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word: Money
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a
   government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is
   payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it;
   in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in
   buying and selling.


word: Money
wordtype: n.
definition:
In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land,
   or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.


word: Money-maker
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one
   who makes money-getting his governing motive.


word: Moneywort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded
   opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.


word: Mongoloid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race
   characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the
   Mongols.


word: Mongolians
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
One of the great races of man, including the
   greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of
   Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By
   some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more
   restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries,
   including the Burats and the Kalmuks.


word: Mongoos
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of
   India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded
   mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus).


word: Mongrel
wordtype: n.
definition:
The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as
   of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.


word: Moniliform
wordtype: a.
definition:
Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to
   resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform
   antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.


word: Moniment
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument;
   hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record.


word: Monism
wordtype: n.
definition:
That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single
   ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism.


word: Monitor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of
   duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.


word: Monitor
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the
   school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or
   faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.


word: Monitor
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the
   Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the
   eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.


word: Monitor
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having
   one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.


word: Monitor
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret,
   and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring
   successively the several tools in holds into proper position for
   cutting.


word: Monitorial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work;
   conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial
   instruction.


word: Monitory
wordtype: n.
definition:
Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding
   from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.


word: Monk
wordtype: n.
definition:
A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the
   world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of
   men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity,
   obedience, and poverty.


word: Monk
wordtype: n.
definition:
A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink
   not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or
   white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.


word: Monk
wordtype: n.
definition:
A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to
   other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.


word: Monkery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or
   customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.


word: Monkey
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as
   have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.


word: Monkey
wordtype: n.
definition:
The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very
   heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of
   the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop
   hammer used in forging.


word: Monkey-pot
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis
   Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large,
   pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening
   almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are
   made of this capsule.


word: Monkey's puzzle
definition:
A lofty coniferous Chilian tree (Araucaria
   imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as
   to puzzle a monkey to climb." The edible nuts are over an inch long,
   and are called pion by the Chilians.


word: Monkflower
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name of certain curious orchids which bear three
   kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained
   to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum
   tridentatum, etc.).


word: Monkish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish
   manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.


word: Monk's seam
definition:
An extra middle seam made at the junction of two
   breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.


word: Mon-
definition:
A prefix signifying one, single, alone; as, monocarp, monopoly;
   (Chem.) indicating that a compound contains one atom, radical, or group
   of that to the name of which it is united; as, monoxide, monosulphide,
   monatomic, etc.


word: Monobasic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or
   basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; --
   said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are
   monobasic.


word: Monochlamydeous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx
   without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a
   calyx.


word: Monochord
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical
   relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched
   between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand
   upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring
   the length of the part of the string between them.


word: Monoclinal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having one oblique inclination; -- applied to strata
   that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.


word: Monoclinic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system
   of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but
   at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization.


word: Monocondyla
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of vertebrates, including the birds and
   reptiles, or those that have only one occipital condyle; the
   Sauropsida.


word: Monocrotic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or showing, monocrotism; as, a
   monocrotic pulse; a pulse of the monocrotic type.


word: Monocrotism
wordtype: n.
definition:
That condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve
   or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation
   entirely disappearing.


word: Monocystic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a division (Monocystidea) of
   Gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac.


word: Monodical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Homophonic; -- applied to music in which the melody is
   confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in
   the style called polyphonic.


word: Monody
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a
   single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.


word: Monoecious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male
   and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite;
   -- opposed to dioecious.


word: Monogamia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A Linnaean order of plants, having solitary flowers
   with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.


word: Monogamy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or
   wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only
   during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.


word: Monogenesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all
   beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis.
   Called also monism.


word: Monogenesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
That form of reproduction which requires but one
   parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds,
   etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction.


word: Monogenesis
wordtype: n.
definition:
The direct development of an embryo, without
   metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; --
   opposed to metagenesis.


word: Monogenetic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to, or involving, monogenesis; as, the
   monogenetic school of physiologists, who admit but one cell as the
   source of all beings.


word: Monogenism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The theory or doctrine that the human races have a
   common origin, or constitute a single species.


word: Monogram
wordtype: n.
definition:
A character or cipher composed of two or more letters
   interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it
   (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental
   pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish
   their works.


word: Monograph
wordtype: n.
definition:
A written account or description of a single thing, or
   class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited
   range.


word: Monographical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a monograph, or to a monography;
   as, a monographic writing; a monographic picture.


word: Monologue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also,
   talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an
   account in monologue.


word: Monomania
wordtype: n.
definition:
Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject
   only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular
   subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.


word: Monomaniacal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of
   intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal
   delusion.


word: Monometallism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or
   silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of
   money values. See Bimetallism.


word: Monomial
wordtype: n.
definition:
A single algebraic expression; that is, an expression
   unconnected with any other by the sign of addition, substraction,
   equality, or inequality.


word: Monomorphous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having but a single form; retaining the same form
   throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an
   essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic,
   trimorphic, and polymorphic.


word: Monopetalous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece,
   or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl;
   gamopetalous.


word: Monophyletic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to
   development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to
   polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.


word: Monophysite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained
   that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite
   nature. Also used adjectively.


word: Monopolize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the
   exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession
   of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to
   monopolize land.


word: Monopoly
wordtype: n.
definition:
The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity;
   the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or
   of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything,
   however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a
   monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies
   have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a
   combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.


word: Monopoly
wordtype: n.
definition:
The commodity or other material thing to which the
   monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France.


word: Monopteral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring
   of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.


word: Monosepalous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or
   composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.


word: Monostichous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as
   the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridae.


word: Monosulphide
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sulphide containing one atom of sulphur, and
   analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a polysulphide; as, galena
   is a monosulphide.


word: Monosyllabic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables;
   as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language.


word: Monosyllabism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of consisting of monosyllables, or having
   a monosyllabic form; frequent occurrence of monosyllables.


word: Monothelite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of an ancient sect who held that Christ had but
   one will as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite.


word: Monotone
wordtype: n.
definition:
The utterance of successive syllables, words, or
   sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.


word: Monotonous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull
   uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety;
   wearisome.


word: Monotony
wordtype: n.
definition:
A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound,
   producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or
   singing.


word: Monotremata
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which
   the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as
   in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck,
   and Echidna.


word: Monotriglyph
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in
   which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.


word: Monotropa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the
   Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the
   stem.


word: Monotypic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having but one type; containing but one representative;
   as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.


word: Monseigneur
wordtype: n.
definition:
My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high
   birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the
   Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the
   Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.)


word: Monsignore
wordtype: n.
definition:
My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the
   pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal
   court. (Abbrev. Mgr.)


word: Monsoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wind blowing part of the year from one direction,
   alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied
   particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from
   the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September,
   and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle
   of December.


word: Monster
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from
   the usual type, as by having too many limbs.


word: Monstrosity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being monstrous, or out of the common
   order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster.


word: Monstrous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly
   from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.


word: Monstrous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike,
   apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.;
   as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.


word: Montanist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the
   second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt
   in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men
   in the Christian life.


word: Mont de piete
definition:
One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which
   originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to
   lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called
   also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other
   countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.


word: Monte-acid
wordtype: n.
definition:
An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is
   forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.


word: Montem
wordtype: n.
definition:
A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton
   school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a
   hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to
   support at the university the senior scholar of the school.


word: Montgolfier
wordtype: n.
definition:
A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated
   by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and
   Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire
   balloon.


word: Month
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
   the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a
   synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a
   period of four weeks is often called a month.


word: Monthly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month,
   or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly
   installment; a monthly magazine.


word: Monument
wordtype: n.
definition:
A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to
   preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the
   Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with
   memorial inscriptions.


word: Monureid
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances
   regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a
   monureid.


word: Mood
wordtype: n.
definition:
Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of
   action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).


word: Mood
wordtype: n.
definition:
Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as
   positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other
   accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood;
   the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.


word: Mood
wordtype: n.
definition:
Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to
   passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.


word: Moody
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also,
   abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy.


word: Moon
wordtype: n.
definition:
The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the
   satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from
   the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness
   of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance
   from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of
   the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.


word: Moon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member
   of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.


word: Moonblink
wordtype: n.
definition:
A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to
   be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.


word: Moon-culminating
wordtype: a.
definition:
Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or
   about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of
   certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the
   Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the
   moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.


word: Moon-eye
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus
   Hyodon, esp. H. tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters.


word: Moonfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called
   also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.


word: Moonstone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or
   opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best
   specimens come from Ceylon.


word: Moonstruck
wordtype: a.
definition:
Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a
   human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed
   influence.


word: Moonwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so
   named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.


word: Moor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and
   Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.


word: Moor
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which
   have adopted the Mohammedan religion.


word: Moor
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having
   a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a
   heath.


word: Moor
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by
   casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel
   was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.


word: Mooruk
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New
   Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is
   smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is
   biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with
   black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.


word: Moose
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus),
   native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is
   about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It
   closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is
   considered the same species. See Elk.


word: Moot
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for
   practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.


word: Moot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of
   the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the
   discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in
   composition; as, folk-moot.


word: Moot-hill
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the
   open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; --
   called, in Scotland, mute-hill.


word: Mop
wordtype: n.
definition:
An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece
   of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a
   handle.


word: Mop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a
   floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.


word: Mopboard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to
   the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.


word: Mora
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick
   movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.


word: Mora
wordtype: n.
definition:
A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra
   excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.


word: Moral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those
   intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are
   predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought
   to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as
   social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong,
   so far as they are properly subject to rules.


word: Moral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity
   with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in
   distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.


word: Moral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a
   sense of right; subject to the law of duty.


word: Moral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right,
   or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral
   considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral
   pressure or support.


word: Moral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient;
   -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral
   certainty.


word: Moral
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of
   living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the
   plural.


word: Moral
wordtype: n.
definition:
The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative,
   an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything
   is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by
   a fiction; a maxim.


word: Morale
wordtype: a.
definition:
The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so
   far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such
   as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of
   men, an army, and the like.


word: Moralist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon
   the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and
   inculcate moral duties.


word: Moralist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in
   conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings
   with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to
   one whose life is controlled by religious motives.


word: Morality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral
   standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a
   principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.


word: Morality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of an action which renders it good; the
   conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.


word: Morality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life;
   conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the
   politeness of men whose morality we question.


word: Morality
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it
   consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors
   representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such
   plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.


word: Morally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In moral qualities; in disposition and character; as,
   one who physically and morally endures hardships.


word: Morally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a manner calculated to serve as the basis of action;
   according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according
   to reason and probability.


word: Moravian
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an
   offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of
   Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th
   century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society,
   under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was
   reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony.
   Called also Herrnhuter.


word: Morbid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal
   condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution;
   a morbid state of the juices of a plant.


word: Morbillous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of
   measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.


word: Mordant
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a
   twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a
   bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.


word: Read
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or
   recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of
   language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to
   peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to
   read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a
   book.


word: Read
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over
   and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.


word: Read
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or
   consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in
   the early manuscripts.


word: Reader
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in
   reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.


word: Reading
wordtype: n.
definition:
The way in which anything reads; force of a word or
   passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.


word: Readjuster
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the
   States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and
   sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent
   of the State's creditors.


word: Readmission
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of admitting again, or the state of being
   readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted
   receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.


word: Ready
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Prepared for what one is about to do or experience;
   equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event;
   prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to
   march; ready for the journey.


word: Ready
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception
   of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension;
   ready wit; a ready writer or workman.


word: Ready
wordtype: superl.
definition:
A word of command, or a position, in the manual of
   arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute
   promptly the next command, which is, aim.


word: Ready-made
wordtype: a.
definition:
Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need;
   not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.


word: Reagent
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance capable of producing with another a reaction,
   especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a
   test.


word: Real
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of
   account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.


word: Real
wordtype: a.
definition:
True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious;
   often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine;
   real ginger.


word: Real
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to
   lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or
   movable property.


word: Realgar
wordtype: n.
definition:
Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red
   orpiment. It is also an artificial product.


word: Realism
wordtype: n.
definition:
As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and
   species are real things or entities, existing independently of our
   conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem
   (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).


word: Realism
wordtype: n.
definition:
As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense
   perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and
   our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.


word: Realism
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without
   idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the
   actual fact.


word: Realist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that
   generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things,
   represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the
   nominalists.


word: Realistic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the
   realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.


word: Reality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being real; actual being or
   existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.


word: Reality
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not
   imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence,
   and is not merely an idea.


word: Realize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make real; to convert from the imaginary or
   fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to
   effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.


word: Realize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as
   actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension
   or experience.


word: Realize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the
   result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large
   profits from a speculation.


word: Realize
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To convert any kind of property into money, especially
   property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds,
   etc.


word: Realizing
wordtype: a.
definition:
Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a
   reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred.


word: Realm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain;
   department; division; as, the realm of fancy.


word: Realty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real
   property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in
   legal language for reality.


word: Ream
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in
   modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.


word: Reamer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument
   with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for
   enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.


word: Reanimate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to
   infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to
   reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate
   disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.


word: Reap
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest,
   or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as,
   to reap a benefit from exertions.


word: Rear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear
   defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.


word: Reason
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thought or a consideration offered in support of a
   determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an
   action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the
   efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an
   action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion
   or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of
   argument.


word: Reason
wordtype: n.
definition:
The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is
   distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher
   as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense,
   imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires.
   Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional
   faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of
   first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called
   the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.


word: Reason
wordtype: n.
definition:
Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or
   that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly
   exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from
   true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common
   sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.


word: Reason
wordtype: n.
definition:
To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from
   premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to
   ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.


word: Reason
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction,
   in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth
   propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.


word: Reason
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to
   examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned
   the matter with my friend.


word: Reason
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one
   into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.


word: Reason
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by
   reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes
   of the librations of the moon.


word: Reasonable
wordtype: n.
definition:
Governed by reason; being under the influence of
   reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the
   dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the
   measure must satisfy all reasonable men.


word: Reasoning
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons
   when arranged and developed; course of argument.


word: Reaumur
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur;
   conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer
   he invented.


word: Reave
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away;
   to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]


word: Rebate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt;
   to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.


word: Rebate
wordtype: n.
definition:
Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for
   immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.


word: Rebate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the
   corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.


word: Rebec
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the
   violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow.


word: Rebel
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the
   ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.


word: Rebeldom
wordtype: n.
definition:
A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered
   collectively; also, conduct or quality characteristic of rebels.


word: Rebellion
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of
   the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and
   resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by
   aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the
   purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by
   force; revolt; insurrection.


word: Rebellious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature
   of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by
   force.


word: Rebiting
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched
   plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.


word: Rebound
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or
   reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a
   rebounding echo.


word: Rebuff
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check;
   to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.


word: Rebuild
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To build again, as something which has been demolished;
   to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.


word: Rebuke
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to
   restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and
   summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.


word: Rebus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of
   objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which
   they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures;
   hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.


word: Rebus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the
   person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.


word: Rebuttal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to
   destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same
   suit.


word: Recall
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back;
   to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.


word: Recant
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions
   formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take
   back openly; to retract; to recall.


word: Recant
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what
   has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will
   recant.


word: Recantation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a
   former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.


word: Recapitulate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse,
   argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points,
   or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.


word: Recapitulate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what
   has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.


word: Recapitulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise
   statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or
   statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.


word: Recaption
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after
   arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or
   children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and
   who wrongfully detains them.


word: Recapture
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of retaking or recovering by capture;
   especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.


word: Recast
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or
   shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a
   play.


word: Recede
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to
   relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a
   demand or proposition.


word: Receipt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A formulary according to the directions of which things
   are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge
   cake.


word: Receipt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods
   delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.


word: Receipt
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is received; that which comes in, in
   distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like;
   -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand
   dollars.


word: Receiptor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts
   for property which has been taken by the sheriff.


word: Receive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take, as something that is offered, given,
   committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money
   offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a
   letter.


word: Receive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind
   by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion,
   etc.; to embrace.


word: Receive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into
   one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger,
   visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.


word: Receive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected
   to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to
   receive damage.


word: Receivedness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being received, accepted, or
   current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.


word: Receiver
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive,
   and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of
   litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the
   estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to
   winding up its affairs, in certain cases.


word: Receiver
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the
   like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.


word: Receiver
wordtype: n.
definition:
The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the
   objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf.
   Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.


word: Receiver
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the
   high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a
   compound engine.


word: Receiver
wordtype: n.
definition:
That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar
   system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed
   to transmitter.


word: Recency
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state;
   late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a
   transaction, of a wound, etc.


word: Recension
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient
   author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.


word: Recent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not
   of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known,
   familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent
   news.


word: Receptacle
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which serves, or is used, for receiving and
   containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a
   repository.


word: Receptacle
wordtype: n.
definition:
The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of
   the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of
   Flower, and Ovary.


word: Receptacular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as,
   the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.


word: Reception
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the
   reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the
   reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.


word: Reception
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving
   visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving
   guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.


word: Receptive
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to
   take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a
   receptive mind.


word: Recess
wordtype: n.
definition:
Remission or suspension of business or procedure;
   intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.


word: Recession
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession;
   as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.


word: Rechabite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab,
   all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating
   drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in
   modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from
   alcoholic liquors.


word: Recherche
wordtype: a.
definition:
Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality,
   elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.


word: Recipe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A formulary or prescription for making some combination,
   mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a
   prescription for medicine.


word: Recipiangle
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together
   at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for
   measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.


word: Recipient
wordtype: n.
definition:
A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to
   whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated;
   specifically, the receiver of a still.


word: Reciprocal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Done by each to the other; interchanging or
   interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as,
   reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.


word: Reciprocal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but
   sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.


word: Reciprocal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation;
   often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given
   quantities. See the Phrases below.


word: Reciprocal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quotient arising from dividing unity by any
   quantity; thus, / is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a +b) is the reciprocal of
   a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the
   denominator divided by the numerator.


word: Reciprocally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the
   other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.


word: Reciprocate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To move forward and backward alternately; to recur
   in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.


word: Reciprocate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give and return mutually; to make return for; to
   give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate
   favors.


word: Reciprocation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a
   mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses.


word: Recital
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of
   another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.


word: Recital
wordtype: n.
definition:
A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of
   anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.


word: Recital
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; --
   distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or
   violin recital.


word: Recital
wordtype: n.
definition:
The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of
   fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which
   the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading
   introductory to some positive allegation.


word: Recitation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The delivery before an audience of something committed
   to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which
   is so delivered.


word: Recitative
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of musical recitation in which the words are
   delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a
   piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.


word: Recitative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical
   recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.


word: Recite
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To repeat, as something already prepared, written down,
   committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed
   document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of
   an author, or of a deed or covenant.


