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H - The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B.

Abash - To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.

Ablush - Blushing; ruddy.

Abolish - To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

Abolish - To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.

Abroach - To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

Abroach - Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.

Abroach - Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir.

Absinth - Alt. of Absinthe

Acaleph - Alt. of Acalephan

Acanth - Same as Acanthus.

Accelerograph - An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

Accomplish - To complete, as time or distance.

Accomplish - To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.

Accomplish - To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.

Accomplish - To gain; to obtain.

Accroach - To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.

Accroach - To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.

Ach - Alt. of Ache

Acolyth - Same as Acolyte.

Acrolith - A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood.

Agalloch - Alt. of Agallochum

Amphibrach - A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.

Barograph - An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

Barometrograph - A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.

Bekah - Half a shekel.

Belch - To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

Belch - To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.

Belch - To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

Belch - To issue with spasmodic force or noise.

Belch - The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.

Belch - Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.

Actinograph - An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.

Admonish - To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.

Admonish - To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.

Admonish - To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.

Aerolith - Same as A/rolite.

Affamish - To afflict with, or perish from, hunger.

Aflush - In a flushed or blushing state.

Aflush - On a level.

Afresh - Anew; again; once more; newly.

Afterbirth - The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.

Aftergrowth - A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development.

Aftermath - A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.

Aguish - Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.

Aguish - Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England.

Agush - In a gushing state.

Ah - An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

Ahigh - On high.

Aitch - The letter h or H.

Albolith - A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

Alebench - A bench in or before an alehouse.

Alembroth - The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant.

Alength - At full length; lengthwise.

Algaroth - A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

Alioth - A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

Alish - Like ale; as, an alish taste.

Allah - The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

Alleluiah - An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form.

Allmouth - The angler.

Allograph - A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

Allomorph - Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.

Allomorph - A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite.

Allopath - An allopathist.

Almah - Same as Alme.

Almeh - An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma.

Altazimuth - An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.

Although - Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.

Alumish - Somewhat like alum.

Amaranth - An imaginary flower supposed never to fade.

Amaranth - A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

Amaranth - A color inclining to purple.

Amateurish - In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.

Amber fish - A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)

Ambush - A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.

Ambush - A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise.

Ambush - The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait.

Ambush - To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.

Ambush - To attack by ambush; to waylay.

Ambush - To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk.

Amianth - See Amianthus.

Anaglyph - Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

Anaglyptograph - An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed.

Anagraph - An inventory; a record.

Anapnograph - A form of spirometer.

Anarch - The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.

Anchoretish - Hermitlike.

Aneath - Beneath.

Anemograph - An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

Anemometrograph - An anemograph.

Angel fish - See under Angel.

Angoumois moth - A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

Anguish - Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

Anguish - To distress with extreme pain or grief.

Anigh - Nigh.

Animalish - Like an animal.

Antestomach - A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds.

Antigraph - A copy or transcript.

Ant thrush - One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.

Ant thrush - See Ant bird, under Ant.

Apish - Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.

Apograph - A copy or transcript.

Appeach - To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach.

Approach - To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

Approach - To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

Approach - To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance.

Approach - To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.

Approach - To take approaches to.

Approach - The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.

Approach - A access, or opportunity of drawing near.

Approach - Movements to gain favor; advances.

Approach - A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.

Approach - The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

Approach - See Approaching.

Arch - Any part of a curved line.

Arch - Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

Arch - A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.

Arch - Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

Arch - Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.

Arch - To cover with an arch or arches.

Arch - To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

Arch - To form into an arch; to curve.

Arch - Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.

Arch - Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.

Arch - A chief.

Archer fish - A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chaetodon rostratus.

Arcograph - An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph.

Aristarch - A severe critic.

Aroph - A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.

Arrach - See Orach.

Arrish - The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.

Ash - A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana).

Ash - The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.

Ash - sing. of Ashes.

Ash - To strew or sprinkle with ashes.

Ashtaroth - of Ashtoreth

Ashtoreth - The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity.

Asiarch - One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.

Aspish - Pertaining to, or like, an asp.

Assish - Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.

Astonish - To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow.

Astonish - To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion.

Attach - To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

Attach - To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

Attach - To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.

Attach - To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.

Attach - To take, seize, or lay hold of.

Attach - To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.

Attach - To adhere; to be attached.

Attach - To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.

Attach - An attachment.

Autochronograph - An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.

Autograph - That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

Autograph - In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.

Automath - One who is self-taught.

Avouch - To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.

Avouch - To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.

Avouch - To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

Avouch - To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

Avouch - Evidence; declaration.

Awash - Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

Aweigh - Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.

Ayah - A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid.

Azedarach - A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

Azedarach - The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.

Azimuth - The quadrant of an azimuth circle.

Azimuth - An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

Azoth - The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.

Azoth - The universal remedy of Paracelsus.

Babish - Like a babe; a childish; babyish.

Bablah - 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.

Baboonish - Like a baboon.

Babyish - Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple.

Babylonish - Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.

Babylonish - Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8.

Babylonish - Pertaining to Rome and papal power.

Babylonish - Confused; Babel-like.

Bacharach - Alt. of Backarack

Backlash - The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Backsheesh - Alt. of Backshish

Backshish - In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a "tip".

Backstitch - A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.

Backstitch - To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam.

Backwash - To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

Baddish - Somewhat bad; inferior.

Bah - An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.

Baksheesh - Alt. of Bakshish

Bakshish - Same as Backsheesh.

Balderdash - A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.

Balderdash - Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.

Balderdash - To mix or adulterate, as liquors.

Balkish - Uneven; ridgy.

Balloon fish - A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.

Band fish - A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.

Banish - To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

Banish - To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.

Banish - To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

Barber fish - See Surgeon fish.

Bardish - Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.

Barfish - Same as Calico bass.

Barmcloth - Apron.

Barth - A place of shelter for cattle.

Bash - To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.

Basquish - Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque

Batch - The quantity of bread baked at one time.

Batch - A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.

Batfish - A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

Bath - The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.

Bath - Water or other liquid for bathing.

Bath - A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.

Bath - A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.

Bath - A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.

Bath - A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.

Bath - A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.

Bath - A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.

Beach - Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

Beach - The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.

Beach - To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

Bearing cloth - A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.

Bearish - Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.

Bear's-breech - See Acanthus, n., 1.

Bear's-breech - The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)

Beath - To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.

Beauish - Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine.

Bedash - To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.

Bedrench - To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.

Beech - A tree of the genus Fagus.

Beet radish - Same as Beetrave.

Behemoth - An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.

Bellows fish - A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

Belzebuth - A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

Bench - A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

Bench - A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

Bench - The seat where judges sit in court.

Bench - The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

Bench - A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

Bench - A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.

Bench - To furnish with benches.

Bench - To place on a bench or seat of honor.

Bench - To sit on a seat of justice.

Beneath - Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.

Beneath - Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.

Beneath - Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.

Beneath - In a lower place; underneath.

Beneath - Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath.

Bepinch - To pinch, or mark with pinches.

Bequeath - To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

Bequeath - To hand down; to transmit.

Bequeath - To give; to offer; to commit.

Berdash - A kind of neckcloth.

Bergh - A hill.

Berth - Convenient sea room.

Berth - A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

Berth - The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

Berth - An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.

Berth - A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.

Berth - To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

Berth - To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

Bescratch - To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

Beseech - To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.

Beseech - Solicitation; supplication.

Besmirch - To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

Cardiosphygmograph - A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph.

Cenotaph - An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

Coalfish - The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.

Coalfish - The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.

Coalfish - The cobia.

Betroth - To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

Betroth - To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.

Betroth - To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.

Bewash - To drench or souse with water.

Bewitch - To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

Bewitch - To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.

Bibliograph - Bibliographer.

Bibliotaph - Alt. of Bibliotaphist

Bikh - The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

Billfish - A name applied to several distinct fishes

Billfish - The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species.

Billfish - The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus).

Billfish - The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.

Billfish - The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

Birch - A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

Birch - The wood or timber of the birch.

Birch - A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.

Birch - A birch-bark canoe.

Birch - Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.

Birch - To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.

Bird's-mouth - An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States.

Birth - The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

Birth - Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.

Birth - The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

Birth - The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.

Birth - That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

Birth - Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

Birth - See Berth.

Bish - Same as Bikh.

Bishop's length - A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56.

Bismillah - An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.

Bismuth - One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507¡ Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

Bitch - The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

Bitch - An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.

Bitterish - Somewhat bitter.

Black death - A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

Blackfish - A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.

Blackfish - The tautog of New England (Tautoga).

Blackfish - The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.

Blackfish - A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.

Blackfish - The female salmon in the spawning season.

Blackish - Somewhat black.

Blacksmith - A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.

Blacksmith - A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.

Black wash - Alt. of Blackwash

Blackwash - A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

Blackwash - A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.

Bladefish - A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.

Bladesmith - A sword cutler.

Blanch - To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

Blanch - To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

Blanch - To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

Blanch - To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.

Blanch - To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

Blanch - To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

Blanch - Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

Blanch - To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.

Blanch - To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

Blanch - To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.

Blanch - To use evasion.

Blanch - Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

Blandish - To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

Blandish - To make agreeable and enticing.

Bleach - To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

Bleach - To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

Blemish - To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

Blemish - To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.

Blemish - Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.

Blench - To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

Blench - To fly off; to turn aside.

Blench - To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.

Blench - To draw back from; to deny from fear.

Blench - A looking aside or askance.

Blench - To grow or make pale.

Blindfish - A small fish (Amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

Blockish - Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.

Blooth - Bloom; a blossoming.

Blotch - A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

Blotch - A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.

Blowth - A blossoming; a bloom.

Bluefish - A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

Bluefish - A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae.

Bluish - Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.

Bluntish - Somewhat blunt.

Blush - To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.

Blush - To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

Blush - To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

Blush - To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.

Blush - To express or make known by blushing.

Blush - A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

Blush - A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Boarfish - A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

Boarfish - An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.

Boarish - Swinish; brutal; cruel.

Bobbish - Hearty; in good spirits.

Bobsleigh - A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.

Bogglish - Doubtful; skittish.

Bonefish - See Ladyfish.

Boobyish - Stupid; dull.

Boodh - Same as Buddha.

Bookish - Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.

Bookish - Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.

Boomorah - A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

Boorish - Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.

Booth - A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.

Booth - A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

Borough - In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Borough - The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

Borough - An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

Borough - The pledge or surety thus given.

Borough-English - A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.

Bosh - Figure; outline; show.

Bosh - Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.

Bosh - One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

Bosh - The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

Bosh - In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

Botch - A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

Botch - A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

Botch - Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

Botch - To mark with, or as with, botches.

Botch - To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.

Botch - To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

Both - The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.

Both - As well; not only; equally.

Bouch - A mouth.

Bouch - An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

Bough - An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

Bough - A gallows.

Boxfish - The trunkfish.

Boyish - Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.

Brach - A bitch of the hound kind.

Brackish - Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

Brainish - Hot-headed; furious.

Bramble bush - The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.

Branch - A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

Branch - Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.

Branch - Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

Branch - One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

Branch - A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.

Branch - A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

Branch - Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

Branch - To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

Branch - To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

Branch - To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

Branch - To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Brandish - To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.

Brandish - To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.

Brandish - A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.

Brash - Hasty in temper; impetuous.

Brash - Brittle, as wood or vegetables.

Brash - A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

Brash - Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.

Brash - Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

Brash - Broken fragments of ice.

Breach - The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

Breach - Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

Breach - A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.

Breach - A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

Breach - A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

Breach - A bruise; a wound.

Breach - A hernia; a rupture.

Breach - A breaking out upon; an assault.

Breach - To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

Breach - To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

Breadth - Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

Breast-high - High as the breast.

Breastplough - A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.

Breath - The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.

Breath - The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.

Breath - The power of respiration, and hence, life.

Breath - Time to breathe; respite; pause.

Breath - A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant.

Breath - Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life.

Breath - A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.

Breath - A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.

Breath - Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.

Breath - Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.

Breech - The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

Breech - Breeches.

Breech - The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.

Breech - The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.

Breech - To put into, or clothe with, breeches.

Breech - To cover as with breeches.

Breech - To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.

Breech - To whip on the breech.

Breech - To fasten with breeching.

Breechcloth - A cloth worn around the breech.

Brigandish - Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.

Brinish - Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish.

British - Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.

British - People of Great Britain.

Broach - A spit.

Broach - An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.

Broach - A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.

Broach - A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.

Broach - A broad chisel for stonecutting.

Broach - A spire rising from a tower.

Broach - A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.

Broach - A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.

Broach - The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

Broach - The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

Broach - To spit; to pierce as with a spit.

Broach - To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.

Broach - To open for the first time, as stores.

Broach - To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.

Broach - To cause to begin or break out.

Broach - To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.

Broach - To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.

Broad Church - A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship.

Broadcloth - A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

Broadish - Rather broad; moderately broad.

Broadmouth - One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian passerine birds.

Brockish - Beastly; brutal.

Brontolith - An aerolite.

Brooch - An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.

Brooch - A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.

Brooch - To adorn as with a brooch.

Broth - Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.

Brownish - Somewhat brown.

Brown thrush - A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

Bruh - The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.

Brush - An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

Brush - The bushy tail of a fox.

Brush - A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

Brush - Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

Brush - A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

Brush - A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

Brush - The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.

Brush - A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.

Brush - A short contest, or trial, of speed.

Brush - To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.

Brush - To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

Brush - To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.

Brush - To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

Brutish - Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

Buansuah - The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

Buccaneerish - Like a buccaneer; piratical.

Buckish - Dandified; foppish.

Bucktooth - Any tooth that juts out.

Buffoonish - Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.

Bugfish - The menhaden.

Bukshish - See Backsheesh.

Bullfinch - A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

Bullish - Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.

Bulrush - A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

Bunch - A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Bunch - A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

Bunch - A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.

Bunch - To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

Bunch - To form into a bunch or bunches.

Bundesrath - The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.

Bur fish - A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.

Burgh - A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

Burghbrech - The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.

Burh - See Burg.

Burnish - To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.

Burnish - To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.

Burnish - The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.

Bursch - A youth; especially, a student in a german university.

Bush - A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

Bush - A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

Bush - A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

Bush - A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

Bush - The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Bush - To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

Bush - To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

Bush - To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

Bush - A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

Bush - A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Bush - To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

Butterfish - A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

Butter-scotch - A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter.

Buttonbush - A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

Bypath - A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

By-speech - An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point.

By-wash - The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

Caddish - Like a cad; lowbred and presuming.

Cafeneh - A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold.

Cafileh - A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

Calabash - The common gourd (plant or fruit).

Calabash - The fruit of the calabash tree.

Calabash - A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.

Calash - A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage.

Calash - In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.

Calash - A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.

Calash - A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.

Calipash - A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.

Caliph - Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.

Callipash - See Calipash.

Calvish - Like a calf; stupid.

Canaanitish - Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.

Candlefish - A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it

Candlefish - The beshow.

Canker rash - A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

Caper bush - Alt. of Caper tree

Capoch - A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.

Capoch - To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind.

Capouch - Same as Capoch.

Cardiagraph - See Cardiograph.

Cardiograph - An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.

Cartouch - A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge

Cartouch - A cartridge box.

Cartouch - A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.

Cartouch - A gunner's bag for ammunition

Cartouch - A military pass for a soldier on furlough.

Cartouch - A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper

Cartouch - A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.

Cartouch - An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.

Cash - A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

Cash - Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money

Cash - Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.

Cash - To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

Cash - To disband.

Cash - A Chinese coin.

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

Catch - To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

Catch - To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.

Catch - To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.

Catch - Hence: To insnare; to entangle.

Catch - To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.

Catch - To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.

Catch - To engage and attach; to please; to charm.

Catch - To get possession of; to attain.

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

Catch - To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.

Catch - To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.

Catch - To attain possession.

Catch - To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.

Catch - To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.

Catch - To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.

Catch - Act of seizing; a grasp.

Catch - That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

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

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

Catch - Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.

Catch - Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

Catch - A slight remembrance; a trace.

Catch - A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

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

Catstitch - To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.

Cattish - Catlike; feline

Cavalierish - Somewhat like a cavalier.

Cavendish - Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

Cerecloth - A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter.

Ceriph - One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.

Cerograph - A writing on wax.

Ceterach - A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).

Chaetognath - Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha.

Chaffinch - A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.

Chain stitch - An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.

Chain stitch - A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished from the lock stitch. See Stitch.

Chaldrich - Alt. of Chalder

Chazy epoch - An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.

Cheetah - A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.

Cherish - To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.

Cherish - To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.

Chetah - See Cheetah.

Chich - The chick-pea.

Chichling vetch - A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.

Childbirth - The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.

Childish - Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

Childish - Puerile; trifling; weak.

Chiliarch - The commander or chief of a thousand men.

Chilognath - A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.

Chinch - The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

Chinch - A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

Chin cough - Whooping cough.

Chirograph - A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.

Chirograph - The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine.

Chopchurch - An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.

Chorograph - An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

Chough - A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.

Chromograph - An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

Chromolithograph - A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

Chromophotolithograph - A photolithograph printed in colors.

Chronograph - An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.

Chronograph - Same as Chronogram, 1.

Chronograph - A chronoscope.

Church - A building set apart for Christian worship.

Church - A Jewish or heathen temple.

Church - A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.

Church - A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

Church - The collective body of Christians.

Church - Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.

Church - The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.

Church - To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

Church-bench - A seat in the porch of a church.

Churlish - Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.

Churlish - Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.

Cimeliarch - A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.

Cinch - A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.

Cinch - A tight grip.

Cincinnati epoch - An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York.

Clannish - Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.

Clash - To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

Clash - To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.

Clash - To strike noisily against or together.

Clash - A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.

Clash - Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.

Clayish - Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.

Clearstarch - To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.

Clench - See Clinch.

Cleverish - Somewhat clever.

Clinch - To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

Clinch - To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.

Clinch - To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.

Clinch - To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.

Clinch - To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

Clinch - The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

Clinch - A pun.

Clinch - A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

Cliquish - Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.

Cloddish - Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.

Closh - A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.

Closh - The game of ninepins.

Cloth - A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

Cloth - The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.

Cloth - The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.

Clough - A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.

Clough - A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Clough - An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

Clownish - Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.

Clubbish - Rude; clownish.

Clubbish - Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.

Club-rush - A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.

Clunch - Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.

Clunch - One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.

Clutch - A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

Clutch - The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.

Clutch - A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

Clutch - Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

Clutch - The nest complement of eggs of a bird.

Clutch - To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.

Clutch - To close tightly; to clinch.

Clutch - To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.

Coach - A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.

Coach - A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.

Coach - A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.

Coach - A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

Coach - To convey in a coach.

Coach - To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.

Coach - To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with

Coccolith - One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

Cockmatch - A cockfight.

Cockneyish - Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.

Cockroach - An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

Codfish - A kind of fish. Same as Cod.

Coelacanth - Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.

Cohosh - A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family.

Coldfinch - A British wagtail.

Coldish - Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

Coleperch - A kind of small black perch.

Collish - A tool to polish the edge of a sole.

Colocynth - The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

Cologne earth - An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

Coltish - Like a colt; wanton; frisky.

Colt's tooth - See under Colt.

Combbroach - A tooth of a wool comb.

Commonish - Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

Commonwealth - A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.

Commonwealth - The whole body of people in a state; the public.

Commonwealth - Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

Conch - A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

Conch - In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

Conch - One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.

Conch - See Concha, n.

Conch - The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.

Danish - Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.

Danish - The language of the Danes.

Dankish - Somewhat dank.

Demolish - To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

Dovish - Like a dove; harmless; innocent.

Dowdyish - Like a dowdy.

Contradistinguish - To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.

Cony-catch - To deceive; to cheat; to trick.

Coolish - Somewhat cool.

Copperish - Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

Coppersmith - One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

Copygraph - A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing.

Coquettish - Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.

Coral fish - Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.

Coranach - A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.

Corinth - A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.

Corinth - A small fruit; a currant.

Cornish - Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.

Cornish - The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall.

Cornstarch - Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

Coronach - See Coranach.

Couch - To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

Couch - To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

Couch - To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

Couch - To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

Couch - To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

Couch - To arrange; to place; to inlay.

Couch - To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.

Couch - To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

Couch - To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.

Couch - To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

Couch - To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

Couch - A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.

Couch - Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

Couch - A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

Couch - A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

Cough - To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

Cough - To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.

Cough - To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.

Cough - A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

Cough - The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

Countermarch - To march back, or to march in reversed order.

Countermarch - A marching back; retrocession.

Countermarch - An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.

Countermarch - A change of measures; alteration of conduct.

Counterweigh - To weigh against; to counterbalance.

Couth - Could; was able; knew or known; understood.

Cowardish - Cowardly.

Cowfish - The grampus.

Cowfish - A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).

Cowfish - A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.

Cowish - Timorous; fearful; cowardly.

Cowish - An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.

Cowitch - See Cowhage.

Cowleech - One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.

Coyish - Somewhat coy or reserved.

Crabbish - Somewhat sour or cross.

Crampfish - The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

Cranch - See Craunch.

Crapefish - Salted codfish hardened by pressure.

Crash - To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

Crash - To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.

Crash - To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

Crash - A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.

Crash - Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

Crash - Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Cratch - A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.

Craunch - To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.

Crawfish - Alt. of Crayfish

Crayfish - Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.

Crayfish - See Crawfish.

Creekfish - The chub sucker.

Crith - The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains.

Cromlech - A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.

Cross-birth - Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.

Crossfish - A starfish.

Crossnath - To shade by means of crosshatching.

Crosspatch - An ill-natured person.

Cross-stitch - A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.

Crotch - The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

Crotch - A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.

Crouch - To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

Crouch - To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.

Crouch - To sign with the cross; to bless.

Crouch - To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.

Crowth - An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.

Crumbcloth - A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean.

Crunch - To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

Crunch - To grind or press with violence and noise.

Crunch - To emit a grinding or craunching noise.

Crunch - To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

Crush - To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.

Crush - To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

Crush - To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

Crush - To oppress or burden grievously.

Crush - To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

Crush - To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

Crush - A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

Crush - Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.

Crutch - A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.

Crutch - A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.

Crutch - A knee, or piece of knee timber

Crutch - A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.

Crutch - To support on crutches; to prop up.

Cruth - See 4th Crowd.

Crwth - See 4th Crowd.

Cryptograph - Cipher; something written in cipher.

Cuish - Defensive armor for the thighs.

Cultch - Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

Curch - See Courche.

Currish - Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.

Curvograph - An arcograph.

Cutch - See Catechu.

Cutch - See Cultch.

Cuttlefish - A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

Cuttlefish - A foul-mouthed fellow.

Cyatholith - A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch.

Cyclograph - See Arcograph.

Cystolith - A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.

Cystolith - A urinary calculus.

Czarish - Of or pertaining to the czar.

Czech - One of the Czechs.

Czech - The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.

Dactylioglyph - An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.

Dactylioglyph - The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.

Dahabeah - A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.

Dampish - Moderately damp or moist.

Dandyish - Like a dandy.

Darkish - Somewhat dark; dusky.

Dash - To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

Dash - To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.

Dash - To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.

Dash - To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.

Dash - To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

Dash - To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.

Dash - To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.

Dash - Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.

Dash - A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.

Dash - A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.

Dash - A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.

Dash - Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.

Dash - A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.

Dash - A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.

Dash - The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.

Dash - The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.

Dash - A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

Dawish - Like a daw.

Deadish - Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.

Deadlatch - A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.

Dealfish - A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).

Dealth - Share dealt.

Dearth - Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

Dearworth - Precious.

Death - The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Death - Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Death - Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

Death - Cause of loss of life.

Death - Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Death - Danger of death.

Death - Murder; murderous character.

Death - Loss of spiritual life.

Death - Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Deathwatch - A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

Deathwatch - A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.

Deathwatch - The guard set over a criminal before his execution.

Debauch - To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.

Debauch - Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.

Debauch - An act or occasion of debauchery.

Debosh - To debauch.

Debouch - To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.

Decastich - A poem consisting of ten lines.

Decillionth - Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.

Decillionth - The quotient of unity divided by a decillion.

Decillionth - One of a decillion equal parts.

Degarnish - To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.

Degarnish - To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort.

Delilah - The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.

Delph - Delftware.

Delph - The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.

Demarch - March; walk; gait.

Demarch - A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.

Depeach - To discharge.

Depolish - To remove the polish or glaze from.

Depth - The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

Depth - Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.

Depth - Lowness; as, depth of sound.

Depth - That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.

Depth - The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.

Depth - A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

Derth - Dearth; scarcity.

Dervish - Alt. of Dervis

Derworth - Precious.

Despatch - Same as Dispatch.

Detach - To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.

Detach - To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.

Detach - To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.

Devilfish - A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.

Devilfish - A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus.

Devilfish - The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.

Devilfish - The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See Angler.

Devilish - Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.

Devilish - Extreme; excessive.

Diaglyph - An intaglio.

Diagraph - A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.

Dich - To ditch.

Diglyph - A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

Digraph - Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

Dilettanteish - Somewhat like a dilettante.

Dilettantish - Dilettanteish.

Diminish - To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

Diminish - To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

Diminish - To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.

Diminish - To take away; to subtract.

Diminish - To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

Dimish - See Dimmish.

Dimmish - Alt. of Dimmy

Dimorph - Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.

Diptych - Anything consisting of two leaves.

Diptych - A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.

Diptych - A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

Diptych - A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

Disavouch - To disavow.

Disbench - To drive from a bench or seat.

Disbench - To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.

Disbranch - To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.

Dischurch - To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church.

Discolith - One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter.

Disembellish - To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.

Disestablish - To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state.

Disflesh - To reduce the flesh or obesity of.

Disfurnish - To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.

Disgarnish - To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.

Dish - A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

Dish - The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."

Dish - The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

Dish - A hollow place, as in a field.

Dish - A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

Dish - That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

Dish - To put in a dish, ready for the table.

Dish - To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

Dish - To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

Dishcloth - A cloth used for washing dishes.

Dismarch - To march away.

Dispatch - To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

Dispatch - To rid; to free.

Dispatch - To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.

Dispatch - To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.

Dispatch - To send out of the world; to put to death.

Dispatch - To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.

Dispatch - The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

Dispatch - Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

Dispatch - The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.

Dispatch - A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.

Dispatch - A message transmitted by telegraph.

Displenish - To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock.

Disrelish - Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food.

Disrelish - Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

Disrelish - Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at.

Disrelish - To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.

Distich - A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

Distich - Alt. of Distichous

Distinguish - Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

Distinguish - To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low.

Distinguish - To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum.

Distinguish - To constitute a difference; to make to differ.

Distinguish - To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for.

Distinguish - To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.

Distinguish - To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible.

Disvouch - To discredit; to contradict.

Disworth - To deprive of worth; to degrade.

Ditch - A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

Ditch - Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.

Ditch - To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

Ditch - To surround with a ditch.

Ditch - To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.

Ditch - To dig a ditch or ditches.

Dogfish - A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

Dogfish - The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.

Dogfish - The burbot of Lake Erie.

Doggish - Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal.

Dogteeth - of Dogtooth

Dogtooth - See Canine tooth, under Canine.

Dogtooth - An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament.

Dogwatch - A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.

Doltish - Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.

Doth - of Do.

Dotish - Foolish; weak; imbecile.

Dough - Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

Dough - Anything of the consistency of such paste.

Downweigh - To weigh or press down.

Dozenth - Twelfth.

Drabbish - Somewhat drab in color.

Drabbish - Having the character of a drab or low wench.

Dracanth - A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.

Draffish - Worthless; draffy.

Dragonish - resembling a dragon.

Draugh - See Draft.

Drawbench - A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.

Drawlatch - A housebreaker or thief.

Dreggish - Foul with lees; feculent.

Drench - To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

Drench - To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.

Drench - A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.

Drench - A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.

Dretch - See Drecche.

Droh - of Draw.

Drollish - Somewhat droll.

Dronish - Like a drone; indolent; slow.

Drough - of Draw.

Drouth - Same as Drought.

Drowth - See Drought.

Druidish - Druidic.

Drumfish - Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.

Dryth - Alt. of Drith

Drith - Drought.

Dudish - Like, or characterized of, a dude.

Dullish - Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.

Dumpish - Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.

Duncish - Somewhat like a dunce.

Dunfish - Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

Dunnish - Inclined to a dun color.

Empoverish - See Impoverish.

Estrich - Ostrich.

Estrich - The down of the ostrich.

Etch - A variant of Eddish.

Etch - To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

Fash - To vex; to tease; to trouble.

Fash - Vexation; anxiety; care.

Filch - To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.

Duskish - Somewhat dusky.

Dustbrush - A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

Dutch - Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.

Dutch - The people of Holland; Dutchmen.

Dutch - The language spoken in Holland.

Dwarfish - Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub.

Dynamograph - A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.

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

Each - Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every.

Eadish - See Eddish.

Earreach - Earshot.

Earsh - See Arrish.

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

Earth - The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land.

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

Earth - A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.

Earth - Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.

Earth - The people on the globe.

Earth - Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.

Earth - A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.

Earth - A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox.

Earth - To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.

Earth - To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.

Earth - To burrow.

Earth - A plowing.

Eath - Easy or easily.

Ecclesiarch - An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.

Eddish - Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish.

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

Egg squash - A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit.

Eh - An expression of inquiry or slight surprise.

Eidograph - An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.

Eigh - An exclamation expressing delight.

Eighteenth - Next in order after the seventeenth.

Eighteenth - Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

Eighteenth - The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions.

Eighteenth - The eighth after the tenth.

Eighth - Next in order after the seventh.

Eighth - Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.

Eighth - The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.

Eighth - The interval of an octave.

Eightieth - The next in order after seventy-ninth.

Eightieth - Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.

Eightieth - The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.

Eirenarch - A justice of the peace; irenarch.

Elasmobranch - Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii.

Elasmobranch - One of the Elasmobranchii.

Elderish - Somewhat old; elderly.

Eldritch - Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh.

Electro-chronograph - An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.

Electrograph - A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.

Elench - That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

Elench - A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.

Eleventh - Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.

Eleventh - Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.

Eleventh - Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.

Eleventh - The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.

Eleventh - The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

Elfish - Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves.

Ellipsograph - An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.

Elliptograph - Same as Ellipsograph.

Elrich - Alt. of Elritch

Elritch - Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch.

Elvish - Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish.

Elvish - Mysterious; also, foolish.

Embellish - To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

Emblanch - To whiten. See Blanch.

Embryotroph - The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.

Embush - To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.

Emforth - According to; conformably to.

Empeach - To hinder. See Impeach.

Enambush - To ambush.

Enarch - To arch.

Encash - To turn into cash; to cash.

Encoach - To carry in a coach.

Encroach - To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.

Encroach - Encroachment.

Endognath - The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

Endolymph - The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.

Endomorph - A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.

Enfamish - To famish; to starve.

Enfeeblish - To enfeeble.

Enflesh - To clothe with flesh.

Engastrimuth - An ventriloquist.

English - Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.

English - See 1st Bond, n., 8.

English - Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.

English - The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.

English - A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.

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

English - To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.

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

Enmesh - To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

Enomotarch - The commander of an enomoty.

