There are currently 16446 EnglishDictionary in this directory beginning with the letter C.
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C () As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc.
C () C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written /.
C () The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.
C () The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.
C. G. S. () An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.
Ca ira () The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution.
Caaba (n.) The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray.
Caas (n. sing. & pl.) Case.
Cab (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
Cab (n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
Cab (n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
Cabal (n.) A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.
Cabal (n.) A secret.
Cabal (n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
Cabal (n.) Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala
Cabal (v. i.) To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.
Cabala (n.) Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery.
Cabalism (n.) A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes.
Cabalism (n.) The secret science of the cabalists.
Cabalist (n.) One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions.
Cabalistic (a.) Alt. of Cabalistical
Cabalistical (a.) Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic.
Cabalistically (adv.) In a cabalistic manner.
Cabalize (v. i.) To use cabalistic language.
Caballed (imp. & p. p.) of Cabal
Caballer (n.) One who cabals.
Caballine (a.) Of or pertaining to a horse.
Caballine (n.) Caballine aloes.
Caballing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabal
Cabaret (n.) A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.
Cabaret (n.) the type of entertainment provided in a cabaret{2}.
Cabas (n.) A flat basket or frail for figs, etc.; hence, a lady's flat workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.
Cabassou (n.) A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (X. unicinctus and X. hispidus); the tatouay.
Cabazite (n.) A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.
Cabbage (n.) An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
Cabbage (n.) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
Cabbage (n.) The cabbage palmetto. See below.
Cabbage (n.) The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.
Cabbage (v. i.) To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
Cabbage (v. i.) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
Cabbaged (imp. & p. p) of Cabbage
Cabbaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabbage
Cabbiri (n. pl.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals.
Cabbler (n.) One who works at cabbling.
Cabbling (n.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
Cabeca (n.) Alt. of Cabesse
Caber (n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.
Cabesse (n.) The finest kind of silk received from India.
Cabezon (n.) A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.
Cabiai (n.) The capybara. See Capybara.
Cabin (n.) A cottage or small house; a hut.
Cabin (n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers.
Cabin (n.) A small room; an inclosed place.
Cabin (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.
Cabin (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin.
Cabined (imp. & p. p.) of Cabin
Cabinet (a.) Suitable for a cabinet; small.
Cabinet (n.) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an etagere or closed with doors. See Etagere.
Cabinet (n.) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
Cabinet (n.) A private room in which consultations are held.
Cabinet (n.) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:
Cabinet (n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.
Cabinet (n.) Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.
Cabinet (n.) The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.
Cabinet (v. i.) To inclose
Cabineting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabinet
Cabinetmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.
Cabinetmaking (n.) The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.
Cabinetwork (n.) The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.
Cabining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cabin
Cabirean (n.) One of the Cabiri.
Cabirian (a.) Same as Cabiric.
Cabiric (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical worship.
Cable (n.) A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.
Cable (n.) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding.
Cable (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.
Cable (v. t. & i.) To telegraph by a submarine cable
Cable (v. t.) To fasten with a cable.
Cable (v. t.) To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
Cabled (a.) Adorned with cabling.
Cabled (a.) Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
Cabled (imp. & p. p.) of Cable
Cablegram (n.) A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.
Cablelaid (a.) Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
Cablelaid (a.) Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.
Cablet (n.) A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
Cabling (n.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.
Cabling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cable
Cabman (n.) The driver of a cab.
Cabmen (pl. ) of Cabman
Cabob (n.) A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.
Cabob (n.) A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.
Cabob (v. t.) To roast, as a cabob.
Caboched (a.) Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.
Caboodle (n.) The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.
Caboose (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car.
Caboose (n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.
Cabotage (n.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.
Cabree (n.) The pronghorn antelope.
Cabrerite (n.) An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.
Cabrilla (n.) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.
Cabriole (n.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole.
Cabriolet (n.) A one-horse carriage with two seats and a calash top.
Cabrit (n.) Same as Cabree.
Caburn (n.) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.
Cacaemia (n.) Alt. of Cachaemia
Cacaine (n.) The essential principle of cacao; -- now called theobromine.
Cacajao (n.) A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia (/ Brachyurus) melanocephala).
Cacao (n.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.
Cachaemia (n.) A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.
Cachalot (n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.
Cache (n.) A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.
Cachectic (a.) Alt. of Cachectical
Cachectical (a.) Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood.
Cachepot (n.) An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.
Cachet (n.) A seal, as of a letter.
Cachexia (n.) Alt. of Cachexy
Cachexy (n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).
Cachinnation (n.) Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
Cachinnatory (a.) Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter.
Cachiri (n.) A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry.
Cacholong (n.) An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.
Cachou (n.) A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.
Cachucha (n.) An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the bolero.
Cachunde (n.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.
Cacique (n.) See Cazique.
Cack (v. i.) To ease the body by stool; to go to stool.
Cackerel (n.) The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.
Cackle (n.) Idle talk; silly prattle.
Cackle (n.) The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
Cackle (v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
Cackle (v. i.) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
Cackle (v. i.) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
Cackled (imp. & p. p.) of Cackle
Cackler (n.) A fowl that cackles.
Cackler (n.) One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
Cackling (n.) The broken noise of a goose or a hen.
Cackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cackle
Cacochymia (n.) Alt. of Cacochymy
Cacochymic (a.) Alt. of Cacochymical
Cacochymical (a.) Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood.
Cacochymy (n.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood.
Cacodyl (n.) Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines.
Cacodylic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, cacodyl.
Cacoethes (n.) A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoethes scribendi, "The itch for writing".
Cacoethes (n.) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.
Cacogastric (a.) Troubled with bad digestion.
Cacographic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.
Cacography (n.) Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.
Cacolet (n.) A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.
Cacology (n.) Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words.
Cacomixl (n.) A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.
Cacomixle (n.) Alt. of Cacomixl
Cacomixtle (n.) Alt. of Cacomixl
Cacoon (n.) One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.
Cacophonic (a.) Alt. of Cacophonious
Cacophonical (a.) Alt. of Cacophonious
Cacophonies (pl. ) of Cacophony
Cacophonious (a.) Harsh-sounding.
Cacophonous (a.) Alt. of Cacophonious
Cacophony (n.) A combination of discordant sounds.
Cacophony (n.) An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.
Cacophony (n.) An unhealthy state of the voice.
Cacotechny (n.) A corruption or corrupt state of art.
Cacoxene (n.) Alt. of Cacoxenite
Cacoxenite (n.) A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.
Cactaceous (a.) Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.
Cacti (pl. ) of Cactus
Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.
Cactuses (pl. ) of Cactus
Cacuminal (a.) Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.
Cacuminate (v. i.) To make sharp or pointed.
Cad (n.) A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
Cad (n.) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
Cadaster (n.) An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.
Cadastral (a.) Of or pertaining to landed property.
Cadastre (n.) Alt. of Cadaster
Cadaver (n.) A dead human body; a corpse.
Cadaveric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.
Cadaverous (a.) Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
Cadaverous (a.) Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body.
Cadbait (n.) See Caddice.
Caddice (n.) Alt. of Caddis
Caddie (n.) A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger.
Caddies (pl. ) of Caddy
Caddis (n.) A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.
Caddish (a.) Like a cad; lowbred and presuming.
Caddow (n.) A jackdaw.
Caddy (n.) A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.
Cade (a.) Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.
Cade (n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish.
Cade (n.) A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean countries.
Cade (v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.
Cadence (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
Cadence (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.
Cadence (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.
Cadence (n.) A uniform time and place in marching.
Cadence (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.
Cadence (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
Cadence (n.) See Cadency.
Cadence (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking.
Cadence (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.
Cadence (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure.
Cadency (n.) Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages.
Cadene (n.) A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant.
Cadent (a.) Falling.
Cadenza (n.) A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.
Cader (n.) See Cadre.
Cadet (n.) A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.
Cadet (n.) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich.
Cadet (n.) The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the youngest son.
Cadetship (n.) The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get a cadetship.
Cadew (n.) Alt. of Cadeworm
Cadeworm (n.) A caddice. See Caddice.
Cadge (n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
Cadge (v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden.
Cadge (v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
Cadge (v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
Cadged (imp. & p. p.) of Cadge
Cadger (n.) One who carries hawks on a cadge.
Cadger (v. t.) A packman or itinerant huckster.
Cadger (v. t.) One who gets his living by trickery or begging.
Cadging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cadge
Cadgy (a.) Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton.
Cadi (n.) An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.
Cadie (n.) Alt. of Caddie
Cadilesker (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.
Cadillac (n.) A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking.
Cadis (n.) A kind of coarse serge.
Cadmean (a.) Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /. These are called Cadmean letters.
Cadmia (n.) An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.
Cadmian (a.) See Cadmean.
Cadmic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide.
Cadrans (n.) An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.
Cadre (n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
Caducary (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.
Caducean (a.) Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.
Caduceus (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.
Caducibranchiate (a.) With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.
Caducity (n.) Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility.
Caducous () Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.
Caduke (a.) Perishable; frail; transitory.
Cady (n.) See Cadie.
Caeca (n. pl.) See Caecum.
Caeca (pl. ) of Caecum
Caecal (a.) Having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening; baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct.
Caecal (a.) Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut.
Caecias (n.) A wind from the northeast.
Caecilian (n.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.
Caecum (n.) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.
Caecum (n.) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.
Caecums (pl. ) of Caecum
Caen stone () A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France.
Caenozoic (a.) See Cenozoic.
Caesar (n.) A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar.
Caesarean (a.) Alt. of Caesarian
Caesarian (a.) Of or pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars; imperial.
Caesarism (n.) A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or support of such a system of government.
Caesious (a.) Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray.
Caespitose (a.) Same as Cespitose.
Caesura (n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
Caesurae (pl. ) of Caesura
Caesural (a.) Of or pertaining to a caesura.
Caesuras (pl. ) of Caesura
Cafe (n.) A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.
Cafeneh (n.) A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold.
Cafenet (n.) Alt. of Cafeneh
Caffeic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, coffee.
Caffeine (n.) A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.
Caffetannic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the tannin of coffee.
Caffila (n.) See Cafila.
Caffre (n.) See Kaffir.
Cafila (n.) Alt. of Cafileh
Cafileh (n.) A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.
Caftan (n.) A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.
Caftan (v. t.) To clothe with a caftan.
Cag (n.) See Keg.
Cage (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
Cage (n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
Cage (n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
Cage (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
Cage (n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
Cage (n.) The catcher's wire mask.
Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Cage (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Caged (a.) Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison.
Caged (imp. & p. p.) of Cage
Cageling (n.) A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
Caging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cage
Cagit (n.) A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the Philippine Islands.
Cagmag (n.) A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind.
Cagot (n.) One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.
Cahier (n.) A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc.
Cahier (n.) A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
Cahiered (imp. & p. p.) of Cashier
Cahincic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. racemosa; as, cahincic acid.
Cahoot (n.) Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.
Caimacam (n.) The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.
Caiman (n.) See Cayman.
Cainozoic (a.) See Cenozic.
Caique (n.) A light skiff or rowboat used on the Bosporus; also, a Levantine vessel of larger size.
Caird (n.) A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.
Cairn (n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
Cairn (n.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
Cairngormstone () A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.
Caisson (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach.
Caisson (n.) A chest to hold ammunition.
Caisson (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber.
Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins.
Caisson (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it.
Caisson (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits.
Caisson (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.
Caitiff (a.) Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable.
Caitiff (a.) Captive; wretched; unfortunate.
Caitiff (n.) A captive; a prisoner.
Caitiff (n.) A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet.
Caitiff (n.) A wretched or unfortunate man.
Cajeput (n.) See Cajuput.
Cajole (v. i.) To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.
Cajoled (imp. & p. p.) of Cajole
Cajolement (n.) The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery.
Cajoler (n.) A flatterer; a wheedler.
Cajoleries (pl. ) of Cajolery
Cajolery (n.) A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.
Cajoling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cajole
Cajuput (n.) A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.
Cajuputene (n.) A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.
Cake (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
Cake (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
Cake (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
Cake (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
Cake (v. i.) To cackle as a goose.
Cake (v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
Cake (v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.
Caked (imp. & p. p.) of Cake
Caking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cake
Caking coal () See Coal.
Cal (n.) Wolfram, an ore of tungsten.
Calabar (n.) A district on the west coast of Africa.
Calabarine (n.) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.
Calabash (n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
Calabash (n.) The common gourd (plant or fruit).
Calabash (n.) The fruit of the calabash tree.
Calaboose (n.) A prison; a jail.
Calade (n.) A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.
Caladium (n.) A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.
Calaite (n.) A mineral. See Turquoise.
Calamanco (n.) A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked.
Calamander wood () A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood.
Calamar (n.) Alt. of Calamary
Calambac (n.) A fragrant wood; agalloch.
Calambour (n.) A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers.
Calami (pl. ) of Calamus
Calamiferous (a.) Producing reeds; reedy.
Calamine (n.) A mineral, the hydrous silicate of zinc.
Calamint (n.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme.
Calamist (n.) One who plays upon a reed or pipe.
Calamistrate (v. i.) To curl or friz, as the hair.
Calamistration (n.) The act or process of curling the hair.
Calamistrum (n.) A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs.
Calamities (pl. ) of Calamity
Calamitous (a.) Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy.
Calamity (n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.
Calamity (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.
Calamus (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
Calamus (n.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
Calando (a.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.
Calash (n.) A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.
Calash (n.) A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.
Calash (n.) 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 (n.) In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.
Calaverite (n.) A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.
Calc-sinter (n.) See under Calcite.
Calc-spar (n.) Same as Calcite.
Calc-tufa (n.) See under Calcite.
Calcaneal (a.) Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.
Calcaneum (n.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.
Calcar (n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
Calcar (n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
Calcar (n.) A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
Calcar (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
Calcar (n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence.
Calcarate (a.) Alt. of Calcarated
Calcarated (a.) Armed with a spur.
Calcarated (a.) Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred.
Calcareo-argillaceous (a.) consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.
Calcareo-bituminous (a.) Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen.
Calcareo-siliceous (a.) Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths.
Calcareous (a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
Calcareousness (n.) Quality of being calcareous.
Calcaria (pl. ) of Calcar
Calcariferous (a.) Lime-yielding; calciferous
Calcarine (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.
Calcavella (n.) A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos.
Calceated (a.) Fitted with, or wearing, shoes.
Calced (a.) Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.
Calcedon (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.
Calcedonian (a.) See Chalcedonic.
Calcedonic (a.) Alt. of Calcedonian
Calceiform (a.) Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.
Calceolaria (n.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.
Calceolate (a.) Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.
Calces (n. pl.) See Calx.
Calces (pl. ) of Calx
Calcic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.
Calciden (imp. & p. p.) of Calcine
Calciferous (a.) Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.
Calcific (a.) Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles.
Calcification (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
Calcified (a.) Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.
Calcified (imp. & p. p.) of Calcify
Calciform (a.) In the form of chalk or lime.
Calcify (v. i.) To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.
Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Calcifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calcify
Calcigenous (a.) Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.
Calcigerous (a.) Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.
Calcimine (n.) A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water.
Calcimine (v. t.) To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls.
Calcimined (imp. &p. p.) of Calcimine
Calciminer (n.) One who calcimines.
Calcimining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calcimine
Calcinable (a.) That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.
Calcinate (v. i.) To calcine.
Calcination (n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
Calcinatory (n.) A vessel used in calcination.
Calcine (v. i.) To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.
Calcine (v. i.) To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
Calcine (v. i.) To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.
Calciner (n.) One who, or that which, calcines.
Calcining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calcine
Calcispongiae (n. pl.) An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera.
Calcite (n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.
Calcium (n.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.
Calcivorous (a.) Eroding, or eating into, limestone.
Calcographer (n.) One who practices calcography.
Calcographic (a.) Alt. of Calcographical
Calcographical (a.) Relating to, or in the style of, calcography.
Calcography (n.) The art of drawing with chalk.
Calculable (a.) That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation.
Calculary (a.) Of or pertaining to calculi.
Calculary (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.
Calculate (v. i.) To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end; as, to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people.
Calculate (v. i.) To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
Calculate (v. i.) To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity.
Calculate (v. i.) To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute.
Calculate (v. i.) To plan; to expect; to think.
Calculated (p. p. & a.) Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to deceive the people.
Calculated (p. p. & a.) Likely to produce a certain effect, whether intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited.
Calculated (p. p. & a.) Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.
Calculater (imp. & p. p.) of Calculate
Calculating (a.) Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition.
Calculating (a.) Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.
Calculating (n.) The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.
Calculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calculate
Calculation (n.) An expectation based on circumstances.
Calculation (n.) The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.
Calculative (a.) Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation.
Calculator (n.) One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.
Calculatory (a.) Belonging to calculation.
Calcule (n.) Reckoning; computation.
Calcule (v. i.) To calculate
Calculi (n. pl.) See Calculus.
Calculi (pl. ) of Calculus
Calculous (a.) Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.
Calculous (a.) Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion.
Calculus (n.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.
Calculus (n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
Caldron (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.]
Caleche (n.) See Calash.
Caledonia (n.) The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry.
Caledonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch.
Caledonian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Caledonia or Scotland.
Caledonite (n.) A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland.
Calefacient (a.) Making warm; heating.
Calefacient (n.) A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which it is applied, as mustard.
Calefaction (n.) The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.
Calefaction (n.) The state of being heated.
Calefactive (a.) See Calefactory.
Calefactor (n.) A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
Calefactory (a.) Making hot; producing or communicating heat.
Calefactory (n.) A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with.
Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.
Calefied (imp. & p. p.) of Calefy
Calefy (v. i.) To grow hot or warm.
Calefy (v. i.) To make warm or hot.
Calefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calefy
Calembour (n.) A pun.
Calendar (n.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.
Calendar (n.) An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
Calendar (v. t.) To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
Calendared (imp. & p. p.) of Calendar
Calendarial (a.) Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
Calendaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calendar
Calendary (a.) Calendarial.
Calender (n.) One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or painted dervishes.
Calender (n.) One who pursues the business of calendering.
Calender (n.) To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.
Calendered (imp. & p. p.) of Calender
Calendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calender
Calendographer (n.) One who makes calendars.
Calendrer (n.) A person who calenders cloth; a calender.
Calendric (a.) Alt. of Calendrical
Calendrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a calendar.
Calends (n. pl.) The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.
Calendula (n.) A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.
Calendulin (n.) A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
Calenture (v. i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
Calescence (n.) Growing warmth; increasing heat.
Calf (n.) A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
Calf (n.) A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
Calf (n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
Calf (n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
Calf (n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
Calf (n.) The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.
Calfskin (n.) The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.
Cali (n.) The tenth avatar or incarnation of the god Vishnu.
Caliber (n.) Alt. of Calibre
Calibrate (v. i.) To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
Calibration (n.) The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.
Calibre (n.) Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind.
Calibre (n.) The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet or column.
Calibre (n.) The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber.
Calice (n.) See Chalice.
Calicle (n.) One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of certain hydroids. See Campanularian.
Calico (a.) Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
Calico (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
Calico (n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
Calicoback (n.) An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.
Calicoback (n.) The calico bass.
Calicoes (pl. ) of Calico
Calicular (a.) Alt. of Caliculate
Caliculate (a.) Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used for calycular, calyculate.
Calid (a.) Hot; burning; ardent.
Calidity (n.) Heat.
Caliduct (n.) A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.
Calif (n.) Alt. of Califate
Califate (n.) Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.
Californian (a.) Of or pertaining to California.
Californian (n.) A native or inhabitant of California.
Caligation (n.) Dimness; cloudiness.
Caliginosity (n.) Darkness.
Caliginous (a.) Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.
Caligo (n.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
Caligraphic (a.) See Calligraphic.
Caligraphy (n.) See Caligraphy.
Calin (n.) An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.
Calipash (n.) 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.
Calipee (n.) A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish color, much esteemed as a delicacy.
Caliph (n.) Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey.
Caliphate (n.) The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs.
Calippic (a.) Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.
Calisaya bark () A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.
Calistheneum (n.) A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children.
Calisthenics (n.) The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.
Calisthenis (a.) Of or pertaining to calisthenics.
Caliver (n.) An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore.
Calix (n.) A cup. See Calyx.
Calk (n.) A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.
Calk (n.) An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping.
Calk (v. i.) To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox.
Calk (v. i.) To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.
Calk (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
Calk (v. t.) To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.
Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
Calked (imp. &p. p.) of Calk
Calker (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
Calker (n.) One who calks.
Calkin (n.) A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.
Calking (n.) The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.
Calking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calk
Call (n.) A divine vocation or summons.
Call (n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
Call (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
Call (n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
Call (n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
Call (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
Call (n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
Call (n.) See Assessment, 4.
Call (n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.
Call (n.) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
Call (n.) Vocation; employment.
Call (v. i.) To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
Call (v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request.
Call (v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
Call (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
Call (v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
Call (v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
Call (v. t.) To invoke; to appeal to.
Call (v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
Call (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
Call (v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
Call (v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
Call (v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.
Calla (n.) A genus of plants, of the order Araceae.
Callat (n.) Same as Callet.
Calle (n.) A kind of head covering; a caul.
Called (imp. & p. p.) of Call
Caller (a.) Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air.
Caller (a.) Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.
Caller (n.) One who calls.
Callet (n.) A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.
Callet (v. i.) To rail or scold.
Callid (a.) Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty.
Callidity (n.) Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
Calligrapher (n.) One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
Calligraphic (a.) Alt. of Calligraphical
Calligraphical (a.) Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
Calligraphist (n.) A calligrapher
Calligraphy (n.) Fair or elegant penmanship.
Calling (n.) A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.
Calling (n.) A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.
Calling (n.) A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament.
Calling (n.) One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.
Calling (n.) The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.
Calling (n.) The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.
Calling (n.) Title; appellation; name.
Calling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Call
Calliope (n.) A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.
Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.
Calliope (n.) One of the asteroids. See Solar.
Calliope (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
Calliopsis (n.) A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
Callipash (n.) See Calipash.
Callipee (n.) See Calipee.
Callipers (n. pl.) See Calipers.
Callisection (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
Callisthenic (n.) Alt. of Callisthenics
Callisthenics (n.) See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
Callithump (n.) A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
Callithumpian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
Callosan (a.) Of the callosum.
Callose (a.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
Callosities (pl. ) of Callosity
Callosity (n.) A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
Callosum (n.) The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
Callot (n.) A close cap without visor or brim.
Callot (n.) A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
Callot (n.) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law.
Callot (n.) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.
Callot (n.) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets.
Callous (a.) Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
Callous (a.) Hardened; indurated.
Callow (a.) Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.
Callow (a.) Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth.
Callow (n.) A kind of duck. See Old squaw.
Callus (n.) Same as Callosity
Callus (n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
Callus (n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
Callyciflorous (a.) Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
Calm (n.) Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.
Calm (n.) To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.
Calm (n.) To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.
Calm (super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.
Calm (super.) Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.
Calmed (imp. & p. p.) of Calm
Calmer (n.) One who, or that which, makes calm.
Calming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calm
Calmly (adv.) In a calm manner.
Calmness (n.) The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.
Calmucks (n. pl.) A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks.
Calmy (n.) Tranquil; peaceful; calm.
Calomel (n.) Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver.
Calorescence (n.) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.
Caloric (a.) Of or pertaining to caloric.
Caloric (n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.
Caloricity (n.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.
Caloriduct (n.) A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
Calorifacient (a.) See Calorificient.
Calorifere (n.) An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.
Calorifiant (a.) See Calorificient.
Calorific (a.) Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.
Calorification (n.) Production of heat, esp. animal heat.
Calorificient (a.) Having, or relating to the power of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.
Calorimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.
Calorimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.
Calorimetric (a.) Of or pertaining to the process of using the calorimeter.
Calorimetry (n.) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.
Calorimotor (n.) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.
Calotte (n.) Alt. of Callot
Calotype (n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.
Caloyer (n.) A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos.
Calque (v. t.) See 2d Calk, v. t.
Caltrop (n.) Alt. of Caltrap
Calumba (n.) The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic.
Calumbin (n.) A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.
Calumet (n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.
Calumniate (v. i.) To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.
Calumniate (v. t.) To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.
Calumniated (imp. & p. p.) of Calumniate
Calumniating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calumniate
Calumniation (n.) False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name.
Calumniator (n.) One who calumniates.
Calumniatory (a.) Containing calumny; slanderous.
Calumnies (pl. ) of Calumny
Calumnious (a.) Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.
Calumny (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.
Calvaria (n.) The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.
Calvary (n.) A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called cross calvary.
Calvary (n.) A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion.
Calvary (n.) The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem.
Calve (v. i.) To bring forth a calf.
Calve (v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Calved (imp. & p. p.) of Calve
Calver (v. i.) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver.
Calver (v. i.) To crimp; as, calvered salmon.
Calver (v. i.) To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon.
Calves (pl. ) of Calf
Calvessnout (n.) Snapdragon.
Calving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calve
Calvinism (n.) The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.
Calvinist (n.) A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism.
Calvinistic (a.) Alt. of Calvinistical
Calvinistical (a.) Of or pertaining to Calvin, or Calvinism; following Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism.
Calvinize (v. t.) To convert to Calvinism.
Calvish (a.) Like a calf; stupid.
Calx (n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.
Calx (n.) Quicklime.
Calx (n.) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.
Calxes (pl. ) of Calx
Calyces (pl. ) of Calyx
Calycifloral (a.) Alt. of callyciflorous
Calyciform (a.) Having the form or appearance of a calyx.
Calycinal (a.) Alt. of Calycine
Calycine (a.) Pertaining to a calyx; having the nature of a calyx.
Calycle (n.) A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.
Calycled (a.) Calyculate.
Calycular (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.
Calyculate (a.) Alt. of Calyculated
Calyculated (a.) Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.
Calymene (n.) A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age.
Calyon (n.) Flint or pebble stone, used in building walls, etc.
Calyptra (n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.
Calyptriform (a.) Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher.
Calyx (n.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.
Calyx (n.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.
Calyxes (pl. ) of Calyx
Calyxes (pl. ) of Nematocalyx
Calzoons (n. pl.) Drawers.
Cam (a.) Crooked.
Cam (n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
Cam (n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.
Cam (n.) A ridge or mound of earth.
Cam (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
Camaieu (n.) A cameo.
Camaieu (n.) Painting in shades of one color; monochrome.
Camail (n.) A hood of other material than mail;
Camail (n.) a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.
Camail (n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece.
Camarasaurus (n.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.
Camarilla (n.) A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.
Camarilla (n.) The private audience chamber of a king.
Camass (n.) A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians.
Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.
Camber (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).
Camber (v. i.) To curve upward.
Camber (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.
Cambered (imp. & p. p.) of Camber
Cambering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Camber
Camberkeeled (a.) Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged; -- said of a ship.
Cambial (a.) Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange.
Cambist (n.) A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.
Cambistry (n.) The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.
Cambium (n.) A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.
Cambium (n.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft.
Camblet (n.) See Camlet.
Camboge (n.) See Gamboge.
Camboose (n.) See Caboose.
Cambrasine (n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.
Cambrel (n.) See Gambrel, n., 2.
Cambria (n.) The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern poets.
Cambrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.
Cambrian (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.
Cambrian (n.) A native of Cambria or Wales.
Cambrian (n.) The Cambrian formation.
Cambric (n.) A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton cambric, and cambric muslin.
Cambric (n.) A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.
Cambro-Briton (n.) A Welshman.
Came () imp. of Come.
Came (imp.) of Come
Came (n.) A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.
Camel-backed (a.) Having a back like a camel; humpbacked.
Cameleon (n.) See Chaceleon.
Camelopard (n.) An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe.
Camelot (n.) See Camelet.
Camelshair (a.) Of camel's hair.
Cameo (n.) A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like.
Cameos (pl. ) of Cameo
Camera (n.) A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
Camerade (n.) See Comrade.
Camerae (pl. ) of Camera
Cameralistic (a.) Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.
Cameralistics (n.) The science of finance or public revenue.
Cameras (pl. ) of Camera
Camerate (v. i.) To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
Camerate (v. i.) To divide into chambers.
Camerated (imp. & p. p.) of Camerate
Cameration (n.) A vaulting or arching over.
Camerlingo (n.) The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power.
Cameronian (n.) A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II.
Camerzting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Camerate
Camis (n.) A light, loose dress or robe.
Camisade (n.) Alt. of Camisado
Camisado (n.) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.
Camisado (n.) An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado.
Camisard (n.) One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.
Camisated (a.) Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.
Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.
Camisole (n.) A short dressing jacket for women.
Camlet (n.) A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton.
Camleted (a.) Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined.
Cammas (n.) See Camass.
Cammock (n.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.
Camomile (n.) Alt. of Chamomile
Camonflet (n.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners.
Camous (a.) Alt. of Camoys
Camoused (a.) Depressed; flattened.
Camously (adv.) Awry.
Camoys (a.) Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.
Camp (n.) A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
Camp (n.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.
Camp (n.) A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
Camp (n.) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
Camp (n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
Camp (n.) The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
Camp (n.) To play the game called camp.
Camp (v. i.) To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.
Camp (v. t.) To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
Campagna (n.) An open level tract of country; especially "Campagna di Roma." The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.
Campagnol (n.) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
Campaign (n.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.
Campaign (n.) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.
Campaign (n.) Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.
Campaign (n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
Campaign (v. i.) To serve in a campaign.
Campaigner (n.) One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
Campana (n.) A church bell.
Campana (n.) Same as Gutta.
Campana (n.) The pasque flower.
Campaned (a.) Furnished with, or bearing, campanes, or bells.
Campanero (n.) The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird.
Campanes (n. pl.) Bells.
Campania (n.) Open country.
Campaniform (a.) Bell-shaped.
Campanile (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.
Campanologist (n.) One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.
Campanology (n.) The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art.
Campanula (n.) A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower.
Campanulaceous (a.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceae) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.
Campanularian (n.) A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or hydrothecae.
Campanulate (a.) Bell-shaped.
Campbellite (n.) A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.
Campeachy Wood () Logwood.
Camped (imp. & p. p.) of Camp
Camper (n.) One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.
Campestral (a.) Alt. of Campestrian
Campestrian (a.) Relating to an open fields; drowing in a field; growing in a field, or open ground.
Camphene (n.) One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.
Camphine (n.) Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.
Camphire (n.) An old spelling of Camphor.
Camphogen (n.) See Cymene.
Camphol (n.) See Borneol.
Camphor (n.) A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.
Camphor (v. t.) To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.
Camphoraceous (a.) Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.
Camphorate () Alt. of Camporated
Camphorate (n.) A salt of camphoric acid.
Camphorate (v. t.) To impregnate or treat with camphor.
Camphoric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor.
Camphretic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from camphor.
Camping (n.) A game of football.
Camping (n.) Lodging in a camp.
Camping (p. pr. & vb n.) of Camp
Campion (n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.
Camporated () Combined or impregnated with camphor.
Camptight (n.) A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
Campus (n.) The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.
Campylospermous (a.) Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face, as in sweet cicely.
Campylotropous (a.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.
Camus (n.) See Camis.
Camwood (n.) See Barwood.
Can () an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]
Can (n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.
Can (n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.
Can (v. t. & i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence.
Can (v. t. & i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.
Can (v. t. & i.) To know; to understand.
Can (v. t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans
Can buoy () See under Buoy, n.
Can hook () A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.
Can't () A colloquial contraction for can not.
Canaanite (n.) A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.
Canaanite (n.) A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
Canaanite (n.) A zealot.
Canaanitish (a.) Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.
Canada (n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.
Canadian (a.) Of or pertaining to Canada.
Canadian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Canada.
Canaille (n.) Shorts or inferior flour.
Canaille (n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
Canakin (n.) A little can or cup.
Canal (n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
Canal (n.) An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.
Canal coal () See Cannel coal.
Canaliculate (a.) Alt. of Canaliculated
Canaliculated (a.) Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
Canaliculi (pl. ) of Canaliculus
Canaliculus (n.) A minute canal.
Canalization (n.) Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
Canard (n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.
Canarese (a.) Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.
Canaries (pl. ) of Canary
Canary (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.
Canary (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.
Canary (n.) A canary bird.
Canary (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.
Canary (n.) A quick and lively dance.
Canary (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.
Canary (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.
Canaster (n.) A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America.
Cancan (n.) A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.
Cancel (v. i.) An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.
Cancel (v. i.) The part thus suppressed.
Cancel (v. i.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
Cancel (v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.
Cancel (v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.
Cancel (v. i.) To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
Cancel (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
Cancel (v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
Canceled (imp. & p. p.) of Cancel
Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop.