word: Recite
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to
   narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a
   voyage.


word: Recite
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an
   audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a
   lesson learned.


word: Reckon
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by
   rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to
   repute.


word: Reckon
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of
   chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective
   clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.


word: Reckon
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to
   settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust
   relations of desert or penalty.


word: Reckoning
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the
   result of reckoning or counting; calculation.


word: Reckoning
wordtype: n.
definition:
The calculation of a ship's position, either from
   astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered
   and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case
   called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning
   in contradistinction to observation.


word: Reclaim
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call
   to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.


word: Reclaim
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under
   discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also
   of other animals.


word: Reclaim
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline,
   labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert,
   waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed
   land, etc.


word: Reclaim
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or
   transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to
   reform.


word: Reclaim
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim
   against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.


word: Reclinate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point,
   as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.


word: Reclination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a
   vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.


word: Reclination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying
   the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous
   humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the
   upper one and its back surface the lower one.


word: Recline
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to
   place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.


word: Recluse
wordtype: a.
definition:
Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from
   public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a
   recluse life.


word: Recluse
wordtype: a.
definition:
A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the
   world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded
   devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.


word: Recognition
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of recognizing, or the state of being
   recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or
   avowed; notice.


word: Recognizance
wordtype: n.
definition:
An obligation of record entered into before some
   court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do
   some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to
   keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond,
   being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.


word: Recognize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a
   person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.


word: Recognize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to
   consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal
   acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.


word: Recognize
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To enter an obligation of record before a proper
   tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars.


word: Recoil
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a
   reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.


word: Recollect
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover
   self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; --
   sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.


word: Recollection
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory;
   the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas
   revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.


word: Recollection
wordtype: n.
definition:
The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the
   period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as,
   an event within my recollection.


word: Outside
wordtype: n.
definition:
The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which
   forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is
   superficial; the exterior.


word: Outside
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part or space which lies without an inclosure; the
   outer side, as of a door, walk, or boundary.


word: Outside
wordtype: n.
definition:
The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.;
   the utmost; as, it may last a week at the outside.


word: Outside
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, is without; hence, an outside
   passenger, as distinguished from one who is inside. See Inside, n. 3.


word: Outside
wordtype: adv.
definition:
or prep. On or to the outside (of); without; on the
   exterior; as, to ride outside the coach; he stayed outside.


word: Outsider
wordtype: n.
definition:
One not belonging to the concern, institution, party,
   etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.


word: Outsider
wordtype: n.
definition:
A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in
   the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.


word: Outskirt
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; --
   usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town.


word: Outwards
wordtype: adv.
definition:
From the interior part; in a direction from the
   interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away;
   as, a ship bound outward.


word: Outward
wordtype: a.
definition:
Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; --
   opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer.


word: Outwit
wordtype: n.
definition:
The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and
   experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.


word: Outwork
wordtype: n.
definition:
A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a
   work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc.


word: Oval
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one
   end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same
   breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.


word: Ovaliform
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any
   section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and
   any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.


word: Ovary
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most
   flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.


word: Ovary
wordtype: n.
definition:
The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are
   produced. See Illust. of Discophora.


word: Ovate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior
   of an egg, with the broader end basal.


word: Ovation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an
   easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.


word: Oven
wordtype: n.
definition:
A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for
   baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or
   portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a
   chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.


word: Ovenbird
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the
   creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct
   curious oven-shaped nests.


word: Over
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Above, or higher than, in place or position, with the idea
   of covering; -- opposed to under; as, clouds are over our heads; the
   smoke rises over the city.


word: Over
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Across; from side to side of; -- implying a passing or
   moving, either above the substance or thing, or on the surface of it;
   as, a dog leaps over a stream or a table.


word: Over
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Upon the surface of, or the whole surface of; hither and
   thither upon; throughout the whole extent of; as, to wander over the
   earth; to walk over a field, or over a city.


word: Over
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Above; -- implying superiority in excellence, dignity,
   condition, or value; as, the advantages which the Christian world has
   over the heathen.


word: Over
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Above in authority or station; -- implying government,
   direction, care, attention, guard, responsibility, etc.; -- opposed to
   under.


word: Over
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Across or during the time of; from beginning to end of;
   as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter.


word: Over
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Above the perpendicular height or length of, with an idea
   of measurement; as, the water, or the depth of water, was over his
   head, over his shoes.


word: Over
wordtype: prep.
definition:
Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of;
   notwithstanding; as, he triumphed over difficulties; the bill was
   passed over the veto.


word: Over
wordtype: adv.
definition:
From one side to another; from side to side; across;
   crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in
   diameter.


word: Over
wordtype: adv.
definition:
From one person or place to another regarded as on the
   opposite side of a space or barrier; -- used with verbs of motion; as,
   to sail over to England; to hand over the money; to go over to the
   enemy.


word: Over
wordtype: adv.
definition:
From beginning to end; throughout the course, extent, or
   expanse of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a
   dress covered over with jewels.


word: Over
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity;
   superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over.


word: Over
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In a manner to bring the under side to or towards the top;
   as, to turn (one's self) over; to roll a stone over; to turn over the
   leaves; to tip over a cart.


word: Over
wordtype: a.
definition:
Upper; covering; higher; superior; also, excessive; too much
   or too great; -- chiefly used in composition; as, overshoes, overcoat,
   over-garment, overlord, overwork, overhaste.


word: Over
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered
   successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled
   from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing
   places.


word: Overbear
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight,
   power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.


word: Overblow
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an
   overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper
   octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.


word: Overdue
wordtype: a.
definition:
Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of
   arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.


word: Overfall
wordtype: n.
definition:
A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents
   setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or
   shoal.


word: Overflow
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or
   other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.


word: Overfullness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being excessively or abnormally full, so
   as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness;
   surfeit.


word: Overhand
wordtype: a.
definition:
Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a
   seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by
   passing each stitch over both.


word: Overhand
wordtype: a.
definition:
Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than
   the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.


word: Overhang
wordtype: n.
definition:
In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a
   projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is
   five feet.


word: Overhang
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof,
   an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as,
   the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.


word: Overhang
wordtype: n.
definition:
The projection of a part beyond another part that is
   directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the
   overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing.


word: Overhaul
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for
   examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to
   corrections or repairs.


word: Overhead
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in
   the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.


word: Overissue
wordtype: n.
definition:
An excessive issue; an issue, as of notes or bonds,
   exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority.


word: Overlap
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of
   six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.


word: Overlap
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extension of geological beds above and beyond others,
   as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a
   wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions.


word: Overlay
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to
   cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.


word: Overlay
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve
   the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.


word: Overlook
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To look down upon from a place that is over or above;
   to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to
   command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.


word: Overlook
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to
   observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one
   who is writing a letter.


word: Overlook
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it;
   to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or
   attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment;
   to excuse.


word: Overmatch
wordtype: n.
definition:
One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest
   in which one of the opponents is overmatched.


word: Overnight
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In the fore part of the night last past; in the
   evening before; also, during the night; as, the candle will not last
   overnight.


word: Overpower
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to
   vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.


word: Overproof
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing more alcohol than proof spirit; stronger than
   proof spirit; that is, containing more than 49.3 per cent by weight of
   alcohol.


word: Overrake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as
   waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.


word: Override
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; as,
   one low overrides another; to override a veto.


word: Overrule
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide
   against; to abrogate or alter; as, God overrules the purposes of men;
   the chairman overruled the point of order.


word: Overrule
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To supersede, reject, annul, or rule against; as, the
   plea, or the decision, was overruled by the court.


word: Overrun
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to
   invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its
   trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.


word: Overseer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an
   overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as,
   an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.


word: Overset
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a
   proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to
   upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building.


word: Overshoe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet
   or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.


word: Overslaugh
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or an
   impediment; as, to overslaugh a bill in a legislative body; to
   overslaugh a military officer, that is, to hinder his promotion or
   employment.


word: Overslip
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly
   beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.


word: Overstand
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose
   a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions.


word: Overstock
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to
   overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.


word: Overtone
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone
   as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating
   sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the
   natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth,
   etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.


word: Overtop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make of less importance, or throw into the
   background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure.


word: Overtrade
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond
   the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.


word: Overture
definition:
A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for
   consideration, acceptance, or rejection.


word: Overture
definition:
A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an
   introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent
   piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.


word: Overturn
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or
   position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.


word: Overturn
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned
   or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.


word: Overween
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own
   thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or
   rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume.


word: Overwhelm
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to
   overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse
   and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc.,
   overpoweringly.


word: Overwork
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too
   much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.


word: Ovicell
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in
   which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development.
   See Illust. of Chilostoma.


word: Oviduct
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to
   the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development
   takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.


word: Oviferous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain
   receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been
   excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.


word: Oviparous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Producing young from rggs; as, an oviparous animal, in
   which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after
   exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous.


word: Ovipositor
wordtype: n.
definition:
The organ with which many insects and some other
   animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor
   fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay
   their own eggs within the same.


word: Ovulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the
   discharge of the same. In the mammalian female the discharge occurs
   during menstruation.


word: Ovule
wordtype: n.
definition:
The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and
   consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached
   base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the
   nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.


word: Ovulist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A believer in the theory (called encasement theory),
   current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ,
   and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the
   impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations
   were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.


word: Ovum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular
   protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops
   into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an
   egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.


word: Owe
wordtype: v.
definition:
To have or possess, as something derived or bestowed; to be
   obliged to ascribe (something to some source); to be indebted or
   obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victory
   to his lieutenants.


word: Owe
wordtype: v.
definition:
Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or
   render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to
   be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the
   fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate.


word: Owe
wordtype: v.
definition:
To have an obligation to (some one) on account of something
   done or received; to be indebted to; as, to iwe the grocer for
   supplies, or a laborer for services.


word: Owenite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society
   on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the
   Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.


word: Recommend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To commend to the favorable notice of another; to
   commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring
   representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow
   commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the
   body.


word: Recommendation
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which recommends, or commends to favor;
   anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to
   secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent
   recommendations.


word: Recommit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To commit again; to give back into keeping;
   specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to
   the same committee.


word: Recompensation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by
   the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.


word: Recompense
wordtype: n.
definition:
An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or
   given; compensation; requital; suitable return.


word: Reconcilable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable
   adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.


word: Reconcile
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to
   restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no
   longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.


word: Reconcile
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet
   submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.


word: Reconcile
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make consistent or congruous; to bring to
   agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.


word: Reconciliation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of reconciling, or the state of being
   reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of
   friendship.


word: Reconnaissance
wordtype: n.
definition:
An examination of a region as to its general
   natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the
   purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public
   work.


word: Reconnaissance
wordtype: n.
definition:
An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's
   position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for
   directing military operations; a preparatory expedition.


word: Reconnoitre
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To examine with the eye to make a preliminary
   examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or
   engineering operations.


word: Reconsider
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or
   a vote which has been previously acted upon.


word: Reconsideration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of reconsidering, or the state of being
   reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.


word: Reconstruction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of reorganizing the governments
   of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of
   reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national
   government, after the close of the Civil War.


word: Record
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to
   printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or
   enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving
   authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the
   proceedings of a court; to record historical events.


word: Record
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
A writing by which some act or event, or a number of
   acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of
   the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a
   certain time; a family record.


word: Record
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of
   some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city
   ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.


word: Record
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An authentic official copy of a document which has been
   entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer
   designated by law.


word: Record
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the
   proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.


word: Record
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The various legal papers used in a case, together with
   memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to
   allege facts not in the record.


word: Record
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known
   facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life
   of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.


word: Record
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of
   competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time
   made by a winning horse in a race.


word: Recorder
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who records; specifically, a person whose official
   duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.


word: Recorder
wordtype: n.
definition:
The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and
   boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The
   Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the
   commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.


word: Recording
wordtype: a.
definition:
Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording
   secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic
   appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge
   or telegraph.


word: Recount
wordtype: v.
definition:
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or
   narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount
   one's blessings.


word: Recoupe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off,
   so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to
   deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages
   awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.


word: Recoupe
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup
   money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share
   market.


word: Recourse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a
   previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.


word: Recover
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make good by reparation; to make up for; to
   retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.


word: Recover
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to
   bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.


word: Recover
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for
   injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and
   costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of
   law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by
   legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.


word: Recover
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be
   restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after
   misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to
   recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.


word: Recoverable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of
   being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune,
   etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is
   recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.


word: Recovery
wordtype: n.
definition:
Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the
   like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.


word: Recreant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle;
   yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.


word: Recreate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive;
   especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to
   cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.


word: Recreation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated;
   refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement;
   diversion; sport; pastime.


word: Recreative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new
   vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain;
   amusing; diverting.


word: Recrimination
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by
   the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation.


word: Recruit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to
   remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air
   and exercise recruit the spirits.


word: Recruit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make
   up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was
   recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited
   fifty men.


word: Recruit
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain
   health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle
   recruit in fresh pastures.


word: Recruit
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To gain new supplies of men for military or other
   service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.


word: Rectifiable
wordtype: a.
definition:
Admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a
   straight l//e equal in length to any definite portion of the curve.


word: Rectification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or operation of rectifying; as, the
   rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.


word: Rectificator
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which rectifies or refines; esp., a part of a
   distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated
   from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation;
   a rectifier.


word: Rectifier
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically: (a) (Naut.) An instrument used for
   determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship.
   (b) (Chem.) A rectificator.


word: Rectify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make or set right; to correct from a wrong,
   erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes,
   or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify
   disorders.


word: Rectify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To refine or purify by repeated distillation or
   sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from
   the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.


word: Rectify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by
   redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring
   substances, etc., being added.


word: Rectilinear
wordtype: a.
definition:
Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines;
   bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure
   or course.


word: Rectiserial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on
   stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial.


word: Rectitude
wordtype: n.
definition:
Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to
   truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine
   or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty;
   justice.


word: Rector
wordtype: n.
definition:
A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and
   has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are
   not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.


word: Rector
wordtype: n.
definition:
The chief elective officer of some universities, as in
   France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector
   of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.


word: Rector
wordtype: n.
definition:
The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious
   house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary
   or college.


word: Rectory
wordtype: n.
definition:
The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or
   spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.


word: Rectum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named
   because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust.
   under Digestive.


word: Recumbent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of
   the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive;
   idle.


word: Recur
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To occur at a stated interval, or according to some
   regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.


word: Recurved
wordtype: a.
definition:
Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back;
   as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.


word: Recusant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history,
   refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to
   conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord.


word: Recusant
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out
   stubbornly against general practice or opinion.


word: Recusant
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the
   king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who
   acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.


word: Recusation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he
   shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality.


word: Red
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from
   entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a
   house.


word: Red
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that
   color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar
   spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.


word: Red
wordtype: n.
definition:
The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest
   from violet, or a tint resembling these.


word: Redact
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put
   in shape (matter for publication); to edit.


word: Plethysmograph
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for determining and registering the
   variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and
   hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.


word: Plethysmography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the
   variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.


word: Pleura
wordtype: n. fem.
definition:
The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the
   lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.


word: Pleura
wordtype: n. fem.
definition:
The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about
   each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body
   wall.


word: Pleurapophysis
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the
   dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding
   to, a vertebral rib.


word: Pleurisy
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with
   fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into
   the pleural cavity.


word: Pleuro-
definition:
A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif.,
   connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as,
   pleuroperitoneum.


word: Pleurocarpous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which
   the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to
   acrocarpous.


word: Pluroderes
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck
   can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The
   matamata is an example.


word: Pleuroperitoneal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal
   membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.


word: Pleuroperitoneum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the
   membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the
   inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of
   those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.


word: Pleuropneumonia
wordtype: n.
definition:
Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a
   combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and
   fatal lung plague of cattle.


word: Pleurosigma
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of diatoms of elongated elliptical shape, but
   having the sides slightly curved in the form of a letter S. Pleurosigma
   angulatum has very fine striations, and is a favorite object for
   testing the high powers of microscopes.


word: Pleurotoma
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any marine gastropod belonging to Pleurotoma, and ether
   allied genera of the family Pleurotmidae. The species are very
   numerous, especially in tropical seas. The outer lip has usually a
   posterior notch or slit.


word: Pleximeter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or
   rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination
   by mediate percussion.


word: Plexus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The system of equations required for the complete
   expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities.


word: Pliable
wordtype: v.
definition:
Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent;
   flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable
   plant.


word: Pliable
wordtype: v.
definition:
Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence,
   arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; --
   sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.


word: Pliant
wordtype: v.
definition:
Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or
   pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic;
   as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily
   influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.


word: Plica
wordtype: v.
definition:
A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes
   twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is
   hence called also Polish plait.


word: Plica
wordtype: v.
definition:
A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive
   development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.


word: Pliers
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for
   bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such
   as the parts of a watch, etc.


word: Plight
wordtype: n.
definition:
To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some
   act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or
   goods.


word: Plimsoll's mark
definition:
A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all
   British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of
   submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose
   efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.


word: Plinth
wordtype: n.
definition:
In classical architecture, a vertically faced member
   immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest
   member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a
   sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are
   stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.


word: Pliohippus
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits.
   Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.


word: Ploce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of
   emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it,
   but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife
   indeed."


word: Plodding
wordtype: a.
definition:
Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by
   laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man
   of plodding habits.


word: Plonge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the
   tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.


word: Plongee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a
   parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course.


word: Plot
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a
   complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose,
   usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue;
   as, the Rye-house Plot.


word: Plot
wordtype: n.
definition:
In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem,
   comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded,
   sometimes by unexpected means.


word: Plot
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially
   against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.


word: Plotinist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic
   philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul
   emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.


word: Plover
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging
   to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the
   subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds.


word: Plover
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true
   plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland,
   plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.


word: Plough
wordtype: n.
definition:
A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or
   other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops;
   also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the
   subsoil plow; the draining plow.


word: Plough
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till
   with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.


word: Plough
wordtype: n.
definition:
To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board;
   especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or
   tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.


word: Plough
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up
   the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.


word: Ploughshare
wordtype: n.
definition:
The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice
   of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.


word: Ploy
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated
   subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.


word: Ployment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or movement of forming a column from a line of
   troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.


word: Pluck
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to
   pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to
   gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or
   wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.


word: Plucky
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck;
   displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.


word: Pluff
wordtype: n.
definition:
A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball;
   a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder.


word: Plum
wordtype: n.
definition:
The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of
   several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called
   plum tree.


word: Plum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language,
   the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.


word: Plumb
wordtype: n.
definition:
A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a
   line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a
   plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below.


word: Plumb
wordtype: a.
definition:
Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line
   attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.


