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Stowaway  
Chori Safar Karne Wala چوری سفر کرنے والا
Black Light Trap  
Sayyah Roshni Phanda سياہ روشنی پھندا
Swap  
Adal Badal Karna ادل بدل کرنا
Sway  
Jholna جھولنا
Swear  
qasam uthana قسم اٹھانا
Sweat  
paseena پسینہ
Tab  
tukra ٹکڑا
Tabernacular  
Jali Dar جالی دار
Tabular  
Maiz Numa میز نما
Tap  
Tonti ٹونٹی

Definition & Synonyms
• Laciniae
  1. (pl. ) of Lacinia
• Lacinulae
  1. (pl. ) of Lacinula
• Lacunae
  1. (pl. ) of Lacuna
• Lagenae
  1. (pl. ) of Lagena
• Lamellae
  1. (pl. ) of Lamella
• Laminae
  1. (pl. ) of Lamina
• Larvae
  1. (pl. ) of Larva
• Lecticae
  1. (pl. ) of Lectica
• Lenticulae
  1. (pl. ) of Lenticula
• Librae
  1. (pl. ) of Libra
• Ligulae
  1. (pl. ) of Ligula
• Linguae
  1. (pl. ) of Lingua
• Loricae
  1. (pl. ) of Lorica
• Lunulae
  1. (pl. ) of Lunula
• Lyttae
  1. (pl. ) of Lytta
• Maculae
  1. (pl. ) of Macula
• Mammae
  1. (pl. ) of Mamma
• Mammilae
  1. (pl. ) of Mammilla
• Men-of-war
  1. (pl. ) of Manofwar
• Maxillae
  1. (pl. ) of Maxilla
• Mediae
  1. (pl. ) of Media
• Medusae
  1. (pl. ) of Medusa
• Micellae
  1. (pl. ) of Micella
• Minae
  1. (pl. ) of Mina
• Minutiae
  1. (pl. ) of Minutia
• Missae
  1. (pl. ) of Missa
• Morulae
  1. (pl. ) of Morula
• Musae
  1. (pl. ) of Musa
• Muscae
  1. (pl. ) of Musca
• NassAe
  1. (pl. ) of Nassa
  2. (pl. ) of Nassa
• NaticAe
  1. (pl. ) of Natica
  2. (pl. ) of Natica
• Nebulae
  1. (pl. ) of Nebula
  2. (pl. ) of Nebula
• NoctilucAe
  1. (pl. ) of Noctiluca
  2. (pl. ) of Noctiluca
• Postocular
  1. (a. & n.) Same as Postorbital.
• Tway
  1. (a. & n.) Two; twain.
• Minorat
  1. (a.) A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir.
• Regular
  1. (a.) 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.
  2. (a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.
  3. (a.) Same as Isometric.
  4. (a.) 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.
  5. (a.) 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.
  6. (a.) Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.
  7. (a.) Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug.
  8. (a.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  9. (a.) 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.


Synonyms:
Even, Fixture, Habitue, Steady, Veritable,
• Rajah
  1. (a.) A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.


Synonyms:
Raja,
• Vinegar
  1. (a.) A sour liquid used as a condiment, or as a preservative, and obtained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.
  2. (a.) Hence, anything sour; -- used also metaphorically.
  3. (v. t.) To convert into vinegar; to make like vinegar; to render sour or sharp.
• Supraocular
  1. (a.) Above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.
• Supersolar
  1. (a.) Above the sun.
• Laminar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Laminal


Synonyms:
Laminal,
• Lumbar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Lumbal
• Maxillar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Maxillary
• Monomaniac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Monomaniacal
  2. (n.) A person affected by monomania.
• Nummular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Nummulary
  2. (a.) Alt. of Nummulary
• Paradisiac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Paradisiacal


Synonyms:
Elysian, Paradisaic, Paradisaical, Paradisal, Paradisiacal, Paradisial,
• Pericardiac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Pericardial


Synonyms:
Pericardial,
• Petiolar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Petiolary
• Proconsular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Proconsulary
• Skar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Skare
• Sothiac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Sothic
• Stellar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Stellary


Synonyms:
Astral, Leading, Star, Starring,
• Sublunar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Sublunary


Synonyms:
Sublunary, Terrestrial,
• Suborbicular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Suborbiculate
• Subscapular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Subscapulary
• Superlunar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Superlunary


Synonyms:
Superlunary, Translunary,
• Supracondylar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Supracondyloid
• Supralunar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Supralunary
• Suprascalpular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Suprascalpulary
• Theriac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Theriacal
  2. (n.) Alt. of Theriaca
• Tintinnabular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tintinnabulary
• Triluminar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Triluminous
• Triobolar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Triobolary
• Tutelar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Tutelary


Synonyms:
Custodial, Guardian, Tutelary,
• Perivascular
  1. (a.) Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics.
• Tabular
  1. (a.) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
  2. (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
  3. (a.) Set in squares.
  4. (a.) Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).
  5. (a.) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.
  6. (a.) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
• Storm-beat
  1. (a.) Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms.
• Supravulgar
  1. (a.) Being above the vulgar or common people.
• Supersecular
  1. (a.) Being above the world, or secular things.
• Midway
  1. (a.) Being in the middle of the way or distance; as, the midway air.
  2. (adv.) In the middle of the way or distance; half way.
  3. (n.) The middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course.


Synonyms:
Center, Halfway, Middle,
• Latterday
  1. (a.) Belonging to present times or those recent by comparison.
• Sunday
  1. (a.) Belonging to the Christian Sabbath.
  2. (n.) The first day of the week, -- consecrated among Christians to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship; the Christian Sabbath; the Lords Day.


Synonyms:
Good, Sun,
• Popular
  1. (a.) Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.
  2. (a.) Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace.
  3. (a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections.
  5. (a.) Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.
  6. (a.) Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.


Synonyms:
Democratic, Plain, Pop,
• Tubercular
  1. (a.) Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.
  2. (a.) Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
  3. (a.) Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.


Synonyms:
Tuberculous,
• Phlyctenular
  1. (a.) Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia.
• Secular
  1. (a.) Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
  2. (n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
  3. (n.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
  5. (a.) Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
  6. (a.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
  7. (a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
  8. (n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.


Synonyms:
Laic, Lay,
• Puncticular
  1. (a.) Comprised in, or like, a point; exact.
• Subpetiolar
  1. (a.) Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.
• Particular
  1. (a.) Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.
  2. (n.) Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character; individuality; interest, etc.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular.
  4. (a.) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise.
  5. (a.) Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.
  6. (a.) Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.
  7. (n.) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises.
  8. (n.) A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.
  9. (a.) Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation.
  10. (a.) Separate or distinct by reason of superiority; distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.


Synonyms:
Detail, Especial, Exceptional, Finical, Finicky, Fussy, Item, Peculiar, Special, Specific,
• Three-way
  1. (a.) Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.


Synonyms:
Triangular, Trilateral, Tripartite,
• Tumular
  1. (a.) Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock.
• Unilobar
  1. (a.) Consisting of a single lobe.
• Papular
  1. (a.) Consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption.
  2. (a.) Covered with papules.
• Septinsular
  1. (a.) Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.
• Multicellular
  1. (a.) Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.
• Multilobar
  1. (a.) Consisting of, or having, many lobes.
• Polynuclear
  1. (a.) Containing many nuclei.
• Multinuclear
  1. (a.) Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells.
• Valvular
  1. (a.) Containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.
• Mixtilinear
  1. (a.) 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.
• Postliminiar
  1. (a.) Contrived, done, or existing subsequently.
• Pustular
  1. (a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.
• Maat
  1. (a.) Dejected; sorrowful; downcast.
• Kitcat
  1. (a.) Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcat Club.
  2. (n.) A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.
  3. (a.) Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
• Tai
  1. (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech.
  2. (n.) A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.


Synonyms:
Siamese,
• Nonvascular
  1. (a.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular.
  2. (a.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular.
• Snap
  1. (a.) Done, performed, made, executed, carried through, or the like, quickly and without deliberation; as, a snap judgment or decision; a snap political convention.
  2. (n.) A snapshot.
  3. (v. t.) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
  4. (n.) Something of no value; as, not worth a snap.
  5. (n.) A snap shot with a firearm.
  6. (v. i.) Of the eyes, to emit sudden, brief sparkles like those of a snapping fire, as sometimes in anger.
  7. (n.) Any task, labor, set of circumstances, or the like, that yields satisfactory results or gives pleasure with little trouble or effort, as an easy course of study, a job where work is light, a bargain, etc.
  8. (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
  9. (v. t.) A greedy fellow.
  10. (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
  11. (n.) To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
  12. (v. i.) To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
  13. (v. t.) A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
  14. (n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
  15. (n.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
  16. (v. t.) A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
  17. (n.) To project with a snap.
  18. (v. t.) A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
  19. (n.) To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.
  20. (v. t.) Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.
  21. (v. i.) To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
  22. (v. i.) To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
  23. (v. t.) That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
  24. (v. t.) A snap beetle.
  25. (v. t.) A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
  26. (n.) To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
  27. (v. t.) A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  28. (v. i.) To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.
  29. (v. t.) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.
  30. (v. t.) A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.


Synonyms:
Breeze, Bust, Catch, Centering, Cinch, Click, Crack, Flick, Grab, Photograph, Picnic, Rupture, Shoot, Snarl, Snatch, Tear,
• Singular
  1. (a.) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
  2. (a.) Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
  3. (n.) An individual instance; a particular.
  4. (a.) Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
  5. (n.) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.
  6. (a.) Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
  7. (a.) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
  8. (a.) Existing by itself; single; individual.
  9. (a.) Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
  10. (a.) Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.
  11. (a.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.


Synonyms:
Curious, Funny, Odd, Peculiar, Queer, Remarkable, Rum, Rummy, Unique,
• Overneat
  1. (a.) Excessively neat.
• Titular
  1. (a.) Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince.
  2. (n.) A titulary.


Synonyms:
Nominal, Titulary,
• Piacular
  1. (a.) Expiatory; atoning.
  2. (a.) Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.
• Simular
  1. (a.) False; specious; counterfeit.
  2. (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender.
• Squab
  1. (a.) Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
  2. (adv.) With a heavy fall; plump.
  3. (n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
  4. (v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
  5. (a.) Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon.
  6. (n.) A person of a short, fat figure.
  7. (n.) A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.


Synonyms:
Dove, Squabby,
• Lamellar
  1. (a.) Flat and thin; lamelliform; composed of lamellae.
• Tesselar
  1. (a.) Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic.
• Neat
  1. (a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
  2. (n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
  3. (a.) Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.
  4. (n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neats tongue; a neats foot.
  5. (a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
  6. (a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]
  7. (a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
  8. (a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
  9. (a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
  10. (n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
  11. (a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
  12. (a.) Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.
  13. (n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neats tongue; a neats foot.
  14. (a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]


Synonyms:
Bully, Clean, Corking, Cracking, Dandy, Great, Keen, Peachy, Refined, Smashing, Straight, Swell, Tasteful,
• Semilenticular
  1. (a.) Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.
• Lunular
  1. (a.) Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.
• Silver-gray
  1. (a.) Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
• Subcolumnar
  1. (a.) Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.
• obtuse-angular
  1. (a.) Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.
• Scutelliplantar
  1. (a.) Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.
• Unipolar
  1. (a.) Having but one pole or process; -- applied to those ganglionic nerve cells which have but one radiating process; -- opposed to multipolar.
  2. (a.) Having, or acting by means of, one pole only.
• Octangular
  1. (a.) Having eight angles; eight-angled.


Synonyms:
Octagonal,
• Octolocular
  1. (a.) Having eight cells for seeds.
• Octonocular
  1. (a.) Having eight eyes.
• Quinquangular
  1. (a.) Having five angles or corners.
• Pentacapsular
  1. (a.) Having five capsules.
• Quinquelocular
  1. (a.) Having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a quinquelocular pericarp.
• Pentangular
  1. (a.) Having five corners or angles.


Synonyms:
Pentagonal,
• Quinquevalvular
  1. (a.) Having five valves, as a pericarp.
• Quadrangular
  1. (a.) Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal.
• Quadricapsular
  1. (a.) Having four capsules.
• Quadrilocular
  1. (a.) Having four cells, or cavities; as, a quadrilocular heart.
• Quadrivalvular
  1. (a.) Having four valves; quadrivalve.
• Multangular
  1. (a.) Having many angles.
• Multocular
  1. (a.) Having many eyes, or more than two.
• Multilocular
  1. (a.) Having many or several cells or compartments; as, a multilocular shell or capsule.
• Multipolar
  1. (a.) Having many poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.
  2. (a.) Having, or pertaining to, many poles, as a field magnet or armature of a dynamo, or a dynamo having such a field magnet or (sometimes) armature.
  3. (a.) Having many poles; in Anat., designating specif. a nerve cell which has several dendrites.
• Multititular
  1. (a.) Having many titles.
• Multitubular
  1. (a.) Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler.
• Multivalvular
  1. (a.) Having many valves.
  2. (a.) Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons.
• Multicapsular
  1. (a.) Having many, or several, capsules.
• Polynucleolar
  1. (a.) Having more than one nucleolus.
• Unilocular
  1. (a.) Having one cell or cavity only; as, a unilocular capsule or shell.
• Unimuscular
  1. (a.) Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian.
• Monocular
  1. (a.) Having only one eye; with one eye only; as, monocular vision.
  2. (a.) Adapted to be used with only one eye at a time; as, a monocular microscope.
• Unifilar
  1. (a.) Having only one thread; involving the use of only one thread, wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension.
• Three-coat
  1. (a.) Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
• Tritubercular
  1. (a.) Having or designating teeth with three cusps or tubercles; tricuspid.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to trituberculy.
• Plurilocular
  1. (a.) having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits.
  2. (a.) Having several cells or loculi
• Sexangular
  1. (a.) Having six angles; hexagonal.
• Sexlocular
  1. (a.) Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.
• Senocular
  1. (a.) Having six eyes.
• Verisimilar
  1. (a.) Having the appearance of truth; probable; likely.
• Tun-great
  1. (a.) Having the circumference of a tun.
• Semiannular
  1. (a.) Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle.
• Tubular
  1. (a.) Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.


Synonyms:
Cannular,
• Semicircular
  1. (a.) Having the form of half of a circle.
• Vesicular
  1. (a.) Having the form or structure of a vesicle; as, a vesicular body.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.
  3. (a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.
• Velar
  1. (a.) Having the place of articulation on the soft palate; guttural; as, the velar consonants, such as k and hard q.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a velum; esp. (Anat.) of or pertaining to the soft palate.
• Specular
  1. (a.) Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.
  3. (a.) Affording view.
  4. (a.) Assisting sight, as a lens or the like.
• Semiorbicular
  1. (a.) Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.
• Stellular
  1. (a.) Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.
  2. (a.) Marked with starlike spots of color.
• Laminiplantar
  1. (a.) Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.
• Trilocular
  1. (a.) Having three cells or cavities; as, a trilocular capsule; a trilocular heart.
• Trirectangular
  1. (a.) Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.
• Trivalvular
  1. (a.) Having three valves; three-valved.
• Unicellular
  1. (a.) Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
• Septangular
  1. (a.) Heptagonal.
• Similar
  1. (a.) Homogenous; uniform.
  2. (a.) Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
  3. (a.) Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.
  4. (n.) That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.


Synonyms:
Alike, Exchangeable, Interchangeable, Like,
• Vertebro-iliac
  1. (a.) Iliolumbar.
• Lunar
  1. (a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
  3. (n.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
  4. (a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
  5. (n.) A lunar distance.
  6. (a.) Resembling the moon; orbed.
• Lanceolar
  1. (a.) Lanceolate.
• Lobular
  1. (a.) Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.
• Saccular
  1. (a.) Like a sac; sacciform.
• Semicolumnar
  1. (a.) Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
• Supernacular
  1. (a.) Like supernaculum; first-rate; as, a supernacular wine.
• Manipular
  1. (a.) Manipulatory; as, manipular operations.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the maniple, or company.
• Militar
  1. (a.) Military.
• Penannular
  1. (a.) Nearly annular; having nearly the form of a ring.
• Subcircular
  1. (a.) Nearly circular.
• Subglobular
  1. (a.) Nearly globular.
• Subpentangular
  1. (a.) Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• Subtriangular
  1. (a.) Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular.
• Neuromuscular
  1. (a.) Nervomuscular.
  2. (a.) Nervomuscular.
• Nonvernacular
  1. (a.) Not vernacular.
  2. (a.) Not vernacular.
• Triangular
  1. (a.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
  2. (a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.


Synonyms:
Three-sided, Three-way, Trilateral, Tripartite,
• Slate-gray
  1. (a.) Of a dark gray, like slate.


Synonyms:
Slaty,
• Unguicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a claw or a nail; ungual.
• Tussicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a cough.
• Ungular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a hoof, claw, or talon; ungual.
• Linear
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.
  2. (a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.


Synonyms:
Additive, Analogue, Elongate, Running,
• Lobar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.
• Molar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.
  2. (n.) Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.
  3. (a.) Having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth.


Synonyms:
Grinder,
• Nuclear
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.


Synonyms:
Atomic,
• Perinuclear
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.
• Peduncular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.
• Pellicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a pellicle.
• Peninsular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.
• Vallar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a rampart.
  2. (n.) A vallar crown.
• Superparticular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4.
• Reticular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a reticulum.
  2. (a.) Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.


Synonyms:
Reticulate, Reticulated,
• Spectacular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show.
  2. (a.) Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play.
  3. (a.) Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.


Synonyms:
Dramatic, Outstanding, Prominent, Salient, Striking,
• Spiracular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a spiracle.
• Tentacular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
• Tegular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement.
• Trabecular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculae; composed of trabeculae.


Synonyms:
Trabeculate,
• Uvular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a uvula.
• Vehicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.
• Ventricular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a ventricle; bellied.
• Vestibular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.
• Vermicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic.


Synonyms:
Vermiculate, Vermiculated,
• Ovioular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to an egg.
• Outlinear
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline.
• Umbellar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.


Synonyms:
Umbellate,
• Nervomuscular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
• Temporo-auricular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.
• Temporomalar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.
• Tabernacular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low.
  2. (a.) Formed in latticework; latticed.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.
• Pedicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy.
• Noonday
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday heat.
  2. (n.) Midday; twelve oclock in the day; noon.
  3. (n.) Midday; twelve oclock in the day; noon.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday heat.


Synonyms:
Midday, Noon, Noontide,
• Modular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
• Nebular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
• Polar
  1. (a.) 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.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coordinates.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed.
  4. (n.) 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.


Synonyms:
Arctic, Diametric, Diametrical, Freezing, Frigid, Gelid, Glacial, Icy, Opposite, Pivotal,
• Paranoiac
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to paranoia; affected with, or characteristic of, paranoia.
  2. (n.) A person affected with paranoia.
• Pelusiac
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.
• Pilular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, a pilular mass.
• Radicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to roots, or the root of a plant.
• Somnambular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic.
• Stipular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.
• Syriac
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch.
  2. (n.) The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.
• Primipilar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the captain of the vanguard of a Roman army.
• Malleolar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.
• Mesoscapular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula.
• Novilunar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the new moon.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the new moon.
• Nucleolar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the nucleolus of a cell.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the nucleolus of a cell.
• Volar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
• Patellar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
• Postscapular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.
• Prescapular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.
• Malar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.
  2. (n.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.
• Rotular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.
• Scapholunar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus.
  2. (n.) The scapholunar bone.
• Siphuncular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the siphuncle.
• Plantar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.
• Stilar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of a dial.
• Solar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.
  2. (a.) A loft or upper chamber; a garret room.
  3. (a.) Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
  4. (a.) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
  5. (a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
• Testicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the testicle.
• Tonsilar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsilitic.
• Ulnar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow; as, the ulnar nerve.
• Palmar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.
• Vascular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
  2. (a.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
  4. (a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
• Versicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.
• New-year
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.
• Tribular
  1. (a.) Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship.
• Locular
  1. (a.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.
• Pabular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or fit for, pabulum or food; affording food.
• Nodular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.
  2. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.


Synonyms:
Noduled,
• Trilinear
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coordinates.
• Oparcular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, an operculum.
• Navicular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
  2. (a.) Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone.
  3. (n.) The navicular bone.
  4. (a.) Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone.
  5. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a boat or ship.
  6. (n.) The navicular bone.