Cancelier (n.) Alt. of Canceleer
Cancelier (v. i.) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.
Canceling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cancel
Cancellarean (a.) Cancellarean.
Cancellate (v. t.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.
Cancellate (v. t.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.
Cancellated (a.) Crossbarred; marked with cross lines.
Cancellated (a.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones.
Cancellation (n.) The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
Cancellation (n.) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
Cancelled () of Cancel
Cancelli (v. t.) An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.
Cancelli (v. t.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.
Cancelling () of Cancel
Cancellous (a.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.
Cancer (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab.
Cancer (n.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.
Cancer (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.
Cancerate (v. i.) To grow into a canser; to become cancerous.
Cancerated (imp. & p. p.) of Cancerate
Canceration (n.) The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
Cancerite (n.) Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
Cancriform (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a crab; crab-shaped.
Cancriform (a.) Like a cancer; cancerous.
Cancrine (a.) Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.
Cancrinite (n.) A mineral occurring in hexagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.
Cancroid (a.) Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.
Cancroid (a.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.
Cand (n.) Fluor spar. See Kand.
Candelabra (pl. ) of Candelabrum
Candelabrum (n.) A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.
Candelabrum (n.) A lamp stand of any sort.
Candelabrum (n.) A large candlestick, having several branches.
Candelabrums (pl. ) of Candelabrum
Candent (a.) Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.
Canderos (n.) An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.
Candescence (n.) See Incandescence.
Candicant (a.) Growing white.
Candid (a.) Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just; impartial; as, a candid opinion.
Candid (a.) Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.
Candid (a.) White.
Candidacy (n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.
Candidateship (n.) Candidacy.
Candidating (n.) The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.
Candidature (n.) Candidacy.
Candidly (adv.) In a candid manner.
Candidness (n.) The quality of being candid.
Candied (a.) Conted or more or less with sugar; as, candidied raisins
Candied (a.) Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as candied sirup.
Candied (a.) Covered or incrusted with that which resembles sugar or candy.
Candied (a.) Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.
Candied (imp. & p. p.) of Candy
Candify (v. t. / v. i.) To make or become white, or candied.
Candiot (a.) Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary.
Candite (n.) A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.
Candle (n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light.
Candle (n.) That which gives light; a luminary.
Candle coal () See Cannel coal.
Candlebomb (n.) A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.
Candlebomb (n.) A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.
Candlefish (n.) 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 (n.) The beshow.
Candleholder (n.) One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance.
Candlelight (n.) The light of a candle.
Candlemas (n.) The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day.
Candlestick (n.) An instrument or utensil for supporting a candle.
Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Candock (n.) A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).
Candor (n.) A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.
Candor (n.) Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
Candroy (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
Candy (n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.
Candy (v. i.) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
Candy (v. i.) To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
Candy (v. t.) To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
Candy (v. t.) To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
Candy (v. t.) To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.
Candying (p. pr & vb. n.) of Candy
Candytuft (n.) An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first, discovered in the island of Candia.
Cane (n.) A lance or dart made of cane.
Cane (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.
Cane (n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
Cane (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
Cane (n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
Cane (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
Cane (v. t.) To beat with a cane.
Cane (v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
Canebrake (n.) A thicket of canes.
Caned (a.) Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.
Caned (imp. & p. p.) of Cane
Canella (n.) A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the West Indies.
Canes (pl. ) of Canis
Canescent (a.) Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
Canicular (a.) Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
Canicule (n.) Canicula.
Caninal (a.) See Canine, a.
Canine (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
Canine (a.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.
Canine (n.) A canine tooth.
Caning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cane
Canis (n.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae, including the dogs and wolves.
Canister (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot.
Canister (n.) A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
Canister (n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.
Canker (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.
Canker (n.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
Canker (n.) A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
Canker (n.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.
Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
Canker (v. i.) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
Canker (v. i.) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
Canker bloom () The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
Canker blossom () That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.
Canker fly () A fly that preys on fruit.
Canker rash () A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
Canker-bit (a.) Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.
Cankered (a.) Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured.
Cankered (a.) Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.
Cankered (imp. & p. p.) of Canker
Cankeredly (adv.) Fretfully; spitefully.
Cankering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canker
Cankerous (a.) Affecting like a canker.
Cankerworm (n.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms.
Cankery (a.) Like a canker; full of canker.
Cankery (a.) Surly; sore; malignant.
Canna (n.) A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the northern United States.
Canna (n.) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. See Cane, 4.
Cannabene (n.) A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and possessing its intoxicating properties.
Cannabin (n.) A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.
Cannabine (a.) Pertaining to hemp; hempen.
Cannabis (n.) A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.
Canned (imp. & p. p.) of Can
Cannei (a.) Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary.
Cannei (a.) Cautious; prudent; safe..
Cannei (a.) Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle.
Cannei (a.) Reputed to have magical powers.
Cannei (a.) Skillful; knowing; capable.
Cannel coal () A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles.
Cannery (n.) A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on.
Cannibal (a.) Relating to cannibals or cannibalism.
Cannibal (n.) A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind.
Cannibalism (n.) The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.
Cannibally (adv.) In the manner of cannibal.
Cannicula (n.) The Dog Star; Sirius.
Cannikin (n.) A small can or drinking vessel.
Cannily (adv.) In a canny manner.
Canniness (n.) Caution; crafty management.
Canning (p. pr. &vb. n.) of Can
Cannon (n. & v.) See Carom.
Cannon (n.) A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
Cannon (n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
Cannon (n.) A kind of type. See Canon.
Cannon (pl. ) of Cannon
Cannon bone () See Canon Bone.
Cannonade (imp. & p. p.) of Cannonade
Cannonade (n.) Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
Cannonade (n.) The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
Cannonade (v. i.) To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.
Cannonade (v. t.) To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.
Cannonading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cannonade
Cannoned (a.) Furnished with cannon.
Cannoneer (n.) Alt. of Cannonier
Cannonering (n.) The use of cannon.
Cannonical (a.) Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons.
Cannonier (n.) A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
Cannonry (n.) Cannon, collectively; artillery.
Cannons (pl. ) of Cannon
Cannot () Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or two.
Cannula (n.) A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar.
Cannular (a.) Having the form of a tube; tubular.
Cannulated (a.) Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle.
Canny (a.) Alt. of Cannei
Canoe (n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.
Canoe (n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.
Canoe (n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.
Canoe (v. i.) To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.
Canoed (imp. & p. p.) of Canoe
Canoeing (n.) The act or art of using a canoe.
Canoeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canoe
Canoeist (n.) A canoeman.
Canoeman (n.) One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe.
Canoemen (pl. ) of Canoeman
Canoes (pl. ) of Canoe
Canon (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
Canon (n.) A law or rule.
Canon (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Canon (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
Canon (n.) See Carom.
Canon (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
Canon (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
Canon bit () That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
Canon bone () The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Canonic (a.) Alt. of Cannonical
Canonically (adv.) In a canonical manner; according to the canons.
Canonicalness (n.) The quality of being canonical; canonicity.
Canonicals (n. pl.) The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.
Canonicate (n.) The office of a canon; a canonry.
Canonicity (n.) The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
Canonist (n.) A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
Canonistic (a.) Of or pertaining to a canonist.
Canonization (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
Canonization (n.) The state of being canonized or sainted.
Canonize (v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
Canonize (v. t.) To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.
Canonize (v. t.) To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.
Canonized (imp. & p. p.) of Canonize
Canonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canonize
Canonry (n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
Canonship (a.) Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming.
Canopes (imp. & p. p.) of Canopy
Canopies (pl. ) of Canopy
Canopus (n.) A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.
Canopy (n.) A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.
Canopy (n.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.
Canopy (n.) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.
Canopy (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a canopy.
Canopying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canopy
Canorous (a.) Melodious; musical.
Canorousness (n.) The quality of being musical.
Canstick (n.) Candlestick.
Cant (a.) Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
Cant (n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
Cant (n.) A corner; angle; niche.
Cant (n.) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
Cant (n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
Cant (n.) A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel.
Cant (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.
Cant (n.) An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
Cant (n.) An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
Cant (n.) An outer or external angle.
Cant (n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation.
Cant (n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.
Cant (n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars.
Cant (v. i.) To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic.
Cant (v. i.) To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
Cant (v. i.) To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.
Cant (v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.
Cant (v. t.) To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
Cant (v. t.) To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
Cant (v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
Cant hook () A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.
Cantab (n.) A Cantabrigian.
Cantabile (a.) In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.
Cantabile (n.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.
Cantabrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in Spain.
Cantabrigian (n.) A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.
Cantalever (n.) A bracket to support a balcony, a cornice, or the like.
Cantalever (n.) A projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs.
Cantaloupe (n.) A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color.
Cantarro (n.) A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons.
Cantarro (n.) A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds.
Cantata (n.) A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of both recitative and melody.
Cantation (n.) A singing.
Cantatory (a.) Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing.
Cantatrice (n.) A female professional singer.
Canted (a.) Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window.
Canted (a.) Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.
Canted (imp. & p. p.) of Cant
Canteen (n.) A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink.
Canteen (n.) The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.
Cantel (n.) See Cantle.
Canter (n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
Canter (n.) A rapid or easy passing over.
Canter (n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar.
Canter (n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
Canter (v. i.) To move in a canter.
Canter (v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
Canterbury (n.) A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.
Canterbury (n.) A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc.
Cantered (imp. & p. p.) of Canter
Cantering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canter
Cantharidal (a.) Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.
Cantharides (n. pl.) See Cantharis.
Cantharides (pl. ) of Cantharis
Cantharidin (n.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.
Canthi (pl. ) of Canthus
Canthoplasty (n.) The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease.
Canthus (n.) The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.
Canticle (n.) A canto or division of a poem
Canticle (n.) A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.
Canticle (n.) A song; esp. a little song or hymn.
Canticle (n.) The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.
Canticles (pl. ) of Canticle
Canticoy (n.) A social gathering; usually, one for dancing.
Cantile (v. i.) Same as Cantle, v. t.
Cantilena (n.) See Cantabile.
Cantilever (n.) Same as Cantalever.
Cantillate (v. i.) To chant; to recite with musical tones.
Cantillation (n.) A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.
Cantine (n.) See Canteen.
Canting (a.) Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone.
Canting (n.) The use of cant; hypocrisy.
Canting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cant
Cantiniere (n.) A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a vivandiere.
Cantion (n.) A song or verses.
Cantle (n.) A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part.
Cantle (n.) The upwardly projecting rear part of saddle, opposite to the pommel.
Cantle (v. t.) To cut in pieces; to cut out from.
Cantlet (n.) A piece; a fragment; a corner.
Canto (n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
Canto (n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.
Canton (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
Canton (n.) A small community or clan.
Canton (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.
Canton (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
Canton (n.) A song or canto
Canton (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
Canton (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
Canton crape () A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape.
Canton flannel () See Cotton flannel.
Cantonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.
Cantoned (a.) Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.
Cantoned (a.) Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.
Cantoned (imp. & p. p.) of Canton
Cantoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canton
Cantonize (v. i.) To divide into cantons or small districts.
Cantonment (n.) A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.
Cantoon (n.) A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.
Cantor (n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.
Cantoral (a.) Of or belonging to a cantor.
Cantoris (a.) Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall.
Cantos (pl. ) of Canto
Cantrap (n.) Alt. of Cantrip
Cantred (n.) Alt. of Cantref
Cantref (n.) A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales.
Cantrip (n.) A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief.
Canty (a.) Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry.
Canuck (n.) A Canadian.
Canuck (n.) A small or medium-sized hardy horse, common in Canada.
Canula (a.) Alt. of Canulated
Canular (a.) Alt. of Canulated
Canulated (a.) See Cannula, Cannular, and Cannulated.
Canvas (a.) Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse cloth; as, a canvas tent.
Canvas (n.) A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.
Canvas (n.) A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.
Canvas (n.) A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
Canvas (n.) A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.
Canvas (n.) Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a picture on canvas.
Canvasback (n.) A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.
Canvass (n.) Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a canvass of votes.
Canvass (n.) Examination in the way of discussion or debate.
Canvass (n.) Search; exploration; solicitation; systematic effort to obtain votes, subscribers, etc.
Canvass (n.) To examine by discussion; to debate.
Canvass (n.) To go trough, with personal solicitation or public addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for subscriptions.
Canvass (n.) To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote.
Canvass (v. i.) To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; -- commonly followed by for.
Canvassed (imp. & p. p.) of Canvass
Canvasser (n.) One who canvasses.
Canvassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canvass
Cany (a.) Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes.
Canzone (n.) A song or air for one or more voices, of Provencal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.
Canzone (n.) An instrumental piece in the madrigal style.
Canzonet (n.) A short song, in one or more parts.
Caoutchin (n.) An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.
Caoutchoucin (n.) See Caoutchin.
Cap (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
Cap (n.) A covering for the head
Cap (n.) A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
Cap (n.) A percussion cap. See under Percussion.
Cap (n.) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
Cap (n.) A respectful uncovering of the head.
Cap (n.) Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use
Cap (n.) One of lace, muslin, etc., for women, or infants
Cap (n.) One used as the mark or ensign of some rank, office, or dignity, as that of a cardinal.
Cap (n.) One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys
Cap (n.) Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
Cap (n.) The removable cover of a journal box.
Cap (n.) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
Cap (n.) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.
Cap (n.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
Cap (v. i.) To uncover the head respectfully.
Cap (v. t.) To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.
Cap (v. t.) To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.
Cap (v. t.) To deprive of cap.
Cap (v. t.) To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.
Cap (v. t.) To salute by removing the cap.
Capabilities (pl. ) of Capability
Capability (n.) Capacity of being used or improved.
Capability (n.) The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.
Capable (a.) Capacious; large; comprehensive.
Capable (a.) Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault.
Capable (a.) Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations.
Capable (a.) Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of making a contract, or a will.
Capableness (n.) The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
Capacified (imp. & p. p.) of Capacify
Capacify (v. t.) To quality.
Capaciosly (adv.) In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively.
Capacious (a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.
Capacious (a.) Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor.
Capaciousness (n.) The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.
Capacitate (v. t.) To render capable; to enable; to qualify.
Capacitated (imp. & p. p.) of Capacitate
Capacitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capacitate
Capacities (pl. ) of Capacity
Capacity (n.) Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.
Capacity (n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency.
Capacity (n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
Capacity (n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling.
Capacity (n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
Capape (adv.) See Cap-a-pie.
Capapie (adv.) From head to foot; at all points.
Caparison (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative.
Caparison (n.) Gay or rich clothing.
Caparison (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress.
Caparison (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse.
Caparisoned (imp. & p. p.) of Caparison
Caparisoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caparison
Caparro (n.) A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.
Capcase (n.) A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest.
Cape (n.) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
Cape (n.) A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.
Cape (v. i.) To gape.
Cape (v. i.) To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.
Capel (n.) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
Capel (n.) Alt. of Caple
Capelan (n.) See Capelin.
Capelin (n.) A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod.
Capella (n.) A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.
Capellane (n.) The curate of a chapel; a chaplain.
Capelle (n.) The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.
Capellet (n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down.
Capellmeister (n.) The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master.
Caper (n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank.
Caper (n.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree.
Caper (n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer.
Caper (n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.
Caper (v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
Caper bush () Alt. of Caper tree
Caper tree () See Capper, a plant, 2.
Caperberry (n.) The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).
Caperberry (n.) The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.
Capercailzie (n.) Alt. of Capercally
Capercally (n.) A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods.
Caperclaw (v. t.) To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse.
Capered (imp. & p. p.) of Caper
Caperer (n.) One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.
Capering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caper
Capful (n.) As much as will fill a cap.
Capias (n.) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.
Capibara (n.) See Capybara.
Capillaceous (a.) Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.
Capillaire (n.) A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.
Capillaire (n.) Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers.
Capillament (n.) A filament.
Capillament (n.) Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves.
Capillariness (n.) The quality of being capillary.
Capillarity (n.) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.
Capillarity (n.) The quality or condition of being capillary.
Capillary (a.) Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
Capillary (a.) Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
Capillary (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
Capillary (n.) A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
Capillation (n.) A capillary blood vessel.
Capillature (n.) A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair.
Capilliform (a.) In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.
Capillose (a.) Having much hair; hairy.
Capistrate (a.) Hooded; cowled.
Capita (pl. ) of Caput
Capital (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book.
Capital (a.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
Capital (a.) Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
Capital (a.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
Capital (a.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
Capital (n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
Capital (n.) First in importance; chief; principal.
Capital (n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
Capital (n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
Capital (n.) Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
Capital (n.) Of or pertaining to the head.
Capital (n.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
Capital (n.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
Capitalist (n.) One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.
Capitalization (n.) The act or process of capitalizing.
Capitalize (v. t.) To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)
Capitalize (v. t.) To convert into capital, or to use as capital.
Capitalize (v. t.) To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.
Capitalized (imp. & p. p.) of Capitalize
Capitalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capitalize
Capitally (adv.) In a capital manner; excellently.
Capitally (adv.) In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life; as, to punish capitally.
Capitalness (n.) The quality of being capital; preeminence.
Capitan Pasha () Alt. of Pacha
Capitate (a.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.
Capitate (a.) Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.
Capitatim (a.) Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.
Capitation (n.) A numbering of heads or individuals.
Capitation (n.) A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax.
Capite (n.) See under Tenant.
Capitellate (a.) Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected into minute capitula.
Capitibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.
Capitol () The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State holds its sessions; a statehouse.
Capitol () The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met.
Capitolian (a.) Alt. of Capitoline
Capitoline (a.) Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome.
Capitula (n. pl.) See Capitulum.
Capitular (a.) Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.
Capitular (a.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
Capitular (a.) Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.
Capitular (n.) A member of a chapter.
Capitular (n.) An act passed in a chapter.
Capitular (n.) The head or prominent part.
Capitularies (pl. ) of Capitulary
Capitularly (adv.) In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter.
Capitulary (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.
Capitulary (n.) A capitular.
Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections.
Capitulary (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.
Capitulate (n.) To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.
Capitulate (n.) To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
Capitulate (v. t.) To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.
Capitulated (imp. & p. p.) of Capitulate
Capitulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capitulate
Capitulation (n.) A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
Capitulation (n.) The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.
Capitulation (n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
Capitulator (n.) One who capitulates.
Capitule (n.) A summary.
Capitulum (n.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]
Capitulum (n.) A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat.
Capivi (n.) A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.
Caple (n.) A horse; a nag.
Caple (n.) See Capel.
Caplin (n.) Alt. of Capling
Caplin (n.) See Capelin.
Capling (n.) The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel.
Capnomancy (n.) Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke.
Capnomor (n.) A limpid, colorless oil with a peculiar odor, obtained from beech tar.
Capoc (n.) A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.
Capoch (n.) A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.
Capoch (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or blind.
Capoched (imp. & p. p.) of Capoch
Capoches (pl. ) of Capoch
Capon (n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table.
Capon (v. t.) To castrate; to make a capon of.
Caponet (n.) A young capon.
Caponiere (n.) A work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.
Caponize (v. t.) To castrate, as a fowl.
Capot (n.) A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points.
Capot (v. t.) To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet.
Capote (n.) A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.
Capotted (imp. & p. p.) of Capot
Capouch (n. & v. t.) Same as Capoch.
Cappadine (n.) A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.
Cappaper () See cap, n., also Paper, n.
Cappeak (n.) The front piece of a cap; -- now more commonly called visor.
Capped (imp. & p. p.) of Cap
Cappeline (n.) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.
Cappella (n.) See A cappella.
Capper (n.) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].
Capper (n.) An instrument for applying a percussion cap to a gun or cartridge.
Capper (n.) One whose business is to make or sell caps.
Capping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cap
Capping plane () A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.
Capra (n.) A genus of ruminants, including the common goat.
Caprate (n.) A salt of capric acid.
Capreolate (a.) Having a tendril or tendrils.
Capreoline (a.) Of or pertaining to the roebuck.
Capric (a.) Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives.
Caprice (v. i.) An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
Caprice (v. i.) See Capriccio.
Capricioso (a.) In a free, fantastic style.
Capricious (a.) Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
Capricorn (n.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish.
Capricorn (n.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.
Caprid (a.) Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.
Caprification (n.) The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.
Caprifole (n.) The woodbine or honeysuckle.
Caprifoliaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle family of plants (Caprifoliacae.
Capriform (a.) Having the form of a goat.
Caprigenous (a.) Of the goat kind.
Caprine (a.) Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.
Capriole (v. i.) A leap or caper, as in dancing.
Capriole (v. i.) A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
Capriole (v. i.) To perform a capriole.
Capriped (a.) Having feet like those of a goat.
Caproate (n.) A salt of caproic acid.
Caproic (a.) See under Capric.
Caprylate (n.) A salt of caprylic acid.
Caprylic (a.) See under Capric.
Capsaicin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.
Capsheaf (n.) The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.
Capsicin (n.) A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum.
Capsicine (n.) A volatile alkaloid extracted from Capsicum annuum or from capsicin.
Capsicum (n.) A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce.
Capsize (n.) An upset or overturn.
Capsize (v. t. & i.) To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.
Capsized (imp. & p. p.) of Capsize
Capsizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capsize
Capsquare (n.) A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.
Capstone (n.) A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
Capsular (a.) Alt. of Capsulary
Capsulary (a.) Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous.
Capsulate (a.) Alt. of Capsulated
Capsulated (a.) Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.
Capsule (n.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.
Capsule (n.) A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ.
Capsule (n.) A metallic seal or cover for closing a bottle.
Capsule (n.) A small cup or shell, as of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
Capsule (n.) A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.
Capsule (n.) A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
Capsule (n.) a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
Captain (a.) Chief; superior.
Captain (n.) A head, or chief officer
Captain (n.) A military leader; a warrior.
Captain (n.) A person having authority over others acting in concert; as, the captain of a boat's crew; the captain of a football team.
Captain (n.) An officer in the United States navy, next above a commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the army.
Captain (n.) By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.
Captain (n.) One in charge of a portion of a ship's company; as, a captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.
Captain (n.) The foreman of a body of workmen.
Captain (n.) The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.
Captain (n.) The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed on other service.
Captain (v. t.) To act as captain of; to lead.
Captaincy (n.) The rank, post, or commission of a captain.
Captainry (n.) Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship.
Captainship (n.) Military skill; as, to show good captainship.
Captainship (n.) The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander.
Captation (n.) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction.
Caption (n.) A caviling; a sophism.
Caption (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed.
Caption (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.
Caption (n.) The heading of a chapter, section, or page.
Captious (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
Captious (a.) Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome.
Captiously (adv.) In a captious manner.
Captiousness (n.) Captious disposition or manner.
Captivate (p. a.) Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed.
Captivate (v. t.) To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
Captivate (v. t.) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
Captivated (imp. & p. p.) of Captivate
Captivating (a.) Having power to captivate or charm; fascinating; as, captivating smiles.
Captivating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Captivate
Captivation (n.) The act of captivating.
Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement.
Captive (a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.
Captive (a.) Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
Captive (n.) A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.
Captive (n.) One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
Captive (v. t.) To take prisoner; to capture.
Captived (imp. & p. p.) of Captive
Captiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Captive
Captivity (n.) A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage.
Captivity (n.) The state of being a captive or a prisoner.
Captor (n.) One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.
Capture (n.) The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
Capture (n.) The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
Capture (n.) The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.
Capture (v. t.) To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.
Captured (imp. & p. p.) of Capture
Capturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Capture
Capuccio (n.) A capoch or hood.
Capuched (a.) Cover with, or as with, a hood.
Capuchin (n.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.
Capuchin (n.) A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.
Capuchin (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
Capuchin (n.) Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.
Capucine (n.) See Capuchin, 3.
Capulet (n.) Same as Capellet.
Capulin (n.) The Mexican cherry (Prunus Capollin).
Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
Caput (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.
Caput (n.) The top or superior part of a thing.
Car (n.) A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
Car (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.
Car (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
Car (n.) A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
Car (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
Car (n.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
Car wheel () A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.
Carabid (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or family Carabidae.
Carabid (n.) One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles.
Carabine (n.) A carbine.
Carabineer (n.) A carbineer.
Caraboid (a.) Like, or pertaining to the genus Carabus.
Carabus (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects.
Carac (n.) See Carack.
Caracal (n.) A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.
Caracara (n.) A south American bird of several species and genera, resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.
Carack (n.) A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon.
Caracole (n.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.
Caracole (n.) A staircase in a spiral form.
Caracole (v. i.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel.
Caracoled (imp. & p. p.) of Caracole
Caracoly (n.) An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made.
Caracora (n.) A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.
Caracore (n.) Alt. of Caracora
Carafe (n.) A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called also croft.
Carageen (n.) Alt. of Caragheen
Caragheen (n.) See Carrageen.
Carambola (n.) An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.
Caramel (n.) A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor.
Caramel (n.) Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.
Carangoid (a.) Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the pilot fish.
Caranx (n.) A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel.
Carapace (n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
Carapato (n.) A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast.
Carapax (n.) See Carapace.
Carat (n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.
Carat (n.) The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.
Caravan (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.
Caravan (n.) A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.
Caravan (n.) A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beasts.
Caravaneer (n.) The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.
Caravansaries (pl. ) of Caravansary
Caravansary (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court.
Caravel (n.) A name given to several kinds of vessels.
Caravel (n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
Caravel (n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
Caravel (n.) A Turkish man-of-war.
Caravel (n.) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.
Caraway (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
Caraway (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
Carbamic (a.) Pertaining to an acid so called.
Carbamide (n.) The technical name for urea.
Carbamine (n.) An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.
Carbanil (n.) A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.
Carbazol (n.) A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines.
Carbazotate (n.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.
Carbazotic (a.) Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen.
Carbide (n.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.
Carbimide (n.) The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.
Carbine (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry.
Carbineer (n.) A soldier armed with a carbine.
Carbinol (n.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.
Carbohydride (n.) A hydrocarbon.
Carbolic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.
Carbolize (v. t.) To apply carbolic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid.
Carbonaceous (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.
Carbonade (n.) Alt. of Carbonado
Carbonade (v. t.) To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil.
Carbonade (v. t.) To cut or hack, as in fighting.
Carbonado (n.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.
Carbonado (n.) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop.
Carbonado (v. t.) Alt. of Carbonade
Carbonadoed (imp. & p. p.) of Carbonade
Carbonadoes (pl. ) of Carbonado
Carbonadoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carbonade
Carbonari (pl. ) of Carbonaro
Carbonarism (n.) The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
Carbonaro (n.) A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.
Carbonatation (n.) The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas.
Carbonate (n.) A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
Carbonated (a.) Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
Carbone (v. t.) To broil. [Obs.] "We had a calf's head carboned".
Carbonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide.
Carbonide (n.) A carbide.
Carboniferous (a.) Producing or containing carbon or coal.
Carbonization (n.) The act or process of carbonizing.
Carbonize (v. t.) To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
Carbonize (v. t.) To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.
Carbonized (imp. & p. p.) of Carbonize
Carbonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carbonize
Carbonometer (n.) An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.
Carbonyl (n.) The radical (CO)'', occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.
Carbostyril (n.) A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.
Carboxide (n.) A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide.
Carboxyl (n.) The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.
Carboy (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.
Carbuncle (n.) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.
Carbuncled (a.) Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched.
Carbuncled (a.) Set with carbuncles.
Carbuncular (a.) Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.
Carbunculation (n.) The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold.
Carburet (n.) A carbide. See Carbide
Carburet (v. t.) To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize.
Carburetant (n.) Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.
Carbureted (a.) Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide.
Carbureted (a.) Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating power.
Carbureted (imp. & p. p.) of Carburet
Carbureting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carburet
Carburetor (n.) An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power.
Carburetted () of Carburet
Carburetting () of Carburet
Carburization (n.) The act, process, or result of carburizing.
Carburize (v. t.) To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons.
Carburized (imp. & p. p.) of Carburize
Carburizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carburize
Carcajou (n.) The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.
Carcanet (n.) A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar.
Carcase (n.) See Carcass.
Carcass (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
Carcass (n.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
Carcass (n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing.
Carcass (n.) The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
Carcasses (pl. ) of Carcass
Carcavelhos (n.) A sweet wine. See Calcavella.
Carcel lamp () A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.
Carcelage (n.) Prison fees.
Carceral (a.) Belonging to a prison.
Carcinological (a.) Of or pertaining to carcinology.
Carcinology (n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.
Carcinoma (n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer.
Carcinomatous (a.) Of or pertaining to carcinoma.
Carcinosys (n.) The affection of the system with cancer.
Card (n.) A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
Card (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
Card (n.) A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
Card (n.) A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
Card (n.) An indicator card. See under Indicator.
Card (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.
Card (v. i.) To play at cards; to game.
Card (v. t.) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
Card (v. t.) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
Card (v. t.) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
Cardamine (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.
Cardamom (n.) A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum.
Cardamom (n.) The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.
Cardboard (n.) A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.
Cardcase (n.) A case for visiting cards.
Cardecu (n.) A quarter of a crown.
Carded (imp. & p. p.) of Card
Carder (n.) One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc.
Cardia (n.) The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.
Cardia (n.) The heart.
Cardiac (a.) Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant.
Cardiac (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.
Cardiac (n.) A medicine which excites action in the stomach; a cardial.
Cardiacal (a.) Cardiac.
Cardiacle (n.) A pain about the heart.
Cardiagraph (n.) See Cardiograph.
Cardialgla (n.) Alt. of Cardialgy
Cardialgy (n.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.
Cardigan jacket () A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.
Cardinal (a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
Cardinal (a.) Mulled red wine.
Cardinal (a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
Cardinal (a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
Cardinalate (n.) The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.
Cardinalize (v. t.) To exalt to the office of a cardinal.
Cardinalship (n.) The condition, dignity, of office of a cardinal
Cardines (pl. ) of Cardo
Carding (a.) The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.
Carding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Card
Carding (v. t.) A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine.
Cardiograph (n.) An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.
Cardiographic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
Cardioid (n.) An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart.
Cardioinhibitory (a.) Checking or arresting the heart's action.
Cardiolgy (n.) The science which treats of the heart and its functions.
Cardiometry (n.) Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation.
Cardiosphygmograph (n.) A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph.
Carditis (n.) Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis.
Cardo (n.) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.
Cardo (n.) The hinge of a bivalve shell.
Cardol (n.) A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.
Cardoon (n.) A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.
Care (n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
Care (n.) Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
Care (n.) Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.
Care (n.) The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Care (n.) To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.
Cared (imp. & p. p.) of Care
Careen (v. i.) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.
Careen (v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.
Careenage (n.) A place for careening.
Careenage (n.) Expense of careening ships.
Careened (imp. & p. p.) of Careen
Careening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Careen
Career (n.) A race course: the ground run over.
Career (n.) A running; full speed; a rapid course.
Career (n.) General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.
Career (n.) The flight of a hawk.
Career (v. i.) To move or run rapidly.
Careered (imp. & p. p.) of Career
Careering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Career
Careful (a.) Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern, anxiety, or trouble; painful.
Careful (a.) Full of care; anxious; solicitous.
Careful (a.) Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious; provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; -- often followed by of, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right.
Carefully (adv.) In a careful manner.
Carefulness (n.) Quality or state of being careful.
Careless (a.) Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
Careless (a.) Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.
Careless (a.) Not receiving care; uncared for.
Careless (a.) Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.
Carelessly (adv.) In a careless manner.
Carelessness (n.) The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.
Carene (n.) A fast of forty days on bread and water.
Caress (n.) An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.
Caress (n.) To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness; to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle.
Caressed (imp. & p. p.) of Caress
Caressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caress
Caressingly (ad.) In caressing manner.
Caret (n.) A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.
Caret (n.) The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.
Caretuned (a.) Weary; mournful.
Careworn (a.) Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
Carex (n.) A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceae; the sedges.
Carf () pret. of Carve.
Cargason (n.) A cargo.
Cargo (n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.
Cargoes (pl. ) of Cargo
Cargoose (n.) A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe.
Cariama (n.) A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema.
Carib (n.) A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands.
Caribbean (a.) Alt. of Caribbee
Caribbee (a.) Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean sea) lying between those islands and Central America.
Caribbee (n.) A Carib.
Caribe (n.) A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo of many species, remarkable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results.
Caribou (n.) The American reindeer, especially the common or woodland species (Rangifer Caribou).
Caricature (v. t.) A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody.
Caricature (v. t.) An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
Caricature (v. t.) To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.
Caricatured (imp. & p. p.) of Caricature
Caricaturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caricature
Caricaturist (n.) One who caricatures.
Cariccio (n.) A caprice; a freak; a fancy.