word: Plumb
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water;
   hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension,
   etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test.


word: Plumbagin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A crystalline substance said to be found in the root of
   a certain plant of the Leadwort (Plumbago) family.


word: Plumbagineous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to natural order (Plumbagineae) of
   gamopetalous herbs, of which Plumbago is the type. The order includes
   also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera.


word: Plumbago
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped
   corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.


word: Plumber
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and
   repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the
   conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.


word: Plumbic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; --
   used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher
   valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.


word: Plumbing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it
   to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting,
   and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc.


word: Plumbing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in
   conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.


word: Plumbism
wordtype: n.
definition:
A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead,
   common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among
   painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as
   lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and
   Wrist.


word: Plumbous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or containing, lead; -- used
   specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a lower
   valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.


word: Plume
wordtype: v.
definition:
A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a
   waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.


word: Plume
wordtype: v.
definition:
A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a
   feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.


word: Plumming
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the
   place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or
   to find which way the lode inclines.


word: Plumous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like
   a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.


word: Plumper
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something
   else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.


word: Plumper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are
   to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person
   who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote.


word: Plumularia
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of
   the family Plumularidae. They generally grow in plumelike forms.


word: Plumule
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or
   growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of
   Radicle.


word: Plunder
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take the goods of by force, or without right; to
   pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.


word: Plunder
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage;
   spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.


word: Plunge
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To thrust into water, or into any substance that is
   penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and
   forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a
   dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation
   into war.


word: Plunge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid;
   to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the
   river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.


word: Plunge
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race,
   or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous
   speculations.


word: Plunge
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap,
   rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a
   plunge.


word: Pluperfect
wordtype: a.
definition:
More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense
   which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the
   time of another past action or event.


word: Plural
wordtype: n.
definition:
The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or
   denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.


word: Plurality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being plural, or consisting of more than
   one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a
   plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.


word: Plurality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of
   several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one
   candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate.
   When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the
   plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority.


word: Pluralize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make plural by using the plural termination; to
   attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.


word: Pluteus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans,
   having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.


word: Pluto
wordtype: n.
definition:
The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune;
   the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.


word: Plutocracy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A form of government in which the supreme power is
   lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich;
   also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.


word: Plutonic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining
   to the interior of the earth; subterranean.


word: Plutonic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the
   Plutonists; igneous; as, the Plutonic theory.


word: Plutonism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The theory, early advanced in geology, that the
   successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; --
   opposed to the Neptunian theory.


word: Plutus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was
   represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts
   were bestowed without discrimination of merit.


word: Pluviometer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall
   at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.


word: Pluviose
wordtype: n.
definition:
The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted
   in 1793. It began January 20, and ended February 18. See Vendemiaire.


word: Ply
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or
   with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply
   one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.


word: Ply
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to
   do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer
   plies between certain ports.


word: Plyer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a
   drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's
   cross.


word: Plymouth Brethren
definition:
The members of a religious sect which first
   appeared at Plymouth, England, about 1830. They protest against
   sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called
   Brethren, Christian Brethren, Plymouthists, etc. The Darbyites are a
   division of the Brethren.


word: Pneumatical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the
   properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.


word: Pneumatical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their
   properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments.


word: Pneumaticity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity
   or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of
   birds.


word: Pneumatics
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of science which treats of the mechanical
   properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight,
   pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.


word: Pneumatics
wordtype: n.
definition:
The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings
   and their relations to God, angels, and men.


word: Pneumato-
definition:
A combining form from Gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air,
   breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.


word: Pneumatograph
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for recording the movements of the
   thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.


word: Pneumococcus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and
   elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the
   cause of this disease.


word: Pneumonophora
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The division of Siphonophora which includes the
   Physalia and allied genera; -- called also Pneumatophorae.


word: Pneumothorax
wordtype: n.
definition:
A condition in which air or other gas is present in
   the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.


word: Poa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as
   the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and
   spear grass (which see).


word: Poach
wordtype: v. & n.
definition:
To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water;
   also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.


word: Poach
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately,
   as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by
   night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for
   salmon.


word: Poachard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also
   goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, / red-headed, widgeon.


word: Pocket
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a
   garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence,
   figuratively, money; wealth.


word: Pocket
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in
   a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.


word: Pocket
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other
   mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.


word: Pocket
wordtype: n.
definition:
A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a
   light spar can placed in the interspace.


word: Pocketbook
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc.,
   in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.


word: Pocketknife
wordtype: n.
definition:
A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the
   handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.


word: Poco
wordtype: adv.
definition:
A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or
   movement; as, poco piu allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather
   slow.


word: -pod
definition:
A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as,
   decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having
   leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.


word: -poda
definition:
A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. /, /,
   foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.


word: Podium
wordtype: n.
definition:
The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a
   mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.


word: Podophthalmia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of
   Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the
   crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda.


word: Podophyllin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the
   May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several
   substances.


word: Podophyllum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large
   palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two
   species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan
   P. Emodi.


word: Poecilitic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing,
   Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors.


word: Poecilopoda
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Originally, an artificial group including many
   parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).


word: Poem
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in
   certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized
   by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose;
   as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.


word: Poem
wordtype: n.
definition:
A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly
   imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.


word: Poet
wordtype: n.
definition:
One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius
   for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker
   or writer.


word: Poetical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for
   writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.


word: Poetical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or
   the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical
   prose.


word: Poetry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the
   faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in
   expression.


word: Poetry
wordtype: n.
definition:
Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed
   rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse;
   rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or
   Pindaric poetry.


word: Poi
wordtype: n.
definition:
A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding
   the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is
   allowed to ferment.


word: Poikilocyte
wordtype: n.
definition:
An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in
   cases of profound anaemia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.


word: Poinciana
wordtype: n.
definition:
A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly
   Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy
   orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.


word: Poinsettia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large
   and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything,
   esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle
   used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed
   cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination.
   Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending
   into the water beyond the common shore line.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or
   supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor
   magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth,
   nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that
   by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the
   divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or
   to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon,
   and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative
   position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to
   another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained;
   as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five
   points; he won by tenpoints.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or
   character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a
   particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a
   horse, a book, a story, etc.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an
   argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition
   to be established; as, the point of an anecdote.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones
   or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a
   note; a tune.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its
   value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal
   to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of
   reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more
   great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case
   according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the
   solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See
   Equinoctial Nodal.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass,
   below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to
   fall off a point.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or
   fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game;
   as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies,
   being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of
   type, under Type.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or
   file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also
   figuratively; as, to point a moral.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special
   manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out.


word: Point
wordtype: n.
definition:
To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing
   additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.


word: Point
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the
   purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; --
   with at.


word: Point-blank
wordtype: n.
definition:
With all small arms, the second point in which the
   natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.


word: Point-blank
wordtype: n.
definition:
With artillery, the point where the projectile first
   strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the
   piece being horizontal.


word: Pointed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of
   expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular
   person or thing.


word: Pointer
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game,
   and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.


word: Pointer
wordtype: n.
definition:
The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the
   line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.


word: Pointing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of designating, as a position or direction, by
   means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.


word: Pointing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry
   with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used.


word: Pointing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of measuring, at the various distances
   from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of
   statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's
   model.


word: Poison
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism,
   is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it;
   as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.


word: Poison
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as,
   the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.


word: Poison
wordtype: n.
definition:
To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to
   poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.


word: Poke
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P.
   decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget,
   pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and
   purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are
   sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said
   to be used in Europe to color wine.


word: Poke
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed;
   hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.


word: Poke
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking
   through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed
   forward.


word: Poker
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal
   bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.


word: Poker
wordtype: n.
definition:
A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about
   1835 in the Southwestern United States.


word: Polacca
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vessel with two or three masts, used in the
   Mediterranean. The masts are usually of one piece, and without tops,
   caps, or crosstrees.


word: Polar
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a
   sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar
   regions; polar seas; polar winds.


word: Polar
wordtype: n.
definition:
The right line drawn through the two points of contact of
   the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The
   given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies
   within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is
   still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which
   possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix
   are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of
   higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces
   of the second degree.


word: Polarimeter
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for determining the amount of
   polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a
   partially polarized ray.


word: Polariscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer
   and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its
   properties.


word: Polariscopic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the
   use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations.


word: Polaristic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar
   arrangement or disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the
   possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic
   antagonism.


word: Polarity
wordtype: n.
definition:
That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it
   exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or
   contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a
   contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as,
   for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a
   magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides
   of a polarized ray of light, etc.


word: Polarity
wordtype: n.
definition:
A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a
   given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right
   line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n.


word: Polarization
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peculiar affection or condition of the rays of
   light or heat, in consequence of which they exhibit different
   properties in different directions.


word: Polarization
wordtype: n.
definition:
An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic
   battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition
   upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is
   chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the
   resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force,
   both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or
   that passing through the cell.


word: Polarizer
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which polarizes; especially, the part of a
   polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a
   reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a
   doubly refracting crystal.


word: Polatouche
wordtype: n.
definition:
A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of
   Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.


word: Pole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of
   timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as,
   specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the
   front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the
   carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a
   flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a
   pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers.
   (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.


word: Pole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/
   yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.


word: Pole
wordtype: n.
definition:
Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of
   the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.


word: Pole
wordtype: n.
definition:
A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from
   every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in
   which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such
   circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that
   circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole
   of a given meridian.


word: Pole
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in
   which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a
   force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles
   of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.


word: Poleaxe
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later,
   an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned;
   -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.


word: Polecat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius
   foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly
   disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret.


word: Polemarch
wordtype: n.
definition:
In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief;
   but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of
   strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and
   civil officer.


word: Polemic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or
   involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic
   discourse or essay; polemic theology.


word: Polemic
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or
   system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a
   controversialist; a disputant.


word: Polemics
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or practice of disputation or controversy,
   especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science
   which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.


word: Polemoniaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants
   (Polemoniaceae), which includes Polemonium, Phlox, Gilia, and a few
   other genera.


word: Polemoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror
   arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; --
   called also diagonal, / side, opera glass.


word: Police
wordtype: n.
definition:
A judicial and executive system, for the government of a
   city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order,
   cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and
   prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of
   a city, incorporated town, or borough.


word: Police
wordtype: n.
definition:
The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or
   district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order,
   the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.


word: Police
wordtype: n.
definition:
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve
   civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.


word: Policy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The settled method by which the government and affairs of a
   nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official
   administration, as designed to promote the external or internal
   prosperity of a state.


word: Policy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Management or administration based on temporal or material
   interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly
   wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.


word: Policy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance
   is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and
   conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss
   arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or
   property may be exposed. See Insurance.


word: Policy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be
   drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.


word: Poling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole
   or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.


word: Polish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to
   burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble,
   metals, etc.


word: Polish
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness,
   or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or
   manners.


word: Polish
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss;
   to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.


word: Polished
wordtype: a.
definition:
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly
   finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners;
   polished verse.


word: Politeness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being polite; refinement of
   manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging
   attentions.


word: Politic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government;
   political; as, the body politic. See under Body.


word: Politic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a
   national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or
   wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty.


word: Politic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and
   advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather
   than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious;
   and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.


word: Political
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics;
   relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer.


word: Political
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the
   state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs.


word: Politician
wordtype: n.
definition:
One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public
   office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a
   depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by
   parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere
   politician.


word: Politics
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science of government; that part of ethics which has
   to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the
   preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its
   existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the
   augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its
   citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of
   their morals.


word: Politics
wordtype: n.
definition:
The management of a political party; the conduct and
   contests of parties with reference to political measures or the
   administration of public affairs; the advancement of candidates to
   office; in a bad sense, artful or dishonest management to secure the
   success of political candidates or parties; political trickery.


word: Polity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The form or constitution of the civil government of a
   nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various
   departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.


word: Polity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is
   organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any
   human institution.


word: Politzerization
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of inflating the middle ear by blowing air
   up the nose during the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof.
   Politzer of Vienna, who first practiced it.


word: Polka
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is
   performed by two persons in common time.


word: Poll
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or
   end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a
   tree.


word: Poll
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow
   or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to
   poll grass.


word: Poll
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to
   enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.


word: Poll
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call
   forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his
   opponent.


word: Poll
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line
   without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll.


word: Pollack
wordtype: n.
definition:
A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens).
   Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting
   pollack.


word: Polled
wordtype: a.
definition:
Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll.
   Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off.
   (b) Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. "The polled bachelor."
   Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag. (d) Without
   horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep.


word: Poller
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops
   trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who
   extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Baex. (d) One who registplws votplws, or
   one who enters his name as a voter.


word: Pollex
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb,
   corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the
   pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.


word: Pollicitation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not
   been accepted by the person to whom it is made.


word: Refusal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of
   taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to
   have the refusal of an employment.


word: Refuse
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a
   wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to
   engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing
   attacks.


word: Refutation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the
   state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing
   of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or
   countervailing proof.


word: Refute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or
   countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute;
   as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or
   theories; to refute a disputant.


word: Regal
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows
   being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth
   centuries.


word: Regale
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To enerta/n in a regal or sumptuous manner; to
   enrtertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh; as, to
   regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.


word: Regalia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The
   rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c)
   Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty.


word: Regalia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also,
   the size in which such cigars are classed.


word: Regard
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay
   attention to; to notice or remark particularly.


word: Regard
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an
   popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to
   regard another as a friend or enemy.


word: Regard
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward;
   as, to regard one with favor or dislike.


word: Regard
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar
   value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem.


word: Regard
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to
   relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard the question; --
   often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that.


word: Regard
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
That view of the mind which springs from perception of
   value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration;
   respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a
   person; -- often in the plural.


word: Regency
wordtype: a.
definition:
Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a
   regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or
   vicarious government.


word: Regency
wordtype: a.
definition:
A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a
   regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom,
   or other disability.


word: Regenerate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to be spiritually born anew; to cause to
   become a Christian; to convert from sin to holiness; to implant holy
   affections in the heart of.


word: Regenerate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, to make a radical change for the better in
   the character or condition of; as, to regenerate society.


word: Regeneration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of
   becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy
   affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in
   the heart.


word: Regeneration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The reproduction of a part which has been removed or
   destroyed; re-formation; -- a process especially characteristic of a
   many of the lower animals; as, the regeneration of lost feelers, limbs,
   and claws by spiders and crabs.


word: Regeneration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc.,
   which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of
   life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the
   body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle.


word: Regeneration
wordtype: n.
definition:
The union of parts which have been severed, so that
   they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve.


word: Regenerator
wordtype: n.
definition:
A device used in connection with hot-air engines,
   gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated
   by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which
   have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or
   gas.


word: Regent
wordtype: a.
definition:
Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who
   governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the
   sovereign.


word: Regent
wordtype: a.
definition:
One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a
   superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian
   Institution.


word: Regent
wordtype: a.
definition:
A resident master of arts of less than five years'
   standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged
   to lecture in the schools.


word: Regicide
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who kills or who murders a king; specifically
   (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.


word: Regime
wordtype: n.
definition:
Mode or system of rule or management; character of
   government, or of the prevailing social system.


word: Regime
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its
   flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross
   sections in a given time, uniform regime being the condition when the
   flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections.


word: Regimen
wordtype: n.
definition:
a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to
   improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining
   some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used
   synonymously with hygiene.


word: Regimen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends
   on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood;
   government.


word: Regiment
wordtype: n.
definition:
A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery,
   commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies,
   usually ten.


word: Regimentals
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a
   regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same
   sense.


word: Region
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space
   or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided;
   hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite
   extent; country; province; district; tract.


word: Register
wordtype: n.
definition:
A written account or entry; an official or formal
   enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll;
   a schedule.


word: Register
wordtype: n.
definition:
A record containing a list and description of the
   merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.


word: Register
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a
   port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description
   of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept
   on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a
   muniment of title.


word: Register
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder;
   especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain
   transactions or events; as, a register of deeds.


word: Register
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of
   a machine or the rapidity of a process.


word: Register
wordtype: n.
definition:
A machine for registering automatically the number of
   persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.


word: Register
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove,
   etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an
   arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of
   a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated
   air, or for regulating ventilation.


word: Register
wordtype: n.
definition:
The correspondence or adjustment of the several
   impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in
   chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings.
   See Register, v. i. 2.


word: Register
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified
   portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a
   given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano
   register; the tenor register.


word: Register
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To correspond in relative position; as, two pages,
   columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same
   line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in
   chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed
   consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary.


word: Registering
wordtype: a.
definition:
Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an
   apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See
   Recording.


word: Registrant
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of
   securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of
   possession, as to a trade-mark.


word: Registrar
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as,
   a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.


word: Reglet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts
   or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled,
   turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments.
   See Illust. (12) of Column.


word: Reglet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used
   for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing
   out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes,
   and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil
   reglet, pica reglet, and the like.


word: Regma
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each
   which at length breaks open at the inner angle.


word: Regrate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc.,
   at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in
   or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was
   formerly treated as a public offense.


word: Regret
wordtype: v.
definition:
Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in
   the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with
   dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning
   on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.


word: Regret
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with
   a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the
   happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret
   lost opportunities or friends.


word: Regular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule,
   law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal;
   symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a
   regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.


word: Regular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course,
   practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational
   variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly;
   methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular
   habits.


word: Regular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with
   established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently
   organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular
   nomination; regular troops.


word: Regular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular
   clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.


word: Regular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and
   shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.


word: Regular
wordtype: a.
definition:
A member of any religious order or community who has taken
   the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly
   recognized by the church.


word: Regulate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to
   direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or
   laws.


word: Regulate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired
   rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room,
   the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.


word: Regulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rule or order prescribed for management or
   government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing
   direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.


word: Regulative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all
   other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative
   principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.


word: Regulator
wordtype: n.
definition:
A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as:
   (a) The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length
   of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance.
   (b) The governor of a steam engine. (c) A valve for controlling the
   admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive.


word: Regulator
wordtype: n.
definition:
A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of
   correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.


word: Regulator
wordtype: n.
definition:
A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of
   the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes;
   also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent
   crimes.


word: Regulus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less
   impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and
   reduction of ores.


word: Regurgitation
wordtype: n.
definition:
the reversal of the natural direction in which the
   current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.


word: Rehabilitate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To invest or clothe again with some right,
   authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate;
   to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank,
   or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law.


word: Rehearsal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition;
   specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in
   preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.


word: Rehearse
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To recite or repeat in private for experiment and
   improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.


word: Reichsrath
wordtype: n.
definition:
The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which
   has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower
   House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.


word: Reichstag
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German
   empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years
   by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.