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

Enough - In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.

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

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

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

Enough - An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

Enravish - To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate.

Enrich - To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

Enrich - To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.

Enrich - To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.

Enrich - To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind.

Ensearch - To make search; to try to find something.

Ensearch - To search for.

Enterolith - An intestinal concretion.

Entrench - See Intrench.

Eparch - In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.

Ephah - Alt. of Epha

Epigraph - Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

Epigraph - A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

Epitaph - An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.

Epitaph - A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."

Epitaph - To commemorate by an epitaph.

Epitaph - To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

Epoch - A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era.

Epoch - A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation.

Epoch - A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.

Epoch - The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.

Epoch - An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860.

Eremitish - Eremitic.

Eriach - Alt. of Eric

Ersh - See Arrish.

Establish - To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

Establish - To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

Establish - To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.

Establish - To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.

Establish - To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

Estatlich - Alt. of Estatly

Etch - To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.

Etch - To sketch; to delineate.

Etch - To practice etching; to make etchings.

Ethnarch - The governor of a province or people.

Eugh - The yew.

Eunuch - A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.

Eunuch - Alt. of Eunuchate

Evanish - To vanish.

Everich - Alt. of Everych

Everych - each one; every one; each of two. See Every.

Exarch - A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

Expolish - To polish thoroughly.

Extinguish - To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.

Extinguish - To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.

Eyelash - The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

Eyelash - A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.

Eyereach - The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.

Eyeteeth - of Eyetooth

Eyetooth - A canine tooth of the upper jaw.

Eyewash - See Eyewater.

Faintish - Slightly faint; somewhat faint.

Fairish - Tolerably fair.

Faith - Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.

Faith - The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth.

Faith - The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.

Faith - The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith.

Faith - That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church.

Faith - Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.

Faith - Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith.

Faith - Credibility or truth.

Faith - By my faith; in truth; verily.

Fallfish - A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

Famish - To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

Famish - To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.

Famish - To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

Famish - To force or constrain by famine.

Famish - To die of hunger; to starve.

Famish - To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.

Famish - To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

Farfetch - To bring from far; to seek out studiously.

Farfetch - Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.

Fastish - Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.

Fattish - Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.

Faugh - An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

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

Fellah - A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.

Felspath - See Feldspar.

Fennish - Abounding in fens; fenny.

Ferforth - Far forth.

Festlich - Festive; fond of festive occasions.

Fetch - To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

Fetch - To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

Fetch - To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.

Fetch - To reduce; to throw.

Fetch - To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.

Fetch - To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

Fetch - To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

Fetch - To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

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

Fetch - The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

Fetich - Alt. of Fetish

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

Fetish - Any object to which one is excessively devoted.

Fetish - Alt. of Fetishistic

Fetwah - A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.

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

Feverish - Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.

Feverish - Hot; sultry.

Feverish - Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

Fiendish - Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.

Fifteenth - Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

Fifteenth - Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

Fifteenth - One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.

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

Fifteenth - A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

Fifteenth - An interval consisting of two octaves.

Fifth - Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

Fifth - Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.

Fifth - The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

Fifth - The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

Fiftieth - Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.

Fiftieth - Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.

Fiftieth - One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.

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

Filth - Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

Filth - Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

Finch - A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.

Finfish - A finback whale.

Finfish - True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.

Finish - To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

Finish - To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.

Finish - To come to an end; to terminate.

Finish - To end; to die.

Finish - That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.

Finish - The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.

Finish - The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.

Finish - See Finishing coat, under Finishing.

Finish - The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.

Finish - Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning.

Finnish - Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.

Finnish - A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.

Firefish - A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.

Firth - An arm of the sea; a frith.

Fish - A counter, used in various games.

Fish - of Fish

Fish - A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

Fish - An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.

Fish - The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

Fish - The flesh of fish, used as food.

Fish - A purchase used to fish the anchor.

Fish - A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.

Fish - To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

Fish - To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

Fish - To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

Fish - To search by raking or sweeping.

Fish - To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

Fish - To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

Fitch - A vetch.

Fitch - A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.

Fitch - The European polecat; also, its fur.

Flanch - A flange.

Flanch - A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

Flash - To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

Flash - To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.

Flash - To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.

Flash - To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

Flash - To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.

Flash - To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

Flash - To trick up in a showy manner.

Flash - To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.

Flash - A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

Flash - A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.

Flash - The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.

Flash - A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.

Flash - Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

Flash - Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.

Flash - Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

Flash - A pool.

Flash - A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.

Flatfish - Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

Flattish - Somewhat flat.

Flaundrish - Flemish.

Fleagh - imp. of Fly.

Fleigh - imp. of Fly.

Flemish - Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.

Flemish - The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.

Flench - Same as Flence.

Flesh - The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

Flesh - Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.

Flesh - The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.

Flesh - The human eace; mankind; humanity.

Flesh - Human nature

Flesh - In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

Flesh - In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

Flesh - The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.

Flesh - Kindred; stock; race.

Flesh - The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.

Flesh - To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.

Flesh - To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.

Flesh - To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

Fletch - To feather, as an arrow.

Flinch - To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.

Flinch - To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

Flinch - The act of flinching.

Flitch - The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

Flitch - One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.

Flitch - The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.

Flyfish - A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.

Fly-fish - To angle, using flies for bait.

Flying fish - A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.

Flysch - A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

Forereach - To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

Forereach - To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.

Ganch - To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

Genearch - The chief of a family or tribe.

Goth - One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.

Goth - One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person.

Grayish - Somewhat gray.

Flosh - A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.

Flourish - To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

Flourish - To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.

Flourish - To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

Flourish - To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.

Flourish - To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

Flourish - To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

Flourish - To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Flourish - To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

Flourish - To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.

Flourish - To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.

Flourish - To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

Flourish - A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

Flourish - Decoration; ornament; beauty.

Flourish - Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.

Flourish - A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

Flourish - A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.

Flourish - The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

Flush - To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

Flush - To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.

Flush - To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.

Flush - To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.

Flush - To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

Flush - To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.

Flush - To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.

Flush - To excite; to animate; to stir.

Flush - To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.

Flush - A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.

Flush - A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.

Flush - Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.

Flush - A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.

Flush - A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

Flush - A hand of cards of the same suit.

Flush - Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.

Flush - Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.

Flush - Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.

Flush - Consisting of cards of one suit.

Flush - So as to be level or even.

Flutemouth - A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.

Foh - An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle.

Foolfish - The orange filefish. See Filefish.

Foolfish - The winter flounder. See Flounder.

Foolish - Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.

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

Foolish - Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.

Footbath - A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.

Footbreadth - The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure.

Footcloth - Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse.

Footpath - A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.

Foppish - Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

Forasmuch - In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep.

Foreadmonish - To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.

Forehearth - The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

Forespeech - A preface.

Foreteach - To teach beforehand.

Fore teeth - of Fore tooth

Fore tooth - One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.

Forewish - To wish beforehand.

Forsooth - In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.

Forsooth - To address respectfully with the term forsooth.

Forsooth - A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.

Forth - Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.

Forth - Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.

Forth - Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.

Forth - Throughly; from beginning to end.

Forth - Forth from; out of.

Forth - A way; a passage or ford.

Forthwith - Immediately; without delay; directly.

Forthwith - As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.

Fortieth - Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.

Fortieth - Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Fortieth - One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.

Fourteenth - Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

Fourteenth - Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.

Fourteenth - One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.

Fourteenth - The octave of the seventh.

Fourth - Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

Fourth - Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

Fourth - One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.

Fourth - The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.

Foxearth - A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

Foxfish - The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.

Foxfish - The european dragonet. See Dragonet.

Foxish - Foxlike.

Frankish - Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.

Freakish - Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.

French - Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

French - The language spoken in France.

French - Collectively, the people of France.

Fresh - Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.

Fresh - New; original; additional.

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

Fresh - Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.

Fresh - In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.

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

Fresh - Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.

Fresh - A stream or spring of fresh water.

Fresh - A flood; a freshet.

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

Fresh - To refresh; to freshen.

Friborgh - The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.

Friesish - Friesic.

Frith - A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.

Frith - A kind of weir for catching fish.

Frith - A forest; a woody place.

Frith - A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.

Frogfish - See Angler, n., 2.

Frogfish - An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.

Frogmouth - One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidae); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.

Froppish - Peevish; froward.

Frostfish - The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.

Frostfish - The smelt.

Frostfish - A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.

Froth - The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

Froth - Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.

Froth - Light, unsubstantial matter.

Froth - To cause to foam.

Froth - To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

Froth - To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

Froth - To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

Frubish - To rub up: to furbish.

Frumpish - Cross-tempered; scornful.

Frumpish - Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.

Frush - To batter; to break in pieces.

Frush - Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Frush - Noise; clatter; crash.

Frush - The frog of a horse's foot.

Frush - A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.

Fugh - An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.

Famish - Smoky; hot; choleric.

Furbish - To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.

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

Furlough - To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.

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

Furnish - To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.

Furnish - That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.

Gaddish - Disposed to gad.

Gagtooth - A projecting tooth.

Gairish - Alt. of Gairish/ness

Galvanograph - A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.

Garfish - A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.

Garfish - One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.

Garish - Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.

Garish - Gay to extravagance; flighty.

Garnish - To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

Garnish - To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

Garnish - To furnish; to supply.

Garnish - To fit with fetters.

Garnish - To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.

Garnish - Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.

Garnish - Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.

Garnish - Fetters.

Garnish - A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.

Garookuh - A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

Garth - A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.

Garth - A dam or weir for catching fish.

Garth - A hoop or band.

Gash - To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

Gash - A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

Gastrolith - See Crab's eyes, under Crab.

Gastromyth - One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.

Gaudish - Gaudy.

Gaulish - Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.

Genesee epoch - The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.

Genteelish - Somewhat genteel.

Gentilish - Heathenish; pagan.

Gerah - A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.

Geth - the original third pers. sing. pres. of Go.

Ghostfish - A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.

Ghoulish - Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

Gibberish - Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.

Gibberish - Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.

Gibfish - The male of the salmon.

Girlish - Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.

Girth - A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

Girth - The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.

Girth - A small horizontal brace or girder.

Girth - To bind as with a girth.

Gith - The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.

Gittith - A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv.

Globefish - A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

Gloomth - Gloom.

Gluish - Somewhat gluey.

Glunch - Frowning; sulky; sullen.

Glunch - A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike.

Gluttonish - Gluttonous; greedy.

Glyph - A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

Glyphograph - A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.

Gnash - To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

Gnash - To grind or strike the teeth together.

Goarish - Patched; mean.

Goatfish - A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.

Goatish - Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.

Godelich - Goodly.

Goldfinch - A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.

Goldfinch - The yellow-hammer.

Goldfinch - A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.

Goldfish - A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.

Goldfish - A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.

Goldsmith - An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.

Goldsmith - A banker.

Gonoph - A pickpocket or thief.

Goodish - Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.

Goodlich - Goodly.

Goosefish - See Angler.

Goosish - Like a goose; foolish.

Goring cloth - A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

Graith - See Greith.

Graith - Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc.

Gralloch - Offal of a deer.

Gralloch - To remove the offal from (a deer).

Greekish - Peculiar to Greece.

Greencloth - A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates.

Greenfinch - A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

Greenfinch - The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.

Greenfish - See Bluefish, and Pollock.

Greenish - Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.

Greenth - The state or quality of being green; verdure.

Greith - To make ready; -- often used reflexively.

Greith - Goods; furniture.

Grith - Peace; security; agreement.

Growth - The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.

Growth - That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.

Grutch - See Grudge.

Guardfish - The garfish.

Guarish - To heal.

Guelph - Alt. of Guelf

Gulch - Act of gulching or gulping.

Gulch - A glutton.

Gulch - A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.

Gulch - To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

Gullish - Foolish; stupid.

Gulph - See Gulf.

Gunjah - See Ganja.

Gunny cloth - A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage.

Gunreach - The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.

Gunsmith - One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

Gush - To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

Gush - To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.

Gush - A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.

Gush - A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.

Gymnasiarch - An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.

Gynandromorph - An animal affected with gynandromorphism,

Haberdash - To deal in small wares.

Haemadromograph - An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.

Haemodromograph - Same as Haemadromograph.

Haggadoth - of Haggada

Haggish - Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled.

Hah - Same as Ha.

Hairbreadth - Alt. of Hair'sbreadth

Hair'sbreadth - The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch.

Hairbreadth - Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.

Hairbrush - A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

Haircloth - Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.

Halachoth - of Halacha

Half-fish - A salmon in its fifth year of growth.

Half-length - Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.

Halleluiah - Alt. of Hallelujah

Hallelujah - Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.

Hammercloth - The cloth which covers a coach box.

Hanch - See Hanse.

Hanch - A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway.

Handbreadth - A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.

Handcloth - A handkerchief.

Handfish - The frogfish.

Haugh - A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.

Haunch - The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.

Haunch - Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.

Homograph - One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.

Harborough - Alt. of Harbrough

Harbrough - A shelter.

Hardish - Somewhat hard.

Harish - Like a hare.

Harsh - Rough; disagreeable; grating

Harsh - disagreeable to the touch.

Harsh - disagreeable to the taste.

Harsh - disagreeable to the ear.

Harsh - Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.

Harsh - Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.

Hash - That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

Hash - A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.

Hash - To /hop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat.

Hasheesh - Alt. of Hashish

Hashish - A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.

Hatch - To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

Hatch - To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

Hatch - To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.

Hatch - To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.

Hatch - To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.

Hatch - The act of hatching.

Hatch - Development; disclosure; discovery.

Hatch - The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

Hatch - A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

Hatch - A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

Hatch - A flood gate; a a sluice gate.

Hatch - A bedstead.

Hatch - An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.

Hatch - An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Hatch - To close with a hatch or hatches.

Hath - Has.

Hawfinch - The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.

Hawk moth - Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm.

Headborough - Alt. of Headborrow

Headfish - The sunfish (Mola).

Health - The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.

Health - A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.

Hearsecloth - A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.

Hearth - The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

Hearth - The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

Hearth - The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.

Heath - A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

Heath - Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.

Heath - A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

Heathenish - Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens.

Heathenish - Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.

Heathenish - Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.

Hectograph - A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.

Hektograph - See Hectograph.

Helicograph - An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.

Heliograph - A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.

Heliograph - An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.

Heliograph - An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3.

Hellbroth - A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation.

Hellish - Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.

Helminth - An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.

Hemiglyph - The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

Hemistich - Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

Hemstitch - To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

Henceforth - From this time forward; henceforward.

Henfish - A marine fish; the sea bream.

Henfish - A young bib. See Bib, n., 2.

Heptarch - Same as Heptarchist.

Heptastich - A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.

Heptateuch - The first seven books of the Testament.

Herbergh - Alt. of Herberwe

Herborough - A harbor.

Heresiarch - A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics.

Heretoch - Alt. of Heretog

Herewith - With this.

Heteracanth - Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.

Heugh - A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.

Heugh - A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.

Hexastich - Alt. of Hexastichon

Hexateuch - The first six books of the Old Testament.

Heyh - Alt. of Heygh

Heygh - High.

Hiccough - A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough.

Hiccough - To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.

Hierarch - One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.

Hieroglyph - Alt. of Hieroglyphic

High - To hie.

High - Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.

High - Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection

High - Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives.

High - Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles.

High - Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family.

High - Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions.

High - Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble.

High - Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price.

High - Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense.

High - Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc.

High - Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.

High - Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.

High - Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11.

High - In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully.

High - An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.

High - People of rank or high station; as, high and low.

High - The highest card dealt or drawn.

High - To rise; as, the sun higheth.

High-church - Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.

Highth - Variant of Height.

Hippish - Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish.

Hippolith - A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse.

Hitch - To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

Hitch - To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.

Hitch - To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

Hitch - To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.

Hitch - To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.

Hitch - A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.

Hitch - The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.

Hitch - A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.

Hitch - A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.

Hitch - A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.

Hitch - A small dislocation of a bed or vein.

Hobblebush - A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.

Hough - The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.

Hough - A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.

Hough - The popliteal space; the ham.

Hodograph - A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.

Hogfish - A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolaemus).

Hogfish - The pigfish or sailor's choice.

Hogfish - An American fresh-water fish; the log perch.

Hogfish - A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).

Hoggish - Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish.

Hogh - A hill; a cliff.

Hogwash - Swill.

Hoidenish - Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden.

Holder-forth - One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher.

Hollandish - Relating to Holland; Dutch.

Holograph - A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.

Homacanth - Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes.

Homeopath - A practitioner of homeopathy.

Homish - Like a home or a home circle.

Hookah - A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

Hopplebush - Same as Hobblebush.

Hopscotch - A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

Hornfish - The garfish or sea needle.

Hornish - Somewhat like horn; hard.

Horse-drench - A dose of physic for a horse.

Horse-drench - The appliance by which the dose is administred.

Horsefish - The moonfish (Selene setipinnis).

Horsefish - The sauger.

Horseflesh - The flesh of horses.

Horseflesh - Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh.

Horselaugh - A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw.

Horse-leech - A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.

Horse-leech - A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.

Horse-radish - A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine.

Hotchpotch - A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.

Hotchpotch - A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given.

Houdah - See Howdah.

Hough - Same as Hock, a joint.

Hough - Same as Hock, to hamstring.

Hough - An adz; a hoe.

Hough - To cut with a hoe.

Houndfish - Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish.

Howdah - A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders.

Huch - Alt. of Huchen

Huffish - Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.

Hulch - A hunch.

Humph - An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.

Hunch - A hump; a protuberance.

Hunch - A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.

Hunch - A push or thrust, as with the elbow.

Hunch - To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.

Hunch - To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.

Hundredth - Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.

Hundredth - Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.

Hundredth - One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.

Hurrah - Alt. of Hurra

Hurrah - A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.

Hurrah - To utter hurrahs; to huzza.

Hurrah - To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.

Hush - To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

Hush - To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.

Hush - To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.

Hush - Stillness; silence; quiet.

Hush - Silent; quiet.

Hutch - To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.

Hutch - A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.

Hutch - A measure of two Winchester bushels.

Hutch - The case of a flour bolt.

Hutch - A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

Hutch - A jig for washing ore.

Hutch - To hoard or lay up, in a chest.

Hutch - To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

Hyacinth - A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.

Hyacinth - A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.

Hyacinth - The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.

Hyacinth - A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.

Hyalograph - An instrument for tracing designs on glass.

Hydranth - One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

Hydrometrograph - An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.

Hydropath - A hydropathist.

Hyetograph - A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth.

Hygrograph - An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.

Hyppish - Affected with hypochondria; hypped.

Ich - I.

Ideograph - Same as Ideogram.

Idiograph - A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.

Idiotish - Like an idiot; foolish.

Idolish - Idolatrous.

I' faith - In faith; indeed; truly.

Illish - Somewhat ill.

Immesh - To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.

Impeach - To hinder; to impede; to prevent.

Impeach - To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.

Impeach - Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.

Impeach - To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.

Impeach - Hindrance; impeachment.

Impleach - To pleach; to interweave.

Impoverish - To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

Impoverish - To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.

Imrigh - A peculiar strong soup or broth, made in Scotland.

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

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

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

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

Inch - A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment.

Inch - To drive by inches, or small degrees.

Inch - To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.

Inch - To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.

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

Incoach - To put a coach.

Inditch - To bury in, or cast into, a ditch.

Indo-English - Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India; Anglo-Indian.

Indrench - To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown.

Inearth - To inter.

Inflesh - To incarnate.

Ingrowth - A growth or development inward.

Inkfish - A cuttlefish. See Cuttlefish.

Inlandish - Inland.

Inmesh - To bring within meshes, as of a net; to enmesh.

Inrush - A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide.

Inrush - To rush in.

Insearch - To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.

Insomuch - So; to such a degree; in such wise; -- followed by that or as, and formerly sometimes by both. Cf. Inasmuch.

Insooth - In sooth; truly.

Interdash - To dash between or among; to intersperse.

Interspeech - A speech interposed between others.

Interwish - To wish mutually in regarded to each other.

Intrench - To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.

Intrench - To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself.

Intrench - To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown.

Inveigh - To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse.

Inwith - Within.

Io moth - A large and handsome American moth (Hyperchiria Io), having a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles.

Irenarch - An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace.

Irish - Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland.

Irish - The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.

Irish - The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.

Irish - An old game resembling backgammon.

Ironish - Resembling iron, as in taste.

Ironsmith - A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith.

Ironsmith - An East Indian barbet (Megalaima faber), inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith.

Isabella moth - A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.

Ishmaelitish - Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an Ishmaelite or the Ishmaelites.

Isomorph - A substance which is similar to another in crystalline form and composition.

Isothermobath - A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.

Israelitish - Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.

Itch - To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

Itch - To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.

Itch - An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.

Itch - Any itching eruption.

Itch - A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.

Itch - A constant irritating desire.

Ivan Ivanovitch - An ideal personification of the typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as "John Bull" is used for the typical Englishman.

Jacinth - See Hyacinth.

Jack Ketch - A public executioner, or hangman.

Jacksmith - A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c.

Jadish - Vicious; ill-tempered; resembling a jade; -- applied to a horse.

Jadish - Unchaste; -- applied to a woman.

Jah - Jehovah.

Japannish - After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles.

Jarrah - The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata. See Eucalyptus.

Jehovah - A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the "ineffable name" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews.

Jellyfish - Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.

Jewbush - A euphorbiaceous shrub of the genus Pedilanthus (P. tithymaloides), found in the West Indies, and possessing powerful emetic and drastic qualities.

Jewfish - A very large serranoid fish (Promicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw.

Jewfish - A similar gigantic fish (Stereolepis gigas) of Southern California, valued as a food fish.

Jewfish - The black grouper of Florida and Texas.

Jewfish - A large herringlike fish; the tarpum.

Jewish - Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish.

Jiggish - Resembling, or suitable for, a jig, or lively movement.

Jiggish - Playful; frisky.

Jonah - The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.

Joseph - An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front.

Jutlandish - Of or pertaining to Jutland, or to the people of Jutland.

Kafilah - See Cafila.

Kecklish - Inclined to vomit; squeamish.

Keech - A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

Keesh - See Kish.

Kelpfish - A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.

Keraunograph - A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.

Kerish - Clownish; boorish.

Ketch - An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.

Ketch - A hangman. See Jack Ketch.

Ketch - To catch.

Kholah - The Indian jackal.

Khutbah - 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.

Kiblah - See Keblah.

Kiddyish - Frolicsome; sportive.

Killifish - Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.

Kingfish - An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.

Kingfish - The opah.

Kingfish - The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero.

Kingfish - The queenfish.

King's Bench - Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its jurisdiction was transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court of justice created by that legislation.

Kish - A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

Kith - Acquaintance; kindred.

Kitish - Like or relating to a kite.

Kittenish - Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition.

Kittlish - Ticklish; kittle.

Klipfish - Dried cod, exported from Norway.

Knackish - Trickish; artful.

Knappish - Snappish; peevish.

Knavish - Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick.

Knavish - Mischievous; roguish; waggish.

Kneebrush - A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Kneebrush - A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees, by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; -- usually in the plural.

Knee-high - Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high.

Knitch - Alt. of Knitchet

Koordish - See Kurdish.

Kumish - Alt. of Kumiss

Kurdish - Of or pertaining to the Kurds.

Kutch - The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets.

Kutch - See Catechu.

Kymograph - An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

Labyrinth - An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

Labyrinth - Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.

Labyrinth - Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.

Labyrinth - An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.

Labyrinth - The internal ear. See Note under Ear.

Labyrinth - A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.

Labyrinth - A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.

Labyrinthibranch - Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici.

Labyrinthibranch - One of the Labyrinthici.

Lakh - One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.

Laccolith - A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Ladyfish - A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabe.

Ladyfish - A labroid fish (Harpe rufa) of Florida and the West Indies.

Lagomorph - One of the Lagomorpha.

Lakh - Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.

Lamellibranch - One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.

Lamish - Somewhat lame.

Lance fish - A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.

Lanch - To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.

Languish - To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.

Languish - To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.

Languish - To cause to droop or pine.

Languish - See Languishiment.

Lanseh - The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste.

Laplandish - Of or pertaining to Lapland.

Lappish - Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.

Lappish - The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.

Larch - A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).

Largish - Somewhat large.

Lash - The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

Lash - A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.

Lash - A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.

Lash - A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.

Lash - A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.

Lash - In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

Lash - To strike with a lash ; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

Lash - To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail.

Lash - To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

Lash - To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.

Lash - To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.

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

Latch - To smear; to anoint.

Latch - That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.

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

Latch - A latching.

Latch - A crossbow.

Latch - To catch so as to hold.

Latch - To catch or fasten by means of a latch.

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

Lath - To cover or line with laths.

Latish - Somewhat late.

Lattermath - The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.

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

Laugh - Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

Laugh - To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

Laugh - To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.

Laugh - An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.

Launch - To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

Launch - To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.

Launch - To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

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

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

Launch - The act of launching.

Launch - The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.

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

Lavish - Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.

Lavish - Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.

Lavish - To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

Leach - See 3d Leech.

Leach - A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

Leach - A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.

Leach - To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.

Leach - To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.

Leach - To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

Leach - See Leech, a physician.

Leash - A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.

Leash - A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.

Leash - A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.

Leash - To tie together, or hold, with a leash.

Lech - To lick.

Leech - See 2d Leach.

Leech - See Leach, v. t.

Leech - The border or edge at the side of a sail.

Leech - A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.

Leech - Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.

Leech - A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

Leech - To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.

Leech - To bleed by the use of leeches.

Length - The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.

Length - A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural.

Length - The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk.

Length - A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.

Length - Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length.

Length - Distance.

Length - To lengthen.

Letch - See Leach.

Letch - Strong desire; passion. (Archaic).

Lettish - Of or pertaining to the Letts.

Lettish - The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic.

Lich - Like.

Lich - A dead body; a corpse.

Lickerish - Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.

Lickerish - Tempting the appetite; dainty.

Lickerish - Lecherous; lustful.

Linch - A ledge; a right-angled projection.

Lions' teeth - of Lion's tooth

Lion's tooth - See Leontodon.

Liquorish - See Lickerish.

Lith - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.

Lith - A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.

Lithoglyph - An engraving on a gem.

Lithograph - To trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting. See Lithography.

Lithograph - A print made by lithography.

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

Loath - Hateful; odious; disliked.

Loath - Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part.

Lobbish - Like a lob; consisting of lobs.

Loch - A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.

Loch - A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.

Locksmith - An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.

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

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

Lompish - Lumpish.

Mash - A mesh.

Mash - A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

Mash - A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

Mash - A mess; trouble.

Mash - To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.

Moonfish - The mola. See Sunfish, 1.

Moonish - Like the moon; variable.

Moorish - Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.

Moorish - Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.

Nematognath - one of the Nematognathi.

Oafish - Like an oaf; simple.

Oarfish - The ribbon fish.

Oath - A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.

Oath - A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.

Oath - An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false.

Oath - A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of profane swearing.

Obeah - Same as Obi.

Obeah - Of or pertaining to obi; as, the obeah man.

Paragraph - Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character /, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.

Paragraph - A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark /, but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin.

Paragraph - A brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph.

Paragraph - To divide into paragraphs; to mark with the character /.

Paragraph - To express in the compass of a paragraph; as, to paragraph an article.

Paragraph - To mention in a paragraph or paragraphs

Longish - Somewhat long; moderately long.

Looch - See 2d Loch.

Loosish - Somewhat loose.

Lophobranch - Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.

Lophobranch - One of the Lophobranchii.

Loth - Alt. of Lothsome

Lough - A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland.

Lough - of Laugh.

Loutish - Clownish; rude; awkward.

Low-church - Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High.

Lowgh - Alt. of Lowh

Lowh - strong imp. of Laugh.

Lowish - Somewhat low.

Lucky proach - See Fatherlasher.

Lumpfish - A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.

Lumpish - Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless.

Lunch - A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

Lunch - To take luncheon.

Lungfish - Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.

Lurch - To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

Lurch - An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.

Lurch - A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

Lurch - To leave in the lurch; to cheat.

Lurch - To steal; to rob.

Lurch - A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.

Lurch - To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.

Lurch - To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.

Lurch - To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

Lush - Full of juice or succulence.

Luskish - Inclined to be lazy.

Lussheburgh - A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called.

Luth - The leatherback.

Lymph - A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.

Lymph - An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.

Lymph - A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together.

Lynch - To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

Macintosh - Same as Mackintosh.

Mackintosh - A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.

Maddish - Somewhat mad.

Maggotish - Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Magilph - See Megilp.

Magnetograph - An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.

Maharajah - A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.

Maharmah - A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

Malagash - Same as Malagasy.

Mammonish - Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon.

Mammoth - An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.

Mammoth - Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.

Maneh - A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.

Mannish - Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.

Mannish - Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine.

Mannish - Fond of men; -- said of a woman.

Mapach - The raccoon.

March - The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

March - A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.

March - To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.

March - To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.

March - To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

March - TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.

March - The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.

March - Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.

March - The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

March - A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

Margate fish - A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt.

Marish - Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor.

Marish - Moory; fenny; boggy.

Marish - Growing in marshes.

Marrowish - Of the nature of, or like, marrow.

Marsh - A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.

Marsipobranch - One of the Marsipobranchia.

Maslach - An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks.

Mastich - See Mastic.

Match - Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.

Match - A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.

Match - A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like

Match - A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.

Match - A matrimonial union; a marriage.

Match - An agreement, compact, etc.

Match - A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

Match - Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

Match - Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.

Match - A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.

Match - To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.

Match - To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.

Match - To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.

Match - To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.

Match - To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).

Match - To marry; to give in marriage.

Match - To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.

Match - To be united in marriage; to mate.

Match - To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

Match-cloth - A coarse cloth.

Math - A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath.

Matriarch - The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Matzoth - A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.

Maunch - To munch.

Maunch - See Manche.

Mawkish - Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

Mawkish - Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.

Mawmish - Nauseous.

Maybush - The hawthorn.

Mayfish - A common American minnow (Fundulus majalis). See Minnow.

Meach - To skulk; to cower. See Mich.

Meath - Alt. of Meathe

Mechanograph - One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.

Medina epoch - A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.

Meech - See Mich.

Meeth - Mead. See Meathe.

Megalith - A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building.

Megilph - A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.

Melodiograph - A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.

Melograph - Same as Melodiograph.

Menobranch - Alt. of Menobranchus

Mesh - The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

Mesh - The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.

Mesh - To catch in a mesh.

Mesh - To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.

Messiah - The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.

Metallograph - A print made by metallography.

Meteorograph - An instrument which registers meteorologic phases or conditions.

Meth - See Meathe.

Metrograph - An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.

Mezuzoth - A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost; -- in use among orthodox Hebrews.

Mich - Alt. of Miche

Microcrith - The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. See Crith.

Micrograph - An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Microlith - Same as Microlite, 2.

Micropantograph - A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.

Microphotograph - A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.

Microphotograph - An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.

Middle-earth - The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell.

Midrashoth - of Midrash

Midrash - A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

Milch - Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts.

Milch - Tender; pitiful; weeping.

Milk vetch - A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.

Millionth - Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

Millionth - The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.

Mimeograph - An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.

Minish - To diminish; to lessen.