Cariccio (n.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice.
Caricous (a.) Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor.
Caries (n.) Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.
Caries (pl. ) of Carib
Carillon (n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.
Carillon (n.) A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.
Carina (n.) A keel
Carina (n.) A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
Carina (n.) That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification
Carina (n.) The keel of the breastbone of birds.
Carinaria (n.) A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin, glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.
Carinatae (n. pl.) A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.
Carinate (a.) Alt. of Carinated
Carinated (a.) Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).
Caring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Care
Cariole (n.) A covered cart
Cariole (n.) A kind of calash. See Carryall.
Cariole (n.) A small, light, open one-horse carriage
Cariopsis (n.) See Caryopsis.
Cariosity (n.) Caries.
Carious (a.) Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.
Cark (n.) A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
Cark (v. i.) To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve.
Cark (v. t.) To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.
Carl (n.) Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.
Carlin (n.) An old woman.
Carline (n.) Alt. of Carling
Carline (n.) Alt. of Caroline
Carline thistle () A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia.
Carling (n.) A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.
Carlings (n. pl.) Same as Carl, 3.
Carlist (n.) A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of Spain.
Carlock (n.) A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.
Carlot (n.) A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman.
Carlovingian (a.) Pertaining to, founded by, of descended from, Charlemagne; as, the Carlovingian race of kings.
Carmagnole (n.) A bombastic report from the French armies.
Carmagnole (n.) A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution.
Carman (n.) A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.
Carmelin (a.) Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.
Carmelite (a.) Alt. of Carmelin
Carmelite (n.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.
Carmelite (n.) A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel.
Carminated (a.) Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake.
Carminative (a.) Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.
Carminative (n.) A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence.
Carmine (n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.
Carmine (n.) A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.
Carmine (n.) The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid.
Carminic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine.
Carmot (n.) The matter of which the philosopher's stone was believed to be composed.
Carnage (n.) Flesh of slain animals or men.
Carnage (n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.
Carnal (a.) Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual.
Carnal-minded (a.) Worldly-minded.
Carnal-mindedness (n.) Grossness of mind.
Carnalism (n.) The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism.
Carnalist (n.) A sensualist.
Carnality (n.) The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.
Carnalize (v. t.) To make carnal; to debase to carnality.
Carnalized (imp. & p. p.) of Carnalize
Carnalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carnalize
Carnallite (n.) A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.
Carnally (adv.) According to the flesh, to the world, or to human nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually.
Carnary (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.
Carnassial (a.) Adapted to eating flesh.
Carnassial (n.) A carnassial tooth; especially, the last premolar in many carnivores.
Carnate (a.) Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.
Carnation (n.) A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.
Carnation (n.) The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
Carnation (n.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.
Carnationed (a.) Having a flesh color.
Carnauba (n.) The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.
Carnelian (n.) A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals.
Carneous (a.) Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy.
Carney (n.) A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat.
Carnifex (n.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.
Carnification (n.) The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.
Carnify (v. i.) To form flesh; to become like flesh.
Carnin (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.
Carnival (n.) A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday.
Carnival (n.) Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess.
Carnivoracity (n.) Greediness of appetite for flesh.
Carnivore (n.) One of the Carnivora.
Carnose (a.) Alt. of Carnous
Carnosity (n.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth.
Carnosity (n.) Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering.
Carnous (a.) Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves, stems, etc.
Carnous (a.) Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy.
Carob (n.) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.
Carob (n.) One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean.
Caroche (n.) A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach.
Caroched (a.) Placed in a caroche.
Caroigne (n.) Dead body; carrion.
Carol (n.) A round dance.
Carol (n.) A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay.
Carol (n.) A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol.
Carol (n.) Alt. of Carrol
Carol (n.) Joyful music, as of a song.
Carol (v. i.) To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble.
Carol (v. t.) To praise or celebrate in song.
Carol (v. t.) To sing, especially with joyful notes.
Caroled (imp. & p. p.) of Carol
Caroli (pl. ) of Carolus
Carolin (n.) A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.
Carolina pink () See Pinkboot.
Caroline (n.) A coin. See Carline.
Caroline (n.) A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth about seven cents.
Caroling (n.) A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols.
Caroling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carol
Carolinian (n.) A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.
Carolitic (a.) Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.
Carolled () of Carol
Carolling () of Carol
Carolus (n.) An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.
Caroluses (pl. ) of Carolus
Carom (n.) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.
Carom (v. i.) To make a carom.
Caromel (n.) See Caramel.
Caroteel (n.) A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs.
Carotic (a.) Carotid; as, the carotic arteries.
Carotic (a.) Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state.
Carotid (a.) Alt. of Carotidal
Carotid (n.) One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head. [See Illust. of Aorta.]
Carotidal (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as, the carotid gland.
Carotin (n.) A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.
Carousal (n.) A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.
Carouse (n.) A drinking match; a carousal.
Carouse (n.) A large draught of liquor.
Carouse (v. i.) To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels.
Carouse (v. t.) To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.
Caroused (imp. & p. p.) of Carouse
Carouser (n.) One who carouses; a reveler.
Carousing (a.) That carouses; relating to a carouse.
Carousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carouse
Carousingly (adv.) In the manner of a carouser.
Carp (n.) A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See Cruclan carp.
Carp (pl. ) of Carp
Carp (v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at.
Carp (v. i.) To talk; to speak; to prattle.
Carp (v. t.) To find fault with; to censure.
Carp (v. t.) To say; to tell.
Carpal (a.) Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist.
Carpal (n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale.
Carpale (n.) One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.
Carpalia (pl. ) of Carpale
Carpathian (a.) Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary on the north, east, and south.
Carped (imp. & p. p.) of Carp
Carpel (n.) Alt. of Carpellum
Carpellary (a.) Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.
Carpellum (n.) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.
Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.
Carpentering (n.) The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry.
Carpentry (n.) An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
Carpentry (n.) The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.
Carper (n.) One who carps; a caviler.
Carpet (n.) A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.
Carpet (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.
Carpetbag (n.) A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Carpeted (imp. & p. p.) of Carpet
Carpeting (n.) Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general.
Carpeting (n.) The act of covering with carpets.
Carpeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carpet
Carpetless (a.) Without a carpet.
Carpetmonger (n.) One fond of pleasure; a gallant.
Carpetmonger (n.) One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.
Carpetway (n.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.
Carphology (n.) See Floccillation.
Carpi (pl. ) of Carpus
Carping (a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.
Carping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carp
Carpintero (n.) A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.
Carpogenic (a.) Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
Carpolite (n.) A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.
Carpological (a.) Of or pertaining to carpology.
Carpologist (n.) One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
Carpology (n.) That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.
Carpophagous (a.) Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.
Carpophore (n.) A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
Carpophyll (n.) A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]
Carpophyte (n.) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.
Carpospore (n.) A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.
Carps (pl. ) of Carp
Carpus (n.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.
Carrack (n.) See Carack.
Carrageen (n.) Alt. of Carrigeen
Carrancha (n.) The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes.
Carraway (n.) See Caraway.
Carrel (n.) Same as 4th Carol.
Carrel (n.) See Quarrel, an arrow.
Carriable (a.) Capable of being carried.
Carriage (n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
Carriage (n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
Carriage (n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
Carriage (n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
Carriage (n.) That which carries of conveys,
Carriage (n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.
Carriage (n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
Carriage (n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.
Carriage (n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
Carriage (n.) The price or expense of carrying.
Carriageable (a.) Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages.
Carriboo (n.) See Caribou.
Carrick (n.) A carack. See Carack.
Carried (imp. & p. p.) of Carry
Carrier (n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
Carrier (n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
Carries (pl. ) of Carry
Carrigeen (n.) A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.
Carrion (a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
Carrion (n.) A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach.
Carrion (n.) The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.
Carrol (n.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century.
Carrol (n.) See 4th Carol.
Carrom (n.) See Carom.
Carron oil () A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland.
Carrot (n.) An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
Carrot (n.) The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.
Carroty (a.) Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.
Carrow (n.) A strolling gamester.
Carry (n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.
Carry (v. i.) To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.
Carry (v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
Carry (v. i.) To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.
Carry (v. i.) To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
Carry (v. t.) To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.
Carry (v. t.) To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.
Carry (v. t.) To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.
Carry (v. t.) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.
Carry (v. t.) To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
Carry (v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture.
Carry (v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.
Carry (v. t.) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
Carry (v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
Carryall (n.) A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.
Carrying (n.) The act or business of transporting from one place to another.
Carrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carry
Carryk (n.) A carack.
Carrytale (n.) A talebearer.
Carse (n.) Low, fertile land; a river valley.
Cart (n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc.
Cart (n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.
Cart (n.) An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.
Cart (v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter.
Cart (v. t.) To carry or convey in a cart.
Cart (v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
Cartage (n.) The act of carrying in a cart.
Cartage (n.) The price paid for carting.
Cartbote (n.) Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.
Carte (n.) Alt. of Quarte
Carte (n.) Bill of fare.
Carte (n.) Short for Carte de visite.
Carte blanche () A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.
Carte de visite () A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.
Carte de visite () A visiting card.
Carted (imp. & p. p.) of Cart
Cartel (n.) A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat.
Cartel (n.) An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.
Cartel (v. t.) To defy or challenge.
Carter (n.) A British fish; the whiff.
Carter (n.) A charioteer.
Carter (n.) A man who drives a cart; a teamster.
Carter (n.) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman
Cartes de visite (pl. ) of Carte de visite
Cartesian (a.) Of or pertaining to the French philosopher Rene Descartes, or his philosophy.
Cartesian (n.) An adherent of Descartes.
Cartesianism (n.) The philosophy of Descartes.
Carthaginian (a.) Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa.
Carthaginian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Carthage.
Carthamin (n.) A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius.
Carthusian (a.) Pertaining to the Carthusian.
Carthusian (n.) A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.
Cartilage (n.) A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.
Cartilagineous (a.) See Cartilaginous.
Cartilaginification (n.) The act or process of forming cartilage.
Cartilaginous (a.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.
Cartilaginous (a.) Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
Carting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cart
Cartman (n.) One who drives or uses a cart; a teamster; a carter.
Cartographer (n.) One who makes charts or maps.
Cartographic (a.) Alt. of Cartographical
Cartographical (a.) Of or pertaining to cartography.
Cartographically (adv.) By cartography.
Cartography (n.) The art or business of forming charts or maps.
Cartomancy (n.) The art of telling fortunes with cards.
Carton (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.
Cartoon (n.) A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.
Cartoon (n.) A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."
Cartoonist (n.) One skilled in drawing cartoons.
Cartouch (n.) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper
Cartouch (n.) A cartridge box.
Cartouch (n.) A gunner's bag for ammunition
Cartouch (n.) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
Cartouch (n.) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge
Cartouch (n.) 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 (n.) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
Cartouch (n.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.
Cartouches (pl. ) of Cartouch
Cartridge (n.) A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.
Cartularies (pl. ) of Cartulary
Cartulary (n.) A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.
Cartulary (n.) An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.
Cartway (n.) A way or road for carts.
Cartwright (n.) An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
Carucage (n.) A tax on every plow or plowland.
Carucage (n.) The act of plowing.
Carucate (n.) A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.
Caruncle (n.) Alt. of Caruncula
Caruncula (n.) A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.
Caruncula (n.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.
Caruncula (n.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.
Caruncular (a.) Alt. of Carunculous
Carunculate (a.) Alt. of Carunculated
Carunculated (a.) Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.
Carunculous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.
Carus (n.) Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
Carvacrol (n.) A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).
Carve (n.) A carucate.
Carve (v. i.) To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
Carve (v. i.) To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
Carve (v. t.) To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
Carve (v. t.) To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
Carve (v. t.) To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
Carve (v. t.) To cut.
Carve (v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Carve (v. t.) To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.
Carve (v. t.) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
Carved (imp. & p. p.) of Carve
Carvel (n.) A species of jellyfish; sea blubber.
Carvel (n.) Same as Caravel.
Carvelbuilt (a.) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
Carven (a.) Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved.
Carvene (n.) An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
Carver (n.) A large knife for carving.
Carver (n.) One who carves or divides meat at table.
Carver (n.) One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.
Carving (n.) A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material.
Carving (n.) The act or art of one who carves.
Carving (n.) The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.
Carving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carve
Carvist (n.) A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year.
Carvol (n.) One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
Caryatic (a.) Alt. of Caryatid
Caryatid (a.) Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
Caryatid (n.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.
Caryatides (n. pl.) Caryatids.
Caryatids (pl. ) of Caryatid
Caryophyllaceous (a.) Belonging to the family of which the pink and the carnation are the types.
Caryophyllaceous (a.) Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink
Caryophyllin (n.) A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.
Caryophyllous (a.) Caryophyllaceous.
Caryopses (pl. ) of Caryopsis
Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.
Casal (a.) Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.
Cascabel (n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.]
Cascade (n.) A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
Cascade (v. i.) To fall in a cascade.
Cascade (v. i.) To vomit.
Cascalho (n.) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.
Cascara sagrada () Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Cascarilla (n.) A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria); also, its aromatic bark.
Cascarillin (n.) A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.
Case (n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
Case (n.) A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
Case (n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
Case (n.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
Case (n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
Case (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
Case (n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
Case (n.) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.
Case (v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases.
Case (v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
Case (v. t.) To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
Case knife () A knife carried in a sheath or case.
Case knife () A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly kept in a case.
Case shot () A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
Case-bay (n.) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.
Case-bay (n.) The space between two principals or girders
Caseation (n.) A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.
Cased (imp. & p. p.) of Case
Caseharden (v. t.) To render insensible to good influences.
Caseharden (v. t.) To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.
Casehardened (a.) Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.
Casehardened (a.) Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.
Casehardening (n.) The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel.
Caseic (a.) Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.
Casemate (n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.
Casemate (n.) A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.
Casemated (a.) Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate.
Casement (n.) A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window.
Casemented (a.) Having a casement or casements.
Caseous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualities of cheese; cheesy.
Casern (n.) A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.
Caseum (n.) Same as Casein.
Caseworm (n.) A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.
Cash (n.) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
Cash (n.) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
Cash (n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money
Cash (n.sing & pl.) A Chinese coin.
Cash (v. t.) To disband.
Cash (v. t.) To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.
Cashbook (n.) A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.
Cashed (imp. & p. p.) of Cash
Cashier (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.
Cashier (v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.
Cashier (v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard.
Cashierer (n.) One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs.
Cashiering (p. pr. &vb. n.) of Cashier
Cashmere (n.) A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.
Cashmere (n.) A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.
Cashmerette (n.) A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.
Cashoo (n.) See Catechu.
Casing (n.) An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.
Casing (n.) An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.
Casing (n.) The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.
Casing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Case
Casing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cash
Casings (n. pl.) Dried dung of cattle used as fuel.
Casini (pl. ) of Casino
Casino (n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.
Casino (n.) A game at cards. See Cassino.
Casino (n.) A small country house.
Casinos (pl. ) of Casino
Cask (n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.
Cask (n.) A casket; a small box for jewels.
Cask (n.) Same as Casque.
Cask (n.) The quantity contained in a cask.
Cask (v. t.) To put into a cask.
Casket (n.) A book of selections.
Casket (n.) A gasket. See Gasket.
Casket (n.) A kind of burial case.
Casket (n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
Casket (n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed
Casket (n.) The body.
Casket (n.) The tomb.
Casket (v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
Casque (n.) A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.
Cass (v. t.) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.
Cassada (n.) See Cassava.
Cassareep (n.) A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.
Cassate (v. t.) To render void or useless; to vacate or annul.
Cassation (n.) The act of annulling.
Cassava (n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.
Cassava (n.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.
Casse Paper () Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
Casserole (n.) A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.
Casserole (n.) A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.
Cassia (n.) A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of several species furnish the senna used in medicine.
Cassia (n.) The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.
Cassican (n.) An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.
Cassideous (a.) Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.
Cassidony (n.) The French lavender (Lavandula Stoechas)
Cassidony (n.) The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.
Cassimere (n.) A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.
Cassinette (n.) A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.
Cassinian ovals () See under Oval.
Cassino (n.) A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.
Cassioberry (n.) The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.
Cassiopeia (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia.
Cassius (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius.
Cassock (n.) A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.
Cassock (n.) A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.
Cassocked (a.) Clothed with a cassock.
Cassolette (n.) a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
Cassonade (n.) Raw sugar; sugar not refined.
Cassowaries (pl. ) of Cassowary
Cassumunar (n.) Alt. of Cassumuniar
Cassumuniar (n.) A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained from the East Indies.
Cast () 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
Cast (imp. & p. p.) of Cast
Cast (n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
Cast (n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
Cast (n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
Cast (n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.
Cast (n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
Cast (n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
Cast (n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
Cast (n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
Cast (n.) Contrivance; plot, design.
Cast (n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
Cast (n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
Cast (n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
Cast (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.
Cast (n.) The act of casting in a mold.
Cast (n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
Cast (n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
Cast (n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
Cast (n.) The thing thrown.
Cast (v. i.) To calculate; to compute.
Cast (v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
Cast (v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
Cast (v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
Cast (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
Cast (v. i.) To vomit.
Cast (v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
Cast (v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
Cast (v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
Cast (v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
Cast (v. t.) To contrive; to plan.
Cast (v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
Cast (v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
Cast (v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
Cast (v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
Cast (v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
Cast (v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.
Cast (v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
Cast (v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
Cast (v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
Cast (v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.
Cast (v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
Cast (v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
Cast (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
Cast (v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
Cast steel () See Cast steel, under Steel.
Cast-iron (a.) Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.
Cast-off (a.) Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.
Castalian (a.) Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses.
Castanea (n.) A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.
Castanet (n.) See Castanets.
Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.
Castaway (a.) Of no value; rejected; useless.
Castaway (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
Castaway (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
Caste (n.) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.
Caste (n.) One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.
Castellan (n.) A governor or warden of a castle.
Castellanies (pl. ) of Castellany
Castellany (n.) The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.
Castellated (a.) Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.
Castellated (a.) Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated.
Castellation (n.) The act of making into a castle.
Caster (n.) A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported and moved.
Caster (n.) A stand to hold a set of cruets.
Caster (n.) A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.
Caster (n.) One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.
Castigate (v. t.) To emend; to correct.
Castigate (v. t.) To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
Castigatory (a.) Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.
Castigatory (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.
Castile soap () A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.
Castilian (n.) An inhabitant or native of Castile, in Spain.
Castilian (n.) The Spanish language as spoken in Castile.
Castillan (a.) Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain.
Casting (n.) That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.
Casting (n.) The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc.
Casting (n.) The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.
Casting (n.) The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.
Casting (n.) The warping of a board.
Casting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cast
Castle (n.) A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
Castle (n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
Castle (n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
Castle (n.) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
Castle (v. i.) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.
Castle-guard (n.) A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
Castle-guard (n.) A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward.
Castle-guard (n.) The guard or defense of a castle.
Castlebuilder (n.) Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.
Castled (a.) Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.
Castled (imp. & p. p.) of Castle
Castlery (n.) The government of a castle.
Castlet (n.) A small castle.
Castleward (n.) Same as Castleguard.
Castling (n.) A compound move of the king and castle. See Castle, v. i.
Castling (n.) That which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
Castling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Castle
Castor (n.) A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver.
Castor (n.) A hat, esp. one made of beaver fur; a beaver.
Castor (n.) A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.
Castor (n.) Alt. of Castorite
Castor (n.) Castoreum. See Castoreum.
Castor (n.) See Caster, a small wheel.
Castor (n.) the northernmost of the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini, the other being Pollux.
Castor and Pollux () See Saint Elmo's fire, under Saint.
Castor bean () The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)
Castor oil () A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorous and insipid.
Castoreum (n.) A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.
Castorin (n.) A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.
Castorite (n.) A variety of the mineral called petalite, from Elba.
Castrametation (n.) The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of a camp.
Castrate (v. t.) To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.
Castrate (v. t.) To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
Castrated (imp. & p. p.) of Castrate
Castrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Castrate
Castration (n.) The act of castrating.
Castrato (n.) A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.
Castrel (n.) See Kestrel.
Castrensial (a.) Belonging to a camp.
Castrensian (a.) Castrensial.
Casual (a.) Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses.
Casual (a.) Happening or coming to pass without design, and without being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.
Casual (n.) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
Casualism (n.) The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.
Casualist (n.) One who believes in casualism.
Casually (adv.) Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance; occasionally.
Casualness (n.) The quality of being casual.
Casualties (pl. ) of Casualty
Casualty (n.) Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
Casualty (n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
Casualty (n.) That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
Casuarina (n.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.
Casuist (n.) One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.
Casuist (v. i.) To play the casuist.
Casuistic (a.) Alt. of Casuistieal
Casuistieal (a.) Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.
Casuistry (a.) Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.
Casus (n.) An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.
Cat (n.) A cat o' nine tails. See below.
Cat (n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.
Cat (n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.
Cat (n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
Cat (n.) An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
Cat (v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
Cat o' nine tails () See under Cat.
Cat-eyed (a.) Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.
Cat-harpin (n.) See Cat-harping.
Cat-harping (n.) One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.
Cat-hole (n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
Cat-rigged (a.) Rigged like a catboat.
Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
Cat-silver (n.) Mica.
Cat-tail (n.) A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.
Cat's-eye (n.) A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.
Cat's-foot (n.) A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.
Cat's-paw (n.) A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes.
Cat's-paw (n.) A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.
Cat's-paw (n.) A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.
Cat's-tail (n.) See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus.
Catabaptist (n.) One who opposes baptism, especially of infants.
Catabasion (n.) A vault under altar of a Greek church.
Catabiotic (a.) See under Force.
Catacaustic (a.) Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a.
Catacaustic (n.) A caustic curve formed by reflection of light.
Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles". Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.
Catachrestic (a.) Alt. of Catachrestical
Catachrestical (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.
Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Cataclysm (n.) Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface.
Cataclysmal (a.) Alt. of Cataclysmic
Cataclysmic (a.) Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.
Cataclysmist (n.) One who believes that the most important geological phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.
Catacomb (n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
Catacoustic (n.) That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics.
Catadioptric (a.) Alt. of Catadioptrical
Catadioptrical (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light.
Catadioptrics (n.) The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments.
Catadrome (n.) A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.
Catadrome (n.) A race course.
Catadromous (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.
Catadromous (a.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel.
Catafalco (n.) See Catafalque.
Catafalque (n.) A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.
Catagmatic (a.) Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.
Cataian (n.) A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach.
Catalan (a.) Of or pertaining to Catalonia.
Catalan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia.
Catalectic (a.) Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance.
Catalectic (a.) Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.
Catalepsis (n.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.
Catalepsy (n.) Alt. of Catalepsis
Cataleptic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.
Catallacta (n. pl.) A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.
Catallactics (n.) The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.
Catalog (n. & v.) Catalogue.
Catalogize (v. t.) To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue.
Catalogue (n.) A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.
Catalogue (v. t.) To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a catalogue.
Catalogued (imp. & p. p.) of Catalogue
Cataloguer (n.) A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.
Cataloguing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catalogue
Catalyse (pl. ) of Catalysis
Catalysis (n.) Dissolution; degeneration; decay.
Catalysis (n.) The catalytic force.
Catalytic (a.) Relating to, or causing, catalysis.
Catalytic (n.) An agent employed in catalysis, as platinum black, aluminium chloride, etc.
Catamaran (n.) A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat.
Catamaran (n.) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
Catamaran (n.) Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed.
Catamenia (n. pl.) The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
Catamenial (a.) Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.
Catamite (n.) A boy kept for unnatural purposes.
Catamount (n.) The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
Catanadromous (a.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous.
Catapasm (n.) A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.
Catapeltic (a.) Of or pertaining to a catapult.
Catapetalous (a.) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
Cataphonic (a.) Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic.
Cataphonics (n.) That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds; catacoustics.
Cataphract (n.) A horseman covered with a cataphract.
Cataphract (n.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.
Cataphract (n.) The armor or plate covering some fishes.
Cataphracted (a.) Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.
Cataphractic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.
Cataphysical (a.) Unnatural; contrary to nature.
Cataplasm (n.) A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice.
Catapuce (n.) Spurge.
Catapult (n.) A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc.
Catapult (n.) An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
Cataract (n.) A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
Cataract (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
Cataract (n.) An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.
Cataractous (a.) Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.
Catarrh (n.) 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.
Catarrhal (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.
Catarrhine (n.) One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.
Catarrhous (a.) Catarrhal.
Catastaltic (a.) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities.
Catastasis (n.) That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.
Catastasis (n.) The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body.
Catasterism (n.) A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars.
Catastrophe (n.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes.
Catastrophe (n.) An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
Catastrophe (n.) The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
Catastrophic (a.) Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.
Catastrophism (n.) The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.
Catastrophist (n.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism.
Catawba (n.) A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape.
Catawba (n.) A well known light red variety of American grape.
Catawbas (n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.
Catbird (n.) An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.
Catboat (n.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.
Catcall (n.) A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise.
Catch (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.
Catch (n.) Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony.
Catch (n.) That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.
Catch (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (v. i.) To attain possession.
Catch (v. i.) 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 (v. i.) To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.
Catch (v. i.) To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.
Catch (v. t.) Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
Catch (v. t.) To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.
Catch (v. t.) To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught the adjoining building.
Catch (v. t.) To engage and attach; to please; to charm.
Catch (v. t.) To get possession of; to attain.
Catch (v. t.) 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 (v. t.) To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.
Catch (v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.
Catch (v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody.
Catch (v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish.
Catch (v. t.) 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-basin (n.) A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer.
Catch-meadow (n.) A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.
Catchable (a.) Capable of being caught.
Catchdrain (n.) A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
Catched () of Catch
Catcher (n.) One who, or that which, catches.
Catcher (n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.
Catchfly (n.) A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.
Catching (a.) Captivating; alluring.
Catching (a.) Infectious; contagious.
Catching (n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of.
Catching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catch
Catchment (n.) A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.
Catchpenny (a.) Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show.
Catchpenny (n.) Some worthless catchpenny thing.
Catchpoll (n.) A bailiff's assistant.
Catchup (n.) Alt. of Catsup
Catchwater (n.) A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.
Catchweed (n.) See Cleavers.
Catchweight (adv.) Without any additional weight; without being handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.
Catchword (n.) A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.
Catchword (n.) Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
Catchword (n.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.
Catchwork (n.) A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
Cate (n.) Food. [Obs.] See Cates.
Catechetic (a.) Alt. of Catechetical
Catechetical (a.) Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.
Catechetically (adv.) In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.
Catechetics (n.) The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.
Catechin (n.) One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin.
Catechisation (n.) The act of catechising.
Catechise (v. t.) To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith.
Catechise (v. t.) To question or interrogate; to examine or try by questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a person answers which condemn his own conduct.
Catechised (imp. & p. p.) of Catechise
Catechiser (n.) One who catechises.
Catechising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catechise
Catechism (n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.
Catechism (n.) A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.
Catechismal (a.) Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical.
Catechist (n.) One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.
Catechistic (a.) Alt. of Catechistical
Catechistical (a.) Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism.
Catechize (v. t.) See Catechise.
Catechuic (a.) Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin.
Catechumenate (n.) The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
Catechumenical (a.) Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.
Catechumenist (n.) A catechumen.
Categorematic (a.) Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.
Categorical (a.) Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.
Categorical (a.) Of or pertaining to a category.
Categorically (adv.) Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.
Categoricalness (n.) The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
Categories (pl. ) of Category
Categorist (n.) One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies.
Categorize (v. t.) To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.
Category (n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
Category (n.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
Catel (n.) Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income.
Catelectrode (n.) The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery.
Catelectrotonic (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.
Catelectrotonus (n.) The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.
Catena (n.) A chain or series of things connected with each other.
Catenarian (a.) Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.
Catenary (a.) Alt. of Catenarian
Catenary (n.) The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.
Catenate (v. t.) To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain.
Catenated (imp. & p. p.) of Catenate
Catenating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catenate
Catenation (n.) Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation.
Catene (pl. ) of Catena
Catenulate (a.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc.
Catenulate (a.) Consisting of little links or chains.
Cater (n.) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
Cater (n.) By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.
Cater (n.) The four of cards or dice.
Cater (n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.
Cater (v. t.) To cut diagonally.
Cater-cornered (a.) Diagonal.
Cater-cousin (n.) A remote relation. See Quater-cousin.
Cateran (n.) A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier.
Catered (imp. & p. p.) of Cater
Caterer (n.) One who caters.
Cateress (n.) A woman who caters.
Catering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cater
Caterpillar (n.) A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.
Caterwaul (n.) A caterwauling.
Caterwaul (v. i.) To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise.
Caterwauled (imp. & p. p.) of Caterwaul
Caterwauling (n.) The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.
Caterwauling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caterwaul
Catery (n.) The place where provisions are deposited.
Catfall (n.) A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.
Catgut (n.) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.
Catgut (n.) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
Catharical (a.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
Catharical (a.) Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.
Catharine wheel () See catherine wheel.
Catharist (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.
Catharsis (n.) A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.
Cathartic (a.) Alt. of Catharical
Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Cathartin (n.) The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina.
Cathay (n.) China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)
Cathead (n.) A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.
Cathedra (n.) The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.
Cathedral (a.) Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.
Cathedral (a.) Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.
Cathedral (a.) Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks.
Cathedral (n.) The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.
Cathedralic (a.) Cathedral.
Cathedrated (a.) Relating to the chair or office of a teacher.
Catheretic (n.) A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.
Catherine wheel () A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form the window of the same name.
Catherine wheel () Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.
Catheter (n.) The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.
Catheterism (n.) Alt. of Catheterization
Catheterization (n.) The operation of introducing a catheter.
Catheterize (v. t.) To operate on with a catheter.
Catheterized (imp. & p. p.) of Catheterize
Catheterizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Catheterize
Catheti (pl. ) of Cathetus
Cathetus (n.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle.
Cathode (n.) The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode.
Cathodic (a.) A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.
Catholic (a.) Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.
Catholic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act.
Catholic (a.) Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.
Catholic (n.) A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.
Catholic (n.) An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.
Catholical (a.) Catholic.
Catholicism (n.) Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view.
Catholicism (n.) The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto.
Catholicism (n.) The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.
Catholicism (n.) The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.
Catholicity (n.) Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.
Catholicity (n.) Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the doctrines themselves.
Catholicity (n.) Liberality of sentiments; catholicism.
Catholicity (n.) The state or quality of being catholic; universality.
Catholicize (v. t. & i.) To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.
Catholicly (adv.) In a catholic manner; generally; universally.
Catholicness (n.) The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity.
Catholicon (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.
Catilinarian (a.) Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.
Cation (n.) An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion.
Catlike (a.) Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.
Catling (n.) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
Catling (n.) A little cat; a kitten.
Catling (n.) Catgut; a catgut string.
Catlinite (n.) A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.
Catmint (n.) A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.
Catnip (n.) Alt. of Catmint
Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
Catonian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.
Catopron (n.) See Catopter.
Catopter (n.) Alt. of Catoptron
Catoptric (a.) Alt. of Catoptrical
Catoptrical (a.) Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection.
Catoptrics (n.) That part of optics which explains the properties and phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors or polished bodies; -- formerly called anacamptics.
Catoptron (n.) A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror.
Catpipe (n.) See Catcall.
Catskill period () The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.
Catso (n.) A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.
Catsos (pl. ) of Catso
Catstick (n.) A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat.
Catstitch (v. t.) To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag stitch.
Catsup (n.) A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc.
Catsup (n.) Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.
Catting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cat
Cattish (a.) Catlike; feline
Cattle (n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Catty (n.) An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.
Caucasian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
Caucasian (a.) Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.
Caucasian (n.) A member of any of the white races of mankind.
Caucasian (n.) A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.
Caucus (v. i.) To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.
Caucused (imp. & p. p.) of Caucus
Caucusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caucus
Cauda galli () A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit.
Caudad (adv.) Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.
Caudal (a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage.
Caudata (n. pl.) See Urodela.
Caudate (a.) Alt. of Caudated
Caudated (a.) Having a tail; having a termination like a tail.
Caudex (n.) The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.
Caudexes (pl. ) of Caudex
Caudices (pl. ) of Caudex
Caudicle (n.) Alt. of Caudicula
Caudicula (n.) A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
Caudle (n.) A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.
Caudle (v. t.) To make into caudle.
Caudle (v. t.) Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
Caudled (imp. & p. p.) of Caudle
Caudling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caudle
Cauf (n.) A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
Caufle (n.) A gang of slaves. Same as Coffle.
Caught () imp. & p. p. of Catch.