word: Reign
wordtype: n.
definition:
The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses
   the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.


word: Reign
wordtype: n.
definition:
To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to
   exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to
   rule.


word: Reimburse
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent
   for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to
   restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.


word: Reimburse
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a
   person); to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to
   reimburse one's self by successful speculation.


word: Rein
wordtype: n.
definition:
The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on
   each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.


word: Reindeer
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family,
   found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres,
   and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines
   palmate.


word: Rafter
wordtype: n.
definition:
Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber.
   Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping,
   according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.


word: Rage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of
   desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.


word: Rage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or
   prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the
   rage.


word: Rage
wordtype: n.
definition:
To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or
   agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.


word: Rage
wordtype: n.
definition:
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction
   or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.


word: Ragman's roll
definition:
The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish
   nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A.
   D. 1296.


word: Raiae
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the
   sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii.


word: Raid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of
   mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.


word: Raid
wordtype: n.
definition:
An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests,
   seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a
   gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.


word: Rail
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so,
   extending from one post or support to another, as in fences,
   balustrades, staircases, etc.


word: Rail
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which
   the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical
   strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.


word: Rail
wordtype: n.
definition:
The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break
   of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.


word: Rail
wordtype: v.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family
   Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied
   genera. They are prized as game birds.


word: Rail
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter
   reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.


word: Railway
wordtype: n.
definition:
A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of
   iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels
   of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.


word: Railway
wordtype: n.
definition:
The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings,
   rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting
   one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a
   receiver.


word: Rain
wordtype: n.
definition:
To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly
   with it for a nominative; as, it rains.


word: Rainbow
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several
   colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere
   opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays
   in drops of falling rain.


word: Rainfall
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water,
   that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher
   place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or
   weight.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate
   in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of;
   to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low
   estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to
   excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the
   pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to
   raise the heat of a furnace.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to
   raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or
   posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a
   state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit
   from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to
   appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the
   like.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent
   parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a
   heap of stones.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together
   or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or
   propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise
   cattle.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to
   originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to
   raise a point of order; to raise an objection.


word: Raise
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by
   drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.


word: Raised
wordtype: a.
definition:
Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread,
   cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda,
   etc. See Raise, v. t., 4.


word: Raising
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the
   frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.


word: Raising
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it
   into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or
   spinning.


word: Raisonne
wordtype: a.
definition:
Arranged systematically, or according to classes or
   subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.


word: Rajah
wordtype: a.
definition:
A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of
   importance in the agricultural districts.


word: Rajput
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a
   Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in
   northern central India.


word: Rake
wordtype: n.
definition:
An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a
   long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other
   light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and
   smoothing the earth.


word: Rake
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically,
   or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.


word: Rake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to
   gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together
   wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble
   of a town.


word: Rake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for
   the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring
   up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.


word: Rake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in
   naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so
   that the balls range the whole length of the deck.


word: Rake
wordtype: n.
definition:
The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction;
   as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.


word: Rake
wordtype: n.
definition:
the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any
   part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.


word: Rake
wordtype: n.
definition:
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to
   lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.


word: Raking
wordtype: n.
definition:
A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the
   quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space
   with a rake.


word: Rale
wordtype: n.
definition:
An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying
   the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.


word: Rallentando
wordtype: a.
definition:
Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a
   gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.


word: Rally
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or
   thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.


word: Rally
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or
   united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to
   unite.


word: Ram
wordtype: n.
definition:
In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a
   framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.


word: Ram
wordtype: n.
definition:
A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war
   vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a
   vessel carrying such a beak.


word: Ram
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or
   through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive
   together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles,
   cartridges, etc.


word: Ramayana
wordtype: n.
definition:
The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit.
   The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.


word: Ramble
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any
   determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove;
   to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.


word: Ramble
wordtype: n.
definition:
A going or moving from place to place without any
   determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for
   recreation.


word: Rambutan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum,
   and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape,
   covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant
   acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.


word: Ramenta
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young
   shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of
   ferns.


word: Ramie
wordtype: n.
definition:
The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber,
   which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass,
   and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.


word: Ramification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The process of branching, or the development of
   branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.


word: Ramification
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main
   stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.


word: Ramification
wordtype: n.
definition:
A division into principal and subordinate classes,
   heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the
   ramifications of a subject or scheme.


word: Ramist
wordtype: n.
definition:
A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a
   celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy
   at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.


word: Ramline
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar,
   or from stem to stern in building a vessel.


word: Rammer
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer
   for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity


word: Ramoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the
   Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.


word: Ramose
wordtype: a.
definition:
Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral
   divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches;
   ramifying; branching; branchy.


word: Ramp
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one,
   such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.


word: Rampage
wordtype: v.
definition:
Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement,
   passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage.


word: Rampancy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action
   or development; exuberance; extravagance.


word: Rampant
wordtype: v.
definition:
Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said
   of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right
   hind leg should be raised higher than the left.


word: Rampart
wordtype: n.
definition:
A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the
   parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent
   fortification.


word: Rampion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family,
   with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.


word: Ramson
wordtype: n.
definition:
A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common
   in European gardens; -- called also buckram.


word: Ramsted
wordtype: n.
definition:
A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who
   introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted
   weed.


word: Rancho
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch,
   where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.


word: Rancho
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; --
   distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.


word: Rancid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or
   decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.


word: Rancorous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply
   malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.


word: Rand
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of
   leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.


word: Random
wordtype: n.
definition:
A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of
   direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the
   phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at
   hazard.


word: Random
wordtype: a.
definition:
Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or
   without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous
   calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.


word: Range
wordtype: n.
definition:
To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or
   lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to
   range soldiers in line.


word: Range
wordtype: n.
definition:
To place (as a single individual) among others in a line,
   row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and
   figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.


word: Range
wordtype: n.
definition:
To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to
   arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and
   species.


word: Range
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be
   capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to
   horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees
   Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.


word: Range
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction;
   to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often
   followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to
   range along the coast.


word: Range
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be native to, or live in, a certain district or
   region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.


word: Range
wordtype: v.
definition:
An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in
   brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking;
   also, a kind of cooking stove.


word: Range
wordtype: v.
definition:
That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion;
   especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and
   pasture.


word: Range
wordtype: v.
definition:
Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or
   extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of
   one's voice, or authority.


word: Range
wordtype: v.
definition:
In the public land system of the United States, a row or
   line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles
   apart.


word: Ranger
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short
   muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.


word: Ranger
wordtype: n.
definition:
The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn
   officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose
   business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had
   strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the
   next court held for the forest, etc.


word: Ranine
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue;
   also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied
   especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.


word: Rank
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant;
   grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.


word: Rank
wordtype: n. & v.
definition:
Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or
   nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.


word: Rank
wordtype: n. & v.
definition:
An aggregate of individuals classed together; a
   permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of
   men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent
   beings.


word: Rank
wordtype: n. & v.
definition:
Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in
   civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first
   rank; a lawyer of high rank.


word: Rank
wordtype: n. & v.
definition:
Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social
   position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.


word: Rank
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To range in a particular class, order, or division; to
   class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or
   order; to classify.


word: Rank
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the
   orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or
   consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks
   high in public estimation.


word: Rankle
wordtype: a.
definition:
To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be
   inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.


word: Rankle
wordtype: a.
definition:
To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore;
   -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the
   flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.


word: Ransom
wordtype: n.
definition:
The release of a captive, or of captured property, by
   payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of
   ransom.


word: Ransom
wordtype: n.
definition:
The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner,
   or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint,
   penalty, or forfeit.


word: Ransom
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the
   discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal
   punishment.


word: Ransom
wordtype: n.
definition:
To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or
   forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to
   rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.


word: Rant
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant
   language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and
   bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.


word: Rant
wordtype: n.
definition:
High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of
   thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of
   fanatics.


word: Ranter
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the
   Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and
   zeal; -- so called in contempt.


word: Ranunculaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants
   (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes
   also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue,
   and peony.


word: Ranunculus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including
   crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R.
   aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various
   colors.


word: Ranz des vaches
definition:
The name for numerous simple, but very irregular,
   melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the
   Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.


word: Rap
wordtype: v.
definition:
To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport
   out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into
   admiration.


word: Rap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a
   half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any
   coin of trifling value.


word: Rapacious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals
   seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious
   bird.


word: Rapacious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy;
   ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.


word: Rapacity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness;
   ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.


word: Rapacity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by
   oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.


word: Rape
wordtype: n.
definition:
The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which
   the must has been expressed in wine making.


word: Rape
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England,
   intermediate between a hundred and a shire.


word: Rape
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the
   turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the
   production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage
   birds.


word: Raphany
wordtype: n.
definition:
A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not
   uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be
   caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus
   raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a
   form of ergotism.


word: Raphe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the
   median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.


word: Rapid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid
   stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.


word: Rapid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in
   quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence;
   rapid succession.


word: Rapid
wordtype: a.
definition:
The part of a river where the current moves with great
   swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the
   plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.


word: Rapidity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity;
   velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity
   of growth or improvement.


word: Rapine
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of
   things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.


word: Rapparee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; --
   so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.


word: Raptorial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws,
   etc., of insects, birds, and other animals.


word: Rapture
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from
   one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion;
   extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.


word: Rapturous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing,
   or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight;
   rapturous applause.


word: Rare
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose
   texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high
   elevations.


word: Rarefaction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of rarefying; the state of being
   rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.


word: Rarefy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or
   enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to
   condense.


word: Rarity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as,
   the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.


word: Rasante
wordtype: a.
definition:
Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification
   in which the command of the works over each other, and over the
   country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually
   sweep or graze the ground before them.


word: Rascal
wordtype: v.
definition:
One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or
   creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean,
   ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.


word: Rascality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal;
   mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.


word: Rascally
wordtype: a.
definition:
Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; --
   often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.


word: Rase
wordtype: n.
definition:
A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made
   even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off,
   all that was above it.


word: Rash
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate;
   resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation
   and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman
   or commander.


word: Rash
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little
   reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.


word: Rasorial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds,
   as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like.


word: Rasp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough
   file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.


word: Rasp
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by
   coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear;
   his insults rasped my temper.


word: Rasp
wordtype: v.
definition:
A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct
   points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines
   raised by a chisel, as on the true file.


word: Raspberry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other
   similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.


word: Rasse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet
   but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a
   perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the
   Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.


word: Rasure
wordtype: v.
definition:
A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or
   print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.


word: Rat
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and
   allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships,
   especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M.
   rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into
   America from the Old World.


word: Rat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used
   by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.


word: Rat
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades,
   one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.


word: Rat
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
In English politics, to desert one's party from interested
   motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the
   trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those
   established by a trades union.


word: Rata
wordtype: n.
definition:
A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its
   hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.


word: Ratafia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries,
   apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; --
   a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc.


word: Ratchet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and
   pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.


word: Rate
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree;
   standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of
   interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.


word: Rate
wordtype: n.
definition:
Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost;
   charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.


word: Rate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public
   use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax;
   as, parish rates; town rates.


word: Rate
wordtype: n.
definition:
The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined
   according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate,
   etc.


word: Rate
wordtype: n.
definition:
The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance,
   determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.


word: Ledger
wordtype: n.
definition:
A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or
   preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which
   all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under
   appropriate heads.


word: Ledger
wordtype: n.
definition:
A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and
   supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It
   differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight.


word: Ledgment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so
   that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained.


word: Lee
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp.
   wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.


word: Lee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by
   some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as,
   the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.


word: Lee
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard,
   toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a.


word: Lee
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against
   which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee
   rail of a vessel.


word: Leeboard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a
   vessel to lessen her leeway when closehauled, by giving her greater
   draught.


word: Leech
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms,
   belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species
   used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.


word: Leech
wordtype: n.
definition:
A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing
   blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.


word: Leek
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant of the genus Allium (A. Porrum), having broadly
   linear succulent leaves rising from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb.
   The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion.


word: Leer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of
   the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.


word: Leer
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive
   expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong
   lustful or malign look.


word: Leet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a
   court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held.


word: Leeward
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side
   toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward
   berth; a leeward ship.


word: Left
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the
   muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side;
   -- opposed to right, when used in reference to a part of the body; as,
   the left hand, or arm; the left ear. Also said of the corresponding
   side of the lower animals.


word: Left
wordtype: n.
definition:
That part of surrounding space toward which the left side of
   one's body is turned; as, the house is on the left when you face North.


word: Left
wordtype: n.
definition:
Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who
   are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals.
   They have their seats at the left-hand side of the presiding officer.
   See Center, and Right.


word: Left-hand
wordtype: a.
definition:
Situated on the left; nearer the left hand than the
   right; as, the left-hand side; the left-hand road.


word: Left-handed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the left hand or arm stronger and more
   dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more
   dexterity than the right.


word: Left-handed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a
   watch when seen in front; -- said of a twist, a rotary motion, etc.,
   looked at from a given direction.


word: Leg
wordtype: n.
definition:
A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body,
   and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb
   between the knee and foot.


word: Leg
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which resembles a leg in form or use; especially, any
   long and slender support on which any object rests; as, the leg of a
   table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers.


word: Leg
wordtype: n.
definition:
The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as,
   the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.


word: Leg
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extension of the boiler downward, in the form of a narrow
   space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace
   and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; -- called also water
   leg.


word: Legacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal
   property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.


word: Legacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A business with which one is intrusted by another; a
   commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying
   legacy, and the like.


word: Legal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating
   to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal
   procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the
   laws do not forbid.


word: Legal
wordtype: a.
definition:
According to the law of works, as distinguished from free
   grace; or resting on works for salvation.


word: Legal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules
   of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets.


word: Legalist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law;
   in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).


word: Legation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A legate, or envoy, and the persons associated with him
   in his mission; an embassy; or, in stricter usage, a diplomatic
   minister and his suite; a deputation.


word: Legation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The place of business or official residence of a
   diplomatic minister at a foreign court or seat of government.


word: Legato
wordtype: a.
definition:
Connected; tied; -- a term used when successive tones are
   to be produced in a closely connected, smoothly gliding manner. It is
   often indicated by a tie, thus /, /, or /, /, written over or under the
   notes to be so performed; -- opposed to staccato.


word: Legend
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle
   or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the
   refectories of religious houses.


word: Legend
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not
   verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.


word: Legend
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the
   field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath
   an engraving or illustration.


word: Legged
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having (such or so many) legs; -- used in composition; as,
   a long-legged man; a two-legged animal.


word: Leghorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the
   straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany,
   Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.


word: Legible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye;
   plain; -- used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript.


word: Legible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent
   marks or indications; as, the thoughts of men are often legible in
   their countenances.


word: Legion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different
   numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six
   thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.


word: Legionary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or
   legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a
   legionary force.


word: Legislative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws;
   lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a
   legislative body.


word: Legislative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to
   legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the
   legislative style.


word: Legislature
wordtype: n.
definition:
The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested
   with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.


word: Legitimacy
wordtype: a.
definition:
The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in
   conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully
   begotten, or born in wedlock.


word: Legitimate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Accordant with law or with established legal forms and
   requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the
   legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an
   officer; a legitimate heir.


word: Legitimate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or
   spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.


word: Legitimate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as,
   legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate
   combination of colors.


word: Legitimate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put
   in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by
   legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.


word: Legitimist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who
   believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.


word: Legitimist
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder
   branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.


word: Legume
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the
   seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.


word: Legumin
wordtype: n.
definition:
An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a
   characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing
   plants.


word: Leguminous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order
   of plants (Leguminosae), which bear legumes, including peas, beans,
   clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas.


word: Leipoa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of Australian gallinaceous birds including but a
   single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color
   is variegated, brown, black, white, and gray. Called also native
   pheasant.


word: Leisurely
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not
   hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.


word: Lemma
wordtype: n.
definition:
A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or
   accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other
   proposition, as in mathematics or logic.


word: Lemming
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the
   genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They
   are found in both hemispheres.


word: Lemniscate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts
   symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an
   equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the
   center.


word: Lemon
wordtype: n.
definition:
An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and
   containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical
   tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that
   of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many
   varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.


word: Lemur
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to
   the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle,
   and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are
   mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus
   (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East
   Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.


word: Lemuria
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to
   have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a
   remnant.


word: Lend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the
   return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book;
   -- opposed to borrow.


word: Lend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the
   return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of
   food.


word: Lend
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To afford; to grant or furnish in general; as, to lend
   assistance; to lend one's name or influence.


word: Length
wordtype: a.
definition:
The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in
   distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end;
   the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its
   sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope
   or line.


word: Length
wordtype: a.
definition:
The quality or state of being long, in space or time;
   extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of
   their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length
   of his walk.


word: Length
wordtype: a.
definition:
A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number
   of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a
   length of fence.


word: Lengthen
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To extent in length; to make longer in extent or
   duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; --
   sometimes followed by out.


word: Lengthy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not
   brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.


word: Lenient
wordtype: a.
definition:
Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a
   lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.


word: Lenitive
wordtype: n.
definition:
A medicine or application that has the quality of easing
   pain or protecting from the action of irritants.


word: Lenitive
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to
   allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative.


word: Lenity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper
   or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness;
   clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.


word: Lenni-Lenape
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes
   which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from
   Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares,
   Shawnees, and several other tribes.


word: Lens
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with
   two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and
   the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in
   optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and
   thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice,
   the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical,
   or of some other figure.


word: Lent
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and
   continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as
   commemorative of the fast of our Savior.


word: Lenticel
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or
   branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or
   roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or
   branch is covered with water or earth.


word: Lentil
wordtype: n.
definition:
A leguminous plant of the genus Ervum (Ervum Lens), of
   small size, common in the fields in Europe. Also, its seed, which is
   used for food on the continent.


word: L'envoy
wordtype: n.
definition:
One or more detached verses at the end of a literary
   composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a
   particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry.


word: Leo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright
   star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle.


word: Leonid
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower
   that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about
   thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on
   the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.


word: Leontodon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the
   fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; --
   called also lion's tooth.


word: Leopard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It
   is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black
   spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and
   Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of
   leopard.


word: Lepadoid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family
   Lepadidae; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively.


word: Lepas
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated
   barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf
   weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.


word: Lepidine
wordtype: n.
definition:
An organic base, C9H6.N.CH3, metameric with quinaldine,
   and obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.


word: Lepidodendrid
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of an extinct family of trees allied to the
   modern club mosses, and including Lepidodendron and its allies.


word: Lepidodendron
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and
   Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in
   quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.


word: Lepidoganoid
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid
   fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also
   used adjectively.


word: Lepidolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A species of mica, of a lilac or rose-violet color,
   containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small
   scales. See Mica.