Mirth - Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.

Mirth - That which causes merriment.

Misdistinguish - To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.

Misfaith - Want of faith; distrust.

Misgrowth - Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.

Mishmash - A hotchpotch.

Mismatch - To match unsuitably.

Missish - Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental.

Misspeech - Wrong speech.

Misteach - To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.

Misvouch - To vouch falsely.

Moabitish - Moabite.

Mobbish - Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.

Mockish - Mock; counterfeit; sham.

Modish - According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.

Molech - The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch.

Mollah - One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man.

Moloch - The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

Moloch - A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.

Monarch - A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.

Monarch - One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.

Monarch - A patron deity or presiding genius.

Monarch - A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.

Monarch - Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.

Moneth - A month.

Monish - To admonish; to warn. See Admonish.

Monkfish - The angel fish (Squatina).

Monkfish - The angler (Lophius).

Monkish - Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.

Monodelph - Alt. of Monodelphian

Monograph - A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.

Monolith - A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.

Monostich - A composition consisting of one verse only.

Monotriglyph - A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.

Monteith - See Monteth.

Monteth - Alt. of Monteith

Monteith - A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.

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

Moodish - Moody.

Moolah - Alt. of Moollah

Moollah - See Mollah.

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

Moonfish - A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.

Mopish - Dull; spiritless; dejected.

Moplah - One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.

Moth - A mote.

Moth - Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.

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

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

Moth - Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

Mounch - To munch.

Mountebankish - Like a mountebank or his quackery.

Mousefish - See Frogfish.

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

Mouth - An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;

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

Mouth - The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.

Mouth - The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.

Mouth - The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.

Mouth - The entrance into a harbor.

Mouth - The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

Mouth - A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

Mouth - Cry; voice.

Mouth - Speech; language; testimony.

Mouth - A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

Mouth - To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

Mouth - To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.

Mouth - To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.

Mouth - To make mouths at.

Mouth - To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.

Mouth - To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.

Mouth - To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.

Much - Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

Much - Many in number.

Much - High in rank or position.

Much - A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I.

Much - A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable.

Much - To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly.

Mudfish - The European loach.

Mudfish - The bowfin.

Mudfish - The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species (Protopterus annectens). See Lipedosiren.

Mudfish - The mud minnow.

Muffish - Stupid; awkward.

Muggish - See Muggy.

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

Mulch - To cover or dress with mulch.

Mulish - Like a mule; sullen; stubborn.

Mullah - See Mollah.

Mumpish - Sullen, sulky.

Munch - To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.

Murth - Plenty; abundance.

Mush - Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.

Mush - To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Musquash - See Muskrat.

Mussulmanish - Mohammedan.

Mutch - The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman.

Myograph - An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.

Myomorph - One of the Myomorpha.

Myriarch - A captain or commander of ten thousand men.

Myrrh - A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose.

Mysteriarch - One presiding over mysteries.

Myth - A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.

Myth - A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

Nailbrush - A brush for cleaning the nails.

Namaycush - A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.

Nargileh - An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.

Nash - Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly.

Natch - The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump.

Nath - hath not.

Nautch - An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls.

Navarch - The commander of a fleet.

'Neath - An abbreviation of Beneath.

Neckcloth - A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.

Needlefish - The European great pipefich (Siphostoma, / Syngnathus, acus); -- called also earl, and tanglefish.

Needlefish - The garfish.

Nefasch - Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.

Neginoth - Stringed instruments.

Nehiloth - A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.

Neigh - To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.

Neigh - To scoff or sneer; to jeer.

Neigh - The cry of a horse; a whinny.

Neomorph - A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

Nesh - Soft; tender; delicate.

Netfish - An astrophyton.

Newish - Somewhat new; nearly new.

Niggardish - Somewhat niggard.

Niggish - Niggardly.

Nigh - Not distant or remote in place or time; near.

Nigh - Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.

Nigh - In a situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near.

Nigh - Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead.

Nigh - To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near.

Nigh - Near to; not remote or distant from.

Nightish - Of or pertaining to night.

Nineteenth - Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.

Nineteenth - Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Nineteenth - The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.

Nineteenth - The next in order after the eighteenth.

Nineteenth - An interval of two octaves and a fifth.

Ninetieth - Next in order after the eighty-ninth.

Ninetieth - Constituting or being one of ninety equal parts.

Ninetieth - The quotient of a unit divided by ninety; one of ninety equal parts of anything.

Ninetieth - The next in order after the eighty-ninth.

Ninth - Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.

Ninth - Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.

Ninth - The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.

Ninth - An interval containing an octave and a second.

Ninth - A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.

Noah - A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.

Noctograph - A kind of writing frame for the blind.

Noctograph - An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.

Noematachograph - An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind.

Nomarch - The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

Nonesuch - A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

Nonsuch - See Nonesuch.

North - That one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south.

North - Any country or region situated farther to the north than another; the northern section of a country.

North - Specifically: That part of the United States lying north of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.

North - Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north.

North - To turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north.

North - Northward.

Notch - A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

Notch - A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.

Notch - To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.

Notch - To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.

Nouch - An ouch; a jewel.

Nourish - To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

Nourish - To support; to maintain.

Nourish - To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.

Nourish - To cherish; to comfort.

Nourish - To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.

Nourish - To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

Nourish - To gain nourishment.

Nourish - A nurse.

Nowch - See Nouch.

Nucleobranch - Belonging to the Nucleobranchiata.

Nucleobranch - One of the Nucleobranchiata.

Nudibranch - Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata.

Nudibranch - One of the Nudibranchiata.

Numbfish - The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.

Nunnish - Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun.

Nuthatch - Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmaea), and others, are American.

Nymph - A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.

Nymph - A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.

Nymph - The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.

Nymph - Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.

Nymphish - Relating to nymphs; ladylike.

Oblongish - Somewhat oblong.

Octateuch - A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament.

Odontograph - An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.

Offish - Shy or distant in manner.

Oftensith - Frequently; often.

Ogdoastich - A poem of eight lines.

Ogreish - Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre.

Oh - An exclamation expressing various emotions, according to the tone and manner, especially surprise, pain, sorrow, anxiety, or a wish. See the Note under O.

Oilcloth - Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering floors, etc.

Oldish - Somewhat old.

Old-maidish - Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular.

Old-womanish - Like an old woman; anile.

Oleograph - The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix.

Oleograph - A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.

Oligarch - A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

Omnigraph - A pantograph.

Oncograph - An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.

Onrush - A rushing onward.

Opah - 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.

Optigraph - A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.

Orach - Alt. of Orache

Orichalch - A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.

Orrach - See Orach.

Ostrich - A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

Ostrogoth - One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.

Otolith - Alt. of Otolite

Ouch - A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person.

Outblush - To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy color.

Outgrowth - That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

Outgush - A pouring out; an outburst.

Outgush - To gush out; to flow forth.

Outlandish - Foreign; not native.

Outlandish - Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.

Outlaugh - To surpass or outdo in laughing.

Outlaugh - To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down.

Outmarch - To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

Outparish - A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town.

Outpreach - To surpass in preaching.

Outquench - To quench entirely; to extinguish.

Outreach - To reach beyond.

Outrush - To rush out; to issue, or ru/ out, forcibly.

Outstretch - To stretch out.

Outwatch - To exceed in watching.

Outweigh - To exceed in weight or value.

Outworth - To exceed in worth.

Overarch - To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch.

Overbookish - Excessively bookish.

Overcatch - To overtake.

Overfish - To fish to excess.

Overflourish - To make excessive display or flourish of.

Overflourish - To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over.

Overflush - To flush to excess.

Overgrowth - Excessive growth.

Overhigh - Too high.

Overlash - To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast.

Overlavish - Lavish to excess.

Overmarch - To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching.

Overmatch - To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish.

Overmatch - To marry (one) to a superior.

Overmatch - One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest in which one of the opponents is overmatched.

Overmuch - Too much.

Overmuch - In too great a degree; too much.

Overmuch - An excess; a surplus.

Overperch - To perch upon; to fly over.

Overpolish - To polish too much.

Overreach - To reach above or beyond in any direction.

Overreach - To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.

Overreach - To reach too far

Overreach - To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.

Overreach - To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.

Overreach - To cheat by cunning or deception.

Overreach - The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

Overrich - Exccessively rich.

Oversearch - To search all over.

Overslaugh - A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River.

Overslaugh - To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or an impediment; as, to overslaugh a bill in a legislative body; to overslaugh a military officer, that is, to hinder his promotion or employment.

Overwash - To overflow.

Overwatch - To watch too much.

Overwatch - To weary or exhaust by watching.

Overweigh - To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.

Owch - See Ouch.

Owlish - Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.

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

Padishah - Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.

Paganish - Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish.

Pah - An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.

Pah - A kind of stockaded intrenchment.

Paleograph - An ancient manuscript.

Paleolith - A relic of the Paleolithic era.

Palish - Somewhat pale or wan.

Pallah - 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.

Panch - See Paunch.

Pantagraph - See Pantograph.

Pantamorph - That which assumes, or exists in, all forms.

Pantelegraph - See under Telegraph.

Pantograph - An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.

Papyrograph - An apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink, is used. The word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. See Copygraph, Hectograph, Manifold.

Paragnath - Same as Paragnathus.

Paramorph - A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite.

Paranymph - A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride.

Paranymph - The bridesmaid who conducted the bride to the bridegroom.

Paranymph - An ally; a supporter or abettor.

Paraph - A flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery.

Paraph - To add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.

Parch - To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.

Parch - To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever.

Parch - To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.

Pariah - 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.

Pariah - An outcast; one despised by society.

Parish - That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.

Parish - The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.

Parish - An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.

Parish - In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.

Parish - Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.

Parsonish - Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.

Pasch - Alt. of Pascha

Pash - To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.

Pash - The head; the poll.

Pash - A crushing blow.

Pash - A heavy fall of rain or snow.

Patch - A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.

Patch - A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

Patch - A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.

Patch - A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

Patch - Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.

Patch - A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

Patch - A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

Patch - To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

Patch - To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.

Patch - To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.

Patch - To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.

Path - A trodden way; a footway.

Path - A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.

Path - To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).

Path - To walk or go.

Patriarch - The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.

Patriarch - A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch.

Patriarch - A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.

Paunch - The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.

Paunch - A paunch mat; -- called also panch.

Paunch - The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.

Paunch - To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Paunch - To stuff with food.

Peach - To accuse of crime; to inform against.

Peach - To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

Peach - A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

Peakish - Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.

Peakish - Having peaks; peaked.

Peakish - Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly.

Pearch - See Perch.

Pearlash - A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.

Pearlfish - Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.

Peckish - Inclined to eat; hungry.

Pectinibranch - One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

Peevish - Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

Peevish - Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.

Peevish - Silly; childish; trifling.

Pelfish - Of or pertaining to pelf.

Penfish - A squid.

Pennach - A bunch of feathers; a plume.

Pennyworth - A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.

Pennyworth - Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain.

Pennyworth - A small quantity; a trifle.

Pentaptych - A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.

Pentastich - A composition consisting of five verses.

Pentateuch - The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.

Pentrough - A penstock.

Peoplish - Vulgar.

Perch - Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).

Perch - Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.

Perch - A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.

Perch - A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.

Perch - In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.

Perch - In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.

Perch - A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

Perch - To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.

Perch - To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.

Perch - To occupy as a perch.

Perianth - The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

Perianth - A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.

Perspectograph - An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

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

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

Prosobranch - One of the Prosobranchiata.

Pseudograph - A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

Pseudomorph - An irregular or deceptive form.

Pseudomorph - A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.

Puppyish - Like a puppy.

Purdah - A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.

Quackish - Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.

Perichaeth - The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.

Perigraph - A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything.

Perilymph - The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.

Perimorph - A crystal of one species inclosing one of another species. See Endomorph.

Perish - To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

Perish - To cause perish.

Pernyi moth - A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.

Pettish - Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.

Pharaoh - A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were designated.

Pharaoh - See Faro.

Philomath - A lover of learning; a scholar.

Phlebolith - A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.

Phonautograph - An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.

Phonograph - A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.

Phonograph - An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.

Photograph - A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

Photograph - To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.

Photograph - To practice photography; to take photographs.

Photoheliograph - A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.

Photolithograph - A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.

Photolithograph - To produce (a picture, a copy) by the process of photolithography.

Photomicrograph - An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.

Photomicrograph - A microscopically small photograph of an object.

Photozincograph - A print made by photozincography.

Phrenograph - An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.

Phylarch - The chief of a phyle, or tribe.

Pianograph - A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.

Pibroch - A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.

Picayunish - Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.

Picktooth - A toothpick.

Pictish - Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts.

Pictograph - A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Picturesquish - Somewhat picturesque.

Pigfish - Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish.

Pigfish - A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.

Piggish - Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.

Pilch - A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.

Pia cloth - A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

Pinch - To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

Pinch - o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.

Pinch - To plait.

Pinch - Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.

Pinch - To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.

Pinch - To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.

Pinch - To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

Pinch - To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.

Pinch - A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

Pinch - As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

Pinch - Pian; pang.

Pinch - A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

Pinefinch - A small American bird (Spinus, / Chrysomitris, spinus); -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin.

Pinefinch - The pine grosbeak.

Pinfish - The sailor's choice (Diplodus, / Lagodon, rhomboides).

Pinfish - The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

Pinkish - Somewhat pink.

Pinpatch - The common English periwinkle.

Pipefish - Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

Pipemouth - Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia.

Pish - An exclamation of contempt.

Pish - To express contempt.

Pitch - A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.

Pitch - See Pitchstone.

Pitch - To cover over or smear with pitch.

Pitch - Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

Pitch - To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

Pitch - To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

Pitch - To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.

Pitch - To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

Pitch - To set or fix, as a price or value.

Pitch - To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

Pitch - To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

Pitch - To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.

Pitch - To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.

Pitch - A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

Pitch - That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

Pitch - A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.

Pitch - Height; stature.

Pitch - A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

Pitch - The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.

Pitch - The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.

Pitch - The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

Pitch - The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.

Pitch - The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.

Pitch - The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.

Pith - The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.

Pith - The spongy interior substance of a feather.

Pith - The spinal cord; the marrow.

Pith - Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.

Pith - To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

Planch - A plank.

Planch - To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.

Planish - To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.

Plash - A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

Plash - A dash of water; a splash.

Plash - To dabble in water; to splash.

Plash - To splash, as water.

Plash - To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.

Plash - To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge.

Plash - The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

Plathelminth - One of the Platyelminthes.

Plattdeutsch - The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German.

Pleach - To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.

Plectognath - Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.

Plectognath - One of the Plectognathi.

Plenish - To replenish.

Plenish - To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm.

Plesh - A pool; a plash.

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

Pleurobranch - Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

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

Plough - See Plow.

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

Plough - Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

Plough - A carucate of land; a plowland.

Plough - A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

Plough - An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

Plough - Same as Charles's Wain.

Plough - To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.

Plough - To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.

Plough - To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.

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

Plough - To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.

Plush - A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

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

Pneumograph - Same as Pneumatograph.

Poach - To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.

Poach - To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.

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

Poach - To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.

Poach - To force, drive, or plunge into anything.

Poach - To make soft or muddy by trampling

Poach - To begin and not complete.

Poach - To become soft or muddy.

Podobranch - One of the branchiae attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.

Podoscaph - A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.

Poh - An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !

Pokerish - Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place.

Pokerish - Stiff like a poker.

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

Polish - Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.

Polish - The language of the Poles.

Polish - To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.

Polish - Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.

Polish - To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.

Polish - A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.

Polish - Anything used to produce a gloss.

Polish - Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.

Poltroonish - Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.

Polygraph - An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

Polygraph - In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors.

Polygraph - An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector

Polymorph - A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph.

Pondfish - Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidae; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish.

Pooh - Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.

Pooh-pooh - To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

Popish - Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously.

Porch - A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.

Porch - A portico; a covered walk.

Potch - To thrust; to push.

Potch - See Poach, to cook.

Pouch - A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

Pouch - That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch

Pouch - A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.

Pouch - A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.

Pouch - A cyst or sac containing fluid.

Pouch - A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

Pouch - A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.

Pouch - To put or take into a pouch.

Pouch - To swallow; -- said of fowls.

Pouch - To pout.

Pouch - To pocket; to put up with.

Pound-breach - The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.

Prankish - Full of pranks; frolicsome.

Preach - To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.

Preach - To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.

Preach - To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.

Preach - To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.

Preach - To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.

Preach - To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.

Preach - To advise or recommend earnestly.

Preach - A religious discourse.

Preadmonish - To admonish previously.

Preestablish - To establish beforehand.

Premonish - To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.

Prettyish - Somewhat pretty.

Pricklefish - The stickleback.

Prickpunch - A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.

Priggish - Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.

Pritch - A sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear.

Pritch - Pique; offense.

Proach - See Approach.

Protoconch - The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.

Proudish - Somewhat proud.

Prudish - Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.

Psalmograph - A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.

Pseudobranch - Same as Pseudobranchia.

Publish - To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.

Publish - To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.

Publish - To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.

Publish - To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper.

Puckish - Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.

Pugh - Pshaw! pish! -- a word used in contempt or disdain.

Puh - The same as Pugh.

Pulpitish - Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching.

Punch - A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.

Punch - The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.

Punch - A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.

Punch - One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.

Punch - To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.

Punch - A thrust or blow.

Punch - A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.

Punch - An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.

Punch - A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

Punch - To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.

Punish - To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.

Punish - To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.

Punish - To injure, as by beating; to pommel.

Puppetish - Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet.

Purplish - Somewhat purple.

Push - A pustule; a pimple.

Push - To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.

Push - To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

Push - To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.

Push - To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.

Push - To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.

Push - To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.

Push - To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.

Push - To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.

Push - A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.

Push - Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.

Push - An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.

Push - The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.

Pyracanth - The evergreen thorn (Crataegus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe.

Quaigh - Alt. of Quaich

Quaich - A small shallow cup or drinking vessel.

Quakerish - Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.

Qualmish - Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.

Quamash - See Camass.

Quash - Same as Squash.

Quash - To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.

Quash - To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.

Quash - To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.

Quash - To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.

Quatch - Squat; flat.

Queach - A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.

Queach - To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.

Quebrith - Sulphur.

Quech - Alt. of Queck

Queenfish - A California sciaenoid food fish (Seriphys politus). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.

Queerish - Rather queer; somewhat singular.

Quegh - A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

Quench - To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.

Quench - To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.

Quench - To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.

Quich - To stir.

Quickhatch - The wolverine.

Quinch - To stir; to wince.

Quirkish - Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk.

Quish - See Cuish.

Quitch - Same as Quitch grass.

Quitch - Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.

Quoth - Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he.

Raash - The electric catfish.

Rach - Alt. of Rache

Radiograph - A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.

Radish - The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.

Raffish - Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.

Ragabash - Alt. of Ragabrash

Ragabrash - An idle, ragged person.

Rajah - A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.

Rakish - Dissolute; lewd; debauched.

Rakish - Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.

Ralph - A name sometimes given to the raven.

Rammish - Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.

Ranch - To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.

Ranch - A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.

Rash - To pull off or pluck violently.

Rash - To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.

Rash - A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

Rash - An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

Rash - Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

Rash - Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.

Rash - Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.

Rash - Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

Rash - So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.

Rash - To prepare with haste.

Ratch - Same as Rotche.

Ratch - A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works.

Ratfish - Same as Rat-tail.

Rath - A hill or mound.

Rath - A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.

Rath - Alt. of Rathe

Rath - Alt. of Rathe

Raunch - See Ranch.

Ravish - To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

Ravish - To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.

Ravish - To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.

Rawish - Somewhat raw.

Rayah - A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.

Reach - To retch.

Reach - An effort to vomit.

Reach - To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.

Reach - Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.

Reach - To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.

Reach - To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.

Reach - Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.

Reach - To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.

Reach - To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.

Reach - To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.

Reach - To understand; to comprehend.

Reach - To overreach; to deceive.

Reach - To stretch out the hand.

Reach - To strain after something; to make efforts.

Reach - To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.

Reach - To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

Reach - The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.

Reach - The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.

Reach - Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.

Reach - An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.

Reach - An artifice to obtain an advantage.

Reach - The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

Reapproach - To approach again or anew.

Reattach - To attach again.

Rebanish - To banish again.

Rough - Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.

Rough - Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road.

Rough - Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.

Rough - Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.

Rough - Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.

Rough - Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.

Rough - Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.

Rough - Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.

Rough - Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.

Rough - Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.

Rough - Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.

Rough - Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.

Rough - Produced offhand.

Rough - Boisterous weather.

Rough - A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

Rough - In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

Rough - To render rough; to roughen.

Rough - To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.

Rough - To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.

Self-reproach - The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.

Shough - A shockdog.

Shough - See Shoo.

Sirrah - 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.

Sismograph - See Seismograph.

Recouch - To retire again to a couch; to lie down again.

Reddish - Somewhat red; moderately red.

Redfinch - The European linnet.

Redfish - The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b).

Redfish - The rosefish.

Redfish - A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.

Redfish - The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.

Rediminish - To diminish again.

Redmouth - Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Haemulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.

Reestablish - To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.

Reflourish - To flourish again.

Refresh - To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.

Refresh - To make as if new; to repair; to restore.

Refresh - The act of refreshing.

Refurbish - To furbish anew.

Refurnish - To furnish again.

Regrowth - The act of regrowing; a second or new growth.

Rehash - To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.

Rehash - Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.

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

Relinquish - To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

Relinquish - To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.

Relish - To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.

Relish - To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.

Relish - To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.

Relish - A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.

Relish - Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.

Relish - A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.

Relish - That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.

Relish - The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.

Replenish - To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound.

Replenish - To finish; to complete; to perfect.

Replenish - To recover former fullness.

Repolish - To polish again.

Reproach - To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

Reproach - To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.

Reproach - The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.

Reproach - A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.

Reproach - An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.

Republish - To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive (a will) by re/xecution or codicil.

Re-search - To search again; to examine anew.

Research - Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.

Research - To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

Restinguish - To quench or extinguish.

Retch - To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

Retch - To care for; to heed; to reck.

Retouch - To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

Retouch - To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.

Retouch - A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

Retrench - To cut off; to pare away.

Retrench - To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.

Retrench - To confine; to limit; to restrict.

Retrench - To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.

Retrench - To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.

Rewth - Ruth.

Rhabdolith - A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.

Rhemish - Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France.

Rhenish - Of or pertaining to the river Rhine; as, Rhenish wine.

Rhenish - Rhine wine.

Rhinolith - A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.

Ribaldish - Like a ribald.

Rich - Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor.

Rich - Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.

Rich - Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.

Rich - Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.

Rich - Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit.

Rich - Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.

Rich - Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.

Rich - Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.

Rich - Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.

Rich - To enrich.

Ricketish - Rickety.

Riggish - Like a rig or wanton.

Rish - A rush (the plant).

Roach - A cockroach.

Roach - A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.

Roach - An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.

Roach - The redfin, or shiner.

Roach - A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.

Roach - To cause to arch.

Roach - To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.

Rockfish - Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.

Rockfish - The striped bass. See Bass.

Rockfish - Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.

Rockfish - An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.

Roguish - Vagrant.

Roguish - Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish.

Roguish - Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch.

Roinish - See Roynish.

Romanish - Pertaining to Romanism.

Romansch - The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.

Romish - Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies.

Rompish - Given to rude play; inclined to romp.

Roomth - Room; space.

Roorbach - A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.

Ropish - Somewhat ropy.

Rosebush - The bush or shrub which bears roses.

Rosefinch - Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.

Rosefish - A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

Roughish - Somewhat rough.

Roundfish - Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.

Roundfish - A lake whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.

Roundish - Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.

Routish - Uproarious; riotous.

Rowdyish - Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy.

Roxburgh - A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.

Roynish - Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome.

Roytish - Wild; irregular.

Rubbish - Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.

Rubbish - Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

Rudish - Somewhat rude.

Ruffianish - Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.

Rukh - The roc.

Rukh - A large bird, supposed by some to be the same as the extinct Epiornis of Madagascar.

Runch - The wild radish.

Rush - A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

Rush - The merest trifle; a straw.

Rush - To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.

Rush - To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.

Rush - To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.

Rush - To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Rush - A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.

Rush - Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.

Rush - A perfect recitation.

Rush - A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.

Rush - The act of running with the ball.

Ruth - Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.

Ruth - That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.

Ruttish - Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.

Rysh - Rush, a plant.

Ryth - A ford.

Saadh - See Sadh.

Sabaoth - Armies; hosts.

Sabaoth - Incorrectly, the Sabbath.

Sabbath - A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day.

Sabbath - The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival.

Sabbath - Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.

Sackcloth - Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.

Saddlecloth - A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.

Sadh - A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos. Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects.

Sagebrush - A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

Sahibah - A lady; mistress.

Sailcloth - Duck or canvas used in making sails.

Sailfish - The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.)

Sailfish - The basking, or liver, shark.

Sailfish - The quillback.

Saintish - Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.

Saith - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Say.

Sallowish - Somewhat sallow.

Saltbush - An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.

Saltish - Somewhat salt.

Saltmouth - A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.

Sandarach - Alt. of Sandarac

Sandfish - A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.

Sandish - Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.

Sandwich - Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

Sandwich - To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

Sash - A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.

Sash - To adorn with a sash or scarf.

Sash - The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

Sash - In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.

Sash - To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.

Sassenach - A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander.

Saugh - Alt. of Sauh

Sauh - imp. sing. of See.

Sawfish - Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

Sawtooth - An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.

Scaldfish - A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.

Scampish - Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.

Scaramouch - A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.

Scatch - A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth.

Scath - Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.

Scath - To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.

Scenograph - A perspective representation or general view of an object.

Schah - See Shah.

Schizognath - Any bird with a schizognathous palate.

Schlich - The finer portion of a crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.

Schottish - Alt. of Schottische

Schwann's sheath - The neurilemma.

Sciagraph - An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.

Sciagraph - A radiograph.

Scibboleth - Shibboleth.

Sciniph - Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.

Scomfish - To suffocate or stifle; to smother.

Scorch - To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.

Scorch - To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.

Scorch - To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

Scorch - To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

Scorch - To burn or be burnt.

Scotch - Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

Scotch - The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.

Scotch - Collectively, the people of Scotland.

Scotch - To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

Scotch - A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.

Scotch - To cut superficially; to wound; to score.

Scotch - A slight cut or incision; a score.

Scoth - To clothe or cover up.

Scotograph - An instrument for writing in the dark, or without seeing.

Scottish - Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.

Scranch - To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

Scratch - To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.

Scratch - To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.

Scratch - To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.

Scratch - To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.

Scratch - To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

Scratch - To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.

Scratch - A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision.

Scratch - A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.

Scratch - Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.

Scratch - A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.

Scratch - A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.

Scratch - Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards.

Scratchbrush - A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

Screech - To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.

Screech - A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.

Scritch - A screech.

Scrunch - To scranch; to crunch.

Scutch - To beat or whip; to drub.

Scutch - To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

Scutch - To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

Scutch - A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.

Scutch - The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.

Scutibranch - Scutibranchiate.

Scutibranch - One of the Scutibranchiata.

'Sdeath - An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger.

Seabeach - A beach lying along the sea.

Sea breach - A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.

Sea catfish - Alt. of Sea cat

Sea crawfish - Alt. of Sea crayfish

Sea crayfish - Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.

Sea froth - See Sea foam, 2.

Seah - A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.

Sea heath - A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.

Sealgh - Alt. of Selch

Selch - A seal.

Sea loach - The three-bearded rockling. See Rockling.

Sea peach - A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia, / Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.

Sea perch - The European bass (Roccus, / Labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace.

Sea perch - The cunner.

Sea perch - The sea bass.

Sea perch - The name is applied also to other species of fishes.

Search - To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

Search - To inquire after; to look for; to seek.

Search - To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.

Search - To examine; to try; to put to the test.

Search - To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.

Search - The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

Searcloth - Cerecloth.

Searcloth - To cover, as a sore, with cerecloth.

Seerfish - A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

Seeth - imp. of Seethe.

Seigh - obs. imp. sing. of See. Saw.

Seirfish - Same as Seerfish.

Seismograph - An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

Selah - 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.

Selcouth - Rarely known; unusual; strange.

Selenograph - A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it.

Selfish - Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.

Selfish - Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.

Seminymph - The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.

Seraph - One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.

Seriph - See Ceriph.

Sermonish - Resembling a sermon.

Seventeenth - Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.

Seventeenth - Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Seventeenth - The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.

Seventeenth - The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.

Seventeenth - An interval of two octaves and a third.

Seventh - Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

Seventh - Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part.

Seventh - One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.

Seventh - The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.

Seventh - An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

Seventh - A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.

Seventieth - Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.

Seventieth - Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.

Seventieth - One next in order after the sixty-ninth.

Seventieth - The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.

Seyh - imp. sing. & 2d pers. pl. of See.

Shadowish - Shadowy; vague.

Shadrach - A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)

Shagebush - A sackbut.

Shah - The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.

Shash - The scarf of a turban.

Shash - A sash.

Sheatfish - A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.

Sheath - A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.

Sheath - Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.

Sheath - The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.

Sheath - One of the elytra of an insect.

Sheathfish - Same as Sheatfish.

Shechinah - See Shekinah.

Sheepish - Of or pertaining to sheep.

Sheepish - Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.

Shekinah - 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.

Shellfish - Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.

Shemitish - Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.

Shepherdish - Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral.

Sheth - The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.

Shiah - Same as Shiite.

Shibboleth - A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.

Shibboleth - Also in an extended sense.

Shibboleth - Hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase.

Shiah - A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans.

Shillalah - Alt. of Shillelah

Shillelah - An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.

Shiloh - A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest."

Shittah - Alt. of Shittah tree

Shoppish - Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

Showish - Showy; ostentatious.

Shrewish - having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.

Sich - Such.

Sickish - Somewhat sick or diseased.

Sickish - Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.

Sigh - To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.

Sigh - Hence, to lament; to grieve.

Sigh - To make a sound like sighing.

Sigh - To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

Sigh - To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

Sigh - To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

Sigh - A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.

Sigh - Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.

Silverfish - The tarpum.

Silverfish - A white variety of the goldfish.

Silversmith - One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.

Sinch - A saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass.

Sinch - To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle.

Sinewish - Sinewy.

Sith - Since; afterwards; seeing that.

Sith - Alt. of Sithe

Sitz bath - A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.

Sixteenth - Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

Sixteenth - Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Sixteenth - The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.

Sixteenth - The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.

Sixteenth - An interval comprising two octaves and a second.

Sixth - First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

Sixth - Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.

Sixth - The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.

Sixth - The next in order after the fifth.

Sixth - The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

Sixtieth - Next in order after the fifty-ninth.

Sixtieth - Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Sixtieth - The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.

Sixtieth - The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.

Sixty-fourth - Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.

Skaith - See Scatch.

Sketch - An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.

Sketch - To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

Sketch - To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

Sketch - To make sketches, as of landscapes.

Skinch - To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

Skirmish - To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.

Skirmish - A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.

Skirmish - A slight contest.

Skittish - Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt.

Skittish - Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle.

Skullfish - A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.

Skunkish - Like the skunk, especially in odor.

Sky-high - Very high.