Caught (imp. & p. p.) of Catch
Cauk (n.) Alt. of Cauker
Cauker (n.) See Cawk, Calker.
Caul (n.) A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net.
Caul (n.) A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.
Caul (n.) The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.
Caules (pl. ) of Caulis
Caulescent (a.) Having a leafy stem.
Caulicle (n.) A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.
Cauliculi (pl. ) of Cauliculus
Cauliculus (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.
Cauliflower (n.) An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
Cauliflower (n.) The edible head or "curd" of a cauliflower plant.
Cauliform (a.) Having the form of a caulis.
Cauline (a.) Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis.
Caulis (n.) An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.
Caulk (v. t. & n.) See Calk.
Caulocarpous (a.) Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.
Cauma (n.) Great heat, as of the body in fever.
Cauponize (v. i.) To sell wine or victuals.
Causable (a.) Capable of being caused.
Causal (a.) Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.
Causal (n.) A causal word or form of speech.
Causality (n.) The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
Causality (n.) The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.
Causally (adv.) According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes.
Causally (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.
Causation (n.) The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
Causationist (n.) One who believes in the law of universal causation.
Causative (a.) Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.
Causative (a.) Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
Causative (n.) A word which expresses or suggests a cause.
Causatively (adv.) In a causative manner.
Causator (n.) One who causes.
Cause (conj.) Abbreviation of Because.
Cause (n.) To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb.
Cause (v. i.) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
Cause (v.) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
Cause (v.) Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general.
Cause (v.) Sake; interest; advantage.
Cause (v.) That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.
Cause (v.) That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
Cause (v.) The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain.
Caused (imp. & p. p.) of Cause
Causeful (n.) Having a cause.
Causeless (a.) 1. Self-originating; uncreated.
Causeless (a.) Without just or sufficient reason; groundless.
Causeless (adv.) Without cause or reason.
Causelessness (n.) The state of being causeless.
Causer (n.) One who or that which causes.
Causeuse (n.) A kind of sofa for two persons. A tete-/-tete.
Causeway (n.) Alt. of Causey
Causewayed (a.) Alt. of Causeyed
Causey (n.) A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.
Causeyed (a.) Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved.
Causidical (a.) Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
Causing (p. pr. & v. n.) of Cause
Caustic (a.) A caustic curve or caustic surface.
Caustic (a.) Alt. of Caustical
Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
Caustical (a.) Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.
Caustical (a.) Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark.
Caustically (adv.) In a caustic manner.
Causticily (n.) Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
Causticily (n.) The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.
Causticness (n.) The quality of being caustic; causticity.
Cautel (n.) Caution; prudence; wariness.
Cautel (n.) Craft; deceit; falseness.
Cautelous (a.) Caution; prudent; wary.
Cautelous (a.) Crafty; deceitful; false.
Cauter (n.) A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
Cauterant (n.) A cauterizing substance.
Cauteries (pl. ) of Cautery
Cauterism (n.) The use or application of a caustic; cautery.
Cauterization (n.) The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.
Cauterize (v. t.) To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
Cauterize (v. t.) To sear, as the conscience.
Cauterized (imp. & p. p.) of Cauterize
Cauterizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cauterize
Cautery (n.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
Cautery (n.) The iron of other agent in cauterizing.
Caution (n.) A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
Caution (n.) Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.
Caution (n.) Security; guaranty; bail.
Caution (v. t.) To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one] to take heed.
Cautionary (a.) Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.
Cautionary (a.) Given as a pledge or as security.
Cautionary (a.) Wary; cautious.
Cautioned (imp. & p. p.) of Caution
Cautioner (n.) A surety or sponsor.
Cautioner (n.) One who cautions or advises.
Cautioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caution
Cautionry (n.) Suretyship.
Cautious (a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.
Cautiously (adv.) In a cautious manner.
Cautiousness (n.) The quality of being cautious.
Cavalcade (n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.
Cavalero (n.) Alt. of Cavaliero
Cavalier (a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank.
Cavalier (a.) High-spirited.
Cavalier (a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.
Cavalier (n.) A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
Cavalier (n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
Cavalier (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
Cavalier (n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
Cavalierish (a.) Somewhat like a cavalier.
Cavalierism (n.) The practice or principles of cavaliers.
Cavalierly (adv.) In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly.
Cavalierness (n.) A disdainful manner.
Cavaliero (n.) A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine.
Cavally (n.) A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]
Cavalry (n.) That part of military force which serves on horseback.
Cavalryman (n.) One of a body of cavalry.
Cavatina (n.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.
Cave (n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
Cave (n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
Cave (n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.
Cave (v. i.) To dwell in a cave.
Cave (v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
Caveat (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
Caveat (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
Caveat (n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
Caveating (n.) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
Caveator (n.) One who enters a caveat.
Caved (imp. & p. p.) of Cave
Cavendish (n.) Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Cavern (n.) A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.
Caverned (a.) Containing caverns.
Caverned (a.) Living in a cavern.
Cavernous (a.) Filled with small cavities or cells.
Cavernous (a.) Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
Cavernous (a.) Having a sound caused by a cavity.
Cavernulous (a.) Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal.
Cavesson (n.) Alt. of Cavezon
Cavetto (n.) A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column.
Cavezon (n.) A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses.
Caviar (n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.
Caviare (n.) Alt. of Caviar
Cavicorn (a.) Having hollow horns.
Cavicornia (n. pl.) A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.
Cavies (pl. ) of Cavy
Cavil (n.) A captious or frivolous objection.
Cavil (v. i.) To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
Cavil (v. t.) To cavil at.
Caviled (imp. & p. p.) of Cavil
Caviler (n.) Alt. of Caviller
Caviling (a.) Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious.
Caviling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cavil
Cavilingly (adv.) In a caviling manner.
Cavillation (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection.
Cavilled () of Cavil
Caviller (n.) One who cavils.
Cavilling () of Cavil
Cavillous (a.) Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing.
Cavilous (a.) Alt. of Cavillous
Cavin (n.) A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place.
Caving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cave
Cavitary (a.) Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid worms.
Cavities (pl. ) of Cavity
Cavity (n.) A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.
Cavity (n.) Hollowness.
Cavo-relievo (n.) Cavo-rilievo.
Cavo-rilievo (n.) Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.
Cavort (v. i.) To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
Cavorted (imp. & p. p.) of Cavort
Cavorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cavort
Cavy (n.) A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.
Caw (n.) The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.
Caw (v. i.) To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.
Cawed (imp. & p. p.) of Caw
Cawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caw
Cawk (n.) An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.
Cawker (n.) See Calker.
Cawky (a.) Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.
Caxon (n.) A kind of wig.
Caxton (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.
Cay (n.) See Key, a ledge.
Cayenne (n.) Cayenne pepper.
Cayman (n.) The south America alligator. See Alligator.
Cayugas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.
Cayuse (n.) An Indian pony.
Cazic (n.) A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America.
Cazique (n.) Alt. of Cazic
Cease (n.) Extinction.
Cease (v. i.) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
Cease (v. i.) To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
Cease (v. t.) To put a stop to; to bring to an end.
Ceased (imp. & p. p.) of Cease
Ceaseless (a.) Without pause or end; incessant.
Ceaseless (adv.) Without intermission or end.
Ceasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cease
Cecidomyia (n.) A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.
Cecity (n.) Blindness.
Cecutiency (n.) Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness.
Cedar (a.) Of or pertaining to cedar.
Cedar (n.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
Cedared (a.) Covered, or furnished with, cedars.
Cedarn (a.) Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
Cede (v. t.) To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.
Ceded (imp. & p. p.) of Cede
Cedilla (n.) A mark placed under the letter c [thus, c], to show that it is to be sounded like s, as in facade.
Ceding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cede
Cedrat (n.) Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.
Cedrene (n.) A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper, etc., of which cedrene proper is the type.
Cedrine (a.) Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree.
Cedriret (n.) Same as Coerulignone.
Cedry (a.) Of the nature of cedar.
Cedule (n.) A scroll; a writing; a schedule.
Ceduous (a.) Fit to be felled.
Ceil (v. t.) To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.
Ceil (v. t.) To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
Ceiled (imp. & p. p.) of Ceil
Ceiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ceil
Ceiling (v. t.) The inner planking of a vessel.
Ceiling (v. t.) The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
Ceiling (v. t.) The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.
Ceint (n.) A girdle.
Celadon (n.) A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.
Celature (n.) That which is engraved.
Celature (n.) The act or art of engraving or embossing.
Celebrant (n.) One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.
Celebrate (v. t.) To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.
Celebrate (v. t.) To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
Celebrate (v. t.) To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.
Celebrated (a.) Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned.
Celebrated (imp. & p. p.) of Celebrate
Celebrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Celebrate
Celebration (n.) The act, process, or time of celebrating.
Celebrator (n.) One who celebrates; a praiser.
Celebrious (a.) Famous.
Celebrities (pl. ) of Celebrity
Celebrity (n.) A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.
Celebrity (n.) Celebration; solemnization.
Celebrity (n.) The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington.
Celeriac (n.) Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.
Celerity (n.) Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.
Celery (n.) A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.
Celestial (a.) Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
Celestial (a.) Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine.
Celestial (n.) A native of China.
Celestial (n.) An inhabitant of heaven.
Celestialize (v. t.) To make celestial.
Celestially (adv.) In a celestial manner.
Celestify (v. t.) To make like heaven.
Celestine (n.) Alt. of Celestinian
Celestine (n.) Alt. of Celestite
Celestinian (n.) A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.
Celestite (n.) Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact massive and fibrous forms.
Celiac (a.) Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.
Celiac (a.) See Coellac.
Celibacy (n.) The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.
Celibate (a.) Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.
Celibate (n.) Celibate state; celibacy.
Celibate (n.) One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.
Celibatist (n.) One who lives unmarried.
Celidography (n.) A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets.
Cell (n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
Cell (n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
Cell (n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
Cell (n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place.
Cell (n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
Cell (n.) Same as Cella.
Cell (n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
Cell (v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell.
Cella (n.) The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.
Cellar (n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
Cellarage (n.) Chare for storage in a cellar.
Cellarage (n.) The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar.
Cellarer (n.) A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.
Cellaret (n.) A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
Cellarist (n.) Same as Cellarer.
Celled (a.) Containing a cell or cells.
Celled (imp. & p. p.) of Cell
Cellepore (n.) A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.
Celli (pl. ) of Cello
Celliferous (a.) Bearing or producing cells.
Cello (n.) A contraction for Violoncello.
Cellos (pl. ) of Cello
Cellular (a.) Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells.
Cellulated (a.) Cellular.
Cellule (n.) A small cell.
Celluliferous (a.) Bearing or producing little cells.
Cellulitis (n.) An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.
Cellulose (a.) Consisting of, or containing, cells.
Celotomy (n.) The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia.
Celsiture (n.) Height; altitude.
Celsius (n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale.
Celt (n.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
Celt (n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.
Celtiberian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus).
Celtiberian (n.) An inhabitant of Celtiberia.
Celtic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue.
Celtic (n.) The language of the Celts.
Celticism (n.) A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language.
Celticize (v. t.) To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts.
Cembalo (n.) An old name for the harpsichord.
Cement (n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
Cement (n.) Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
Cement (n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
Cement (n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
Cement (n.) The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
Cement (n.) To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
Cement (n.) To unite firmly or closely.
Cement (n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
Cement (v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
Cemental (a.) Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.
Cementation (n.) The act or process of cementing.
Cementatory (a.) Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.
Cemented (imp. & p. p.) of Cement
Cementer (n.) A person or thing that cements.
Cementing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cement
Cementitious (n.) Of the nature of cement.
Cemeterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a cemetery.
Cemeteries (pl. ) of Cemetery
Cemetery (n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
Cenanthy (n.) The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.
Cenation (n.) Meal-taking; dining or supping.
Cenatory (a.) Of or pertaining to dinner or supper.
Cenobite (n.) One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.
Cenobitic (a.) Alt. of Cenobitical
Cenobitical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cenobite.
Cenobitism (n.) The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
Cenogamy (n.) The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.
Cenotaph (n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Cenotaphy (n.) A cenotaph.
Cenozoic (a.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.
Cense (n.) A census; -- also, a public rate or tax.
Cense (n.) Condition; rank.
Cense (v. i.) To burn or scatter incense.
Cense (v. t.) To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.
Censed (imp. & p. p.) of Cense
Censer (n.) A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.
Censing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cense
Censor (n.) A critic; a reviewer.
Censor (n.) One given to fault-finding; a censurer.
Censor (n.) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
Censor (n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.
Censorial (a.) Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
Censorial (a.) Full of censure; censorious.
Censorian (a.) Censorial.
Censorious (a.) Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
Censorious (a.) Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
Censorship (n.) The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship.
Censual (a.) Relating to, or containing, a census.
Censurable (a.) Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.
Censure (n.) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
Censure (n.) Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
Censure (n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
Censure (v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
Censure (v. i.) To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.
Censure (v. i.) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
Censure (v. i.) To judge.
Censured (imp. & p. p.) of Censure
Censurer (n.) One who censures.
Censuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Censure
Census (n.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.
Census (n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
Cent (n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
Cent (n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
Cent (n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.
Centage (n.) Rate by the hundred; percentage.
Cental (n.) A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.
Cental (n.) Relating to a hundred.
Centare (n.) A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.
Centaur (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
Centaur (n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
Centaurea (n.) A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).
Centaury (n.) A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.
Centenarian (a.) Of or relating to a hundred years.
Centenarian (n.) A person a hundred years old.
Centenaries (pl. ) of Centenary
Centenary (a.) Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial.
Centenary (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.
Centenary (n.) A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hundred years before.
Centenary (n.) The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically, a century.
Centennial (a.) Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
Centennial (a.) Lasting or aged a hundred years.
Centennial (a.) Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
Centennial (n.) The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
Centennially (adv.) Once in a hundred years.
Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
Center (n.) A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.
Center (n.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
Center (n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
Center (n.) The earth.
Center (n.) The middle or central portion of anything.
Center (v. i.) Alt. of Centre
Center (v. t.) Alt. of Centre
Centerbit (n.) Alt. of Centrebit
Centerboard (n.) Alt. of Centreboard
Centered (imp. & p. p.) of Centre
Centerfire cartridge () See under Cartridge.
Centering (n.) Same as Center, n., 6.
Centering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Centre
Centerpiece (n.) Alt. of Centrepiece
Centesimal (a.) Hundredth.
Centesimal (n.) A hundredth part.
Centesimation (n.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.
Centesimo (n.) A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime.
Centesm (n.) Hundredth.
Centiare (n.) See centare.
Centicipitous (a.) Hundred-headed.
Centifidous (a.) Divided into a hundred parts.
Centifolious (a.) Having a hundred leaves.
Centigrade (a.) Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts.
Centigram (n.) Alt. of Centigramme
Centigramme (n.) The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.
Centiliter (n.) Alt. of Centilitre
Centilitre (n.) The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce.
Centiloquy (n.) A work divided into a hundred parts.
Centime (n.) The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.
Centimeter (n.) Alt. of Centimetre
Centimetre (n.) The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter.
Centinel (n.) Sentinel.
Centinody (n.) A weed with a stem of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.
Centiped (n.) A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet.
Centistere (n.) The hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic feet.
Centner (n.) A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.
Centner (n.) The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.
Cento (n.) A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.
Centonism (n.) The composition of a cento; the act or practice of composing a cento or centos.
Centos (pl. ) of Cento
Centra (pl. ) of Centrum
Central (a.) Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.
Central (n.) Alt. of Centrale
Centrale (n.) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.
Centralism (n.) The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.
Centralism (n.) The system by which power is centralized, as in a government.
Centralities (pl. ) of Centrality
Centrality (n.) The state of being central; tendency towards a center.
Centralize (v. t.) To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.
Centralized (imp. & p. p.) of Centralize
Centralizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Centralize
Centrally (adv.) In a central manner or situation.
Centre (n. & v.) See Center.
Centre (v. i.) To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
Centre (v. i.) To be placed in a center; to be central.
Centre (v. t.) To collect to a point; to concentrate.
Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
Centre (v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
Centrebit (n.) An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3.
Centred () of Centre
Centrepiece (n.) An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.
Centric (a.) Alt. of Centrical
Centrical (a.) Placed in the center or middle; central.
Centricity (n.) The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.
Centrifugal (a.) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
Centrifugal (a.) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
Centrifugal (a.) Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
Centrifugal (n.) A centrifugal machine.
Centrifugence (n.) The property or quality of being centrifugal.
Centring () of Centre
Centring (n.) See Centring.
Centripetal (a.) Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
Centripetal (a.) Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
Centripetal (a.) Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
Centripetal (a.) Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
Centripetence (n.) Centripetency.
Centripetency (n.) Tendency toward the center.
Centriscoid (a.) Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.
Centrobaric (a.) Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it.
Centrode (n.) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.
Centroid (n.) The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or system of bodies.
Centrolecithal (a.) Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal.
Centrolinead (n.) An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or lines converging to a center.
Centrolineal (a.) Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.
Centrosome (n.) A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.
Centrostaltic (a.) A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center.
Centrum (n.) The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
Centrums (pl. ) of Centrum
Centry (n.) See Sentry.
Centumvir (n.) One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.
Centumviral (a.) Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.
Centumvirate (n.) The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.
Centumviri (pl. ) of Centumvir
Centuple (a.) Hundredfold.
Centuple (v. t.) To increase a hundredfold.
Centuplicate (a.) To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times.
Centuplicated (imp. & p. p.) of Centuplicate
Centuplicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Centuplicate
Centurial (a.) Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon.
Centuriate (a.) Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds.
Centuriate (v. t.) To divide into hundreds.
Centuriator (n.) Alt. of Centurist
Centuries (pl. ) of Century
Centurion (n.) A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century.
Centurist (n.) An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the "Magdeburg Centuries." See under Century.
Century (n.) A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.
Century (n.) A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
Century (n.) A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
Century (n.) One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
Cepevorous (a.) Feeding upon onions.
Cephalad (adv.) Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.
Cephalalgia (n.) Alt. of Cephalalgy
Cephalalgic (a.) Relating to, or affected with, headache.
Cephalalgic (n.) A remedy for the headache.
Cephalalgy (n.) Pain in the head; headache.
Cephalanthium (n.) Same as Anthodium.
Cephalaspis (n.) A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.
Cephalata (n. pl.) A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.
Cephalate (a.) Having a head.
Cephalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior.
Cephalic (n.) A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.
Cephalitis (n.) Same as Phrenitis.
Cephalization (n.) Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development.
Cephalo () A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod.
Cephalocercal (a.) Relating to the long axis of the body.
Cephaloid (a.) Shaped like the head.
Cephalology (n.) The science which treats of the head.
Cephalomere (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods.
Cephalometer (n.) An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.
Cephalon (n.) The head.
Cephalophora (n. pl.) The cephalata.
Cephalopod (n.) Alt. of Cephalopode
Cephalopoda (n. pl.) The highest class of Mollusca.
Cephalopode (n.) One of the Cephalopoda.
Cephalopodic (a.) Alt. of Cephalopodous
Cephalopodous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.
Cephalosome (n.) The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods.
Cephalostyle (n.) The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.
Cephalothorax (n.) The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
Cephalotome (n.) An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.
Cephalotomy (n.) Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.
Cephalotomy (n.) Dissection or opening of the head.
Cephalotribe (n.) An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.
Cephalotrocha (n.) A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.
Cephalous (a.) Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks.
Cepheus (n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.
Ceraceous (a.) Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy.
Cerago (n.) Beebread.
Ceramic (a.) Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.
Ceramics (n.) The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.
Ceramics (n.) Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.
Cerargyrite (n.) Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).
Cerasin (n.) A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc.
Cerasin (n.) A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.
Cerasinous (a.) Of a cherry color.
Cerasinous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin.
Cerastes (n.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.
Cerate (n.) An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
Cerated (p. a.) Covered with wax.
Ceratine (a.) Sophistical.
Ceratobranchia (n. pl.) A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.
Ceratobranchial (a.) Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch.
Ceratobranchial (n.) A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage.
Ceratohyal (a.) Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch.
Ceratohyal (n.) A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.
Ceratosaurus (n.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
Ceratospongiae (n. pl.) An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.
Ceraunics (n.) That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity.
Ceraunoscope (n.) An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.
Cerberean (a.) Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus.
Cerberus (n.) A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam.
Cerberus (n.) A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.
Cercal (a.) Of or pertaining to the tail.
Cercaria (n.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.
Cercarian (a.) Of, like, or pertaining to, the Cercariae.
Cercarian (n.) One of the Cercariae.
Cercarle (pl. ) of Cercaria
Cerci (pl. ) of Cercus
Cercopod (n.) One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the posterior somites of certain insects.
Cercus (n.) See Cercopod.
Cere (n.) The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.
Cere (v. t.) To wax; to cover or close with wax.
Cereal (a.) Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
Cereal (n.) Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.
Cerealia (n. pl.) Public festivals in honor of Ceres.
Cerealia (n. pl.) The cereals.
Cerealin (n.) A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid.
Cerebel (n.) The cerebellum.
Cerebella (pl. ) of Cerebellum
Cerebellar (a.) Alt. of Cerebellous
Cerebellous (a.) Pertaining to the cerebellum.
Cerebellum (n.) The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.
Cerebellums (pl. ) of Cerebellum
Cerebra (pl. ) of Cerebrum
Cerebral (a.) Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.
Cerebral (n.) One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n.
Cerebralism (n.) The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.
Cerebralist (n.) One who accepts cerebralism.
Cerebrate (v. i.) To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.
Cerebration (n.) Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.
Cerebric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain.
Cerebricity (n.) Brain power.
Cerebriform (a.) Like the brain in form or substance.
Cerebrifugal (a.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.
Cerebripetal (a.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.
Cerebritis (n.) Inflammation of the cerebrum.
Cerebro-spinal (a.) Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
Cerebroid (a.) Resembling, or analogous to, the cerebrum or brain.
Cerebrology (n.) The science which treats of the cerebrum or brain.
Cerebropathy (n.) A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.
Cerebroscopy (n.) Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope).
Cerebrose (n.) A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.
Cerebrum (n.) The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.
Cerebrums (pl. ) of Cerebrum
Cerecloth (n.) A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter.
Cered (imp. & p. p.) of Cere
Cerement (n.) A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.
Cerement (n.) Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.
Ceremonial (a.) Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense ceremonious is now preferred.]
Ceremonial (a.) Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.
Ceremonial (n.) A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form.
Ceremonial (n.) The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions.
Ceremonialism (n.) Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.
Ceremonially (adv.) According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.
Ceremonialness (n.) Quality of being ceremonial.
Ceremonies (pl. ) of Ceremony
Ceremonious (a.) According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.
Ceremonious (a.) Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [In this sense ceremonial is now preferred.]
Ceremoniously (adv.) In a ceremonious way.
Ceremoniousness (n.) The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.
Ceremony (n.) A ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a crown, scepter, garland, etc.
Ceremony (n.) A sign or prodigy; a portent.
Ceremony (n.) Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom or authority.
Cereous (a.) Waxen; like wax.
Ceres (n.) The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.
Ceres (n.) The first discovered asteroid.
Ceresin (n.) A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.
Cereus (n.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.
Cerial (a.) Same as Cerrial.
Ceriferous (a.) Producing wax.
Cerin (n.) A variety of the mineral allanite.
Cerin (n.) A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol.
Cering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cere
Cerinthian (n.) One of an ancient religious sect, so called from Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics.
Ceriph (n.) One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.
Cerise (a.) Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
Cerite (n.) A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form.
Cerite (n.) A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.
Cerium (n.) A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.
Cernuous (a.) Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.
Cerograph (n.) A writing on wax.
Cerographic (a.) Alt. of Cerographical
Cerographical (a.) Of or pertaining to cerography.
Cerographist (n.) One who practices cerography.
Cerography (n.) A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
Cerography (n.) The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
Cerolite (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.
Ceroma (n.) That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.
Ceroma (n.) The cere of birds.
Ceroma (n.) The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.
Ceromancy (n.) Divination by dropping melted wax in water.
Ceroon (n.) A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.
Ceroplastic (a.) Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.
Ceroplastic (a.) Relating to the art of modeling in wax.
Ceroplastics (n.) Alt. of Ceroplasty
Ceroplasty (n.) The art of modeling in wax.
Cerosin (n.) A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminae.
Cerote (n.) See Cerate.
Cerotene (n.) A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.
Cerotic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.
Cerotin (n.) A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.
Cerrial (a.) Of or pertaining to the cerris.
Cerris (n.) A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.
Certain (a.) Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
Certain (a.) Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
Certain (a.) Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.
Certain (a.) Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
Certain (a.) Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain persons.
Certain (a.) Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
Certain (a.) Unfailing; infallible.
Certain (adv.) Certainly.
Certain (n.) A certain number or quantity.
Certain (n.) Certainty.
Certainly (adv.) Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
Certainness (n.) Certainty.
Certainties (pl. ) of Certainty
Certainty (n.) A fact or truth unquestionable established.
Certainty (n.) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.
Certainty (n.) The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
Certes (adv.) Certainly; in truth; verily.
Certificate (n.) A written declaration legally authenticated.
Certificate (n.) A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.
Certificate (v. t.) To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.
Certificate (v. t.) To verify or vouch for by certificate.
Certificated (imp. & p. p.) of Certificate
Certificating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Certificate
Certification (n.) The act of certifying.
Certified (imp. & p. p.) of Certify
Certifier (n.) One who certifies or assures.
Certify (v. t.) To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify.
Certify (v. t.) To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.
Certify (v. t.) To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal.
Certifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Certify
Certitude (n.) Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.
Cerule (a.) Blue; cerulean.
Cerulean (a.) Sky-colored; blue; azure.
Ceruleous (a.) Cerulean.
Cerulific (a.) Producing a blue or sky color.
Cerumen (n.) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.
Ceruminous (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands.
Ceruse (n.) A cosmetic containing white lead.
Ceruse (n.) The native carbonate of lead.
Ceruse (n.) White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.
Cerused (a.) Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face.
Cerusite (n.) Alt. of Cerussite
Cerussite (n.) Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.
Cervantite (n.) See under Antimony.
Cervelat (n.) An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.
Cervical (a.) Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.
Cervices (pl. ) of Cervix
Cervicide (n.) The act of killing deer; deer-slaying.
Cervine (a.) Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidae.
Cervix (n.) The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.
Cervixes (pl. ) of Cervix
Cervus (n.) A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species.
Ceryl (n.) A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.
Cesarean (a.) Alt. of Cesarian
Cesarian (a.) Same as Caesarean, Caesarian.
Cesarism (n.) See Caesarism.
Cespitine (n.) An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.
Cespititious (a.) Same as Cespitious.
Cespitose (a.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
Cespitous (a.) Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy.
Cess (n.) A rate or tax.
Cess (n.) Bound; measure.
Cess (v. i.) To cease; to neglect.
Cess (v. t.) To rate; to tax; to assess.
Cessant (a.) Inactive; dormant
Cessation (n.) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.
Cessavit (n.) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
Cessed (imp. & p. p.) of Cess
Cesser (v. i.) a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.
Cessible (a.) Giving way; yielding.
Cessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cess
Cession (n.) A yielding to physical force.
Cession (n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.
Cession (n.) Concession; compliance.
Cession (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Cessionary (a.) Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt.
Cessment (v. t.) An assessment or tax.
Cessor (v. i.) One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit.
Cessor (v. t.) An assessor.
Cesspipe (n.) A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.
Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.
Cest (n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
Cestode (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
Cestode (n.) One of the Cestoidea.
Cestoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
Cestoid (n.) One of the Cestoidea.
Cestoldean (n.) One of the Cestoidea.
Cestraciont (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus Cestracion.
Cestui (pron.) He; the one.
Cestus (n.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.
Cestus (n.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.
Cestus (n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
Cestuy (pron.) Alt. of Cestui
Cesura (n.) See Caesura.
Cesural (a.) See Caesural.
Cetacean (n.) One of the Cetacea.
Cetaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.
Cete (n.) One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.
Cetene (n.) An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.
Ceterach (n.) A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).
Cetewale (n.) Same as Zedoary.
Cetic (a.) Of or pertaining to a whale.
Cetin (n.) A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.
Cetological (a.) Of or pertaining to cetology.
Cetologist (a.) One versed in cetology.
Cetology (n.) The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.
Cetraric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetaria Islandica).
Cetrarin (n.) A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance.
Cetyl (n.) A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and derived from spermaceti.
Cetylic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti.
Ceylanite (n.) A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste.
Ceylonese (a.) Of or pertaining to Ceylon.
Ceylonese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Ceylon.
Chab (n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).
Chabasite (n.) Alt. of Cabazite
Chablis (n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.
Chablis (n.) a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California.
Chabouk (n.) Alt. of Chabuk
Chabuk (n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.
Chace (n.) See 3d Chase, n., 3.
Chace (v. t.) To pursue. See Chase v. t.
Chachalaca (n.) The Texan guan (Ortalis vetula).
Chacma (n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]
Chaconne (n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.
Chad (n.) See Shad.
Chaetetes (n.) A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones.
Chaetiferous (a.) Bearing setae.
Chaetodont (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetodonts or the family Chaetodontidae.
Chaetodont (n.) A marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae. The chaetodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors.
Chaetognath (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha.
Chaetognatha (n. pl.) An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head.
Chaetopod (a.) Pertaining to the Chaetopoda.
Chaetopod (n.) One of the Chaetopoda.
Chaetotaxy (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect.
Chafe (n.) Heat excited by friction.
Chafe (n.) Injury or wear caused by friction.
Chafe (n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
Chafe (v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
Chafe (v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
Chafe (v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
Chafe (v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
Chafe (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
Chafe (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
Chafed (imp. & p. p.) of Chafe
Chafer (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.
Chafer (n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.
Chafer (n.) One who chafes.
Chafery (v. t.) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
Chafewax (n.) Alt. of Chaffwax
Chafeweed (n.) The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing.
Chaff (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
Chaff (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
Chaff (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
Chaff (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
Chaff (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
Chaff (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Chaffed (imp. & p. p.) of Chaff
Chaffer (n.) Bargaining; merchandise.
Chaffer (n.) One who chaffs.
Chaffer (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter.
Chaffer (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate.
Chaffer (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in.
Chaffer (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words.
Chaffered (imp. & p. p.) of Chaffer
Chafferer (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer.
Chaffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffer
Chaffern (v. t.) A vessel for heating water.
Chaffery (n.) Traffic; bargaining.
Chaffinch (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
Chaffing (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
Chaffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaff
Chaffless (a.) Without chaff.
Chaffwax (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
Chaffy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.
Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.
Chaffy (a.) Light or worthless as chaff.
Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
Chafing (p pr. & vb. n.) of Chafe
Chafing (v. t.) The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing.
Chagreen (n.) See Shagreen.
Chagrin (a.) Chagrined.
Chagrin (n.) To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.
Chagrin (n.) Vexation; mortification.
Chagrin (v. i.) To be vexed or annoyed.
Chagrined (imp. & p. p.) of Chagrin
Chain (n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
Chain (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
Chain (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
Chain (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
Chain (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
Chain (n.) The warp threads of a web.
Chain (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
Chain (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
Chain (v. t.) To measure with the chain.
Chain (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.
Chain (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.
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.
Chain stitch () An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.
Chain wheel () A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.
Chain wheel () An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water.
Chained (imp. p. p.) of Chain
Chaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chain
Chainless (a.) Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.
Chainlet (n.) A small chain.
Chainwork (n.) Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
Chair (n.) A movable single seat with a back.
Chair (n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.
Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
Chair (n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.
Chair (n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.
Chair (v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.
Chair (v. t.) To place in a chair.
Chaired (imp. & p. pr.) of Chair
Chairing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chair
Chairman (n.) One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.
Chairman (n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
Chairmanship (n.) The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.
Chairmen (pl. ) of Chairman
Chaise (n.) a carriage in general.
Chaise (n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.
Chaja (n.) The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.
Chak (v. i.) To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.
Chalaza (n.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle.
Chalaza (n.) The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.
Chalazae (pl. ) of Chalaza
Chalazal (a.) Of or pertaining to the chalaza.
Chalazas (pl. ) of Chalaza
Chalaze (n.) Same as Chalaza.
Chalaziferous (a.) Having or bearing chalazas.
Chalazion (n.) A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.
Chalcanthite (n.) Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue.
Chalcedonic (a.) Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
Chalcedonies (pl. ) of Chalcedony
Chalcedony (n.) A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax.
Chalchihuitl (n.) The Mexican name for turquoise. See Turquoise.
Chalcid fly () One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididae. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.
Chalcidian (n.) One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidae), having four small or rudimentary legs.
Chalcocite (n.) Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster.