word: Lepidomelane
wordtype: n.
definition:
An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually
   found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation
   of minute opaque scales. See Mica.


word: Lepidoptera
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of insects, which includes the
   butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute
   overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.


word: Lepidosiren
wordtype: n.
definition:
An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having
   both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. The name
   is also applied to a related African species (Protopterus annectens).
   The lepidosirens grow to a length of from four to six feet. Called also
   doko.


word: Lepisma
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an
   elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by
   seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found
   in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner,
   silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.


word: Leprosy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as
   reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These
   are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent
   nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the
   disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition
   there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails,
   and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and
   joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.


word: Leptiform
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a form somewhat like leptus; -- said of active
   insect larvae having three pairs of legs. See Larva.


word: Leptocardia
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
The lowest class of Vertebrata, including only the
   Amphioxus. The heart is represented only by a simple pulsating vessel.
   The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting,
   and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented
   notochord. See Amphioxus.


word: Leptothrix
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their
   filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated.


word: Leptothrix
wordtype: n.
definition:
Having the form of a little chain; -- applied to
   bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of
   filiform individuals.


word: Leptus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The six-legged young, or larva, of certain mites; --
   sometimes used as a generic name. See Harvest mite, under Harvest.


word: Lernaeacea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large
   number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young,
   however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Lernean
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a family (Lernaeidae) of parasitic Crustacea found
   attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the
   skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See
   Illust. in Appendix.


word: Lesbian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos,
   now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.


word: -less
definition:
A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of,
   not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.


word: Less
wordtype: a.
definition:
Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter;
   inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value;
   in less time than before.


word: Lessen
wordtype: a.
definition:
To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to
   diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a
   population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune.


word: Lessen
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to
   be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we
   recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened.


word: Lesson
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or
   learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be
   studied or learned at one time.


word: Lesson
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is learned or taught by an express effort;
   instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or
   deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in
   drawing.


word: Lest
wordtype: a.
definition:
That (without the negative particle); -- after certain
   expressions denoting fear or apprehension.


word: Let
wordtype: n.
definition:
A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common
   in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.


word: Let
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the
   active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be
   made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.


word: Let
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by
   positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.


word: Let
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to
   lease; to rent; to hire out; -- often with out; as, to let a farm; to
   let a house; to let out horses.


word: Let
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or
   contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to
   let out the lathing and the plastering.


word: Lethal
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained
   from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because
   it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.


word: Letter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mark or character used as the representative of a sound,
   or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of
   written language.


word: Letter
wordtype: n.
definition:
A written or printed communication; a message expressed in
   intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper,
   parchment, etc.; an epistle.


word: Letterpress
wordtype: n.
definition:
Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other
   material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction
   from the illustrations.


word: Letterwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the
   genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black
   spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called
   snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking
   sticks.


word: Lettic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family,
   subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.


word: Letts
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and
   Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.


word: Lettuce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the
   leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky
   juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce
   of the United States is L. Canadensis.


word: Leucadendron
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good
   Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom
   of the colonists.


word: Leucaniline
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from
   rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms
   colorless salts.


word: Leucin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the
   decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the
   action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is
   also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the
   spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom.
   Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid.


word: Leucite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in
   translucent trapezohedral crystals. It is a silicate of alumina and
   potash. It is found in the volcanic rocks of Italy, especially at
   Vesuvius.


word: Leucitoid
wordtype: n.
definition:
The trapezohedron or tetragonal trisoctahedron; -- so
   called as being the form of the mineral leucite.


word: Leuc-
definition:
A combining form signifying white, colorless; specif. (Chem.),
   denoting an extensive series of colorless organic compounds, obtained
   by reduction from certain other colored compounds; as, leucaniline,
   leucaurin, etc.


word: Leucocyte
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood
   corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue,
   etc.


word: Leucocythemia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood
   are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the
   spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia.


word: Leucomaine
wordtype: n.
definition:
An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue
   during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine
   or cadaveric poison.


word: Leuconic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid,
   obtained as a yellowish white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.


word: Leucophane
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate
   of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. Called also leucophanite.


word: Leucophlegmacy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of
   anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.


word: Leucophyll
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll,
   contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green.


word: Leucoplastid
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of certain very minute whitish or colorless
   granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the
   nuclei around which starch granules will form.


word: Leucopyrite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray,
   with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron.


word: Leucorrhoea
wordtype: n.
definition:
A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid
   mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining
   the genital organs of the female; the whites.


word: Leucoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for
   testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different
   lights, as to their constituent colors or their relative whiteness.


word: Leucosoid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine
   crabs including the box crab or Calappa.


word: Leucoturic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic
   substance of the uric acid group, called leucoturic acid or oxalantin.
   See Oxalantin.


word: Leucoxene
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with
   titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the
   alteration of titanic iron.


word: Levation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of raising; elevation; upward motion, as that
   produced by the action of a levator muscle.


word: Levee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in
   distinction from a soiree, or evening assembly; a matinee; hence, also,
   any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in
   the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.


word: Levee
wordtype: n.
definition:
An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along
   the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.


word: Level
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or
   plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere
   parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and
   is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the
   center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact
   sphere.


word: Level
wordtype: n.
definition:
A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a
   plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence
   parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at
   the given point.


word: Level
wordtype: n.
definition:
An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain
   degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to
   climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then
   descend to the level of the valley or of the sea.


word: Level
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard,
   degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several
   planes of different elevation.


word: Level
wordtype: n.
definition:
A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a
   condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level
   surface; as, moving fluids seek a level.


word: Level
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust
   something with reference to a horizontal line.


word: Level
wordtype: n.
definition:
A measurement of the difference of altitude of two points,
   by means of a level; as, to take a level.


word: Level
wordtype: a.
definition:
Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or
   conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid
   parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the
   level surface of a pond or lake.


word: Level
wordtype: a.
definition:
Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon;
   horizontal; as, the telescope is now level.


word: Level
wordtype: a.
definition:
Even with anything else; of the same height; on the same
   line or plane; on the same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by
   with, sometimes by to.


word: Level
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the
   condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat or even; as,
   to level a road, a walk, or a garden.


word: Level
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in
   respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.; as, to level
   all the ranks and conditions of men.


word: Level
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To be level; to be on a level with, or on an equality
   with, something; hence, to accord; to agree; to suit.


word: Level
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or
   point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye,
   mind, or effort, directly to an object.


word: Leveling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for
   finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level
   between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey,
   for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or
   locating a line of railroad.


word: Lever
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point,
   or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where
   forces are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and
   motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used
   to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length,
   by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a
   fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the
   six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the
   fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated
   between the other two, as in the figures.


word: Leviathan
wordtype: n.
definition:
An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch.
   xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.


word: Levigate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist
   condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments.


word: Leviratical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the
   ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a
   woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's
   brother.


word: Levitate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the
   surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.


word: Levite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi;
   esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and
   employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, and
   afterward the temple, such as the care of the building, bringing of
   wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices, the music of the
   services, etc.


word: Leviticus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The third canonical book of the Old Testament,
   containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites
   among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.


word: Levity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of weighing less than something else of equal
   bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or
   floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity.


word: Levity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character;
   trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.


word: Levo-
definition:
Turning the plane of polarized light to the left; as,
   levotartaric acid; levoracemic acid; levogyratory crystals, etc.


word: Levogyrate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Turning or twisting the plane of polarization towards
   the left, as levulose, levotartaric acid, etc.


word: Levorotatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards
   the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc.


word: Levulin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of
   the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy,
   amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition it yields
   levulose.


word: Levulinic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid (called also
   acetyl-propionic acid), C5H8O3, obtained by the action of dilute acids
   on various sugars (as levulose).


word: Levulose
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sirupy variety of sugar, rarely obtained crystallized,
   occurring widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc., and hence called also
   fruit sugar. It is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of
   polarization to the left.


word: Levy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia
   to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at
   eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.


word: Levy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy
   judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by
   execution.


word: Levy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority;
   as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.


word: Levy
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise
   or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.


word: Levy
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the
   operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the
   usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.


word: Lewd
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving
   unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.


word: Lewisson
wordtype: n.
definition:
An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be
   fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.


word: Lex
wordtype: n.
definition:
Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the
   law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the
   law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.


word: Lexicography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon
   or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.


word: Lexicology
wordtype: n.
definition:
The science of the derivation and signification of
   words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and
   application of words.


word: Lexicon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical
   arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of
   them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a
   dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.


word: Lexiphanic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words;
   bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.


word: Leyden phial
definition:
A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity.
   It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and
   is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner
   coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so
   named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.


word: Lherzolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with
   pyroxene and picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).


word: Liability
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being liable; as, the liability of an
   insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.


word: Liable
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible;
   answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.


word: Liable
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or
   less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to
   slip; liable to accident.


word: Liaison
wordtype: n.
definition:
A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an
   illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.


word: Liana
wordtype: n.
definition:
A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having
   ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes
   are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.


word: Lias
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a
   name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones
   underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.


word: Libation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine,
   either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some
   deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out.


word: Libel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A malicious publication expressed either in print or in
   writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose
   another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is
   indictable at common law.


word: Libel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his
   cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.


word: Libel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To defame, or expose to public hatred, contempt, or
   ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign, etc.; to lampoon.


word: Libelous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing
   that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule;
   as, a libelous pamphlet.


word: Liber
wordtype: n.
definition:
The inner bark of plants, lying next to the wood. It usually
   contains a large proportion of woody, fibrous cells, and is, therefore,
   the part from which the fiber of the plant is obtained, as that of
   hemp, etc.


word: Liberal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman;
   refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal
   ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.


word: Liberal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman;
   generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver.


word: Liberal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient;
   abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal
   discharge of matter or of water.


word: Liberal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the
   literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a
   liberal construction of law or of language.


word: Liberal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in
   political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not
   conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or
   administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or
   republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms;
   as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.


word: Liberal
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who favors greater freedom in political or religious
   matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English
   politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.


word: Liberalism
wordtype: n.
definition:
Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the
   liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the
   Liberal party.


word: Liberality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being liberal; liberal
   disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice;
   generosity; candor; charity.


word: Liberality
wordtype: n.
definition:
A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a
   prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.


word: Liberate
wordtype: a.
definition:
To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty;
   to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner;
   to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.


word: Libertine
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early
   part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and
   decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.


word: Libertine
wordtype: n.
definition:
One free from restraint; one who acts according to his
   impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a
   rake; a debauchee.


word: Liberty
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to
   the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services;
   freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.


word: Liberty
wordtype: n.
definition:
A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission
   granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness
   to leave a court, and the like.


word: Liberty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by
   prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of
   Europe.


word: Liberty
wordtype: n.
definition:
A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely
   within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such
   freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.


word: Liberty
wordtype: n.
definition:
A privilege or license in violation of the laws of
   etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty.


word: Libethenite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in
   orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.


word: Libra
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun
   enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs,
   etc.


word: Library
wordtype: n.
definition:
A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not
   as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.


word: Libration point
wordtype: n.
definition:
any one of five points in the plane of a system of
   two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon
   system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are
   approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving
   in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will
   remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system
   and not fall toward either body.


word: Libyan
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to Libya, the ancient name of that part of
   Africa between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean, or of Africa as a whole.


word: License
wordtype: n.
definition:
Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act;
   especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform
   certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such
   permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to
   preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating
   liquors.


word: License
wordtype: n.
definition:
Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of
   law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.


word: License
wordtype: n.
definition:
That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which
   an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for
   the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license;
   grammatical license, etc.


word: Licensed
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as,
   a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic.


word: Licentiate
wordtype: n.
definition:
A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant
   absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.


word: Licentiate
wordtype: n.
definition:
On the continent of Europe, a university degree
   intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor.


word: Licentious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by license; passing due bounds;
   excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious
   press.


word: Licentious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral;
   dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life.


word: Lichen
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically
   called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of
   scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and
   variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and
   generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed,
   and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish
   color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with
   great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree
   moss.


word: Lichen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to
   one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish
   pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even
   fatal exhaustion.


word: Lichenin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several
   species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.


word: Lick
wordtype: v.
definition:
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a
   stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to
   put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any
   substance so applied.


word: Lick
wordtype: v.
definition:
A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to
   which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near
   salt springs.


word: Lick
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to
   whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.


word: Licorice
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of
   which abounds with a sweet juice, and is much used in demulcent
   compositions.


word: Lictor
wordtype: n.
definition:
An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of
   his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they
   appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid
   to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals.


word: Lid
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a
   movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.


word: Lid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a
   single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.


word: Lid
wordtype: n.
definition:
The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit
   of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.


word: Lie
wordtype: n.
definition:
A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an
   intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to
   deceive.


word: Lie
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or
   do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know
   the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.


word: Lie
wordtype: adj.
definition:
To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to
   be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to
   be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated
   of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on
   the roof; he lies in his coffin.


word: Lie
wordtype: adj.
definition:
To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies
   west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port.


word: Lie
wordtype: adj.
definition:
To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a
   certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie
   open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to
   lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the
   wall.


word: Lieberkuhn
wordtype: n.
definition:
A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass
   end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a
   reflector.


word: Lied
wordtype: n.
definition:
A lay; a German song. It differs from the French chanson, and
   the Italian canzone, all three being national.


word: Lief
wordtype: adv.
definition:
Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases,
   had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.


word: Liege
wordtype: a.
definition:
Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a
   feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a
   vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.


word: Rate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount,
   value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a
   pension.


word: Ratel
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels
   and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.


word: Rather
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or
   as more likely than, the other; somewhat.


word: Ratification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified;
   confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.


word: Ratify
wordtype: n.
definition:
To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to
   establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something
   done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or
   contract; to ratify a nomination.


word: Ratio
wordtype: n.
definition:
The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another
   of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of
   the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by / or
   /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the
   dividend; as, a:b = b/a.


word: Ratio
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate;
   proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.


word: Ratiocinative
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination;
   consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the
   deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a
   ratiocinative process.


word: Ration
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier
   in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.


word: Rational
wordtype: a.
definition:
Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous,
   extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as,
   rational conduct; a rational man.


word: Rational
wordtype: a.
definition:
Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions
   of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.


word: Rationale
wordtype: a.
definition:
An explanation or exposition of the principles of some
   opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the
   principles themselves.


word: Rationalism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The doctrine or system of those who deduce their
   religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from,
   or opposed to, revelation.


word: Rationalism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The system that makes rational power the ultimate test
   of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.


word: Rationalist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system;
   also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.


word: Rationality
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being rational; agreement with
   reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.


word: Rationalize
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To use, and rely on, reason in forming a theory,
   belief, etc., especially in matters of religion: to accord with the
   principles of rationalism.


word: Ratitae
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of birds in which the wings are small,
   rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The
   ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples.


word: Rat-tail
wordtype: a.
definition:
Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is
   round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.


word: Rattan
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the long slender flexible stems of several species
   of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are
   African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for
   walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and
   cordage, and many other purposes.


word: Ratten
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's
   employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of
   annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.


word: Ratting
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a
   pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.


word: Rattle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious
   noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken
   together; to clatter.


word: Rattle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering;
   as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.


word: Rattle
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and
   idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.


word: Rattle
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument with which a rattling sound is made;
   especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.


word: Rattle
wordtype: n.
definition:
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing
   through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly
   observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death
   rattle. See R/le.


word: Rattlebox
wordtype: n.
definition:
An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of
   which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod.


word: Rattlesnake
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of venomous American snakes
   belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have
   a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make
   a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the
   Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake
   of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.


word: Rattoon
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second
   year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.


word: Rattoon
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane
   from the root of the previous year's planting.


word: Raucity
wordtype: n.
definition:
Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the
   raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.


word: Ravage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction;
   devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of
   fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.


word: Ravage
wordtype: n.
definition:
To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit
   havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.


word: Rave
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk
   or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.


word: Rave
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion
   or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her
   beauty.


word: Ravel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to
   untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a
   twist; to ravel out a stocking.


word: Ravel
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them
   fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to
   involve.


word: Ravelin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A detached work with two embankments which make a salient
   angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the
   place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.


word: Raven
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the
   crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia,
   and America, and is noted for its sagacity.


word: Ravenous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious;
   hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.


word: Ravine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or
   torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.


word: Ravishment
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of carrying away by force or against consent;
   abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward
   from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.


word: Raw
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the
   action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed
   by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.


word: Raw
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe;
   unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a
   raw recruit.


word: Ray
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common
   point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.


word: Ray
wordtype: n.
definition:
A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of
   a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of
   an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.


word: Ray
wordtype: n.
definition:
A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or
   reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated
   continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.


word: Ray
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the component elements of the total radiation from a
   body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray;
   the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.


word: Ray
wordtype: n.
definition:
Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision,
   that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object
   seen.


word: Ray
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point,
   and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See
   Half-ray.


word: Ray
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae,
   including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.


word: Ray
wordtype: n.
definition:
In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed
   species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.


word: Ray grass
definition:
A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); -- called
   also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass.


word: Raze
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the
   ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.


word: Razee
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus
   reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a
   frigate.


word: Razee
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an
   inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by
   cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.


word: Re-
definition:
A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to
   lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out
   against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again;
   rejoin, to join again; reiterate; reassure. Combinations containing the
   prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious
   signification.


word: Re
definition:
A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the
   diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any
   diatonic scale.


word: Reabsorb
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has
   been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to
   reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.


word: Reach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a
   limb, a member, something held, or the like.


word: Reach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially
   the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as,
   to reach one a book.


word: Reach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to
   extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch,
   strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or
   with a spear.


word: Reach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an
   object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.


word: Reach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to
   penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.


word: Reach
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by
   virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.


word: Reach
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence,
   etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.


word: Reach
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of
   reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or
   thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon
   shot.


word: Reach
wordtype: n.
definition:
The power of stretching out or extending action, influence,
   or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or
   capacity.


word: Reach
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight
   portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level
   stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up
   into the land.


word: React
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to
   react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.


word: React
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action
   of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body
   that impels it from its natural state.


word: React
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a
   reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.


word: Reaction
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any action in resisting other action or force; counter
   tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.


word: Reaction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon
   each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of
   energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change
   in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or
   the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction,
   Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.


word: Reaction
wordtype: n.
definition:
An action induced by vital resistance to some other
   action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on
   overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction
   succeeding depression or shock.


word: Reaction
wordtype: n.
definition:
The force which a body subjected to the action of a force
   from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite
   direction.


word: Misapply
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to
   misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.


word: Misapprehension
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of
   one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.


word: Miscarriage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure
   to attain a desired result or reach a destination.


word: Miscarry
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a
   destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to
   suffer defeat.


word: Miscellaneous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of
   diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous
   collection.