Skyish - Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal.

Slapdash - In a bold, careless manner; at random.

Slapdash - With a slap; all at once; slap.

Slapdash - To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall.

Slash - To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

Slash - To lash; to ply the whip to.

Slash - To crack or snap, as a whip.

Slash - To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.

Slash - A long cut; a cut made at random.

Slash - A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

Slash - Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

Slatch - The period of a transitory breeze.

Slatch - An interval of fair weather.

Slatch - The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.

Slatterpouch - A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise.

Slavish - Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great.

Sleepish - Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

Stablish - To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix.

Stathmograph - A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.

Stonehatch - The ring plover, or dotterel.

Stonish - Stony.

Sumach - Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer.

Sumach - The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing.

Tubfish - The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard.

Undermirth - Suppressed or concealed mirth.

Underneath - Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil.

Underneath - Under; beneath; below.

Underpitch - To fill underneath; to stuff.

Sleetch - Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers.

Sleevefish - A squid.

Sleigh - Sly.

Sleigh - A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.

Sleuth - The track of man or beast as followed by the scent.

Slewth - Sloth; idleness.

Slich - Alt. of Slick

Slish - A cut; as, slish and slash.

Slosh - Alt. of Sloshy

Sloth - Slowness; tardiness.

Sloth - Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.

Sloth - Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.

Sloth - To be idle.

Slouch - A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.

Slouch - An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

Slouch - To droop, as the head.

Slouch - To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

Slouch - To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.

Slough - Slow.

Slough - A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

Slough - A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Slough - imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

Slough - The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

Slough - The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

Slough - To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.

Slough - To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Slowh - imp. of Slee,to slay.

Sluggish - Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

Sluggish - Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.

Sluggish - Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.

Sluggish - Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

Slush - Soft mud.

Slush - A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.

Slush - A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.

Slush - The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.

Slush - A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.

Slush - To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.

Slush - To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

Slutch - Slush.

Sluttish - Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.

Smallish - Somewhat small.

Smash - To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

Smash - To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.

Smash - A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.

Smash - Hence, bankruptcy.

Smatch - Taste; tincture; smack.

Smatch - To smack.

Smeath - The smew.

Smeeth - To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.

Smeeth - To smooth.

Smirch - To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

Smirch - A smutch; a dirty stain.

Smith - One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.

Smith - One who makes or effects anything.

Smith - To beat into shape; to forge.

Smittlish - Infectious; catching.

Smooch - See Smutch.

Smooth - Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.

Smooth - Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.

Smooth - Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.

Smooth - Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.

Smooth - Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.

Smooth - Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.

Smooth - Smoothly.

Smooth - The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.

Smooth - That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.

Smooth - To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.

Smooth - To free from obstruction; to make easy.

Smooth - To free from harshness; to make flowing.

Smooth - To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.

Smooth - To give a smooth or calm appearance to.

Smooth - To ease; to regulate.

Smooth - To flatter; to use blandishment.

Smoterlich - Dirty; foul.

Smouch - To kiss closely.

Smouch - To smutch; to soil; as, to smouch the face.

Smouch - A dark soil or stain; a smutch.

Smutch - A stain; a dirty spot.

Smutch - To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.

Snailfish - See Sea snail (a).

Snakefish - The band fish.

Snakefish - The lizard fish.

Snakish - Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.

Snappish - Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.

Snappish - Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.

Snatch - To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.

Snatch - To seize and transport away; to rap.

Snatch - To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.

Snatch - A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.

Snatch - A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.

Snatch - A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.

Snatch - The handle of a scythe; a snead.

Sneath - Alt. of Sneathe

Snipefish - The bellows fish.

Snipefish - A long, slender deep-sea fish (Nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.

Snobbish - Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.

Snow-broth - Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor.

Snowplough - An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.

Soapfish - Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.

Softish - Somewhat soft.

Solenoglyph - Pertaining to the Selenoglypha. See Ophidia.

Solenoglyph - One of the Selenoglypha.

Songish - Consisting of songs.

Sonnish - Like the sun; sunny; golden.

Sooth - True; faithful; trustworthy.

Sooth - Pleasing; delightful; sweet.

Sooth - Truth; reality.

Sooth - Augury; prognostication.

Sooth - Blandishment; cajolery.

Sootish - Sooty.

Soph - A contraction of Soph ister.

Soph - A contraction of Sophomore.

Sottish - Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

Soubah - See Subah.

Sough - A sow.

Sough - A small drain; an adit.

Sough - The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.

Sough - Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.

Sough - A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.

Sough - To whistle or sigh, as the wind.

Sourish - Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

South - That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.

South - A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.

South - Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.

South - The wind from the south.

South - Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.

South - Toward the south; southward.

South - From the south; as, the wind blows south.

South - To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.

South - To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.

Spadefish - An American market fish (Chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

Spanish - Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.

Spanish - The language of Spain.

Sparkish - Like a spark; airy; gay.

Sparkish - Showy; well-dresed; fine.

Sparth - An Anglo-Saxon battle-ax, or halberd.

Spearfish - A large and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean.

Spearfish - The carp sucker.

Speech - The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

Speech - he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.

Speech - A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.

Speech - Talk; mention; common saying.

Speech - formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.

Speech - ny declaration of thoughts.

Speech - To make a speech; to harangue.

Spherograph - An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, and turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off by inspection.

Sphygmograph - An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram.

Spicebush - Spicewood.

Spikefish - See Sailfish (a)

Spilth - Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion.

Spinach - Alt. of Spinage

Spirograph - An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.

Spitzenburgh - A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.

Splash - To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

Splash - To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.

Splash - To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.

Splash - Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.

Splash - A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.

Splatterdash - Uproar.

Splaymouth - A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision.

Spleenish - Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.

Splenish - Spleenish.

Splotch - A spot; a stain; a daub.

Spoffish - Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.

Spouse-breach - Adultery.

Spoutfish - A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

Squabash - To crush; to quash; to squash.

Squabbish - Thick; fat; heavy.

Squarish - Nearly square.

Squash - An American animal allied to the weasel.

Squash - A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

Squash - To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Squash - Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

Squash - Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.

Squash - A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

Squeamish - Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.

Squelch - To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

Squelch - A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.

Squinch - A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

Squirarch - One who belongs to the squirarchy.

Staffish - Stiff; harsh.

Stagecoach - A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.

Staggerbush - An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.

Staith - A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.

Stalworth - Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent.

Stanch - To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.

Stanch - To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.

Stanch - To cease, as the flowing of blood.

Stanch - That which stanches or checks.

Stanch - A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.

Stanch - Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.

Stanch - Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.

Stanch - Close; secret; private.

Stanch - To prop; to make stanch, or strong.

Standish - A stand, or case, for pen and ink.

Starch - Stiff; precise; rigid.

Starch - A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

Starch - Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.

Starch - To stiffen with starch.

Starfinch - The European redstart.

Starfish - Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.

Starfish - The dollar fish, or butterfish.

Startish - Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.

Startlish - Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.

Staunch - Alt. of Staunchness

Stealth - The act of stealing; theft.

Stealth - The thing stolen; stolen property.

Stealth - The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.

Steepish - Somewhat steep.

Stench - To stanch.

Stench - A smell; an odor.

Stench - An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.

Stench - To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

Stenograph - To write or report in stenographic characters.

Stenograph - A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.

Stereograph - Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.

Stethograph - See Pneumatograph.

Stewish - Suiting a stew, or brothel.

Stich - A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.

Stich - A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.

Stich - A row, line, or rank of trees.

Stiffish - Somewhat stiff.

Stillbirth - The birth of a dead fetus.

Stingfish - The weever.

Stitch - A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

Stitch - A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.

Stitch - A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.

Stitch - A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.

Stitch - A contortion, or twist.

Stitch - Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.

Stitch - A furrow.

Stitch - To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.

Stitch - To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.

Stitch - To form land into ridges.

Stitch - To practice stitching, or needlework.

Stith - Strong; stiff; rigid.

Stith - An anvil; a stithy.

Stocah - A menial attendant.

Stockfish - Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.

Stockfish - Young fresh cod.

Stockish - Like a stock; stupid; blockish.

Stomach - An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.

Stomach - The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.

Stomach - Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.

Stomach - Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.

Stomach - Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.

Stomach - To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

Stomach - To bear without repugnance; to brook.

Stomach - To be angry.

Stonebrash - A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

Stormfinch - The storm petrel.

Stoutish - Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

Straightforth - Straightway.

Stramash - To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.

Stramash - A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.

Strath - A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore.

Strength - The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

Strength - Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.

Strength - Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.

Strength - That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.

Strength - One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.

Strength - Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?

Strength - Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.

Strength - Intensity; -- said of light or color.

Strength - Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.

Strength - A strong place; a stronghold.

Strength - To strengthen.

Stretch - To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

Stretch - To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.

Stretch - To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.

Stretch - To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.

Stretch - To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.

Stretch - To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.

Stretch - To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.

Stretch - To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.

Stretch - To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.

Stretch - To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.

Stretch - To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.

Stretch - Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.

Stretch - A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.

Stretch - The extent to which anything may be stretched.

Stretch - The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.

Stretch - Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.

Strich - An owl.

Strongish - Somewhat strong.

Studfish - Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as F. catenatus.

Stylish - Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.

Stylograph - A stylographic pen.

Subash - A province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar.

Submonish - To suggest; to prompt.

Succotash - Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.

Such - Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.

Such - Having the particular quality or character specified.

Such - The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed.

Such - Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

Suckatash - See Succotash.

Suckfish - A sucker fish.

Suleah fish - A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.

Sumph - A dunce; a blockhead.

Sunfish - A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

Sunfish - Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.

Sunfish - The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.

Sunfish - The opah.

Sunfish - The basking, or liver, shark.

Sunfish - Any large jellyfish.

Sunniah - One of the sect of Sunnites.

Surah - A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.

Swainish - Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant.

Swallowfish - The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

Swarth - Swart; swarthy.

Swarth - An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.

Swarth - Sward; short grass.

Swarth - See Swath.

Swartish - Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.

Swash - An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

Swash - Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.

Swash - To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.

Swash - To fall violently or noisily.

Swash - To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

Swash - Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.

Swash - A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

Swash - Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

Swash - A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.

Swash - A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

Swatch - A swath.

Swatch - A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.

Swath - A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.

Swath - The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.

Swath - A band or fillet; a swathe.

Swedish - Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.

Swedish - The language of Swedes.

Sweetish - Somewhat sweet.

Sweigh - Sway; movement.

Swellfish - Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.

Swellish - Dandified; stylish.

Swich - Such.

Swinefish - The wolf fish.

Swinish - Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.

Swish - To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.

Swish - To flog; to lash.

Swish - To dash; to swash.

Swish - A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.

Swish - Light driven spray.

Switch - A small, flexible twig or rod.

Switch - A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.

Switch - A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.

Switch - A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

Switch - To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.

Switch - To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.

Switch - To trim, as, a hedge.

Switch - To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.

Switch - To shift to another circuit.

Switch - To walk with a jerk.

Swordfish - A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long.

Swordfish - The gar pike.

Swordfish - The cutlass fish.

Swordfish - A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.

Swough - A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.

Swough - A swoon.

Sycophantish - Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.

Sylph - An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.

Sylph - Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.

Sylph - Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).

Sylphish - Sylphlike.

Symposiarch - The master of a feast.

Syngraph - A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

Syth - Alt. of Sythe

Tablecloth - A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.

Tallowish - Having the qualities of tallow.

Tangfish - The common harbor seal.

Tanglefish - The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.

Tapish - To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.

Taplash - Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.

Tarboosh - A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

Tarnish - To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color.

Tarnish - To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air.

Tarnish - The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.

Tarnish - A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.

Tarquinish - Like a Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud; haughty; overbearing.

Tartish - Somewhat tart.

Tartuffish - Alt. of Tartufish

Tartufish - Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical.

Tatch - A spot or stain; also, a trick.

Tath - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.

Tath - Dung, or droppings of cattle.

Tath - The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture.

Tath - To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

Taxiarch - An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.

Teach - To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.

Teach - To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class.

Teach - To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.

Teach - To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor.

Teatish - Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.

Tebeth - The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January.

Tectibranch - One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

Teeth - pl. of Tooth.

Teeth - To breed, or grow, teeth.

Telegraph - An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

Telegraph - To convey or announce by telegraph.

Telestich - A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.

Tench - A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.

Tenth - Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.

Tenth - Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

Tenth - The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.

Tenth - The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

Tenth - The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.

Tenth - The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.

Tenth - A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

Tenth - The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.

Teraph - See Teraphim.

Terebinth - The turpentine tree.

Tetramorph - The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

Tetrarch - A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

Tetrarch - Four.

Tetrastich - A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines.

Tettish - Captious; testy.

Th - In Old English, the article the, when the following word began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.

Thatch - Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

Thatch - A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.

Thatch - To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.

Thenceforth - From that time; thereafter.

Theosoph - Alt. of Theosopher

Therewith - With that or this.

Therewith - In addition; besides; moreover.

Therewith - At the same time; forthwith.

Thermetograph - A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods.

Thermograph - An instrument for automatically recording indications of the variation of temperature.

Thermometrograph - An instrument for recording graphically the variations of temperature, or the indications of a thermometer.

Thibet cloth - A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.

Thibet cloth - A kind of fine woolen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks, etc.

Thickish - Somewhat thick.

Thievish - Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.

Thievish - Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.

Thievish - Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice.

Thigh - The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

Thigh - The coxa, or femur, of an insect.

Thinnish - Somewhat thin.

Third-borough - An under constable.

Thirteenth - Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

Thirteenth - Constituting or being one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Thirteenth - The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Thirteenth - The next in order after the twelfth.

Thirteenth - The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.

Thirtieth - Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

Thirtieth - Constituting or being one of thirty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Thirtieth - The quotient of a unit divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts.

Thorough - Through.

Thorough - Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house.

Thorough - Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.

Thorough - Thoroughly.

Thorough - Through.

Thorough - A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.

Thoroughstitch - So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely.

Thoth - The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.

Thoth - The Egyptian sacred baboon.

Though - Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.

Though - However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

Thousandth - Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.

Thousandth - Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.

Thousandth - Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.

Thousandth - The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.

Thrash - Alt. of Thresh

Thresh - To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.

Thresh - To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

Thrash - Alt. of Thresh

Thresh - To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

Thresh - Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.

Threadfish - The cutlass fish.

Threadfish - A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.

Thresh - Same as Thrash.

Throatlatch - A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

Through - From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.

Through - Between the sides or walls of; within; as, to pass through a door; to go through an avenue.

Through - By means of; by the agency of.

Through - Over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride through the country; to look through an account.

Through - Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.

Through - From the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year.

Through - From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through.

Through - From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through.

Through - To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through.

Through - Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge.

Thrush - Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.

Thrush - Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush.

Thrush - An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. See Aphthae.

Thrush - An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.

Thunderfish - A large European loach (Misgurnus fossilis).

Thurgh - Through.

Ticklish - Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

Ticklish - Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.

Ticklish - Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.

Tiffish - Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

Tigerish - Like a tiger; tigrish.

Tigh - A close, or inclosure; a croft.

Tigrish - Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

Tilefish - A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

Tilth - The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.

Tilth - That which is tilled; tillage ground.

Tinmouth - The crappie.

Tinsmith - One who works in tin; a tinner.

Tith - Tight; nimble.

Toadfish - Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo.

Toadfish - The angler.

Toadfish - A swellfish.

Toadish - Like a toad.

Tobias fish - The lant, or sand eel.

Tolbooth - See Tollbooth.

Tollbooth - A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.

Tollbooth - In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.

Tollbooth - To imprison in a tollbooth.

Tonguefish - A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States.

Tonnish - In the ton; fashionable; modish.

Teeth - of Tooth

Tooth - One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.

Tooth - Fig.: Taste; palate.

Tooth - Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

Tooth - A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

Tooth - One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.

Tooth - An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant

Tooth - one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

Tooth - Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.

Tooth - To furnish with teeth.

Tooth - To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

Tooth - To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.

Toothbrush - A brush for cleaning the teeth.

Toparch - The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy.

Top-cloth - A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.

Toph - kind of sandstone.

Torch - A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.

Torch - A flashlight.

Torgoch - The saibling.

Tosh - Neat; trim.

Tottlish - Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; un steady.

Touch - To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

Touch - To perceive by the sense of feeling.

Touch - To come to; to reach; to attain to.

Touch - To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

Touch - To relate to; to concern; to affect.

Touch - To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

Touch - To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.

Touch - To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.

Touch - To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

Touch - To infect; to affect slightly.

Touch - To make an impression on; to have effect upon.

Touch - To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.

Touch - To perform, as a tune; to play.

Touch - To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

Touch - To harm, afflict, or distress.

Touch - To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

Touch - To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.

Touch - To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

Touch - To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.

Touch - To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

Touch - To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.

Touch - To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Touch - The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.

Touch - The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.

Touch - Act or power of exciting emotion.

Touch - An emotion or affection.

Touch - Personal reference or application.

Touch - A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.

Touch - A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

Touch - Feature; lineament; trait.

Touch - The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.

Touch - A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.

Touch - A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.

Touch - A slight and brief essay.

Touch - A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

Touch - Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.

Touch - The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.

Touch - The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.

Touch - That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.

Touch - A boys' game; tag.

Tough - Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.

Tough - Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.

Tough - Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.

Tough - Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.

Tough - Severe; violent; as, a tough storm.

Toughish - Tough in a slight degree.

Tough-pitch - The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.

Tough-pitch - Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.

Townish - Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.

Towpath - A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

Toyish - Sportive; trifling; wanton.

Toyish - Resembling a toy.

Tragacanth - A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.

Trash - That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

Trash - Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

Trash - A worthless person.

Trash - A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

Trash - To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.

Trash - To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

Trash - To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

Trash - To follow with violence and trampling.

Trench - To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

Trench - To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

Trench - To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

Trench - To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

Trench - To encroach; to intrench.

Trench - To have direction; to aim or tend.

Trench - A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

Trench - An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

Trench - An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

Trench-plough - To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

Trewth - Truth.

Tribrach - A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.

Trickish - Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.

Trierarch - The commander of a trireme.

Trierarch - At Athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service.

Triglyph - An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.

Trigraph - Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.

Trilith - Same as Trilithon.

Trimorph - A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also, any one of these distinct forms. See Trimorphism, 1.

Triptych - Anything in three parts or leaves.

Triptych - A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.

Triptych - A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.

Triumph - A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

Triumph - Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.

Triumph - A state of joy or exultation for success.

Triumph - Success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as, the triumph of knowledge.

Triumph - A trump card; also, an old game at cards.

Triumph - To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.

Triumph - To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail.

Triumph - To be prosperous; to flourish.

Triumph - To play a trump card.

Triumph - To obtain a victory over; to prevail over; to conquer. Also, to cause to triumph.

Troth - Belief; faith; fidelity.

Troth - Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth.

Troth - Betrothal.

Trough - A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

Trough - Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.

Trunch - A stake; a small post.

Trunkfish - Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.

Truth - The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

Truth - Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.

Truth - Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

Truth - The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.

Truth - That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.

Truth - A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.

Truth - Righteousness; true religion.

Truth - To assert as true; to declare.

Tuch - A dark-colored kind of marble; touchstone.

Tun-dish - A tunnel.

Turbeth - See Turpeth.

Turbith - See Turpeth.

Turkish - Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks.

Turkish - The language spoken by Turks, esp. that of the people of Turkey.

Turnbroach - A turnspit.

Turpeth - The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth.

Turpeth - A heavy yellow powder, Hg3O2SO4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- called also turpeth mineral.

Tush - An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it.

Tush - A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.

Twelfth - Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

Twelfth - Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.

Twelfth - The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.

Twelfth - The next in order after the eleventh.

Twelfth - An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

Twelvemonth - A year which consists of twelve calendar months.

Twentieth - Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.

Twentieth - Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Twentieth - The next in order after the nineteen; one coming after nineteen others.

Twentieth - The quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole.

Twitch - To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.

Twitch - The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.

Twitch - A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side.

Twitch - A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.

Tyrannish - Like a tyrant; tyrannical.

Ugh - An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

Unbewitch - To free from a spell; to disenchant.

Unbreech - To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches.

Unbreech - To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings.

Unchurch - To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.

Unchurch - To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church.

Unclench - Same as Unclinch.

Unclinch - To cause to be no longer clinched; to open; as, to unclinch the fist.

Unclutch - To open, as something closely shut.

Unclutch - To disengage, as a clutch.

Uncoach - To detach or loose from a coach.

Uncouth - Unknown.

Uncouth - Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.

Uncouth - Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners.

Uncuth - Unknown; strange.

Uncuth - A stranger.

Underbranch - A lower branch.

Underbranch - A twig or branchlet.

Underbrush - Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

Underditch - To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.

Underfurnish - To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.

Undergrowth - That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.

Undermatch - One who is not a match for another.

Undumpish - To relieve from the dumps.

Unearth - To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose; as, to unearth a secret.

Uneath - Not easy; difficult; hard.

Uneath - Not easily; hardly; scarcely.

Unestablish - To disestablish.

Ubeth - Alt. of Unethes

Unfaith - Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief.

Unfestlich - Unfit for a feast; hence, jaded; worn.

Unflesh - To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton.

Unfurnish - To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.

Unhealth - Unsoundness; disease.

Unhitch - To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.

Unstitch - To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam.

Unstrength - Want of strength; weakness; feebleness.

Wallah - A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.

Wallowish - Flat; insipid.

Abash - To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.

Unketh - Uncouth.

Unlash - To loose, as that which is lashed or tied down.

Unlatch - To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.

Unlaugh - To recall, as former laughter.

Unleash - To free from a leash, or as from a leash; to let go; to release; as, to unleash dogs.

Unpolish - To deprive of polish; to make impolite.

Unpreach - To undo or overthrow by preaching.

Unstarch - To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

Unteach - To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.

Unteach - To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.

Untooth - To take out the teeth of.

Untruth - The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.

Untruth - That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty.

Unwish - To wish not to be; to destroy by wishing.

Unwitch - To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft.

Unworth - Unworthy.

Unworth - Unworthiness.

Upgrowth - The process or result of growing up; progress; development.

Upgush - A gushing upward.

Upgush - To gush upward.

Uplandish - Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.

Uplandish - Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized.

Uppish - Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.

Uprush - To rush upward.

Uprush - Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava.

Upsnatch - To snatch up.

Upwreath - To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke.

Urith - The bindings of a hedge.

Usquebaugh - A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky.

Usquebaugh - A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices.

Valinch - A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.

Vanish - To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.

Vanish - To be annihilated or lost; to pass away.

Vanish - The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.

Vanquish - To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.

Vanquish - Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.

Vanquish - A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.

Vaporish - Full of vapors; vaporous.

Vaporish - Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.

Varnish - A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.

Varnish - That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.

Varnish - An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss.

Varnish - To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.

Varnish - To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt.

Vermuth - A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite.

Vernish - Varnish.

Vetch - Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa.

Vida finch - The whidah bird.

Vinquish - See Vanquish, n.

Viperish - Somewhat like a viper; viperous.

Visigoth - One of the West Goths. See the Note under Goth.

Vixenish - Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

V moth - A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria) having a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.

Vouch - To call; to summon.

Vouch - To call upon to witness; to obtest.

Vouch - To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.

Vouch - To back; to support; to confirm; to establish.

Vouch - To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.

Vouch - To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.

Vouch - To assert; to aver; to declare.

Vouch - Warrant; attestation.

Vowelish - Of the nature of a vowel.

Vugh - A cavity in a lode; -- called also vogle.

Vulturish - Vulturous.

Waggish - Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.

Waggish - Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick.

Wah - The panda.

Waistcloth - A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.

Waistcloth - A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

Wannish - Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.

Warish - To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal.

Warish - To be cured; to recover.

Warmouth - An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chaenobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream.

Warmth - The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.

Warmth - A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth.

Warmth - The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

Warpath - The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

Wash - To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.

Wash - To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.

Wash - To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

Wash - To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.

Wash - To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

Wash - To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.

Wash - To perform the act of ablution.

Wash - To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.

Wash - To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.

Wash - To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.

Wash - The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.

Wash - A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.

Wash - Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.

Wash - Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.

Wash - The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

Wash - A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

Wash - That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.

Wash - A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.

Wash - A liquid dentifrice.

Wash - A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.

Wash - A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.

Wash - A thin coat of color, esp. water color.

Wash - A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

Wash - The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

Wash - The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

Wash - The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

Wash - Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

Wash - Washy; weak.

Wash - Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

Washdish - A washbowl.

Washdish - Same as Washerwoman, 2.

Waspish - Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

Waspish - Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.

Watch - The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.

Watch - One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.

Watch - The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.

Watch - The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.

Watch - A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.

Watch - An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.

Watch - That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.

Watch - To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.

Watch - To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.

Watch - To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.

Watch - To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.

Watch - To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.

Watch - To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.

Watch - To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.

Water bath - A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.

Water beech - The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.

Water brash - See under Brash.

Water hyacinth - Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.

Water inch - Same as Inch of water, under Water.

Waterish - Resembling water; thin; watery.

Waterish - Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land.

Water nymph - A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.

Water nymph - A water lily (Nymphaea).

Water radish - A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.

Watertath - A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.

Water thrush - A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (S. Noveboracensis).

Water thrush - The European water ousel.

Water thrush - The pied wagtail.

Water torch - The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.

Water witch - The dabchick.

Water witch - The stormy petrel.

Wawaskeesh - The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.

Weakfish - Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.

Weakish - Somewhat weak; rather weak.

Wealdish - Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England.

Wealth - Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

Wealth - Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.

Wearish - Weak; withered; shrunk.

Wearish - Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.

Ablush - Blushing; ruddy.

Abolish - To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

Abolish - To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.

Abroach - To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

Abroach - Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.

Abroach - Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir.

Absinth - Alt. of Absinthe

Acaleph - Alt. of Acalephan

Acanth - Same as Acanthus.

Accelerograph - An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

Accomplish - To complete, as time or distance.

Accomplish - To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.

Accomplish - To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.

Accomplish - To gain; to obtain.

Accroach - To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.

Accroach - To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.

Ach - Alt. of Ache

Acolyth - Same as Acolyte.

Acrolith - A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood.

Actinograph - An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.

Admonish - To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.

Admonish - To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.

Admonish - To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.

Aerolith - Same as A/rolite.

Affamish - To afflict with, or perish from, hunger.

Aflush - In a flushed or blushing state.

Aflush - On a level.

Afresh - Anew; again; once more; newly.

Afterbirth - The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.

Aftergrowth - A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development.

Aftermath - A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.

Agalloch - Alt. of Agallochum

Aguish - Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.

Aguish - Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England.

Agush - In a gushing state.

Ah - An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

Ahigh - On high.

Aitch - The letter h or H.

Albolith - A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

Alebench - A bench in or before an alehouse.

Alembroth - The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant.

Alength - At full length; lengthwise.

Algaroth - A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

Alioth - A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

Alish - Like ale; as, an alish taste.

Allah - The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

Alleluiah - An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form.

Allmouth - The angler.

Allograph - A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

Allomorph - Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.

Allomorph - A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite.

Allopath - An allopathist.

Almah - Same as Alme.

Almeh - An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma.

Altazimuth - An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.

Although - Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.

Alumish - Somewhat like alum.

Amaranth - An imaginary flower supposed never to fade.

Amaranth - A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

Amaranth - A color inclining to purple.

Amateurish - In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.

Amber fish - A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.)

Ambush - A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.

Ambush - A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise.

Ambush - The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait.

Ambush - To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.

Ambush - To attack by ambush; to waylay.

Ambush - To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk.

Amianth - See Amianthus.

Amphibrach - A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.

Anaglyph - Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

Anaglyptograph - An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed.

Anagraph - An inventory; a record.

Anapnograph - A form of spirometer.

Anarch - The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.

Anchoretish - Hermitlike.

Aneath - Beneath.

Anemograph - An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

Anemometrograph - An anemograph.

Angel fish - See under Angel.

Angoumois moth - A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the interior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

Anguish - Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

Anguish - To distress with extreme pain or grief.

Anigh - Nigh.

Animalish - Like an animal.

Antestomach - A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds.

Antigraph - A copy or transcript.

Ant thrush - One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.

Ant thrush - See Ant bird, under Ant.

Apish - Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.

Apograph - A copy or transcript.

Appeach - To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach.

Approach - To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

Approach - To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

Approach - To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance.

Approach - To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.

Approach - To take approaches to.

Approach - The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.

Approach - A access, or opportunity of drawing near.

Approach - Movements to gain favor; advances.

Approach - A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.

Approach - The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

Approach - See Approaching.

Arch - Any part of a curved line.

Arch - Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

Arch - A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.

Arch - Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

Arch - Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta.

Arch - To cover with an arch or arches.

Arch - To form or bend into the shape of an arch.

Arch - To form into an arch; to curve.

Arch - Chief; eminent; greatest; principal.

Arch - Cunning or sly; sportively mischievous; roguish; as, an arch look, word, lad.

Arch - A chief.

Archer fish - A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chaetodon rostratus.

Arcograph - An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph.

Aristarch - A severe critic.

Aroph - A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.

Arrach - See Orach.

Arrish - The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.

Ash - A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana).

Ash - The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.

Ash - sing. of Ashes.

Ash - To strew or sprinkle with ashes.

Ashtaroth - of Ashtoreth

Ashtoreth - The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity.

Asiarch - One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.

Aspish - Pertaining to, or like, an asp.

Assish - Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.

Astonish - To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow.

Astonish - To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion.

Attach - To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

Attach - To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

Attach - To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.

Attach - To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.

Attach - To take, seize, or lay hold of.

Attach - To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.

Attach - To adhere; to be attached.

Attach - To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.

Attach - An attachment.

Autochronograph - An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.

Autograph - That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

Autograph - In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.

Automath - One who is self-taught.

Avouch - To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.

Avouch - To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.

Avouch - To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

Avouch - To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

Avouch - Evidence; declaration.

Awash - Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

Aweigh - Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.

Ayah - A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid.

Azedarach - A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

Azedarach - The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.

Azimuth - The quadrant of an azimuth circle.

Azimuth - An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

Azoth - The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.

Azoth - The universal remedy of Paracelsus.

Babish - Like a babe; a childish; babyish.

Bablah - 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.

Baboonish - Like a baboon.

Babyish - Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple.

Babylonish - Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.

Babylonish - Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8.

Babylonish - Pertaining to Rome and papal power.

Babylonish - Confused; Babel-like.

Bacharach - Alt. of Backarack

Backlash - The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Backsheesh - Alt. of Backshish

Backshish - In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a "tip".

Backstitch - A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.

Backstitch - To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam.

Backwash - To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

Baddish - Somewhat bad; inferior.

Bah - An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.

Baksheesh - Alt. of Bakshish

Bakshish - Same as Backsheesh.

Balderdash - A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.

Balderdash - Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.

Balderdash - To mix or adulterate, as liquors.

Balkish - Uneven; ridgy.

Balloon fish - A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.

Band fish - A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.

Banish - To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

Banish - To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.

Banish - To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.

Barber fish - See Surgeon fish.

Bardish - Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.

Barfish - Same as Calico bass.

Barmcloth - Apron.

Barograph - An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

Barometrograph - A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.