Synonyms:
Scaphoid,
• Uniocular
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or seated in, one eye; monocular.
• Opacular
  1. (a.) Opaque.
• Orbitar
  1. (a.) Orbital.
• Peculiar
  1. (a.) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
  2. (n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
  3. (a.) Ones own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.
  4. (a.) Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.
  5. (n.) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.


Synonyms:
Curious, Funny, Odd, Particular, Queer, Rum, Rummy, Singular, Special,
• Pendular
  1. (a.) Pendulous.
• Rostellar
  1. (a.) Pertaining to a rostellum.
• Maxillo-mandibular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo-mandibular nerve.
• Receptacular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.
• Sacculo-cochlear
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.
• Sacculo-utricular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear.
• Substylar
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the substyle.
• Molecular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.
• Working-day
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working.
• Lacunar
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or having, lacunae; as, a lacunar circulation.
  2. (n.) One of the sunken panels in such a ceiling.
  3. (n.) The ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels.
• Scrobicular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculae; as, scrobicular tubercles.
• Plano-orbicular
  1. (a.) Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.
• Snip-snap
  1. (a.) Quick; short; sharp; smart.
  2. (n.) A tart dialogue with quick replies.
• Maniac
  1. (a.) Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
  2. (n.) A raving lunatic; a madman.


Synonyms:
Lunatic, Madman, Maniacal,
• Ovular
  1. (a.) Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.
• Plumular
  1. (a.) Relating to a plumule.
• Quinquarticular
  1. (a.) Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists.
• Relay
  1. (a.) Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an auxiliary apparatus put into action by a feeble force but itself capable of exerting greater force, used to control a comparatively powerful machine or appliance.
  2. (n.) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.
  3. (n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.
  4. (n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.
  5. (v. t.) To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
  6. (n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.
  7. (n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
• Spicular
  1. (a.) Resembling a dart; having sharp points.
• Lenticular
  1. (a.) Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.


Synonyms:
Biconvex, Convexo-convex, Lentiform,
• Utricular
  1. (a.) Resembling a utricle or bag, whether large or minute; -- said especially with reference to the condition of certain substances, as sulphur, selenium, etc., when condensed from the vaporous state and deposited upon cold bodies, in which case they assume the form of small globules filled with liquid.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a utricle, or utriculus; containing, or furnished with, a utricle or utricles; utriculate; as, a utricular plant.
• Oracular
  1. (a.) Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.


Synonyms:
Delphic, Enigmatic,
• Orbicular
  1. (a.) Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.


Synonyms:
Globose, Globular, Orbiculate, Spheric, Spherical,
• Lunisolar
  1. (a.) Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon.
• Rectangular
  1. (a.) Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.


Synonyms:
Orthogonal,
• Papillar
  1. (a.) Same as Papillose.
• Univalvular
  1. (a.) Same as Univalve, a.
• Scoriac
  1. (a.) Scoriaceous.
• Medullar
  1. (a.) See Medullary.
• Obtusangular
  1. (a.) See Obstuseangular.
• Praemolar
  1. (a.) See Premolar.
• Stylar
  1. (a.) See Stilar.
• Supra-angular
  1. (a.) See Surangular.
• Trilinguar
  1. (a.) See Trilingual.
• Out-of-the-way
  1. (a.) See under Out, adv.
• Semifloscular
  1. (a.) Semiflosculous.
• Two-way
  1. (a.) Serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way cock.


Synonyms:
Bipartite,
• Modiolar
  1. (a.) Shaped like a bushel measure.
• Supraclavicular
  1. (a.) Situated above the clavicle.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the supraclavicle.
• Supraorbitar
  1. (a.) Situated above the orbit of the eye.
• Subpolar
  1. (a.) Situated below the poles.
• Subpeduncular
  1. (a.) Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.
• Prelumbar
  1. (a.) Situated immediately in front of the loins; -- applied to the dorsal part of the abdomen.
• Preopercular
  1. (a.) Situated in front of the operculum; pertaining to the preoperculum.
  2. (n.) The preoperculum.
• Supratrochlear
  1. (a.) Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.
• Suborbitar
  1. (a.) Situated under or below the orbit.
• Subcuticular
  1. (a.) Situated under the cuticle, or scarfskin.
• Sublobular
  1. (a.) Situated under, or at the bases of, the lobules of the liver.
• Subocular
  1. (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the eye.


Synonyms:
Suborbital,
• Sublumbar
  1. (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column.
• Submuscular
  1. (a.) Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.
• Subangular
  1. (a.) Slightly angular.
• Solidungular
  1. (a.) Solipedous.
• Subgranular
  1. (a.) Somewhat granular.
• Rectilinear
  1. (a.) Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.


Synonyms:
Rectilineal,
• Vertilinear
  1. (a.) Straight; rectilinear.
• Sustentacular
  1. (a.) Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue.
• Pericellular
  1. (a.) Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells.
• Tessular
  1. (a.) Tesseral.
• Wednesday
  1. (a.) The fourth day of the week; the next day after Tuesday.


Synonyms:
Wed,
• Midday
  1. (a.) The middle part of the day; noon.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.


Synonyms:
Noon, Noonday, Noontide,
• Majorat
  1. (a.) The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
  2. (a.) Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.
• Sear
  1. (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively.
  2. (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
  3. (a.) To wither; to dry up.
  4. (a.) Alt. of Sere


Synonyms:
Parch, Scorch, Sere, Shriveled, Shrivelled, Singe, Withered,
• Overgreat
  1. (a.) Too great.
• Tubicolar
  1. (a.) Tubicolous.
• Subnuvolar
  1. (a.) Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured by clouds; somewhat cloudy.
• Wild-cat
  1. (a.) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.
  2. (a.) Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
• Urceolar
  1. (a.) Urceolate.
• Valvar
  1. (a.) Valvular.
• Variolar
  1. (a.) Variolous.
• Verray
  1. (a.) Very; true.
• Muscular
  1. (a.) Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.
  3. (a.) Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.


Synonyms:
Brawny, Hefty, Powerful, Sinewy,
• Madcap
  1. (a.) Wild; reckless.
  2. (n.) A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.
  3. (a.) Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.


Synonyms:
Brainish, Harum-scarum, Impetuous, Impulsive, Lunatic, Swashbuckler,
• Noway
  1. (adv.) Alt. of Noways
  2. (adv.) Alt. of Noways
• Thereat
  1. (adv.) At that place; there.
  2. (adv.) At that occurrence or event; on that account.
• Whereat
  1. (adv.) At what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat are you offended?
  2. (adv.) At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively.


Synonyms:
Whereupon,
• Mostwhat
  1. (adv.) For the most part.
• Straightway
  1. (adv.) Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
• Pat
  1. (adv.) In a pat manner.
  2. (n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
  3. (a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
  4. (n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
  5. (v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.


Synonyms:
Chuck, Dab, Glib, Rap, Slick, Tap,
• Somewhat
  1. (adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.
  2. (n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
  3. (n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.


Synonyms:
Fairly, Middling, Moderately, Passably, Reasonably, Slightly,
• Muchwhat
  1. (adv.) Nearly; almost; much.
• Near
  1. (adv.) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; in the Unted States, on the left of an animal or a team; as, the near ox; the near leg. See Off side, under Off, a.
  2. (adv.) Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh.
  3. (v. i.) To draw near; to approach.
  4. (a) Close-fisted; parsimonious.
  5. (adv.) Closely; intimately.
  6. (adv.) Nearly; almost; well-nigh.
  7. (a) Immediate; direct; close; short.
  8. (adv.) Close to ones interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend.
  9. (adv.) Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.
  10. (adv.) Closely connected or related.
  11. (adv.) To approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land.
  12. (adv.) So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape.
  13. (adv.) At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh.
  14. (prep.) Adjacent to; close by; not far from; nigh; as, the ship sailed near the land. See the Note under near, a.
  15. (adv.) Closely connected or related.
  16. (adv.) Nearly; almost; well-nigh.
  17. (adv.) Close to ones interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend.
  18. (a) Immediate; direct; close; short.
  19. (adv.) So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape.
  20. (adv.) To approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land.
  21. (v. i.) To draw near; to approach.
  22. (a) Close-fisted; parsimonious.
  23. (adv.) Closely; intimately.
  24. (adv.) Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.
  25. (adv.) At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh.
  26. (prep.) Adjacent to; close by; not far from; nigh; as, the ship sailed near the land. See the Note under near, a.
  27. (adv.) Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh.
  28. (adv.) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; in the Unted States, on the left of an animal or a team; as, the near ox; the near leg. See Off side, under Off, a.


Synonyms:
About, Almost, Approach, Approximate, Cheeseparing, Close, Closer, Dear, Good, Most, Nearly, Nigh, Virtually, Well-nigh,
• Mayhap
  1. (adv.) Perhaps; peradventure.
• Toyear
  1. (adv.) This year.
• Scimitar
  1. (n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.
  2. (n.) A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
• Marai
  1. (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.
• Outleap
  1. (n.) A sally.
  2. (v. t.) To surpass in leaping.
• Thermostat
  1. (n.) A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.


Synonyms:
Thermoregulator,
• Knap
  1. (n.) A sharp blow or slap.
  2. (n.) A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop.
  3. (v. i.) To make a sound of snapping.
  4. (v. t.) To strike smartly; to rap; to snap.
  5. (v. t.) To bite; to bite off; to break short.


Synonyms:
Chip, Rap,
• Thunderclap
  1. (n.) A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.


Synonyms:
Bombshell, Thunderbolt,
• Rokelay
  1. (n.) A short cloak.
• Waistcoat
  1. (n.) A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.
  2. (n.) A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.


Synonyms:
Vest,
• Spray
  1. (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
  2. (v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.
  3. (v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.
  4. (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
  5. (n.) A small shoot or branch; a twig.
  6. (n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
  7. (v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
  8. (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
  9. (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.


Synonyms:
Atomizer, Sprayer,
• Orgeat
  1. (n.) 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.
• Spillway
  1. (n.) A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.


Synonyms:
Spill, Wasteweir,
• Redthroat
  1. (n.) A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
• Sprat
  1. (n.) A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
  2. (n.) A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.
• Wheatear
  1. (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
• Loggat
  1. (n.) A small log or piece of wood.
  2. (n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground.
• Manway
  1. (n.) A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through.
• Kumquat
  1. (n.) A small tree of the genus Citrus (C. Japonica) growing in China and Japan; also, its small acid, orange-colored fruit used for preserves.


Synonyms:
Cumquat,
• Mustac
  1. (n.) A small tufted monkey.
• Whinchat
  1. (n.) A small warbler (Pratincola rubetra) common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.
• Samaj
  1. (n.) A society or congregation; a church or religious body.
  2. (n.) A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj.
• Surah
  1. (n.) A soft twilled silk fabric much used for womens dresses; -- called also surah silk.
• Meerkat
  1. (n.) A South African carnivore (Cynictis penicillata), allied to the ichneumons.
• Maharajah
  1. (n.) A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.
• Seed-lac
  1. (n.) A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.
• Tockay
  1. (n.) A spotted lizard native of India.
• Towboat
  1. (n.) A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.
  2. (n.) A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.


Synonyms:
Tower, Tug, Tugboat,
• Underclay
  1. (n.) A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.
• Tramway
  1. (n.) A street railway or interurban railway for local traffic, on which cable cars, or trolley cars, etc., are used, in distinction from an extended railway line for trains drawn by steam or electric locomotives.
  2. (n.) A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
  3. (n.) Same as Tramroad.


Synonyms:
Tram,
• Lifeboat
  1. (n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
• Trocar
  1. (n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.
• Peat
  1. (n.) A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.
  2. (n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
• Supra-auricular
  1. (n.) A supra-auricular feather.
  2. (a.) Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
• Sugar
  1. (n.) A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.
  2. (v. i.) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.
  3. (v. t.) To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
  4. (n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
  5. (v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
  6. (n.) By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.


Synonyms:
Carbohydrate, Saccharify,
• Nectar
  1. (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
  2. (n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
  3. (n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
  4. (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.


Synonyms:
Ambrosia,
• Swinglebar
  1. (n.) A swingletree.
• Sway
  1. (n.) A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work.
  2. (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.
  3. (n.) Rule; dominion; control.
  4. (n.) Preponderance; turn or cast of balance.
  5. (n.) Influence, weight, or authority that inclines to one side; as, the sway of desires.
  6. (v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion.
  7. (n.) The act of swaying; a swaying motion; the swing or sweep of a weapon.
  8. (v. i.) To bear sway; to rule; to govern.
  9. (v. i.) To hoist; as, to sway up the yards.
  10. (v. i.) To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
  11. (v. i.) To have weight or influence.
  12. (v. i.) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide.
  13. (v. i.) To be drawn to one side by weight or influence; to lean; to incline.


Synonyms:
Careen, Carry, Nod, Persuade, Rock, Shake, Shift, Swing, Tilt, Wobble,
• Morglay
  1. (n.) A sword.
• Tab
  1. (n.) A tag. See Tag, 2.
  2. (n.) A loop for pulling or lifting something.
  3. (n.) A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies bonnets.
  4. (n.) A loose pendent part of a ladys garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
  5. (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.


Synonyms:
Check, Chit,
• Popinjay
  1. (n.) A target in the form of a parrot.
  2. (n.) A parrot.
  3. (n.) A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb.
  4. (n.) The green woodpecker.
• Lab
  1. (n.) A telltale; a prater; a blabber.
  2. (v. i.) To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.


Synonyms:
Laboratory,
• Sirrah
  1. (n.) A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman. In sililoquies often preceded by ah. Not used in the plural.
• Sea-bar
  1. (n.) A tern.
• Scray
  1. (n.) A tern; the sea swallow.
• Tiar
  1. (n.) A tiara.
• Lignum-vitae
  1. (n.) A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum.
• Medlar
  1. (n.) A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay.
• Roundelay
  1. (n.) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.
  2. (n.) A dance in a circle.
  3. (n.) See Rondeau, and Rondel.
  4. (n.) Anything having a round form; a roundel.
• Lar
  1. (n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
  2. (n.) A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
• Shiver-spar
  1. (n.) A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• Winesap
  1. (n.) A variety of winter apple of medium size, deep red color, and yellowish flesh of a rich, rather subacid flavor.
• Snowcap
  1. (n.) A very small humming bird (Microchaera albocoronata) native of New Grenada.
• Patamar
  1. (n.) A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.
• Subashdar
  1. (n.) A viceroy; a governor of a subah; also, a native captain in the British native army.
• Scelerat
  1. (n.) A villain; a criminal.
• Nullah
  1. (n.) A water course, esp. a dry one; a gully; a gorge; -- orig. an East Indian term.
• Wae
  1. (n.) A wave.
• Slideway
  1. (n.) A way along which something slides.


Synonyms:
Chute, Slide,
• Passageway
  1. (n.) A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.


Synonyms:
Passage,
• Outway
  1. (n.) A way out; exit.
• Trevat
  1. (n.) A weavers cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.
• Workyday
  1. (n.) A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a holiday. Also used adjectively.
• Oat
  1. (n.) A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.
  2. (n.) A musical pipe made of oat straw.
• Sandarac
  1. (n.) 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.
  2. (n.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.


Synonyms:
Sandarach,
• Skat
  1. (n.) A widow of two cards.
  2. (n.) A three-handed card game played with 32 cards, of which two constitute the skat (sense 2), or widow. The players bid for the privilege of attempting any of several games or tasks, in most of which the player undertaking the game must take tricks counting in aggregate at least 61 (the counting cards being ace 11, ten 10, king 4, queen 3, jack 2). The four jacks are the best trumps, ranking club, spade, heart, diamond, and ten outranks king or queen (but when the player undertakes to lose all the tricks, the cards rank as in whist). The value of hands depends upon the game played, trump suit, points taken, and number of matadores.
• Simar
  1. (n.) A womans long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf.
• Selah
  1. (n.) A word of doubtful meaning, occuring frequently in the Psalms; by some, supposed to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song.
• Latitat
  1. (n.) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
• Misway
  1. (n.) A wrong way.
• Shoat
  1. (n.) A young hog. Same as Shote.
• Lancegay
  1. (n.) Alt. of Lancegaye
• Loadstar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Lodestar


Synonyms:
Lodestar,
• Motor car
  1. (n.) Alt. of Motorcar
• Nectosac
  1. (n.) Alt. of Nectosack
  2. (n.) Alt. of Nectosack
• Oomiac
  1. (n.) Alt. of Oomiak
• Pedlar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Pedler


Synonyms:
Hawker, Packman, Peddler,
• Pelfray
  1. (n.) Alt. of Pelfry
• Rockelay
  1. (n.) Alt. of Rocklay
• Somaj
  1. (n.) Alt. of Samaj
• Sarlac
  1. (n.) Alt. of Sarlyk
• Scarab
  1. (n.) Alt. of Scarabee
  2. (n.) Alt. of Scarabee


Synonyms:
Scarabaeus,
• Scat
  1. (n.) Alt. of Scatt
  2. (interj.) Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.
  3. (n.) A shower of rain.
• Sclav
  1. (n.) Alt. of Sclave
• Secretariat
  1. (n.) Alt. of Secretariate


Synonyms:
Secretariate,
• Shell-lac
  1. (n.) Alt. of Shellac
• Shittah
  1. (n.) Alt. of Shittah tree


Synonyms:
Shittah tree,
• Shrap
  1. (n.) Alt. of Shrape
• Sting ray
  1. (n.) Alt. of Stingray
• Sumac
  1. (n.) Alt. of Sumach


Synonyms:
Shumac, Sumach,
• Symar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Symarr
• Tacamahac
  1. (n.) Alt. of Tacamahaca


Synonyms:
Hackmatack,
• Talookdar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Talukdar
• Torah
  1. (n.) Alt. of Tora


Synonyms:
Pentateuch,
• Tussah
  1. (n.) Alt. of Tusseh


Synonyms:
Tusseh,
• Tuxedo coat
  1. (n.) Alt. of Tuxedo
• Uniat
  1. (n.) Alt. of Uniate


Synonyms:
Uniate,
• Windlestrae
  1. (n.) Alt. of Windlestraw
• Khutbah
  1. (n.) An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.
• Tombac
  1. (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac.


Synonyms:
Tambac,
• Margay
  1. (n.) An American wild cat (Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat.
• Par
  1. (n.) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
  2. (n.) The number of strokes required for a hole or a round played without mistake, two strokes being allowed on each hole for putting. Par represents perfect play, whereas bogey makes allowance on some holes for human frailty. Thus if par for a course is 75, bogey is usually put down, arbitrarily, as 81 or 82.
  3. (n.) Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
  4. (n.) See Parr.
  5. (prep.) By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.
  6. (n.) Equality of condition or circumstances.


Synonyms:
Equality, Equation, Equivalence,
• Pykar
  1. (n.) An ancient English fishing boat.
• Virelay
  1. (n.) An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
• Premolar
  1. (n.) An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. See Tooth.
  2. (a.) Situated in front of the molar teeth.


Synonyms:
Bicuspid,
• Siderostat
  1. (n.) An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.
• Tatouay
  1. (n.) An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.
• Sluiceway
  1. (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.


Synonyms:
Penstock, Sluice,
• Leat
  1. (n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.
• Romajikai
  1. (n.) An association, including both Japanese and Europeans, having for its object the changing of the Japanese method of writing by substituting Roman letters for Japanese characters.
• Motorcar
  1. (n.) An automobile, locomobile, or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers.
  2. (n.) Any car containing motors for propulsion.


Synonyms:
Automobile, Car, Machine,
• Lablab
  1. (n.) an East Indian name for several twining leguminous plants related to the bean, but commonly applied to the hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab).
• Rosebay
  1. (n.) An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb.
  2. (n.) the oleander.
  3. (n.) Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron.
• Puddle-bar
  1. (n.) An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.
• Scar
  1. (n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
  2. (n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
  3. (n.) 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.
  4. (n.) 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.
  5. (v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.
  6. (v. i.) To form a scar.


Synonyms:
Cicatrice, Cicatrix, Mark, Pit, Pock, Scrape, Scratch,
• Musar
  1. (n.) An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe.
• Picamar
  1. (n.) An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
• Topcoat
  1. (n.) An outer coat; an overcoat.


Synonyms:
Greatcoat, Overcoat, Surcoat,
• Subsizar
  1. (n.) An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.
• Subway
  1. (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.


