtype: n.
definition:
An alkaloid obtained from the leaves of an Australian
   tree (Duboisia myoporoides), and regarded as identical with
   hyoscyamine. It produces dilation of the pupil of the eye.


word: Ducat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in
   Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.


word: Duces tecum
definition:
A judicial process commanding a person to appear in
   court and bring with him some piece of evidence or other thing to be
   produced to the court.


word: Duck
wordtype: n.
definition:
A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than
   canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds,
   and sometimes for men's clothing.


word: Duck
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear;
   to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.


word: Duck
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the
   person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.


word: Duckweed
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great
   quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to
   furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.


word: Duct
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of
   glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.


word: Ductile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives,
   persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people.


word: Dude
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an
   ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.


word: Due
wordtype: a.
definition:
Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper;
   lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law;
   due service; in due time.


word: Due
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or
   do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right;
   whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.


word: Duel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by
   agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by
   one to the other.


word: Duenna
wordtype: n.
definition:
An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and
   companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a
   Spanish or a Portuguese family.


word: Duffer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles,
   as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.


word: Dufrenite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or
   in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.


word: Dugong
wordtype: n.
definition:
An aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the
   order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It
   inhabits the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, East Indies, and Australia.


word: Duke
wordtype: n.
definition:
In England, one of the highest order of nobility after
   princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of
   England and Ireland.


word: Dulcamarin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum
   Dulcamara), as a yellow amorphous substance. It probably occasions the
   compound taste. See Bittersweet, 3(a).


word: Dulcimer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are
   beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.


word: Dulcimer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ancient musical instrument in use among the Jews. Dan.
   iii. 5. It is supposed to be the same with the psaltery.


word: Dulcite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring
   naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and
   produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk
   sugar.


word: Duledge
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which
   form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.


word: Dulia
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the
   angels and saints as the servants of God.


word: Dull
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of
   color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a
   dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.


word: Dull
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety;
   uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as,
   a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy;
   overcast; as, a dull day.


word: Dull
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the
   senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.


word: Dull
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to
   make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.


word: Dullness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness;
   drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of
   vividness, or of brightness.


word: Dulse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes
   eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the
   common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]


word: Dumb-bell
wordtype: n.
definition:
A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids,
   connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for
   gymnastic exercise.


word: Dumb-waiter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed
   from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.;
   also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.


word: Dummy
wordtype: n.
definition:
An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a
   substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is
   exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of
   the future book, etc.


word: Dummy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without
   the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.


word: Dump
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low
   spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.


word: Dump
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence,
   to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.


word: Dumpage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of
   refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.


word: Dumpling
wordtype: n.
definition:
A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of
   pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and
   boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.


word: Dun
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying
   them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass
   or some like substance.


word: Dunce
wordtype: n.
definition:
One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull
   or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.


word: Dune
wordtype: n.
definition:
A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but
   often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.


word: Dung
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water
   containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.


word: Dungeon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the
   lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as
   prisons.


word: Dunker
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices
   are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; --
   called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren,
   and German Baptists.


word: Dunlin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also
   churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both
   in Europe and America.


word: Dunnage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on
   the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by
   water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.


word: Duodecimal
wordtype: n.
definition:
A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a
   scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by
   artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their
   work.


word: Duodecimo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into
   twelve leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a
   book; -- usually written 12mo or 12¡.


word: Duodenum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of the small intestines between the stomach and
   the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.


word: Dupe
wordtype: n.
definition:
To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's
   credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.


word: Duplicate
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something
   else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript;
   a counterpart.


word: Duplicate
wordtype: n.
definition:
An original instrument repeated; a document which is the
   same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere
   copy in having all the validity of an original.


word: Duplication
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of dividing by natural growth or
   spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.


word: Duplicity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained
   form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to
   entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad
   faith.


word: Durability
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being durable; the power of
   uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of
   resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or
   dissolution; lastingness.


word: Durable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Able to endure or continue in a particular condition;
   lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying
   soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness.


word: Dura mater
definition:
The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of
   the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord;
   -- frequently abbreviated to dura.


word: Durance
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff
   leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.


word: Duration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the
   portion of time during which anything exists.


word: Durbar
wordtype: n.
definition:
An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state
   levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor
   general of India.


word: Durene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4,
   off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.


word: Duress
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is
   influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by
   actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or
   to commit an offense.


word: Durham
wordtype: n.
definition:
One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the
   county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their
   beef-producing quality.


word: Durion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight
   or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft,
   cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive
   odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.


word: During
wordtype: prep.
definition:
In the time of; as long as the action or existence of;
   as, during life; during the space of a year.


word: Durio
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the
   Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.


word: Durometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness;
   especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel
   rails and the like.


word: Durra
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced
   into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called also
   Indian millet, and Guinea corn.


word: Dusk
wordtype: n.
definition:
Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and
   darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.


word: Dust
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted
   that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled
   too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.


word: Dusty
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with
   dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.