Barth - A place of shelter for cattle.

Bash - To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.

Basquish - Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque

Batch - The quantity of bread baked at one time.

Batch - A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.

Batfish - A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

Bath - The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.

Bath - Water or other liquid for bathing.

Bath - A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.

Bath - A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.

Bath - A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.

Bath - A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.

Bath - A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.

Bath - A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.

Beach - Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

Beach - The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.

Beach - To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

Bearing cloth - A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.

Bearish - Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.

Bear's-breech - See Acanthus, n., 1.

Bear's-breech - The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)

Beath - To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.

Beauish - Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine.

Bedash - To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to bespatter.

Bedrench - To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.

Beech - A tree of the genus Fagus.

Beet radish - Same as Beetrave.

Behemoth - An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.

Black death - A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

Blackfish - A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.

Blackfish - The tautog of New England (Tautoga).

Blackfish - The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.

Blackfish - A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.

Blackfish - The female salmon in the spawning season.

Blackish - Somewhat black.

Broadish - Rather broad; moderately broad.

Broadmouth - One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian passerine birds.

Brockish - Beastly; brutal.

Bullfinch - A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

Buttonbush - A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.

Cardiosphygmograph - A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph.

Cenotaph - An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

Bekah - Half a shekel.

Belch - To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

Belch - To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.

Belch - To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

Belch - To issue with spasmodic force or noise.

Belch - The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.

Belch - Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.

Bellows fish - A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

Belzebuth - A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

Bench - A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

Bench - A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

Bench - The seat where judges sit in court.

Bench - The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

Bench - A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

Bench - A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.

Bench - To furnish with benches.

Bench - To place on a bench or seat of honor.

Bench - To sit on a seat of justice.

Beneath - Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.

Beneath - Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.

Beneath - Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.

Beneath - In a lower place; underneath.

Beneath - Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath.

Bepinch - To pinch, or mark with pinches.

Bequeath - To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

Bequeath - To hand down; to transmit.

Bequeath - To give; to offer; to commit.

Berdash - A kind of neckcloth.

Bergh - A hill.

Berth - Convenient sea room.

Berth - A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

Berth - The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

Berth - An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.

Berth - A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.

Berth - To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.

Berth - To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.

Bescratch - To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

Beseech - To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.

Beseech - Solicitation; supplication.

Besmirch - To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

Betroth - To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

Betroth - To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.

Betroth - To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration.

Bewash - To drench or souse with water.

Bewitch - To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

Bewitch - To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.

Bibliograph - Bibliographer.

Bibliotaph - Alt. of Bibliotaphist

Bikh - The East Indian name of a virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

Billfish - A name applied to several distinct fishes

Billfish - The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species.

Billfish - The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus).

Billfish - The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.

Billfish - The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

Birch - A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).

Birch - The wood or timber of the birch.

Birch - A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging.

Birch - A birch-bark canoe.

Birch - Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.

Birch - To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.

Bird's-mouth - An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate; -- commonly called crow's-foot in the United States.

Birth - The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

Birth - Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.

Birth - The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

Birth - The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.

Birth - That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

Birth - Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

Birth - See Berth.

Bish - Same as Bikh.

Bishop's length - A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56.

Bismillah - An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.

Bismuth - One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507¡ Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

Bitch - The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

Bitch - An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.

Bitterish - Somewhat bitter.

Blacksmith - A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.

Blacksmith - A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.

Black wash - Alt. of Blackwash

Blackwash - A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

Blackwash - A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.

Bladefish - A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.

Bladesmith - A sword cutler.

Blanch - To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

Blanch - To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

Blanch - To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

Blanch - To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.

Blanch - To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

Blanch - To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

Blanch - Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

Blanch - To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.

Blanch - To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

Blanch - To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.

Blanch - To use evasion.

Blanch - Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

Blandish - To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

Blandish - To make agreeable and enticing.

Bleach - To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

Bleach - To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

Blemish - To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

Blemish - To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.

Blemish - Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.

Blench - To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

Blench - To fly off; to turn aside.

Blench - To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.

Blench - To draw back from; to deny from fear.

Blench - A looking aside or askance.

Blench - To grow or make pale.

Blindfish - A small fish (Amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

Blockish - Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.

Blooth - Bloom; a blossoming.

Blotch - A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

Blotch - A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.

Blowth - A blossoming; a bloom.

Bluefish - A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

Bluefish - A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae.

Bluish - Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.

Bluntish - Somewhat blunt.

Blush - To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.

Blush - To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.

Blush - To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

Blush - To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.

Blush - To express or make known by blushing.

Blush - A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

Blush - A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.

Boarfish - A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

Boarfish - An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.

Boarish - Swinish; brutal; cruel.

Bobbish - Hearty; in good spirits.

Bobsleigh - A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.

Bogglish - Doubtful; skittish.

Bonefish - See Ladyfish.

Boobyish - Stupid; dull.

Boodh - Same as Buddha.

Bookish - Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.

Bookish - Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish sentences.

Boomorah - A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

Boorish - Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.

Booth - A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.

Booth - A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

Borough - In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Borough - The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

Borough - An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

Borough - The pledge or surety thus given.

Borough-English - A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.

Bosh - Figure; outline; show.

Bosh - Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.

Bosh - One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

Bosh - The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

Bosh - In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

Botch - A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

Botch - A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

Botch - Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

Botch - To mark with, or as with, botches.

Botch - To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.

Botch - To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

Both - The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.

Both - As well; not only; equally.

Bouch - A mouth.

Bouch - An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

Bough - An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

Bough - A gallows.

Boxfish - The trunkfish.

Boyish - Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.

Brach - A bitch of the hound kind.

Brackish - Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

Brainish - Hot-headed; furious.

Bramble bush - The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.

Branch - A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

Branch - Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.

Branch - Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.

Branch - One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

Branch - A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.

Branch - A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

Branch - Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.

Branch - To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.

Branch - To divide into separate parts or subdivision.

Branch - To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.

Branch - To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Brandish - To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.

Brandish - To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.

Brandish - A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.

Brash - Hasty in temper; impetuous.

Brash - Brittle, as wood or vegetables.

Brash - A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

Brash - Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.

Brash - Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

Brash - Broken fragments of ice.

Breach - The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

Breach - Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

Breach - A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.

Breach - A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

Breach - A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

Breach - A bruise; a wound.

Breach - A hernia; a rupture.

Breach - A breaking out upon; an assault.

Breach - To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

Breach - To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

Breadth - Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

Breast-high - High as the breast.

Breastplough - A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.

Breath - The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.

Breath - The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.

Breath - The power of respiration, and hence, life.

Breath - Time to breathe; respite; pause.

Breath - A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant.

Breath - Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life.

Breath - A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.

Breath - A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.

Breath - Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.

Breath - Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.

Breech - The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

Breech - Breeches.

Breech - The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.

Breech - The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.

Breech - To put into, or clothe with, breeches.

Breech - To cover as with breeches.

Breech - To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.

Breech - To whip on the breech.

Breech - To fasten with breeching.

Breechcloth - A cloth worn around the breech.

Brigandish - Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.

Brinish - Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish.

British - Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.

British - People of Great Britain.

Broach - A spit.

Broach - An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.

Broach - A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.

Broach - A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.

Broach - A broad chisel for stonecutting.

Broach - A spire rising from a tower.

Broach - A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.

Broach - A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.

Broach - The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

Broach - The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

Broach - To spit; to pierce as with a spit.

Broach - To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.

Broach - To open for the first time, as stores.

Broach - To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.

Broach - To cause to begin or break out.

Broach - To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.

Broach - To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.

Broad Church - A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship.

Broadcloth - A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

Brontolith - An aerolite.

Brooch - An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.

Brooch - A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an India painting.

Brooch - To adorn as with a brooch.

Broth - Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.

Brownish - Somewhat brown.

Brown thrush - A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

Bruh - The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.

Brush - An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

Brush - The bushy tail of a fox.

Brush - A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

Brush - Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

Brush - A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

Brush - A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

Brush - The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.

Brush - A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy.

Brush - A short contest, or trial, of speed.

Brush - To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.

Brush - To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

Brush - To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.

Brush - To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

Brutish - Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.

Buansuah - The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

Buccaneerish - Like a buccaneer; piratical.

Buckish - Dandified; foppish.

Bucktooth - Any tooth that juts out.

Buffoonish - Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.

Bugfish - The menhaden.

Bukshish - See Backsheesh.

Bullish - Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.

Bulrush - A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

Bunch - A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Bunch - A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

Bunch - A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.

Bunch - To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

Bunch - To form into a bunch or bunches.

Bundesrath - The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federal council of Switzerland is also so called.

Bur fish - A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.

Burgh - A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

Burghbrech - The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.

Burh - See Burg.

Burnish - To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.

Burnish - To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.

Burnish - The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.

Bursch - A youth; especially, a student in a german university.

Bush - A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

Bush - A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

Bush - A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.

Bush - A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

Bush - The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Bush - To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

Bush - To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.

Bush - To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

Bush - A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.

Bush - A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Bush - To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

Butterfish - A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

Butter-scotch - A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter.

Bypath - A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

By-speech - An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point.

By-wash - The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert the flow of water.

Caddish - Like a cad; lowbred and presuming.

Cafeneh - A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold.

Cafileh - A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

Calabash - The common gourd (plant or fruit).

Calabash - The fruit of the calabash tree.

Calabash - A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.

Calash - A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage.

Calash - In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.

Calash - A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.

Calash - A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.

Calipash - A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.

Caliph - Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.

Callipash - See Calipash.

Calvish - Like a calf; stupid.

Canaanitish - Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.

Candlefish - A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it

Candlefish - The beshow.

Canker rash - A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

Caper bush - Alt. of Caper tree

Capoch - A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.

Capoch - To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind.

Capouch - Same as Capoch.

Cardiagraph - See Cardiograph.

Cardiograph - An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.

Cartouch - A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge

Cartouch - A cartridge box.

Cartouch - A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.

Cartouch - A gunner's bag for ammunition

Cartouch - A military pass for a soldier on furlough.

Cartouch - A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper

Cartouch - A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.

Cartouch - An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.

Cash - A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

Cash - Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money

Cash - Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.

Cash - To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

Cash - To disband.

Cash - A Chinese coin.

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

Catch - To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

Catch - To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.

Catch - To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.

Catch - Hence: To insnare; to entangle.

Catch - To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.

Catch - To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.

Catch - To engage and attach; to please; to charm.

Catch - To get possession of; to attain.

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

Catch - To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.

Catch - To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.

Catch - To attain possession.

Catch - To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to open.

Catch - To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.

Catch - To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.

Catch - Act of seizing; a grasp.

Catch - That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.

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

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

Catch - Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.

Catch - Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

Catch - A slight remembrance; a trace.

Catch - A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

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

Catstitch - To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.

Cattish - Catlike; feline

Cavalierish - Somewhat like a cavalier.

Cavendish - Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

Cerecloth - A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter.

Ceriph - One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.

Cerograph - A writing on wax.

Ceterach - A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).

Chaetognath - Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha.

Chaffinch - A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.

Chain stitch - An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.

Chain stitch - A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished from the lock stitch. See Stitch.

Chaldrich - Alt. of Chalder

Coolish - Somewhat cool.

Counterweigh - To weigh against; to counterbalance.

Cromlech - A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.

Chazy epoch - An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.

Cheetah - A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.

Cherish - To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.

Cherish - To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.

Chetah - See Cheetah.

Chich - The chick-pea.

Chichling vetch - A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.

Childbirth - The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.

Childish - Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

Childish - Puerile; trifling; weak.

Chiliarch - The commander or chief of a thousand men.

Chilognath - A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.

Chinch - The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

Chinch - A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

Chin cough - Whooping cough.

Chirograph - A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.

Chirograph - The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine.

Chopchurch - An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.

Chorograph - An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

Chough - A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.

Chromograph - An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

Chromolithograph - A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

Chromophotolithograph - A photolithograph printed in colors.

Chronograph - An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.

Chronograph - Same as Chronogram, 1.

Chronograph - A chronoscope.

Church - A building set apart for Christian worship.

Church - A Jewish or heathen temple.

Church - A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.

Church - A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

Church - The collective body of Christians.

Church - Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.

Church - The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.

Church - To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

Church-bench - A seat in the porch of a church.

Churlish - Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.

Churlish - Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.

Cimeliarch - A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.

Cinch - A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.

Cinch - A tight grip.

Cincinnati epoch - An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York.

Clannish - Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.

Clash - To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

Clash - To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.

Clash - To strike noisily against or together.

Clash - A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.

Clash - Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.

Clayish - Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.

Clearstarch - To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.

Clench - See Clinch.

Cleverish - Somewhat clever.

Clinch - To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

Clinch - To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.

Clinch - To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.

Clinch - To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.

Clinch - To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

Clinch - The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

Clinch - A pun.

Clinch - A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

Cliquish - Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.

Cloddish - Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.

Closh - A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.

Closh - The game of ninepins.

Cloth - A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

Cloth - The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.

Cloth - The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.

Clough - A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.

Clough - A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Clough - An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

Clownish - Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.

Clubbish - Rude; clownish.

Clubbish - Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.

Club-rush - A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.

Clunch - Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.

Clunch - One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.

Clutch - A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

Clutch - The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.

Clutch - A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

Clutch - Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

Clutch - The nest complement of eggs of a bird.

Clutch - To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.

Clutch - To close tightly; to clinch.

Clutch - To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.

Coach - A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.

Coach - A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.

Coach - A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.

Coach - A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

Coach - To convey in a coach.

Coach - To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.

Coach - To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with

Coalfish - The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.

Coalfish - The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.

Coalfish - The cobia.

Coccolith - One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

Cockmatch - A cockfight.

Cockneyish - Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.

Cockroach - An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

Codfish - A kind of fish. Same as Cod.

Coelacanth - Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.

Cohosh - A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actaea, plants of the Crowfoot family.

Coldfinch - A British wagtail.

Coldish - Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.

Coleperch - A kind of small black perch.

Collish - A tool to polish the edge of a sole.

Colocynth - The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

Cologne earth - An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

Coltish - Like a colt; wanton; frisky.

Colt's tooth - See under Colt.

Combbroach - A tooth of a wool comb.

Commonish - Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.

Commonwealth - A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.

Commonwealth - The whole body of people in a state; the public.

Commonwealth - Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

Conch - A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.

Conch - In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

Conch - One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.

Conch - See Concha, n.

Conch - The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.

Contradistinguish - To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.

Cony-catch - To deceive; to cheat; to trick.

Copperish - Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

Coppersmith - One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

Copygraph - A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing.

Coquettish - Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.

Coral fish - Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.

Coranach - A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.

Corinth - A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.

Corinth - A small fruit; a currant.

Cornish - Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.

Cornish - The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall.

Cornstarch - Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

Coronach - See Coranach.

Couch - To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

Couch - To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

Couch - To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

Couch - To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

Couch - To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

Couch - To arrange; to place; to inlay.

Couch - To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.

Couch - To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

Couch - To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.

Couch - To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

Couch - To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

Couch - A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.

Couch - Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

Couch - A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

Couch - A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

Cough - To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

Cough - To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.

Cough - To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.

Cough - A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

Cough - The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

Countermarch - To march back, or to march in reversed order.

Countermarch - A marching back; retrocession.

Countermarch - An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.

Countermarch - A change of measures; alteration of conduct.

Couth - Could; was able; knew or known; understood.

Cowardish - Cowardly.

Cowfish - The grampus.

Cowfish - A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).

Cowfish - A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.

Cowish - Timorous; fearful; cowardly.

Cowish - An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.

Cowitch - See Cowhage.

Cowleech - One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.

Coyish - Somewhat coy or reserved.

Crabbish - Somewhat sour or cross.

Crampfish - The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.

Cranch - See Craunch.

Crapefish - Salted codfish hardened by pressure.

Crash - To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

Crash - To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.

Crash - To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.

Crash - A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.

Crash - Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

Crash - Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

Cratch - A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.

Craunch - To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.

Crawfish - Alt. of Crayfish

Crayfish - Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.

Crayfish - See Crawfish.

Creekfish - The chub sucker.

Crith - The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains.

Cross-birth - Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.

Crossfish - A starfish.

Crossnath - To shade by means of crosshatching.

Crosspatch - An ill-natured person.

Cross-stitch - A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.

Crotch - The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

Crotch - A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.

Crouch - To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

Crouch - To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.

Crouch - To sign with the cross; to bless.

Crouch - To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.

Crowth - An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.

Crumbcloth - A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean.

Crunch - To chew with force and noise; to craunch.

Crunch - To grind or press with violence and noise.

Crunch - To emit a grinding or craunching noise.

Crunch - To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

Crush - To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.

Crush - To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

Crush - To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.

Crush - To oppress or burden grievously.

Crush - To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

Crush - To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

Crush - A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

Crush - Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.

Crutch - A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.

Crutch - A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.

Crutch - A knee, or piece of knee timber

Crutch - A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.

Crutch - To support on crutches; to prop up.

Cruth - See 4th Crowd.

Crwth - See 4th Crowd.

Cryptograph - Cipher; something written in cipher.

Cuish - Defensive armor for the thighs.

Cultch - Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.

Curch - See Courche.

Currish - Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.

Curvograph - An arcograph.

Cutch - See Catechu.

Cutch - See Cultch.

Cuttlefish - A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

Cuttlefish - A foul-mouthed fellow.

Cyatholith - A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch.

Cyclograph - See Arcograph.

Cystolith - A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.

Cystolith - A urinary calculus.

Czarish - Of or pertaining to the czar.

Czech - One of the Czechs.

Czech - The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.

Dactylioglyph - An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.

Dactylioglyph - The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.

Dahabeah - A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.

Dampish - Moderately damp or moist.

Dandyish - Like a dandy.

Danish - Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.

Danish - The language of the Danes.

Dankish - Somewhat dank.

Darkish - Somewhat dark; dusky.

Dash - To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

Dash - To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.

Dash - To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.

Dash - To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.

Dash - To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

Dash - To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.

Dash - To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.

Dash - Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.

Dash - A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.

Dash - A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.

Dash - A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.

Dash - Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.

Dash - A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.

Dash - A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.

Dash - The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.

Dash - The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.

Dash - A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

Dawish - Like a daw.

Deadish - Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.

Deadlatch - A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.

Dealfish - A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).

Dealth - Share dealt.

Dearth - Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

Dearworth - Precious.

Death - The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Death - Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Death - Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

Death - Cause of loss of life.

Death - Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Death - Danger of death.

Death - Murder; murderous character.

Death - Loss of spiritual life.

Death - Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Deathwatch - A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.

Deathwatch - A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.

Deathwatch - The guard set over a criminal before his execution.

Debauch - To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.

Debauch - Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.

Debauch - An act or occasion of debauchery.

Debosh - To debauch.

Debouch - To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.

Decastich - A poem consisting of ten lines.

Decillionth - Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.

Decillionth - The quotient of unity divided by a decillion.

Decillionth - One of a decillion equal parts.

Degarnish - To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.

Degarnish - To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort.

Delilah - The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress.

Delph - Delftware.

Delph - The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.

Demarch - March; walk; gait.

Demarch - A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.

Demolish - To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

Depeach - To discharge.

Depolish - To remove the polish or glaze from.

Depth - The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.

Depth - Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.

Depth - Lowness; as, depth of sound.

Depth - That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.

Depth - The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.

Depth - A pair of toothed wheels which work together.

Derth - Dearth; scarcity.

Dervish - Alt. of Dervis

Derworth - Precious.

Despatch - Same as Dispatch.

Detach - To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.

Detach - To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.

Detach - To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.

Devilfish - A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.

Devilfish - A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus.

Devilfish - The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.

Devilfish - The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See Angler.

Devilish - Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.

Devilish - Extreme; excessive.

Diaglyph - An intaglio.

Diagraph - A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.

Dich - To ditch.

Drawlatch - A housebreaker or thief.

Engastrimuth - An ventriloquist.

Entrench - See Intrench.

Establish - To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

Establish - To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

Establish - To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.

Establish - To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.

Establish - To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

Estatlich - Alt. of Estatly

Diglyph - A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

Digraph - Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

Dilettanteish - Somewhat like a dilettante.

Dilettantish - Dilettanteish.

Diminish - To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

Diminish - To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

Diminish - To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.

Diminish - To take away; to subtract.

Diminish - To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

Dimish - See Dimmish.

Dimmish - Alt. of Dimmy

Dimorph - Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.

Diptych - Anything consisting of two leaves.

Diptych - A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.

Diptych - A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

Diptych - A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

Disavouch - To disavow.

Disbench - To drive from a bench or seat.

Disbench - To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.

Disbranch - To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.

Dischurch - To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church.

Discolith - One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about / of an inch in its longest diameter.

Disembellish - To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn.

Disestablish - To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state.

Disflesh - To reduce the flesh or obesity of.

Disfurnish - To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.

Disgarnish - To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle.

Dish - A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

Dish - The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."

Dish - The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

Dish - A hollow place, as in a field.

Dish - A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

Dish - That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

Dish - To put in a dish, ready for the table.

Dish - To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

Dish - To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.

Dishcloth - A cloth used for washing dishes.

Dismarch - To march away.

Dispatch - To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

Dispatch - To rid; to free.

Dispatch - To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.

Dispatch - To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.

Dispatch - To send out of the world; to put to death.

Dispatch - To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.

Dispatch - The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

Dispatch - Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

Dispatch - The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.

Dispatch - A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.

Dispatch - A message transmitted by telegraph.

Displenish - To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock.

Disrelish - Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food.

Disrelish - Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

Disrelish - Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at.

Disrelish - To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.

Distich - A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

Distich - Alt. of Distichous

Distinguish - Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

Distinguish - To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low.

Distinguish - To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum.

Distinguish - To constitute a difference; to make to differ.

Distinguish - To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for.

Distinguish - To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.

Distinguish - To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible.

Disvouch - To discredit; to contradict.

Disworth - To deprive of worth; to degrade.

Ditch - A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

Ditch - Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.

Ditch - To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

Ditch - To surround with a ditch.

Ditch - To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.

Ditch - To dig a ditch or ditches.

Dogfish - A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc.

Dogfish - The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.

Dogfish - The burbot of Lake Erie.

Doggish - Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal.

Dogteeth - of Dogtooth

Dogtooth - See Canine tooth, under Canine.

Dogtooth - An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament.

Dogwatch - A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.

Doltish - Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.

Doth - of Do.

Dotish - Foolish; weak; imbecile.

Dough - Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

Dough - Anything of the consistency of such paste.

Dovish - Like a dove; harmless; innocent.

Dowdyish - Like a dowdy.

Downweigh - To weigh or press down.

Dozenth - Twelfth.

Drabbish - Somewhat drab in color.

Drabbish - Having the character of a drab or low wench.

Dracanth - A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.

Draffish - Worthless; draffy.

Dragonish - resembling a dragon.

Draugh - See Draft.

Drawbench - A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.

Dreggish - Foul with lees; feculent.

Drench - To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

Drench - To steep in moisture; to wet thoroughly; to soak; to saturate with water or other liquid; to immerse.

Drench - A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.

Drench - A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book.

Dretch - See Drecche.

Droh - of Draw.

Drollish - Somewhat droll.

Dronish - Like a drone; indolent; slow.

Drough - of Draw.

Drouth - Same as Drought.

Drowth - See Drought.

Druidish - Druidic.

Drumfish - Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.

Dryth - Alt. of Drith

Drith - Drought.

Dudish - Like, or characterized of, a dude.

Dullish - Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.

Dumpish - Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.

Duncish - Somewhat like a dunce.

Dunfish - Codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality.

Dunnish - Inclined to a dun color.

Duskish - Somewhat dusky.

Dustbrush - A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

Dutch - Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.

Dutch - The people of Holland; Dutchmen.

Dutch - The language spoken in Holland.

Dwarfish - Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub.

Dynamograph - A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.

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

Each - Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every.

Eadish - See Eddish.

Earreach - Earshot.

Earsh - See Arrish.

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

Earth - The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land.

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

Earth - A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.

Earth - Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.

Earth - The people on the globe.

Earth - Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.

Earth - A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.

Earth - A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox.

Earth - To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.

Earth - To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.

Earth - To burrow.

Earth - A plowing.

Eath - Easy or easily.

Ecclesiarch - An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.

Eddish - Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish.

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

Egg squash - A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit.

Eh - An expression of inquiry or slight surprise.

Eidograph - An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.

Eigh - An exclamation expressing delight.

Eighteenth - Next in order after the seventeenth.

Eighteenth - Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

Eighteenth - The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions.

Eighteenth - The eighth after the tenth.

Eighth - Next in order after the seventh.

Eighth - Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing.

Eighth - The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.

Eighth - The interval of an octave.

Eightieth - The next in order after seventy-ninth.

Eightieth - Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.

Eightieth - The quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts.

Eirenarch - A justice of the peace; irenarch.

Elasmobranch - Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii.

Elasmobranch - One of the Elasmobranchii.

Elderish - Somewhat old; elderly.

Eldritch - Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh.

Electro-chronograph - An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.

Electrograph - A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.

Elench - That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

Elench - A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.

Eleventh - Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.

Eleventh - Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.

Eleventh - Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.

Eleventh - The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.

Eleventh - The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

Elfish - Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves.

Ellipsograph - An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.

Elliptograph - Same as Ellipsograph.

Elrich - Alt. of Elritch

Elritch - Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch.

Elvish - Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish.

Elvish - Mysterious; also, foolish.

Embellish - To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

Emblanch - To whiten. See Blanch.

Embryotroph - The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.

Embush - To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.

Emforth - According to; conformably to.

Empeach - To hinder. See Impeach.

Empoverish - See Impoverish.

Enambush - To ambush.

Enarch - To arch.

Encash - To turn into cash; to cash.

Encoach - To carry in a coach.

Encroach - To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.

Encroach - Encroachment.

Endognath - The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

Endolymph - The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.

Endomorph - A crystal of one species inclosed within one of another, as one of rutile inclosed in quartz.

Enfamish - To famish; to starve.

Enfeeblish - To enfeeble.

Enflesh - To clothe with flesh.

English - Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.

English - See 1st Bond, n., 8.

English - Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.

English - The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.

English - A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.

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

English - To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.

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

Enmesh - To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes.

Enomotarch - The commander of an enomoty.

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

Enough - In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently.

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

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

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

Enough - An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

Enravish - To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate.

Enrich - To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

Enrich - To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.

Enrich - To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.

Enrich - To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind.

Ensearch - To make search; to try to find something.

Ensearch - To search for.

Enterolith - An intestinal concretion.

Eparch - In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.

Ephah - Alt. of Epha

Epigraph - Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

Epigraph - A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

Epitaph - An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.

Epitaph - A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."

Epitaph - To commemorate by an epitaph.

Epitaph - To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

Epoch - A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era.

Epoch - A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation.

Epoch - A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.

Epoch - The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.

Epoch - An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860.

Eremitish - Eremitic.

Eriach - Alt. of Eric

Ersh - See Arrish.

Estrich - Ostrich.

Estrich - The down of the ostrich.

Etch - A variant of Eddish.

Etch - To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

Etch - To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.

Etch - To sketch; to delineate.

Etch - To practice etching; to make etchings.

Ethnarch - The governor of a province or people.

Eugh - The yew.

Eunuch - A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.

Eunuch - Alt. of Eunuchate

Evanish - To vanish.

Everich - Alt. of Everych

Everych - each one; every one; each of two. See Every.

Exarch - A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

Expolish - To polish thoroughly.

Extinguish - To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.

Extinguish - To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.

Eyelash - The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

Eyelash - A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.

Eyereach - The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.

Eyeteeth - of Eyetooth

Eyetooth - A canine tooth of the upper jaw.

Eyewash - See Eyewater.

Faintish - Slightly faint; somewhat faint.

Fairish - Tolerably fair.

Faith - Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on testimony.

Faith - The assent of the mind to the statement or proposition of another, on the ground of the manifest truth of what he utters; firm and earnest belief, on probable evidence of any kind, especially in regard to important moral truth.

Faith - The belief in the historic truthfulness of the Scripture narrative, and the supernatural origin of its teachings, sometimes called historical and speculative faith.

Faith - The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief in the person and work of Christ, which affects the character and life, and makes a man a true Christian, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith.

Faith - That which is believed on any subject, whether in science, politics, or religion; especially (Theol.), a system of religious belief of any kind; as, the Jewish or Mohammedan faith; and especially, the system of truth taught by Christ; as, the Christian faith; also, the creed or belief of a Christian society or church.

Faith - Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty.

Faith - Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity; as, he violated his faith.

Faith - Credibility or truth.

Faith - By my faith; in truth; verily.

Fallfish - A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

Famish - To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

Famish - To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.

Famish - To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.

Famish - To force or constrain by famine.

Famish - To die of hunger; to starve.

Famish - To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.

Famish - To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.

Farfetch - To bring from far; to seek out studiously.

Farfetch - Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.

Fash - To vex; to tease; to trouble.

Fash - Vexation; anxiety; care.

Fastish - Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.

Fattish - Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.

Faugh - An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

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

Fellah - A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc.

Felspath - See Feldspar.

Fennish - Abounding in fens; fenny.

Ferforth - Far forth.

Festlich - Festive; fond of festive occasions.

Fetch - To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

Fetch - To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

Fetch - To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.

Fetch - To reduce; to throw.

Fetch - To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.

Fetch - To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

Fetch - To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.

Fetch - To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.

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

Fetch - The apparation of a living person; a wraith.

Fetich - Alt. of Fetish

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

Fetish - Any object to which one is excessively devoted.

Fetish - Alt. of Fetishistic

Fetwah - A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law.

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

Feverish - Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.

Feverish - Hot; sultry.

Feverish - Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

Fiendish - Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.

Fifteenth - Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

Fifteenth - Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

Fifteenth - One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.

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

Fifteenth - A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

Fifteenth - An interval consisting of two octaves.

Fifth - Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

Fifth - Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.

Fifth - The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

Fifth - The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

Fiftieth - Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.

Fiftieth - Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.

Fiftieth - One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.

Filch - To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.

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

Filth - Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

Filth - Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

Finch - A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.

Finfish - A finback whale.

Finfish - True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.

Finish - To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

Finish - To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.

Finish - To come to an end; to terminate.

Finish - To end; to die.

Finish - That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.

Finish - The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.

Finish - The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.

Finish - See Finishing coat, under Finishing.

Finish - The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.

Finish - Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning.

Finnish - Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.

Finnish - A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.

Firefish - A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorpaenidae, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.

Firth - An arm of the sea; a frith.

Fish - A counter, used in various games.

Fish - of Fish

Fish - A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

Fish - An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.

Fish - The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

Fish - The flesh of fish, used as food.

Fish - A purchase used to fish the anchor.

Fish - A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.

Fish - To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

Fish - To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

Fish - To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

Fish - To search by raking or sweeping.

Fish - To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

Fish - To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

Fitch - A vetch.

Fitch - A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.

Fitch - The European polecat; also, its fur.

Flanch - A flange.

Flanch - A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

Flash - To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

Flash - To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.

Flash - To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.

Flash - To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

Flash - To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.

Flash - To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

Flash - To trick up in a showy manner.

Flash - To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.

Flash - A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

Flash - A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.

Flash - The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.