Synonyms:
Tube, Underground,
• Sparadrap
  1. (n.) Any adhesive plaster.
  2. (n.) A cerecloth.
• Starthroat
  1. (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.
• Rattletrap
  1. (n.) Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly.
• Sao
  1. (n.) 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.
• Trackway
  1. (n.) Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.
• Stingray
  1. (n.) Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidae, syn. Trygonidae, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American Pacific coast, are very destructive to oysters.
• Wentletrap
  1. (n.) Any one of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the genus Scalaria, especially Scalaria pretiosa, which was formerly highly valued; -- called also staircase shell. See Scalaria.
• Rubythroat
  1. (n.) Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).
• Woodchat
  1. (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.
  2. (n.) A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.
• Whitethroat
  1. (n.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca).
• Muntjac
  1. (n.) Any one of several species of small Asiatic deer of the genus Cervulus, esp. C. muntjac, which occurs both in India and on the East Indian Islands.
• Tendrac
  1. (n.) Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.


Synonyms:
Tenrec,
• Wombat
  1. (n.) Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.
• Scab
  1. (n.) Any one of various more or less destructive fungus diseases attacking cultivated plants, and usually forming dark-colored crustlike spots.
  2. (n.) 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.
  3. (n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
  4. (n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
  5. (n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
  6. (n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
  7. (n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
  8. (v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
  9. (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.


Synonyms:
Blackleg, Cicatrize, Rat,
• Sea-ear
  1. (n.) Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. See Abalone.


Synonyms:
Ormer,
• Violet-ear
  1. (n.) Any tropical humming bird of the genus Petasophora, having violet or purplish ear tufts.
• Whirlbat
  1. (n.) Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers.
• Realgar
  1. (n.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.
• Orangeat
  1. (n.) Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.
• Tideway
  1. (n.) Channel in which the tide sets.
• Padishah
  1. (n.) Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.
• Overwear
  1. (n.) Clothing worn over the ordinary indoor closing, as overcoats, wraps, etc.
  2. (v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out.
• Kyar
  1. (n.) Cocoanut fiber, or the cordage made from it. See Coir.
• Mortpay
  1. (n.) Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.
• Remblai
  1. (n.) Earth or materials made into a bank after having been excavated.
• Rudmasday
  1. (n.) Either of the feasts of the Holy Cross, occuring on May 3 and September 14, annually.
• Mudar
  1. (n.) Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and C. procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.
• Mishap
  1. (n.) Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
  2. (v. i.) To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally.


Synonyms:
Misadventure, Mischance,
• Swordplay
  1. (n.) Fencing; a sword fight.


Synonyms:
Fencing,
• Stab
  1. (n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
  2. (n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon.
  3. (v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
  4. (v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
  5. (n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
  6. (v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a persons reputation.
  7. (v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.


Synonyms:
Dig, Jab, Knife, Poke, Prod, Thrust,
• Spoon-meat
  1. (n.) Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food.
• Saltcellar
  1. (n.) Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.
• Longboat
  1. (n.) Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.
• Uproar
  1. (n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
  2. (v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.
  3. (v. i.) To make an uproar.


Synonyms:
Garboil, Hubbub, Tumult,
• Padar
  1. (n.) Groats; coarse flour or meal.
• Waterway
  1. (n.) Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessels deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed.


Synonyms:
Watercourse,
• Scapegoat
  1. (n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
  2. (n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
• Unhap
  1. (n.) Ill luck; misfortune.
• Taotai
  1. (n.) In China, an official at the head of the civil and military affairs of a circuit, which consists of two or more fu, or territorial departments; -- called also, by foreigners, intendant of circuit. Foreign consuls and commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai.
• Sowar
  1. (n.) In India, a mounted soldier.
• Sabbat
  1. (n.) In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
• Ressaldar
  1. (n.) In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.
• Scalar
  1. (n.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.
• Mutessarifat
  1. (n.) In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.
• Sirdar
  1. (n.) In Turkey, Egypt, etc., a commander in chief, esp. the one commanding the Anglo-Egyptian army.
  2. (n.) A native chief in Hindostan; a headman.
• Nonconstat
  1. (n.) It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.
  2. (n.) It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.
• Light-boat
  1. (n.) Light-ship.
• Mainstay
  1. (n.) Main support; principal dependence.
  2. (n.) The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.


Synonyms:
Anchor, Backbone, Linchpin, Pillar,
• Mercat
  1. (n.) Market; trade.
• Thrackscat
  1. (n.) Metal still in the mine.
• Mince-meat
  1. (n.) Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.
• Lackaday
  1. (interj.) Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.
• Welladay
  1. (interj.) Alas! Welaway!
• Welaway
  1. (interj.) Alas!
• Pah
  1. (interj.) An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.
  2. (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.
• Parfay
  1. (interj.) By my faith; verily.
• Walaway
  1. (interj.) See Welaway.
• Wayleway
  1. (interj.) See Welaway.
• Weyleway
  1. (interj.) See Welaway.
• Manofwar
  1. (n) A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp. one of large size; a ship of war.
• Oar
  1. (n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
  2. (n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
  3. (v. t. & i.) To row.
  4. (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
• Workday
  1. (n. & a.) A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
• Pitpat
  1. (n. & adv.) See Pitapat.
• Pleat
  1. (n. & v. t.) See Plait.


Synonyms:
Plait, Plicate, Ruffle,
• Samurai
  1. (n. pl. & sing.) In the former feudal system of Japan, the class or a member of the class, of military retainers of the daimios, constituting the gentry or lesser nobility. They possessed power of life and death over the commoners, and wore two swords as their distinguishing mark. Their special rights and privileges were abolished with the fall of feudalism in 1871.
• Trachymedusae
  1. (n. pl.) A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae.
• Terricolae
  1. (n. pl.) A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
• Tubicolae
  1. (n. pl.) A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella.
• Solifugae
  1. (n. pl.) A division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also Solpugidea, and Solpugides.
• Turnicimorphae
  1. (n. pl.) A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.
• Paludicolae
  1. (n. pl.) A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.
• Orbitelae
  1. (n. pl.) A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
• Spiculispongiae
  1. (n. pl.) A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.
• Melanconiaceae
  1. (n. pl.) A family of fungi constituting the order Melanconiales.
• Tracheophonae
  1. (n. pl.) A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.
• Limicolae
  1. (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae.
• Retitelae
  1. (n. pl.) A group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also Retitelariae.
• Therapeutae
  1. (n. pl.) A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited.
• Rheae
  1. (n. pl.) A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.
• Saltigradae
  1. (n. pl.) A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.
• Picariae
  1. (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.
• Urbicolae
  1. (n. pl.) An extensive family of butterflies, including those known as skippers (Hesperiadae).
• Saururae
  1. (n. pl.) 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.
• Odontolcae
  1. (n. pl.) An extinct order of ostrichlike aquatic birds having teeth, which are set in a groove in the jaw. It includes Hesperornis, and allied genera. See Hesperornis.
• Ratitae
  1. (n. pl.) 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.
• Physaliae
  1. (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.
• Physophorae
  1. (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
• Palamedeae
  1. (n. pl.) An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.
• Majusculae
  1. (n. pl.) Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.
• Olay
  1. (n. pl.) Palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a style pointed with steel.
• Typothetae
  1. (n. pl.) Printers; -- used in the name of an association of the master printers of the United States and Canada, called The United Typothetae of America.
• Rubaiyat
  1. (n. pl.) Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.
• Phanerocarpae
  1. (n. pl.) Same as Acraspeda.
• Polypomedusae
  1. (n. pl.) Same as Hydrozoa.
• Reliquiae
  1. (n. pl.) Same as Induviae.
  2. (n. pl.) Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.
• Prosimiae
  1. (n. pl.) Same as Lemuroidea.
• Polymyodae
  1. (n. pl.) Same as Oscines.
• Silicispongiae
  1. (n. pl.) Same as Silicoidea.
• Osar
  1. (n. pl.) See 3d Os.
  2. (pl. ) of Os
• Tubulariae
  1. (n. pl.) See Tubularida.
• Petechiae
  1. (n. pl.) Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc.
• Thermae
  1. (n. pl.) Springs or baths of warm or hot water.
• Parcae
  1. (n. pl.) The Fates. See Fate, 4.
• Potamospongiae
  1. (n. pl.) The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.
• Spongiae
  1. (n. pl.) The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera.
• Raiae
  1. (n. pl.) The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii.
• Schizognathae
  1. (n. pl.) The schizognathous birds.
• Nugae
  1. (n. pl.) Trifles; jests.
  2. (n. pl.) Trifles; jests.
• Strap
  1. (n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
  2. (n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
  3. (n.) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.
  4. (v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
  5. (n.) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.
  6. (n.) A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.
  7. (n.) A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
  8. (v. t.) To fasten or bind with a strap.
  9. (n.) A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
  10. (n.) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
  11. (v. t.) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
  12. (n.) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.


Synonyms:
Flog, Lash, Lather, Slash, Trounce, Welt, Whip,
• Panchway
  1. (n.) A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers.
• Wallah
  1. (n.) A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.
• Quadrat
  1. (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.
  2. (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.
• Wap
  1. (n.) A blow or beating; a whap.
  2. (v. t. & i.) To beat; to whap.
• Slap
  1. (n.) A blow, esp. one given with the open hand, or with something broad.
  2. (n.) With a sudden and violent blow; hence, quickly; instantly; directly.
  3. (v. t.) To strike with the open hand, or with something broad.


Synonyms:
Bang, Bolt, Slapdash, Smack, Smacking,
• Rowboat
  1. (n.) A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.


Synonyms:
Dinghy, Dory,
• Surfboat
  1. (n.) A boat intended for use in heavy surf. It is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach.
• Steamboat
  1. (n.) A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
• Sailboat
  1. (n.) A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
• Spyboat
  1. (n.) A boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence.
• Trawlboat
  1. (n.) A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.
• Mear
  1. (n.) A boundary. See Mere.
• Spurway
  1. (n.) A bridle path.
• Nosegay
  1. (n.) A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy.
  2. (n.) A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy.


Synonyms:
Bouquet, Corsage, Posy,
• Nougat
  1. (n.) A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.
  2. (n.) A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.
• Kneecap
  1. (n.) A cap or protection for the knee.
  2. (n.) The kneepan.


Synonyms:
Kneepan, Patella,
• Seggar
  1. (n.) A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin.
• Subcellar
  1. (n.) A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.
• Wheat
  1. (n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.


Synonyms:
Corn,
• Rabat
  1. (n.) A clerical linen collar.
  2. (n.) A kind of clerical scarf fitted to a collar; as, a black silk rabat.
  3. (n.) A polishing material made of potters clay that has failed in baking.
• Match-coat
  1. (n.) A coat made of match-cloth.
• Overcoat
  1. (n.) A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.


Synonyms:
Greatcoat, Surcoat, Topcoat,
• Undercoat
  1. (n.) A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat.
  2. (n.) A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dogs undercoat.


Synonyms:
Ground, Prime, Primer, Priming,
• Neckwear
  1. (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.
  2. (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.
• Symposiac
  1. (n.) A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings.
• Rheostat
  1. (n.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.
• Latah
  1. (n.) A convulsive tic or hysteric neurosis prevalent among Malays, similar to or identical with miryachit and jumping disease, the person affected performing various involuntary actions and making rapid inarticulate ejaculations in imitation of the actions and words of another person.
• Keelfat
  1. (n.) A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc.
• Limbat
  1. (n.) A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight oclock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.
• Purdah
  1. (n.) A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.


Synonyms:
Solitude,
• Mantrap
  1. (n.) A dangerous place, as an open hatch, into which one may fall.
  2. (n.) A trap for catching trespassers.


Synonyms:
Beauty, Dish, Looker, Peach, Ravisher, Smasher, Stunner, Sweetheart,
• Playday
  1. (n.) A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.


Synonyms:
Playtime,
• Moat
  1. (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
  2. (v. t.) To surround with a moat.


Synonyms:
Fosse,
• Nawab
  1. (n.) A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.
  2. (n.) A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.
  3. (n.) A rich, retired Anglo-Indian; a nabob.
• Mullar
  1. (n.) A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.
• Stonecray
  1. (n.) A distemper in hawks.
• Pachacamac
  1. (n.) A divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator of the universe.
• Stageplay
  1. (n.) A dramatic or theatrical entertainment.
• Smear
  1. (n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment.
  2. (n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
  3. (n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
  4. (n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.


Synonyms:
Asperse, Bedaub, Besmear, Besmirch, Blot, Blur, Calumniate, Daub, Defame, Denigrate, Slander, Slur, Smirch, Smudge, Smutch, Spot, Stain, Sully, Vilification,
• Tib-cat
  1. (n.) A female cat.
• Tiebar
  1. (n.) A flat bar used as a tie.
• Stairway
  1. (n.) A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.


Synonyms:
Staircase,
• Mesohepar
  1. (n.) A fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.
• Pathway
  1. (n.) A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.


Synonyms:
Footpath, Tract,
• Priestcap
  1. (n.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
• Riprap
  1. (n.) A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom.
  2. (v. t.) To form a riprap in or upon.
• Tipcat
  1. (n.) A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air.
• Nuphar
  1. (n.) A genus of plants found in the fresh-water ponds or lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America; the yellow water lily. Cf. Nymphaea.
  2. (n.) A genus of plants found in the fresh-water ponds or lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America; the yellow water lily. Cf. Nymphaea.
• Thar
  1. (n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo.
  2. (v. impersonal, pres.) It needs; need.
• Nightjar
  1. (n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
  2. (n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.


Synonyms:
Goatsucker,
• Ovisac
  1. (n.) A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.
  2. (n.) The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.
• Tokay
  1. (n.) A grape of an oval shape and whitish color.
  2. (n.) A rich Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes.
• Locao
  1. (n.) A green vegetable dye imported from China.
• Seminar
  1. (n.) A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.
• Polestar
  1. (n.) A guide or director.
  2. (n.) Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North.


Synonyms:
Polaris,
• Tintamar
  1. (n.) A hideous or confused noise; an uproar.
• Sircar
  1. (n.) A Hindoo clerk or accountant.
  2. (n.) The government; the supreme authority of the state.
  3. (n.) A district or province; a circar.
• Sporosac
  1. (n.) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.
  2. (n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.
• Seah
  1. (n.) A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.
• Poldway
  1. (n.) A kind of coarse bagging, -- used for coal sacks.
• Tac
  1. (n.) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records.
• Pac
  1. (n.) A kind of moccasin, having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the upper.
• Rheocrat
  1. (n.) A kind of motor speed controller permitting of very gradual variation in speed and of reverse. It is especially suitable for use with motor driven machine tools.
• Poonac
  1. (n.) A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake.
• Spat
  1. (n.) A kind of short cloth or leather gaiter worn over the upper part of the shoe and fastened beneath the instep; -- chiefly in pl.
  2. (n.) A legging; a gaiter.
  3. () imp. of Spit.
  4. (n.) A light blow with something flat.
  5. (v. i. & t.) To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.
  6. (n.) A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
  7. (n.) Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.
  8. (v. i.) To dispute.
  9. (v. t.) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.
  10. () of Spit


Synonyms:
Acclaim, Applaud, Bicker, Bickering, Clap, Fuss, Gaiter, Squabble, Tiff,
• Laguay
  1. (n.) A lackey.
• Laquear
  1. (n.) A lacunar.
• Sahibah
  1. (n.) A lady; mistress.
• Shanghai
  1. (n.) A large and tall breed of domestic fowl.
  2. (v. t.) To intoxicate and ship (a person) as a sailor while in this condition.


Synonyms:
Impress,
• Sarplar
  1. (n.) A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight.
• Opah
  1. (n.) A large oceanic fish (Lampris quttatus), inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean. It is remarkable for its brilliant colors, which are red, green, and blue, with tints of purple and gold, covered with round silvery spots. Called also king of the herrings.


Synonyms:
Moonfish,
• Pallah
  1. (n.) A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.
• Papboat
  1. (n.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.
  2. (n.) A kind of sauce boat or dish.
• Parashah
  1. (n.) A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.
• Lilac
  1. (n.) A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.
  2. (n.) A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.


Synonyms:
Lavender,
• Pitapat
  1. (n.) A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain.
  2. (adv.) In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.
• Perpendicular
  1. (n.) A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.
  2. (a.) At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc.
  3. (a.) Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.
  4. (n.) A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.


Synonyms:
Vertical,
• Whaleboat
  1. (n.) A long, narrow boat, sharp at both ends, used by whalemen.
• Lariat
  1. (n.) A long, slender rope made of hemp or strips of hide, esp. one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering.
  2. (v. t.) To secure with a lariat fastened to a stake, as a horse or mule for grazing; also, to lasso or catch with a lariat.


Synonyms:
Lasso, Reata,
• Simpai
  1. (n.) A long-tailed monkey (Semnopitchecus melalophus) native of Sumatra. It has a crest of black hair. The forehead and cheeks are fawn color, the upper parts tawny and red, the under parts white. Called also black-crested monkey, and sinpae.
• Petticoat
  1. (n.) A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.


Synonyms:
Underskirt,
• Macao
  1. (n.) A macaw.
• Tomcat
  1. (n.) A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.


Synonyms:
Tom,
• Mar
  1. (n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
  2. (n.) A small lake. See Mere.
  3. (v.) To spoil; to ruin.
  4. (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.


Synonyms:
Deflower, Impair, March, Mutilate, Spoil, Vitiate,
• Repeat
  1. (n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.
  2. (v. t.) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  3. (n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).
  4. (n.) The act of repeating; repetition.
  5. (v. t.) To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.
  6. (v. t.) To repay or refund (an excess received).


Synonyms:
Double, Duplicate, Echo, Ingeminate, Iterate, Recapitulate, Recur, Reduplicate, Reiterate, Repetition, Replicate, Reprise, Reprize, Restate, Retell,
• Rootcap
  1. (n.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
• Vat
  1. (n.) A measure for liquids, and also a dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectoliter of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
  2. (n.) A large vessel, cistern, or tub, especially one used for holding in an immature state, chemical preparations for dyeing, or for tanning, or for tanning leather, or the like.
  3. (n.) A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.
  4. (n.) A vessel for holding holy water.
  5. (v. t.) To put or transfer into a vat.
  6. (n.) A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.


Synonyms:
Tub,
• Mellay
  1. (n.) A melee; a conflict.
• Whitecap
  1. (n.) A member of a self-appointed vigilance committee attempting by lynch-law methods to drive away or coerce persons obnoxious to it. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks.
  2. (n.) A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
  3. (n.) The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead.
  4. (n.) The European tree sparrow.
  5. (n.) The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head.


Synonyms:
White horse,
• Stocah
  1. (n.) A menial attendant.
• Samovar
  1. (n.) 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.
• Saltcat
  1. (n.) A mixture of salt, coarse meal, lime, etc., attractive to pigeons.
• Wordplay
  1. (n.) A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.


Synonyms:
Paronomasia, Pun, Punning,
• Moray
  1. (n.) A muraena.
• Maharmah
  1. (n.) A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.
• Mat
  1. (n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
  2. (n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
  3. (n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.
  4. (v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
  5. (v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
  6. (a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
  7. (v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
  8. (n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
  9. (n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.


Synonyms:
Entangle, Felt, Flat, Flatness, Matt, Matte, Matted, Matting, Snarl, Tangle,
• Rix-dollar
  1. (n.) A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.
• Muscat
  1. (n.) A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.


Synonyms:
Muscadel, Muscatel, Muskat,
• Surcoat
  1. (n.) A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages.
  2. (n.) A coat worn over the other garments; especially, the long and flowing garment of knights, worn over the armor, and frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer.


Synonyms:
Greatcoat, Overcoat, Topcoat,
• Sap
  1. (n.) 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.
  2. (v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
  3. (n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
  4. (v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  5. (v. t.) To pierce with saps.
  6. (n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  7. (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  8. (n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.


Synonyms:
Exhaust, Fool, Muggins, Saphead, Tire, Tomfool,
• Sloat
  1. (n.) A narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.
• Lascar
  1. (n.) A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower.
• Nay
  1. (n.) a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
  2. (adv.) Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.
  3. (v. t. & i.) To refuse.
  4. (adv.) No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
  5. (n.) Denial; refusal.
  6. (n.) a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
  7. (adv.) Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.
  8. (v. t. & i.) To refuse.
  9. (n.) Denial; refusal.
  10. (adv.) No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
• Muskrat
  1. (n.) A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, and ondatra.
  2. (n.) The musk shrew.
  3. (n.) The desman.