Chalcographer (n.) Alt. of Chalcographist
Chalcographist (n.) An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.
Chalcography (n.) The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.
Chalcopyrite (n.) Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.
Chaldaic (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
Chaldaic (n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee.
Chaldaism (n.) An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.
Chaldean (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
Chaldean (n.) A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans.
Chaldean (n.) A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.
Chaldean (n.) Nestorian.
Chaldee (a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
Chaldee (n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic, or the Aramaic used in Chaldea.
Chalder (n.) A kind of bird; the oyster catcher.
Chaldrich (n.) Alt. of Chalder
Chaldron (n.) An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.
Chalet (n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
Chalet (n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.
Chalice (n.) A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Chaliced (a.) Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped.
Chalk (n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
Chalk (n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.
Chalk (v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
Chalk (v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land.
Chalk (v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk.
Chalkcutter (n.) A man who digs chalk.
Chalked (imp. & p. p.) of Chalk
Chalkiness (n.) The state of being chalky.
Chalking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chalk
Chalkstone (n.) A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.
Chalkstone (n.) A mass of chalk.
Chalky (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
Challenge (n.) A claim or demand.
Challenge (n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
Challenge (n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
Challenge (n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
Challenge (n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
Challenge (n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
Challenge (n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
Challenge (n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
Challenge (n.) To censure; to blame.
Challenge (n.) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
Challenge (n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
Challenge (n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
Challenge (n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
Challenge (n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
Challenge (v. i.) To assert a right; to claim a place.
Challengeable (a.) That may be challenged.
Challenged (imp. & p. p.) of Challenge
Challenger (n.) One who challenges.
Challenging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Challenge
Challis (n.) A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses.
Chalon (n.) A bed blanket.
Chalybean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.
Chalybean (a.) Of superior quality and temper; -- applied to steel.
Chalybeate (a.) Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
Chalybeate (n.) Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.
Chalybeous (a.) Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.
Chalybite (n.) Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.
Cham (n.) The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.
Cham (v. t.) To chew.
Chamade (n.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
Chamal (n.) The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.
Chamber (n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
Chamber (n.) A chamber pot.
Chamber (n.) A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.
Chamber (n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
Chamber (n.) A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
Chamber (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
Chamber (n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
Chamber (n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
Chamber (n.) Apartments in a lodging house.
Chamber (n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
Chamber (v. i.) To be lascivious.
Chamber (v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
Chamber (v. t.) To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.
Chamber (v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber.
Chambered (a.) Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
Chambered (imp. & p. p.) of Chamber
Chamberer (n.) A civilian; a carpetmonger.
Chamberer (n.) One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.
Chambering (n.) Lewdness.
Chambering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chamber
Chamberlain (n.) A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.
Chamberlain (n.) An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.
Chamberlain (n.) An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
Chamberlain (n.) An upper servant of an inn.
Chamberlainship (n.) Office of a chamberlain.
Chambermaid (n.) A lady's maid.
Chambermaid (n.) A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.
Chambertin (n.) A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
Chambrel (n.) Same as Gambrel.
Chameck (n.) A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.
Chameleon (n.) A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.
Chameleonize (v. t.) To change into various colors.
Chamfer (n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
Chamfer (v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
Chamfer (v. t.) To make a chamfer on.
Chamfered (imp. & p. p.) of Chamfer
Chamfering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chamfer
Chamfret (n.) A chamfer.
Chamfret (n.) A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.
Chamfron (n.) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse.
Chamlet (n.) See Camlet.
Chamois (n.) A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.
Chamois (n.) A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.
Chamomile (n.) See Camomile.
Champ (n.) Alt. of Champe
Champ (v. i.) To bite or chew impatiently.
Champ (v. t.) To bite into small pieces; to crunch.
Champ (v. t.) To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.
Champagne (n.) A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.
Champaign (a.) Flat; open; level.
Champaign (n.) A flat, open country.
Champe (n.) The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.
Champed (imp. & p. p.) of Champ
Champer (n.) One who champs, or bites.
Champertor (n.) One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.
Champerty (n.) Partnership in power; equal share of authority.
Champignon (n.) An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris).
Champing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Champ
Champion (v. t.) To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.
Championed (imp. & p. p.) of Champion
Championing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Champion
Championness (n.) A female champion.
Championship (n.) State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.
Champlain period () A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.
Chamsin (n.) See Kamsin.
Chance (a.) Happening by chance; casual.
Chance (adv.) By chance; perchance.
Chance (n.) A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.
Chance (n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
Chance (n.) Probability.
Chance (n.) The operation or activity of such agent.
Chance (v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
Chance (v. t.) To befall; to happen to.
Chance (v. t.) To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.
Chance-medley (n.) Luck; chance; accident.
Chance-medley (n.) The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.
Chanceable (a.) Fortuitous; casual.
Chanceably (adv.) By chance.
Chanced (imp. & p. p.) of Chance
Chanceful (a.) Hazardous.
Chancel (v. t.) All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.
Chancel (v. t.) That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.
Chancellery (n.) Chancellorship.
Chancellor (n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
Chancellorship (n.) The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
Chancery (n.) In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
Chancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chance
Chancre (n.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.
Chancroid (n.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.
Chancrous (a.) Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.
Chandelier (n.) A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.
Chandelier (n.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.
Chandler (n.) A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.
Chandler (n.) A maker or seller of candles.
Chandlerly (a.) Like a chandler; in a petty way.
Chandlery (n.) Commodities sold by a chandler.
Chandoo (n.) An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking.
Chandry (n.) Chandlery.
Chanfrin (n.) The fore part of a horse's head.
Change (v. i.) To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better.
Change (v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.
Change (v. t.) A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.
Change (v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.
Change (v. t.) A public house; an alehouse.
Change (v. t.) A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.
Change (v. t.) Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.
Change (v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
Change (v. t.) Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
Change (v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due.
Change (v. t.) Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill.
Change (v. t.) That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.
Change (v. t.) To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention.
Change (v. t.) To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance.
Change (v. t.) To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.
Changeability (n.) Changeableness.
Changeable (a.) Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.
Changeable (a.) Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
Changeableness (n.) The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
Changeably (adv.) In a changeable manner.
Changed (imp. & p. p.) of Change
Changeful (a.) Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.
Changeless (a.) That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose.
Changeling (a.) Given to change; inconstant.
Changeling (a.) Taken or left in place of another; changed.
Changeling (n.) A simpleton; an idiot.
Changeling (n.) One apt to change; a waverer.
Changeling (n.) One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
Changer (n.) One apt to change; an inconstant person.
Changer (n.) One who changes or alters the form of anything.
Changer (n.) One who deals in or changes money.
Changing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Change
Chank (n.) The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.
Channel (n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
Channel (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
Channel (n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.
Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
Channel (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
Channel (v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel.
Channel (v. t.) To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
Channeled (imp. & p. p.) of Channel
Channeling (n.) A channel or a system of channels; a groove.
Channeling (n.) The act or process of forming a channel or channels.
Channeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Channel
Channelled () of Channel
Channelling () of Channel
Chanson (n.) A song.
Chansonnette (n.) A little song.
Chansonnettes (pl. ) of Chansonnette
Chant (v. i.) To make melody with the voice; to sing.
Chant (v. i.) To sing, as in reciting a chant.
Chant (v. t.) A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.
Chant (v. t.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
Chant (v. t.) Song; melody.
Chant (v. t.) To celebrate in song.
Chant (v. t.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.
Chant (v. t.) To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
Chant (v. t.) Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
Chantant (a.) Composed in a melodious and singing style.
Chanted (imp. & p. p.) of Chant
Chanter (n.) One who chants; a singer or songster.
Chanter (n.) The chief singer of the chantry.
Chanter (n.) The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.
Chanter (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Chanterelle (n.) A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
Chanticleer (n.) A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing.
Chanting (n.) Singing, esp. as a chant is sung.
Chanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chant
Chantor (n.) A chanter.
Chantress (n.) A female chanter or singer.
Chantries (pl. ) of Chantry
Chantry (n.) A chapel or altar so endowed.
Chantry (n.) An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.
Chaomancy (n.) Divination by means of appearances in the air.
Chaos (n.) An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.
Chaos (n.) Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.
Chaos (n.) The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.
Chaotic (a.) Resembling chaos; confused.
Chaotically (adv.) In a chaotic manner.
Chap (n.) A blow; a rap.
Chap (n.) A buyer; a chapman.
Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
Chap (n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.
Chap (n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
Chap (n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
Chap (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
Chap (v. i.) To bargain; to buy.
Chap (v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
Chap (v. i.) To strike; to knock; to rap.
Chap (v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
Chap (v. t.) To strike; to beat.
Chaparral (n.) A thicket of low evergreen oaks.
Chaparral (n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
Chapbook (n.) Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.
Chape (n.) The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc.
Chape (n.) The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
Chape (n.) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.
Chapeau (n.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.
Chapeau (n.) A hat or covering for the head.
Chaped (p. p. / a.) Furnished with a chape or chapes.
Chapel (n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Chapel (n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
Chapel (n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
Chapel (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
Chapel (n.) a small building attached to a church
Chapel (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial
Chapel (n.) A subordinate place of worship
Chapel (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
Chapel (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
Chapel (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
Chapel (v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
Chapeless (a.) Without a chape.
Chapelet (n.) A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.
Chapelet (n.) A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.
Chapellanies (pl. ) of Chapellany
Chapellany (n.) A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.
Chapelry (n.) The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.
Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Chaperon (n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.
Chaperon (n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.
Chaperon (v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.
Chaperonage (n.) Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.
Chaperoned (imp. & p. p.) of Chaperon
Chaperoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaperon
Chapeux (pl. ) of Chapeau
Chapfallen (a.) Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.
Chapiter (n.) A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.
Chapiter (n.) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles.
Chaplain (n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.
Chaplain (n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.
Chaplain (n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.
Chaplaincy (n.) The office, position, or station of a chaplain.
Chaplainship (n.) The office or business of a chaplain.
Chaplainship (n.) The possession or revenue of a chapel.
Chapless (a.) Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless.
Chaplet (n.) A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.
Chaplet (n.) A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.
Chaplet (n.) A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.
Chaplet (n.) A small chapel or shrine.
Chaplet (n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.
Chaplet (n.) A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.
Chaplet (n.) A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.
Chaplet (v. t.) To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.
Chapleted (imp. & p. p.) of Chaplet
Chapman (n.) A peddler; a hawker.
Chapman (n.) One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.
Chapmen (pl. ) of Chapman
Chapped (imp. & p. p.) of Chap
Chapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chap
Chappion (n.) One who by defeating all rivals, has obtained an acknowledged supremacy in any branch of athetics or game of skill, and is ready to contend with any rival; as, the champion of England.
Chappion (n.) One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero.
Chappy () Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
Chaps (n. pl.) The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.
Chapter (n.) A bishop's council.
Chapter (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.
Chapter (n.) A chapter house.
Chapter (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.
Chapter (n.) A decretal epistle.
Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
Chapter (n.) A location or compartment.
Chapter (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
Chapter (n.) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
Chapter (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.
Chapter (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse.
Chapter (v. t.) To divide into chapters, as a book.
Chaptrel (n.) An impost.
Char (n.) A car; a chariot.
Char (n.) Alt. of Charr
Char (n.) To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.
Char (n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
Char (n.) Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
Char (v. i.) Alt. of Chare
Char (v. t.) Alt. of Chare
Char-a-bancs (n.) A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.
Chara (n.) A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.
Charact (n.) A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character.
Character (n.) A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
Character (n.) A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Caesar is a great historical character.
Character (n.) A written statement as to behavior, competency, etc., given to a servant.
Character (n.) Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.
Character (n.) One of the persons of a drama or novel.
Character (n.) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.
Character (n.) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; as, he has a great deal of character.
Character (n.) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character.
Character (n.) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation; as, a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character.
Character (n.) The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition.
Character (v. t.) To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.
Character (v. t.) To engrave; to inscribe.
Charactered (imp. & p. p.) of Character
Characterism (n.) A distinction of character; a characteristic.
Characteristic (a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
Characteristic (n.) A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.
Characteristic (n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.
Characteristical (a.) Characteristic.
Characteristically (adv.) In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
Characterization (n.) The act or process of characterizing.
Characterize (v. t.) To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of.
Characterize (v. t.) To engrave or imprint.
Characterize (v. t.) To indicate the character of; to describe.
Characterize (v. t.) To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.
Characterized (imp. & p. p.) of Characterize
Characterizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Characterize
Characterless (a.) Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
Charactery (n.) That which is charactered; the meaning.
Charactery (n.) The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.
Charade (n.) A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.
Charbocle (n.) Carbuncle.
Charbon (n.) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
Charbon (n.) A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.
Charcoal (v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
Charcoal (v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
Chard (n.) A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent leaves and leafstalks.
Chard (n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.
Chare (n. & v.) A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.
Chare (n.) A narrow street.
Chare (v. i.) To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.
Chare (v. t.) To perform; to do; to finish.
Chare (v. t.) To work or hew, as stone.
Charge (n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
Charge (n.) Weight; import; value.
Charge (v. i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
Charge (v. i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
Charge (v. i.) To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.
Charge (v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
Charge (v. t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
Charge (v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
Charge (v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
Charge (v. t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
Charge (v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment.
Charge (v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
Charge (v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
Charge (v. t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
Charge (v. t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
Charge (v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
Charge (v. t.) Harm.
Charge (v. t.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
Charge (v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time
Charge (v. t.) The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.
Charge (v. t.) The price demanded for a thing or service.
Charge (v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
Charge (v. t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.
Charge (v. t.) To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
Charge (v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.
Charge (v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
Charge (v. t.) To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
Charge (v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
Charge (v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
Charge (v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
Charge (v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
Charge (v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
Charge (v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.
Charge (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
Charge d'affaires (n.) A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
Chargeable (a.) Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.
Chargeable (a.) Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder.
Chargeable (a.) That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.
Chargeableness (n.) The quality of being chargeable or expensive.
Chargeably (adv.) At great cost; expensively.
Chargeant (a.) Burdensome; troublesome.
Charged (imp. & p. p.) of Charge
Chargeful (a.) Costly; expensive.
Chargehouse (n.) A schoolhouse.
Chargeless (a.) Free from, or with little, charge.
Chargeous (a.) Burdensome.
Charger (n.) A horse for battle or parade.
Charger (n.) A large dish.
Charger (n.) An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.
Charger (n.) One who, or that which charges.
Charges d'affaires (pl. ) of Charge d'affaires
Chargeship (n.) The office of a charge d'affaires.
Charging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charge
Chargrining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chagrin
Charily (adv.) In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally.
Chariness (n.) The quality of being chary.
Chariot (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.
Chariot (n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
Chariot (v. t.) To convey in a chariot.
Charioted (imp. & p. p.) of Chariot
Chariotee (n.) A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.
Charioteer (n.) A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones.
Charioteer (n.) One who drives a chariot.
Charioting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chariot
Charism (n.) A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.
Charismatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a charism.
Charitable (a.) Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient.
Charitable (a.) Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.
Charitable (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.
Charitable (a.) Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.
Charitable (a.) Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution.
Charitableness (n.) The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
Charitably (adv.) In a charitable manner.
Charities (pl. ) of Charity
Charity (n.) A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity.
Charity (n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions.
Charity (n.) Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others.
Charity (n.) Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity.
Charity (n.) Love; universal benevolence; good will.
Charity (n.) Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness.
Charivari (n.) A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles, tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.
Chark (n.) Charcoal; a cinder.
Chark (v. t.) To burn to a coal; to char.
Charked (imp. & p. p.) of Chark
Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
Charlatanic (a.) Alt. of Charlatanical
Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Charlatanism (n.) Charlatanry.
Charlatanry (n.) Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
Charles's Wain () The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under Ursa.
Charlock (n.) A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.
Charlotte (n.) A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked.
Charm (n.) A melody; a song.
Charm (n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.
Charm (n.) Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.
Charm (n.) Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
Charm (n.) That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.
Charm (n.) To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant; to fascinate.
Charm (n.) To make music upon; to tune.
Charm (n.) To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.
Charm (n.) To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
Charm (n.) To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic.
Charm (v. i.) To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.
Charm (v. i.) To make a musical sound.
Charm (v. i.) To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.
Charmed (imp. & p. p.) of Charm
Charmel (n.) A fruitful field.
Charmer (n.) One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician.
Charmer (n.) One who delights and attracts the affections.
Charmeress (n.) An enchantress.
Charmful (a.) Abounding with charms.
Charming (a.) Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.
Charming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charm
Charmless (a.) Destitute of charms.
Charneco (n.) Alt. of Charnico
Charnel (a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.
Charnel (n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
Charnico (n.) A sort of sweet wine.
Charon (n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.
Charpie (n.) Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.
Charqui (n.) Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun.
Charr (n.) See 1st Char.
Charras (n.) The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus.
Charre (n.) See Charge, n., 17.
Charred (imp. & p. p.) of Char
Charring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Char
Charry (a.) Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.
Chars-a-banc (pl. ) of Char-a-bancs
Chart (n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
Chart (n.) A written deed; a charter.
Chart (v. t.) To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.
Charta (n.) A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
Charta (n.) Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
Chartaceous (a.) Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
Charte (n.) The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.
Charted (imp. & p. p.) of Chart
Charter (n.) A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
Charter (n.) A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
Charter (n.) An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
Charter (n.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
Charter (v. t.) To establish by charter.
Charter (v. t.) To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.
Chartered (a.) Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.
Chartered (a.) Hired or let by charter, as a ship.
Chartered (imp. & p. p.) of Charter
Charterer (n.) One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.
Charterhouse (n.) A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
Chartering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charter
Charterist (n.) Same as Chartist.
Chartist (n.) A supporter or partisan of chartism.
Chartless (a.) Not mapped; uncharted; vague.
Chartless (a.) Without a chart; having no guide.
Chartographer (n.) Alt. of Chartography
Chartographic (n.) Alt. of Chartography
Chartography (n.) Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.
Chartomancy (n.) Divination by written paper or by cards.
Chartometer (n.) An instrument for measuring charts or maps.
Chartreuse (n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.
Chartreuse (n.) An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.
Chartreux (n.) A Carthusian.
Chartulary (n.) See Cartulary.
Charwoman (n.) A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
Charwomen (pl. ) of Charwoman
Chary (a.) Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal.
Charybdis (n.) A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
Chasable (a.) Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.
Chase (n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
Chase (n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
Chase (n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
Chase (n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
Chase (v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
Chase (v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
Chase (v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.
Chase (v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
Chase (v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
Chase (v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
Chase (v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.
Chase (v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.
Chase (v.) That which is pursued or hunted.
Chase (v.) Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.
Chased (imp. & p. p.) of Chase
Chaser (n.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.
Chaser (n.) One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.
Chaser (n.) One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.
Chaser (n.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.
Chasible (n.) See Chasuble.
Chasing (n.) The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
Chasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chase
Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
Chasm (n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
Chasmed (a.) Having gaps or a chasm.
Chasmy (a.) Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.
Chasse (n.) A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.
Chasse (v. i.) To make the movement called chasse; as, all chasse; chasse to the right or left.
Chasselas (n.) A white grape, esteemed for the table.
Chassepot (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.
Chasseur (n.) An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.
Chasseur (n.) One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.
Chassis (n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]
Chast (v. t.) to chasten.
Chaste (a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
Chaste (a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.
Chaste (a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.
Chaste (a.) Unmarried.
Chastely (adv.) In a chaste manner; with purity.
Chasten (v. t.) To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
Chasten (v. t.) To purify from errors or faults; to refine.
Chasteness (n.) Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.
Chastening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chasten
Chastisable (a.) Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.
Chastise (v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
Chastise (v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
Chastised (imp. & p. p.) of Chastise
Chastisement (n.) The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.
Chastiser (n.) One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.
Chastising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chastise
Chastity (n.) Chasteness.
Chastity (n.) Moral purity.
Chastity (n.) The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
Chastity (n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.
Chat (n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
Chat (v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
Chat (v. t.) To talk of.
Chateau (n.) A castle or a fortress in France.
Chateau (n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.
Chatelaine (n.) An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.
Chatelet (n.) A little castle.
Chatellany (n.) Same as Castellany.
Chateux (pl. ) of Chateau
Chati (n.) A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).
Chatoyant (a.) Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.
Chatoyant (n.) A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.
Chatoyment (n.) Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
Chatted (imp. & p. p.) of Chat
Chattel (n.) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.
Chattelism (n.) The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.
Chatter (n.) Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.
Chatter (n.) Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.
Chatter (v. i.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
Chatter (v. i.) To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.
Chatter (v. i.) To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
Chatter (v. t.) To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.
Chatteration (n.) The act or habit of chattering.
Chattered (imp. & p. p.) of Chatter
Chatterer (n.) A prater; an idle talker.
Chattering (n.) The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
Chattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chatter
Chattiness (n.) The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.
Chatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chat
Chatty (a.) Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.
Chatty (n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.
Chatwood (n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.
Chaud-medley (n.) The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray.
Chaudron (n.) See Chawdron.
Chauffer (n.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
Chauldron (n.) See Chawdron.
Chaun (n.) A gap.
Chaun (v. t. & i.) To open; to yawn.
Chaunt (n. & v.) See Chant.
Chaunter (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
Chaunter (n.) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
Chaunter (n.) The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.
Chaunterie (n.) See Chantry.
Chaus (n.) a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).
Chausses (n. pl.) The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
Chaussure (n.) A foot covering of any kind.
Chauvinism (n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
Chavender (n.) The chub.
Chaw (v. t.) As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.
Chaw (v. t.) The jaw.
Chaw (v. t.) To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.
Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
Chawdron (n.) Entrails.
Chawed (imp. & p. p.) of Chaw
Chawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaw
Chay root () The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff.
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.
Cheap (adv.) Cheaply.
Cheap (n.) A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
Cheap (n.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.
Cheap (n.) Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
Cheap (v. i.) To buy; to bargain.
Cheap-jack (n.) Alt. of Cheap-john
Cheap-john (n.) A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.
Cheapen (a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
Cheapen (v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
Cheapened (imp. & p. p.) of Cheapen
Cheapener (n.) One who cheapens.
Cheapening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheapen
Cheaply (adv.) At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
Cheapness (n.) Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
Chear (n. & v.) See Cheer.
Cheat (n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
Cheat (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
Cheat (n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
Cheat (n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
Cheat (n.) To beguile.
Cheat (n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
Cheat (n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
Cheat (v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
Cheatable (a.) Capable of being cheated.
Cheatableness (n.) Capability of being cheated.
Cheated (imp. & p. p.) of Cheat
Cheater (n.) An escheator.
Cheater (n.) One who cheats.
Cheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheat
Chebacco (n.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.
Chebec (n.) A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.
Chebec (n.) See Chebacco.
Check (a.) Checkered; designed in checks.
Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
Check (n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.
Check (n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.
Check (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
Check (n.) Small chick or crack.
Check (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
Check (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
Check (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.
Check (v. i.) To clash or interfere.
Check (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
Check (v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
Check (v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
Check (v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
Check (v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
Check (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
Check (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
Checkage (n.) The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.
Checkage (n.) The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.
Checked (imp. & p. p.) of Check
Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
Checker (n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
Checker (v. t.) A pattern in checks; a single check.
Checker (v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
Checker (v. t.) Checkerwork.
Checker (v. t.) One who checks.
Checkerberries (pl. ) of Checkerberry
Checkerberry (n.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).
Checkerboard (n.) A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Checkered (a.) Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.
Checkered (a.) Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.
Checkered (imp. & p. p.) of Checker
Checkering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Checker
Checkers (v.) A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
Checkerwork (n.) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
Checkerwork (n.) Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
Checking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Check
Checklaton (n.) Ciclatoun.
Checklaton (n.) Gilded leather.
Checkless (a.) That can not be checked or restrained.
Checkmate (n.) A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
Checkmate (n.) The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
Checkmate (v. t.) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.
Checkmate (v. t.) To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
Checkmated (imp. & p. p.) of Checkmate
Checkmating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Checkmate
Checkrein (n.) A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
Checkrein (n.) A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
Checkroll (n.) A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.
Checkstring (n.) A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.
Checkwork (n.) Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
Checky (a.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.
Cheddar (a.) Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.
Cheek (n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.
Cheek (n.) Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.
Cheek (n.) The branches of a bridle bit.
Cheek (n.) The cheek bone.
Cheek (n.) The side of the face below the eye.
Cheek (n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
Cheek (v. t.) To be impudent or saucy to.
Cheeked (a.) Having a cheek; -- used in composition.
Cheeky () a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.
Cheep (n.) A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.
Cheep (v. i.) To chirp, as a young bird.
Cheep (v. t.) To give expression to in a chirping tone.
Cheeped (imp. & p. p.) of Cheep
Cheer (n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.
Cheer (n.) Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.
Cheese (n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Cheese (n.) A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.
Cheese (n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
Cheese (n.) The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).
Cheeseparing (n.) A thin portion of the rind of a cheese.
Cheesiness (n.) The quality of being cheesy.
Cheesy (a.) Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.
Cheetah (n.) A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.
Chef (n.) A chief of head person.
Chef (n.) Same as Chief.
Chef (n.) The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.
Chef-d'oeuvre (n.) A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.
Chefs-d'oeuvre (pl. ) of Chef-d'oeuvre
Chegoe (n.) Alt. of Chegre
Chegre (n.) See Chigoe.
Cheiloplasty (n.) The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.
Cheilopoda (n.) See Ch/lopoda.
Cheirepter (n.) One of the Cheiroptera.
Cheiroptera (n. pl.) An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.
Cheiropterous (a.) Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.
Cheiropterygia (pl. ) of Cheiropterygium
Cheiropterygium (n.) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.
Cheirosophy (n.) The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.
Cheirotherium (n.) A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.
Chekelatoun (n.) See Ciclatoun.
Chekmak (n.) A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.
Chela (n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.
Chelae (pl. ) of Chela
Chelate (a.) Same as Cheliferous.
Chelerythrine (n.) An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.
Chelicera (n.) One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.
Chelicerae (pl. ) of Chelicera
Chelidon (n.) The hollow at the flexure of the arm.
Chelidonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine.
Chelidonius (n.) A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.
Chelifer (n.) See Book scorpion, under Book.
Cheliferous (a.) Having cheliform claws, like a crab.
Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.
Chelone (n.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.
Chelonian (a.) Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.
Chelonian (n.) One of the Chelonia.
Chelura (n.) A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber.
Chely (n.) A claw. See Chela.
Chemic (a.) Chemical.
Chemic (n.) A chemist; an alchemist.
Chemic (n.) A solution of chloride of lime.
Chemical (a.) Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations.
Chemical (n.) A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.
Chemically (adv.) According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
Chemiglyphic (a.) Engraved by a voltaic battery.
Chemiloon (n.) A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one.
Chemise (n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.
Chemise (n.) A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
Chemisette (n.) An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.
Chemism (n.) The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.
Chemist (n.) A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.
Chemistry (n.) A treatise on chemistry.
Chemistry (n.) An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo.
Chemitype (n.) One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.
Chemolysis (n.) A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone.
Chemosmosis (n.) Chemical action taking place through an intervening membrane.
Chemosmotic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis.
Chemung period () A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.
Cheng (n.) A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.
Chenille (n.) Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.
Chenomorphae (n. pl.) An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.
Chepster (n.) The European starling.
Cheque (n.) See Check.
Chequer (n. & v.) Same as Checker.
Chequing (n.) A coin. See Sequin.
Chequy (n.) Same as Checky.
Cherif (n.) See Cherif.
Cherimoyer (n.) A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru.
Cherimoyer (n.) Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple, and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies.
Cherish (v. t.) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.
Cherish (v. t.) To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
Cherished (imp. & p. p.) of Cherish
Cherisher (n.) One who cherishes.
Cherishment (n.) Encouragement; comfort.
Cherising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cherish
Chermes (n.) See Kermes.
Cherogril (n.) See Cony.
Cherokees (n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.
Cheroot (n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.
Cherry (a.) Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.
Cherry (n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.
Cherry (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;
Cherry (n.) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France).
Cherry (n.) The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.
Cherry (n.) The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.
Cherry (n.) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).
Chersonese (n.) A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.
Chert (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.
Cherty (a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.
Cherub (n.) A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.
Cherub (n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.
Cherub (n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.
Cherubic (a.) Alt. of Cherubical
Cherubical (a.) Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic.
Cherubim (n.) The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.
Cherubim (pl. ) of Cherub
Cherubin (a.) Cherubic; angelic.
Cherubin (n.) A cherub.
Cherubs (pl. ) of Cherub
Cherup (n.) A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.
Cherup (v. i.) To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup.
Cherup (v. t.) To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup.
Chervil (n.) A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.
Ches () pret. of Chese.
Chese (v. t.) To choose
Chesible (n.) See Chasuble.
Cheslip (n.) The wood louse.
Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
Chess-apple (n.) The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).
Chessboard (n.) The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.
Chessel (n.) The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed.
Chesses (n. pl.) The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
Chessil (n.) Gravel or pebbles.
Chessman (n.) A piece used in the game of chess.
Chessmen (pl. ) of Chessman
Chessom (n.) Mellow earth; mold.
Chesstree (n.) A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.
Chessy copper () The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
Chest (n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
Chest (n.) A coffin.
Chest (n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
Chest (n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.
Chest (n.) Strife; contention; controversy.
Chest (n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
Chest (v. i.) To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
Chest (v. i.) To place in a coffin.
Chest founder () A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
Chested (a.) Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.
Chested (imp. & p. p.) of Chest
Chesterlite (n.) A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.
Chesteyn (n.) The chestnut tree.
Chestnut (a.) Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.
Chestnut (n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut.
Chestnut (n.) An old joke or story.
Chestnut (n.) One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.
Chestnut (n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.
Chestnut (n.) The horse chestnut (often so used in England).
Chestnut (n.) The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.
Chetah (n.) See Cheetah.
Chetvert (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.
Chevachie (n.) See Chivachie.
Chevage (n.) See Chiefage.
Cheval (n.) A horse; hence, a support or frame.
Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.
Chevalier (n.) A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man.
Chevalier (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood.
Chevaux (n. pl.) See Cheval.
Chevaux (pl. ) of Cheval
Chevaux-de-frise (pl. ) of Cheval-de-frise
Cheve (v. i.) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise.
Chevelure (n.) A hairlike envelope.
Cheven (n.) A river fish; the chub.
Cheventein (n.) A variant of Chieftain.
Cheveril (a.) Made of cheveril; pliant.
Cheveril (v. i.) Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility.
Cheverliize (v. i.) To make as pliable as kid leather.
Chevet (n.) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.
Cheviot (n.) A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.
Cheviot (n.) A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.
Chevisance (n.) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
Chevisance (n.) A bargain; profit; gain.
Chevisance (n.) A making of contracts.
Chevisance (n.) Achievement; deed; performance.
Chevisance (n.) An unlawful agreement or contract.
Chevrette (n.) A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.
Chevron (n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
Chevron (n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.
Chevron (n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
Chevroned (p. a.) Having a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from.
Chevronel (n.) A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
Chevronwise (adv.) In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise.
Chevrotain (n.) A small ruminant of the family Tragulidae a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.
Chevy (v. t.) See Chivy, v. t.
Chew (n.) That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.
Chew (v. i.) To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.
Chew (v. t.) To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
Chew (v. t.) To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
Chewed (imp. & p. p.) of Chew
Chewer (n.) One who chews.
Chewet (n.) A kind of meat pie.
Chewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chew
Chewink (n.) An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.
Cheyennes (n. pl.) A warlike tribe of indians, related to the blackfeet, formerly inhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.
Chian (a.) Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.
Chiaro-oscuro (n.) The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.
Chiaro-oscuro (n.) The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.
Chiaroscurist (n.) A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.
Chiaroscuro (n.) Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro
Chiasm (n.) Alt. of Chiasma
Chiasma (n.) A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves.
Chiasmus (n.) An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence
Chiastolite (n.) A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.
Chibbal (n.) See Cibol.
Chibouk (n.) A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.
Chibouque (n.) Alt. of Chibouk
Chic (n.) Good form; style.
Chica (n.) A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.
Chica (n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.
Chica (n.) A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.
Chicane (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
Chicaner (n.) One who uses chicanery.
Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Chiccory (n.) See Chicory.
Chich (n.) The chick-pea.
Chicha (n.) See Chica.
Chiches (pl. ) of Chich
Chichevache (n.) A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.
Chichling (n.) Alt. of Chichling vetch
Chichling vetch (n.) A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.
Chick (n.) A chicken.
Chick (n.) A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.
Chick (v. i.) To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
Chick-pea (n.) A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram.
Chick-pea (n.) Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.