Flash - A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.

Flash - Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

Flash - Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.

Flash - Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

Flash - A pool.

Flash - A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.

Flatfish - Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

Flattish - Somewhat flat.

Flaundrish - Flemish.

Fleagh - imp. of Fly.

Fleigh - imp. of Fly.

Flemish - Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.

Flemish - The language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the people of Flanders.

Flench - Same as Flence.

Flesh - The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

Flesh - Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.

Flesh - The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.

Flesh - The human eace; mankind; humanity.

Flesh - Human nature

Flesh - In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

Flesh - In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

Flesh - The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.

Flesh - Kindred; stock; race.

Flesh - The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.

Flesh - To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.

Flesh - To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.

Flesh - To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

Fletch - To feather, as an arrow.

Flinch - To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.

Flinch - To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

Flinch - The act of flinching.

Flitch - The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.

Flitch - One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.

Flitch - The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.

Flosh - A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.

Flourish - To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

Flourish - To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.

Flourish - To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

Flourish - To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.

Flourish - To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

Flourish - To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

Flourish - To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Flourish - To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

Flourish - To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.

Flourish - To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.

Flourish - To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

Flourish - A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

Flourish - Decoration; ornament; beauty.

Flourish - Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.

Flourish - A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

Flourish - A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.

Flourish - The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

Flush - To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

Flush - To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.

Flush - To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.

Flush - To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.

Flush - To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

Flush - To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.

Flush - To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.

Flush - To excite; to animate; to stir.

Flush - To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.

Flush - A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.

Flush - A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.

Flush - Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.

Flush - A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.

Flush - A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

Flush - A hand of cards of the same suit.

Flush - Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.

Flush - Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.

Flush - Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.

Flush - Consisting of cards of one suit.

Flush - So as to be level or even.

Flutemouth - A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.

Flyfish - A California scorpaenoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.

Fly-fish - To angle, using flies for bait.

Flying fish - A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.

Flysch - A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

Foh - An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle.

Foolfish - The orange filefish. See Filefish.

Foolfish - The winter flounder. See Flounder.

Foolish - Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.

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

Foolish - Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.

Footbath - A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.

Footbreadth - The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure.

Footcloth - Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse.

Footpath - A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.

Foppish - Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

Forasmuch - In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep.

Foreadmonish - To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.

Forehearth - The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.

Forereach - To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

Forereach - To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.

Forespeech - A preface.

Foreteach - To teach beforehand.

Fore teeth - of Fore tooth

Fore tooth - One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.

Forewish - To wish beforehand.

Forsooth - In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.

Forsooth - To address respectfully with the term forsooth.

Forsooth - A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.

Forth - Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth.

Forth - Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.

Forth - Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.

Forth - Throughly; from beginning to end.

Forth - Forth from; out of.

Forth - A way; a passage or ford.

Forthwith - Immediately; without delay; directly.

Forthwith - As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.

Fortieth - Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.

Fortieth - Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Fortieth - One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.

Fourteenth - Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

Fourteenth - Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.

Fourteenth - One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen; one next after the thirteenth.

Fourteenth - The octave of the seventh.

Fourth - Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.

Fourth - Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

Fourth - One of four equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four; one coming next in order after the third.

Fourth - The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key.

Foxearth - A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

Foxfish - The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.

Foxfish - The european dragonet. See Dragonet.

Foxish - Foxlike.

Frankish - Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.

Freakish - Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.

French - Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

French - The language spoken in France.

French - Collectively, the people of France.

Fresh - Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.

Fresh - New; original; additional.

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

Fresh - Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.

Fresh - In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.

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

Fresh - Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.

Fresh - A stream or spring of fresh water.

Fresh - A flood; a freshet.

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

Fresh - To refresh; to freshen.

Friborgh - The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.

Friesish - Friesic.

Frith - A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.

Frith - A kind of weir for catching fish.

Frith - A forest; a woody place.

Frith - A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.

Frogfish - See Angler, n., 2.

Frogfish - An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.

Frogmouth - One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidae); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.

Froppish - Peevish; froward.

Frostfish - The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.

Frostfish - The smelt.

Frostfish - A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.

Froth - The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

Froth - Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought.

Froth - Light, unsubstantial matter.

Froth - To cause to foam.

Froth - To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

Froth - To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

Froth - To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

Frubish - To rub up: to furbish.

Frumpish - Cross-tempered; scornful.

Frumpish - Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.

Frush - To batter; to break in pieces.

Frush - Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

Frush - Noise; clatter; crash.

Frush - The frog of a horse's foot.

Frush - A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.

Fugh - An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.

Famish - Smoky; hot; choleric.

Furbish - To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.

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

Furlough - To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.

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

Furnish - To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.

Furnish - That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply.

Gaddish - Disposed to gad.

Gagtooth - A projecting tooth.

Gairish - Alt. of Gairish/ness

Galvanograph - A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate.

Ganch - To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

Gymnasiarch - An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.

Hammercloth - The cloth which covers a coach box.

Hanch - See Hanse.

Hanch - A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway.

Homeopath - A practitioner of homeopathy.

Homish - Like a home or a home circle.

Imrigh - A peculiar strong soup or broth, made in Scotland.

Garfish - A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.

Garfish - One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.

Garish - Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.

Garish - Gay to extravagance; flighty.

Garnish - To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.

Garnish - To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.

Garnish - To furnish; to supply.

Garnish - To fit with fetters.

Garnish - To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.

Garnish - Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.

Garnish - Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.

Garnish - Fetters.

Garnish - A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.

Garookuh - A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

Garth - A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.

Garth - A dam or weir for catching fish.

Garth - A hoop or band.

Gash - To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

Gash - A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

Gastrolith - See Crab's eyes, under Crab.

Gastromyth - One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.

Gaudish - Gaudy.

Gaulish - Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic.

Genearch - The chief of a family or tribe.

Genesee epoch - The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York.

Genteelish - Somewhat genteel.

Gentilish - Heathenish; pagan.

Gerah - A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.

Geth - the original third pers. sing. pres. of Go.

Ghostfish - A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.

Ghoulish - Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

Gibberish - Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.

Gibberish - Unmeaning; as, gibberish language.

Gibfish - The male of the salmon.

Girlish - Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.

Girth - A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

Girth - The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.

Girth - A small horizontal brace or girder.

Girth - To bind as with a girth.

Gith - The corn cockle; also anciently applied to the Nigella, or fennel flower.

Gittith - A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv.

Globefish - A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

Gloomth - Gloom.

Gluish - Somewhat gluey.

Glunch - Frowning; sulky; sullen.

Glunch - A sullen, angry look; a look of disdain or dislike.

Gluttonish - Gluttonous; greedy.

Glyph - A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

Glyphograph - A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.

Gnash - To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

Gnash - To grind or strike the teeth together.

Goarish - Patched; mean.

Goatfish - A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.

Goatish - Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.

Godelich - Goodly.

Goldfinch - A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.

Goldfinch - The yellow-hammer.

Goldfinch - A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.

Goldfish - A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.

Goldfish - A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.

Goldsmith - An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.

Goldsmith - A banker.

Gonoph - A pickpocket or thief.

Goodish - Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.

Goodlich - Goodly.

Goosefish - See Angler.

Goosish - Like a goose; foolish.

Goring cloth - A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

Goth - One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.

Goth - One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person.

Graith - See Greith.

Graith - Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc.

Gralloch - Offal of a deer.

Gralloch - To remove the offal from (a deer).

Grayish - Somewhat gray.

Greekish - Peculiar to Greece.

Greencloth - A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates.

Greenfinch - A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

Greenfinch - The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.

Greenfish - See Bluefish, and Pollock.

Greenish - Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.

Greenth - The state or quality of being green; verdure.

Greith - To make ready; -- often used reflexively.

Greith - Goods; furniture.

Grith - Peace; security; agreement.

Growth - The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.

Growth - That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.

Grutch - See Grudge.

Guardfish - The garfish.

Guarish - To heal.

Guelph - Alt. of Guelf

Gulch - Act of gulching or gulping.

Gulch - A glutton.

Gulch - A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.

Gulch - To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

Gullish - Foolish; stupid.

Gulph - See Gulf.

Gunjah - See Ganja.

Gunny cloth - A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage.

Gunreach - The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.

Gunsmith - One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

Gush - To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.

Gush - To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.

Gush - A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird.

Gush - A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment.

Gynandromorph - An animal affected with gynandromorphism,

Haberdash - To deal in small wares.

Haemadromograph - An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.

Haemodromograph - Same as Haemadromograph.

Haggadoth - of Haggada

Haggish - Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled.

Hah - Same as Ha.

Hairbreadth - Alt. of Hair'sbreadth

Hair'sbreadth - The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch.

Hairbreadth - Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.

Hairbrush - A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

Haircloth - Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.

Halachoth - of Halacha

Half-fish - A salmon in its fifth year of growth.

Half-length - Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.

Halleluiah - Alt. of Hallelujah

Hallelujah - Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an expression of gratitude or adoration.

Handbreadth - A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.

Handcloth - A handkerchief.

Handfish - The frogfish.

Harborough - Alt. of Harbrough

Harbrough - A shelter.

Hardish - Somewhat hard.

Harish - Like a hare.

Harsh - Rough; disagreeable; grating

Harsh - disagreeable to the touch.

Harsh - disagreeable to the taste.

Harsh - disagreeable to the ear.

Harsh - Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.

Harsh - Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.

Hash - That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

Hash - A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.

Hash - To /hop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat.

Hasheesh - Alt. of Hashish

Hashish - A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.

Hatch - To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

Hatch - To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

Hatch - To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.

Hatch - To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.

Hatch - To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.

Hatch - The act of hatching.

Hatch - Development; disclosure; discovery.

Hatch - The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

Hatch - A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

Hatch - A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

Hatch - A flood gate; a a sluice gate.

Hatch - A bedstead.

Hatch - An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.

Hatch - An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Hatch - To close with a hatch or hatches.

Hath - Has.

Haugh - A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.

Haunch - The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.

Haunch - Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.

Hawfinch - The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.

Hawk moth - Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm.

Headborough - Alt. of Headborrow

Headfish - The sunfish (Mola).

Health - The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.

Health - A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.

Hearsecloth - A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.

Hearth - The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

Hearth - The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

Hearth - The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.

Heath - A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

Heath - Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.

Heath - A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

Heathenish - Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens.

Heathenish - Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.

Heathenish - Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.

Hectograph - A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin.

Hektograph - See Hectograph.

Helicograph - An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.

Heliograph - A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.

Heliograph - An instrument for taking photographs of the sun.

Heliograph - An apparatus for telegraphing by means of the sun's rays. See Heliotrope, 3.

Hellbroth - A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation.

Hellish - Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.

Helminth - An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.

Hemiglyph - The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

Hemistich - Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

Hemstitch - To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

Henceforth - From this time forward; henceforward.

Henfish - A marine fish; the sea bream.

Henfish - A young bib. See Bib, n., 2.

Heptarch - Same as Heptarchist.

Heptastich - A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.

Heptateuch - The first seven books of the Testament.

Herbergh - Alt. of Herberwe

Herborough - A harbor.

Heresiarch - A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics.

Heretoch - Alt. of Heretog

Herewith - With this.

Heteracanth - Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.

Heugh - A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.

Heugh - A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.

Hexastich - Alt. of Hexastichon

Hexateuch - The first six books of the Old Testament.

Heyh - Alt. of Heygh

Heygh - High.

Hiccough - A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough.

Hiccough - To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.

Hierarch - One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.

Hieroglyph - Alt. of Hieroglyphic

High - To hie.

High - Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.

High - Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection

High - Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives.

High - Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles.

High - Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family.

High - Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions.

High - Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble.

High - Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price.

High - Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense.

High - Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc.

High - Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.

High - Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.

High - Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11.

High - In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully.

High - An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.

High - People of rank or high station; as, high and low.

High - The highest card dealt or drawn.

High - To rise; as, the sun higheth.

High-church - Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.

Highth - Variant of Height.

Hippish - Somewhat hypochondriac; melancholy. See Hyppish.

Hippolith - A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse.

Hitch - To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

Hitch - To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.

Hitch - To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.

Hitch - To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.

Hitch - To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.

Hitch - A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.

Hitch - The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.

Hitch - A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.

Hitch - A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.

Hitch - A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.

Hitch - A small dislocation of a bed or vein.

Hobblebush - A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.

Hough - The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.

Hough - A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.

Hough - The popliteal space; the ham.

Hodograph - A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.

Hogfish - A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnolaemus).

Hogfish - The pigfish or sailor's choice.

Hogfish - An American fresh-water fish; the log perch.

Hogfish - A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorpaena scrofa).

Hoggish - Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish.

Hogh - A hill; a cliff.

Hogwash - Swill.

Hoidenish - Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden.

Holder-forth - One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher.

Hollandish - Relating to Holland; Dutch.

Holograph - A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.

Homacanth - Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes.

Homograph - One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.

Hookah - A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

Hopplebush - Same as Hobblebush.

Hopscotch - A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

Hornfish - The garfish or sea needle.

Hornish - Somewhat like horn; hard.

Horse-drench - A dose of physic for a horse.

Horse-drench - The appliance by which the dose is administred.

Horsefish - The moonfish (Selene setipinnis).

Horsefish - The sauger.

Horseflesh - The flesh of horses.

Horseflesh - Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh.

Horselaugh - A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw.

Horse-leech - A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.

Horse-leech - A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.

Horse-radish - A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine.

Hotchpotch - A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.

Hotchpotch - A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given.

Houdah - See Howdah.

Hough - Same as Hock, a joint.

Hough - Same as Hock, to hamstring.

Hough - An adz; a hoe.

Hough - To cut with a hoe.

Houndfish - Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish.

Howdah - A seat or pavilion, generally covered, fastened on the back of an elephant, for the rider or riders.

Huch - Alt. of Huchen

Huffish - Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.

Hulch - A hunch.

Humph - An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc.

Hunch - A hump; a protuberance.

Hunch - A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.

Hunch - A push or thrust, as with the elbow.

Hunch - To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.

Hunch - To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.

Hundredth - Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.

Hundredth - Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.

Hundredth - One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.

Hurrah - Alt. of Hurra

Hurrah - A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.

Hurrah - To utter hurrahs; to huzza.

Hurrah - To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.

Hush - To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

Hush - To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.

Hush - To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.

Hush - Stillness; silence; quiet.

Hush - Silent; quiet.

Hutch - To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.

Hutch - A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.

Hutch - A measure of two Winchester bushels.

Hutch - The case of a flour bolt.

Hutch - A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

Hutch - A jig for washing ore.

Hutch - To hoard or lay up, in a chest.

Hutch - To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

Hyacinth - A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.

Hyacinth - A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.

Hyacinth - The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.

Hyacinth - A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.

Hyalograph - An instrument for tracing designs on glass.

Hydranth - One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

Hydrometrograph - An instrument for determining and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, orifice, etc., in a given time.

Hydropath - A hydropathist.

Hyetograph - A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth.

Hygrograph - An instrument for recording automatically the variations of the humidity of the atmosphere.

Hyppish - Affected with hypochondria; hypped.

Ich - I.

Ideograph - Same as Ideogram.

Idiograph - A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.

Idiotish - Like an idiot; foolish.

Idolish - Idolatrous.

I' faith - In faith; indeed; truly.

Illish - Somewhat ill.

Immesh - To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.

Impeach - To hinder; to impede; to prevent.

Impeach - To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.

Impeach - Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.

Impeach - To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.

Impeach - Hindrance; impeachment.

Impleach - To pleach; to interweave.

Impoverish - To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

Impoverish - To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.

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

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

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

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

Inch - A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment.

Inch - To drive by inches, or small degrees.

Inch - To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.

Inch - To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly.

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

Incoach - To put a coach.

Inditch - To bury in, or cast into, a ditch.

Indo-English - Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India; Anglo-Indian.

Indrench - To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown.

Inearth - To inter.

Inflesh - To incarnate.

Ingrowth - A growth or development inward.

Inkfish - A cuttlefish. See Cuttlefish.

Inlandish - Inland.

Inmesh - To bring within meshes, as of a net; to enmesh.

Inrush - A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide.

Inrush - To rush in.

Insearch - To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.

Insomuch - So; to such a degree; in such wise; -- followed by that or as, and formerly sometimes by both. Cf. Inasmuch.

Insooth - In sooth; truly.

Jack Ketch - A public executioner, or hangman.

Jacksmith - A smith who makes jacks. See 2d Jack, 4, c.

Knavish - Mischievous; roguish; waggish.

Kneebrush - A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Kneebrush - A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees, by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; -- usually in the plural.

Knee-high - Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high.

Liquorish - See Lickerish.

Interdash - To dash between or among; to intersperse.

Interspeech - A speech interposed between others.

Interwish - To wish mutually in regarded to each other.

Intrench - To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.

Intrench - To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself.

Intrench - To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown.

Inveigh - To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse.

Inwith - Within.

Io moth - A large and handsome American moth (Hyperchiria Io), having a large, bright-colored spot on each hind wing, resembling the spots on the tail of a peacock. The larva is covered with prickly hairs, which sting like nettles.

Irenarch - An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace.

Irish - Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland.

Irish - The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.

Irish - The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.

Irish - An old game resembling backgammon.

Ironish - Resembling iron, as in taste.

Ironsmith - A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith.

Ironsmith - An East Indian barbet (Megalaima faber), inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith.

Isabella moth - A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.

Ishmaelitish - Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an Ishmaelite or the Ishmaelites.

Isomorph - A substance which is similar to another in crystalline form and composition.

Isothermobath - A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.

Israelitish - Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.

Itch - To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

Itch - To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.

Itch - An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.

Itch - Any itching eruption.

Itch - A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.

Itch - A constant irritating desire.

Ivan Ivanovitch - An ideal personification of the typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as "John Bull" is used for the typical Englishman.

Jacinth - See Hyacinth.

Jadish - Vicious; ill-tempered; resembling a jade; -- applied to a horse.

Jadish - Unchaste; -- applied to a woman.

Jah - Jehovah.

Japannish - After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles.

Jarrah - The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata. See Eucalyptus.

Jehovah - A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the "ineffable name" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews.

Jellyfish - Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.

Jewbush - A euphorbiaceous shrub of the genus Pedilanthus (P. tithymaloides), found in the West Indies, and possessing powerful emetic and drastic qualities.

Jewfish - A very large serranoid fish (Promicrops itaiara) of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. It often reaches the weight of five hundred pounds. Its color is olivaceous or yellowish, with numerous brown spots. Called also guasa, and warsaw.

Jewfish - A similar gigantic fish (Stereolepis gigas) of Southern California, valued as a food fish.

Jewfish - The black grouper of Florida and Texas.

Jewfish - A large herringlike fish; the tarpum.

Jewish - Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish.

Jiggish - Resembling, or suitable for, a jig, or lively movement.

Jiggish - Playful; frisky.

Jonah - The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.

Joseph - An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front.

Jutlandish - Of or pertaining to Jutland, or to the people of Jutland.

Kafilah - See Cafila.

Kecklish - Inclined to vomit; squeamish.

Keech - A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

Keesh - See Kish.

Kelpfish - A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.

Keraunograph - A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.

Kerish - Clownish; boorish.

Ketch - An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.

Ketch - A hangman. See Jack Ketch.

Ketch - To catch.

Kholah - The Indian jackal.

Khutbah - 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.

Kiblah - See Keblah.

Kiddyish - Frolicsome; sportive.

Killifish - Any one of several small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.

Kingfish - An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.

Kingfish - The opah.

Kingfish - The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero.

Kingfish - The queenfish.

King's Bench - Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its jurisdiction was transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court of justice created by that legislation.

Kish - A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

Kith - Acquaintance; kindred.

Kitish - Like or relating to a kite.

Kittenish - Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition.

Kittlish - Ticklish; kittle.

Klipfish - Dried cod, exported from Norway.

Knackish - Trickish; artful.

Knappish - Snappish; peevish.

Knavish - Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick.

Knitch - Alt. of Knitchet

Koordish - See Kurdish.

Kumish - Alt. of Kumiss

Kurdish - Of or pertaining to the Kurds.

Kutch - The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets.

Kutch - See Catechu.

Kymograph - An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

Labyrinth - An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

Labyrinth - Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.

Labyrinth - Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.

Labyrinth - An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.

Labyrinth - The internal ear. See Note under Ear.

Labyrinth - A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.

Labyrinth - A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.

Labyrinthibranch - Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici.

Labyrinthibranch - One of the Labyrinthici.

Lakh - One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.

Laccolith - A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Ladyfish - A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabe.

Ladyfish - A labroid fish (Harpe rufa) of Florida and the West Indies.

Lagomorph - One of the Lagomorpha.

Lakh - Same as Lac, one hundred thousand.

Lamellibranch - One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.

Lamish - Somewhat lame.

Lance fish - A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast; -- called also sand lance.

Lanch - To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.

Languish - To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.

Languish - To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.

Languish - To cause to droop or pine.

Languish - See Languishiment.

Lanseh - The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste.

Laplandish - Of or pertaining to Lapland.

Lappish - Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.

Lappish - The language spoken by the Lapps in Lapland. It is related to the Finnish and Hungarian, and is not an Aryan language.

Larch - A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).

Largish - Somewhat large.

Lash - The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

Lash - A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.

Lash - A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.

Lash - A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.

Lash - A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.

Lash - In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

Lash - To strike with a lash ; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

Lash - To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail.

Lash - To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

Lash - To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.

Lash - To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.

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

Latch - To smear; to anoint.

Latch - That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.

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

Latch - A latching.

Latch - A crossbow.

Latch - To catch so as to hold.

Latch - To catch or fasten by means of a latch.

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

Lath - To cover or line with laths.

Latish - Somewhat late.

Lattermath - The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.

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

Laugh - Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

Laugh - To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

Laugh - To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.

Laugh - An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.

Launch - To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

Launch - To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.

Launch - To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.

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

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

Launch - The act of launching.

Launch - The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.

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

Lavish - Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.

Lavish - Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.

Lavish - To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

Leach - See 3d Leech.

Leach - A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.

Leach - A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.

Leach - To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.

Leach - To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.

Leach - To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

Leach - See Leech, a physician.

Leash - A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.

Leash - A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.

Leash - A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.

Leash - To tie together, or hold, with a leash.

Lech - To lick.

Leech - See 2d Leach.

Leech - See Leach, v. t.

Leech - The border or edge at the side of a sail.

Leech - A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.

Leech - Any one of numerous genera and species of annulose worms, belonging to the order Hirudinea, or Bdelloidea, esp. those species used in medicine, as Hirudo medicinalis of Europe, and allied species.

Leech - A glass tube of peculiar construction, adapted for drawing blood from a scarified part by means of a vacuum.

Leech - To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds.

Leech - To bleed by the use of leeches.

Length - The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.

Length - A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural.

Length - The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk.

Length - A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.

Length - Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length.

Length - Distance.

Length - To lengthen.

Letch - See Leach.

Letch - Strong desire; passion. (Archaic).

Lettish - Of or pertaining to the Letts.

Lettish - The language spoken by the Letts. See Lettic.

Lich - Like.

Lich - A dead body; a corpse.

Lickerish - Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.

Lickerish - Tempting the appetite; dainty.

Lickerish - Lecherous; lustful.

Linch - A ledge; a right-angled projection.

Lions' teeth - of Lion's tooth

Lion's tooth - See Leontodon.

Lith - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.

Lith - A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.

Lithoglyph - An engraving on a gem.

Lithograph - To trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting. See Lithography.

Lithograph - A print made by lithography.

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

Loath - Hateful; odious; disliked.

Loath - Filled with disgust or aversion; averse; unwilling; reluctant; as, loath to part.

Lobbish - Like a lob; consisting of lobs.

Loch - A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.

Loch - A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.

Locksmith - An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.

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

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

Lompish - Lumpish.

Longish - Somewhat long; moderately long.

Looch - See 2d Loch.

Loosish - Somewhat loose.

Lophobranch - Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.

Lophobranch - One of the Lophobranchii.

Loth - Alt. of Lothsome

Lough - A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland.

Lough - of Laugh.

Loutish - Clownish; rude; awkward.

Low-church - Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High.

Lowgh - Alt. of Lowh

Lowh - strong imp. of Laugh.

Lowish - Somewhat low.

Lucky proach - See Fatherlasher.

Lumpfish - A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.

Lumpish - Like a lump; inert; gross; heavy; dull; spiritless.

Lunch - A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

Lunch - To take luncheon.

Lungfish - Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.

Lurch - To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

Lurch - An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.

Lurch - A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

Lurch - To leave in the lurch; to cheat.

Lurch - To steal; to rob.

Lurch - A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.

Lurch - To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.

Lurch - To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.

Lurch - To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

Lush - Full of juice or succulence.

Luskish - Inclined to be lazy.

Lussheburgh - A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called.

Luth - The leatherback.

Lymph - A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.

Lymph - An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.

Lymph - A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together.

Lynch - To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

Macintosh - Same as Mackintosh.

Mackintosh - A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.

Maddish - Somewhat mad.

Maggotish - Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Magilph - See Megilp.

Magnetograph - An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.

Maharajah - A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.

Maharmah - A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

Metallograph - A print made by metallography.

Milch - Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts.

Milch - Tender; pitiful; weeping.

Moodish - Moody.

Moolah - Alt. of Moollah

Moollah - See Mollah.

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

Moonfish - A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.

Orach - Alt. of Orache

Malagash - Same as Malagasy.

Mammonish - Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon.

Mammoth - An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.

Mammoth - Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.

Maneh - A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.

Mannish - Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.

Mannish - Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine.

Mannish - Fond of men; -- said of a woman.

Mapach - The raccoon.

March - The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

March - A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.

March - To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.

March - To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.

March - To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

March - TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.

March - The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.

March - Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.

March - The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

March - A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

Margate fish - A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt.

Marish - Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor.

Marish - Moory; fenny; boggy.

Marish - Growing in marshes.

Marrowish - Of the nature of, or like, marrow.

Marsh - A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.

Marsipobranch - One of the Marsipobranchia.

Mash - A mesh.

Mash - A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.

Mash - A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

Mash - A mess; trouble.

Mash - To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.

Maslach - An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks.

Mastich - See Mastic.

Match - Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.

Match - A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.

Match - A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like

Match - A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.

Match - A matrimonial union; a marriage.

Match - An agreement, compact, etc.

Match - A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

Match - Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

Match - Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.

Match - A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.

Match - To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.

Match - To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.

Match - To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.

Match - To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.

Match - To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).

Match - To marry; to give in marriage.

Match - To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.

Match - To be united in marriage; to mate.

Match - To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

Match-cloth - A coarse cloth.

Math - A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath.

Matriarch - The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Matzoth - A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.

Maunch - To munch.

Maunch - See Manche.

Mawkish - Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.

Mawkish - Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.

Mawmish - Nauseous.

Maybush - The hawthorn.

Mayfish - A common American minnow (Fundulus majalis). See Minnow.

Meach - To skulk; to cower. See Mich.

Meath - Alt. of Meathe

Mechanograph - One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.

Medina epoch - A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.

Meech - See Mich.

Meeth - Mead. See Meathe.

Megalith - A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building.

Megilph - A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.

Melodiograph - A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.

Melograph - Same as Melodiograph.

Menobranch - Alt. of Menobranchus

Mesh - The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

Mesh - The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.

Mesh - To catch in a mesh.

Mesh - To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.

Messiah - The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.

Meteorograph - An instrument which registers meteorologic phases or conditions.

Meth - See Meathe.

Metrograph - An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.

Mezuzoth - A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost; -- in use among orthodox Hebrews.

Mich - Alt. of Miche

Microcrith - The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. See Crith.

Micrograph - An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Microlith - Same as Microlite, 2.

Micropantograph - A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.

Microphotograph - A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.

Microphotograph - An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.

Middle-earth - The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell.

Midrashoth - of Midrash

Midrash - A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

Milk vetch - A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.

Millionth - Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

Millionth - The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.

Mimeograph - An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.

Minish - To diminish; to lessen.

Mirth - Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.

Mirth - That which causes merriment.

Misdistinguish - To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.

Misfaith - Want of faith; distrust.

Misgrowth - Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.

Mishmash - A hotchpotch.

Mismatch - To match unsuitably.

Missish - Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental.

Misspeech - Wrong speech.

Misteach - To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.

Misvouch - To vouch falsely.

Moabitish - Moabite.

Mobbish - Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.

Mockish - Mock; counterfeit; sham.

Modish - According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.

Molech - The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch.

Mollah - One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man.

Moloch - The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

Moloch - A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.

Monarch - A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.

Monarch - One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.

Monarch - A patron deity or presiding genius.

Monarch - A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.

Monarch - Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.

Moneth - A month.

Monish - To admonish; to warn. See Admonish.

Monkfish - The angel fish (Squatina).

Monkfish - The angler (Lophius).

Monkish - Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.

Monodelph - Alt. of Monodelphian

Monograph - A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.

Monolith - A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.

Monostich - A composition consisting of one verse only.

Monotriglyph - A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.

Monteith - See Monteth.

Monteth - Alt. of Monteith

Monteith - A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.

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

Moonfish - The mola. See Sunfish, 1.

Moonish - Like the moon; variable.

Moorish - Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.

Moorish - Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.

Mopish - Dull; spiritless; dejected.

Moplah - One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.

Moth - A mote.

Moth - Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.

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

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

Moth - Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

Mounch - To munch.

Mountebankish - Like a mountebank or his quackery.

Mousefish - See Frogfish.

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

Mouth - An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;

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

Mouth - The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.

Mouth - The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.

Mouth - The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.

Mouth - The entrance into a harbor.

Mouth - The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

Mouth - A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

Mouth - Cry; voice.

Mouth - Speech; language; testimony.

Mouth - A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

Mouth - To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

Mouth - To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.

Mouth - To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.

Mouth - To make mouths at.

Mouth - To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.

Mouth - To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.

Mouth - To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.

Much - Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

Much - Many in number.

Much - High in rank or position.

Much - A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I.

Much - A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable.

Much - To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly.

Mudfish - The European loach.

Mudfish - The bowfin.

Mudfish - The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species (Protopterus annectens). See Lipedosiren.

Mudfish - The mud minnow.

Muffish - Stupid; awkward.

Muggish - See Muggy.

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

Mulch - To cover or dress with mulch.

Mulish - Like a mule; sullen; stubborn.

Mullah - See Mollah.

Mumpish - Sullen, sulky.

Munch - To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.

Murth - Plenty; abundance.

Mush - Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.

Mush - To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Musquash - See Muskrat.

Mussulmanish - Mohammedan.

Mutch - The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman.

Myograph - An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.

Myomorph - One of the Myomorpha.

Myriarch - A captain or commander of ten thousand men.

Myrrh - A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose.

Mysteriarch - One presiding over mysteries.

Myth - A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.

Myth - A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

Nailbrush - A brush for cleaning the nails.

Namaycush - A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.

Nargileh - An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.

Nash - Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly.

Natch - The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump.

Nath - hath not.

Nautch - An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls.

Navarch - The commander of a fleet.

'Neath - An abbreviation of Beneath.

Neckcloth - A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.

Needlefish - The European great pipefich (Siphostoma, / Syngnathus, acus); -- called also earl, and tanglefish.