Synonyms:
Musquash,
• Serai
  1. (n.) A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.
• Nacarat
  1. (n.) A pale red color, with a cast of orange.
  2. (n.) Fine linen or crape dyed of this color.
  3. (n.) A pale red color, with a cast of orange.
  4. (n.) Fine linen or crape dyed of this color.
• Pantisocrat
  1. (n.) A pantisocratist.
• Tear
  1. (n.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
  2. (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
  3. (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
  4. (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
  5. (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
  6. (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
  7. (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
  8. (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
  9. (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate.
  10. (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  11. (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
  12. (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.


Synonyms:
Bout, Buck, Bust, Charge, Deplumate, Deplume, Displume, Pluck, Pull, Rent, Rip, Rupture, Shoot, Snap, Split,
• Packway
  1. (n.) A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.
• Noah
  1. (n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.
  2. (n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.
• Kleptomaniac
  1. (n.) A person affected with kleptomania.
• Lazar
  1. (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.


Synonyms:
Leper,
• Rayah
  1. (n.) A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.
• Liar
  1. (n.) A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.


Synonyms:
Prevaricator,
• Supplicat
  1. (n.) A petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.
• Serac
  1. (n.) A pinnacle of ice among the crevasses of a glacier; also, one of the blocks into which a glacier breaks on a steep grade.
• Rollway
  1. (n.) A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.
• Mobcap
  1. (n.) 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.
• Photoplay
  1. (n.) A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.
• Shufflecap
  1. (n.) A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap.
• Tap
  1. (n.) A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
  2. (n.) A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
  3. (n.) A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
  4. (v. t.) To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
  5. (v. t.) To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
  6. (v. t.) To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
  7. (v. t.) Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
  8. (n.) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
  9. (v. t.) To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.
  10. (n.) A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
  11. (n.) A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
  12. (v. t.) To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
  13. (n.) A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
  14. (n.) Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.
  15. (v. i.) To strike a gentle blow.


Synonyms:
Beg, Bug, Dab, Exploit, Hydrant, Intercept, Knock, Pat, Pink, Rap, Solicit, Spigot, Strike,
• Tat
  1. (n.) A pony.
  2. (n.) Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute.


Synonyms:
Cheapness, Intertwine,
• Papejay
  1. (n.) A popinjay.
• Nightcap
  1. (n.) A potion of spirit drank at bedtime.
  2. (n.) A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
  3. (n.) A potion of spirit drank at bedtime.
  4. (n.) A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
• Pulvinar
  1. (n.) A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
• Shoar
  1. (n.) A prop. See 3d Shore.
• Talukdar
  1. (n.) A proprietor of a talook.
• Quar
  1. (n.) A quarry.
• Phanar
  1. (n.) A quarter of Constantinople which, after the Turkish conquest of the city, became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class.
• Superaltar
  1. (n.) A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.
• Steerageway
  1. (n.) A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.
• Tartar
  1. (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc.
  2. (n.) A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
  4. (n.) A person of a keen, irritable temper.
  5. (n.) See Tartarus.
  6. (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.


Synonyms:
Calculus, Dragon, Tophus,
• Pinesap
  1. (n.) A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (M. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.
• Malabar
  1. (n.) A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.
• Renegat
  1. (n.) A renegade.
• Lac
  1. (n.) A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.
  2. (n.) Alt. of Lakh
• Marrowfat
  1. (n.) A rich but late variety of pea.
• Roadway
  1. (n.) A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages.
• Rab
  1. (n.) A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.
• Soothsay
  1. (n.) Omen; portent. Having
  2. (n.) A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy.
  3. (v. i.) To foretell; to predict.
• Templar
  1. (n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars.
  2. (n.) One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to a temple.
  4. (n.) A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple.


Synonyms:
Knight Templar,
• Sizar
  1. (n.) One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.
• Moplah
  1. (n.) One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.
• Muzarab
  1. (n.) One of a denomination of Christians formerly living under the government of the Moors in Spain, and having a liturgy and ritual of their own.
• Malay
  1. (n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
  2. (a.) Alt. of Malayan


Synonyms:
Malayan,
• Slav
  1. (n.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc.
• Scapular
  1. (n.) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the scapula or the shoulder.
  3. (n.) Alt. of Scapulary


Synonyms:
Scapulary,
• Pariah
  1. (n.) One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.
  2. (n.) An outcast; one despised by society.


Synonyms:
Castaway, Outcast,
• Physiocrat
  1. (n.) One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.
• Mollah
  1. (n.) One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man.


Synonyms:
Mulla, Mullah,
• Preocular
  1. (n.) One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.
  2. (a.) Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennae of certain insects.
• Sunniah
  1. (n.) One of the sect of Sunnites.
• Ray
  1. (n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  2. (n.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
  3. (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
  4. (v. i.) To shine, as with rays.
  5. (n.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
  6. (v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.
  7. (n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
  8. (n.) 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.
  9. (n.) 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.
  10. (n.) 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.
  11. (v. t.) To array.
  12. (n.) 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.
  13. (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.
  14. (n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.
  15. (n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
  16. (n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.


Synonyms:
Beam, Irradiate, Irradiation, Radiate, Re, Shaft,
• Scholar
  1. (n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
  2. (n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
  3. (n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
  4. (n.) A man of books.


Synonyms:
Learner, Student,
• Stowaway
  1. (n.) One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.
• Mobocrat
  1. (n.) One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
• Turncoat
  1. (n.) One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.


Synonyms:
Renegade,
• Monocrat
  1. (n.) One who governs alone.
• Metromaniac
  1. (n.) One who has metromania.
• Tulipomaniac
  1. (n.) One who is affected with tulipomania.
• Theocrat
  1. (n.) One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.
• Simoniac
  1. (n.) One who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church.
• Registrar
  1. (n.) One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.


Synonyms:
Recorder,
• Redcoat
  1. (n.) One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.
• Plutocrat
  1. (n.) One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one of the plutocracy.
• Predecay
  1. (n.) Premature decay.
• Rescat
  1. (n.) Ransom; release.
  2. (v. t.) To ransom; to release; to rescue.
• Resalgar
  1. (n.) Realgar.
• Rosalgar
  1. (n.) realgar.
• Refloat
  1. (n.) Reflux; ebb.
• Way
  1. (n.) Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing.
  2. (n.) The timbers on which a ship is launched.
  3. (v. i.) To move; to progress; to go.
  4. (n.) Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have ones way.
  5. (n.) Progress; as, a ship has way.
  6. (n.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves.
  7. (n.) That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine.
  8. (n.) Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing ones ideas.
  9. (n.) Right of way. See below.
  10. (v. t.) To go or travel to; to go in, as a way or path.
  11. (adv.) Away.
  12. (n.) The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan.
  13. (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.
  14. (n.) Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance.
  15. (n.) Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way.
  16. (n.) Sphere or scope of observation.


Synonyms:
Agency, Direction, Fashion, Manner, Mode, Path, Room, Style,
• Raj
  1. (n.) Reign; rule.
• Salmiac
  1. (n.) Sal ammoniac. See under Sal.
• Swashway
  1. (n.) Same as 4th Swash, 2.
• Lodestar
  1. (n.) Same as Loadstar.
  2. (n.) A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.


Synonyms:
Loadstar,
• Obeah
  1. (n.) Same as Obi.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to obi; as, the obeah man.


Synonyms:
Obi,
• Pandar
  1. (n.) Same as Pander.


Synonyms:
Pander, Pimp, Procurer,
• Pirai
  1. (n.) Same as Piraya.
• Strait-waistcoat
  1. (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.
• Suricat
  1. (n.) Same as Zenick.
• Lakao
  1. (n.) Sap green.
• Pay
  1. (n.) Satisfaction; content.
  2. (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
  3. (v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
  4. (v. t.) To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
  5. (v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge ones obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
  6. (v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
  7. (v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
  8. (n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.
  9. (v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
  10. (v. i.) To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.


Synonyms:
Bear, Compensate, Devote, Earnings, Give, Remuneration, Salary, Wage, Yield,
• Terrar
  1. (n.) See 2d Terrier, 2.
• Ottar
  1. (n.) See Attar.


Synonyms:
Attar,
• Sai
  1. (n.) See Capuchin, 3 (a).
• Segar
  1. (n.) See Cigar.
• Ksar
  1. (n.) See Czar.
• Knar
  1. (n.) See Gnar.
• Kiblah
  1. (n.) See Keblah.
• Keelvat
  1. (n.) See Keelfat.
• Standerat
  1. (n.) See Legislature, above.
• Moollah
  1. (n.) See Mollah.
• Mullah
  1. (n.) See Mollah.


Synonyms:
Mollah, Mulla,
• Muskat
  1. (n.) See Muscat.


Synonyms:
Muscat,
• Twankay
  1. (n.) See Note under Tea, n., 1.
• Pattemar
  1. (n.) See Patamar.
• Petar
  1. (n.) See Petard.
• Pisay
  1. (n.) See Pise.
• Papagay
  1. (n.) See Popinjay, 1 (b).
• Professoriat
  1. (n.) See Professoriate.
• Reostat
  1. (n.) See Rheostat.
• Rocklay
  1. (n.) See Rokelay.
• Sac
  1. (n.) See Sacs.
  2. (n.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.
  3. (n.) The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
  4. (n.) See 2d Sack.


Synonyms:
Pocket, Pouch, Sack, Theca,
• Sacar
  1. (n.) See Saker.
• Sangiac
  1. (n.) See Sanjak.
• Scymetar
  1. (n.) See Scimiter.
• Simitar
  1. (n.) See Scimiter.
• Schah
  1. (n.) See Shah.
• Soubah
  1. (n.) See Subah.
• Soubahdar
  1. (n.) See Subahdar.
• Shellac
  1. (n.) See the Note under 2d Lac.
• Stick-lac
  1. (n.) See the Note under Lac.
• Tambac
  1. (n.) See Tombac.


Synonyms:
Tombac,
• Trochar
  1. (n.) See Trocar.
• Urao
  1. (n.) See Trona.
• Tugboat
  1. (n.) See Tug, n., 3.


Synonyms:
Towboat, Tower, Tug,
• Twelfth-day
  1. (n.) See Twelfthtide.
• Vae
  1. (n.) See Voe.
• Workaday
  1. (n.) See Workyday.


Synonyms:
Everyday, Mundane, Quotidian, Routine,
• Trochlear
  1. (n.) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.
• Star
  1. (n.) Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
  2. (n.) A person of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc.
  3. (n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.
  4. (n.) That which resembles the figure of a star, as an ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honor.
  5. (n.) The polestar; the north star.
  6. (n.) A planet supposed to influence ones destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune.
  7. (n.) A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
  8. (v. t.) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems.
  9. (v. i.) To be bright, or attract attention, as a star; to shine like a star; to be brilliant or prominent; to play a part as a theatrical star.


Synonyms:
Ace, Adept, Asterisk, Genius, Lead, Leading, Principal, Sensation, Starring, Stellar, Virtuoso, Whiz, Wizard,
• Meat
  1. (n.) Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.
  2. (n.) Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
  3. (n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
  4. (v. t.) To supply with food.


Synonyms:
Center, Core, Essence, Gist, Heart, Inwardness, Kernel, Marrow, Nub, Pith, Substance, Sum,
• Shumac
  1. (n.) Sumac.


Synonyms:
Sumac, Sumach,
• Stop-gap
  1. (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.
• Outlay
  1. (n.) That which is expended; expenditure.
  2. (n.) An outlying haunt.
  3. (v. t.) To lay out; to spread out; to display.
  4. (n.) A laying out or expending.


Synonyms:
Disbursement, Expenditure, Outgo, Spending,
• Slab
  1. (n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
  2. (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
  3. (a.) Thick; viscous.
  4. (n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
  5. (n.) The wryneck.
  6. (n.) The slack part of a sail.
• Vap
  1. (n.) That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.
• Underwear
  1. (n.) That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.


Synonyms:
Underclothes, Underclothing,
• Runaway
  1. (n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.
  2. (n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.
  3. (a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
  4. (a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.
  5. (a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
  6. (a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.


Synonyms:
Fugitive, Laugher, Romp, shoo-in,
• Underplay
  1. (n.) The act of underplaying.
  2. (v. i.) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
  3. (v. i.) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.


Synonyms:
Underact,
• Stray
  1. (n.) The act of wandering or going astray.
  2. (a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
  3. (v. i.) Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.
  4. (a.) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
  5. (v. t.) To cause to stray.
  6. (n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.
  7. (a.) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.


Synonyms:
Cast, Depart, Digress, Drift, Err, Isolated, Ramble, Range, Roam, Rove, Scattered, Sidetrack, Straggle, Swan, Tramp, Vagabond, Wander,
• Widegap
  1. (n.) The angler; -- called also widegab, and widegut.
• Liquidambar
  1. (n.) The balsamic juice which is obtained from these trees by incision. The liquid balsam of the Oriental tree is liquid storax.
  2. (n.) A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star-shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.
• Runway
  1. (n.) The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.
  2. (n.) The channel of a stream.
• Quinnat
  1. (n.) The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance.
• Troat
  1. (n.) The cry of a buck in rutting time.
  2. (v. i.) To cry, as a buck in rutting time.
• Whittuesday
  1. (n.) The day following Whitmonday; -- called also Whitsun Tuesday.
• Whitmonday
  1. (n.) The day following Whitsunday; -- called also Whitsun Monday.
• Sebat
  1. (n.) The eleventh month of the ancient Hebrew year, approximately corresponding with February.
• Tzar
  1. (n.) The emperor of Russia. See Czar.


Synonyms:
Czar, Tsar,
• Stoat
  1. (n.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
• Whaap
  1. (n.) The European curlew; -- called also awp, whaup, great whaup, and stock whaup.
  2. (n.) The whimbrel; -- called also May whaup, little whaup, and tang whaup.
• Redcap
  1. (n.) The European goldfinch.
  2. (n.) A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland.


Synonyms:
Porter,
• Morgay
  1. (n.) The European small-spotted dogfish, or houndfish. See the Note under Houndfish.
• Messiah
  1. (n.) The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.


Synonyms:
Christ,
• Ocular
  1. (n.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.
  2. (a.) Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.


Synonyms:
Eyepiece, Optic, Optical, Visual,
• Thursday
  1. (n.) The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday.


Synonyms:
Th,
• Tisar
  1. (n.) The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven.
• Ospray
  1. (n.) The fishhawk.
• Pear
  1. (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
• Mouse-ear
  1. (n.) The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus.
  2. (n.) A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).
• Malashaganay
  1. (n.) The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).
• Loquat
  1. (n.) The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.
• Slidegroat
  1. (n.) The game of shovelboard.
• Pillar
  1. (n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.
  2. (n.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
  3. (n.) Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state.
  4. (a.) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.
  5. (n.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.


Synonyms:
Column, Mainstay, Tower,
• Satrap
  1. (n.) The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.
• Nenuphar
  1. (n.) The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.
  2. (n.) The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.
• Toat
  1. (n.) The handle of a joiners plane.
• Vicar
  1. (n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.
  2. (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.
• Kholah
  1. (n.) The Indian jackal.
• Proletariat
  1. (n.) The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.


Synonyms:
Labor,
• Shab
  1. (n.) The itch in animals; also, a scab.
  2. (v. t.) To scratch; to rub.
  3. (v. t.) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.
• Wellat
  1. (n.) The king parrakeet See under King.
• Magyar
  1. (n.) The language of the Magyars.
  2. (n.) One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.


Synonyms:
Hungarian,
• Leeway
  1. (n.) The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.


Synonyms:
Allowance, Margin, Tolerance,
• Skullcap
  1. (n.) The Lophiomys.
  2. (n.) Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.
  3. (n.) A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.


Synonyms:
Calvaria,
• Tenebrae
  1. (n.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.
• May
  1. (n.) The merrymaking of May Day.
  2. (n.) The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
  3. (v.) An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.
  4. (n.) The early part or springtime of life.
  5. (n.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
  6. (n.) A maiden.


Synonyms:
Can, Get, Might, Whitethorn,
• Sternway
  1. (n.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.
• Orfray
  1. (n.) The osprey.
• Sweetmeat
  1. (n.) The paint used in making patent leather.
  2. (n.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
  3. (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
• Thenar
  1. (n.) The palm of the hand.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.
  3. (n.) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.


Synonyms:
Palm, Thenal,
• Wah
  1. (n.) The panda.
• Tac-au-tac
  1. (n.) The parry which is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.
• Tail-bay
  1. (n.) The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
  2. (n.) One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
• Throat
  1. (n.) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
  2. (n.) The inside of a timber knee.
  3. (n.) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
  4. (n.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
  5. (v. t.) To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.
  6. (n.) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.
  7. (v. t.) To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
  8. (n.) A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
  9. (n.) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
  10. (n.) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  11. (n.) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.


Synonyms:
Pharynx,
• Pindar
  1. (n.) The peanut (Arachis hypogaea); -- so called in the West Indies.
• Retreat
  1. (n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
  2. (v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
  3. (n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
  4. (n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.
  5. (n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.
  6. (n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.
  7. (n.) The act of retiring or withdrawing ones self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
  8. (n.) A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.


Synonyms:
Crawfish, Recede, Retire, Retirement, Retrograde, Withdraw,
• Squat
  1. (n.) The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.
  2. (v. t.) To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
  3. (n.) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
  4. (v. t.) To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.
  5. (a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
  6. (n.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus).
  7. (v. t.) To settle on anothers land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.
  8. (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.
  9. (a.) Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
  10. (n.) A small vein of ore.
  11. (n.) A sudden or crushing fall.


Synonyms:
Chunky, Crouch, Dumpy, Jack, Scrunch, Squatting, Squatty, Stumpy, Underslung,
• Mandibular
  1. (n.) The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.


Synonyms:
Inframaxillary,
• Opercular
  1. (n.) The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.
• Teat
  1. (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.
  2. (n.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.


Synonyms:
Mammilla, Nipple, Pap, Tit,
• Pap
  1. (n.) The pulp of fruit.
  2. (n.) A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.
  3. (n.) Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap.
  4. (n.) A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.
  5. (v. t.) To feed with pap.
  6. (n.) A nipple; a mammilla; a teat.


Synonyms:
Mammilla, Nipple, Teat, Tit,
• Wear
  1. (n.) The result of wearing or use; consumption, diminution, or impairment due to use, friction, or the like; as, the wear of this coat has been good.
  2. (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
  3. (n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
  4. (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
  5. (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon ones self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
  6. (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
  7. (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
  8. (v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon ones self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to ones body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
  9. (n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
  10. (n.) Same as Weir.
  11. (n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
  12. (v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
  13. (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessels bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
  14. (v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
  15. (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
  16. (v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.


Synonyms:
Apparel, Assume, Bear, Break, Bust, Clothes, Clothing, Don, Endure, Fag, Fatigue, Jade, Outwear, Tire, Vesture, Wearing, Weary,
• Railway
  1. (n.) 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.
  2. (n.) 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.


Synonyms:
Railroad,
• Sheriat
  1. (n.) The sacred law of the Turkish empire.
• Shovegroat
  1. (n.) The same as Shovelboard.
• Monday
  1. (n.) The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.


Synonyms:
Mon,
• Semilunar
  1. (n.) The semilunar bone.
  2. (a.) Shaped like a half moon.


Synonyms:
Bicephalous, Crescent, Lunate,
• Saturday
  1. (n.) The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday.


Synonyms:
Sat,
• Whitsunday
  1. (n.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments.
  2. (n.) See the Note under Term, n., 12.


Synonyms:
Pentecost,
• Whitecoat
  1. (n.) The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself.
• Magnificat
  1. (n.) The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.
• Wall-plat
  1. (n.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls.
• Subopercular
  1. (n.) The suboperculum.
  2. (a.) Situated below the operculum; pertaining to the suboperculum.
• Surangular
  1. (n.) The surangular bone.
  2. (a.) Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds.
• Tuesday
  1. (n.) The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.
• Veadar
  1. (n.) The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.
• Tittlebat
  1. (n.) The three-spined stickleback.
• Poplar
  1. (n.) The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also white poplar.
  2. (n.) Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.
• Tsar
  1. (n.) The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar.