Chickabiddy (n.) A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.
Chickadee (n.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.
Chickaree (n.) The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry.
Chickasaws (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.
Chicken (n.) A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
Chicken (n.) A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.
Chicken pox () A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.
Chicken-breasted (a.) Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
Chicken-hearted (a.) Timid; fearful; cowardly.
Chickling (n.) A small chick or chicken.
Chickweed (n.) The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.
Chicky (n.) A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.
Chicory (n.) A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive.
Chicory (n.) The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.
Chide (n.) A continuous noise or murmur.
Chide (p. pr. & vb. n.) Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.
Chide (p. pr. & vb. n.) To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
Chide (v. i.) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
Chide (v. i.) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
Chider (n.) One who chides or quarrels.
Chideress (n.) She who chides.
Chidester (n.) A female scold.
Chidingly (adv.) In a chiding or reproving manner.
Chief (a.) Highest in office or rank; principal; head.
Chief (a.) Principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man.
Chief (a.) Very intimate, near, or close.
Chief (n.) The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent.
Chief (n.) The principal part; the most valuable portion.
Chief (n.) The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs.
Chief baron () The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.
Chief hare () A small rodent (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.
Chief justice () The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court.
Chief-justiceship (n.) The office of chief justice.
Chiefage (n.) A tribute by the head; a capitation tax.
Chiefest (a.) First or foremost; chief; principal.
Chiefless (a.) Without a chief or leader.
Chiefly (adv.) For the most part; mostly.
Chiefly (adv.) In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.
Chiefrie (n.) A small rent paid to the lord paramount.
Chieftain (n.) A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.
Chieftaincy (n.) Alt. of Chieftainship
Chieftainship (n.) The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.
Chierte (n.) Love; tender regard.
Chievance (n.) An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.
Chieve (v. i.) See Cheve, v. i.
Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.
Chiffo (n.) Alt. of niere
Chiffonier (n.) Alt. of niere
Chignon (n.) A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head.
Chigoe (n.) Alt. of Chigre
Chikara (n.) The goat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) of India.
Chikara (n.) The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).
Chilblain (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.
Chilblain (v. t.) To produce chilblains upon.
Child (n.) A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.
Child (n.) A female infant.
Child (n.) A noble youth. See Childe.
Child (n.) A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.
Child (n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc.
Child (v. i.) To give birth; to produce young.
Childbearing (n.) The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
Childbed (n.) The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
Childbirth (n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
Childcrowing (n.) The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
Childe (n.) A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.
Childed (a.) Furnished with a child.
Childed (imp. & p. p.) of Child
Childermas day () A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.
Childhood (n.) Children, taken collectively.
Childhood (n.) The commencement; the first period.
Childhood (n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
Childish (a.) Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.
Childish (a.) Puerile; trifling; weak.
Childishly (adv.) In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
Childishness (n.) The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
Childlessness (n.) The state of being childless.
Childlike (a.) Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
Childly (a.) Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.
Childly (adv.) Like a child.
Childness (n.) The manner characteristic of a child.
Children (n.) pl. of Child.
Children (pl. ) of Child
Childship (n.) The state or relation of being a child.
Chili (n.) A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum
Chiliad (n.) A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.
Chiliagon (n.) A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.
Chiliahedron (n.) A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces
Chilian (a.) Of or pertaining to Chili.
Chilian (n.) A native or citizen of Chili.
Chilian (n.) Alt. of Chiliarch
Chiliarch (n.) The commander or chief of a thousand men.
Chiliarchy (n.) A body consisting of a thousand men.
Chiliasm (n.) The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.
Chiliasm (n.) The millennium.
Chiliast (n.) One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.
Chiliastic (a.) Millenarian.
Chill (a.) Affected by cold.
Chill (a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
Chill (a.) Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
Chill (a.) Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
Chill (n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
Chill (n.) A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Chill (n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
Chill (n.) An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
Chill (n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
Chill (v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Chill (v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
Chill (v. t.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.
Chill (v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
Chilled (a.) Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.
Chilled (a.) Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."
Chilled (imp. & p. p.) of Chill
Chilli (n.) See Chili.
Chilliness (n.) A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.
Chilliness (n.) A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.
Chilliness (n.) Formality; lack of warmth.
Chilling (a.) Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.
Chilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chill
Chillness (n.) Coolness; coldness; a chill.
Chilly (a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
Chilognath (n.) A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.
Chilognatha (n. pl.) One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together.
Chiloma (n.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.
Chilopod (n.) A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.
Chilostoma (n. pl.) Alt. of Chilostomata
Chilostomata (n. pl.) An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells.
Chilostomatous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.
Chimaera (n.) A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.
Chimaeroid (a.) Related to, or like, the chimaera.
Chimango () A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.
Chimb (n.) The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.
Chimb (v. i.) Chime.
Chime (n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
Chime (n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
Chime (n.) See Chine, n., 3.
Chime (n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
Chime (n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
Chime (n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
Chime (n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
Chime (n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
Chime (v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
Chime (v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
Chimed (imp. & p. p.) of Chime
Chimer (n.) One who chimes.
Chimera (n.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Chimera (n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
Chimeras (pl. ) of Chimera
Chimere (n.) The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.
Chimeric (a.) Chimerical.
Chimerical (a.) Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
Chimerically (adv.) Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
Chiminage (n.) A toll for passage through a forest.
Chiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chime
Chimney (n.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.
Chimney (n.) A fireplace or hearth.
Chimney (n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.
Chimney (n.) That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft.
Chimney-breast (n.) The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
Chimney-piece (n.) A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace.
Chimneys (pl. ) of Chimney
Chimpanzee (n.) An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.
Chin (n.) The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.
Chin (n.) The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.
Chin cough () Whooping cough.
China (n.) A country in Eastern Asia.
China (n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.
Chinaldine (n.) See Quinaldine.
Chinaman (n.) A native of China; a Chinese.
Chinamen (pl. ) of Chinaman
Chincapin (n.) See Chinquapin.
Chinch (n.) 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.
Chinch (n.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
Chincha (n.) A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.
Chinche (a.) Parsimonious; niggardly.
Chincherie (n.) Penuriousness.
Chinchilla (n.) A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.
Chinchilla (n.) A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.
Chinchilla (n.) The fur of the chinchilla.
Chinchona () Alt. of Chincona
Chincona () See Cinchona.
Chine (n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
Chine (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
Chine (n.) The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
Chine (n.) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
Chine (v. t.) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
Chine (v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
Chined (a.) Broken in the back.
Chined (a.) Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.
Chined (imp. & p. p.) of Chine
Chinese (a.) Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Chinese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
Chinese (n. sing. & pl.) The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
Chink (n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
Chink (n.) Money; cash.
Chink (v. i.) To crack; to open.
Chink (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
Chink (v. t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Chink (v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Chink (v. t.) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chinked (imp. & p. p.) of Chink
Chinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chink
Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Chinned (a.) Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned.
Chinoidine (n.) See Quinodine.
Chinoline (n.) See Quinoline.
Chinone (n.) See Quinone.
Chinook (n.) A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.
Chinook (n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.
Chinook (n.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.
Chinquapin (n.) A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat.
Chinse (v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
Chinsed (imp. & p. p.) of Chinse
Chinsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chinse
Chintz (n.) Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.
Chintzes (pl. ) of Chintz
Chioppine (n.) Same as Chopine, n.
Chip (n.) A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
Chip (n.) A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
Chip (n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
Chip (n.) One of the counters used in poker and other games.
Chip (n.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Chip (n.) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
Chip (v. i.) To break or fly off in small pieces.
Chip (v. t.) To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
Chip (v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
Chip (v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
Chipmunk (n.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.
Chipped (imp. & p. p.) of Chip
Chipper (a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative.
Chipper (v. i.) To chirp or chirrup.
Chippeways (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.
Chipping (n.) A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
Chipping (n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.
Chipping (n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
Chipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chip
Chipping bird () The chippy.
Chipping squirrel () See Chipmunk.
Chippy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.
Chippy (n.) A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.
Chips (n.) A ship's carpenter.
Chiragra (n.) Gout in the hand.
Chiragrical (a.) Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease.
Chiretta (n.) A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
Chirk (v. i.) Lively; cheerful; in good spirits.
Chirk (v. i.) To chirp like a bird.
Chirk (v. i.) To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.
Chirk (v. t.) To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.
Chirm (n.) Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing.
Chirm (v. i.) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.
Chirognomy (n.) The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand.
Chirograph (n.) The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine.
Chirographer (n.) One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.
Chirographer (n.) See chirographist, 2.
Chirographic (a.) Alt. of Chirographical
Chirographical (a.) Of or pertaining to chirography.
Chirographist (n.) A chirographer; a writer or engrosser.
Chirographist (n.) One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.
Chirography (n.) The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.
Chirography (n.) The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.
Chirogymnast (n.) A mechanical contrivance for exercising the fingers of a pianist.
Chirological (a.) Relating to chirology.
Chirologist (n.) One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.
Chirology (n.) The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.
Chiromancer (n.) One who practices chiromancy.
Chiromancy (n.) The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.
Chiromanist (n.) Alt. of Chiromantist
Chiromantic (a.) Alt. of Chiromantical
Chiromantical (a.) Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
Chiromantist (n.) A chiromancer.
Chiromonic (a.) Relating to chironomy.
Chironomy (n.) The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture
Chiroplast (n.) An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.
Chiropodist (n.) One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.
Chiropody (n.) The art of treating diseases of the hands and feet.
Chirosophist (n.) A fortune teller.
Chirp (n.) A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect.
Chirp (v. i.) To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.
Chirped (imp. & p. p.) of Chirp
Chirper (n.) One who chirps, or is cheerful.
Chirping (a.) Cheering; enlivening.
Chirping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chirp
Chirpingly (adv.) In a chirping manner.
Chirre (v. i.) To coo, as a pigeon.
Chirrup (n.) The act of chirping; a chirp.
Chirrup (v. i.) To chirp.
Chirrup (v. t.) To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.
Chirruped (imp. & p. p.) of Chirrup
Chirruping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chirrup
Chirrupy (a.) Cheerful; joyous; chatty.
Chirurgeon (n.) A surgeon.
Chirurgeonly (adv.) Surgically.
Chirurgery (n.) Surgery.
Chirurgic (a.) Alt. of Chirurgical
Chirurgical (a.) Surgical
Chisel (n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
Chisel (v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.
Chisel (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
Chiseled (imp. & p. p.) of Chisel
Chiseling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chisel
Chiselled () of Chisel
Chiselling () of Chisel
Chisleu (n.) The ninth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of November with a part of December.
Chisley (a.) Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil.
Chit (3d sing.) Chideth.
Chit (n.) A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
Chit (n.) A small tool used in cleaving laths.
Chit (n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart.
Chit (n.) The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.
Chit (v. i.) To shoot out; to sprout.
Chitchat (n.) Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
Chitin (n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.
Chitinization (n.) The process of becoming chitinous.
Chitinous (a.) Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin.
Chiton (n.) An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.
Chiton (n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.
Chitter (v. i.) To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.
Chitter (v. i.) To shiver or chatter with cold.
Chitterling (n.) The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings.
Chitterlings (n. pl.) The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.
Chittra (n.) The axis deer of India.
Chitty (a.) Childish; like a babe.
Chitty (a.) Full of chits or sprouts.
Chivachie (n.) A cavalry raid; hence, a military expedition.
Chivalric (a.) Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.
Chivalrous (a.) Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.
Chivalrously (adv.) In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.
Chivalry (n.) A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
Chivalry (n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.
Chivalry (n.) Exploit.
Chivalry (n.) The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
Chivalry (n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.
Chive (n.) A filament of a stamen.
Chive (n.) A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc.
Chivied (imp. & p. p.) of Chivy
Chivy (v. t.) To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.
Chivying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chivy
Chlamydate (a.) Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.
Chlamydes (pl. ) of Chlamys
Chlamyphore (n.) A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.
Chlamys (n.) A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.
Chlamyses (pl. ) of Chlamys
Chloasma (n.) A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.
Chloral (n.) A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.
Chloral (n.) Chloral hydrate.
Chloralamide (n.) A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.
Chloralism (n.) A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.
Chloralum (n.) An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
Chloranil (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.
Chlorate (n.) A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.
Chloraurate (n.) See Aurochloride.
Chlorhydric (a.) Same as Hydrochloric.
Chlorhydrin (n.) One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.
Chloric (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.
Chloridate (v. t.) To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography.
Chloride (n.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).
Chloridic (a.) Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.
Chloridize (v. t.) See Chloridate.
Chlorimetry (n.) See Chlorometry.
Chlorinate (v. t.) To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.
Chlorinated (imp. & p. p.) of Chlorinate
Chlorinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chlorinate
Chlorination (n.) The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
Chloriodic (a.) Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine.
Chloriodine (n.) A compound of chlorine and iodine.
Chlorite (n.) Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.
Chlorite (n.) The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.
Chloritic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand.
Chlormethane (n.) A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.
Chloro- () A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named.
Chlorocruorin (n.) A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms.
Chlorodyne (n.) A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.
Chloroform (v. t.) To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.
Chloroformed (imp. & p. p.) of Chloroform
Chloroforming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chloroform
Chloroleucite (n.) Same as Chloroplastid.
Chlorometer (n.) An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.
Chlorometry (n.) The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
Chloropal (n.) A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.
Chloropeptic (a.) Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin-hydrochloric acid.
Chlorophane (n.) A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.
Chlorophane (n.) The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane.
Chloroplastid (n.) A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.
Chloroplatinic (a.) See Platinichloric.
Chlorosis (n.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.
Chlorosis (n.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.
Chlorotic (a.) Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.
Chlorous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.
Chlorous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.
Chlorpicrin (n.) A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine.
Chloruret (n.) A chloride.
Choak (v. t. & i.) See Choke.
Choanoid (a.) Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.
Chock (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
Chock (n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
Chock (n.) An encounter.
Chock (v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity.
Chock (v. t.) To encounter.
Chock (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
Chock-full (a.) Quite full; choke-full.
Chockablock (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
Chocked (imp. & p. p.) of Chock
Chocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chock
Chocolate (n.) A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.
Chocolate (n.) The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.
Choctaws (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.
Chode () the old imp. of chide. See Chide.
Chogset (n.) See Cunner.
Choice (n.) A sufficient number to choose among.
Choice (n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
Choice (n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.
Choice (n.) The best part; that which is preferable.
Choice (n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
Choice (n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
Choice (superl.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
Choice (superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.
Choice (superl.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
Choiceful (a.) Making choices; fickle.
Choicely (adv.) In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently.
Choicely (adv.) With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.
Choiceness (n.) The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.
Choir (n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.
Choir (n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.
Choir (n.) The chancel.
Choke (n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
Choke (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
Choke (n.) The tied end of a cartridge.
Choke (v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
Choke (v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
Choke (v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
Choke (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
Choke (v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
Choke (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
Choke (v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
Choke damp () See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
Choke pear () A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.
Choke pear () A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered.
Choke-full (a.) Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.
Choke-strap (n.) A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
Chokeberry (n.) The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.
Chokecherry (n.) The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
Choked (imp. & p. p.) of Choke
Chokedar (n.) A watchman; an officer of customs or police.
Choker (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
Choker (n.) One who, or that which, chokes.
Choking (a.) Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
Choking (a.) That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
Choking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Choke
Choky Chokey (a.) Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion.
Choky Chokey (a.) Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.
Cholaemaa (n.) A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.
Cholagogue (a.) Promoting the discharge of bile from the system.
Cholagogue (n.) An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.
Cholate (n.) A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.
Cholecystis (n.) The gall bladder.
Cholecystotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.
Choledology (n.) A treatise on the bile and bilary organs.
Choleic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.
Choler (n.) Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
Choler (n.) The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.
Cholera (n.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
Choleraic (a.) Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.
Choleric (a.) Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
Choleric (a.) Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.
Choleric (a.) Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
Cholericly (adv.) In a choleric manner; angrily.
Choleriform (a.) Resembling cholera.
Cholerine (n.) A mild form of cholera.
Cholerine (n.) The first stage of epidemic cholera.
Cholerine (n.) The precursory symptoms of cholera.
Choleroid (a.) Choleriform.
Cholesteric (a.) Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid.
Cholesterin (n.) A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.
Choliamb (n.) Alt. of Choliambic
Choliambic (n.) A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
Cholic (a.) Alt. of Cholinic
Choline (n.) See Neurine.
Cholinic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.
Cholochrome (n.) See Bilirubin.
Cholophaein (n.) See Bilirubin.
Choltry (n.) A Hindoo caravansary.
Chomp (v. i.) To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.
Chondrification (n.) Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.
Chondrify (v. t. & i.) To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.
Chondrigen (n.) The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.
Chondrigenous (a.) Affording chondrin.
Chondrin (n.) A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.
Chondrite (n.) A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.
Chondritic (a.) Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.
Chondritis (n.) An inflammation of cartilage.
Chondro- () A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.
Chondrodite (n.) A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.
Chondroganoidea (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
Chondrogen (n.) Same as Chondrigen.
Chondrogenesis (n.) The development of cartilage.
Chondroid (a.) Resembling cartilage.
Chondrology (n.) The science which treats of cartilages.
Chondroma (n.) A cartilaginous tumor or growth.
Chondromata (pl. ) of Chondroma
Chondrometer (n.) A steelyard for weighting grain.
Chondropterygian (a.) Having a cartilaginous skeleton.
Chondropterygian (n.) One of the Chondropterygii.
Chondropterygii (n. pl.) A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter.
Chondrostei (n. pl.) An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.
Chondrotomy (n.) The dissection of cartilages.
Chondrule (n.) A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
Choose (v. i.) To do otherwise.
Choose (v. i.) To make a selection; to decide.
Choose (v. t.) To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.
Choose (v. t.) To wish; to desire; to prefer.
Chooser (n.) One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.
Choosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Choose
Chop (n.) A change; a vicissitude.
Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Chop (n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.
Chop (n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
Chop (n.) A permit or clearance.
Chop (n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
Chop (n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
Chop (n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.
Chop (n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
Chop (v. i.) To barter or truck.
Chop (v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
Chop (v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
Chop (v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out.
Chop (v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
Chop (v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.
Chop (v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
Chop (v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
Chop (v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
Chop (v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
Chop (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.
Chop (v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
Chop-logic (n.) One who bandies words or is very argumentative.
Chopboat (n.) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.
Chopchurch (n.) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.
Chopfallen (a.) Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen.
Chophouse (n.) A customhouse where transit duties are levied.
Chophouse (n.) A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.
Chopin (n.) A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.
Chopin (n.) See Chopine.
Chopine (n.) A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.
Chopness (n.) A kind of spade.
Chopped (imp. & p. p.) of Chop
Chopper (n.) One who, or that which, chops.
Chopping (a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.
Chopping (a.) Stout or plump; large.
Chopping (n.) Act of cutting by strokes.
Chopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chop
Choppy (a.) Full of cracks.
Choppy (a.) Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
Chops (n. pl.) The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.
Chops (n. pl.) The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.
Chopstick (n.) One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
Choragi (pl. ) of Choragus
Choragic (a.) Of or pertaining to a choragus.
Choragus (n.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.
Choral (a.) Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.
Choral (n.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals.
Choralist (n.) A singer or composer of chorals.
Chorally (adv.) In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
Chord (n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
Chord (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
Chord (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
Chord (n.) The string of a musical instrument.
Chord (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
Chord (v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.
Chord (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
Chorda (n.) A cord.
Chordal (a.) Of or pertaining to a chord.
Chordata (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
Chorded (imp. & p. p.) of Chord
Chordee (n.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
Chording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chord
Chore (n.) A choir or chorus.
Chore (n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
Chore (v. i.) To do chores.
Chorea (n.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
Chored (imp. & p. p.) of Chore
Choree (n.) A tribrach.
Choree (n.) a trochee.
Choree (n.) See Choreus.
Choregraphic (a.) Alt. of Choregraphical
Choregraphical (a.) Pertaining to choregraphy.
Choregraphy (n.) The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes.
Choreic (a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.
Chorepiscopal (a.) Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.
Chorepiscopi (pl. ) of Chorepiscopus
Chorepiscopus (n.) A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
Choreus (n.) Alt. of Choree
Choriamb (n.) Same as Choriambus.
Choriambi (pl. ) of Choriambus
Choriambic (a.) Pertaining to a choriamb.
Choriambic (n.) A choriamb.
Choriambs (pl. ) of Choriamb
Choriambus (n.) A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.
Choriambuses (pl. ) of Choriambus
Choric (a.) Of or pertaining to a chorus.
Choring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chore
Chorion (n.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
Chorion (n.) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
Chorion (n.) The true skin, or cutis.
Chorisis (n.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.
Chorist (n.) A singer in a choir; a chorister.
Chorister (n.) One of a choir; a singer in a chorus.
Chorister (n.) One who leads a choir in church music.
Choristic (a.) Choric; choral.
Chorograph (n.) An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
Chorographer (n.) A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.
Chorographer (n.) One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.
Chorographical (a.) Pertaining to chorography.
Chorography (n.) the mapping or description of a region or district.
Choroid (a.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.
Choroid (n.) The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye.
Choroidal (a.) Pertaining to the choroid coat.
Chorology (n.) The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.
Chorometry (n.) The art of surveying a region or district.
Chorus (n.) A band of singers and dancers.
Chorus (n.) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.
Chorus (n.) A company of singers singing in concert.
Chorus (n.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
Chorus (n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play.
Chorus (n.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.
Chorus (n.) The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
Chorus (v. i.) To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.
Chorused (imp. & p. p.) of Chorus
Choruses (pl. ) of Chorus
Chorusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chorus
Chose () imp. & p. p. of Choose.
Chose () of Choose
Chose (imp.) of Choose
Chose (n.) A thing; personal property.
Chosen (n.) One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.
Chosen (p. p.) of Choose
Chosen (p. p.) Selected from a number; picked out; choice.
Choses (pl. ) of Chose
Chouan (n.) One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
Chouicha (n.) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.
Chouka (n.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.
Choule (n.) See Jowl.
Choultry (n.) See Choltry.
Chouse (n.) A swindler.
Chouse (n.) A trick; sham; imposition.
Chouse (n.) One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.
Chouse (v. t.) To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.
Choused (imp. & p. p.) of Chouse
Chousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chouse
Chout (n.) An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.
Chowchow (a.) Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).
Chowchow (n.) A kind of mixed pickles.
Chowder (n.) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
Chowder (n.) A seller of fish.
Chowder (v. t.) To make a chowder of.
Chowry (n.) A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies.
Chowter (v. t.) To grumble or mutter like a froward child.
Choy root () See Chay root.
Chrematistics (n.) The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.
Chreotechnics (n.) The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce.
Chrestomathic (a.) Teaching what is useful.
Chrestomathy (n.) A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.
Chrism (n.) Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.
Chrism (n.) The same as Chrisom.
Chrismal (a.) Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
Chrismation (n.) The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.
Chrismatory (n.) A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.
Chrisom (n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.
Chrisom (n.) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
Christ (n.) The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.
Christcross (n.) The beginning and the ending.
Christcross (n.) The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial.
Christcross-row () The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.
Christen (v. t.) To baptize and give a Christian name to.
Christen (v. t.) To Christianize.
Christen (v. t.) To give a name; to denominate.
Christen (v. t.) To use for the first time.
Christendom (n.) That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands.
Christendom (n.) The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation.
Christendom (n.) The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.
Christendom (n.) The whole body of Christians.
Christened (imp. & p. p.) of Christen
Christening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Christen
Christian (a.) Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
Christian (a.) Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.
Christian (a.) Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.
Christian (n.) One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.
Christian (n.) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.
Christian (n.) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.
Christian (n.) One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.
Christianism (n.) The Christian religion.
Christianism (n.) The Christian world; Christendom.
Christianite (n.) Same as Anorthite.
Christianite (n.) See Phillipsite.
Christianity (n.) Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion
Christianity (n.) The body of Christian believers.
Christianity (n.) The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.
Christianization (n.) The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.
Christianize (v. i.) To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian.
Christianize (v. t.) To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles.
Christianize (v. t.) To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.
Christianized (imp. & p. p.) of Christianize
Christianizing (p. pr. vb. n.) of Christianize
Christianlike (a.) Becoming to a Christian.
Christianly (a.) Christianlike.
Christianly (adv.) In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion.
Christianness (n.) Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity.
Christless (a.) Without faith in Christ; unchristian.
Christlike (a.) Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc.
Christly (a.) Christlike.
Christmas (n.) An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
Christmastide (n.) The season of Christmas.
Christocentric (a.) Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion.
Christology (n.) A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.
Christom (n.) See Chrisom.
Christophany (n.) An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.
Chromascope (n.) An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.
Chromate (n.) A salt of chromic acid.
Chromatic (a.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.
Chromatic (a.) Relating to color, or to colors.
Chromatical (a.) Chromatic.
Chromatically (adv.) In a chromatic manner.
Chromatics (n.) The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.
Chromatin (n.) Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.
Chromatism (n.) An abnormal coloring of plants.
Chromatism (n.) The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.
Chromatogenous (a.) Producing color.
Chromatography (n.) A treatise on colors
Chromatology (n.) A treatise on colors.
Chromatophore (n.) One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.
Chromatoscope (n.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
Chromatosphere (n.) A chromosphere.
Chromatrope (n.) A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.
Chromatrope (n.) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.
Chromatype (n.) A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.
Chromatype (n.) The process by which such picture is made.
Chrome (n.) Same as Chromium.
Chromic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.
Chromid (n.) One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.
Chromidrosis (n.) Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.
Chromism (n.) Same as Chromatism.
Chromite (n.) A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.
Chromite (n.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid.
Chromo (n.) A chromolithograph.
Chromoblast (n.) An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.
Chromogen () Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.
Chromogen () Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.
Chromogenic (a.) Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.
Chromograph (n.) An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.
Chromoleucite (n.) A chromoplastid.
Chromolithograph (n.) A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
Chromolithographer (n.) One who is engaged in chromolithography.
Chromolithographic (a.) Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.
Chromolithography (n.) Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.
Chromophore (n.) Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.
Chromophotography (n.) The art of producing photographs in colors.
Chromophotolithograph (n.) A photolithograph printed in colors.
Chromoplastid (n.) A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.
Chromos (pl. ) of Chromo
Chromosome (n.) One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
Chromosphere (n.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.
Chromospheric (a.) Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
Chromotype (n.) A photographic picture in the natural colors.
Chromotype (n.) A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.
Chromous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds.
Chromule (n.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.
Chronic (a.) Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.
Chronic (a.) Relating to time; according to time.
Chronical (a.) Chronic.
Chronicle (n.) A narrative of events; a history; a record.
Chronicle (n.) An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.
Chronicle (n.) The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.
Chronicle (v. t.) To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register.
Chronicled (imp. & p. p.) of Chronicle
Chronicler (n.) A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian.
Chronicling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chronicle
Chronique (n.) A chronicle.
Chronogram (n.) The record or inscription made by a chronograph.
Chronogrammatic (a.) Alt. of Chronogrammatical
Chronogrammatical (a.) Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.
Chronogrammatist (n.) A writer of chronograms.
Chronograph (n.) A chronoscope.
Chronograph (n.) 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 (n.) Same as Chronogram, 1.
Chronographer (n.) One who writes a chronography; a chronologer.
Chronographic (a.) Of or pertaining to a chronograph.
Chronography (n.) A description or record of past time; history.
Chronologer (n.) A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology.
Chronologer (n.) Same as Chronologist.
Chronologic (a.) Alt. of Chronological
Chronological (a.) Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables.
Chronologies (pl. ) of Chronology
Chronologist (n.) Alt. of Chronologer
Chronology (n.) The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
Chronometer (n.) A metronome.
Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.
Chronometer (n.) An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.
Chronometric (a.) Alt. of Chronometrical
Chronometrical (a.) Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.
Chronometry (n.) The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
Chronopher (n.) An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity.
Chronoscope (n.) An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.
Chrysalid (a.) Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.
Chrysalid (n.) See Chrysalis.
Chrysalides (pl. ) of Chrysalis
Chrysalids (pl. ) of Chrysalid
Chrysalis (n.) The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).
Chrysaniline (n.) A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.
Chrysanthemum (n.) A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.
Chrysarobin (n.) A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid.
Chrysaurin (n.) An orange-colored dyestuff, of artificial production.
Chryselephantine (a.) Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.
Chrysene (n.) One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.
Chrysoberyl (n.) A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.
Chrysochlore (n.) A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.
Chrysocolla (n.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.
Chrysogen (n.) A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude anthracene.
Chrysography (n.) A writing executed in letters of gold.
Chrysography (n.) The art of writing in letters of gold.
Chrysoidine (n.) An artificial, yellow, crystalline dye, C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chrysoidine proper.
Chrysology (n.) That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.
Chrysopa (n.) A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.
Chrysophane (n.) A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.
Chrysophanic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane.
Chrysoprase (n.) An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.
Chrysoprasus (n.) See Chrysoprase.
Chrysosperm (n.) The seed of gold; a means of creating gold.
Chrysotype (n.) 2process, invented by Sir J.Herschel.
Chrysotype (n.) A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.
Chthonic (a.) Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.
Chthonophagia (n.) Alt. of Chthonophagy
Chthonophagy (n.) A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.
Chub-faced (a.) Having a plump, short face.
Chubbed (a.) Chubby.
Chubbedness (n.) The state of being chubby.
Chubby (a.) Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.
Chuck (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.
Chuck (n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.
Chuck (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.
Chuck (n.) A short throw; a toss.
Chuck (n.) A slight blow or pat under the chin.
Chuck (n.) A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.
Chuck (n.) A sudden, small noise.
Chuck (n.) A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
Chuck (n.) The chuck or call of a hen.
Chuck (v. i.) To chuckle; to laugh.
Chuck (v. i.) To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
Chuck (v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens.
Chuck (v. t.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
Chuck (v. t.) To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
Chuck (v. t.) To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
Chuck-Will's-widow (n.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.
Chucked (imp. & p. p.) of Chuck
Chucked (imp. & p. p.) of Chuck
Chucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chuck
Chucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chuck
Chuckle (n.) A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
Chuckle (v. i.) To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.
Chuckle (v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck.
Chuckle (v. t.) To fondle; to cocker.
Chuckled (imp. & p. p.) of Chuckle
Chucklehead (n.) A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.
Chuckleheaded (a.) Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid.
Chuckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chuckle
Chud (v. t.) To champ; to bite.
Chuet (n.) Minced meat.
Chufa (n.) A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.
Chuff (a.) Stupid; churlish.
Chuff (n.) A coarse or stupid fellow.
Chuffily (adv.) Clownishly; surlily.
Chuffiness (n.) The quality of being chuffy.
Chuffy (a.) Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.
Chuffy (a.) Rough; clownish; surly.
Chulan (n.) The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea.
Chum (n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.
Chum (n.) Chopped pieces of fish used as bait.
Chum (v. i.) To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college.
Chummed (imp. p. p.) of Chum
Chumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chum
Chump (n.) A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.
Chunam (n.) Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar.
Chunk (n.) A short, thick piece of anything.
Chunky (a.) Short and thick.
Church (n.) 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 (n.) A building set apart for Christian worship.
Church (n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
Church (n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.
Church (n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
Church (n.) 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 (n.) The collective body of Christians.
Church (v. t.) 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 modes () The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
Church-ale (n.) A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used.
Church-bench (n.) A seat in the porch of a church.
Church-haw (n.) Churchyard.
Churchdom (n.) The institution, government, or authority of a church.
Churched (imp. & p. p.) of Church
Churchgoer (n.) One who attends church.
Churchgoing (a.) Habitually attending church.
Churchgoing (a.) Summoning to church.
Churching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Church
Churchism (n.) Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
Churchless (a.) Without a church.
Churchlike (a.) Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman.
Churchliness (n.) Regard for the church.
Churchly (a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.
Churchman (n.) An ecclesiastic or clergyman.
Churchman (n.) An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church of England.
Churchman (n.) One was is attached to, or attends, church.
Churchmanly (a.) Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman.
Churchmanship (n.) The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.
Churchmen (pl. ) of Churchman
Churchship (n.) State of being a church.
Churchwarden (n.) A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube.
Churchwarden (n.) One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.
Churchwardenship (n.) The office of a churchwarden.
Churchy (a.) Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.
Churchyard (n.) The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.
Churl (a.) Churlish; rough; selfish.
Churl (n.) A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.
Churl (n.) A rustic; a countryman or laborer.
Churl (n.) A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
Churlish (a.) Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
Churlish (a.) Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
Churlishly (adv.) In a churlish manner.
Churlishness (n.) Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.
Churly (a.) Rude; churlish; violent.