word: Miscellany
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a
   collection of compositions on various subjects.


word: Mischief
wordtype: n.
definition:
Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or
   vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally
   or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
   thoughtlessness, or in sport.


word: Mischievous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often
   applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a
   mischievous child.


word: Miscolor
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth
   erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts.


word: Misconceive
wordtype: v. t. & i.
definition:
To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly;
   to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.


word: Miscue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from
   the ball struck without impelling it as desired.


word: Misdirect
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a
   passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.


word: Mise
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to
   a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country
   palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the
   earldom.


word: Miser
wordtype: n.
definition:
A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth,
   who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.


word: Miserere
wordtype: n.
definition:
The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being
   the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word
   miserere.


word: Miserere
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small projecting boss or bracket, on the under side of
   the hinged seat of a church stall (see Stall). It was intended, the
   seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when
   standing. Called also misericordia.


word: Misericordia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages,
   because used to give the death wound or "mercy" stroke to a fallen
   adversary.


word: Misgive
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to,
   instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make
   irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the
   objective personal pronoun.


word: Mishna
wordtype: n.
definition:
A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and
   explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud.


word: Mislead
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to
   guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.


word: Misnomer
wordtype: n.
definition:
The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a
   complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or
   inapplicable name or title.


word: Misplace
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an
   improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.


word: Misrepresent
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To represent incorrectly (almost always,
   unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either
   maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.


word: Misrepresentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
Untrue representation; false or incorrect
   statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented;
   as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.


word: Miss
wordtype: n.
definition:
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman
   who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.


word: Miss
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the
   table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.


word: Miss
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing,
   hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by
   being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the
   point or meaning of something said.


word: Miss
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to
   dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.


word: Missile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be
   projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to
   strike an object at a distance.


word: Missing
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Absent from the place where it was expected to be
   found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.


word: Mission
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being
   sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting
   business; comission.


word: Mission
wordtype: n.
definition:
That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an
   errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.


word: Mission
wordtype: n.
definition:
A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a
   particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the
   faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.


word: Mist
wordtype: n.
definition:
Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible
   particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.


word: Mistake
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand
   misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's
   meaning.


word: Mistake
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a
   misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional
   error of conduct.


word: Mistake
wordtype: n.
definition:
Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be
   ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it.


word: Mistaken
wordtype: p.a.
definition:
Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion
   or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.


word: Mister
wordtype: n.
definition:
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth.
   It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.


word: Mistico
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean.
   It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.


word: Mistletoe
wordtype: n.
definition:
A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album),
   bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare,
   it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime
   is prepared from its fruit.


word: Mistress
wordtype: n.
definition:
A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman
   who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a
   school, etc.


word: Mistress
wordtype: n.
definition:
A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has
   command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.


word: Mistress
wordtype: n.
definition:
A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a
   wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.


word: Mistress
wordtype: n.
definition:
A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a
   woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted
   forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.


word: Mistura
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mingled compound in which different ingredients are
   contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture, n., 4.


word: Mistura
wordtype: n.
definition:
Sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active
   substances, and which can only be administered by drops.


word: Misty
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of
   mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty
   mountains; a misty atmosphere.


word: Mite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are
   many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See
   Acarina.


word: Mite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a
   third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in
   Palestine in the time of Christ.


word: Mitre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church
   dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a
   lofty cap with two points or peaks.


word: Mitre
wordtype: n.
definition:
The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where
   a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by
   two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.


word: Mitre
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule
   on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges
   of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.


word: Miterwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial
   herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap.


word: Mithridate
wordtype: n.
definition:
An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of
   an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative
   against poison; an alexipharmic; -- so called from King Mithridates,
   its reputed inventor.


word: Mitigate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous,
   painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to
   lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.


word: Mitigation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated;
   abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive,
   or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity,
   punishment, or penalty.


word: Mitrailleuse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number
   of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired
   simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.


word: Mitral
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral
   valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.


word: Mitten
wordtype: n.
definition:
A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or
   injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for
   each finger.


word: Mittimus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing
   to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to
   prison.


word: Mix
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as
   of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with
   others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring
   together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.


word: Mix
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of
   ingredients; to compound of different parts.


word: Mixogamous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes
   of which several males accompany each female during spawning.


word: Mixtilinear
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing, or consisting of, lines of different
   kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that
   is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.


word: Mixture
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which results from mixing different ingredients
   together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; --
   also, a medley.


word: Mixture
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients;
   esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid
   ingredients are not completely dissolved.


word: Mixture
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which
   are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter
   how thoroughly and finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound;
   thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.


word: Mixture
wordtype: n.
definition:
An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of
   pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops;
   -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or
   overtones, of the ground tone.


word: Mnemonics
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules
   intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.


word: -mo
definition:
A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the
   numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a
   sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken
   from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A
   small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used
   for -mo; as, 16¡, 18¡, etc.


word: Moa
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless
   birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder
   Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and
   the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New
   Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than
   the ostrich.


word: Moan
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether
   articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.


word: Moat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other
   fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.


word: Mobcap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially,
   one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same
   material as the cap itself.


word: Mobile
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or
   flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids;
   -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.


word: Mobility
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of
   a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.


word: Mobocracy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A condition in which the lower classes of a nation
   control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested
   rights.


word: Moccasin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole
   and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the
   American Indians.


word: Moccasin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The
   water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near
   water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is
   brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is
   Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without
   rattles.


word: Mock
wordtype: n.
definition:
An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous
   act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.


word: Mockery
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by
   mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a
   counterfeit appearance.


word: Moco
wordtype: n.
definition:
A South American rodent (Cavia rupestris), allied to the
   Guinea pig, but larger; -- called also rock cavy.


word: Modal
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or
   form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or
   reality.


word: Modalist
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of
   being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the
   Trinity.


word: Modality
wordtype: n.
definition:
A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view
   under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant,
   the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or
   apodeictic.


word: Mode
wordtype: n.
definition:
Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way;
   style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.


word: Mode
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart
   from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more
   generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement
   or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.


word: Mode
wordtype: n.
definition:
The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and
   subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the
   form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the
   constituent proposition; mood.


word: Mode
wordtype: n.
definition:
The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the
   minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient
   Greek music.


word: Model
wordtype: n.
definition:
A miniature representation of a thing, with the several
   parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.


word: Model
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern
   of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an
   ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture;
   the inventor's model of a machine.


word: Model
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for
   imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American
   constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.


word: Model
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to
   form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to
   model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the
   plan delineated.


word: Modeling
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or art of making a model from which a work of art
   is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic
   material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or
   indication of solid form.


word: Moderate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not
   excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained


word: Moderate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as,
   moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.


word: Moderate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement;
   reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.


word: Moderate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle,
   or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of
   moderate abilities.


word: Moderate
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th
   century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of
   church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.


word: Moderate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a
   state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make
   temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as,
   to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.


word: Moderation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The first public examinations for degrees at the
   University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.


word: Moderator
wordtype: n.
definition:
The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve
   order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the
   votes.


word: Moderator
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the University of Oxford, an examiner for
   moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for
   degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in
   rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.


word: Modern
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long
   past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as,
   modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern
   taste; modern practice.


word: Modernization
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of rendering modern in style; the act or
   process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.


word: Modernize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To render modern; to adapt to modern person or
   things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.


word: Modest
wordtype: a.
definition:
Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward,
   bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's
   self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.


word: Modest
wordtype: a.
definition:
Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act
   or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent
   in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman.


word: Modest
wordtype: a.
definition:
Evincing modestly in the actor, author, or speaker; not
   showing presumption; not excessive or extreme; moderate; as, a modest
   request; modest joy.


word: Modesty
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper
   which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and
   importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption;
   humility respecting one's own merit.


word: Modesty
wordtype: n.
definition:
Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and
   the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for
   propriety in speech or action.


word: Modification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of modifying, or the state of being modified;
   a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the
   modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications
   of light.


word: Modify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter
   somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical
   purpose; to modify the terms of a contract.


word: Modillion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found
   under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and
   sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called
   because of its arrangement at regulated distances.


word: Modish
wordtype: a.
definition:
According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to
   the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a
   modish feast.


word: Modiste
wordtype: n.
definition:
A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion,
   especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives
   direction to the style or mode of dress.


word: Modular
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius;
   as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.


word: Modulate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical
   manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or
   speaking.


word: Modulation
wordtype: n.
definition:
A change of key, whether transient, or until the music
   becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a
   piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic;
   the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related,
   and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote.
   There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.


word: Module
wordtype: n.
definition:
The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter
   of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the
   proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated.
   Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a
   certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the
   diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and
   minutes in height, breadth, or projection.


word: Modulus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses
   the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of
   elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter.


word: Modus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure
   from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or
   enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will
   of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like.


word: Modus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment
   of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.


word: Sauropoda
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the
   feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many
   dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to
   Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in
   Appendix.


word: Saururae
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated
   tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See
   Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes.


word: Saury
wordtype: n.
definition:
A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and
   America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish,
   gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt
   herring.


word: Sausage
wordtype: n.
definition:
An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced
   and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually
   made of the prepared intestine of some animal.


word: Saussurite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or
   grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at
   least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.


word: Sauter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To fry lightly and quickly, as meat, by turning or
   tossing it over frequently in a hot pan greased with a little fat.


word: Savage
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes
   and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.


word: Savage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is
   untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.


word: Savagism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized
   men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.


word: Savanna
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth
   usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, --
   but destitute of trees.


word: Save
wordtype: a.
definition:
To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from
   injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending
   danger; as, to save a house from the flames.


word: Save
wordtype: a.
definition:
Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue
   from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a
   state of spiritual life.


word: Save
wordtype: a.
definition:
To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the
   necessity of; to prevent; to spare.


word: Save-all
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another
   sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.


word: Savine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A coniferous shrub (Juniperus Sabina) of Western Asia,
   occasionally found also in the northern parts of the United States and
   in British America. It is a compact bush, with dark-colored foliage,
   and produces small berries having a glaucous bloom. Its bitter, acrid
   tops are sometimes used in medicine for gout, amenorrhoea, etc.


word: Saving
wordtype: a.
definition:
Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish
   or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.


word: Saving
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended;
   incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship
   has made a saving voyage.


word: Saving
wordtype: n.
definition:
Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is
   saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.


word: Savior
wordtype: v.
definition:
Specifically: The (or our, your, etc.) Savior, he who
   brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.


word: Savor
wordtype: a.
definition:
That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste
   or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an
   orange or a rose; an ill savor.


word: Savor
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property;
   distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like.


word: Savor
wordtype: n.
definition:
To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the
   presence or influence; to smack; -- with of.


word: Savory
wordtype: n.
definition:
An aromatic labiate plant (Satureia hortensis), much used
   in cooking; -- also called summer savory.


word: Savoy
wordtype: n.
definition:
A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major),
   having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.


word: Saw
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood,
   iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a
   series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of
   the material by cutting and tearing.


word: Saw
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks,
   that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles;
   to saw out a panel.


word: Sawfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the
   genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied
   to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout
   toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ
   with which it mutilates or kills its prey.


word: Sawfly
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects
   belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. The female usually has an
   ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes
   incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs.
   The larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera.


word: Sawhorse
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross,
   on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also
   buck, and sawbuck.


word: Saw-set
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a
   little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the
   thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest.


word: Sawtooth
wordtype: n.
definition:
An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars
   serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.


word: Saw-whet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute
   of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also Acadian owl.


word: Saw-wort
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named
   from the serrated leaves of most of the species.


word: Sawyer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches
   project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying
   motion in the current.


word: Saxhorn
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to a numerous family of brass wind
   instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known
   as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands
   and in orchestras.


word: Saxicava
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus
   Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes
   in limestone and similar rocks.


word: Saxicavous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Boring, or hollowing out, rocks; -- said of certain
   mollusks which live in holes which they burrow in rocks. See Illust. of
   Lithodomus.


word: Saxifraga
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing
   about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage.


word: Saxifragaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants
   (Saxifragaceae) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also
   the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and
   gooseberries, and many other plants.


word: Saxifrage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs
   growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions.


word: Saxon
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern
   part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and
   conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.


word: Saxophone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and
   partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a
   clarinet.


word: Say
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively;
   to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be
   determined in mind as to.


word: Say
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or
   approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed
   sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars;
   the fox had run, say ten miles.


word: Saying
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially
   a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb.


word: Scab
wordtype: n.
definition:
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule,
   formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.


word: Scab
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused
   by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).


word: Scab
wordtype: n.
definition:
A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of
   a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.


word: Scab
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are
   fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a
   workman on a strike.


word: Scabious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species
   of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have
   similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.


word: Scabrous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised
   dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.


word: Scad
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the
   European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied
   also to several allied species.


word: Scaffold
wordtype: n.
definition:
A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc., for
   various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building,
   for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show,
   etc.


word: Scaffold
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the
   execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold.


word: Scaffold
wordtype: n.
definition:
An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material
   forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a
   blast furnace.


word: Scagliola
wordtype: n.
definition:
An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as
   marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue,
   the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of
   marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.


word: Scalar
wordtype: n.
definition:
In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude,
   but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both
   magnitude and direction.


word: Scalaria
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the
   genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted
   shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The
   color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and
   wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.


word: Scalariform
wordtype: a.
definition:
Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having
   transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the
   scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.


word: Scald
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by
   contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.


word: Scald
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in
   hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.


word: Scald
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers;
   a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the
   Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.


word: Scaldfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta
   arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an
   instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly
   used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus
   for weighing. Also used figuratively.


word: Scale
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure;
   also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces
   which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals,
   belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See
   Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material,
   resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of
   iron, of bone, etc.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some
   invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of
   Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the
   scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a
   bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff
   on the stems of ferns.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings.
   It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar
   coating upon other metals.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a
   measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood,
   ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered
   on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in
   drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing
   proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet,
   etc., for a map or plan.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or
   descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut.
   It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale,
   Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic,
   Diatonic, Major, and Minor.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and
   degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a
   scale of being.


word: Scale
wordtype: n.
definition:
Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of
   parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing,
   compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of
   the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to
   the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is
   represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile.


word: Scale
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by
   steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.


word: Scaleback
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the
   family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or
   elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.


word: Scalebeam
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform
   scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.


word: Scaleboard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the
   surface of articles of furniture, and the like.


word: Scaled
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement
   somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.


word: Scalenohedron
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system,
   inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.


word: Scaler
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's
   instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.


word: Scaling
wordtype: a.
definition:
Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling
   knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam
   boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.


word: Scallop
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of
   the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell
   is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated
   in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the
   species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on
   the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as
   a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See
   Pecten, 2.


word: Scallop
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of series of segments of circles joined at their
   extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop
   shell.


word: Scallop
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of
   circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n.,
   2.


word: Scallop
wordtype: n.
definition:
To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with
   crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.


word: Scalp
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut
   or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a
   token of victory.


word: Scalp
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of
   the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own
   account.


word: Scalper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a
   small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market.


word: Scalper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person who buys tickets for entertainment or sports
   events and sells them at a profit, often at a much higher price. Also,
   ticket scalper.


word: Scaly
wordtype: a.
definition:
Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb;
   covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.


word: Scamillus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of
   Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of
   smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.


word: Scammony
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inspissated sap obtained from the root of the
   Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like
   that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. It is used in medicine
   as a cathartic.


word: Scampavia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and
   Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.


word: , a , or an . PCP. It is
definition:
() Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and
   distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading,
   the metrical structure of; to recite metrically.


word: , a , or an . PCP. It is
definition:
Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and
   distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading,
   the metrical structure of; to recite metrically () To go over and
   examine point by point; to examine with care; to look closely at or
   into; to scrutinize.


word: Scandal
wordtype: n.
definition:
Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation
   called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or
   flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.


word: Scandal
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is
   reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the
   court, or is contrary to good manners.


word: Scandalize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a
   person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to
   bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.


word: Scandalous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings;
   exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.


word: Scandalous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy;
   opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.


word: Scandalum magnatum
definition:
A defamatory speech or writing published to the
   injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.


word: Scandium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose
   existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of
   the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in
   certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has
   not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44.


word: Scansion
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of
   a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.


word: Scansores
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an
   order. They are distributed among several orders by modern
   ornithologists.


word: Scansorial
wordtype: a.
definition:
Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial
   bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot.


word: Scant
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient;
   less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a
   scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a
   garment.


word: Scant
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint;
   as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of
   necessaries.


word: Scantling
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to
   its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of
   anything.


word: Scanty
wordtype: a.
definition:
Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a
   scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.


word: Scape
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean
   stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.


word: Scapegoat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins
   of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the
   wilderness.


word: Scaphism
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the
   Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs
   smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects
   until he died.


word: Scaphite
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites,
   belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped
   shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.


word: Scaphocephaly
wordtype: n.
definition:
A deformed condition of the skull, in which the
   vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.


word: Scaphognathite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the
   second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to
   draw the water through the gill cavity.


word: Scaphopda
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a
   tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for
   burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It
   includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells.
   Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.


word: Scapolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals
   and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and
   soda.


word: Scapular
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a special group of feathers which arise from each
   of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.


word: Scapulary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind,
   worn by certain religious orders and devout persons.


word: Scapulary
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name given to two pieces of cloth worn under the
   ordinary garb and over the shoulders as an act of devotion.


word: Scapulet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of
   the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. See
   Illustration in Appendix.


word: Scapulo-
definition:
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection
   with, or relation to, the scapula or the shoulder; as, the
   scapulo-clavicular articulation, the articulation between the scapula
   and clavicle.


word: Scar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or
   ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a
   mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.


word: Scar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf,
   leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See
   Illust.. under Axillary.


word: Scar
wordtype: n.
definition:
An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a
   bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.


word: Scarabee
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the
   genus Scarabaeus, or family Scarabaeidae, especially the sacred, or
   Egyptian, species (Scarabaeus sacer, and S. Egyptiorum).


word: Scarabee
wordtype: n.
definition:
A stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or
   faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient Egyptians as
   an ornament or a talisman, and in modern times used in jewelry, usually
   by engraving designs on cabuchon stones. Also used attributively; as, a
   scarab bracelet [a bracelet containing scarabs]; a scarab [the carved
   stone itelf].


word: Scaraboid
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the family Scarabaeidae, an
   extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbledung, and
   many similar lamellicorn beetles.


word: Scaramouch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from
   Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a
   person of like characteristics; a buffoon.


word: Scarce
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in
   proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.


word: Scarcity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of
   quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of
   plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity
   of beauties.


word: Scarecrow
wordtype: n.
definition:
Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from
   cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.