Synonyms:
Czar, Tzar,
• Shah
  1. (n.) The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.
• Neap
  1. (n.) The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
  2. (n.) A neap tide.
  3. (a.) Low.
  4. (n.) A neap tide.
  5. (a.) Low.
  6. (n.) The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
• Vernacular
  1. (n.) The vernacular language; ones mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.
  2. (a.) Belonging to the country of ones birth; ones own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.


Synonyms:
Argot, Cant, Common, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vulgar,
• Vulgar
  1. (n.) The vernacular, or common language.
  2. (n.) One of the common people; a vulgar person.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
  4. (a.) Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value.
  5. (a.) Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.


Synonyms:
Coarse, Common, Crude, Earthy, Gross, Plebeian, Uncouth, Unwashed, Vernacular,
• Shekinah
  1. (n.) The visible majesty of the Divine Presence, especially when resting or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat, in the Tabernacle, or in the Temple of Solomon; -- a term used in the Targums and by the later Jews, and adopted by Christians.
• White-ear
  1. (n.) The wheatear.
• Stonechat
  1. (n.) The wheatear.
  2. (n.) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.
  3. (n.) The blue titmouse.
• Sifac
  1. (n.) The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred.
• Polecat
  1. (n.) The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.
  2. (n.) 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.


Synonyms:
Fitch, Foumart, Skunk,
• Swab
  1. (n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.
  2. (n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc.
  3. (n.) A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.
  4. (n.) An epaulet.
  5. (n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
  6. (n.) A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.


Synonyms:
Dab, Mop, Swob,
• Play
  1. (n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
  2. (n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.
  3. (v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
  4. (n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character.
  5. (n.) Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
  6. (v. t.) To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
  7. (n.) Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
  8. (n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.
  9. (v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
  10. (n.) To act; to behave; to practice deception.
  11. (v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
  12. (v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
  13. (n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
  14. (v. t.) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
  15. (n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
  16. (n.) Performance on an instrument of music.
  17. (n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
  18. (n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
  19. (n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
  20. (n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
  21. (n.) To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
  22. (v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
  23. (n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
  24. (n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.


Synonyms:
Act, Bet, Bid, Bring, Caper, Dally, Diddle, Drama, Encounter, Fiddle, Flirt, Frolic, Fun, Gambling, Gambol, Gaming, Looseness, Make-believe, Maneuver, Manoeuvre, Meet, Pretend, Recreate, Represent, Romp, Run, Shimmer, Sport, Toy, Trifle, Turn, Wager, Work, Wreak,
• Underlay
  1. (n.) To put a tap on (a shoe).
  2. (v. t.) To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.
  3. (n.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression.
  4. (v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
  5. (v. t.) To lay beneath; to put under.
  6. (n.) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie.
• Threat
  1. (n.) To threaten.
  2. (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.


Synonyms:
Menace, Scourge, Terror,
• Lap
  1. (n.) To wrap or wind around something.
  2. (v. i.) To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
  3. (v. i.) To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
  4. (n.) The sound of lapping.
  5. (n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
  6. (n.) The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
  7. (n.) The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
  8. (n.) To infold; to hold as in ones lap; to cherish.
  9. (n.) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
  10. (n.) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
  11. (n.) That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
  12. (v. i.) To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
  13. (n.) To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
  14. (n.) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
  15. (v. t.) To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
  16. (n.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
  17. (n.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
  18. (n.) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
  19. (n.) The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).
  20. (v. t.) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
  21. (v. t.) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
  22. (n.) One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
  23. (n.) An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.


Synonyms:
Circle, Circuit, Lave, Lick, Overlap, Swish, Wash,
• Notwheat
  1. (n.) Wheat not bearded.
  2. (n.) Wheat not bearded.
• Plat
  1. (n.) Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
  2. (adv.) Plainly; flatly; downright.
  3. (n.) The flat or broad side of a sword.
  4. (v. t.) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
  5. (v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
  6. (n.) Plain; flat; level.
  7. (adv.) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
  8. (n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
  9. (n.) A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.


Synonyms:
Plot,
• Odontotormae
  1. (n.pl.) An order of extinct toothed birds having the teeth in sockets, as in the genus Ichthyornis. See Ichthyornis.
• Ampullae
  1. (pl. ) of Ampulla
• Ampullar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Ampullary


Synonyms:
Ampullary,
• Anangular
  1. (a.) Containing no angle.
• Anaphrodisiac
  1. (a. & n.) Same as Antaphrodisiac.
• Anatifae
  1. (pl. ) of Anatifa
• Anchovy pear
  1. () A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.
• Andarac
  1. (n.) Red orpiment.
• Anear
  1. (v. t. & i.) To near; to approach.
  2. (prep. & adv.) Near.
• Anglomaniac
  1. (n.) One affected with Anglomania.
• Angular
  1. (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
  2. (a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
  3. (a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
  4. (a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.


Synonyms:
Angulate,
• Animalcular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Animalculine
• Annat
  1. (n.) A half yearss stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a ministers heirs after his decease.
• Annular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
  2. (a.) Banded or marked with circles.


Synonyms:
Annulate, Annulated, Circinate, Circular, Ringed,
• Ansae
  1. (pl. ) of Ansa
• Antae
  1. (pl. ) of Anta
• Antaphrodisiac
  1. (a.) Capable of blunting the venereal appetite.
  2. (n.) Anything that quells the venereal appetite.
• Ant-bear
  1. (n.) An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
• Antennae
  1. (pl. ) of Antenna
• Anthropidae
  1. (n. pl.) The group that includes man only.
• Anthypochondriac
  1. (a. & n.) See Antihypochondriac.
• Antiae
  1. (n. pl.) The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.
• Antiaphrodisiac
  1. (a. & n.) Same as Antaphrodisiac.
• Antiar
  1. (n.) A Virulent poison prepared in Java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria).
• Antihypochondriac
  1. (n.) A remedy for hypochondria.
  2. (a.) Counteractive of hypochondria.
• Antilae
  1. (pl. ) of Antlia
• Antimacassar
  1. (n.) A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.
• Antisolar
  1. (a.) Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180í distant from the sun.
• Anyway
  1. (adv.) Alt. of Anyways


Synonyms:
Anyhow,
• Apar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Apara
• Aphrodisiac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Aphrodisiacal
  2. (n.) That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery.


Synonyms:
Aphrodisiacal,
• Aphthae
  1. (n. pl.) Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.
• Apicular
  1. (a.) Situated at, or near, the apex; apical.
• Apitpat
  1. (adv.) With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat.
• Apolar
  1. (a.) Having no radiating processes; -- applied particularly to certain nerve cells.
• Appay
  1. (v. t.) To pay; to satisfy or appease.
• Appear
  1. (v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
  2. (v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.
  3. (v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.
  4. (v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
  5. (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present ones self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
  6. (n.) Appearance.


Synonyms:
Look, Seem,
• Appendicular
  1. (a.) Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.
• Aquilae
  1. (pl. ) of Aquila
• Ar
  1. (conj.) Ere; before.


Synonyms:
Are, Argon,
• Arab
  1. (n.) One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.


Synonyms:
Arabian,
• Arbor Dianae
  1. () A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.
• Arbor vitae
  1. () The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.
  2. () An evergreen tree of the cypress tribe, genus Thuja. The American species is the T. occidentalis.
• Arbuscular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike.
• Archway
  1. (n.) A way or passage under an arch.


Synonyms:
Arch,
• Arear
  1. (v. t. & i.) To raise; to set up; to stir up.
  2. (adv.) Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.
• Arenae
  1. (pl. ) of Arena
• Areolae
  1. (pl. ) of Areola
• Areolar
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolae.


Synonyms:
Areolate,
• Aristocrat
  1. (n.) One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person.
  2. (n.) One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern.
  3. (n.) One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.


Synonyms:
Patrician,
• Armillae
  1. (pl. ) of Armilla
• Armoniac
  1. (a.) Ammoniac.
• Array
  1. (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
  2. (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
  3. (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
  4. (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
  5. (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
  6. (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
  7. (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
  8. (n.) An imposing series of things.
  9. (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
  10. (n.) The panel itself.


Synonyms:
Align, Finery, Raiment, Range, Regalia,
• Arrear
  1. (n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.
  2. (adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards.
• Articular
  1. (n.) Alt. of Articulary
  2. (n.) Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.


Synonyms:
Articulary,
• Ash Wednesday
  1. () The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.
• Ashlar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Ashler
• Asmear
  1. (a.) Smeared over.
• Asquat
  1. (adv. & a.) Squatting.
• Assagai
  1. (n.) Alt. of Assegai


Synonyms:
Assegai,
• Assai
  1. () A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.
• Assamar
  1. (n.) The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.
• Assay
  1. (n.) Tested purity or value.
  2. (v.) To try; to attempt; to apply.
  3. (n.) Trial; attempt; essay.
  4. (n.) Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
  5. (n.) The alloy or metal to be assayed.
  6. (v.) To affect.
  7. (v.) To try tasting, as food or drink.
  8. (n.) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
  9. (n.) Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.
  10. (v. i.) To attempt, try, or endeavor.
  11. (v.) To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.


Synonyms:
Attempt, Check, Essay, Seek, Try,
• Assegai
  1. (n.) A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.
  2. (n.) Same as Assagai.


Synonyms:
Assagai,
• Assignat
  1. (n.) One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
• Astay
  1. (adv.) An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.
• Astragalar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the astragalus.
• Astray
  1. (adv. & a.) Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.


Synonyms:
Wide,
• Astylar
  1. (a.) Without columns or pilasters.
• At
  1. (prep.) The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten oclock; at twenty-one; at once; at first.
  2. (prep.) A relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.
  3. (prep.) The relation of some state or condition; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage.
  4. (prep.) The relation of a point or position in a series, or of degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80í; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.
  5. (prep.) The relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands.
  6. (prep.) Relation of direction toward an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one.
  7. (prep.) The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.
  8. (prep.) Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. It is less definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. From this original import are derived all the various uses of at.
• Atrabiliar
  1. (a.) Melancholy; atrabilious.
• Attar
  1. (n.) A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.


Synonyms:
Ottar,
• Attentat
  1. (n.) An attempt; an assault.
  2. (n.) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.
  3. (n.) A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed.
• Attrap
  1. (v. t.) To adorn with trapping; to array.
  2. (v. t.) To entrap; to insnare.
• Aurae
  1. (pl. ) of Aura
• Auriculae
  1. (pl. ) of Auricula
• Auricular
  1. (a.) Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.
  3. (a.) Received by the ear; known by report.
  4. (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
  5. (a.) Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.


Synonyms:
Otic,
• Aurorae
  1. (pl. ) of Aurora
• Autocrat
  1. (a.) An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).
  2. (a.) One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot.


Synonyms:
Despot, Tyrant,
• Auxiliar
  1. (n.) An auxiliary.
  2. (a.) Auxiliary.
• Avadavat
  1. (n.) Same as Amadavat.


Synonyms:
Amadavat,
• Avatar
  1. (n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.
  2. (n.) Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.


Synonyms:
Embodiment, Incarnation,
• Avicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.
• Avocat
  1. (n.) An advocate.
• Avuncular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to an uncle.
• Away
  1. (adv.) From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
  2. (adv.) Aside; off; in another direction.
  3. (adv.) From a place; hence.
  4. (adv.) Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
  5. (adv.) On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.
  6. (adv.) By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.


Synonyms:
Aside, By, Departed, Forth, Gone, Off, Out, Outside,
• Axillae
  1. (pl. ) of Axilla
• Axillar
  1. (a.) Axillary.
• Ay
  1. (adv.) Same as Aye.
  2. (interj.) Ah! alas!
  3. (a.) Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
  4. (adv.) Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.
• Ayah
  1. (n.) A native nurse for children; also, a ladys maid.
• Bab
  1. (n.) Lit., gate; -- a title given to the founder of Babism, and taken from that of Bab-ud-Din, assumed by him.
• Bablah
  1. (n.) The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.
• Bac
  1. (n.) A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
  2. (n.) A vat or cistern. See 1st Back.
• Baccarat
  1. (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.
• Bacillar
  1. (a.) Shaped like a rod or staff.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, the organism bacillus; bacillary.


Synonyms:
Bacillary,
• Bacillariae
  1. (n. pl.) See Diatom.
• Backstay
  1. (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast.
  2. (n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.
• Bah
  1. (interj.) An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.
• Bahai
  1. (n.) A member of the sect of the Babis consisting of the adherents of Baha (Mirza Husain Ali, entitled "Baha u llah," or, "the Splendor of God"), the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.
• Bahar
  1. (n.) A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.
• Baked-meat
  1. (n.) A pie; baked food.
• Bakemeat
  1. (n.) Alt. of Baked-meat
• Banat
  1. (n.) The territory governed by a ban.
• Baobab
  1. (n.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
• Bar
  1. (n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiffs recovery; -- sometimes with up.
  2. (n.) Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
  3. (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
  4. (n.) A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
  5. (n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
  6. (n.) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
  7. (n.) To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
  8. (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
  9. (n.) The part of the crust of a horses hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.
  10. (n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
  11. (n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
  12. (n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
  13. (n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
  14. (n.) A drilling or tamping rod.
  15. (n.) Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
  16. (n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
  17. (n.) To except; to exclude by exception.
  18. (n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
  19. (n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.
  20. (n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
  21. (n.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
  22. (n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
  23. (n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiffs action.
  24. (n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.


Synonyms:
Banish, Barricade, Barroom, Block, Blockade, Cake, Debar, Exclude, Measure, Prevention, Relegate, Saloon, Taproom,
• Barway
  1. (n.) A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.
• Basilar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Basilary


Synonyms:
Basilary,
• Bat
  1. (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
  2. (n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.
  3. (n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
  4. (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
  5. (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
  6. (v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
  7. (n.) Shale or bituminous shale.
  8. (v. t. & i.) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
  9. (n.) A stroke of work.
  10. (n.) Same as Tical, n., 1.
  11. (n.) In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
  12. (n.) A spree; a jollification.
  13. (v. t. & i.) To wink.
  14. (n.) A stroke; a sharp blow.
  15. (n.) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
  16. (n.) Rate of motion; speed.


Synonyms:
Drub, Flutter, Lick, Thrash,
• Bay
  1. (v. t.) To bathe.
  2. (n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
  3. (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
  4. (n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.
  5. (n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
  6. (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.
  7. (n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
  8. (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
  9. (v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
  10. (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
  11. (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
  12. (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
  13. (v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
  14. (n.) A tract covered with bay trees.
  15. (a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
  16. (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
  17. (v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back.


Synonyms:
Alcove, Bay tree, Quest,
• Bazaar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Bazar


Synonyms:
Bazar, Fair,
• Bazar
  1. (n.) A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.
  2. (n.) In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.
  3. (n.) A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects.


Synonyms:
Bazaar,
• Bear
  1. (v. t.) To gain or win.
  2. (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
  3. (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.
  4. (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
  5. (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
  6. (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
  7. (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
  8. (v. t.) To behave; to conduct.
  9. (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
  10. (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
  11. (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
  12. (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
  13. (n.) A bier.
  14. (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
  15. (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
  16. (n.) A portable punching machine.
  17. (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
  18. (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
  19. (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
  20. (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
  21. (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.
  22. (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
  23. (n.) Alt. of Bere
  24. (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
  25. (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
  26. (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
  27. (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
  28. (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
  29. (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
  30. (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
  31. (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
  32. (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
  33. (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
  34. (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
  35. (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.


Synonyms:
Abide, Accept, Acquit, Assume, Behave, Birth, Brook, Carry, Comport, Conduct, Contain, Deliver, Deport, Endure, Expect, Have, Hold, Pay, Stand, Stomach, Suffer, Support, Tolerate, Wear, Yield,
• Bears-ear
  1. (n.) A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
• Beat
  1. (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchmans beat.
  2. (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
  3. (v. t.) To tread, as a path.
  4. (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
  5. (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
  6. (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
  7. (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
  8. (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
  9. (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
  10. (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  11. (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
  12. (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
  13. (p. p.) of Beat
  14. (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
  15. (n.) A stroke; a blow.
  16. (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
  17. (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
  18. (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
  19. (v. i.) To be in agitation or doubt.
  20. (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
  21. (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  22. (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
  23. (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
  24. (imp.) of Beat
  25. (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
  26. (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat ones breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
  27. (n.) A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
  28. (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
  29. (n.) A smart tap on the adversarys blade.
  30. (n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
  31. (n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop.
  32. (n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.
  33. (n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing


Synonyms:
Amaze, Baffle, Bewilder, Bushed, Cadence, Cheat, Chisel, Circumvent, Crush, Dead, Drum, Exhaust, Flap, Get, Gravel, Measure, Meter, Mystify, Nonplus, Outwit, Overreach, Perplex, Pose, Pound, Pulsate, Pulsation, Pulse, Puzzle, Quiver, Rhythm, Round, Scramble, Shell, Stupefy, Thrum, Thump, Tick, Ticktack, Trounce, Tucker, Vanquish, Vex,
• Beclap
  1. (v. t.) To catch; to grasp; to insnare.
• Bedagat
  1. (n.) The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah.
• Bedegar
  1. (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
• Bedeguar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Bedegar
• Beeregar
  1. (n.) Sour beer.
• Begat
  1. () of Beget
• Beggar
  1. (v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
  2. (v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
  3. (n.) One who makes it his business to ask alms.
  4. (n.) One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
  5. (n.) One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.
  6. (n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.


Synonyms:
Mendicant, Pauperize,
• Bekah
  1. (n.) Half a shekel.
• Belay
  1. (v. t.) To lay on or cover; to adorn.
  2. (v. t.) To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.
  3. (v. t.) To lie in wait for with a view to assault. Hence: to block up or obstruct.
• Bell jar
  1. () A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.
• Bellycheat
  1. (n.) An apron or covering for the front of the person.
• Beray
  1. (v. t.) To make foul; to soil; to defile.
• Besmear
  1. (v. t.) To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.


Synonyms:
Bedaub, Smear,
• Bestar
  1. (v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or as with, stars; to bestud.
• Betrap
  1. (v. t.) To put trappings on; to clothe; to deck.
  2. (v. t.) To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.
• Betray
  1. (v. t.) To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
  2. (v. t.) To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
  3. (v. t.) To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
  4. (v. t.) To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
  5. (v. t.) To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
  6. (v. t.) To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
  7. (v. t.) To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.


Synonyms:
Bewray, Cheat, Cuckold, Deceive, Denounce, Fail, Grass, Peach, Rat, Sell, Shop, Stag, Wander,
• Bevel gear
  1. () A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
• Bewrap
  1. (v. t.) To wrap up; to cover.
• Bewray
  1. (v. t.) To soil. See Beray.
  2. (v. t.) To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray.


Synonyms:
Betray,
• Bezoar
  1. (n.) A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.
• Biangular
  1. (a.) Having two angles or corners.
• Bibliomaniac
  1. (n.) One who has a mania for books.
  2. (a.) Relating to a bibliomaniac.
• Bibliopolar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the sale of books.
• Bicapsular
  1. (a.) Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.
• Bicycular
  1. (a.) Relating to bicycling.
• Bifilar
  1. (a.) Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance.
• Biglandular
  1. (a.) Having two glands, as a plant.
• Bilaminar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Bilaminate
• Bilinear
  1. (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.
• Bilinguar
  1. (a.) See Bilingual.
• Billy goat
  1. () A male goat.
• Billycock hat
  1. () A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake.
• Bilocular
  1. (a.) Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp.
• Bimolecular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).
• Bimuscular
  1. (a.) Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.
• Binocular
  1. (a.) Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope.
  2. (n.) A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope.
  3. (a.) Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.
  4. (a.) Having two eyes.
• Binuclear
  1. (a.) Alt. of Binucleate


Synonyms:
Binucleate,
• Bipolar
  1. (a.) Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.
• Birectangular
  1. (a.) Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.
• Birthday
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.
  2. (n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
  3. (n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of ones birth.
• Bishops cap
  1. () A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort.
• Bismillah
  1. (interj.) An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.
• Bitter spar
  1. () A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
• Bivalvular
  1. (a.) Having two valves.
• Bivouac
  1. (n.) An encampment for the night without tents or covering.
  2. (v. i.) To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
  3. (v. i.) To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
  4. (n.) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.


Synonyms:
Camp, Cantonment, Encamp, Encampment, Tent,
• Blab
  1. (v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.
  2. (n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.
  3. (v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.