Churme (n.) Alt. of Chirm
Churn (v. i.) To perform the operation of churning.
Churn (v. t.) A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.
Churn (v. t.) To shake or agitate with violence.
Churn (v. t.) To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.
Churned (imp. & p. p.) of Churn
Churning (n.) The act of one who churns.
Churning (n.) The quantity of butter made at one operation.
Churning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Churn
Churrus (n.) A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.
Churrworm (n.) An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket.
Chuse (v. t.) See Choose.
Chute (n.) A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
Chute (n.) See Shoot.
Chutnee (n.) A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.
Chutney (n.) Alt. of Chutnee
Chylaceous (a.) Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.
Chylaqueous (a.) Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.
Chylifaction (n.) The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
Chylifactive (a.) Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
Chyliferous (a.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.
Chylific (a.) Chylifactive.
Chylification (n.) The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.
Chylificatory (a.) Chylifactive.
Chylify (v. t. & i.) To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.
Chylopoetic (a.) Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.
Chylous (a.) Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.
Chyluria (n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.
Chyme (n.) The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
Chymic () Alt. of Chymistry
Chymiferous (a.) Bearing or containing chyme.
Chymification (n.) The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.
Chymify (v. t.) To form into chyme.
Chymist () Alt. of Chymistry
Chymistry () See Chemic, Chemist, Chemistry.
Chymous (a.) Of or pertaining to chyme.
Chyometer (n.) An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.
Ci-devant (a.) Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant governor.
Cibarious (a.) Pertaining to food; edible.
Cibation (n.) The act of taking food.
Cibation (n.) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.
Cibol (n.) A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.
Ciboria (pl. ) of Ciborium
Ciborium (n.) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.
Ciborium (n.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.
Cicadae (pl. ) of Cicada
Cicadas (pl. ) of Cicada
Cicala (n.) A cicada. See Cicada.
Cicatrice (n.) A cicatrix.
Cicatrices (pl. ) of Cicatrix
Cicatricial (a.) Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.
Cicatricle (n.) The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.
Cicatrisive (a.) Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.
Cicatrix (n.) The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
Cicatrizant (n.) A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.
Cicatrization (n.) The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.
Cicatrize (v. i.) To heal; to have a new skin.
Cicatrize (v. t.) To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.
Cicatrized (imp. & p. p.) of Cicatrize
Cicatrizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cicatrize
Cicatrose (a.) Full of scars.
Cicely (n.) Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.
Cicero (n.) Pica type; -- so called by French printers.
Cicerone (n.) One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.
Cicerones (pl. ) of Cicerone
Ciceroni (pl. ) of Cicerone
Ciceronian (a.) Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.
Ciceronianism (n.) Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression.
Cich-pea (n.) The chick-pea.
Cichoraceous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.
Cicisbei (pl. ) of Cicisbeo
Cicisbeism (n.) The state or conduct of a cicisbeo.
Cicisbeo (n.) A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc.
Cicisbeo (n.) A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.
Ciclatoun (n.) A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages.
Cicurate (v. t.) To tame.
Cicuration (n.) The act of taming.
Cicuta (n.) a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.
Cicutoxin (n.) The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.
Cid (n.) An epic poem, which celebrates the exploits of the Spanish national hero, Ruy Diaz.
Cid (n.) Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.
Cider (n.) The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.
Ciderist (n.) A maker of cider.
Ciderkin (n.) A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water.
Cierge (n.) A wax candle used in religous rites.
Cigar (n.) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
Cigarette (n.) A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
Cilia (n. pl.) Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.
Cilia (n. pl.) Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.
Cilia (n. pl.) The eyelashes.
Ciliary (a.) Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.
Ciliary (a.) Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.
Ciliata (n. pl.) One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.
Ciliate (a.) Alt. of Ciliated
Ciliated (a.) Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.
Cilice (n.) A kind of haircloth undergarment.
Cilician (a.) Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor.
Cilician (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.
Cilicious (a.) Made, or consisting, of hair.
Ciliform (a.) Alt. of Ciliiform
Ciliiform (a.) Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.
Ciliograde (a.) Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusae.
Cilium (n.) See Cilia.
Cill (n.) See Sill., n. a foundation.
Cillosis (n.) A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.
Cima (n.) A kind of molding. See Cyma.
Cimar (n.) See Simar.
Cimbal (n.) A kind of confectionery or cake.
Cimbia (n.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.
Cimbrian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cimbri.
Cimbrian (n.) One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.
Cimbric (a.) Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany.
Cimbric (n.) The language of the Cimbri.
Cimeliarch (n.) A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
Cimeter (n.) See Scimiter.
Cimex (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.
Cimia (n.) See Cimbia.
Cimices (pl. ) of Cimex
Cimiss (n.) The bedbug.
Cimmerian (a.) Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.
Cimmerian (a.) Without any light; intensely dark.
Cimolite (n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.
Cinch (n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
Cinch (n.) A tight grip.
Cinchona (n.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.
Cinchona (n.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.
Cinchonaceous (a.) Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.
Cinchonic (a.) Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.
Cinchonidine (n.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
Cinchonine (n.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
Cinchonism (n.) A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.
Cinchonize (v. t.) To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
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.
Cincture (n.) A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
Cincture (n.) That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
Cincture (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
Cinctured (n.) Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.
Cinder (n.) A hot coal without flame; an ember.
Cinder (n.) A scale thrown off in forging metal.
Cinder (n.) Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
Cinder (n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
Cindery (a.) Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.
Cinefaction (n.) Cineration; reduction to ashes.
Cinematic (a.) Alt. of Cinematical
Cinematical (a.) See Kinematic.
Cinematics (n. sing.) See Kinematics.
Cineraceous (a.) Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.
Cineraria (n.) A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.
Cinerary (a.) Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
Cineration (n.) The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.
Cinereous (a.) Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.
Cinerescent (a.) Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.
Cineritious (a.) Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.
Cinerulent (a.) Full of ashes.
Cingalese (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cingalese.
Cingalese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants
Cingalese (n. sing. & pl.) the language of the Cingalese.
Cingle (n.) A girth.
Cingulum (n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.
Cingulum (n.) The base of the crown of a tooth.
Cingulum (n.) The clitellus of earthworms.
Cinnabar (n.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.
Cinnabar (n.) The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.
Cinnabarine (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.
Cinnamene (n.) Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.
Cinnamic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.
Cinnamomic (a.) See Cinnamic.
Cinnamon (n.) Cassia.
Cinnamon (n.) The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.
Cinnamone (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.
Cinnamyl (n.) The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds.
Cinnoline (n.) A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.
Cinque (n.) Five; the number five in dice or cards.
Cinque Ports () Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places.
Cinque-pace (n.) A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five.
Cinque-spotted (a.) Five-spotted.
Cinquecento (n. & a.) The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.
Cinquefoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc.
Cinquefoil (n.) The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.
Cinter (n.) See Center.
Cinura (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.
Cion (n.) See Scion.
Ciorculated (imp. & p. p.) of Circulate
Cipher (a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
Cipher (n.) A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
Cipher (n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter.
Cipher (n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.
Cipher (n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
Cipher (n.) One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
Cipher (v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
Cipher (v. t.) To decipher.
Cipher (v. t.) To designate by characters.
Cipher (v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
Cipher (v. t.) To write in occult characters.
Ciphered (imp. & p. p.) of Cipher
Cipherer (n.) One who ciphers.
Cipherhood (n.) Nothingness.
Ciphering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cipher
Cipolin (n.) A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.
Cippi (pl. ) of Cippus
Cippus (n.) A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.
Circ (n.) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.
Circar (n.) A district, or part of a province. See Sircar.
Circassian (a.) Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.
Circassian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Circassia.
Circean (a.) Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.
Circensial (a.) Alt. of Circensian
Circensian (a.) Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome.
Circinal (a.) Circinate.
Circinate (a.) Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.
Circinate (v. t.) To make a circle around; to encompass.
Circination (n.) A circle; a concentric layer.
Circination (n.) An orbicular motion.
Circle (n.) A circular group of persons; a ring.
Circle (n.) A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set.
Circle (n.) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
Circle (n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.
Circle (n.) A round body; a sphere; an orb.
Circle (n.) A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
Circle (n.) A territorial division or district.
Circle (n.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.
Circle (n.) Compass; circuit; inclosure.
Circle (n.) Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
Circle (n.) The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.
Circle (n.) To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.
Circle (n.) To move around; to revolve around.
Circle (v. i.) To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.
Circled (a.) Having the form of a circle; round.
Circled (imp. & p. p.) of Circle
Circler (n.) A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a.
Circlet (n.) A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.
Circlet (n.) A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband.
Circlet (n.) A round body; an orb.
Circling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circle
Circocele (n.) See Cirsocele.
Circuit (n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
Circuit (n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
Circuit (n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
Circuit (n.) Circumlocution.
Circuit (n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
Circuit (n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
Circuit (n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
Circuit (n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.
Circuit (v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
Circuit (v. t.) To travel around.
Circuiteer (n.) A circuiter.
Circuiter (n.) One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge.
Circuition (n.) The act of going round; circumlocution.
Circuitous (a.) Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
Circuity (n.) A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
Circulable (a.) That may be circulated.
Circular (a.) A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.
Circular (a.) A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.
Circular (a.) Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter.
Circular (a.) Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.
Circular (a.) In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.
Circular (a.) Perfect; complete.
Circular (a.) repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.
Circularity (n.) The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
Circularly (adv.) In a circular manner.
Circulary (a.) Circular; illogical.
Circulate (v. i.) To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
Circulate (v. i.) To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.
Circulate (v. t.) To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.
Circulating (P. pr. & vb. n.) of Circulate
Circulation (n.) Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
Circulation (n.) The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
Circulation (n.) The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
Circulation (n.) The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
Circulation (n.) The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
Circulator (n.) One who, or that which, circulates.
Circulatorious (a.) Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.
Circulatory (a.) Circular; as, a circulatory letter.
Circulatory (a.) Circulating, or going round.
Circulatory (a.) Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases.
Circulet (n.) A circlet.
Circuline (a.) Proceeding in a circle; circular.
Circum- () A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.
Circumagitate (v. t.) To agitate on all sides.
Circumambage (n.) A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness.
Circumambiency (n.) The act of surrounding or encompassing.
Circumambient (a.) Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.
Circumambulate (v. t.) To walk round about.
Circumbendibus (n.) A roundabout or indirect way.
Circumcenter (n.) The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.
Circumcise (v. t.) To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.
Circumcise (v. t.) To purify spiritually.
Circumcised (imp. & p. p.) of Circumcise
Circumciser (n.) One who performs circumcision.
Circumcising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumcise
Circumcision (n.) Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.
Circumcision (n.) The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.
Circumcision (n.) The Jews, as a circumcised people.
Circumclusion (n.) Act of inclosing on all sides.
Circumcursation (n.) The act of running about; also, rambling language.
Circumdenudation (n.) Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object.
Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
Circumduct (v. t.) To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature.
Circumduct (v. t.) To lead about; to lead astray.
Circumduction (n.) A leading about; circumlocution.
Circumduction (n.) An annulling; cancellation.
Circumduction (n.) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.
Circumesophagal (a.) Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.
Circumesophageal (a.) Circumesophagal.
Circumfer (v. t.) To bear or carry round.
Circumference (n.) A circle; anything circular.
Circumference (n.) The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.
Circumference (n.) The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.
Circumference (v. t.) To include in a circular space; to bound.
Circumferential (a.) Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Circumferentially (adv.) So as to surround or encircle.
Circumferentor (n.) A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire circle.
Circumflant (a.) Blowing around.
Circumflect (v. t.) To bend around.
Circumflect (v. t.) To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.
Circumflected (imp. & p. p.) of Circumflect
Circumflecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumflect
Circumflection (n.) See Circumflexion.
Circumflex (a.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
Circumflex (a.) Moving or turning round; circuitous.
Circumflex (n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2.
Circumflex (n.) A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
Circumflex (v. t.) To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
Circumflexed (imp. & p. p.) of Circumflex
Circumflexing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumflex
Circumflexion (n.) A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
Circumflexion (n.) The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
Circumfluence (n.) A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.
Circumfluent (a.) Alt. of Circumfluous
Circumfluous (a.) Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.
Circumforanean (a.) Alt. of Circumforaneous
Circumforaneous (a.) Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house.
Circumfulgent (a.) Shining around or about.
Circumfuse (v. t.) To pour round; to spread round.
Circumfusile (a.) Capable of being poured or spread round.
Circumfusion (n.) The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.
Circumgestation (n.) The act or process of carrying about.
Circumgyrate (v. t. & i.) To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion.
Circumgyration (n.) The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round.
Circumgyratory (a.) Moving in a circle; turning round.
Circumgyre (v. i.) To circumgyrate.
Circumincession (n.) The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.
Circumjacence (n.) Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side.
Circumjacent (a.) Lying round; bordering on every side.
Circumjovial (n.) One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter.
Circumlittoral (a.) Adjointing the shore.
Circumlocution (n.) The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.
Circumlocutional (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.
Circumlocutory (a.) Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
Circummeridian (a.) About, or near, the meridian.
Circummure (v. t.) To encompass with a wall.
Circumnavigable (a.) Capable of being sailed round.
Circumnavigate (v. t.) To sail completely round.
Circumnavigated (imp. & p. p.) of Circumnavigate
Circumnavigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumnavigate
Circumnavigation (n.) The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
Circumnavigator (n.) One who sails round.
Circumnutate (v. i.) To pass through the stages of circumnutation.
Circumnutation (n.) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
Circumpolar (a.) About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.
Circumposition (n.) The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
Circumrotary (a.) Alt. of Circumrotatory
Circumrotate (v. t. & i.) To rotate about.
Circumrotation (n.) The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round.
Circumrotatory (a.) turning, rolling, or whirling round.
Circumscissile (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
Circumscribable (a.) Capable of being circumscribed.
Circumscribe (v. t.) To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.
Circumscribe (v. t.) To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.
Circumscribe (v. t.) to write or engrave around.
Circumscribed (imp. & p. p.) of Circumscribe
Circumscriber (n.) One who, or that which, circumscribes.
Circumscribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumscribe
Circumscriptible (a.) Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
Circumscription (n.) An inscription written around anything.
Circumscription (n.) The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
Circumscription (n.) The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.
Circumscriptive (a.) Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of.
Circumscriptively (adv.) In a limited manner.
Circumscriptly (adv.) In a literal, limited, or narrow manner.
Circumspect (a.) Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.
Circumspection (n.) Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.
Circumspective (a.) Looking around every way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger.
Circumspectively (adv.) Circumspectly.
Circumspectly (adv.) In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.
Circumspectness (n.) Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.
Circumstance (n.) An event; a fact; a particular incident.
Circumstance (n.) Circumlocution; detail.
Circumstance (n.) Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
Circumstance (n.) That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
Circumstance (v. t.) To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
Circumstanced (p. a.) Governed by events or circumstances.
Circumstanced (p. a.) Placed in a particular position or condition; situated.
Circumstant (a.) Standing or placed around; surrounding.
Circumstantiable (a.) Capable of being circumstantiated.
Circumstantial (a.) Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
Circumstantial (a.) Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.
Circumstantial (a.) Incidental; relating to, but not essential.
Circumstantial (n.) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.
Circumstantiality (n.) The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.
Circumstantially (adv.) In every circumstance or particular; minutely.
Circumstantially (adv.) In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.
Circumstantiate (v. t.) To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
Circumstantiate (v. t.) To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning.
Circumstantiated (imp. & p. p.) of Circumstantiate
Circumstantiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumstantiate
Circumterraneous (a.) Being or dwelling around the earth.
Circumundulate (v. t.) To flow round, as waves.
Circumvallate (a.) Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue.
Circumvallate (a.) Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.
Circumvallate (v. t.) To surround with a rampart or wall.
Circumvallation (n.) A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.
Circumvallation (n.) The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.
Circumvection (n.) The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.
Circumvent (v. t.) To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
Circumvented (imp. & p. p.) of Circumvent
Circumventing (p. pr. vb. n.) of Circumvent
Circumvention (n.) The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
Circumventive (a.) Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.
Circumventor (n.) One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
Circumvest (v. t.) To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
Circumvolant (a.) Flying around.
Circumvolation (n.) The act of flying round.
Circumvolution (n.) A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
Circumvolution (n.) A thing rolled round another.
Circumvolution (n.) The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
Circumvolve (v. i.) To roll round; to revolve.
Circumvolve (v. t.) To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.
Circumvolved (imp. & p. p.) of Circumvolve
Circumvolving (p. pr. vb. n.) of Circumvolve
Circus (n.) A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.
Circus (n.) Circuit; space; inclosure.
Circuses (pl. ) of Circus
Cirl bunting () A European bunting (Emberiza cirlus).
Cirque (n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
Cirque (n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
Cirrate (a.) Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.
Cirrhiferous (a.) See Cirriferous.
Cirrhose (a.) Same as Cirrose.
Cirrhotic (a.) Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.
Cirrhous (a.) See Cirrose.
Cirrhus (n.) Same as Cirrus.
Cirri (n. pl.) See Cirrus.
Cirri (pl. ) of Cirrus
Cirriferous (a.) Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.
Cirriform (a.) Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.
Cirrigerous (a.) Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.
Cirrigrade (a.) Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.
Cirriped (n.) One of the Cirripedia.
Cirro-cumulus (n.) See under Cloud.
Cirro-stratus (n.) See under Cloud.
Cirrobranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
Cirrose (a.) Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
Cirrose (a.) Resembling a tendril or cirrus.
Cirrostomi (n. pl.) The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.
Cirrous (a.) Cirrose.
Cirrous (a.) Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
Cirrus (n.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.
Cirrus (n.) A tendril or clasper.
Cirrus (n.) See under Cloud.
Cirrus (n.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
Cirrus (n.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.
Cirsocele (n.) The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.
Cirsoid (a.) Varicose.
Cirsotomy (n.) Any operation for the removal of varices by incision.
Cis- () A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.
Cisalpine (a.) On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.
Cisatlantic (a.) On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer.
Cisco (n.) The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.
Ciselure (n.) The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.
Cisleithan (a.) On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.
Cismontane (a.) On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.
Cispadane (a.) On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side.
Cissoid (n.) A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.
Cist (n.) A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
Cist (n.) See Cyst.
Cisted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.
Cistercian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.
Cistercian (n.) A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
Cistern (n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.
Cistern (n.) An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.
Cistic (a.) See Cystic.
Cit (n.) A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously.
Citable (a.) Capable of being cited.
Citadel (n.) A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Cital (n.) Citation; quotation
Cital (n.) Summons to appear, as before a judge.
Citation (n.) A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
Citation (n.) An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
Citation (n.) Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
Citation (n.) The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.
Citator (n.) One who cites.
Citatory (a.) Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.
Cite (v. t.) To bespeak; to indicate.
Cite (v. t.) To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.
Cite (v. t.) To notify of a proceeding in court.
Cite (v. t.) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
Cite (v. t.) To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation.
Cite (v. t.) To urge; to enjoin.
Cited (imp. & p. p.) of Cite
Citer (n.) One who cites.
Citess (n.) A city woman
Cithara (n.) An ancient instrument resembling the harp.
Citharistic (a.) Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
Cithern (n.) See Cittern.
Citicism (n.) The manners of a cit or citizen.
Citied (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a city.
Citied (a.) Containing, or covered with, cities.
Cities (pl. ) of City
Citified (a.) Aping, or having, the manners of a city.
Citigradae (n. pl.) A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.
Citigrade (a.) Pertaining to the Citigradae.
Citigrade (n.) One of the Citigradae.
Citiner (n.) One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen.
Citing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cite
Citizen (a.) Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
Citizen (a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.
Citizen (n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
Citizen (n.) An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
Citizen (n.) One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.
Citizen (n.) One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.
Citizeness (n.) A female citizen.
Citizenship (n.) The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
Citole (n.) A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.
Citraconic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids.
Citrate (n.) A salt of citric acid.
Citric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.
Citrination (n.) The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color.
Citrine (a.) Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.
Citrine (n.) A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.
Citron (n.) A citron melon.
Citron (n.) A citron tree.
Citron (n.) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.
Citrus (n.) A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.
Cittern (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
Cittern-head (n.) Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.
City (a.) Of or pertaining to a city.
City (n.) A large town.
City (n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
Cive (n.) Same as Chive.
Civet (v. t.) To scent or perfume with civet.
Civic (a.) Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.
Civicism (n.) The principle of civil government.
Civics (n.) The science of civil government.
Civil (a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.
Civil (a.) Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.
Civil (a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.
Civil (a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
Civil (a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.
Civil (a.) Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.
Civilian (n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.
Civilian (n.) One skilled in the civil law.
Civilian (n.) One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.
Civilist (n.) A civilian.
Civilities (pl. ) of Civillty
Civilizable (a.) Capable of being civilized.
Civilization (n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.
Civilization (n.) The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
Civilize (v. t.) To admit as suitable to a civilized state.
Civilize (v. t.) To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.
Civilized (a.) Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
Civilized (imp. & p. p.) of Civilize
Civilizer (n.) One who, or that which, civilizes or tends to civilize.
Civilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Civilize
Civillty (n.) A civil office, or a civil process
Civillty (n.) Courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a polite act or expression.
Civillty (n.) The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization.
Civily (adv.) In a civil manner; as regards civil rights and privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner.
Civism (n.) State of citizenship.
Cizar (v. i.) To clip with scissors.
Cizars (n. pl.) Scissors.
Cize (n.) Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.
Clabber (n.) Milk curdled so as to become thick.
Clabber (v. i.) To become clabber; to lopper.
Clachan (n.) A small village containing a church.
Clack (n.) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
Clack (n.) To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.
Clack (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
Clack (v. t.) Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
Clack (v. t.) Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.
Clack (v. t.) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
Clack (v. t.) To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.
Clacked (imp. & p. p.) of Clack
Clacker (n.) A claqueur. See Claqueur.
Clacker (n.) One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.
Clacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clack
Clad () imp. & p. p. of Clothe.
Clad () of Clothe
Clad (v.t) To clothe.
Cladocera (n. pl.) An order of the Entomostraca.
Cladophyll (n.) A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).
Claggy (a.) Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.
Claik (n.) See Clake.
Claik (n.) The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.
Claim (n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
Claim (n.) A loud call.
Claim (n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
Claim (n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
Claim (v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
Claim (v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
Claim (v./.) To assert; to maintain.
Claim (v./.) To call or name.
Claim (v./.) To proclaim.
Claimable (a.) Capable of being claimed.
Claimant (n.) One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
Claimed (imp. & p. p.) of Claim
Claimer (n.) One who claims; a claimant.
Claiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Claim
Claimless (a.) Having no claim.
Clair-obscur (n.) See Chiaroscuro.
Clairvoyance (n.) A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
Clairvoyant (a.) Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.
Clairvoyant (n.) One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses.
Clake (n.) Alt. of Claik
Clam (n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
Clam (n.) Claminess; moisture.
Clam (v. i.) To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
Clam (v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
Clam (v. t.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
Clam (v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
Clam (v. t.) To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
Clamatores (n. pl.) A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.
Clamatorial (a.) Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.
Clambake (n.) The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.
Clamber (n.) The act of clambering.
Clamber (v. i.) To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.
Clamber (v. t.) To ascend by climbing with difficulty.
Clambered (imp. & p. p.) of Clamber
Clambering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clamber
Clamjamphrie (n.) Low, worthless people; the rabble.
Clammed (imp. & p. p.) of Clam
Clammily (adv.) In a clammy manner.
Clamminess (n.) State of being clammy or viscous.
Clamming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clam
Clammy (Compar.) Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
Clamor (n.) A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.
Clamor (n.) A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
Clamor (n.) Any loud and continued noise.
Clamor (v. i.) To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands.
Clamor (v. t.) To salute loudly.
Clamor (v. t.) To stun with noise.
Clamor (v. t.) To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.
Clamored (imp. & p. p.) of Clamor
Clamorer (n.) One who clamors.
Clamoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clamor
Clamorous (a.) Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent.
Clamp (n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
Clamp (n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
Clamp (n.) A mollusk. See Clam.
Clamp (n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
Clamp (n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
Clamp (n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
Clamp (n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
Clamp (n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
Clamp (v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
Clamp (v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
Clamp (v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
Clamped (imp. & p. p.) of Clamp
Clamper (n.) An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper.
Clamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clamp
Clan (n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
Clan (n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
Clancular (a.) Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed.
Clancularly (adv.) privately; secretly.
Clandestine (a.) Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.
Clandestinity (n.) Privacy or secrecy.
Clang (n.) A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.
Clang (n.) Quality of tone.
Clang (v. i.) To give out a clang; to resound.
Clang (v. t.) To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
Clanged (imp. & p. p.) of Clang
Clanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clang
Clangor (v. t.) A sharp, harsh, ringing sound.
Clangorous (a.) Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
Clangous (a.) Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound.
Clanjamfrie (n.) Same as Clamjamphrie.
Clank (n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
Clank (v. i.) To sound with a clank.
Clank (v. t.) To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
Clanked (imp. & p. p.) of Clank
Clanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clank
Clankless (a.) Without a clank.
Clannish (a.) 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.
Clanship (n.) A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.
Clansman (n.) One belonging to the same clan with another.
Clansmen (pl. ) of Clansman
Clap (n.) A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.
Clap (n.) A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.
Clap (n.) A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
Clap (n.) A striking of hands to express approbation.
Clap (n.) Gonorrhea.
Clap (n.) Noisy talk; chatter.
Clap (n.) The nether part of the beak of a hawk.
Clap (v. i.) To come together suddenly with noise.
Clap (v. i.) To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.
Clap (v. i.) To knock, as at a door.
Clap (v. i.) To strike the hands together in applause.
Clap (v. i.) To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.
Clap (v. t.) To express contempt or derision.
Clap (v. t.) To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.
Clap (v. t.) To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.
Clap (v. t.) To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.
Clapboard (n.) A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.
Clapboard (n.) A stave for a cask.
Clapboard (v. t.) To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.
Clapbread (n.) Alt. of Clapcake
Clapcake (n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.
Clape (n.) A bird; the flicker.
Clapped (imp. & p. p.) of Clap
Clapper (n.) A person who claps.
Clapper (n.) A rabbit burrow.
Clapper (n.) That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.
Clapperclaw (v. t.) To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.
Clapperclaw (v. t.) To fight and scratch.
Clapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clap
Claps (v. t.) Variant of Clasp
Claptrap (a.) Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.
Claptrap (n.) A contrivance for clapping in theaters.
Claptrap (n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.
Claque (n.) A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.
Claqueur (n.) One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.
Clare (n.) A nun of the order of St. Clare.
Clare-obscure (n.) See Chiaroscuro.
Clarence (n.) A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.
Clarenceux (n.) Alt. of Clarencieux
Clarencieux (n.) See King-at-arms.
Clarendon (n.) A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.
Claret (n.) The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name is also given to similar wines made in the United States.
Claribella (n.) A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.
Clarichord (n.) A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.
Clarification (n.) The act of freeing from obscurities.
Clarification (n.) The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.
Clarified (imp. & p. p.) of Clarify
Clarifier (n.) A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works.
Clarifier (n.) That which clarifies.
Clarify (v. i.) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
Clarify (v. i.) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
Clarify (v. t.) To glorify.
Clarify (v. t.) To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
Clarify (v. t.) To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
Clarifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clarify
Clarigate (v. i.) To declare war with certain ceremonies.
Clarinet (n.) A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.
Clarino (n.) A reed stop in an organ.
Clarion (n.) A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.
Clarionet (n.) See Clarinet.
Clarisonus (a.) Having a clear sound.
Claritude (n.) Clearness; splendor.
Clarity (n.) Clearness; brightness; splendor.
Claro-obscuro (n.) See Chiaroscuro.
Clarre (n.) Wine with a mixture of honey and species.
Clart (v. t.) To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc.
Clarty (a.) Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty.
Clary (n.) A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups.
Clary (v. i.) To make a loud or shrill noise.
Clash (n.) A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.
Clash (n.) Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.
Clash (v. i.) To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
Clash (v. i.) To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.
Clash (v. t.) To strike noisily against or together.
Clashed (imp. & p. p.) of Clash
Clashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clash
Clashingly (adv.) With clashing.
Clasp (n.) A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
Clasp (n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.
Clasp (v. t.) To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
Clasp (v. t.) To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
Clasp (v. t.) To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
Clasped (imp. & p. p.) of Clasp
Clasper (n.) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera.
Clasper (n.) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
Clasper (n.) One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
Claspered (a.) Furnished with tendrils.
Clasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clasp
Class (n.) A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
Class (n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
Class (n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
Class (n.) A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
Class (n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
Class (n.) To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
Class (n.) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Class (v. i.) To grouped or classed.
Classed (imp. & p. p.) of Class
Classes (pl. ) of Classis
Classible (a.) Capable of being classed.
Classic (n.) A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.
Classic (n.) Alt. of Classical
Classic (n.) One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.
Classical (n.) Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
Classical (n.) Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
Classicalism (n.) A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
Classicalism (n.) Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
Classicalist (n.) One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.
Classicality (n.) Alt. of Classicalness
Classically (adv.) In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
Classically (adv.) In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
Classicalness (n.) The quality of being classical.
Classicism (n.) A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.
Classicist (n.) One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Classifiable (a.) Capable of being classified.
Classific (a.) Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
Classification (n.) The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
Classificatory (a.) Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.
Classified (imp. & pp.) of Classify
Classifier (n.) One who classifies.
Classify (v. t.) To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
Classifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Classify
Classing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Class
Classis (n.) A class or order; sort; kind.
Classis (n.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
Classman (n.) A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified.
Classman (n.) A member of a class; a classmate.
Classmate (n.) One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
Classmen (pl. ) of Classman
Clastic (a.) Fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock.
Clastic (a.) Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models).
Clathrate (a.) Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.
Clathrate (a.) Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.
Clatter (n.) A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
Clatter (n.) Commotion; disturbance.
Clatter (n.) Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.
Clatter (v. i.) To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
Clatter (v. i.) To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
Clatter (v. t.) To make a rattling noise with.
Clattered (imp. & p. p.) of Clatter
Clatterer (n.) One who clatters.
Clattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clatter
Clatteringly (adv.) With clattering.
Claude Lorraine glass () A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.
Claudent (a.) Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle.
Claudicant (a.) Limping.
Claudication (n.) A halting or limping.
Clause (n.) A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
Clause (n.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
Clause (n.) See Letters clause / close, under Letter.
Claustra (pl. ) of Claustrum
Claustral (a.) Cloistral.
Claustrum (n.) A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man.
Clausular (n.) Consisting of, or having, clauses.
Clausure (n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
Clavate (a.) Alt. of Clavated
Clavated (a.) Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae.]
Clave () imp. of Cleave.
Clave () of Cleave
Clave () of Cleave
Clavecin (n.) The harpsichord.
Clavel (n.) See Clevis.
Clavellate (a.) See Clavate.
Clavellated (a.) Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning.
Claver (n.) Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.
Claver (n.) See Clover.
Claves (pl. ) of Clavis
Clavichord (n.) A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.
Clavicorn (a.) Having club-shaped antennae. See Antennae
Clavicorn (n.) One of the Clavicornes.
Clavicornes (n. pl.) A group of beetles having club-shaped antennae.
Clavicular (a.) Of or pertaining to the clavicle.
Clavier (n.) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
Clavies (pl. ) of Clavy
Claviform (a.) Club-shaped; clavate.
Claviger (n.) One who carries a club; a club bearer.
Claviger (n.) One who carries the keys of any place.
Clavigerous (a.) Bearing a club or a key.
Clavis (n.) A key; a glossary.
Clavises (pl. ) of Clavis
Clavus (n.) A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.
Clavy (n.) A mantelpiece.
Claw (n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
Claw (n.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
Claw (n.) Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
Claw (n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
Claw (n.) To rail at; to scold.
Claw (n.) To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.
Claw (v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.
Clawback (a.) Flattering; sycophantic.
Clawback (n.) A flatterer or sycophant.
Clawback (v. t.) To flatter.
Clawed (a.) Furnished with claws.
Clawed (imp. & p. p.) of Claw
Clawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Claw
Clawless (a.) Destitute of claws.
Clay (n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
Clay (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
Clay (v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.
Clay-brained (a.) Stupid.
Clayed (imp. & p. p.) of Clay
Clayes (n. pl.) Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.
Clayey (a.) Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.
Claying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clay
Clayish (a.) Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.
Claymore (n.) A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.
Claytonia (n.) An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.
Cleading (n.) A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.
Cleading (n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.
Clean (a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
Clean (adv.) Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
Clean (adv.) Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.
Clean (superl.) Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
Clean (superl.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
Clean (superl.) Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
Clean (superl.) Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
Clean (superl.) Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
Clean (superl.) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
Clean (superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
Clean (superl.) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
Cleanness (n.) Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.