word: Duteous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a
   superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a
   duteous son or daughter.


word: Dutiful
wordtype: a.
definition:
Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by
   one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference;
   submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or
   superiors; as, a dutiful son or daughter; a dutiful ward or servant; a
   dutiful subject.


word: Duty
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or
   refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally
   obligatory.


word: Duty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a
   policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.


word: Duty
wordtype: n.
definition:
The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping
   engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel;
   usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of
   coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100
   lbs., United States).


word: Duty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money
   required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or
   consumption of goods.


word: Duumvirate
wordtype: n.
definition:
The union of two men in the same office; or the office,
   dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.


word: Dux
wordtype: n.
definition:
The scholastic name for the theme or subject of a fugue, the
   answer being called the comes, or companion.


word: Dwale
wordtype: a.
definition:
The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the
   fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.


word: Dwarf
wordtype: n.
definition:
An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of
   its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.


word: Dwindle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or
   consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.


word: Dyad
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being
   substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen;
   as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.


word: Dyaks
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The aboriginal and most numerous inhabitants of Borneo.
   They are partially civilized, but retain many barbarous practices.


word: Dyeing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently
   and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.


word: Dying
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying
   day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.


word: Dynactinometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for measuring the intensity of the
   photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object
   glasses.


word: Dynameter
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for determining the magnifying power of
   telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to
   the eye end of a telescope for measuring accurately the diameter of the
   image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared
   with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power.


word: Dynamical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or
   power; characterized by energy or production of force.


word: Dynamics
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of
   bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing
   their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to
   include statics and not kinematics.


word: Dynamite
wordtype: n.
definition:
An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin
   absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust,
   etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion
   from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.


word: Dynamization
definition:
The act of setting free the dynamic powers of a
   medicine, as by shaking the bottle containing it.


word: Dynamo-electric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the development of electricity,
   especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or
   electrical currents by mechanical power.


word: Dynamometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially,
   muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor,
   or that required to operate machinery.


word: Dynamometrical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of
   force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.


word: Dynastidan
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including
   Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical
   America, which grow to be six inches in length.


word: Dynasty
wordtype: n.
definition:
A race or succession of kings, of the same line or family;
   the continued lordship of a race of rulers.


word: Dyne
wordtype: n.
definition:
The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second)
   system of physical units; that is, the force which, acting on a gram
   for a second, generates a velocity of a centimeter per second.


word: Dys-
definition:
An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek / hard, ill, and
   signifying ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes,
   Skr. dus-, Goth. tuz-, OHG. zur-, G. zer-, AS. to-, Icel. tor-, Ir.
   do-.


word: Dyscrasia
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly
   regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.


word: Knife
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel
   and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many
   different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing
   knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping
   knife, etc..


word: Knife-edge
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle,
   and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a
   pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the
   least possible friction.


word: Knight
wordtype: n.
definition:
In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and
   admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including
   an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a
   stainless life.


word: Knight
wordtype: n.
definition:
One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of
   baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed
   as Sir; as, Sir John.


word: Knight
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by
   the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword,
   saying: Rise, Sir ---.


word: Knight bachelor
definition:
A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of
   English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See
   Bachelor, 4.


word: Knight banneret
definition:
A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs
   to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to
   serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was
   sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.


word: Knight-errant
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search
   of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess,
   and generosity.


word: Knight-errantry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The character or actions of wandering knights; the
   practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or
   romantic adventure or scheme.


word: Knightly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight;
   chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.


word: Knight marshal
definition:
An officer in the household of the British sovereign,
   who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and
   verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one
   of the parties.


word: Knight service
definition:
A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of
   performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.


word: Knit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn
   or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either
   by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.


word: Knob
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a
   lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.


word: Knock
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To drive or be driven against something; to strike
   against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.


word: Knock
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap;
   as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.


word: Knock
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by
   striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball
   with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the
   table.


word: Knocker
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an
   instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in
   seeking for admittance.


word: Knop
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any boldly projecting sculptured ornament; esp., the
   ornamental termination of a pinnacle, and then synonymous with finial;
   -- called also knob, and knosp.


word: Knot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more
   threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or
   entangling.


word: Knot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at
   the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.


word: Knot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately
   interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.


word: Knot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a
   hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.


word: Knot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody
   fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a
   hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a
   dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.


word: Knot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of
   the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to
   a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run
   off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of
   miles the vessel sails in an hour.


word: Knot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight
   miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.


word: Knot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of
   all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the
   rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts
   are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat
   it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.


word: Knotted
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed
   of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots
   in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks.


word: Knout
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in
   Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with
   wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.


word: Know
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to
   understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty.


word: Know
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or
   less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess
   experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an
   organization.


word: Know
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of;
   as, to know a person's face or figure.


word: Know
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception;
   to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of.


word: Know-all
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension
   to great knowledge; a wiseacre; -- usually ironical.