Synonyms:
Babble, Blabber, Chatter, Clack, Gabble, Gibber, Maunder, Palaver, Peach, Piffle, Prate, Prattle, Sing, Talk, Tattle, Tittle-tattle, Twaddle,
• Black friar
  1. () A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• Black Friday
  1. () Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.
• Black Monday
  1. () The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys.
  2. () Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold.
• Blackcap
  1. (n.) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
  2. (n.) The black raspberry.
  3. (n.) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.
  4. (n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.


Synonyms:
Pewit, Thimbleberry,
• Blackcoat
  1. (n.) A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.
• Blackstrap
  1. (n.) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
  2. (n.) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
• Blae
  1. (a.) Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored.
• Blat
  1. (v. i.) To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.
  2. (v. t.) To utter inconsiderately.


Synonyms:
Baa, Bleat,
• Blay
  1. (a.) A fish. See Bleak, n.
• Blear
  1. (v.) Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
  2. (v. t.) To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.
  3. (v.) Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.


Synonyms:
Blear-eyed, Bleary, Blur,
• Bleat
  1. (v. i.) To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.
  2. (n.) A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.


Synonyms:
Baa, Blat,
• Blindmans holiday
  1. () The time between daylight and candle light.
• Bloat
  1. (v. t.) To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
  2. (n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
  3. (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
  4. (v. t.) To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.
  5. (a.) Bloated.
  6. (v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
• Bloody sweat
  1. () A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
• Blue jay
  1. () The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.
• Bluecap
  1. (n.) The bluepoll.
  2. (n.) The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.
  3. (n.) A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet.
• Bluecoat
  1. (n.) One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.
• Bluethroat
  1. (n.) A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
• Boar
  1. (n.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
• Boat
  1. (v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
  2. (v. i.) To go or row in a boat.
  3. (n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
  4. (n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
  5. (v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
  6. (n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
• Bobac
  1. (n.) The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).
• Bobstay
  1. (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
• Bodhisat
  1. (n.) Alt. of Bodhisattwa
• Boiar
  1. (n.) See Boyar.
• Bolar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to bole or clay; partaking of the nature and qualities of bole; clayey.
• Bondar
  1. (n.) A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet; -- called also musk cat.
• Boomorah
  1. (n.) A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.
• Bordar
  1. (n.) A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.
• Botany Bay
  1. () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.
• Bow oar
  1. () The oar used by the bowman.
  2. () One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• Boxing day
  1. () The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night.
• Boyar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Boyard
• Brae
  1. (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
• Brahmo-somaj
  1. (n.) A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindoos.
• Branchiae
  1. (pl. ) of Branchia
• Branular
  1. (a.) Relating to the brain; cerebral.
• Brat
  1. (n.) A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
  2. (n.) The young of an animal.
  3. (n.) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
  4. (n.) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
  5. (n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.


Synonyms:
Terror,
• Bray
  1. (v. t.) To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
  2. (v. i.) To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
  3. (v. i.) To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.
  4. (n.) The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
  5. (n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.
  6. (v. t.) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.


Synonyms:
Comminute, Crunch, Grind, Mash,
• Breakaway
  1. (n.) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
  2. (n.) A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede.


Synonyms:
Separatist,
• Briar
  1. (n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
  2. (n.) Same as Brier.
  3. (n.) Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.


Synonyms:
Brier, Eglantine, Sweetbrier,
• Bric-a brac
  1. (n.) Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively.
• Brickbat
  1. (n.) A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.
• Brittle star
  1. () Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
• Browbeat
  1. (imp.) of Browbeat
  2. (v. t.) To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.


Synonyms:
Bully, Bullyrag, Hector, Swagger,
• Buansuah
  1. (n.) The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.
• Buat
  1. (n.) A lantern; also, the moon.
• Buckwheat
  1. (n.) A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.
  2. (n.) The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.
• Bugbear
  1. (n.) Same as Bugaboo.
  2. (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
  3. (a.) Causing needless fright.
  4. (v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms.


Synonyms:
Bugaboo, Hobgoblin,
• Bulbar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.
• Bullae
  1. (pl. ) of Bulla
• Bullbeggar
  1. (n.) Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.
• Bumboat
  1. (n.) A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.
• Bureaucrat
  1. (n.) An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.
• Burglar
  1. (n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary.
• Burlap
  1. (n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.


Synonyms:
Gunny,
• Bursae
  1. (pl. ) of Bursa
• Bursar
  1. (n.) A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.
  2. (n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.
• Byplay
  1. (n.) Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.


Synonyms:
Business,
• Byway
  1. (n.) A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.


Synonyms:
Bypath, Byroad,
• Cab
  1. (n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
  2. (n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
  3. (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.


Synonyms:
Cabriolet, Hack,
• Cabiai
  1. (n.) The capybara. See Capybara.
• Cacajao
  1. (n.) A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia (/ Brachyurus) melanocephala).
• Cacao
  1. (n.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.
• Cadillac
  1. (n.) A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking.
• Caesar
  1. (n.) A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar.
• Caesurae
  1. (pl. ) of Caesura
• Calabar
  1. (n.) A district on the west coast of Africa.
• Calamar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Calamary
• Calambac
  1. (n.) A fragrant wood; agalloch.
• Calcar
  1. (n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
  2. (n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
  3. (n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
  4. (n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence.
  5. (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
• Calcispongiae
  1. (n. pl.) An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera.
• Calc-spar
  1. (n.) Same as Calcite.
• Calendar
  1. (n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
  2. (n.) An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.
  3. (v. t.) To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
  4. (n.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.
• Calicular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Caliculate


Synonyms:
Calycular,
• Callat
  1. (n.) Same as Callet.
• Caltrap
  1. (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.
  2. (n.) An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemys cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses feet.
• Calycular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.


Synonyms:
Calicular,
• Camerae
  1. (pl. ) of Camera
• Canicular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
• Cannular
  1. (a.) Having the form of a tube; tubular.


Synonyms:
Tubular,
• Cantab
  1. (n.) A Cantabrigian.
• Cantar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Cantarro
• Cantrap
  1. (n.) Alt. of Cantrip
• Canular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Canulated
• Cap
  1. (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
  2. (v. t.) To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.
  3. (n.) The removable cover of a journal box.
  4. (v. t.) To deprive of cap.
  5. (n.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
  6. (v. t.) To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
  7. (n.) A respectful uncovering of the head.
  8. (n.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
  9. (n.) A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
  10. (n.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.
  11. (n.) Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use
  12. (n.) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
  13. (v. t.) To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.
  14. (n.) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
  15. (n.) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
  16. (n.) Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
  17. (n.) A covering for the head
  18. (v. t.) To salute by removing the cap.
  19. (n.) A percussion cap. See under Percussion.
  20. (v. i.) To uncover the head respectfully.
  21. (n.) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys


Synonyms:
Capital, Ceiling, Chapiter, Crest, Crownwork, Detonator, Pileus,
• Capitular
  1. (n.) A member of a chapter.
  2. (a.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.
  3. (n.) The head or prominent part.
  4. (a.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
  5. (a.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.
  6. (n.) An act passed in a chapter.


Synonyms:
Capitulary,
• Capsular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Capsulary
• Car
  1. (n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
  2. (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
  3. (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
  4. (n.) The stars also called Charless Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
  5. (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.
  6. (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
  7. (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.


Synonyms:
Automobile, Gondola, Machine, Motorcar,
• Carabao
  1. (n.) The water buffalo.
• Carac
  1. (n.) See Carack.
• Carat
  1. (n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.
  2. (n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.
• Caraway
  1. (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
  2. (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
• Carbuncular
  1. (a.) Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.


Synonyms:
Carbuncled,
• Cardiac
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.
  2. (n.) A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.
  3. (a.) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.
• Carinatae
  1. (n. pl.) A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.
• Carpetway
  1. (n.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.
• Carraway
  1. (n.) See Caraway.
• Cartway
  1. (n.) A way or road for carts.
• Caruncular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Carunculous


Synonyms:
Carunculous,
• Case-bay
  1. (n.) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.
  2. (n.) The space between two principals or girders
• Cash railway
  1. () A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track.
• Cassumunar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Cassumuniar
• Cassumuniar
  1. (n.) A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies.
• Castaway
  1. (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
  2. (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
  3. (a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.


Synonyms:
Outcast, Pariah, Rejected, Shipwrecked,
• Castile soap
  1. () A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.
• Cat
  1. (n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.
  2. (n.) An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
  3. (n.) A cat o nine tails. See below.
  4. (n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
  5. (n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
  6. (v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
  7. (n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.


Synonyms:
Cast, Caterpillar, Chuck, Disgorge, Guy, Honk, Puke, Purge, Regorge, Regurgitate, Retch, Sick, Spew, Spue, Vomit,
• Catboat
  1. (n.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Caterpillar
  1. (n.) A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.
  2. (n.) The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.


Synonyms:
Cat,
• Cathay
  1. (n.) China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)
• Causeway
  1. (n.) Alt. of Causey
• Caveat
  1. (n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
  2. (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
  3. (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.


Synonyms:
Caution,
• Caviar
  1. (n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.


Synonyms:
Caviare,
• Cay
  1. (n.) See Key, a ledge.


Synonyms:
Key,
• Cedar
  1. (n.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
  2. (a.) Of or pertaining to cedar.
• Cedrat
  1. (n.) Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.
• Celeriac
  1. (n.) Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.
• Celiac
  1. (a.) See Coellac.
  2. (a.) Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.


Synonyms:
Coeliac,
• Cellar
  1. (n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.


Synonyms:
Basement,
• Cellular
  1. (a.) Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.
• Ceratospongiae
  1. (n. pl.) An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.
• Cerebellar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Cerebellous
• Cervelat
  1. (n.) An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.
• Chab
  1. (n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).
• Chalazae
  1. (pl. ) of Chalaza
• Chambray
  1. (n.) A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.
• Change gear
  1. () A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also change-speed gear.
• Chap
  1. (n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
  2. (v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  3. (v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
  4. (n.) A blow; a rap.
  5. (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  6. (v. i.) To strike; to knock; to rap.
  7. (v. i.) To bargain; to buy.
  8. (n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.
  9. (n.) A buyer; a chapman.
  10. (n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
  11. (v. t.) To strike; to beat.
  12. (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.


Synonyms:
Crack, Cranny, Crevice, Feller, Fellow, Fissure, Gent, Lad,
• Char
  1. (n.) Alt. of Charr
  2. (n.) To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.
  3. (n.) Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
  4. (n.) A car; a chariot.
  5. (v. i.) Alt. of Chare
  6. (v. t.) Alt. of Chare
  7. (n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.


Synonyms:
Blacken, Charwoman, Coal, Scorch, Woman,
• Chat
  1. (v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
  2. (n.) Small stones with ore.
  3. (v. t.) To talk of.
  4. (n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
  5. (n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
  6. (n.) Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.


Synonyms:
Chaffer, Chatter, Chitchat, Claver, Confab, Confabulate, Confabulation, Gossip, Jaw, Natter, Visit,
• Cheap
  1. (adv.) Cheaply.
  2. (n.) Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
  3. (v. i.) To buy; to bargain.
  4. (n.) A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
  5. (n.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.


Synonyms:
Brassy, Bum, Cheesy, Crummy, Flash, Flashy, Garish, Gaudy, Gimcrack, Inexpensive, Loud, Meretricious, Punk, Sleazy, Tacky, Tatty, Tawdry, Tinny, Trashy,
• Chear
  1. (n. & v.) See Cheer.
• Cheat
  1. (n.) To beguile.
  2. (v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
  3. (n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
  4. (n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
  5. (n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
  6. (n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
  7. (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  8. (n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.


Synonyms:
Beat, Beguiler, Betray, Cheater, Cheating, Chess, Chicane, Chisel, Chouse, Cuckold, Darnel, Deceiver, Jockey, Rig, Screw, Shaft, Slicker, Swindle, Tare, Trickster, Wander,
• Cheddar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.
• Cheetah
  1. (n.) A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.


Synonyms:
Chetah,
• Chelae
  1. (pl. ) of Chela
• Chelicerae
  1. (pl. ) of Chelicera
• Chenomorphae
  1. (n. pl.) An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.
• Chetah
  1. (n.) See Cheetah.


Synonyms:
Cheetah,
• Chih tai
  1. () A Chinese governor general; a tsung tu (which see).
• Childermas day
  1. () A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocents Day.
• Chitchat
  1. (n.) Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.


Synonyms:
Causerie, Chaffer, Chat, Chatter, Claver, Confab, Confabulate, Gab, Gossip, Jaw, Natter, Tittle-tattle, Visit,
• Choke pear
  1. () A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered.
  2. () A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.
• Chokedar
  1. (n.) A watchman; an officer of customs or police.
• Choke-strap
  1. (n.) A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
• Chopboat
  1. (n.) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.
• Cicadae
  1. (pl. ) of Cicada
• Cigar
  1. (n.) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
• Cimar
  1. (n.) See Simar.
• Cinnabar
  1. (n.) The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.
  2. (n.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.


Synonyms:
Vermilion,
• Circar
  1. (n.) A district, or part of a province. See Sircar.
• Circular
  1. (a.) Perfect; complete.
  2. (a.) repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.
  3. (a.) Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.
  4. (a.) A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.
  5. (a.) In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.
  6. (a.) A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.
  7. (a.) Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter.


Synonyms:
Annular, Annulate, Annulated, Bill, Broadside, Circinate, Flier, Flyer, Handbill, Ringed, Round,
• Circumpolar
  1. (a.) About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.
• Citigradae
  1. (n. pl.) A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.
• Cizar
  1. (v. i.) To clip with scissors.
• Clancular
  1. (a.) Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed.
• Clap
  1. (n.) A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.
  2. (v. t.) To express contempt or derision.
  3. (v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.
  4. (n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.
  5. (n.) Gonorrhea.
  6. (v. i.) To knock, as at a door.
  7. (v. i.) To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.
  8. (v. i.) To strike the hands together in applause.
  9. (n.) A striking of hands to express approbation.
  10. (v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise.
  11. (n.) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
  12. (n.) Noisy talk; chatter.
  13. (v. t.) To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap ones hands; a clapping of wings.
  14. (n.) A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
  15. (v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.
  16. (v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.


Synonyms:
Acclaim, Applaud, Bang, Blast, Clack, Eruption, Gonorrhea, Gonorrhoea, Spat,
• Claptrap
  1. (n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.
  2. (n.) A contrivance for clapping in theaters.
  3. (a.) Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.


Synonyms:
Bombast, Fustian, Rant,
• Clash gear
  1. () A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.
• Class day
  1. () In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.
• Clausular
  1. (n.) Consisting of, or having, clauses.
• Clavicular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the clavicle.
• Clay
  1. (n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
  2. (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
  3. (v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.
  4. (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.


Synonyms:
Cadaver, Corpse, Mud, Stiff,
• Clear
  1. (v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net.
  2. (v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
  3. (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear ones self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.
  4. (v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
  5. (v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.
  6. (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
  7. (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
  8. (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
  9. (adv.) In a clear manner; plainly.
  10. (superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
  11. (superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
  12. (v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
  13. (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
  14. (superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
  15. (superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
  16. (v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
  17. (v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.
  18. (superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
  19. (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.
  20. (n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.
  21. (superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
  22. (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
  23. (v. i.) To disengage ones self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
  24. (superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
  25. (superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
  26. (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.


Synonyms:
Absolved, Acquit, Assoil, Authorize, Brighten, Clean, Clean-cut, Clear-cut, Cleared, Clearly, Crystallize, Decipherable, Discharge, Earn, Elucidate, Enlighten, Exculpate, Exculpated, Exonerate, Exonerated, Gain, Illuminate, Light, Make, Net, Open, Pass, Percipient, Readable, Realize, Sack, Top, Vindicated,
• Cleat
  1. (n.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
  2. (v. t.) To strengthen with a cleat.
  3. (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.
• Clinostat
  1. (n.) An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.
• Cloacae
  1. (pl. ) of Cloaca
• Cluniac
  1. (n.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.
• Cnidae
  1. (pl. ) of Cnida
• Coal tar
  1. () A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printers ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series.
• Coat
  1. (n.) A petticoat.
  2. (v. t.) To cover with a coat or outer garment.
  3. (n.) An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.
  4. (n.) The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
  5. (n.) Same as Coat of arms. See below.
  6. (n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.
  7. (n.) A coat card. See below.
  8. (n.) An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.
  9. (v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.


Synonyms:
Cake, Coating, Pelage, Surface,
• Cochlear
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.
• Cockboat
  1. (n.) A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.
• Coeliac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Celiac


Synonyms:
Celiac,
• Cognac
  1. (n.) A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.
• Cokenay
  1. (n.) A cockney.
• Colcothar
  1. (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.
• Collar
  1. (n.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
  2. (n.) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.
  3. (n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
  4. (v. t.) To seize by the collar.
  5. (v. t.) To put a collar on.
  6. (n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
  7. (n.) Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a ladys collar; the collar of a dog.
  8. (n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.
  9. (n.) A collar beam.
  10. (n.) An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.
  11. (n.) A ring or cincture.
  12. (n.) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.


Synonyms:
Apprehend, Apprehension, Arrest, Catch, Choker, Cop, Nab, Nail, Neckband, Pinch,
• Columbae
  1. (n. pl.) An order of birds, including the pigeons.
• Columbus Day
  1. () The 12th day of October, on which day in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America, landing on one of the Bahama Islands (probably the one now commonly called Watling Island), and naming it "San Salvador"; -- called also Discovery Day. This day is made a legal holiday in many States of The United States.
• Columnar
  1. (a.) Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.
• Combat
  1. (n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
  2. (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
  3. (v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
  4. (n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.


Synonyms:
Battle, Fight, Fighting,
• Commissariat
  1. (n.) The body of officers charged with such service.
  2. (n.) The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.


Synonyms:
Provender, Victuals,
• Compear
  1. (v. i.) To appear in court personally or by attorney.
  2. (v. i.) To appear.
• Complanar
  1. (a.) See Coplanar.
• Compositae
  1. (n. pl.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
• Conciliar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Conciliary
• Concordat
  1. (n.) A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything.
  2. (n.) An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801.


Synonyms:
Compact, Covenant,
• Condylar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a condyle.
• Confab
  1. (n.) Familiar talk or conversation.


Synonyms:
Chaffer, Chat, Chatter, Chitchat, Claver, Confabulate, Confabulation, Confer, Consult, Gossip, Jaw, Natter, Visit,
• Confectioners sugar
  1. () A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners uses.
• Confervae
  1. (pl. ) of Conferva
• Constat
  1. (n.) A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.
• Consular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.
• Coothay
  1. (n.) A striped satin made in India.
• Corah
  1. (n.) Plain; undyed; -- applied to Indian silk.
  2. (n.) Corah silk.
• Corinthiac
  1. (a.) Pertaining to Corinth.
• Cornercap
  1. (n.) The chief ornament.
• Cornicular
  1. (n.) A secretary or clerk.
• Coronae
  1. (pl. ) of Corona
• Corpuscular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.
• Corsac
  1. (n.) The corsak.
• Coticular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.
• Cottar
  1. (n.) A cottager; a cottier.


Synonyms:
Cotter,
• Cougar
  1. (n.) An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.


Synonyms:
Catamount, Painter, Panther, Puma,
• Countersway
  1. (n.) A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.
• Country seat
  1. () A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• Couple-beggar
  1. (n.) One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other.
• Courap
  1. (n.) A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.
• Cowwheat
  1. (n.) A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
• Crab
  1. (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
  2. (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  3. (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
  4. (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
  5. (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  6. (n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
  7. (a.) Sour; rough; austere.
  8. (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
  9. (a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
  10. (n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
  11. (a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  12. (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.


Synonyms:
Cancer,
• Crap
  1. (n.) In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.


Synonyms:
Bull, Buncombe, Bunk, Bunkum, Defecate, Dirt, Hogwash, Make, Poop, Rot,
• Cravat
  1. (n.) A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.
• Cray
  1. (n.) Alt. of Crayer
• Creat
  1. (n.) An usher to a riding master.
• Crepuscular
  1. (a.) Alt. of Crepusculous
• Croat
  1. (n.) A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native Slavic race.
  2. (n.) An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.


Synonyms:
Croatian,
• Crop-ear
  1. (n.) A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
• Crossbar
  1. (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
• Crossway
  1. (n.) See Crossroad.


Synonyms:
Crossing, Crossroad, Intersection,
• Crowbar
  1. (n.) A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.