Needlefish - The garfish.

Nefasch - Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.

Neginoth - Stringed instruments.

Nehiloth - A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.

Neigh - To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.

Neigh - To scoff or sneer; to jeer.

Neigh - The cry of a horse; a whinny.

Nematognath - one of the Nematognathi.

Neomorph - A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

Nesh - Soft; tender; delicate.

Netfish - An astrophyton.

Newish - Somewhat new; nearly new.

Niggardish - Somewhat niggard.

Niggish - Niggardly.

Nigh - Not distant or remote in place or time; near.

Nigh - Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.

Nigh - In a situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near.

Nigh - Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead.

Nigh - To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near.

Nigh - Near to; not remote or distant from.

Nightish - Of or pertaining to night.

Nineteenth - Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.

Nineteenth - Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Nineteenth - The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.

Nineteenth - The next in order after the eighteenth.

Nineteenth - An interval of two octaves and a fifth.

Ninetieth - Next in order after the eighty-ninth.

Ninetieth - Constituting or being one of ninety equal parts.

Ninetieth - The quotient of a unit divided by ninety; one of ninety equal parts of anything.

Ninetieth - The next in order after the eighty-ninth.

Ninth - Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.

Ninth - Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.

Ninth - The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.

Ninth - An interval containing an octave and a second.

Ninth - A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.

Noah - A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.

Noctograph - A kind of writing frame for the blind.

Noctograph - An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.

Noematachograph - An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind.

Nomarch - The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

Nonesuch - A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

Nonsuch - See Nonesuch.

North - That one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south.

North - Any country or region situated farther to the north than another; the northern section of a country.

North - Specifically: That part of the United States lying north of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.

North - Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north.

North - To turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north.

North - Northward.

Notch - A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

Notch - A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.

Notch - To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.

Notch - To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.

Nouch - An ouch; a jewel.

Nourish - To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

Nourish - To support; to maintain.

Nourish - To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.

Nourish - To cherish; to comfort.

Nourish - To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.

Nourish - To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

Nourish - To gain nourishment.

Nourish - A nurse.

Nowch - See Nouch.

Nucleobranch - Belonging to the Nucleobranchiata.

Nucleobranch - One of the Nucleobranchiata.

Nudibranch - Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata.

Nudibranch - One of the Nudibranchiata.

Numbfish - The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.

Nunnish - Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun.

Nuthatch - Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmaea), and others, are American.

Nymph - A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.

Nymph - A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.

Nymph - The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.

Nymph - Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.

Nymphish - Relating to nymphs; ladylike.

Oafish - Like an oaf; simple.

Oarfish - The ribbon fish.

Oath - A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.

Oath - A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.

Oath - An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false.

Oath - A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of profane swearing.

Obeah - Same as Obi.

Obeah - Of or pertaining to obi; as, the obeah man.

Oblongish - Somewhat oblong.

Octateuch - A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament.

Odontograph - An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.

Offish - Shy or distant in manner.

Oftensith - Frequently; often.

Ogdoastich - A poem of eight lines.

Ogreish - Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre.

Oh - An exclamation expressing various emotions, according to the tone and manner, especially surprise, pain, sorrow, anxiety, or a wish. See the Note under O.

Oilcloth - Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering floors, etc.

Oldish - Somewhat old.

Old-maidish - Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular.

Old-womanish - Like an old woman; anile.

Oleograph - The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix.

Oleograph - A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.

Oligarch - A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

Omnigraph - A pantograph.

Oncograph - An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.

Onrush - A rushing onward.

Opah - 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.

Optigraph - A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.

Orichalch - A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.

Orrach - See Orach.

Ostrich - A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

Ostrogoth - One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.

Otolith - Alt. of Otolite

Ouch - A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person.

Outblush - To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy color.

Outgrowth - That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

Outgush - A pouring out; an outburst.

Outgush - To gush out; to flow forth.

Outlandish - Foreign; not native.

Outlandish - Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.

Outlaugh - To surpass or outdo in laughing.

Outlaugh - To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down.

Outmarch - To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

Outparish - A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town.

Outpreach - To surpass in preaching.

Outquench - To quench entirely; to extinguish.

Outreach - To reach beyond.

Outrush - To rush out; to issue, or ru/ out, forcibly.

Outstretch - To stretch out.

Outwatch - To exceed in watching.

Outweigh - To exceed in weight or value.

Outworth - To exceed in worth.

Overarch - To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch.

Overbookish - Excessively bookish.

Overcatch - To overtake.

Overfish - To fish to excess.

Overflourish - To make excessive display or flourish of.

Overflourish - To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over.

Overflush - To flush to excess.

Overgrowth - Excessive growth.

Overhigh - Too high.

Overlash - To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast.

Overlavish - Lavish to excess.

Overmarch - To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching.

Overmatch - To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish.

Overmatch - To marry (one) to a superior.

Overmatch - One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest in which one of the opponents is overmatched.

Overmuch - Too much.

Overmuch - In too great a degree; too much.

Overmuch - An excess; a surplus.

Overperch - To perch upon; to fly over.

Overpolish - To polish too much.

Overreach - To reach above or beyond in any direction.

Overreach - To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.

Overreach - To reach too far

Overreach - To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.

Overreach - To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.

Overreach - To cheat by cunning or deception.

Overreach - The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

Overrich - Exccessively rich.

Oversearch - To search all over.

Overslaugh - A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River.

Overslaugh - To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or an impediment; as, to overslaugh a bill in a legislative body; to overslaugh a military officer, that is, to hinder his promotion or employment.

Overwash - To overflow.

Overwatch - To watch too much.

Overwatch - To weary or exhaust by watching.

Overweigh - To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.

Owch - See Ouch.

Owlish - Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.

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

Padishah - Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.

Paganish - Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish.

Pah - An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.

Pah - A kind of stockaded intrenchment.

Paleograph - An ancient manuscript.

Paleolith - A relic of the Paleolithic era.

Palish - Somewhat pale or wan.

Pallah - 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.

Panch - See Paunch.

Pantagraph - See Pantograph.

Pantamorph - That which assumes, or exists in, all forms.

Pantelegraph - See under Telegraph.

Pantograph - An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.

Papyrograph - An apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink, is used. The word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. See Copygraph, Hectograph, Manifold.

Paragnath - Same as Paragnathus.

Paragraph - Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character /, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.

Paragraph - A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark /, but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin.

Paragraph - A brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph.

Paragraph - To divide into paragraphs; to mark with the character /.

Paragraph - To express in the compass of a paragraph; as, to paragraph an article.

Paragraph - To mention in a paragraph or paragraphs

Paramorph - A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite.

Paranymph - A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride.

Paranymph - The bridesmaid who conducted the bride to the bridegroom.

Paranymph - An ally; a supporter or abettor.

Paraph - A flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery.

Paraph - To add a paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.

Parch - To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.

Parch - To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever.

Parch - To become scorched or superficially burnt; to be very dry.

Pariah - 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.

Pariah - An outcast; one despised by society.

Parish - That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.

Parish - The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.

Parish - An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.

Parish - In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.

Parish - Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.

Parsonish - Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.

Pasch - Alt. of Pascha

Pash - To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.

Pash - The head; the poll.

Pash - A crushing blow.

Pash - A heavy fall of rain or snow.

Patch - A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.

Patch - A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

Patch - A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.

Patch - A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

Patch - Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.

Patch - A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

Patch - A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

Patch - To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

Patch - To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.

Patch - To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.

Patch - To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.

Path - A trodden way; a footway.

Path - A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.

Path - To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).

Path - To walk or go.

Patriarch - The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.

Patriarch - A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch.

Patriarch - A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.

Paunch - The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.

Paunch - A paunch mat; -- called also panch.

Paunch - The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.

Paunch - To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Paunch - To stuff with food.

Peach - To accuse of crime; to inform against.

Peach - To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

Peach - A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

Peakish - Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.

Peakish - Having peaks; peaked.

Peakish - Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly.

Pearch - See Perch.

Pearlash - A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.

Pearlfish - Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.

Peckish - Inclined to eat; hungry.

Pectinibranch - One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

Peevish - Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

Peevish - Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.

Peevish - Silly; childish; trifling.

Pianograph - A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.

Pibroch - A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.

Planish - To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.

Prudish - Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.

Queerish - Rather queer; somewhat singular.

Quegh - A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

Quench - To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.

Quench - To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.

Quench - To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.

Pelfish - Of or pertaining to pelf.

Penfish - A squid.

Pennach - A bunch of feathers; a plume.

Pennyworth - A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.

Pennyworth - Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain.

Pennyworth - A small quantity; a trifle.

Pentaptych - A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.

Pentastich - A composition consisting of five verses.

Pentateuch - The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.

Pentrough - A penstock.

Peoplish - Vulgar.

Perch - Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).

Perch - Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.

Perch - A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.

Perch - A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.

Perch - In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.

Perch - In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.

Perch - A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

Perch - To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.

Perch - To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.

Perch - To occupy as a perch.

Perianth - The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

Perianth - A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.

Perichaeth - The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.

Perigraph - A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything.

Perilymph - The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.

Perimorph - A crystal of one species inclosing one of another species. See Endomorph.

Perish - To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

Perish - To cause perish.

Pernyi moth - A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.

Perspectograph - An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

Pettish - Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.

Pharaoh - A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were designated.

Pharaoh - See Faro.

Philomath - A lover of learning; a scholar.

Phlebolith - A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.

Phonautograph - An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.

Phonograph - A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.

Phonograph - An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.

Photograph - A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

Photograph - To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.

Photograph - To practice photography; to take photographs.

Photoheliograph - A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.

Photolithograph - A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.

Photolithograph - To produce (a picture, a copy) by the process of photolithography.

Photomicrograph - An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.

Photomicrograph - A microscopically small photograph of an object.

Photozincograph - A print made by photozincography.

Phrenograph - An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.

Phylarch - The chief of a phyle, or tribe.

Picayunish - Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.

Picktooth - A toothpick.

Pictish - Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts.

Pictograph - A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Picturesquish - Somewhat picturesque.

Pigfish - Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish.

Pigfish - A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.

Piggish - Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.

Pilch - A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.

Pia cloth - A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

Pinch - To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

Pinch - o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.

Pinch - To plait.

Pinch - Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.

Pinch - To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.

Pinch - To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.

Pinch - To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

Pinch - To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.

Pinch - A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

Pinch - As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

Pinch - Pian; pang.

Pinch - A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

Pinefinch - A small American bird (Spinus, / Chrysomitris, spinus); -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin.

Pinefinch - The pine grosbeak.

Pinfish - The sailor's choice (Diplodus, / Lagodon, rhomboides).

Pinfish - The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

Pinkish - Somewhat pink.

Pinpatch - The common English periwinkle.

Pipefish - Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

Pipemouth - Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia.

Pish - An exclamation of contempt.

Pish - To express contempt.

Pitch - A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.

Pitch - See Pitchstone.

Pitch - To cover over or smear with pitch.

Pitch - Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

Pitch - To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

Pitch - To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.

Pitch - To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.

Pitch - To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.

Pitch - To set or fix, as a price or value.

Pitch - To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

Pitch - To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

Pitch - To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon.

Pitch - To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.

Pitch - A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.

Pitch - That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.

Pitch - A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.

Pitch - Height; stature.

Pitch - A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

Pitch - The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.

Pitch - The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.

Pitch - The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.

Pitch - The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.

Pitch - The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller.

Pitch - The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates.

Pith - The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.

Pith - The spongy interior substance of a feather.

Pith - The spinal cord; the marrow.

Pith - Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.

Pith - To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

Planch - A plank.

Planch - To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.

Plash - A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

Plash - A dash of water; a splash.

Plash - To dabble in water; to splash.

Plash - To splash, as water.

Plash - To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite.

Plash - To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge.

Plash - The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

Plathelminth - One of the Platyelminthes.

Plattdeutsch - The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German.

Pleach - To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.

Plectognath - Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.

Plectognath - One of the Plectognathi.

Plenish - To replenish.

Plenish - To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm.

Plesh - A pool; a plash.

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

Pleurobranch - Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

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

Plough - See Plow.

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

Plough - Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

Plough - A carucate of land; a plowland.

Plough - A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

Plough - An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

Plough - Same as Charles's Wain.

Plough - To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.

Plough - To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.

Plough - To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.

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

Plough - To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.

Plush - A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

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

Pneumograph - Same as Pneumatograph.

Poach - To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.

Poach - To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.

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

Poach - To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.

Poach - To force, drive, or plunge into anything.

Poach - To make soft or muddy by trampling

Poach - To begin and not complete.

Poach - To become soft or muddy.

Podobranch - One of the branchiae attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.

Podoscaph - A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.

Poh - An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !

Pokerish - Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place.

Pokerish - Stiff like a poker.

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

Polish - Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.

Polish - The language of the Poles.

Polish - To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.

Polish - Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.

Polish - To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.

Polish - A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.

Polish - Anything used to produce a gloss.

Polish - Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.

Poltroonish - Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.

Polygraph - An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

Polygraph - In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors.

Polygraph - An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector

Polymorph - A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph.

Pondfish - Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidae; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish.

Pooh - Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.

Pooh-pooh - To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

Popish - Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously.

Porch - A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.

Porch - A portico; a covered walk.

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

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

Potch - To thrust; to push.

Potch - See Poach, to cook.

Pouch - A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

Pouch - That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch

Pouch - A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.

Pouch - A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.

Pouch - A cyst or sac containing fluid.

Pouch - A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

Pouch - A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.

Pouch - To put or take into a pouch.

Pouch - To swallow; -- said of fowls.

Pouch - To pout.

Pouch - To pocket; to put up with.

Pound-breach - The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.

Prankish - Full of pranks; frolicsome.

Preach - To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.

Preach - To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher.

Preach - To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.

Preach - To inculcate in public discourse; to urge with earnestness by public teaching.

Preach - To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.

Preach - To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.

Preach - To advise or recommend earnestly.

Preach - A religious discourse.

Preadmonish - To admonish previously.

Preestablish - To establish beforehand.

Premonish - To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.

Prettyish - Somewhat pretty.

Pricklefish - The stickleback.

Prickpunch - A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.

Priggish - Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.

Pritch - A sharp-pointed instrument; also, an eelspear.

Pritch - Pique; offense.

Proach - See Approach.

Prosobranch - One of the Prosobranchiata.

Protoconch - The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.

Proudish - Somewhat proud.

Psalmograph - A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.

Pseudobranch - Same as Pseudobranchia.

Pseudograph - A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

Pseudomorph - An irregular or deceptive form.

Pseudomorph - A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.

Publish - To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.

Publish - To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.

Publish - To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.

Publish - To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper.

Puckish - Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.

Pugh - Pshaw! pish! -- a word used in contempt or disdain.

Puh - The same as Pugh.

Pulpitish - Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching.

Punch - A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.

Punch - The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.

Punch - A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.

Punch - One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.

Punch - To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.

Punch - A thrust or blow.

Punch - A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.

Punch - An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.

Punch - A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

Punch - To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.

Punish - To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.

Punish - To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.

Punish - To injure, as by beating; to pommel.

Puppetish - Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet.

Puppyish - Like a puppy.

Purdah - A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.

Purplish - Somewhat purple.

Push - A pustule; a pimple.

Push - To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.

Push - To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

Push - To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.

Push - To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.

Push - To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.

Push - To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.

Push - To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.

Push - To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.

Push - A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.

Push - Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.

Push - An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.

Push - The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.

Pyracanth - The evergreen thorn (Crataegus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe.

Quackish - Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.

Quaigh - Alt. of Quaich

Quaich - A small shallow cup or drinking vessel.

Quakerish - Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.

Qualmish - Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.

Quamash - See Camass.

Quash - Same as Squash.

Quash - To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.

Quash - To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.

Quash - To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.

Quash - To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.

Quatch - Squat; flat.

Queach - A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.

Queach - To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.

Quebrith - Sulphur.

Quech - Alt. of Queck

Queenfish - A California sciaenoid food fish (Seriphys politus). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.

Quich - To stir.

Quickhatch - The wolverine.

Quinch - To stir; to wince.

Quirkish - Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk.

Quish - See Cuish.

Quitch - Same as Quitch grass.

Quitch - Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.

Quoth - Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he.

Raash - The electric catfish.

Rach - Alt. of Rache

Radiograph - A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.

Radish - The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.

Raffish - Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.

Ragabash - Alt. of Ragabrash

Ragabrash - An idle, ragged person.

Rajah - A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.

Rakish - Dissolute; lewd; debauched.

Rakish - Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.

Ralph - A name sometimes given to the raven.

Rammish - Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.

Ranch - To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.

Ranch - A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.

Rash - To pull off or pluck violently.

Rash - To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.

Rash - A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

Rash - An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

Rash - Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

Rash - Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.

Rash - Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.

Rash - Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

Rash - So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.

Rash - To prepare with haste.

Ratch - Same as Rotche.

Ratch - A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works.

Ratfish - Same as Rat-tail.

Rath - A hill or mound.

Rath - A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.

Rath - Alt. of Rathe

Rath - Alt. of Rathe

Raunch - See Ranch.

Ravish - To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

Ravish - To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.

Ravish - To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.

Rawish - Somewhat raw.

Rayah - A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.

Reach - To retch.

Reach - An effort to vomit.

Reach - To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.

Reach - Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.

Reach - To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.

Reach - To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.

Reach - Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.

Reach - To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.

Reach - To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.

Reach - To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.

Reach - To understand; to comprehend.

Reach - To overreach; to deceive.

Reach - To stretch out the hand.

Reach - To strain after something; to make efforts.

Reach - To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.

Reach - To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

Reach - The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.

Reach - The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.

Reach - Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.

Reach - An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.

Reach - An artifice to obtain an advantage.

Reach - The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

Reapproach - To approach again or anew.

Reattach - To attach again.

Rebanish - To banish again.

Recouch - To retire again to a couch; to lie down again.

Reddish - Somewhat red; moderately red.

Reflourish - To flourish again.

Rich - Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor.

Rich - Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.

Rich - Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.

Rich - Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.

Rich - Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit.

Rich - Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.

Rich - Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.

Rich - Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.

Rich - Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.

Rich - To enrich.

Ricketish - Rickety.

Saddlecloth - A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.

Sadh - A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos. Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects.

Redfinch - The European linnet.

Redfish - The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b).

Redfish - The rosefish.

Redfish - A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.

Redfish - The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.

Rediminish - To diminish again.

Redmouth - Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Haemulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.

Reestablish - To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.

Refresh - To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.

Refresh - To make as if new; to repair; to restore.

Refresh - The act of refreshing.

Refurbish - To furbish anew.

Refurnish - To furnish again.

Regrowth - The act of regrowing; a second or new growth.

Rehash - To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.

Rehash - Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.

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

Relinquish - To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

Relinquish - To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.

Relish - To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.

Relish - To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.

Relish - To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.

Relish - A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.

Relish - Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.

Relish - A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.

Relish - That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.

Relish - The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.

Replenish - To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound.

Replenish - To finish; to complete; to perfect.

Replenish - To recover former fullness.

Repolish - To polish again.

Reproach - To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

Reproach - To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.

Reproach - The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.

Reproach - A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.

Reproach - An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.

Republish - To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive (a will) by re/xecution or codicil.

Re-search - To search again; to examine anew.

Research - Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.

Research - To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

Restinguish - To quench or extinguish.

Retch - To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

Retch - To care for; to heed; to reck.

Retouch - To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

Retouch - To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.

Retouch - A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

Retrench - To cut off; to pare away.

Retrench - To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.

Retrench - To confine; to limit; to restrict.

Retrench - To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.

Retrench - To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.

Rewth - Ruth.

Rhabdolith - A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.

Rhemish - Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France.

Rhenish - Of or pertaining to the river Rhine; as, Rhenish wine.

Rhenish - Rhine wine.

Rhinolith - A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.

Ribaldish - Like a ribald.

Riggish - Like a rig or wanton.

Rish - A rush (the plant).

Roach - A cockroach.

Roach - A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.

Roach - An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.

Roach - The redfin, or shiner.

Roach - A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.

Roach - To cause to arch.

Roach - To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.

Rockfish - Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.

Rockfish - The striped bass. See Bass.

Rockfish - Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.

Rockfish - An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.

Roguish - Vagrant.

Roguish - Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish.

Roguish - Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch.

Roinish - See Roynish.

Romanish - Pertaining to Romanism.

Romansch - The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.

Romish - Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies.

Rompish - Given to rude play; inclined to romp.

Roomth - Room; space.

Roorbach - A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.

Ropish - Somewhat ropy.

Rosebush - The bush or shrub which bears roses.

Rosefinch - Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.

Rosefish - A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

Rough - Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.

Rough - Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road.

Rough - Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.

Rough - Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.

Rough - Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.

Rough - Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.

Rough - Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.

Rough - Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.

Rough - Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.

Rough - Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.

Rough - Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.

Rough - Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.

Rough - Produced offhand.

Rough - Boisterous weather.

Rough - A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.

Rough - In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

Rough - To render rough; to roughen.

Rough - To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.

Rough - To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.

Roughish - Somewhat rough.

Roundfish - Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.

Roundfish - A lake whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.

Roundish - Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.

Routish - Uproarious; riotous.

Rowdyish - Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy.

Roxburgh - A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.

Roynish - Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome.

Roytish - Wild; irregular.

Rubbish - Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.

Rubbish - Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

Rudish - Somewhat rude.

Ruffianish - Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.

Rukh - The roc.

Rukh - A large bird, supposed by some to be the same as the extinct Epiornis of Madagascar.

Runch - The wild radish.

Rush - A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

Rush - The merest trifle; a straw.

Rush - To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.

Rush - To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.

Rush - To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.

Rush - To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Rush - A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.

Rush - Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.

Rush - A perfect recitation.

Rush - A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.

Rush - The act of running with the ball.

Ruth - Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.

Ruth - That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.

Ruttish - Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.

Rysh - Rush, a plant.

Ryth - A ford.

Saadh - See Sadh.

Sabaoth - Armies; hosts.

Sabaoth - Incorrectly, the Sabbath.

Sabbath - A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day.

Sabbath - The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival.

Sabbath - Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.

Sackcloth - Linen or cotton cloth such as sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence.

Sagebrush - A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

Sahibah - A lady; mistress.

Sailcloth - Duck or canvas used in making sails.

Sailfish - The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.)

Sailfish - The basking, or liver, shark.

Sailfish - The quillback.

Saintish - Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.

Saith - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Say.

Sallowish - Somewhat sallow.

Saltbush - An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.

Saltish - Somewhat salt.

Saltmouth - A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts.

Sandarach - Alt. of Sandarac

Sandfish - A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.

Sandish - Approaching the nature of sand; loose; not compact.

Sandwich - Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

Sandwich - To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

Sash - A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, members of societies, etc.

Sash - To adorn with a sash or scarf.

Sash - The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.

Sash - In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.

Sash - To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window.

Sassenach - A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander.

Saugh - Alt. of Sauh

Sauh - imp. sing. of See.

Sawfish - Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

Sawtooth - An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.

Scaldfish - A European flounder (Arnoglossus laterna, or Psetta arnoglossa); -- called also megrim, and smooth sole.

Scampish - Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.

Scaramouch - A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.

Scatch - A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth.

Scath - Harm; damage; injury; hurt; waste; misfortune.

Scath - To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.

Scenograph - A perspective representation or general view of an object.

Schah - See Shah.

Schizognath - Any bird with a schizognathous palate.

Schlich - The finer portion of a crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.

Schottish - Alt. of Schottische

Schwann's sheath - The neurilemma.

Sciagraph - An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.

Sciagraph - A radiograph.

Scibboleth - Shibboleth.

Sciniph - Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandfly, or the like.

Scomfish - To suffocate or stifle; to smother.

Scorch - To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as, to scorch linen.

Scorch - To affect painfully with heat, or as with heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.

Scorch - To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

Scorch - To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.

Scorch - To burn or be burnt.

Scotch - Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

Scotch - The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.

Scotch - Collectively, the people of Scotland.

Scotch - To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

Scotch - A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.

Scotch - To cut superficially; to wound; to score.

Scotch - A slight cut or incision; a score.

Scoth - To clothe or cover up.

Scotograph - An instrument for writing in the dark, or without seeing.

Scottish - Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.

Scranch - To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.

Scratch - To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.

Scratch - To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.

Scratch - To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.

Scratch - To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.

Scratch - To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

Scratch - To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.

Scratch - A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching, or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow, or incision.

Scratch - A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.

Scratch - Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.

Scratch - A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.

Scratch - A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.

Scratch - Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards.

Scratchbrush - A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

Screech - To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.

Screech - A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.

Scritch - A screech.

Scrunch - To scranch; to crunch.

Scutch - To beat or whip; to drub.

Scutch - To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

Scutch - To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

Scutch - A wooden instrument used in scutching flax and hemp.

Scutch - The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.

Scutibranch - Scutibranchiate.

Scutibranch - One of the Scutibranchiata.

'Sdeath - An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger.

Seabeach - A beach lying along the sea.

Sea breach - A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.

Sea catfish - Alt. of Sea cat

Sea crawfish - Alt. of Sea crayfish

Sea crayfish - Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster.

Sea froth - See Sea foam, 2.

Seah - A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.

Sea heath - A low perennial plant (Frankenia laevis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.

Sealgh - Alt. of Selch

Selch - A seal.

Sea loach - The three-bearded rockling. See Rockling.

Sea peach - A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia, / Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.

Sea perch - The European bass (Roccus, / Labrax, lupus); -- called also sea dace.

Sea perch - The cunner.

Sea perch - The sea bass.

Sea perch - The name is applied also to other species of fishes.

Search - To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

Search - To inquire after; to look for; to seek.

Search - To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.

Search - To examine; to try; to put to the test.

Search - To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.

Search - The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

Searcloth - Cerecloth.

Searcloth - To cover, as a sore, with cerecloth.

Sigh - To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.

Sigh - Hence, to lament; to grieve.

Sigh - To make a sound like sighing.

Sigh - To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

Sigh - To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

Sigh - To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

Sigh - A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.

Sigh - Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.

Sparkish - Like a spark; airy; gay.

Sparkish - Showy; well-dresed; fine.

Spikefish - See Sailfish (a)

Stablish - To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix.

Stathmograph - A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.

Seerfish - A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

Seeth - imp. of Seethe.

Seigh - obs. imp. sing. of See. Saw.

Seirfish - Same as Seerfish.

Seismograph - An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

Selah - 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.

Selcouth - Rarely known; unusual; strange.

Selenograph - A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it.

Selfish - Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.

Selfish - Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.

Self-reproach - The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.

Seminymph - The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.

Seraph - One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels.

Seriph - See Ceriph.

Sermonish - Resembling a sermon.

Seventeenth - Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.

Seventeenth - Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Seventeenth - The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.

Seventeenth - The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.

Seventeenth - An interval of two octaves and a third.

Seventh - Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.

Seventh - Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part.

Seventh - One next in order after the sixth; one coming after six others.

Seventh - The quotient of a unit divided by seven; one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided.

Seventh - An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

Seventh - A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished.

Seventieth - Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.

Seventieth - Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.

Seventieth - One next in order after the sixty-ninth.

Seventieth - The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.

Seyh - imp. sing. & 2d pers. pl. of See.

Shadowish - Shadowy; vague.

Shadrach - A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)

Shagebush - A sackbut.

Shah - The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.

Shash - The scarf of a turban.

Shash - A sash.

Sheatfish - A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid.

Sheath - A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.

Sheath - Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part.

Sheath - The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.

Sheath - One of the elytra of an insect.

Sheathfish - Same as Sheatfish.

Shechinah - See Shekinah.

Sheepish - Of or pertaining to sheep.

Sheepish - Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.

Shekinah - 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.

Shellfish - Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.

Shemitish - Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.

Shepherdish - Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral.

Sheth - The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called standard, or post.

Shiah - Same as Shiite.

Shibboleth - A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.

Shibboleth - Also in an extended sense.

Shibboleth - Hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase.

Shiah - A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans.

Shillalah - Alt. of Shillelah

Shillelah - An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.

Shiloh - A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest."

Shittah - Alt. of Shittah tree

Shoppish - Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

Shough - A shockdog.

Shough - See Shoo.

Showish - Showy; ostentatious.

Shrewish - having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.

Sich - Such.

Sickish - Somewhat sick or diseased.

Sickish - Somewhat sickening; as, a sickish taste.

Silverfish - The tarpum.

Silverfish - A white variety of the goldfish.

Silversmith - One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.

Sinch - A saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass.

Sinch - To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle.

Sinewish - Sinewy.

Sirrah - 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.

Sismograph - See Seismograph.

Sith - Since; afterwards; seeing that.

Sith - Alt. of Sithe

Sitz bath - A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.

Sixteenth - Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

Sixteenth - Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Sixteenth - The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.

Sixteenth - The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.

Sixteenth - An interval comprising two octaves and a second.

Sixth - First after the fifth; next in order after the fifth.

Sixth - Constituting or being one of six equal parts into which anything is divided.

Sixth - The quotient of a unit divided by six; one of six equal parts which form a whole.

Sixth - The next in order after the fifth.

Sixth - The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

Sixtieth - Next in order after the fifty-ninth.

Sixtieth - Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Sixtieth - The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.

Sixtieth - The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.

Sixty-fourth - Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.

Skaith - See Scatch.

Sketch - An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.

Sketch - To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

Sketch - To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

Sketch - To make sketches, as of landscapes.

Skinch - To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

Skirmish - To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.

Skirmish - A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.

Skirmish - A slight contest.

Skittish - Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt.

Skittish - Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle.

Skullfish - A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.

Skunkish - Like the skunk, especially in odor.

Sky-high - Very high.

Skyish - Like the sky, or approaching the sky; lofty; ethereal.

Slapdash - In a bold, careless manner; at random.

Slapdash - With a slap; all at once; slap.

Slapdash - To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall.

Slash - To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

Slash - To lash; to ply the whip to.

Slash - To crack or snap, as a whip.

Slash - To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.

Slash - A long cut; a cut made at random.

Slash - A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

Slash - Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

Slatch - The period of a transitory breeze.

Slatch - An interval of fair weather.

Slatch - The loose or slack part of a rope; slack.

Slatterpouch - A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise.

Slavish - Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great.

Sleepish - Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

Sleetch - Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers.

Sleevefish - A squid.

Sleigh - Sly.

Sleigh - A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.

Sleuth - The track of man or beast as followed by the scent.

Slewth - Sloth; idleness.

Slich - Alt. of Slick

Slish - A cut; as, slish and slash.

Slosh - Alt. of Sloshy

Sloth - Slowness; tardiness.

Sloth - Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.

Sloth - Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidae, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.

Sloth - To be idle.

Slouch - A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.

Slouch - An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.

Slouch - To droop, as the head.

Slouch - To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.

Slouch - To cause to hang down; to depress at the side; as, to slouth the hat.

Slough - Slow.

Slough - A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.

Slough - A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.

Slough - imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

Slough - The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.

Slough - The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.

Slough - To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.

Slough - To cast off; to discard as refuse.

Slowh - imp. of Slee,to slay.

Sluggish - Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

Sluggish - Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.

Sluggish - Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.

Sluggish - Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

Slush - Soft mud.

Slush - A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.