word: Scarf
wordtype: n.
definition:
An article of dress of a light and decorative character,
   worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light
   shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth.


word: Scarf
wordtype: n.
definition:
In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf
   joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or
   notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.


word: Scarificator
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument, principally used in cupping,
   containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making
   slight incisions.


word: Scarify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make
   small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw
   blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.


word: Scarlet
wordtype: n.
definition:
A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many
   tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.


word: Scarus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Mediterranean food fish (Sparisoma scarus) of excellent
   quality and highly valued by the Romans; -- called also parrot fish.


word: Scatter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down
   loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse
   order.


word: Scatter
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce
   from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to
   disperse.


word: Scattering
wordtype: a.
definition:
Going or falling in various directions; not united or
   aggregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.


word: Scauper
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to
   clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.


word: Scavage
wordtype: n.
definition:
A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by
   mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within
   their precincts.


word: Scavenger
wordtype: v.
definition:
A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a
   city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is
   also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything
   injurious to health.


word: Scena
wordtype: n.
definition:
An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with
   passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.


word: Scene
wordtype: n.
definition:
The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the
   part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and
   decorations; the stage.


word: Scene
wordtype: n.
definition:
The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the
   place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or
   other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a
   play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the
   scenes.


word: Scene
wordtype: n.
definition:
So much of a play as passes without change of locality or
   time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act;
   a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently
   determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.


word: Scene
wordtype: n.
definition:
The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything
   occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid;
   surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place
   of occurrence, exhibition, or action.


word: Scene
wordtype: n.
definition:
An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a
   series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a
   spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.


word: Scene
wordtype: n.
definition:
An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others;
   often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for
   effect; a theatrical display.


word: Scenery
wordtype: n.
definition:
Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings
   representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of
   the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid;
   representation of place of action or occurence.


word: Scenery
wordtype: n.
definition:
Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety
   and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural
   views, as woods, hills, etc.


word: Scenography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or act of representing a body on a perspective
   plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its
   dimensions, as it appears to the eye.


word: Scent
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory
   organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a
   rose; the scent of musk.


word: Scent
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in
   passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of
   pursuit; track of discovery.


word: Sceptre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial
   badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.


word: Scepterellate
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; --
   said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.


word: Schedule
wordtype: n.
definition:
A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a
   document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue
   annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.


word: Organization
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a
   systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or
   of a deliberative body.


word: Organize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure
   to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized
   being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past
   participle.


word: Organize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a
   special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into
   working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to
   human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an
   army, a war, etc.


word: Organogen
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to any one of the four elements, carbon,
   hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic
   ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements
   sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.


word: Organoleptic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; -- said
   of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of
   touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.


word: Organology
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of biology which treats, in particular, of
   the organs of animals and plants. See Morphology.


word: Organum
wordtype: n.
definition:
An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which
   philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term
   adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title
   ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method.


word: Organoplastic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the property of producing the tissues or
   organs of animals and plants; as, the organoplastic cells.


word: Organzine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that
   is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase
   its strength.


word: Orgasm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of
   turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal
   excitement in sexual intercourse.


word: Orgeat
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered,
   but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to
   flavor beverages or edibles.


word: Orgies
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor
   of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks
   and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were
   characterized by wild and dissolute revelry.


word: Orgue
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed
   and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a
   gateway, to be let down in case of attack.


word: Orgue
wordtype: n.
definition:
A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket
   barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their
   touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.


word: Orgyia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of
   Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade
   trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.


word: Orichalch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but
   inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; --
   called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.


word: Orient
wordtype: a.
definition:
Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; --
   used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are
   found in the East.


word: Orient
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To define the position of, in relation to the orient or
   east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.


word: Orient
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first
   principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.


word: Oriental
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern;
   concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as,
   Oriental countries.


word: Orientate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so
   as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts
   among themselves.


word: Orientation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of orientating; determination of
   the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.


word: Orientation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a
   certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the
   earth's axis.


word: Orientation
wordtype: n.
definition:
An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.),
   the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar
   toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east
   end.


word: Orifice
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening;
   as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.


word: Origanum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet
   marjoram (O. Marjorana) and the wild marjoram (O. vulgare).


word: Origenism
wordtype: n.
definition:
The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the
   3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in
   his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan,
   will ultimately be saved.


word: Origin
wordtype: n.
definition:
The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed
   during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.


word: Original
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all
   others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original
   state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of
   a process.


word: Original
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine;
   as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of
   Scripture.


word: Original
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations
   of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.


word: Original
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which precedes all others of its class; archetype;
   first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the
   like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.


word: Original
wordtype: n.
definition:
The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or
   cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to
   be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.


word: Originally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In the original time, or in an original manner;
   primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or
   imitation.


word: Originally
wordtype: adv.
definition:
At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or
   costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand.


word: Originate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To take first existence; to have origin or beginning;
   to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor
   and council.


word: Orillon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a
   bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old
   fortresses.


word: Oriole
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of
   the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with
   yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O.
   oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note.


word: Oriole
wordtype: n.
definition:
In America, any one of several species of the genus
   Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and
   Orchard oriole, under Orchard.


word: Orion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the
   stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to
   the naked eye.


word: Oriskany
wordtype: a.
definition:
Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly
   limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age.


word: Orle
wordtype: n.
definition:
A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within,
   but at some distance from, the border.


word: Orlop
wordtype: n.
definition:
The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war,
   consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the
   cables are coiled.


word: Ormolu
wordtype: n.
definition:
A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less
   zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains.
   Its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort,
   or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold.


word: Ornament
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace
   or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.


word: Ornithopoda
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike
   characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs,
   which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the
   body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.


word: Ornithoscelida
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A group of extinct Reptilia, intermediate in
   structure (especially with regard to the pelvis) between reptiles and
   birds.


word: Orography
wordtype: n.
definition:
That branch of science which treats of mountains and
   mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.


word: Orohippus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of American Eocene mammals allied to the horse,
   but having four toes in front and three behind.


word: Orotund
wordtype: a.
definition:
Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and
   smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of
   utterance.


word: Orphan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes,
   also, a child who has but one parent living.


word: Orpheus
wordtype: n.
definition:
The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope,
   and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance
   beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.


word: Orphrey
wordtype: n.
definition:
A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold,
   affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics.


word: Orpiment
wordtype: n.
definition:
Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an
   amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow
   crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in
   king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical
   processes, as indigo printing.


word: Orpine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having
   clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on
   old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called
   also stonecrop, and live-forever.


word: Orrery
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls
   moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions,
   orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.


word: Orris
wordtype: n.
definition:
A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of
   flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.


word: Orris
wordtype: n.
definition:
A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is
   worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical
   figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.


word: Orsellinic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained
   by a partial decomposition of orsellic acid as a white crystalline
   substance, and related to protocatechuic acid.


word: Ortalidian
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the
   family Ortalidae. The larvae of many of these flies live in fruit;
   those of others produce galls on various plants.


word: Ortho-
definition:
A combining form signifying straight, right, upright,
   correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox,
   orthographic.


word: Ortho-
definition:
The one of several acids of the same element (as the
   phosphoric acids), which actually occurs with the greatest number of
   hydroxyl groups; as, orthophosphoric acid. Cf. Normal.


word: Ortho-
definition:
Connection with, or affinity to, one variety of isomerism,
   characteristic of the benzene compounds; -- contrasted with meta- or
   para-; as, the ortho position; hence, designating any substance showing
   such isomerism; as, an ortho compound.


word: Orthocarbonic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Designating a complex ether, C.(OC2H5)4, which is
   obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of
   chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical
   normal carbonic acid, C.(OH)4.


word: Orthocenter
wordtype: n.
definition:
That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall
   from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides
   produced, mutually intersect.


word: Orthoceras
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extinct genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda, having a
   long, straight, conical shell. The interior is divided into numerous
   chambers by transverse septa.


word: Orthoclase
wordtype: n.
definition:
Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the
   monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each
   other. See Feldspar.


word: Orthodiagonal
wordtype: n.
definition:
The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal
   which is at right angles with the vertical axis.


word: Orthodox
wordtype: a.
definition:
Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious
   doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines
   taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an
   orthodox Christian.


word: Orthodox
wordtype: a.
definition:
According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture,
   the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an
   orthodox opinion, book, etc.


word: Orthodoxy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in
   the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to
   heterodoxy or to heresy.


word: Orthodoxy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of
   moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.


word: Orthodromics
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc
   of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two
   points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy.


word: Orthoepy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art of uttering words correctly; a correct
   pronunciation of words; also, mode of pronunciation.


word: Orthogamy
wordtype: n.
definition:
Direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen
   fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; --
   opposed to heterogamy.


word: Orthognathous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly
   perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to
   prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.


word: Orthographical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling;
   also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was
   orthographic.


word: Orthography
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or practice of writing words with the proper
   letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling;
   also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious.


word: Orthopedical
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to
   the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of
   the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic
   hospital.


word: Orthopedy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The art or practice of curing the deformities of
   children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body.


word: Orthopinacoid
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic
   system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.


word: Orthopny
wordtype: n.
definition:
Specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can
   be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of
   breathing.


word: Orthopoda
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An extinct order of reptiles which stood erect on
   the hind legs, and resembled birds in the structure of the feet,
   pelvis, and other parts.


word: Orthoptera
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of mandibulate insects including
   grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.


word: Orthorhombic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Noting the system of crystallization which has three
   unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See
   Crystallization.


word: Orthoscopic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Giving an image in correct or normal proportions;
   giving a flat field of view; as, an orthoscopic eyepiece.


word: Orthospermous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some
   umbelliferous plants; -- opposed to coelospermous.


word: Orthotone
wordtype: a.
definition:
Retaining the accent; not enclitic; -- said of certain
   indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when
   not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic.


word: Orthotropous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the
   hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.


word: Orthoxylene
wordtype: n.
definition:
That variety of xylene in which the two methyl groups
   are in the ortho position; a colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon
   resembling benzene.


word: Ortolan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A European singing bird (Emberiza hortulana), about the
   size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when
   fattened. Called also bunting.


word: Ortygan
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several species of East Indian birds of the genera
   Ortygis and Hemipodius. They resemble quails, but lack the hind toe.
   See Turnix.


word: -ory
definition:
An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for;
   as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory,
   amendatory, etc.


word: -ory
definition:
A noun suffix denoting that which pertains to, or serves for;
   as in ambulatory, that which serves for walking; consistory, factory,
   etc.


word: Oryx
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the
   leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O.
   beatrix) of Arabia.


word: Os
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc.,
   supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by
   subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and
   the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.


word: Osage orange
definition:
An ornamental tree of the genus Maclura (M.
   aurantiaca), closely allied to the mulberry (Morus); also, its fruit.
   The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears
   a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc.


word: Oscillaria
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous,
   fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or
   crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.


word: Oscillate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or
   move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and
   forth.


word: Oscillatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and
   forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as,
   oscillatory motion.


word: Oscines
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having
   numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.


word: Osculant
wordtype: a.
definition:
Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two
   genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking
   somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link;
   interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are
   called osculant genera.


word: Osculate
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To have characters in common with two genera or
   families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to
   interosculate. See Osculant.


word: Osculation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The contact of one curve with another, when the number
   of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes
   suffices for the complete determination of the former curve.


word: Osculatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an
   osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with
   a curve, at a given point.


word: Osculatrix
wordtype: n.
definition:
A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given
   point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater
   number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the
   curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same
   kind.


word: -ose
definition:
A suffix denoting full of, containing, having the qualities of,
   like; as in verbose, full of words; pilose, hairy; globose, like a
   globe.


word: -ose
definition:
A suffix indicating that the substance to the name of which it
   is affixed is a member of the carbohydrate group; as in cellulose,
   sucrose, dextrose, etc.


word: Osier
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in
   Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered
   the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to
   any kind of willow.


word: Osiris
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and
   husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of
   Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf.
   Serapis.


word: Osmaterium
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of a pair of scent organs which the larvae of
   certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or
   below.


word: Osmazome
wordtype: n.
definition:
A substance formerly supposed to give to soup and broth
   their characteristic odor, and probably consisting of one or several of
   the class of nitrogenous substances which are called extractives.


word: Osmiamic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of
   osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.


word: Osmic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium;
   specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a valence
   higher than in other lower compounds; as, osmic oxide.


word: Osmious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element
   has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds; as, osmious
   chloride.


word: Osmium
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native
   as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard,
   infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance
   known. Its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain
   tissues. Symbol Os. Atomic weight 191.1. Specific gravity 22.477.


word: Osmose
wordtype: n.
definition:
The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused,
   when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing
   densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening
   porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker
   fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current,
   exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be
   regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.


word: Osmund
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The most
   remarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmunda
   regalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnate
   fronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstock
   contains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen.


word: Oso-berry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia
   cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry
   tribe of Rosaceae.


word: Ossein
wordtype: n.
definition:
The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal
   of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue,
   the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; --
   called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.


word: Ossicle
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the
   skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.


word: Ossification
wordtype: n.
definition:
The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of
   an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited
   in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.


word: Ossified
wordtype: a.
definition:
Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by
   deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.


word: Ossify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal
   substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.


word: Ostensible
wordtype: a.
definition:
Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed;
   apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible
   reason, motive, or aim.


word: Ostension
wordtype: n.
definition:
The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that
   it may receive the adoration of the communicants.


word: Ostentation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious
   display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a
   detractive sense.


word: Osteoblast
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the
   osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the
   matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.


word: Osteocolla
wordtype: n.
definition:
A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms
   incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the
   quality of uniting fractured bones.


word: Osteodentine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is
   sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.


word: Osteogenetic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of
   bone; producing bone; as, osteogenetic tissue; the osteogenetic layer
   of the periosteum.


word: Osteomalacia
wordtype: n.
definition:
A disease of the bones, in which they lose their
   earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called
   malacia.


word: Osteophone
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations
   through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by
   persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous
   apparatus of hearing.


word: Osteosarcoma
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which
   there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.


word: Osteotomy
wordtype: n.
definition:
The operation of dividing a bone or of cutting a piece
   out of it, -- done to remedy deformity, etc.


word: Ostic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, or applied to, the language of the
   Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux
   Indians.


word: Ostracion
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered
   with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes.


word: Ostracism
wordtype: n.
definition:
Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens
   to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.


word: Ostracize
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast
   out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by
   his former friends.


word: Ostracoidea
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve
   shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about.


word: Ostrich
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio
   camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very
   strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck,
   nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult
   male is about eight feet high.


word: Otaheite apple
definition:
The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree
   (Spondias dulcis), also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an
   apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said
   to taste like pineapples.


word: Otheoscope
wordtype: n.
definition:
An instrument for exhibiting the repulsive action
   produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the
   radoimeter.


word: Other
wordtype: pron. & a.
definition:
Different from that which, or the one who, has been
   specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.


word: Other
wordtype: pron. & a.
definition:
Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with
   every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second
   day.


word: Otoba fat
definition:
A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of
   Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tree.


word: Otocyst
wordtype: n.
definition:
An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory
   organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also,
   the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of
   vertebrates are developed.


word: Otolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of the small bones or particles of calcareous or other
   hard substance in the internal ear of vertebrates, and in the auditory
   organs of many invertebrates; an ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths
   are called ear sand and otoconite.


word: Otozoum
wordtype: n.
definition:
An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs,
   known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.


word: Ottawas
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the
   Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern
   shore of Lake Superior.


word: Otter
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related
   genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads,
   short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their
   fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris;
   the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South
   America and Asia.


word: Ottrelite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A micaceous mineral occurring in small scales. It is
   characteristic of certain crystalline schists.


word: Oubliette
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some
   old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to
   perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to
   fall.


word: Ought
wordtype: imp., p. p., or auxi
definition:
To be necessary, fit, becoming, or
   expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used
   impersonally or without a subject expressed.


word: Ounce
wordtype: n.
definition:
A feline quadruped (Felis irbis, / uncia) resembling the
   leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker
   fur, which forms a short mane on the back. The ounce is pale yellowish
   gray, with irregular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings
   on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asia. Called also
   once.


word: Our
wordtype: possessive pron.
definition:
Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us; as, our
   country; our rights; our troops; our endeavors. See I.


word: Ourselves
wordtype: pron.
definition:
; sing. Ourself (/). An emphasized form of the
   pronoun of the first person plural; -- used as a subject, usually with
   we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective
   case.


word: -ous
definition:
An adjective suffix meaning full of, abounding in, having,
   possessing the qualities of, like; as in gracious, abounding in grace;
   arduous, full of ardor; bulbous, having bulbs, bulblike; riotous,
   poisonous, piteous, joyous, etc.


word: -ous
definition:
A suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name
   bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination
   -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric,
   sulphuric, etc.


word: Ousel
wordtype: n.
definition:
One of several species of European thrushes, especially the
   blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring
   ousel (Turdus torquatus).


word: Out
wordtype: a.
definition:
In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior
   of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a
   position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to in
   or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (see Out
   of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he
   is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came
   out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc.


word: Out
wordtype: a.
definition:
Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual,
   place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the
   proprietor is out, his team was taken out.


word: Out
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy,
   constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment,
   constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness,
   disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to
   be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease
   broke out on his face; the book is out.


word: Out
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the
   end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction,
   exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out.


word: Out
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into,
   a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business,
   property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs
   came in; he put his money out at interest.


word: Out
wordtype: a.
definition:
Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct,
   proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect
   position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in
   an inharmonious relation.


word: Out
wordtype: a.
definition:
Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the
   state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.


word: Out
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of
   office; -- generally in the plural.


word: Out
wordtype: n.
definition:
A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an
   angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase
   ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.


word: Out
wordtype: interj.
definition:
Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; --
   with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off.


word: Outboard
wordtype: a. & adv.
definition:
Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's
   bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; --
   opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.


word: Outcast
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from
   home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.


word: Outdoor
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of
   certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor
   exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.


word: Outer
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the
   interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded
   as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall;
   the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world.


word: Outface
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To face or look (one) out of countenance; to resist or
   bear down by bold looks or effrontery; to brave.


word: Outfall
wordtype: n.
definition:
The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the
   open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.


word: Outfield
wordtype: n.
definition:
A field beyond, or separated from, the inclosed land
   about the homestead; an uninclosed or unexplored tract. Also used
   figuratively.


word: Outfit
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or
   of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a
   foreign land; things required for equipment; the expense of, or
   allowance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United
   States to a diplomatic agent going abroad.


word: Outgaze
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence
   of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.


word: Outgeneral
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To exceed in generalship; to gain advantage over by
   superior military skill or executive ability; to outmaneuver.


word: Outgrow
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too
   aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow
   an infirmity.


word: Outgrowth
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an
   excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.