Synonyms:
Pry,
• Cryptogamiae
  1. (pl. ) of Cryptogamia
• Cubicular
  1. (a.) Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.
• Cudbear
  1. (n.) A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.
  2. (n.) A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea.


Synonyms:
Archil, Orchil,
• Cul-de-sac
  1. (n.) a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front.
  2. (n.) A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.
  3. (n.) Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.
• Culs-de-sac
  1. (pl. ) of Cul-de-sac
• Cumquat
  1. (n.) See Kumquat.


Synonyms:
Kumquat,
• Curacao
  1. (n.) Alt. of Curacoa


Synonyms:
Curacoa,
• Curat
  1. (n.) A cuirass or breastplate.
• Curtal friar
  1. () A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.
• Curvilinear
  1. (a.) Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.


Synonyms:
Curvilineal,
• Cushat
  1. (n.) The ringdove or wood pigeon.


Synonyms:
Ringdove,
• Cutaway
  1. (a.) Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.
• Cutthroat
  1. (a.) Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
  2. (n.) One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.


Synonyms:
Bowelless, Fierce, Homicidal, Murderous,
• Cyclone cellar
  1. () Alt. of pit
• Cyclostylar
  1. (a.) Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within.
• Cymar
  1. (n.) A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.
• Czar
  1. (n.) A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.


Synonyms:
Tsar, Tzar,
• Dab
  1. (n.) A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
  2. (n.) A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.
  3. (n.) A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.
  4. (v. i.) To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.
  5. (n.) A small mass of anything soft or moist.
  6. (v. i.) To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.


Synonyms:
Pat, Splash, Splatter, Swab, Swob, Tap,
• Dactylar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
• Dahabeah
  1. (n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.
• Damar
  1. (n.) See Dammar.


Synonyms:
Dammar,
• Dammar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Dammara


Synonyms:
Damar,
• Dandiprat
  1. (n.) A small coin.
  2. (n.) A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.
• Dap
  1. (v. i.) To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.
• Day
  1. (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.
  2. (n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
  3. (n.) The period of the earths revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the suns center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
  4. (n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
  5. (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.


Synonyms:
Daylight, Daytime,
• Day-star
  1. (n.) The sun, as the orb of day.
  2. (n.) The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.
• Dead beat
  1. () See Beat, n., 7.
• Deadbeat
  1. (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.


Synonyms:
Defaulter,
• Dead-pay
  1. (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
• Dear
  1. (v. t.) To endear.
  2. (superl.) Of disagreeable things and antipathies.
  3. (n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
  4. (adv.) Dearly; at a high price.
  5. (superl.) Of agreeable things and interests.
  6. (superl.) Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.
  7. (superl.) Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
  8. (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.
  9. (superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.


Synonyms:
Affectionately, Beloved, Costly, Darling, Dearly, Devout, Earnest, Good, Heartfelt, Honey, Lamb, Love, Near,
• Debar
  1. (v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.


Synonyms:
Avert, Avoid, Bar, Deflect, Exclude, Obviate, Suspend,
• Deblai
  1. (n.) The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.
• Decangular
  1. (a.) Having ten angles.
• Decay
  1. (n.) Cause of decay.
  2. (v. t.) To destroy.
  3. (v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair.
  4. (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.
  5. (n.) Destruction; death.
  6. (v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.


Synonyms:
Crumble, Decline, Decompose, Decomposition, Disintegrate, Disintegration,
• Decemlocular
  1. (a.) Having ten cells for seeds.
• Decoration Day
  1. () = Memorial Day.
• Defeat
  1. (v. t.) To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
  2. (v. t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
  3. (v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
  4. (v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
  5. (v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
  6. (v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.
  7. (v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.


Synonyms:
Frustration, Kill, Licking, Overcome,
• Defray
  1. (v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.
  2. (v. t.) To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
• Delay
  1. (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
  2. (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
  3. (n.) To allay; to temper.
  4. (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
  5. (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.


Synonyms:
Check, Detain, Hold, Postponement, Retard, Stay, Wait,
• Delilah
  1. (n.) The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.


Synonyms:
Enchantress, Siren, Temptress,
• Demigroat
  1. (n.) A half groat.
• Democrat
  1. (n.) One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people.
  2. (n.) A member of the Democratic party.
  3. (n.) A large light uncovered wagon with two or more seats.


Synonyms:
Populist,
• Demoniac
  1. (n.) A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.
  2. (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.
  3. (a.) Alt. of Demoniacal


Synonyms:
Amuck, Berserk, Demoniacal, Possessed,
• Denay
  1. (v. t.) To deny.
  2. (n.) Denial; refusal.
• Deodar
  1. (n.) A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.
• Deray
  1. (n.) Disorder; merriment.
• Derbyshire spar
  1. () A massive variety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work.
• Despotat
  1. (n.) The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.
• Detector bar
  1. () A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train (45 to 50 feet), laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• Dewlap
  1. (n.) The flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age.
  2. (n.) The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.
• Didascalar
  1. (a.) Didascalic.
• Dies Irae
  1. () Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous mediaeval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.
• Differentiae
  1. (pl. ) of Differentia
• Dinar
  1. (n.) An ancient gold coin of the East.
  2. (n.) A petty money of accounts of Persia.
• Dionysiac
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Dionysus or to the Dionysia; Bacchic; as, a Dionysiac festival; the Dionysiac theater at Athens.
• Diplanar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to two planes.
• Diplocardiac
  1. (a.) Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.
• Diplomat
  1. (n.) Alt. of Diplomate


Synonyms:
Diplomatist,
• Dipolar
  1. (a.) Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.
• Dipsomaniac
  1. (n.) One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.


Synonyms:
Alcoholic, Boozer, Lush, Soaker, Souse,
• Disappear
  1. (v. i.) To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.
  2. (v. i.) To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.


Synonyms:
Vanish,
• Disarray
  1. (v. t.) To throw into disorder; to break the array of.
  2. (n.) Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.
  3. (n.) Confused attire; undress.
  4. (v. t.) To take off the dress of; to unrobe.


Synonyms:
Confusion, Disorder, Disorderliness,
• Disbar
  1. (v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
• Discovery Day
  1. () = Columbus Day, above.
• Disembay
  1. (v. t.) To clear from a bay.
• Disfriar
  1. (v. t.) To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.
• Dismay
  1. (v. t.) Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
  2. (v. i.) To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
  3. (v. t.) Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
  4. (v. i.) To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
  5. (v. i.) To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.


Synonyms:
Alarm, Appall, Consternation, Deject, Demoralize, Depress, Discouragement, Disheartenment, Dispirit, Horrify,
• Displat
  1. (v. t.) To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat.
• Display
  1. (v. t.) To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.
  2. (v. t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
  3. (v. t.) To discover; to descry.
  4. (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
  5. (v. i.) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
  6. (n.) An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.
  7. (n.) Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.
  8. (v. t.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
  9. (v. t.) To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.


Synonyms:
Exhibit, Expose, Presentation, Reveal, Show, Showing,
• Disray
  1. (variant) of Disarray.
• Disseat
  1. (v. t.) To unseat.
• Dissimilar
  1. (a.) Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.


Synonyms:
Different, Unlike,
• Diverticular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to a diverticulum.
• Doab
  1. () A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna.
• Doat
  1. (v. i.) See Dote.
• Docetae
  1. (n. pl.) Ancient heretics who held that Christs body was merely a phantom or appearance.
• Dochmiac
  1. (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.
• Dog day
  1. () Alt. of Dogday
• Dog Star
  1. () Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, / Canis Majoris. See Dog days.
• Dogday
  1. () One of the dog days.
• Dogs-ear
  1. (n.) The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.
• Dollar
  1. (n.) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.
  2. (n.) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.
  3. (n.) The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values.
  4. (n.) A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.


Synonyms:
Buck, Clam,
• Domesday
  1. (n.) A day of judgment. See Doomsday.
• Domiciliar
  1. (n.) A member of a household; a domestic.
• Dominion Day
  1. () In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867.
• Donat
  1. (n.) A grammar.
• Donnat
  1. (n.) See Do-naught.
• Doomsday
  1. (n.) The day of the final judgment.
  2. (n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.


Synonyms:
Doom,
• Doorway
  1. (n.) The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.


Synonyms:
Door, Threshold,
• Douar
  1. (n.) A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.
• Downbear
  1. (v. t.) To bear down; to depress.
• Drab
  1. (n.) A drab color.
  2. (n.) A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
  3. (n.) A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
  4. (n.) A lewd wench; a strumpet.
  5. (a.) Of a color between gray and brown.
  6. (n.) A low, sluttish woman.
  7. (n.) A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
  8. (v. i.) To associate with strumpets; to wench.


Synonyms:
Dingy, Dismal, Drear, Dreary, Gloomy, Sober, Somber, Sombre, Sorry,
• Drachmae
  1. (pl. ) of Drachma
• Dragbar
  1. (n.) Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink.
• Draintrap
  1. (n.) See 4th Trap, 5.
• Dramatis personae
  1. () The actors in a drama or play.
• Drawbar
  1. (n.) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
  2. (n.) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.
• Drawgear
  1. (n.) A harness for draught horses.
  2. (n.) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
• Dray
  1. (n.) A kind of sledge or sled.
  2. (n.) A squirrels nest.
  3. (n.) A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
• Drear
  1. (n.) Sadness; dismalness.
  2. (a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude.


Synonyms:
Dingy, Dismal, Drab, Dreary, Gloomy, Sorry,
• Dress coat
  1. () A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
• Driftway
  1. (n.) Same as Drift, 11.
  2. (n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.
• Driveway
  1. (n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.


Synonyms:
Drive,
• Drumbeat
  1. (n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
• Dry-beat
  1. (v. t.) To beat severely.
• Ducat
  1. (n.) A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.
• Duckmeat
  1. (n.) Alt. of Ducks-meat
• Ducks-meat
  1. (n.) Duckweed.
• Dugway
  1. (n.) A way or road dug through a hill, or sunk below the surface of the land.
• Durbar
  1. (n.) An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India.
• Dvergar
  1. (pl. ) of Dvergr
• Dziggetai
  1. (n.) The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus).
• Ear
  1. (n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.
  2. (n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.
  3. (n.) Same as Acroterium.
  4. (v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate.
  5. (n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear.
  6. (n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.
  7. (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.
  8. (v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear.
  9. (n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.
  10. (n.) Same as Crossette.


Synonyms:
Auricle, Capitulum, Pinna, Spike,
• Earcap
  1. (n.) A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold.
• Earlap
  1. (n.) The lobe of the ear.
• Earthstar
  1. (n.) A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• East-insular
  1. (a.) Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian.
• Eat
  1. (v. i.) To make ones way slowly.
  2. (v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
  3. (v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
  4. () of Eat
  5. (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
  6. () of Eat
  7. (v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.


Synonyms:
Consume, Corrode, Deplete, Exhaust, Feed, Rust,
• Ecclesiae
  1. (pl. ) of Ecclesia
• Eclat
  1. (n.) Brilliancy of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.
  2. (n.) Demonstration of admiration and approbation; applause.


Synonyms:
Acclaim, Acclamation, Plaudit, Pomp,
• Eelspear
  1. (n.) A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.
• Effray
  1. (v. t.) To frighten; to scare.
• Eggar
  1. (n.) Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.


Synonyms:
Egger,
• Electro-muscular
  1. (a.) Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• Electro-polar
  1. (a.) Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
• Elegiac
  1. (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
  2. (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
  3. (n.) Elegiac verse.
• Elementar
  1. (a.) Elementary.
• Elephantiac
  1. (a.) Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis.
• Eleutheromaniac
  1. (a.) Mad for freedom.
• Elocular
  1. (a.) Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.
• Embar
  1. (v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.
  2. (v. t.) To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.
• Embay
  1. (v. t.) To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.
  2. (v. t.) To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.
• Embryo sac
  1. () See under Embryonic.
• Enamelar
  1. (a.) Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.
• Encalendar
  1. (v. t.) To register in a calendar; to calendar.
• Encollar
  1. (v. t.) To furnish or surround with a collar.
• Endear
  1. (v. t.) To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.
  2. (v. t.) To make dear or beloved.
• Endocardiac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Endocardial
• Endorhizae
  1. (pl. ) of Endorhiza
• Enlay
  1. (v. t.) See Inlay.
• Ensear
  1. (v. t.) To sear; to dry up.
• Entheat
  1. (a.) Divinely inspired.
• Entire-wheat
  1. (a.) Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran.
• Entrap
  1. (v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.


Synonyms:
Ensnare, Frame, Snare, Trammel, Trap,
• Entreat
  1. (n.) Entreaty.
  2. (v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
  3. (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
  4. (v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
  5. (v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.
  6. (v. t.) To invite; to entertain.
  7. (v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.


Synonyms:
Adjure, Beseech, Bid, Conjure, Press,
• Enwrap
  1. (v. t.) To envelop. See Inwrap.


Synonyms:
Enclose, Enfold, Envelop, Wrap,
• Ephah
  1. (n.) Alt. of Epha


Synonyms:
Epha,
• Epicardiac
  1. (a.) Of or relating to the epicardium.
• Epicondylar
  1. (n.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.
• Epistolar
  1. (a.) Epistolary.
• Epitrochlear
  1. (a.) Relating to the epitrochlea.
• Equangular
  1. (a.) Having equal angles; equiangular.
• Equiangular
  1. (a.) Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular.
• Equivalvular
  1. (a.) Same as Equivalve or Equivalved.
• Ergat
  1. (v. t.) To deduce logically, as conclusions.
• Erucae
  1. (pl. ) of Eruca
• Eschar
  1. (n.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.
  2. (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.
• Escheat
  1. (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
  2. (v. t.) To forfeit.
  3. (n.) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.
  4. (n.) Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
  5. (v. i.) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.
  6. (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
  7. (n.) That which falls to one; a reversion or return
• Eskar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Esker
• Essay
  1. (n.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.
  2. (n.) An assay. See Assay, n.
  3. (n.) A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.
  4. (n.) To exert ones power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.
  5. (n.) An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.


Synonyms:
Assay, Attempt, Examine, Prove, Seek, Test, Try,
• Estray
  1. (v. i.) To stray.
  2. (n.) Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray.
• Estreat
  1. (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance.
  2. (v. t.) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.
  3. (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.
• Etaac
  1. (n.) The blue buck.
• Everyday
  1. (a.) Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes.


Synonyms:
Casual, Mundane, Quotidian, Routine, Workaday,
• Excheat
  1. (n.) See Escheat.
• Exeat
  1. (n.) A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
  2. (n.) A license for absence from a college or a religious house.
• Exedrae
  1. (pl. ) of Exedra
• Exemplar
  1. (n.) A copy of a book or writing.
  2. (a.) Exemplary.
  3. (n.) A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.


Synonyms:
Example, Model,
• Exocardiac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Exocardial
• Exorhizae
  1. (pl. ) of Exorhiza
• Explat
  1. (v. t.) Alt. of Explate
• Extraarticular
  1. (a.) Situated outside of a joint.
• Extraaxillar
  1. (a.) Alt. of Extraaxillary
• Extracapsular
  1. (a.) Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
• Extra-ocular
  1. (a.) Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennae of certain insects.
• Extraregular
  1. (a.) Not comprehended within a rule or rules.
• Extravascular
  1. (a.) Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.
  2. (a.) Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues.
• Extreat
  1. (n.) Extraction.
• Exuviae
  1. (n. pl.) Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.
  2. (n. pl.) The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.
• Eyebar
  1. (n.) A bar with an eye at one or both ends.
• Eyeflap
  1. (n.) A blinder on a horses bridle.
• Fabellae
  1. (pl. ) of Fabella
• Fac
  1. (n.) A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
• Facetiae
  1. (n. pl.) Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
• Faculae
  1. (n. pl.) Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.
• Facular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the faculae.
• Fairway
  1. (n.) The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.
• Familiar
  1. (n.) An intimate; a companion.
  2. (a.) Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.
  3. (a.) Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
  4. (n.) An attendant demon or evil spirit.
  5. (a.) Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.
  6. (a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.
  7. (n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
  8. (a.) Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.


Synonyms:
Associate, Companion, Comrade, Conversant, Fellow, Intimate,
• Famular
  1. (n.) Domestic; familiar.
• Fap
  1. (a.) Fuddled.
• Far
  1. (a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
  2. (adv.) In great part; as, the day is far spent.
  3. (adv.) To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
  4. (n.) A young pig, or a litter of pigs.
  5. (a.) Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
  6. (a.) The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.
  7. (adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.
  8. (a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
  9. (adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.
  10. (a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.
• Faruncular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.
• Fasciae
  1. (pl. ) of Fascia
• Fascicular
  1. (a.) Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.
• Fasciolae
  1. (pl. ) of Fasciola
• Fat
  1. (n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
  2. (a.) To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
  3. (superl.) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
  4. (superl.) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
  5. (superl.) Abounding with fat
  6. (n.) A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.
  7. (superl.) Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
  8. (n.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
  9. (superl.) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
  10. (v. i.) To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
  11. (n.) The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
  12. (n.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.
  13. (superl.) Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
  14. (superl.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
  15. (superl.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.


Synonyms:
Avoirdupois, Fatness, Fatten, Fatty, Fertile, Juicy, Plump, Productive, Rich, Rounded,
• Fay
  1. (v. i.) To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in, into, with, or together.
  2. (n.) Faith; as, by my fay.
  3. (n.) A fairy; an elf.
  4. (v. t.) To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.
• Fear
  1. (n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
  2. (n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
  3. (n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
  4. (n.) To be anxious or solicitous for.
  5. (n.) A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
  6. (v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
  7. (n.) To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
  8. (n.) To suspect; to doubt.
  9. (n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
  10. (n.) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, Gods wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
  11. (n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.


Synonyms:
Care, Concern, Dread, Fearfulness, Fright, Revere, Reverence, Venerate,
• Feat
  1. (v. t.) To form; to fashion.
  2. (n.) Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.
  3. (n.) A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.
  4. (n.) An act; a deed; an exploit.


Synonyms:
Deed, Effort, Exploit,
• FeculAe
  1. (pl. ) of Fecula
• Feldspar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Feldspath


Synonyms:
Felspar,
• Fellah
  1. (n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.
• Felspar
  1. (n.) Alt. of Felspath


Synonyms:
Feldspar,
• Fenestrae
  1. (pl. ) of Fenestra
• Ferae
  1. (n. pl.) A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.
• Ferae naturae
  1. () Of a wild nature; -- applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property.
• Feriae
  1. (pl. ) of Feria
• Ferryboat
  1. (n.) A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.


Synonyms:
Ferry,
• Ferular
  1. (n.) A ferule.
• Fetwah
  1. (n.) A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.
• Feuar
  1. (n.) One who holds a feu.
• Fiar
  1. (n.) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter.
  2. (n.) The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.
• Fiat
  1. (n.) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellors signature.
  2. (n.) An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
  3. (n.) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.


Synonyms:
Decree, Edict, Order, Rescript,
• FibrillAe
  1. (pl. ) of Fibrilla
• Fibrillar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
• Fibrospongiae
  1. (n. pl.) An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.
• Fibrovascular
  1. (a.) Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
• FibulAe
  1. (pl. ) of Fibula
• Fibu-lar
  1. (a.) Pertaining to the fibula.
• Filar
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
• Fimbriae
  1. (pl. ) of Fimbria
• Fistulae
  1. (pl. ) of Fistula
• Fistular
  1. (a.) Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.


Synonyms:
Fistulate, Fistulous,
• Flap
  1. (n.) To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.
  2. (v. i.) To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.
  3. (v.) A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
  4. (v.) A disease in the lips of horses.
  5. (n.) To beat with a flap; to strike.
  6. (v.) Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
  7. (v.) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.
  8. (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.


Synonyms:
Beat, Flapping, Flutter, Fuss, Pother, Undulate, Wave,
• Flat
  1. (n.) A homaloid space or extension.
  2. (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
  3. (superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
  4. (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
  5. (adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
  6. (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
  7. (n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
  8. (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
  9. (v. i.) To fall form the pitch.
  10. (superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
  11. (superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
  12. (v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
  13. (superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
  14. (adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.
  15. (superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
  16. (n.) Something broad and flat in form
  17. (v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.
  18. (v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
  19. (n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
  20. (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
  21. (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
  22. (superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
  23. (n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
  24. (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
  25. (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
  26. (superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
  27. (n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
  28. (n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
  29. (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
  30. (superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
  31. (a.) Flattening at the ends; -- said of certain fruits.
  32. (a.) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft; -- said of a club.
  33. (a.) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix, or an infinitive without the sign to. Many flat adverbs, as in run fast, buy cheap, are from AS. adverbs in -e, the loss of this ending having made them like the adjectives. Some having forms in ly, such as exceeding, wonderful, true, are now archaic.