word: Knowingly
wordtype: adv.
definition:
With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently;
   consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend.


word: Knowledge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The act or state of knowing; clear perception of
   fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance;
   cognition.


word: Knowledge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
That which is or may be known; the object of an act
   of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural.


word: Knowledge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
That which is gained and preserved by knowing;
   instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship;
   erudition.


word: Know-nothing
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of a secret political organization in the
   United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of
   foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive
   choice of native Americans for office.


word: Knuckle
wordtype: n.
definition:
The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a
   quadruped, especially of a calf; -- formerly used of the kneejoint of a
   human being.


word: Knuckle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden
   change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical
   side joins a nearly flat bottom.


word: Knuckle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished
   with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to
   disfigure the person struck; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle
   duster.


word: Koala
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in
   Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called
   also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth.


word: Koba
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of African antelopes of the genus
   Kobus, esp. the species Kobus sing-sing.


word: Kobold
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology,
   corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.


word: Koel
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys,
   found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs
   in the nests of other birds.


word: Kohnur
wordtype: n.
definition:
A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the
   annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in
   a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and
   Persian rulers.


word: Kohl
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mixture of soot and other ingredients, used by Egyptian and
   other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.


word: Kohl-rabi
wordtype: n.
definition:
A variety of cabbage, in which the edible part is a
   large, turnip-shaped swelling of the stem, above the surface of the
   ground.


word: Koklass
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any pheasant of the genus Pucrasia. The birds of this
   genus inhabit India and China, and are distinguished by having a long
   central and two lateral crests on the head. Called also pucras.


word: Komtok
wordtype: n.
definition:
An African freshwater fish (Protopterus annectens),
   belonging to the Dipnoi. It can breathe air by means of its lungs, and
   when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it
   remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.


word: Konze
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied
   to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a
   black patch on the face.


word: Koodoo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The
   males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general
   color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on
   each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish
   gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are
   hornless. Called also nellut.


word: Koolokamba
wordtype: n.
definition:
A west African anthropoid ape (Troglodytes koolokamba,
   or T. Aubryi), allied to the chimpanzee and gorilla, and, in some
   respects, intermediate between them.


word: Koran
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed
   revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.


word: Korrigum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A West African antelope (Damalis Senegalensis), allied to
   the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe
   on the outside of the legs above the knees.


word: Kotow
wordtype: n.
definition:
The prostration made by mandarins and others to their
   superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the
   ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by
   three knockings.


word: Koulan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wild horse (Equus, / Asinus, onager) inhabiting the
   plants of Central Asia; -- called also gour, khur, and onager.


word: Koumiss
wordtype: n.
definition:
An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally
   made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained
   from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe.


word: Kousso
wordtype: n.
definition:
An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the
   flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.


word: Kra
wordtype: n.
definition:
A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra.
   It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.


word: Krait
wordtype: n.
definition:
A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied
   to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with
   narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.


word: Kraken
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as
   resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus.


word: Krameria
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one
   species of which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as a
   medicine, is obtained.


word: Krameric
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or derived from, Krameria (rhatany); as,
   krameric acid, usually called ratanhia-tannic acid.


word: Kremlin
wordtype: n.
definition:
The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of
   Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals,
   churches, an arsenal, etc.


word: Krishna
wordtype: n.
definition:
The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to
   be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.


word: Krone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about
   twenty-eight cents. See Crown, n., 9.


word: Krooman
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast,
   whose members are much employed on shipboard.


word: Krupp gun
definition:
A breech-loading steel cannon manufactured at the works of
   Friedrich Krupp, at Essen in Prussia. Guns of over eight-inch bore are
   made up of several concentric cylinders; those of a smaller size are
   forged solid.


word: Kshatruya
wordtype: n.
definition:
The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo
   castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste.


word: Kuklux
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name adopted in the southern part of the United States
   by a secret political organization, active for several years after the
   close of the Civil War, and having for its aim the repression of the
   political power of the freedmen; -- called also Kuklux Klan.


word: Fallacious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted
   to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or
   reasoning.


word: Fallacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which
   misleads the eye or the mind; deception.


word: Fallacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be
   decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.


word: Faller
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill,
   or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread
   breaks.


word: Fallfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus
   bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also
   applied to other allied species.


word: Fallibility
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or
   to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.


word: Fallible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to
   be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are
   fallible.


word: Fallopian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the
   Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova
   from the ovaries to the uterus.


word: Fallow
wordtype: n.
definition:
Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded;
   land plowed without being sowed for the season.


word: Fallow
wordtype: n.
definition:
The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a
   season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a
   sure method of destroying weeds.


word: Fallow
wordtype: n.
definition:
To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding,
   for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it
   mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.


word: Fallow deer
definition:
A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller
   than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is
   common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.


word: Fallowness
wordtype: n.
definition:
A well or opening, through the successive floors of a
   warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.


word: False
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance,
   vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false friend, lover,
   or subject; false to promises.


word: False
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted
   or likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.