word: Outguard
wordtype: n.
definition:
A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the
   main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence,
   anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be
   defended.


word: Outlandish
wordtype: a.
definition:
Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude;
   barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or
   speech.


word: Outlaugh
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to
   discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down.


word: Outlaw
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to
   outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force.


word: Outlawry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the
   protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding
   criminal) is deprived of that protection.


word: Outlier
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the
   main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.


word: Outline
wordtype: n.
definition:
The line which marks the outer limits of an object or
   figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.


word: Outline
wordtype: n.
definition:
In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like,
   by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.


word: Outline
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general
   indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline
   of a speech.


word: Outlying
wordtype: a.
definition:
Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or
   the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote;
   detached.


word: Outness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state or quality of being distanguishable from the
   perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality;
   externality; objectivity.


word: Out-of-door
wordtype: a.
definition:
Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open
   air; outdoor; as, out-of-door exercise. See Out of door, under Out,
   adv.


word: Outpost
wordtype: n.
definition:
A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a
   distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.


word: Output
wordtype: n.
definition:
The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines,
   or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or
   more furnaces or mills, in a given time.


word: Output
wordtype: n.
definition:
That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic
   activity of the body; the egesta other than the faeces. See Income.


word: Outrage
wordtype: n.
definition:
Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or
   things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton
   mischief; gross injury.


word: Outrageous
wordtype: n.
definition:
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of
   right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious;
   violent; atrocious.


word: Outrigger
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use,
   as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a
   building, to support hoisting teckle.


word: Outrigger
wordtype: n.
definition:
A projecting contrivance at the side of a boat to
   prevent upsetting, as projecting spars with a log at the end.


word: Sail
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails;
   hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other
   force.


word: Sailer
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words
   descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast
   sailer.


word: Sailing
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a
   vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a
   voyage.


word: Sailor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who follows the business of navigating ships or other
   vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of
   the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.


word: Saint
wordtype: n.
definition:
A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for
   piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated
   to God.


word: Saint
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an
   offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or
   reputation of a saint to (some one).


word: Saint-Simonian
wordtype: n.
definition:
A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in
   1825, and who maintained that the principle of property held in common,
   and the just division of the fruits of common labor among the members
   of society, are the true remedy for the social evils which exist.


word: Sake
wordtype: n.
definition:
Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive;
   reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly
   in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for
   mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain;
   to go abroad for the sake of one's health.


word: Saki
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the
   genus Pithecia. They have large ears, and a long hairy tail which is
   not prehensile.


word: Sakti
wordtype: n.
definition:
The divine energy, personified as the wife of a deity
   (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, etc.); the female principle.


word: Sal
wordtype: n.
definition:
An East Indian timber tree (Shorea robusta), much used for
   building purposes. It is of a light brown color, close-grained, heavy,
   and durable.


word: Salad
wordtype: n.
definition:
A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water
   cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and
   spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad;
   tomato salad, etc.


word: Salad
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or
   lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil,
   vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster
   salad.


word: Salal-berry
wordtype: n.
definition:
The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an
   ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are
   about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color.


word: Salam
wordtype: n.
definition:
A salutation or compliment of ceremony in the east by word
   or act; an obeisance, performed by bowing very low and placing the
   right palm on the forehead.


word: Salamander
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to
   Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera,
   especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits.


word: Salamander
wordtype: n.
definition:
A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which
   is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it.


word: Salaried
wordtype: a.
definition:
Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary
   attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office.


word: Salary
wordtype: n.
definition:
The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be
   paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by
   the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.


word: Salary
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary
   to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.


word: Sale
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a
   contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to
   another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.


word: Salep
wordtype: n.
definition:
The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia.
   It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered
   preparation with hot water.


word: Saleratus
wordtype: n.
definition:
Aerated salt; a white crystalline substance having an
   alkaline taste and reaction, consisting of sodium bicarbonate (see
   under Sodium.) It is largely used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic
   acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an
   ingredient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparation of
   effervescing drinks.


word: Salian
wordtype: a.
definition:
Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early
   in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic.


word: Salicin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A glucoside found in the bark and leaves of several
   species of willow (Salix) and poplar, and extracted as a bitter white
   crystalline substance.


word: Salicylal
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thin, fragrant, colorless oil, HO.C6H4.CHO, found in
   the flowers of meadow sweet (Spiraea), and also obtained by oxidation
   of salicin, saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also
   salicylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous, / spiroylous,
   acid.


word: Salicylic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid
   formerly obtained by fusing salicin with potassium hydroxide, and now
   made in large quantities from phenol (carbolic acid) by the action of
   carbon dioxide on heated sodium phenolate. It is a white crystalline
   substance. It is used as an antiseptic, and in its salts in the
   treatment of rheumatism. Called also hydroxybenzoic acid.


word: Saligenin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A phenol alcohol obtained, by the decomposition of
   salicin, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also
   hydroxy-benzyl alcohol.


word: Salina period
definition:
The period in which the American Upper Silurian
   system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was
   formed. See the Chart of Geology.


word: Saline
wordtype: a.
definition:
Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline
   particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.


word: Salivary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to saliva; producing or carrying saliva;
   as, the salivary ferment; the salivary glands; the salivary ducts, etc.


word: Salivate
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce
   salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury.


word: Salivation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act or process of salivating; an excessive
   secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and
   gums; ptyalism.


word: Salix
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and
   the like, growing usually in wet grounds.


word: Sallow
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to certain species of willow, especially those
   which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.


word: Sally
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly;
   as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make
   a sally.


word: Sally
wordtype: v.
definition:
A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden
   eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to
   attack the besiegers; a sortie.


word: Sally
wordtype: v.
definition:
Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act
   of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.


word: Sally Lunn
definition:
A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast,
   baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with
   butter.


word: Salmis
wordtype: n.
definition:
A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce, wine,
   bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.


word: Salmon
wordtype: v.
definition:
Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and
   allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and
   Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the
   most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See
   Quinnat.


word: Salon
wordtype: n.
definition:
An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the
   plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.


word: Saloon
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of
   company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for
   public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the
   saloon of a steamboat.


word: Saloon
wordtype: n.
definition:
Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom
   or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.


word: Saloop
wordtype: n.
definition:
An aromatic drink prepared from sassafras bark and other
   ingredients, at one time much used in London.


word: Salpa
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of transparent, tubular, free-swimming oceanic
   tunicates found abundantly in all the warmer latitudes. See
   Illustration in Appendix.


word: Salt
wordtype: n.
definition:
The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food,
   for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and
   is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water
   and other water impregnated with saline particles.


word: Salt
wordtype: n.
definition:
The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a
   base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or
   green vitriol.


word: Salt
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that
   which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or
   deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.


word: Salt
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially
   Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.


word: Salt
wordtype: n.
definition:
Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt;
   prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef;
   salt water.


word: Salt
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve
   with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or
   pork; to salt cattle.


word: Saltant
wordtype: v.
definition:
In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied
   especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat,
   greyhound, monkey, etc.


word: Saltarello
wordtype: n.
definition:
A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time,
   running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of
   each measure. See Tarantella.


word: Saltation
wordtype: n.
definition:
An abrupt and marked variation in the condition or
   appearance of a species; a sudden modification which may give rise to
   new races.


word: Saltcellar
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or
   other material, used for holding salt on the table.


word: Saltfoot
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the
   table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.


word: Saltigradae
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
A tribe of spiders including those which lie in
   wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.


word: Saltirewise
wordtype: adv.
definition:
In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of
   the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction
   of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.


word: Saltness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality or state of being salt, or state of being
   salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea
   water.


word: Saltpetre
wordtype: n.
definition:
Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance,
   KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain
   soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see
   Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of
   gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in
   medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant.


word: Salt rheum
definition:
A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various
   cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema.


word: Saltwort
wordtype: n.
definition:
A name given to several plants which grow on the
   seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort.


word: Salubrity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The quality of being salubrious; favorableness to the
   preservation of health; salubriousness; wholesomeness; healthfulness;
   as, the salubrity of the air, of a country, or a climate.


word: Salutary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Promotive of, or contributing to, some beneficial
   purpose; beneficial; advantageous; as, a salutary design.


word: Salutation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by
   the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good
   will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or
   greeting.


word: Salutatorian
wordtype: n.
definition:
The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at
   the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor
   commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks
   second in scholarship.


word: Salutatory
wordtype: a.
definition:
Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a
   welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which
   introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public
   exhibitions, in American colleges.


word: Salute
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To honor, as some day, person, or nation, by a discharge
   of cannon or small arms, by dipping colors, by cheers, etc.


word: Salute
wordtype: v.
definition:
A token of respect or honor for some distinguished or
   official personage, for a foreign vessel or flag, or for some festival
   or event, as by presenting arms, by a discharge of cannon, volleys of
   small arms, dipping the colors or the topsails, etc.


word: Salvage
wordtype: n.
definition:
The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist
   in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.


word: Salvation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and
   liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting
   happiness.


word: Salve
wordtype: n.
definition:
To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial
   treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.


word: Salve
wordtype: n.
definition:
To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as
   with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to
   gloss over.


word: Salvo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in
   endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.


word: Salvor
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without
   being under special obligation to do so.


word: Samara
wordtype: n.
definition:
A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as
   that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.


word: Samarskite
wordtype: a.
definition:
A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and
   submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium
   and cerium metals.


word: Sambo
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes,
   the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.


word: Sambuke
wordtype: n.
definition:
An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the
   particular construction of which is unknown.


word: Sambur
wordtype: n.
definition:
An East Indian deer (Rusa Aristotelis) having a mane on its
   neck. Its antlers have but three prongs. Called also gerow. The name is
   applied to other species of the genus Rusa, as the Bornean sambur (R.
   equina).


word: Same
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not
   differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared;
   corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.


word: Sameness
wordtype: n.
definition:
The state of being the same; identity; absence of
   difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a
   sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.


word: Samiel
wordtype: n.
definition:
A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey,
   from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the
   kamsin of Syria.


word: Samoan
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called
   Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants.


word: Samovar
wordtype: n.
definition:
A metal urn used in Russia for making tea. It is filled
   with water, which is heated by charcoal placed in a pipe, with chimney
   attached, which passes through the urn.


word: Samoyedes
wordtype: n. pl.
definition:
An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which
   occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.


word: Samp
wordtype: n.
definition:
An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised,
   which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy.


word: Sampan
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Chinese boat from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered
   with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the
   inland waters.


word: Samphire
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant
   (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the
   seacoast, and is used for pickles.


word: Sample
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as
   evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often
   purchased by samples.


word: Sampler
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines
   samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.


word: Sampler
wordtype: n.
definition:
A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of
   needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples,
   or to display the skill of the worker.


word: Samshu
wordtype: n.
definition:
A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the
   yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure.


word: Samson
wordtype: n.
definition:
An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.),
   distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary
   physical strength.


word: Sanbenito
wordtype: n.
definition:
A garnment or cap, or sometimes both, painted with
   flames, figures, etc., and worn by persons who had been examined by the
   Inquisition and were brought forth for punishment at the auto-da-fe.


word: Sanctification
wordtype: n.
definition:
the act of God's grace by which the affections of
   men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to a
   supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or
   sanctified.


word: Sanctify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or
   religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.


word: Sanctify
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness,
   inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to
   secure from violation; to give sanction to.


word: Sanctimony
wordtype: n.
definition:
Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity;
   especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended
   holiness; hypocritical devoutness.


word: Sanction
wordtype: n.
definition:
Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a
   superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some
   other person or body; establishment or furtherance of anything by
   giving authority to it; confirmation; approbation.


word: Sanctuary
wordtype: n.
definition:
The most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called
   the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into
   which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and he
   only once a year, to intercede for the people; also, the most sacred
   part of the tabernacle; also, the temple at Jerusalem.


word: Sanctuary
wordtype: n.
definition:
The most sacred part of any religious building, esp.
   that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed.


word: Sanctuary
wordtype: n.
definition:
A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where
   divine service is performed; a church, temple, or other place of
   worship.


word: Sanctum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved
   for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.


word: Sanctus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of
   the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus,
   sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; -- called also Tersanctus.


word: Sand
wordtype: n.
definition:
Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not
   reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which
   are not coherent when wet.


word: Sand
wordtype: n.
definition:
The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of
   time; the term or extent of one's life.


word: Sand
wordtype: n.
definition:
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia
   and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the
   tide.


word: Sandal
wordtype: n.
definition:
A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a
   protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper.


word: Sandalwood
wordtype: n.
definition:
The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East
   Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees
   of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S.
   pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to
   several other kinds of fragrant wood.


word: Sandarac
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white or yellow resin obtained from a Barbary tree
   (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for
   pounce; -- probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral.


word: Sanderling
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria)
   very common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also
   curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.


word: Sandfish
wordtype: n.
definition:
A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America
   (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.


word: Sandhiller
wordtype: n.
definition:
A nickname given to any "poor white" living in the pine
   woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina.


word: Sandiver
wordtype: n.
definition:
A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the
   materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off;
   -- called also glass gall.


word: Sandman
wordtype: n.
definition:
A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they
   rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.


word: Sandnecker
wordtype: n.
definition:
A European flounder (Hippoglossoides limandoides); --
   called also rough dab, long fluke, sand fluke, and sand sucker.


word: Sandpiper
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game
   birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied
   genera of the family Tringidae.


word: Sandre
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable
   oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviare.


word: Sandstone
wordtype: n.
definition:
A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common
   or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.


word: Sandwich
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert
   between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or
   things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.


word: Sandworm
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They
   construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are
   sometimes destructive to oysters.


word: Sandy
wordtype: superl.
definition:
Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand;
   full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road,
   or soil.


word: Sane
wordtype: a.
definition:
Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental
   faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of
   the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.


word: Sangu
wordtype: n.
definition:
The Abyssinian ox (Bos / Bibos, Africanus), noted for the
   great length of its horns. It has a hump on its back.


word: Sang-froid
wordtype: n.
definition:
Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness
   in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness.


word: Sanhedrim
wordtype: n.
definition:
the great council of the Jews, which consisted of
   seventy members, to whom the high priest was added. It had jurisdiction
   of religious matters.


word: Sanidine
wordtype: n.
definition:
A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain
   eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar.


word: Sanious
wordtype: a.
definition:
Pertaining to sanies, or partaking of its nature and
   appearance; thin and serous, with a slight bloody tinge; as, the
   sanious matter of an ulcer.


word: Sanitary
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or
   preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health;
   hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.


word: Sanitation
wordtype: n.
definition:
The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary
   conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures;
   hygiene.


word: Sanity
wordtype: n.
definition:
The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health
   of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.


word: Sankha
wordtype: n.
definition:
A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or
   necklace made in India from the chank shell.


word: Sankhya
wordtype: n.
definition:
A Hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to
   soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements,
   goodness, passion, and darkness.


word: Sans-culotte
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; -- a name
   of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme
   republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the
   upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.


word: Sanskrit
wordtype: n.
definition:
The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete
   in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and
   sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the
   principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more
   perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language
   from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in
   determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.


word: Santal
wordtype: n.
definition:
A colorless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal,
   but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.


word: Santalaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants
   (Santalaceae), of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which
   includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and
   many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere.


word: Santalic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood
   (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a
   resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.


word: Santalum
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small
   apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from
   India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.


word: Santonic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from
   santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline
   substance.


word: Santonin
wordtype: n.
definition:
A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste,
   extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic.
   It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to
   appear as if seen through a yellow glass.


word: Santoninic
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to santonin; -- used specifically to
   designate an acid not known in the free state, but obtained in its
   salts.


word: Sao
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any marine annelid of the genus Hyalinaecia, especially H.
   tubicola of Europe, which inhabits a transparent movable tube
   resembling a quill in color and texture.


word: Sap
wordtype: n.
definition:
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and
   descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.


word: Sap
wordtype: n.
definition:
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel
   toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under
   cover of gabions, etc.


word: Sapajou
wordtype: n.
definition:
Any one of several species of South American monkeys of
   the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species
   are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the
   golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou
   (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.


word: Sapan wood
definition:
A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny
   leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the
   original Brazil wood.


word: Saphenous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous
   veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in
   the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vein
   passes.


word: Sapindaceous
wordtype: a.
definition:
Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs
   (Sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the
   margosa, and about seventy other genera.


word: Sapindus
wordtype: n.
definition:
A genus of tropical and subtropical trees with pinnate
   leaves and panicled flowers. The fruits of some species are used
   instead of soap, and their round black seeds are made into necklaces.


word: Sapodilla
wordtype: n.
definition:
A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (Achras
   Sapota); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum.


word: Pisolite
wordtype: n.
definition:
A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of
   aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also
   peastone, peagrit.


word: Pissasphalt
wordtype: n.
definition:
Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence
   of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate
   between petroleum and asphalt.


word: Pistachio
wordtype: n.
definition:
The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order
   Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has
   a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of
   agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome
   and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.


word: Pistacia
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which
   bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia
   Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or
   Cyprus turpentine.


word: Pistil
wordtype: n.
definition:
The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an
   ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which
   is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When
   composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it
   is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.


word: Pistol
wordtype: n.
definition:
The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one
   hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names.
   See Illust. of Revolver.


word: Pistole
wordtype: n.
definition:
The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly
   coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a
   quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the
   same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.


word: Piston
wordtype: n.
definition:
A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against,
   fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within
   a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used
   in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to
   transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.


word: Pit
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or
   artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation


word: Pit
wordtype: n.
definition:
A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or
   quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made
   by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.


word: Pit
wordtype: n.
definition:
A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall;
   hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.


word: Pit
wordtype: n.
definition:
Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house,
   below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England,
   commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet;
   also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.


word: Pit
wordtype: n.
definition:
An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals
   are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.


word: Pit
wordtype: n.
definition:
The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a
   stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.


word: Pit
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a
   contest; as, to pit one dog against another.


word: Pita
wordtype: n.
definition:
A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related
   species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber,
   and pita thread.


word: Pitch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by
   boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in
   coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.


word: Pitch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to
   cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a
   ball.


word: Pitch
wordtype: v. t.
definition:
To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles;
   hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange;
   as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.


word: Pitch
wordtype: v. i.
definition:
To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or
   slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy
   sea; the field pitches toward the east.


word: Pitch
wordtype: n.
definition:
A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or
   depression; hence, a limit or bound.


word: Pitch
wordtype: n.
definition:
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity
   itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope;
   slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.


word: Pitch
wordtype: n.
definition:
The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by
   the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a
   scale of high and low.


word: Pitch
wordtype: n.
definition:
The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth
   of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.


word: Pitch
wordtype: n.
definition:
The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of
   the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw
   propeller.


word: Pitcher
wordtype: n.
definition:
One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.;
   specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the
   batsman.


word: Pitcher
wordtype: n.
definition:
A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a
   spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large
   ear or handle.