Synonyms:
Apartment, Bland, Categorical, Compressed, Directly, Fixed, Insipid, Level, Mat, Matt, Matte, Matted, Plane, Prostrate, Savorless, Straight, Unconditional, Vapid,
• Flatboat
  1. (n.) A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for the transportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.


Synonyms:
Barge, Hoy, Lighter,
• Flat-cap
  1. (n.) A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London.
• Flay
  1. (v. t.) To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.
• Flear
  1. (v. t. & i.) See Fleer.
  2. (n.) A word or look of derision or mockery.
  3. (n.) A grin of civility; a leer.
• Flip-flap
  1. (n.) The repeated stroke of something long and loose.
  2. (adv.) With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose.
• Float
  1. (v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
  2. (n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
  3. (v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
  4. (v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.
  5. (v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
  6. (v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
  7. (v. i.) A coal cart.
  8. (v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
  9. (v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
  10. (v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
  11. (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
  12. (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
  13. (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
  14. (v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
  15. (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
  16. (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
  17. (v. i.) Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
  18. (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
  19. (v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
  20. (v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.


Synonyms:
Blow, Drift, Swim,
• Floccular
  1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the flocculus.
• Florideae
  1. (n. pl.) A subclass of algae including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.
• Floscular
  1. (a.) Flosculous.
• Fluor spar
  1. () See Fluorite.
• Flyaway
  1. (a.) Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things.
  2. (n.) A flyaway person or thing.


Synonyms:
Flighty,
• Flyboat
  1. (n.) A large Dutch coasting vessel.
  2. (n.) A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.
• Flying boat
  1. () A compact form of hydro-aeroplane having one central body, or hull.
• Flytrap
  1. (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venuss flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.
  2. (n.) A trap for catching flies.
• Foliar
  1. (a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, leaves; as, foliar appendages.
• Follicular
  1. (a.) Affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis.
  2. (a.) Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.
• Foolscap
  1. (n.) A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.
• Footway
  1. (n.) A passage for pedestrians only.
• Foray
  1. (v. t.) To pillage; to ravage.
  2. (n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.


Synonyms:
Despoil, Loot, Maraud, Pillage, Plunder, Raid, Ransack, Reave, Rifle, Strip,
• Forbear
  1. (v. i.) To control ones self when provoked.
  2. (v. t.) To cease from bearing.
  3. (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
  4. (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
  5. (v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence.
  6. (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
  7. (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.


Synonyms:
Forebear, Refrain,
• Forcemeat
  1. (n.) Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.


Synonyms:
Farce,
• Forebear
  1. (n.) An ancestor. See Forbear.


Synonyms:
Forbear,
• Forehear
  1. (v. i. & t.) To hear beforehand.
• Forelay
  1. (v. t.) To lay down beforehand.
  2. (v. t.) To waylay. See Forlay.
• Foresay
  1. (v. t.) To foretell.
• Forestay
  1. (n.) A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
• Forgat
  1. () of Forget
• Forlay
  1. (v. t.) To lie in wait for; to ambush.
• Format
  1. (n.) The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form.


Synonyms:
Arrange,
• Formulae
  1. (pl. ) of Formula
• Forray
  1. (v. t.) To foray; to ravage; to pillage.
  2. (n.) The act of ravaging; a ravaging; a predatory excursion. See Foray.
• Forsay
  1. (v. t.) To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.
• Forswat
  1. (a.) Spent with heat; covered with sweat.
• Forswear
  1. (v. i.) To deny upon oath.
  2. (v. i.) To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.
  3. (v. i.) To swear falsely; to commit perjury.


Synonyms:
Abjure, Recant, Resile, Retract,
• Forwrap
  1. (v. t.) To wrap up; to conceal.
• FossAe
  1. (pl. ) of Fossa
• Fosseway
  1. (n.) One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.
• Four-way
  1. (a.) Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
• Foveae
  1. (pl. ) of Fovea
• Foveolae
  1. (pl. ) of Foveola
• Fovillae
  1. (pl. ) of Fovilla
• Frab
  1. (v. i. & t.) To scold; to nag.
• Frap
  1. (v. t.) To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.
  2. (v. t.) To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum.
• Fray
  1. (v. t.) To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.
  2. (v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.
  3. (n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
  4. (v. t.) To bear the expense of; to defray.
  5. (n.) Affray; broil; contest; combat.
  6. (v. i.) To rub.
  7. (v. i.) To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.


Synonyms:
Affray, Chafe, Disturbance, Frazzle, Fret, Rub, Ruffle, Scratch,
• Friar
  1. (n.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
  2. (n.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
  3. (n.) An American fish; the silversides.


Synonyms:
Mendicant,
• Friday
  1. (n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
• Frontignac
  1. (n.) Alt. of Frontignan
• Frontiniac
  1. (n.) See Frontignac.
• Fuar
  1. (n.) Same as Feuar.
• Fuchslae
  1. (pl. ) of Fuchsia
• Fulmar
  1. (n.) One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).
• Funicular
  1. (a.) Consisting of a small cord or fiber.
  2. (a.) Pertaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament.
  3. (a.) Dependent on the tension of a cord.
• Furcular
  1. (a.) Shaped like a fork; furcate.
• Furzechat
  1. (n.) The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck.
• Gab
  1. (n.) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.
  2. (v. i.) The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness.
  3. (v. i.) To deceive; to lie.
  4. (v. i.) To talk idly; to prate; to chatter.


Synonyms:
Causerie, Chitchat, Gossip, Tittle-tattle,
• Gaekwar
  1. (n.) The title of the ruling Prince of Baroda, in Gujarat, in Bombay, India.
• Gainsay
  1. (v. t.) To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.


Synonyms:
Challenge, Dispute,
• Gainsborough hat
  1. () A womans broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727-88).
• Gallinaceae
  1. (n. pl.) Same as Gallinae.
• Gallinae
  1. (n.) An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.
• Gallivat
  1. (n.) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.
• Galloway
  1. (n.) A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.
• Gangliac
  1. (a.) Alt. of Ganglial
• Gangway
  1. (v. i.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.
  2. (v. i.) A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.
  3. (v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist.
  4. (v. i.) In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.


Synonyms:
Aisle,
• Gap
  1. (v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.
  2. (n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
  3. (v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.
  4. (n.) The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.


Synonyms:
Breach, Break, Col, Crack, Disruption, Interruption, Opening, Spread,
• Gar
  1. (v.) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.
  2. (v.) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.
  3. (n.) To cause; to make.


Synonyms:
Billfish, Garfish, Garpike, Needlefish,
• Novae
  1. (pl. ) of Nova
• Nubeculae
  1. (pl. ) of Nubecula
  2. (pl. ) of Nubecula
• Oothecae
  1. (pl. ) of Ootheca
• Paginae
  1. (pl. ) of Pagina
• Paleae
  1. (pl. ) of Palea
• Paleolae
  1. (pl. ) of Paleola
• Palestrae
  1. (pl. ) of Palestra
• Palpebrae
  1. (pl. ) of Palpebra
• Paludinae
  1. (pl. ) of Paludina
• Papillae
  1. (pl. ) of Papilla
• Papulae
  1. (pl. ) of Papula
• Paraglossae
  1. (pl. ) of Paraglossa
• Parapleurae
  1. (pl. ) of Parapleura
• Paraselenae
  1. (pl. ) of Paraselene
• Patellae
  1. (pl. ) of Patella
• Patellulae
  1. (pl. ) of Patellula
• Paterae
  1. (pl. ) of Patera
• Pedicellariae
  1. (pl. ) of Pedicellaria
• Peltae
  1. (pl. ) of Pelta
• Pennae
  1. (pl. ) of Penna
• Pennatulae
  1. (pl. ) of Pennatula
• Personae
  1. (pl. ) of Persona
• Perulae
  1. (pl. ) of Perula
• Phylae
  1. (pl. ) of Phyle
• Phyllobranciae
  1. (pl. ) of Phyllobranchia
• Pilorhizae
  1. (pl. ) of Pileorhiza
• Pinnae
  1. (pl. ) of Pinna
• Pinnulae
  1. (pl. ) of Pinnula
• Placentae
  1. (pl. ) of Placenta
• Plagae
  1. (pl. ) of Plaga
• Planariae
  1. (pl. ) of Planaria
• Planulae
  1. (pl. ) of Planula
• Pleurae
  1. (pl. ) of Pleura
• Pleuroeranchiae
  1. (pl. ) of Pleurobranchia
• Pleurotomae
  1. (pl. ) of Pleurotoma
• Plumae
  1. (pl. ) of Pluma
• Plumularlae
  1. (pl. ) of Plumularia
• Podobranchiae
  1. (pl. ) of Podobranchia
• Podothecae
  1. (pl. ) of Podotheca
• Podurae
  1. (pl. ) of Podura
• Portae
  1. (pl. ) of Porta
• Postcavae
  1. (pl. ) of Postcava
• Postfurcae
  1. (pl. ) of Postfurca
• Praetextae
  1. (pl. ) of Praetexta
• Premaxillae
  1. (pl. ) of Premaxilla
• Primitiae
  1. (pl. ) of Primitia
• Procoeliae
  1. (pl. ) of Procoelia
• Protovertebrae
  1. (pl. ) of Protovertebra
• Pseudobranchiae
  1. (pl. ) of Pseudobranchia
• Pseudonavicullae
  1. (pl. ) of Pseudonavicella
• Pseudonaviculae
  1. (pl. ) of Pseudonavicula
• Pseudopupae
  1. (pl. ) of Pseudopupa
• Pseudotineae
  1. (pl. ) of Pseudotinea
• Psyllae
  1. (pl. ) of Psylla
• Pterylae
  1. (pl. ) of Pteryla
• Pylae
  1. (pl. ) of Pyla
• Pyrenae
  1. (pl. ) of Pyrena
• Pyrexiae
  1. (pl. ) of Pyrexia
• Quadrae
  1. (pl. ) of Quadra
• Quadrigae
  1. (pl. ) of Quadriga
• Radulae
  1. (pl. ) of Radula
• Rediae
  1. (pl. ) of Redia
• Retiniphorae
  1. (pl. ) of Retinophora
• Retinulae
  1. (pl. ) of Retinula
• Rhamphothecae
  1. (pl. ) of Rhamphotheca
• Rhinothecae
  1. (pl. ) of Rhinotheca
• Rimae
  1. (pl. ) of Rima
• Rugae
  1. (pl. ) of Ruga
• Salpae
  1. (pl. ) of Salpa
• Saxicavae
  1. (pl. ) of Saxicava
• Scalae
  1. (pl. ) of Scala
• Scapulae
  1. (pl. ) of Scapula
• Scopulae
  1. (pl. ) of Scopula
• Scoriae
  1. (pl. ) of Scoria
• Scrobiculae
  1. (pl. ) of Scrobicula
• Scyphae
  1. (pl. ) of Scypha
• Scyphistomae
  1. (pl. ) of Scyphistoma
• Semitae
  1. (pl. ) of Semita
• Sepiae
  1. (pl. ) of Sepia
• Sequelae
  1. (pl. ) of Sequela
• Serpulae
  1. (pl. ) of Serpula
• Setae
  1. (pl. ) of Seta
• Setulae
  1. (pl. ) of Setula
• Siliquae
  1. (pl. ) of Siliqua
• Silvae
  1. (pl. ) of Silva
• Spathae
  1. (pl. ) of Spatha
• Spermathecae
  1. (pl. ) of Spermatheca
• Spicae
  1. (pl. ) of Spica
• Spiculae
  1. (pl. ) of Spicula
• Sportulae
  1. (pl. ) of Sportula
• Squamae
  1. (pl. ) of Squama
• Squamellae
  1. (pl. ) of Squamella
• Squamulae
  1. (pl. ) of Squamula
• Squillae
  1. (pl. ) of Squilla
• Stelae
  1. (pl. ) of Stela
• Sternebrae
  1. (pl. ) of Sternebra
• Stipulae
  1. (pl. ) of Stipula
• Stolae
  1. (pl. ) of Stola
• Striae
  1. (pl. ) of Stria
• Strobilae
  1. (pl. ) of Strobila
• Sublinguae
  1. (pl. ) of Sublingua
• Succubae
  1. (pl. ) of Succuba
• Supramaxillae
  1. (pl. ) of Supramaxilla
• Sylvae
  1. (pl. ) of Sylva
• Synapticulae
  1. (pl. ) of Synapticula
• Tabulae
  1. (pl. ) of Tabula
• Tachinae
  1. (pl. ) of Tachina
• Taeniae
  1. (pl. ) of Taenia
• Taeniolae
  1. (pl. ) of Taeniola
• Tarantulae
  1. (pl. ) of Tarantula
• Tegulae
  1. (pl. ) of Tegula
• Telotrochae
  1. (pl. ) of Telotrocha
• Terebrae
  1. (pl. ) of Terebra
• Terebratulae
  1. (pl. ) of Terebratula
• Tesserae
  1. (pl. ) of Tessera
• Testae
  1. (pl. ) of Testa
• Thecae
  1. (pl. ) of Theca
• Tibiae
  1. (pl. ) of Tibia
• Tipulae
  1. (pl. ) of Tipula
• Togae
  1. (pl. ) of Toga
• Tornariae
  1. (pl. ) of Tornaria
• Torulae
  1. (pl. ) of Torula
• Trabeae
  1. (pl. ) of Trabea
• Trabeculae
  1. (pl. ) of Trabecula
• Tracheae
  1. (pl. ) of Trachea
• Tracheobranchlae
  1. (pl. ) of Tracheobranchia
• Tricae
  1. (pl. ) of Trica
• Trichinae
  1. (pl. ) of Trichina
• Umbrae
  1. (pl. ) of Umbra
• Unciae
  1. (pl. ) of Uncia
• Ungulae
  1. (pl. ) of Ungula
• Vaginae
  1. (pl. ) of Vagina
• Valleculae
  1. (pl. ) of Vallecula
• Valvulae
  1. (pl. ) of Valvula
• Venae
  1. (pl. ) of Vena
• Venae cavae
  1. (pl. ) of Vena
• VenAe portae
  1. (pl. ) of Vena
• Verrucae
  1. (pl. ) of Verruca
• Vertebrae
  1. (pl. ) of Vertebra
• Vesiculae
  1. (pl. ) of Vesicula
• Vibrissae
  1. (pl. ) of Vibrissa
• Vittae
  1. (pl. ) of Vitta
• Volutae
  1. (pl. ) of Voluta
• Vorticellae
  1. (pl. ) of Vorticella
• Unnear
  1. (prep.) Not near; not close to; at a distance from.
• To-day
  1. (prep.) On this day; on the present day.
  2. (n.) The present day.
• What
  1. (pron., a., & adv.) As a relative pronoun
  2. (pron., a., & adv.) As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.
  3. (n.) Something; thing; stuff.
  4. (pron., a., & adv.) As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?
  5. (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.
  6. (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
  7. (interrog. adv.) Why? For what purpose? On what account?
  8. (pron., a., & adv.) Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
  9. (pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.
  10. (pron., a., & adv.) Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.
  11. (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
  12. (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
• That
  1. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) As a conjunction, that retains much of its force as a demonstrative pronoun.
  2. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) To introduce a purpose; -- usually followed by may, or might, and frequently preceded by so, in order, to the end, etc.
  3. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the noun to which it refers; as, that which he has said is true; those in the basket are good apples.
  4. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) As adverb: To such a degree; so; as, he was that frightened he could say nothing.
  5. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) As an adjective, that has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun.
  6. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) As a relative pronoun, that is equivalent to who or which, serving to point out, and make definite, a person or thing spoken of, or alluded to, before, and may be either singular or plural.
  7. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) To introduce a consequence, result, or effect; -- usually preceded by so or such, sometimes by that.
  8. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) In an elliptical sentence to introduce a dependent sentence expressing a wish, or a cause of surprise, indignation, or the like.
  9. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) To introduce a clause employed as the object of the preceding verb, or as the subject or predicate nominative of a verb.
  10. (pron., a., conj., & adv.) To introduce, a reason or cause; -- equivalent to for that, in that, for the reason that, because.
• Whap
  1. (v. i.) Alt. of Whop
  2. (n.) Alt. of Whop
  3. (v. t.) Alt. of Whop


Synonyms:
Bash, Sock, Whop,
• Quab
  1. (v. i.) See Quob, v. i.
  2. (n.) An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.
• Scolay
  1. (v. i.) See Scoley.
• Southsay
  1. (v. i.) See Soothsay.
• Reappear
  1. (v. i.) To appear again.
• Redsear
  1. (v. i.) To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short.
• Recheat
  1. (v. i.) To blow the recheat.
  2. (n.) A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.
• Rat
  1. (v. i.) To catch or kill rats.
  2. (n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
  3. (n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.
  4. (n.) 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.
  5. (v. i.) In English politics, to desert ones party from interested motives; to forsake ones associates for ones own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.


Synonyms:
Betray, Betrayer, Blabber, Blackleg, Bum, Crumb, Denounce, Grass, Informer, Peach, Puke, Scab, Shop, Skunk, Squealer, Stag, Stinker, Stinkpot,
• Stay
  1. (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed.
  2. (v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.
  3. (v. i.) To continue in a state.
  4. (n.) Hindrance; let; check.
  5. (v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.
  6. (v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
  7. (v. i.) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
  8. (n.) That which serves as a prop; a support.
  9. (v. i.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.
  10. (v. i.) To change tack; as a ship.
  11. (v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.
  12. (v. i.) To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still.
  13. (n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
  14. (v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
  15. (v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.
  16. (n.) Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.
  17. (n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.
  18. (v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.
  19. (n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
  20. (v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well.
  21. (n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessels side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship.
  22. (v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger.
  23. (v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.
  24. (v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.
  25. (n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.


Synonyms:
Abide, Appease, Arrest, Bide, Check, Continue, Delay, Detain, Halt, Hitch, Outride, Persist, Quell, Remain, Rest, Stick, Stop, Stoppage,
• Threap
  1. (v. i.) To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.
  2. (v. t.) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so.
  3. (v. t.) To beat, or thrash.
  4. (n.) An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.
  5. (v. t.) To call; to name.
  6. (v. t.) To cozen, or cheat.
• Roar
  1. (v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
  2. (n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.
  3. (v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
  4. (n.) The sound of roaring.
  5. (n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
  6. (v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
  7. (v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
  8. (v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
  9. (v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
  10. (v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
  11. (n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
  12. (n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
  13. (v. t.) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.


Synonyms:
Bellow, Bellowing, Boom, Holla, Hollo, Holloa, Howl, Roaring, Thunder, Ululate, Wail, Yawl, Yowl,
• Sweat
  1. (v. i.) To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
  2. (v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
  3. (v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
  4. (v. i.) To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
  5. (v. t.) To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
  6. (v. t.) To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
  7. (v. i.) The sweating sickness.
  8. (v. i.) Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
  9. (v. i.) Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
  10. (imp. & p. p.) of Sweat
  11. (v. i.) The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.
  12. (v. t.) To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
  13. (v. t.) To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.


Synonyms:
Effort, Exertion, Fret, Lather, Perspiration, Perspire, Stew, Travail,
• Soar
  1. (v. i.) To fly by wind power; to glide indefinitely without loss of altitude.
  2. (n.) The act of soaring; upward flight.
  3. (a.) See 3d Sore.
  4. (a.) See Sore, reddish brown.
  5. (v. i.) Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
  6. (v. i.) To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.


Synonyms:
Surge,
• Spae
  1. (v. i.) To foretell; to divine.
• Upspear
  1. (v. i.) To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass.
• Nap
  1. (v. i.) To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
  2. (v. t.) To raise, or put, a nap on.
  3. (v. i.) To be in a careless, secure state.
  4. (n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
  5. (n.) A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
  6. (n.) Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.
  7. (n.) A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
  8. (n.) Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.
  9. (v. t.) To raise, or put, a nap on.
  10. (n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
  11. (v. i.) To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
  12. (v. i.) To be in a careless, secure state.