Slush - A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.

Slush - The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.

Slush - A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.

Slush - To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.

Slush - To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

Slutch - Slush.

Sluttish - Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.

Smallish - Somewhat small.

Smash - To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

Smash - To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.

Smash - A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.

Smash - Hence, bankruptcy.

Smatch - Taste; tincture; smack.

Smatch - To smack.

Smeath - The smew.

Smeeth - To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.

Smeeth - To smooth.

Smirch - To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

Smirch - A smutch; a dirty stain.

Smith - One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.

Smith - One who makes or effects anything.

Smith - To beat into shape; to forge.

Smittlish - Infectious; catching.

Smooch - See Smutch.

Smooth - Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.

Smooth - Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.

Smooth - Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.

Smooth - Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.

Smooth - Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.

Smooth - Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.

Smooth - Smoothly.

Smooth - The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.

Smooth - That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.

Smooth - To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.

Smooth - To free from obstruction; to make easy.

Smooth - To free from harshness; to make flowing.

Smooth - To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.

Smooth - To give a smooth or calm appearance to.

Smooth - To ease; to regulate.

Smooth - To flatter; to use blandishment.

Smoterlich - Dirty; foul.

Smouch - To kiss closely.

Smouch - To smutch; to soil; as, to smouch the face.

Smouch - A dark soil or stain; a smutch.

Smutch - A stain; a dirty spot.

Smutch - To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.

Snailfish - See Sea snail (a).

Snakefish - The band fish.

Snakefish - The lizard fish.

Snakish - Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.

Snappish - Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.

Snappish - Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.

Snatch - To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.

Snatch - To seize and transport away; to rap.

Snatch - To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.

Snatch - A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.

Snatch - A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.

Snatch - A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.

Snatch - The handle of a scythe; a snead.

Sneath - Alt. of Sneathe

Snipefish - The bellows fish.

Snipefish - A long, slender deep-sea fish (Nemichthys scolopaceus) with a slender beak.

Snobbish - Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.

Snow-broth - Snow and water mixed, or snow just melted; very cold liquor.

Snowplough - An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.

Soapfish - Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.

Softish - Somewhat soft.

Solenoglyph - Pertaining to the Selenoglypha. See Ophidia.

Solenoglyph - One of the Selenoglypha.

Songish - Consisting of songs.

Sonnish - Like the sun; sunny; golden.

Sooth - True; faithful; trustworthy.

Sooth - Pleasing; delightful; sweet.

Sooth - Truth; reality.

Sooth - Augury; prognostication.

Sooth - Blandishment; cajolery.

Sootish - Sooty.

Soph - A contraction of Soph ister.

Soph - A contraction of Sophomore.

Sottish - Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

Soubah - See Subah.

Sough - A sow.

Sough - A small drain; an adit.

Sough - The sound produced by soughing; a hollow murmur or roaring.

Sough - Hence, a vague rumor or flying report.

Sough - A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.

Sough - To whistle or sigh, as the wind.

Sourish - Somewhat sour; moderately acid; as, sourish fruit; a sourish taste.

South - That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.

South - A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.

South - Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.

South - The wind from the south.

South - Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.

South - Toward the south; southward.

South - From the south; as, the wind blows south.

South - To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.

South - To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.

Spadefish - An American market fish (Chaetodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

Spanish - Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.

Spanish - The language of Spain.

Sparth - An Anglo-Saxon battle-ax, or halberd.

Spearfish - A large and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean.

Spearfish - The carp sucker.

Speech - The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

Speech - he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.

Speech - A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.

Speech - Talk; mention; common saying.

Speech - formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.

Speech - ny declaration of thoughts.

Speech - To make a speech; to harangue.

Spherograph - An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, and turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off by inspection.

Sphygmograph - An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram.

Spicebush - Spicewood.

Spilth - Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion.

Spinach - Alt. of Spinage

Spirograph - An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.

Spitzenburgh - A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.

Splash - To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

Splash - To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.

Splash - To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.

Splash - Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.

Splash - A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.

Splatterdash - Uproar.

Splaymouth - A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision.

Spleenish - Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful.

Splenish - Spleenish.

Splotch - A spot; a stain; a daub.

Spoffish - Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.

Spouse-breach - Adultery.

Spoutfish - A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

Squabash - To crush; to quash; to squash.

Squabbish - Thick; fat; heavy.

Squarish - Nearly square.

Squash - An American animal allied to the weasel.

Squash - A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

Squash - To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Squash - Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

Squash - Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.

Squash - A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

Squeamish - Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.

Squelch - To quell; to crush; to silence or put down.

Squelch - A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.

Squinch - A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

Squirarch - One who belongs to the squirarchy.

Staffish - Stiff; harsh.

Stagecoach - A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.

Staggerbush - An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves.

Staith - A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.

Stalworth - Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent.

Stanch - To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.

Stanch - To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.

Stanch - To cease, as the flowing of blood.

Stanch - That which stanches or checks.

Stanch - A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.

Stanch - Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.

Stanch - Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.

Stanch - Close; secret; private.

Stanch - To prop; to make stanch, or strong.

Standish - A stand, or case, for pen and ink.

Starch - Stiff; precise; rigid.

Starch - A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

Starch - Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.

Starch - To stiffen with starch.

Starfinch - The European redstart.

Starfish - Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.

Starfish - The dollar fish, or butterfish.

Startish - Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.

Startlish - Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.

Staunch - Alt. of Staunchness

Stealth - The act of stealing; theft.

Stealth - The thing stolen; stolen property.

Stealth - The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.

Steepish - Somewhat steep.

Stench - To stanch.

Stench - A smell; an odor.

Stench - An ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.

Stench - To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.

Stenograph - To write or report in stenographic characters.

Stenograph - A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.

Stereograph - Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.

Stethograph - See Pneumatograph.

Stewish - Suiting a stew, or brothel.

Stich - A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.

Stich - A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.

Stich - A row, line, or rank of trees.

Stiffish - Somewhat stiff.

Stillbirth - The birth of a dead fetus.

Stingfish - The weever.

Stitch - A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

Stitch - A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch.

Stitch - A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle; hence, by extension, any space passed over; distance.

Stitch - A local sharp pain; an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle; as, a stitch in the side.

Stitch - A contortion, or twist.

Stitch - Any least part of a fabric or dress; as, to wet every stitch of clothes.

Stitch - A furrow.

Stitch - To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches; as, to stitch a shirt bosom.

Stitch - To sew, or unite together by stitches; as, to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.

Stitch - To form land into ridges.

Stitch - To practice stitching, or needlework.

Stith - Strong; stiff; rigid.

Stith - An anvil; a stithy.

Stocah - A menial attendant.

Stockfish - Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.

Stockfish - Young fresh cod.

Stockish - Like a stock; stupid; blockish.

Stomach - An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.

Stomach - The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.

Stomach - Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.

Stomach - Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.

Stomach - Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.

Stomach - To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

Stomach - To bear without repugnance; to brook.

Stomach - To be angry.

Stonebrash - A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

Stonehatch - The ring plover, or dotterel.

Stonish - Stony.

Sycophantish - Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.

Sylph - An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.

Sylph - Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.

Sylph - Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).

Taplash - Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.

Tarboosh - A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

Telestich - A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.

Thresh - Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.

Threadfish - The cutlass fish.

Threadfish - A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.

Stormfinch - The storm petrel.

Stoutish - Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

Straightforth - Straightway.

Stramash - To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.

Stramash - A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.

Strath - A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore.

Strength - The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

Strength - Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.

Strength - Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.

Strength - That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.

Strength - One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.

Strength - Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?

Strength - Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.

Strength - Intensity; -- said of light or color.

Strength - Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.

Strength - A strong place; a stronghold.

Strength - To strengthen.

Stretch - To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

Stretch - To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.

Stretch - To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.

Stretch - To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.

Stretch - To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.

Stretch - To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.

Stretch - To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.

Stretch - To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.

Stretch - To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.

Stretch - To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.

Stretch - To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.

Stretch - Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.

Stretch - A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.

Stretch - The extent to which anything may be stretched.

Stretch - The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.

Stretch - Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.

Strich - An owl.

Strongish - Somewhat strong.

Studfish - Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as F. catenatus.

Stylish - Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.

Stylograph - A stylographic pen.

Subash - A province; a government, as of a viceroy; also, a subahdar.

Submonish - To suggest; to prompt.

Succotash - Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians.

Such - Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.

Such - Having the particular quality or character specified.

Such - The same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed.

Such - Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

Suckatash - See Succotash.

Suckfish - A sucker fish.

Suleah fish - A coarse fish of India, used in making a breakfast relish called burtah.

Sumach - Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer.

Sumach - The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing.

Sumph - A dunce; a blockhead.

Sunfish - A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

Sunfish - Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.

Sunfish - The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.

Sunfish - The opah.

Sunfish - The basking, or liver, shark.

Sunfish - Any large jellyfish.

Sunniah - One of the sect of Sunnites.

Surah - A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.

Swainish - Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant.

Swallowfish - The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.

Swarth - Swart; swarthy.

Swarth - An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.

Swarth - Sward; short grass.

Swarth - See Swath.

Swartish - Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.

Swash - An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

Swash - Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.

Swash - To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.

Swash - To fall violently or noisily.

Swash - To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

Swash - Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.

Swash - A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

Swash - Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

Swash - A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.

Swash - A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

Swatch - A swath.

Swatch - A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.

Swath - A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.

Swath - The whole sweep of a scythe, or the whole breadth from which grass or grain is cut by a scythe or a machine, in mowing or cradling; as, to cut a wide swath.

Swath - A band or fillet; a swathe.

Swedish - Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.

Swedish - The language of Swedes.

Sweetish - Somewhat sweet.

Sweigh - Sway; movement.

Swellfish - Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.

Swellish - Dandified; stylish.

Swich - Such.

Swinefish - The wolf fish.

Swinish - Of or pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot.

Swish - To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.

Swish - To flog; to lash.

Swish - To dash; to swash.

Swish - A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.

Swish - Light driven spray.

Switch - A small, flexible twig or rod.

Switch - A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.

Switch - A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.

Switch - A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

Switch - To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.

Switch - To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.

Switch - To trim, as, a hedge.

Switch - To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.

Switch - To shift to another circuit.

Switch - To walk with a jerk.

Swordfish - A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long.

Swordfish - The gar pike.

Swordfish - The cutlass fish.

Swordfish - A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.

Swough - A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.

Swough - A swoon.

Sylphish - Sylphlike.

Symposiarch - The master of a feast.

Syngraph - A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

Syth - Alt. of Sythe

Tablecloth - A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.

Tallowish - Having the qualities of tallow.

Tangfish - The common harbor seal.

Tanglefish - The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.

Tapish - To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.

Tarnish - To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color.

Tarnish - To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air.

Tarnish - The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.

Tarnish - A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.

Tarquinish - Like a Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud; haughty; overbearing.

Tartish - Somewhat tart.

Tartuffish - Alt. of Tartufish

Tartufish - Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical.

Tatch - A spot or stain; also, a trick.

Tath - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.

Tath - Dung, or droppings of cattle.

Tath - The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture.

Tath - To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

Taxiarch - An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.

Teach - To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.

Teach - To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class.

Teach - To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.

Teach - To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor.

Teatish - Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.

Tebeth - The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January.

Tectibranch - One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

Teeth - pl. of Tooth.

Teeth - To breed, or grow, teeth.

Telegraph - An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

Telegraph - To convey or announce by telegraph.

Tench - A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.

Tenth - Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.

Tenth - Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

Tenth - The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.

Tenth - The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.

Tenth - The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.

Tenth - The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.

Tenth - A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

Tenth - The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.

Teraph - See Teraphim.

Terebinth - The turpentine tree.

Tetramorph - The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

Tetrarch - A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

Tetrarch - Four.

Tetrastich - A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines.

Tettish - Captious; testy.

Th - In Old English, the article the, when the following word began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.

Thatch - Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

Thatch - A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.

Thatch - To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.

Thenceforth - From that time; thereafter.

Theosoph - Alt. of Theosopher

Therewith - With that or this.

Therewith - In addition; besides; moreover.

Therewith - At the same time; forthwith.

Thermetograph - A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods.

Thermograph - An instrument for automatically recording indications of the variation of temperature.

Thermometrograph - An instrument for recording graphically the variations of temperature, or the indications of a thermometer.

Thibet cloth - A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.

Thibet cloth - A kind of fine woolen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks, etc.

Thickish - Somewhat thick.

Thievish - Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.

Thievish - Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.

Thievish - Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice.

Thigh - The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

Thigh - The coxa, or femur, of an insect.

Thinnish - Somewhat thin.

Third-borough - An under constable.

Thirteenth - Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

Thirteenth - Constituting or being one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Thirteenth - The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Thirteenth - The next in order after the twelfth.

Thirteenth - The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.

Thirtieth - Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

Thirtieth - Constituting or being one of thirty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Thirtieth - The quotient of a unit divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts.

Thorough - Through.

Thorough - Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house.

Thorough - Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.

Thorough - Thoroughly.

Thorough - Through.

Thorough - A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.

Thoroughstitch - So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely.

Thoth - The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.

Thoth - The Egyptian sacred baboon.

Though - Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.

Though - However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

Thousandth - Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.

Thousandth - Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.

Thousandth - Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.

Thousandth - The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.

Thrash - Alt. of Thresh

Thresh - To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.

Thresh - To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

Thrash - Alt. of Thresh

Thresh - To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

Thresh - Same as Thrash.

Throatlatch - A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

Through - From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.

Through - Between the sides or walls of; within; as, to pass through a door; to go through an avenue.

Through - By means of; by the agency of.

Through - Over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride through the country; to look through an account.

Through - Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.

Through - From the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year.

Through - From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through.

Through - From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through.

Through - To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through.

Through - Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge.

Thrush - Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.

Thrush - Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush.

Thrush - An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. See Aphthae.

Thrush - An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.

Thunderfish - A large European loach (Misgurnus fossilis).

Thurgh - Through.

Ticklish - Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

Ticklish - Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.

Ticklish - Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.

Tiffish - Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

Tigerish - Like a tiger; tigrish.

Tigh - A close, or inclosure; a croft.

Tigrish - Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

Tilefish - A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

Tilth - The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.

Tilth - That which is tilled; tillage ground.

Tinmouth - The crappie.

Tinsmith - One who works in tin; a tinner.

Tith - Tight; nimble.

Toadfish - Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo.

Toadfish - The angler.

Toadfish - A swellfish.

Toadish - Like a toad.

Tobias fish - The lant, or sand eel.

Tolbooth - See Tollbooth.

Tollbooth - A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.

Tollbooth - In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.

Tollbooth - To imprison in a tollbooth.

Tonguefish - A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States.

Tonnish - In the ton; fashionable; modish.

Teeth - of Tooth

Tooth - One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.

Tooth - Fig.: Taste; palate.

Tooth - Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

Tooth - A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

Tooth - One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.

Tooth - An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant

Tooth - one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

Tooth - Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.

Tooth - To furnish with teeth.

Tooth - To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

Tooth - To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.

Toothbrush - A brush for cleaning the teeth.

Toparch - The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy.

Top-cloth - A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.

Toph - kind of sandstone.

Torch - A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.

Torch - A flashlight.

Torgoch - The saibling.

Tosh - Neat; trim.

Tottlish - Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; un steady.

Touch - To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

Touch - To perceive by the sense of feeling.

Touch - To come to; to reach; to attain to.

Touch - To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

Touch - To relate to; to concern; to affect.

Touch - To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

Touch - To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.

Touch - To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.

Touch - To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

Touch - To infect; to affect slightly.

Touch - To make an impression on; to have effect upon.

Touch - To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.

Touch - To perform, as a tune; to play.

Touch - To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

Touch - To harm, afflict, or distress.

Touch - To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

Touch - To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.

Touch - To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

Touch - To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.

Touch - To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

Touch - To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.

Touch - To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Touch - The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.

Touch - The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.

Touch - Act or power of exciting emotion.

Touch - An emotion or affection.

Touch - Personal reference or application.

Touch - A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.

Touch - A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

Touch - Feature; lineament; trait.

Touch - The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.

Touch - A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.

Touch - A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.

Touch - A slight and brief essay.

Touch - A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

Touch - Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.

Touch - The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.

Touch - The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.

Touch - That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.

Touch - A boys' game; tag.

Tough - Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.

Tough - Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.

Tough - Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.

Tough - Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.

Tough - Severe; violent; as, a tough storm.

Toughish - Tough in a slight degree.

Tough-pitch - The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.

Tough-pitch - Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.

Townish - Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.

Towpath - A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

Toyish - Sportive; trifling; wanton.

Toyish - Resembling a toy.

Tragacanth - A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.

Vida finch - The whidah bird.

Vixenish - Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

V moth - A common gray European moth (Halia vauaria) having a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each of the fore wings.

Whenceforth - From, or forth from, what or which place; whence.

Wretch - A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.

Wretch - One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.

Youngish - Somewhat young.

Youngth - Youth.

Youth - of Youth

Youth - The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.

Youth - The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.

Youth - A young person; especially, a young man.

Youth - Young persons, collectively.

Trash - That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

Trash - Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

Trash - A worthless person.

Trash - A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

Trash - To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.

Trash - To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

Trash - To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

Trash - To follow with violence and trampling.

Trench - To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

Trench - To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

Trench - To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

Trench - To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

Trench - To encroach; to intrench.

Trench - To have direction; to aim or tend.

Trench - A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

Trench - An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

Trench - An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

Trench-plough - To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

Trewth - Truth.

Tribrach - A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.

Trickish - Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.

Trierarch - The commander of a trireme.

Trierarch - At Athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service.

Triglyph - An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.

Trigraph - Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.

Trilith - Same as Trilithon.

Trimorph - A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also, any one of these distinct forms. See Trimorphism, 1.

Triptych - Anything in three parts or leaves.

Triptych - A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.

Triptych - A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.

Triumph - A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.

Triumph - Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.

Triumph - A state of joy or exultation for success.

Triumph - Success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as, the triumph of knowledge.

Triumph - A trump card; also, an old game at cards.

Triumph - To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.

Triumph - To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail.

Triumph - To be prosperous; to flourish.

Triumph - To play a trump card.

Triumph - To obtain a victory over; to prevail over; to conquer. Also, to cause to triumph.

Troth - Belief; faith; fidelity.

Troth - Truth; verity; veracity; as, by my troth.

Troth - Betrothal.

Trough - A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

Trough - Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.

Trunch - A stake; a small post.

Trunkfish - Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.

Truth - The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

Truth - Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.

Truth - Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

Truth - The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.

Truth - That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.

Truth - A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.

Truth - Righteousness; true religion.

Truth - To assert as true; to declare.

Tubfish - The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard.

Tuch - A dark-colored kind of marble; touchstone.

Tun-dish - A tunnel.

Turbeth - See Turpeth.

Turbith - See Turpeth.

Turkish - Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks.

Turkish - The language spoken by Turks, esp. that of the people of Turkey.

Turnbroach - A turnspit.

Turpeth - The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth.

Turpeth - A heavy yellow powder, Hg3O2SO4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- called also turpeth mineral.

Tush - An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it.

Tush - A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.

Twelfth - Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

Twelfth - Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.

Twelfth - The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.

Twelfth - The next in order after the eleventh.

Twelfth - An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

Twelvemonth - A year which consists of twelve calendar months.

Twentieth - Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.

Twentieth - Consisting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided.

Twentieth - The next in order after the nineteen; one coming after nineteen others.

Twentieth - The quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole.

Twitch - To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.

Twitch - The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.

Twitch - A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side.

Twitch - A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.

Tyrannish - Like a tyrant; tyrannical.

Ugh - An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

Unbewitch - To free from a spell; to disenchant.

Unbreech - To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches.

Unbreech - To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings.

Unchurch - To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.

Unchurch - To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church.

Unclench - Same as Unclinch.

Unclinch - To cause to be no longer clinched; to open; as, to unclinch the fist.

Unclutch - To open, as something closely shut.

Unclutch - To disengage, as a clutch.

Uncoach - To detach or loose from a coach.

Uncouth - Unknown.

Uncouth - Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.

Uncouth - Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners.

Uncuth - Unknown; strange.

Uncuth - A stranger.

Underbranch - A lower branch.

Underbranch - A twig or branchlet.

Underbrush - Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

Underditch - To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.

Underfurnish - To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.

Undergrowth - That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.

Undermatch - One who is not a match for another.

Undermirth - Suppressed or concealed mirth.

Underneath - Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil.

Underneath - Under; beneath; below.

Underpitch - To fill underneath; to stuff.

Undumpish - To relieve from the dumps.

Unearth - To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose; as, to unearth a secret.

Uneath - Not easy; difficult; hard.

Uneath - Not easily; hardly; scarcely.

Unestablish - To disestablish.

Ubeth - Alt. of Unethes

Unfaith - Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief.

Unfestlich - Unfit for a feast; hence, jaded; worn.

Unflesh - To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton.

Unfurnish - To strip of furniture; to divest; to strip.

Unhealth - Unsoundness; disease.

Unhitch - To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.

Unketh - Uncouth.

Unlash - To loose, as that which is lashed or tied down.

Unlatch - To open or loose by lifting the latch; as, to unlatch a door.

Unlaugh - To recall, as former laughter.

Unleash - To free from a leash, or as from a leash; to let go; to release; as, to unleash dogs.

Unpolish - To deprive of polish; to make impolite.

Unpreach - To undo or overthrow by preaching.

Unstarch - To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

Unstitch - To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam.

Unstrength - Want of strength; weakness; feebleness.

Unteach - To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught.

Unteach - To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.

Untooth - To take out the teeth of.

Untruth - The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.

Untruth - That which is untrue; a false assertion; a falsehood; a lie; also, an act of treachery or disloyalty.

Unwish - To wish not to be; to destroy by wishing.

Unwitch - To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft.

Unworth - Unworthy.

Unworth - Unworthiness.

Upgrowth - The process or result of growing up; progress; development.

Upgush - A gushing upward.

Upgush - To gush upward.

Uplandish - Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.

Uplandish - Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized.

Uppish - Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.

Uprush - To rush upward.

Uprush - Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava.

Upsnatch - To snatch up.

Upwreath - To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke.

Urith - The bindings of a hedge.

Usquebaugh - A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky.

Usquebaugh - A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices.

Valinch - A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.

Vanish - To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.

Vanish - To be annihilated or lost; to pass away.

Vanish - The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.

Vanquish - To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.

Vanquish - Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.

Vanquish - A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.

Vaporish - Full of vapors; vaporous.

Vaporish - Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.

Varnish - A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.

Varnish - That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.

Varnish - An artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss.

Varnish - To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.

Varnish - To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt.

Vermuth - A liqueur made of white wine, absinthe, and various aromatic drugs, used to excite the appetite.

Vernish - Varnish.

Vetch - Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa.

Vinquish - See Vanquish, n.

Viperish - Somewhat like a viper; viperous.

Visigoth - One of the West Goths. See the Note under Goth.

Vouch - To call; to summon.

Vouch - To call upon to witness; to obtest.

Vouch - To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.

Vouch - To back; to support; to confirm; to establish.

Vouch - To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.

Vouch - To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.

Vouch - To assert; to aver; to declare.

Vouch - Warrant; attestation.

Vowelish - Of the nature of a vowel.

Vugh - A cavity in a lode; -- called also vogle.

Vulturish - Vulturous.

Waggish - Like a wag; mischievous in sport; roguish in merriment or good humor; frolicsome.

Waggish - Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick.

Wah - The panda.

Waistcloth - A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.

Waistcloth - A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.

Wallah - A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.

Wallowish - Flat; insipid.

Wannish - Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.

Warish - To protect from the effects of; hence, to cure; to heal.

Warish - To be cured; to recover.

Warmouth - An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chaenobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream.

Warmth - The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.

Warmth - A state of lively and excited interest; zeal; ardor; fervor; passion; enthusiasm; earnestness; as, the warmth of love or piety; he replied with much warmth.

Warmth - The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.

Warpath - The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

Wash - To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.

Wash - To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.

Wash - To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

Wash - To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.

Wash - To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.

Wash - To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.

Wash - To perform the act of ablution.

Wash - To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.

Wash - To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.

Wash - To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.

Wash - The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.

Wash - A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.

Wash - Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.

Wash - Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.

Wash - The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.

Wash - A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.

Wash - That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.

Wash - A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.

Wash - A liquid dentifrice.

Wash - A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.

Wash - A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.

Wash - A thin coat of color, esp. water color.

Wash - A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.

Wash - The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.

Wash - The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.

Wash - The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.

Wash - Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

Wash - Washy; weak.

Wash - Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.

Washdish - A washbowl.

Washdish - Same as Washerwoman, 2.

Waspish - Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

Waspish - Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.

Watch - The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.

Watch - One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.

Watch - The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.

Watch - The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.

Watch - A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.

Watch - An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.

Watch - That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.

Watch - To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.

Watch - To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.

Watch - To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.

Watch - To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever.

Watch - To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.

Watch - To give heed to; to observe the actions or motions of, for any purpose; to keep in view; not to lose from sight and observation; as, to watch the progress of a bill in the legislature.

Watch - To tend; to guard; to have in keeping.

Water bath - A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.

Water beech - The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.

Water brash - See under Brash.

Water hyacinth - Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.

Water inch - Same as Inch of water, under Water.

Waterish - Resembling water; thin; watery.

Waterish - Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land.

Water nymph - A goddess of any stream or other body of water, whether one of the Naiads, Nereids, or Oceanides.

Water nymph - A water lily (Nymphaea).

Water radish - A coarse yellow-flowered plant (Nasturtium amphibium) related to the water cress and to the horse-radish.

Watertath - A kind of coarse grass growing in wet grounds, and supposed to be injurious to sheep.

Water thrush - A North American bird of the genus Seiurus, belonging to the Warbler family, especially the common species (S. Noveboracensis).

Water thrush - The European water ousel.

Water thrush - The pied wagtail.

Water torch - The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.

Water witch - The dabchick.

Water witch - The stormy petrel.

Wawaskeesh - The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.

Weakfish - Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.

Weakish - Somewhat weak; rather weak.

Wealdish - Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England.

Wealth - Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

Wealth - Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.

Wearish - Weak; withered; shrunk.

Wearish - Insipid; tasteless; unsavory.

Weaverfish - See Weever.

Weerish - See Wearish.

Weigh - A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.

Weigh - To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.

Weigh - To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.

Weigh - To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.

Weigh - To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.

Weigh - To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.

Weigh - To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

Weigh - To have weight; to be heavy.

Weigh - To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.

Weigh - To bear heavily; to press hard.

Weigh - To judge; to estimate.

Weigh - A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.

Welch - See Welsh.

Well-nigh - Almost; nearly.

Well-wish - A wish of happiness.

Welsh - Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.

Welsh - The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.

Welsh - The natives or inhabitants of Wales.

Wench - A young woman; a girl; a maiden.

Wench - A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.

Wench - A colored woman; a negress.

Wench - To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.

Wendish - Of or pertaining the Wends, or their language.

Wennish - Alt. of Wenny

Wesh - Washed.

Wettish - Somewhat wet; moist; humid.

Wherethrough - Through which.

Wherewith - With which; -- used relatively.

Wherewith - With what; -- used interrogatively.

Wherewith - The necessary means or instrument.

Wheyish - Somewhat like whey; wheyey.

Which - Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.

Which - A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1.

Which - A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons.

Which - A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will.

Whiggish - Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.

Whiplash - The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

Whipstitch - A tailor; -- so called in contempt.

Whipstitch - Anything hastily put or stitched together; hence, a hasty composition.

Whipstitch - The act or process of whipstitching.

Whipstitch - To rafter; to plow in ridges, as land.

Whistlefish - A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.

Whitefish - Any one of several species of Coregonus, a genus of excellent food fishes allied to the salmons. They inhabit the lakes of the colder parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. The largest and most important American species (C. clupeiformis) is abundant in the Great Lakes, and in other lakes farther north. Called also lake whitefish, and Oswego bass.

Whitefish - The menhaden.

Whitefish - The beluga, or white whale.

Whitesmith - One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith.

Whitesmith - A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.

Whitewash - Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair.

Whitewash - A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime.

Whitewash - To apply a white liquid composition to; to whiten with whitewash.

Whitewash - To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts.

Whitish - Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.

Whitish - Covered with an opaque white powder.

Whole-length - Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue.

Whole-length - A portrait or statue representing the whole figure.

Whorish - Resembling a whore in character or conduct; addicted to unlawful pleasures; incontinent; lewd; unchaste.

Whydah finch - The whidah bird.

Wich - A variant of 1st Wick.

Wich - A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick.

Wich - A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players.

Widish - Moderately wide.

Width - The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.

Wildish - Somewhat wild; rather wild.

Willowish - Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy.

Winch - To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.

Winch - A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.

Winch - A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.

Winch - An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.

Winch - An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.

Winch - A wince.

Wingfish - A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.

Winninish - The land-locked variety of the common salmon.

Wish - To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

Wish - To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.

Wish - To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.

Wish - To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.

Wish - Desire; eager desire; longing.

Wish - Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.

Wish - A thing desired; an object of desire.

Wishtonwish - The prairie dog.

Wish-wash - Any weak, thin drink.

Wistonwish - See Wishtonwish.

Witch - A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.

Witch - One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.

Witch - An ugly old woman; a hag.

Witch - One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.

Witch - A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.

Witch - The stormy petrel.

Witch - To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

Witfish - The ladyfish (a).

With - See Withe.

With - With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like.

With - To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against.

With - To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of.

With - To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of.

With - To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by.

With - To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast.

With - To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.

With - To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune.

Withinforth - Within; inside; inwardly.

Withoutforth - Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth.

Wolfish - Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.

Wolvish - Wolfish.

Womanish - Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate.

Wood-wash - Alt. of Wood-waxen

Wordish - Respecting words; full of words; wordy.

Workbench - A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

Worth - To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.

Worth - Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.

Worth - Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.

Worth - Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.

Worth - Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.

Worth - That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.

Worth - Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.

Woteth - Alt. of Wotteth

Wotteth - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.

Wraith - An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.

Wraith - Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.

Wrath - Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.

Wrath - The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.

Wrath - See Wroth.

Wrath - To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.

Wreath - Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers.

Wreath - A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.

Wreath - An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms.

Wreckfish - A stone bass.

Wrench - Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

Wrench - A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.

Wrench - A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.

Wrench - Means; contrivance.

Wrench - An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.

Wrench - The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.

Wrench - To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.

Wrench - To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.

Wroth - Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.

Wrymouth - Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.

Wurraluh - The Australian white-quilled honey eater (Entomyza albipennis).

Xylograph - An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.

Xystarch - An office/ having the superintendence of the xyst.

Yalah - The oil of the mahwa tree.

Yarrish - Having a rough, dry taste.

Yearth - The earth.

Yellowfish - A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.

Yellowish - Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.

Ynough - Alt. of Ynow

Zaptiah - A Turkish policeman.

Zarnich - Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment.

Zenith - That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.

Zenith - hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.

Zibeth - A carnivorous mammal (Viverra zibetha) closely allied to the civet, from which it differs in having the spots on the body less distinct, the throat whiter, and the black rings on the tail more numerous.

Zillah - A district or local division, as of a province.

Zoutch - To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them.