Cleanness (n.) The state or quality of being clean.
Cleansable (a.) Capable of being cleansed.
Cleanse (v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
Cleansed (imp. & p. p.) of Cleanse
Cleanser (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.
Cleansing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleanse
Clear (adv.) In a clear manner; plainly.
Clear (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.
Clear (n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.
Clear (superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
Clear (superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
Clear (superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
Clear (superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
Clear (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
Clear (superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
Clear (superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
Clear (superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
Clear (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
Clear (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
Clear (superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
Clear (v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.
Clear (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
Clear (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
Clear (v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.
Clear (v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
Clear (v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
Clear (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
Clear (v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net.
Clear (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
Clear (v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
Clear (v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
Clear-cut (a.) Concisely and distinctly expressed.
Clear-cut (a.) Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.
Clear-headed (a.) Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.
Clear-seeing (a.) Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
Clear-shining (a.) Shining brightly.
Clear-sighted (a.) Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
Clear-sightedness (n.) Acute discernment.
Clearage (n.) The act of removing anything; clearance.
Clearance (n.) A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
Clearance (n.) Clear or net profit.
Clearance (n.) The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.
Cleared (imp. & p. p.) of Clear
Clearedness (n.) The quality of being cleared.
Clearer (n.) A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.
Clearer (n.) One who, or that which, clears.
Clearing (n.) A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.
Clearing (n.) A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
Clearing (n.) The act or process of making clear.
Clearing (n.) The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.
Clearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clear
Clearly (adv.) In a clear manner.
Clearness (n.) The quality or state of being clear.
Clearstarch (v. t.) To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
Clearstarched (imp. & p. p.) of Clearstarch
Clearstarcher (n.) One who clearstarches.
Clearstory (n.) Alt. of Clerestory
Clearstraching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clearstarch
Clearwing (n.) A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
Cleat (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.
Cleat (n.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
Cleat (v. t.) To strengthen with a cleat.
Cleavable (a.) Capable of cleaving or being divided.
Cleavage (n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.
Cleavage (n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.
Cleave (v. i. ) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
Cleave (v. i. ) To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate.
Cleave (v. i. ) To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
Cleave (v. i.) To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
Cleave (v. t.) To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
Cleave (v. t.) To part or open naturally; to divide.
Cleaved () of Cleave
Cleaved (imp.) of Cleave
Cleaved (p. p.) of Cleave
Cleavelandite (n.) A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
Cleaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleave
Cleaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleave
Cleche (a.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.
Clechy (a.) See Cleche.
Cledge (n.) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
Cledgy (a.) Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.
Clee (n.) A claw.
Clee (n.) The redshank.
Clef (n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.
Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
Cleft (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.
Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
Cleft (imp.) of Cleave
Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.
Cleft (p. p.) of Cleave
Cleft-footed (a.) Having a cloven foot.
Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Cleg (n.) A small breeze or horsefly.
Cleistogamic (a.) Alt. of Cleistogamous
Clem (v. t. & i.) To starve; to famish.
Clematis (n.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.
Clemence (n.) Clemency.
Clemencies (pl. ) of Clemency
Clemency (n.) Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
Clemency (n.) Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
Clement (a.) Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.
Clementine (a.) Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.
Clench (n. & v. t.) See Clinch.
Clepe (v. i.) To make appeal; to cry out.
Clepe (v. t.) To call, or name.
Cleped (imp. & p. p.) of Clepe
Cleping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clepe
Clepsine (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.
Clepsydra (n.) A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.
Cleptomania (n.) See Kleptomania.
Clerestory (n.) Same as Clearstory.
Clerestory (n.) The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
Clergeon (n.) A chorister boy.
Clergial (a.) Learned; erudite; clerical.
Clergical (a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned.
Clergy (n.) Learning; also, a learned profession.
Clergy (n.) The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church.
Clergy (n.) The privilege or benefit of clergy.
Clergyable (a.) Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony.
Clergyman (n.) An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
Clergymen (pl. ) of Clergyman
Cleric (a.) Same as Clerical.
Cleric (n.) A clerk, a clergyman.
Clerical (a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.
Clerical (a.) Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.
Clericalism (n.) An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
Clericity (n.) The state of being a clergyman.
Clerisy (n.) The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
Clerisy (n.) The literati, or well educated class.
Clerk (n.) A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
Clerk (n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
Clerk (n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
Clerk (n.) An assistant in a shop or store.
Clerk (n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
Clerk-ale (n.) A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.
Clerkless (a.) Unlearned.
Clerklike (a.) Scholarlike.
Clerkliness (n.) Scholarship.
Clerkly (a.) Of or pertaining to a clerk.
Clerkly (adv.) In a scholarly manner.
Clerkship (n.) State, quality, or business of a clerk.
Cleromancy (n.) A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.
Cleronomy (n.) Inheritance; heritage.
Clerstory (n.) See Clearstory.
Clever (a.) Good-natured; obliging.
Clever (a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
Clever (a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
Clever (a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.
Clever (a.) Well-shaped; handsome.
Cleverish (a.) Somewhat clever.
Cleverly (adv.) In a clever manner.
Cleverness (n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.
Clevis (n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.
Clew (n.) Alt. of Clue
Clew (n.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread.
Clew (n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.
Clewing (imp. & p. p. & vb. n.) of Clew
Cliche (n.) A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
Click (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
Click (n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
Click (n.) The latch of a door.
Click (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
Click (v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
Click (v. t.) To move with the sound of a click.
Click (v. t.) To snatch.
Click beetle () See Elater.
Clicked (imp. & p. p.) of Click
Clicker (n.) One who as has charge of the work of a companionship.
Clicker (n.) One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
Clicket (n.) A latch key.
Clicket (n.) The knocker of a door.
Clicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Click
Clicky (a.) Resembling a click; abounding in clicks.
Clidastes (n.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.
Cliency (n.) State of being a client.
Client (n.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.
Client (n.) A dependent; one under the protection of another.
Client (n.) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
Clientage (n.) A body of clients.
Clientage (n.) State of being client.
Cliental (a.) Of or pertaining to a client.
Cliented (a.) Supplied with clients.
Clientelage (n.) See Clientele, n., 2.
Clientele (n.) The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.
Clientele (n.) The condition or position of a client; clientship
Clientele (n.) The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.
Clientship (n.) Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron.
Cliff (n.) A high, steep rock; a precipice.
Cliff (n.) See Clef.
Cliff limestone () A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.
Cliffy (a.) Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Clift (n.) A cliff.
Clift (n.) The fork of the legs; the crotch.
Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.
Climacter (n.) See Climacteric, n.
Climacteric (a.) Relating to a climacteric; critical.
Climacteric (n.) Any critical period.
Climacterical (a. & n.) See Climacteric.
Climatal (a.) Climatic.
Climatarchic (a.) Presiding over, or regulating, climates.
Climate (v. i.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.
Climate (v. i.) The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.
Climate (v. i.) To dwell.
Climatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
Climatical (a.) Climatic.
Climatize (v. t. & i.) To acclimate or become acclimated.
Climatized (imp. & p. p.) of Climatize
Climatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Climatize
Climatography (n.) A description of climates.
Climatological (a.) Of or pertaining to climatology.
Climatologist (n.) One versed in, or who studies, climatology.
Climatology (n.) The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
Climature (n.) A climate.
Climax (v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
Climax (v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree.
Climb (n.) The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
Climb (v. i.) To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
Climb (v. i.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
Climb (v. i.) To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
Climb (v. t.) To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Climbable (a.) Capable of being climbed.
Climbed (imp. & p. p.) of Climb
Climber (n.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
Climber (n.) A plant that climbs.
Climber (n.) One who, or that which, climbs
Climber (v. i.) To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.
Climbing () p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.
Climbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Climb
Clime (n.) A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Clinanthium (n.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.
Clinch (n.) 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.
Clinch (n.) A pun.
Clinch (n.) 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 (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Clinch (v. t.) 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 (v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
Clinch (v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
Clinch (v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
Clinched (imp. & p. p.) of Clinch
Clincher (n.) One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.
Clincher (n.) That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
Clincher-built (a.) See Clinker-built.
Clinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clinch
Cling (n.) Adherence; attachment; devotion.
Cling (v. i.) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.
Cling (v. t.) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
Cling (v. t.) To make to dry up or wither.
Clinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cling
Clingstone (a.) Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches.
Clingstone (n.) A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.
Clingy (a.) Apt to cling; adhesive.
Clinic (n.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
Clinic (n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.
Clinic (n.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed.
Clinic (v. i.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
Clinic (v. i.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
Clinical (v. i.) Alt. of Clinic
Clinically (adv.) In a clinical manner.
Clinique (n.) A clinic.
Clinium (n.) See Clinanthium.
Clink (n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
Clink (v. i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
Clink (v. i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
Clink (v. i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].
Clinkant (a.) See Clinquant.
Clinked (imp. & p. p.) of Clink
Clinker (n.) A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
Clinker (n.) A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
Clinker (n.) A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
Clinker (n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
Clinker-built (a.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.
Clinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clink
Clinkstone (n.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
Clinodiagonal (a.) Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
Clinodiagonal (n.) That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization.
Clinodome (n.) See under Dome.
Clinographic (a.) Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
Clinoid (a.) Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
Clinometer (n.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.
Clinometric (a.) Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.
Clinometric (a.) Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.
Clinometry (n.) That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
Clinopinacoid (n.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
Clinorhombic (a.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
Clinquant (a.) Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
Clinquant (n.) Tinsel; Dutch gold.
Clio (n.) The Muse who presided over history.
Clione (n.) A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.
Clip (n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
Clip (n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
Clip (n.) A cutting; a shearing.
Clip (n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.
Clip (n.) An embrace.
Clip (n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
Clip (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
Clip (v. i.) To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
Clip (v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.
Clip (v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Clip (v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.
Clipped (imp. & p. p.) of Clip
Clipper (n.) A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
Clipper (n.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing.
Clipper (n.) One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
Clipping (n.) That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.
Clipping (n.) The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.
Clipping (n.) The act of embracing.
Clipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clip
Clique (v. i.) A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.
Clique (v. i.) To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.
Cliquish (a.) Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.
Cliquism (n.) The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.
Clitellus (n.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
Clitoris (n.) A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.
Clivers (n.) See Cleavers.
Clivities (pl. ) of Clivity
Clivity (n.) Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.
Cloaca (n.) A privy.
Cloaca (n.) A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
Cloaca (n.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.
Cloacae (pl. ) of Cloaca
Cloacal (a.) Of or pertaining to a cloaca.
Cloak (n.) A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
Cloak (n.) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
Cloak (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.
Cloaked (imp. & p. p.) of Cloak
Cloakedly (adv.) In a concealed manner.
Cloaking (n.) The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.
Cloaking (n.) The material of which of which cloaks are made.
Cloaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloak
Cloakroom (n.) A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.
Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
Clock (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
Clock (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes.
Clock (n.) The striking of a clock.
Clock (v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
Clocklike (a.) Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
Clockwork (n.) The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
Clod (n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt
Clod (n.) A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
Clod (n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
Clod (n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
Clod (n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
Clod (v. t.) To pelt with clods.
Clod (v. t.) To throw violently; to hurl.
Clod (v.i) To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.
Cloff (n.) Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
Clog (v. i.) To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
Clog (v. i.) To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
Clog (v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
Clog (v. t.) To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
Clog (v. t.) To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
Clog (v.) A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.
Clog (v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
Clog (v.) That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
Clogged (imp. & p. p.) of Clog
Clogginess (n.) The state of being clogged.
Clogging (n.) Anything which clogs.
Clogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clog
Cloggy (a.) Clogging, or having power to clog.
Cloister (v. t.) A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
Cloister (v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
Cloister (v. t.) An inclosed place.
Cloister (v. t.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
Cloister (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
Cloisteral (a.) Cloistral.
Cloistered (a.) Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.
Cloistered (a.) Furnished with cloisters.
Cloistered (imp. & p. p.) of Cloister
Cloisterer (n.) One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
Cloistering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloister
Cloistral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.
Cloistress (n.) A nun.
Cloke (n. & v.) See Cloak.
Clomb () Alt. of Clomben
Clomb () of Climb
Clomben () imp. & p. p. of Climb (for climbed).
Clomp (n.) See Clamp.
Clong () imp. of Cling.
Clong () of Cling
Clonic (a.) Having an irregular, convulsive motion.
Cloom (v. t.) To close with glutinous matter.
Cloop (n.) The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
Close (adv.) In a close manner.
Close (adv.) Secretly; darkly.
Close (n.) A double bar marking the end.
Close (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
Close (n.) Conclusion; cessation; ending; end.
Close (n.) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
Close (n.) The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
Close (n.) To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction.
Close (n.) To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often used with up.
Close (n.) To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine.
Close (n.) To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
Close (v. i.) To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated.
Close (v. i.) To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.
Close (v. i.) To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight.
Close (v. t.) A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within.
Close (v. t.) Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.
Close (v. t.) Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; as, a close translation.
Close (v. t.) Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; -- often followed by to.
Close (v. t.) An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey.
Close (v. t.) Concise; to the point; as, close reasoning.
Close (v. t.) Difficult to obtain; as, money is close.
Close (v. t.) Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent.
Close (v. t.) Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids.
Close (v. t.) Intimate; familiar; confidential.
Close (v. t.) Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters.
Close (v. t.) Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote.
Close (v. t.) Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc.
Close (v. t.) Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
Close (v. t.) Parsimonious; stingy.
Close (v. t.) Short; as, to cut grass or hair close.
Close (v. t.) Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box.
Close (v. t.) Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close prisoner.
Close (v. t.) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not inclosed.
Close (v. t.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
Close-banded (a.) Closely united.
Close-barred (a.) Firmly barred or closed.
Close-bodied (a.) Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.
Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
Close-stool (n.) A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
Closehauled (a.) Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
Closely (adv.) In a close manner.
Closely (adv.) Secretly; privately.
Closemouthed (a.) Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
Closen (v. t.) To make close.
Closeness (n.) The state of being close.
Closer (n.) A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.
Closer (n.) One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.
Closer (n.) The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course.
Closereefed (a.) Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.
Closet (n.) A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.
Closet (n.) A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
Closet (v. t.) To make into a closet for a secret interview.
Closet (v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.
Closeting (imp. & p. pr. & vb. n.) of Closet
Closh (n.) A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.
Closh (n.) The game of ninepins.
Closing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Close
Closure (v. t.) A conclusion; an end.
Closure (v. t.) That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
Closure (v. t.) That which incloses or confines; an inclosure.
Closure (v. t.) The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.
Clot (n.) A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
Clot (v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
Clot (v. t.) To form into a slimy mass.
Clotbur (n.) Same as Cocklebur.
Clotbur (n.) The burdock.
Clote (n.) The common burdock; the clotbur.
Cloth (n.) 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 (n.) The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
Cloth (n.) The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
Clothe (v. i.) To wear clothes.
Clothe (v. t.) Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.
Clothe (v. t.) To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.
Clothe (v. t.) To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
Clothed (imp. & p. p.) of Clothe
Clothes (n. pl.) Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort.
Clothes (n. pl.) The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
Clothes (pl. ) of Cloth
Clotheshorse (n.) A frame to hang clothes on.
Clothesline (n.) A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
Clothespin (n.) A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
Clothespress (n.) A receptacle for clothes.
Clothier (n.) One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth.
Clothier (n.) One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
Clothing (n.) A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
Clothing (n.) Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
Clothing (n.) See Card clothing, under 3d Card.
Clothing (n.) The art of process of making cloth.
Clothing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clothe
Clothred (p. p.) Clottered.
Cloths (pl. ) of Cloth
Clotpoll (n.) See Clodpoll.
Clotted (a.) Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul.
Clotted (imp. & p. p.) of Clot
Clotter (v. i.) To concrete into lumps; to clot.
Clotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clot
Clotty (n.) Full of clots, or clods.
Cloture (n.) See Closure, 5.
Clotweed (n.) Cocklebur.
Cloud (n.) A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
Cloud (n.) A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
Cloud (n.) A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
Cloud (n.) A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
Cloud (n.) A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
Cloud (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
Cloud (v. i.) To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.
Cloud (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
Cloud (v. t.) To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
Cloud (v. t.) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
Cloud (v. t.) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
Cloud-built (a.) Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary.
Cloud-burst (n.) A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
Cloud-capped (a.) Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains.
Cloud-compeller (n.) Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus.
Cloudage (n.) Mass of clouds; cloudiness.
Cloudberry (n.) A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamaemerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
Clouded (imp. & p. p.) of Cloud
Cloudily (adv.) In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely.
Cloudiness (n.) The state of being cloudy.
Clouding (n.) A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals.
Clouding (n.) A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.
Clouding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloud
Cloudland (n.) Dreamland.
Cloudless (a.) Without a cloud; clear; bright.
Cloudlet (n.) A little cloud.
Cloudy (n.) Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.
Cloudy (n.) Consisting of a cloud or clouds.
Cloudy (n.) Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful.
Cloudy (n.) Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.
Cloudy (n.) Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.
Cloudy (n.) Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.
Clough (n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Clough (n.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.
Clout (n.) A blow with the hand.
Clout (n.) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
Clout (n.) A piece; a fragment.
Clout (n.) A swadding cloth.
Clout (n.) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
Clout (n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
Clout (n.) To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.
Clout (n.) To give a blow to; to strike.
Clout (n.) To join or patch clumsily.
Clout (n.) To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
Clout (n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
Clouted (imp. & p. p.) of Clout
Clouterly (n.) Clumsy; awkward.
Clouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clout
Clove () of Cleave
Clove (imp.) Cleft.
Clove (n.) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.
Clove (n.) A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.
Clove (n.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.
Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.
Cloven () of Cleave
Cloven (p. p. & a.) from Cleave, v. t.
Cloven-footed (a.) Alt. of Cloven-hoofed
Cloven-hoofed (a.) Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.
Clover (n.) A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense.
Clovered (a.) Covered with growing clover.
Clowe-gilofre (n.) Spice clove.
Clown (n.) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
Clown (n.) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
Clown (n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
Clown (v. i.) To act as a clown; -- with it.
Clownage (n.) Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.
Clownery (n.) Clownishness.
Clownish (a.) Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.
Clownishness (n.) The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.
Cloy (v. t.) To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
Cloy (v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
Cloy (v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
Cloy (v. t.) To spike, as a cannon.
Cloy (v. t.) To stroke with a claw.
Cloyed (imp. & p. p.) of Cloy
Cloying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloy
Cloyless (a.) That does not cloy.
Cloyment (n.) Satiety.
Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
Club (n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
Club (n.) An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
Club (n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Club (v. i.) To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
Club (v. i.) To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
Club (v. t.) To beat with a club.
Club (v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
Club (v. t.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
Club (v. t.) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
Club-rush (n.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.
Club-shaped (a.) Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects.
Clubbable (a.) Suitable for membership in a club; sociable.
Clubbed (a.) Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
Clubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Club
Clubber (n.) A member of a club.
Clubber (n.) One who clubs.
Clubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Club
Clubbish (a.) Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.
Clubbish (a.) Rude; clownish.
Clubbist (n.) A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs.
Clubfist (n.) A coarse, brutal fellow.
Clubfist (n.) A large, heavy fist.
Clubfisted (a.) Having a large fist.
Clubfoot (n.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.
Clubfooted (a.) Having a clubfoot.
Clubhand (n.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.
Clubhouse (n.) A house occupied by a club.
Clubroom (n.) The apartment in which a club meets.
Cluck (n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Cluck (n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.
Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
Cluck (v. t.) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
Clucked (imp. & p. p.) of Cluck
Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Clucking (p pr. & vb. n.) of Cluck
Clue (n.) A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
Clue (n.) A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.
Clue (n.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
Clue (n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.
Clue (n.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
Clue (n.) That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.
Clum (interj.) Silence; hush.
Clumber (n.) A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
Clump (n.) A cluster; a group; a thicket.
Clump (n.) An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
Clump (n.) The compressed clay of coal strata.
Clump (v. i.) To tread clumsily; to clamp.
Clump (v. t.) To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.
Clumper (n.) To form into clumps or masses.
Clumpy (n.) Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.
Clumsily (adv.) In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
Clumsiness (n.) The quality of being clumsy.
Clumsy (superl.) Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.
Clunch (n.) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.
Clunch (n.) One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.
Clung () imp. & p. p. of Cling.
Clung (imp. & p. p.) of Cling
Clung (v. i.) Wasted away; shrunken.
Cluniac (n.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.
Cluniacensian (a.) Cluniac.
Clupeoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Herring family.
Cluster (n.) A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
Cluster (n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
Cluster (n.) A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
Cluster (v. i.) To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
Cluster (v. t.) To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
Clustered (imp. & p. p.) of Cluster
Clustering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cluster
Clusteringly (adv.) In clusters.
Clustery (n.) Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
Clutch (n.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.
Clutch (n.) A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.
Clutch (n.) Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
Clutch (n.) 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 (n.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird.
Clutch (n.) To close tightly; to clinch.
Clutch (n.) To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.
Clutch (v. i.) To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.
Clutched (imp. & p. p.) of Clutch
Clutching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clutch
Clutter (n.) A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
Clutter (n.) Clatter; confused noise.
Clutter (n.) To clot or coagulate, as blood.
Clutter (v. i.) To make a confused noise; to bustle.
Clutter (v. t.) To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
Cluttered (imp. & p. p.) of Clutter
Cluttering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clutter
Clycerole (n.) Same as Glycerite.
Clypeastroid (a.) Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.
Clypeate (a.) Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.
Clypeate (a.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
Clypei (pl. ) of Clypeus
Clypeiform (a.) Shield-shaped; clypeate.
Clypeus (n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect.
Clysmian (a.) Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.
Clysmic (a.) Washing; cleansing.
Clyster (n.) A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
Cnemial (a.) Pertaining to the shin bone.
Cnida (n.) One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.
Cnidae (pl. ) of Cnida
Cnidaria (n. pl.) A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.
Cnidoblast (n.) One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidae.
Cnidocil (n.) The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.
Co- () A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.
Co-allies (pl. ) of Co-ally
Co-ally (n.) A joint ally.
Co-assessor (n.) A joint assessor.
Co-legatee (n.) A joint legatee.
Co-lessee (n.) A partner in a lease taken.
Co-lessor (n.) A partner in giving a lease.
Co-mate (n.) A companion.
Co-meddle (v. t.) To mix; to mingle, to temper.
Co-regent (n.) A joint regent or ruler.
Co-relation (n.) Corresponding relation.
Co-religionist (n.) One of the same religion with another.
Co-respondent (n.) One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.
Co-sufferer (n.) One who suffers with another.
Co-une (v. t.) To combine or unite.
Co-unite (a.) United closely with another.
Co-unite (v. t.) To unite.
Coacervate (a.) Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.
Coacervate (v. t.) To heap up; to pile.
Coacervation (n.) A heaping together.
Coach (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
Coach (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with
Coach (v. t.) To convey in a coach.
Coach (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
Coachbox () The seat of a coachman.
Coachdog () One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.
Coached (imp. & p. p.) of Coach
Coachee (n.) A coachman
Coachfellow (n.) One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade.
Coaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coach
Coachman (n.) A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
Coachman (n.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.
Coachmanship (n.) Skill in driving a coach.
Coachmen (pl. ) of Coachman
Coachwhip snake () A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).
Coact (v. i.) To act together; to work in concert; to unite.
Coact (v. t.) To force; to compel; to drive.
Coaction (n.) Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.
Coactive (a.) Acting in concurrence; united in action.
Coactive (a.) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
Coactively (adv.) In a coactive manner.
Coactivity (n.) Unity of action.
Coadaptation (n.) Mutual adaption.
Coadapted (a.) Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth.
Coadjument (n.) Mutual help; cooperation.
Coadjust (v. t.) To adjust by mutual adaptations.
Coadjustment (n.) Mutual adjustment.
Coadjutant (a.) Mutually assisting or operating; helping.
Coadjutant (n.) An assistant.
Coadjuting (a.) Mutually assisting.
Coadjutive (a.) Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant.
Coadjutor (n.) One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.
Coadjutor (n.) The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.
Coadjutorship (n.) The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance.
Coadjutress (n.) Alt. of Coadjutrix
Coadjutrix (n.) A female coadjutor or assistant.
Coadjuvancy (n.) Joint help; cooperation.
Coadjuvant (a.) Cooperating.
Coadjuvant (n.) An adjuvant.
Coadunate (a.) United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.
Coadunation (n.) Union, as in one body or mass; unity.
Coadunition (n.) Coadunation.
Coadventure (n.) An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
Coadventure (v. i.) To share in a venture.
Coadventurer (n.) A fellow adventurer.
Coafforest (v. t.) To convert into, or add to, a forest.
Coag (n.) See Coak, a kind of tenon.
Coagency (n.) Agency in common; joint agency or agent.
Coagent (n.) An associate in an act; a coworker.
Coagment (v. t.) To join together.
Coagmentation (n.) The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union.
Coagula (pl. ) of Coagulum
Coagulability (n.) The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated.
Coagulable (a.) Capable of being coagulated.
Coagulant (n.) That which produces coagulation.
Coagulate (a.) Coagulated.
Coagulate (v. i.) To undergo coagulation.
Coagulate (v. t.) To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.
Coagulated (a.) Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled.
Coagulated (imp. & p. p.) of Coagulate
Coagulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coagulate
Coagulation (n.) The substance or body formed by coagulation.
Coagulative (a.) Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent.
Coagulator (n.) That which causes coagulation.
Coagulatory (a.) Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects.
Coagulum (a.) The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.
Coaita (n.) The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.
Coak (n.) A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers.
Coak (n.) A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.
Coak (n.) See Coke, n.
Coak (v. t.) To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces.
Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
Coal (v. i.) To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
Coal (v. t.) To burn to charcoal; to char.
Coal (v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
Coal (v. t.) To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
Coal works () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.
Coal-black (a.) As black as coal; jet black; very black.
Coal-meter (n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter.
Coal-whipper (n.) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.
Coaled (imp. & p. p.) of Coal
Coalery (n.) See Colliery.
Coalesce (n.) To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.
Coalesce (n.) To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce.
Coalesced (imp. & p. p.) of Coalesce
Coalescence (n.) The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.
Coalescent (a.) Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.
Coalescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coalesce
Coalfish (n.) The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.
Coalfish (n.) The cobia.
Coalfish (n.) The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.
Coalgoose (n.) The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.
Coaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coal
Coalite (v. i.) To unite or coalesce.
Coalite (v. t.) To cause to unite or coalesce.
Coalition (n.) A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests.
Coalition (n.) The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.
Coalitioner (n.) A coalitionist.
Coalitionist (n.) One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.
Coalmouse (n.) A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit.
Coalpit (n.) A pit where coal is dug.
Coalpit (n.) A place where charcoal is made.
Coaltit (n.) A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.
Coaly (n.) Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.
Coamings (n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges.
Coannex (v. t.) To annex with something else.
Coaptation (n.) The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.
Coarct (a.) Alt. of Coarctate
Coarctate (a.) Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.
Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.
Coarctate (a.) To restrain; to confine.
Coarctation (n.) A stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or orifice.
Coarctation (n.) Confinement to a narrow space.
Coarctation (n.) Pressure; that which presses.
Coarse (superl.) Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.
Coarse-grained (a.) Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.
Coarsely (adv.) In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
Coarsen (v. t.) To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character.
Coarseness (n.) The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.
Coarticulation (n.) The union or articulation of bones to form a joint.
Coast (n.) To draw or keep near; to approach.
Coast (n.) To sail by or near the shore.
Coast (n.) To sail from port to port in the same country.
Coast (n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice.
Coast (v. t.) The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border.
Coast (v. t.) The seashore, or land near it.
Coast (v. t.) The side of a thing.
Coast (v. t.) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
Coast (v. t.) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
Coast (v. t.) To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.
Coastal (a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.
Coasted (imp. & p. p.) of Coast
Coaster (n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
Coaster (n.) One who sails near the shore.
Coasting (a.) Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.
Coasting (n.) A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.
Coasting (n.) Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.
Coasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coast
Coastways (adv.) By way of, or along, the coast.
Coastwise (adv.) Alt. of Coastways
Coat (n.) A coat card. See below.
Coat (n.) A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.
Coat (n.) A petticoat.
Coat (n.) An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.
Coat (n.) An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.
Coat (n.) Same as Coat of arms. See below.
Coat (n.) The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
Coat (v. t.) To cover with a coat or outer garment.
Coat (v. t.) To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.
Coated (imp. & p. p.) of Coat
Coatee (n.) A coat with short flaps.
Coati (n.) A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose.
Coating (n.) A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.
Coating (n.) Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.
Coating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coat
Coatless (a.) Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.
Coax (n.) A simpleton; a dupe.
Coax (v. t.) To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
Coaxation (n.) The act of croaking.
Coaxed (imp. & p. p.) of Coax
Coaxer (n.) One who coaxes.
Coaxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coax
Coaxingly (adv.) In a coaxing manner; by coaxing.
Cob (n.) A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.
Cob (n.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
Cob (n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
Cob (n.) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
Cob (n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
Cob (n.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
Cob (n.) A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
Cob (n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
Cob (n.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
Cob (n.) A young herring.
Cob (n.) Clay mixed with straw.
Cob (n.) The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
Cob (n.) The top or head of anything.
Cob (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
Cob (v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
Cob (v. t.) To strike
Cobaea (n.) A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.
Cobalt (n.) A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.
Cobalt (n.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.
Cobaltic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide.
Cobaltiferous (a.) Containing cobalt.
Cobaltine (n.) Alt. of Cobaltite
Cobaltite (n.) A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.
Cobaltous (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence.
Cobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Cob
Cobbing (a.) Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2.
Cobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cob
Cobble (n.) A cobblestone.
Cobble (n.) A fishing boat. See Coble.
Cobble (n.) Cob coal. See under Cob.
Cobble (v. t.) To make clumsily.
Cobble (v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
Cobble (v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.
Cobbled (imp. & p. p.) of Cobble
Cobbler (n.) A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.
Cobbler (n.) A clumsy workman.
Cobbler (n.) A mender of shoes.
Cobblestone (n.) A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.
Cobbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cobble
Cobby (n.) Headstrong; obstinate.
Cobby (n.) Stout; hearty; lively.
Cobelligerent (a.) Carrying on war in conjunction with another power.
Cobelligerent (n.) A nation or state that carries on war in connection with another.
Cobia (n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.
Cobiron (n.) An andiron with a knob at the top.
Cobishop (n.) A joint or coadjutant bishop.
Coble (n.) A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.
Cobnut (n.) A game played by children with nuts.
Cobnut (n.) A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.
Coboose (n.) See Caboose.
Cobourg (n.) A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.
Cobra (n.) See Copra.
Cobra (n.) The cobra de capello.
Cobra de capello () The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.Naja --
Cobstone (n.) Cobblestone.
Cobswan (n.) A large swan.
Cobwall (n.) A wall made of clay mixed with straw.
Cobweb (n.) A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.
Cobweb (n.) That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.
Cobweb (n.) The European spotted flycatcher.
Cobweb (n.) The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.
Cobwebbed (a.) Abounding in cobwebs.
Cobwebby (a.) Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.
Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.
Coca (n.) The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.
Cocagne (n.) An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.
Cocagne (n.) The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs.
Cocaine (n.) A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.
Cocci (pl. ) of Coccus
Cocciferous (a.) Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferous trees or plants.
Coccinella (n.) A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvae feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.
Coccobacteria (pl. ) of Coccobacterium
Coccobacterium (n.) One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.
Coccolite (n.) A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.
Coccolith (n.) One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.
Coccosphere (n.) A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.
Coccosteus (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.
Cocculus Indicus (n.) The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.
Coccus (n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.
Coccus (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
Coccus (n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
Coccygeal (a.) Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebrae.
Coccygeous (a.) Coccygeal.
Coccyges (pl. ) of Coccyx
Coccyx (n.) The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated.
Cochin fowl () A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam).
Cochineal () A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.
Cochineal fig () A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.
Cochlea (n.) An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.
Cochlear (a.) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.
Cochleare (n.) A spoon.
Cochleare (n.) A spoonful.
Cochleary (a.) Same as Cochleate.
Cochleate (a.) Alt. of Cochleated
Cochleated (a.) Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.
Cock (n.) A chief man; a leader or master.
Cock (n.) A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.
Cock (n.) A faucet or valve.
Cock (n.) A small boat.
Cock (n.) A small concial pile of hay.
Cock (n.) A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
Cock (n.) The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.
Cock (n.) The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
Cock (n.) The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
Cock (n.) The hammer in the lock of a firearm.
Cock (n.) The indicator of a balance.
Cock (n.) The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
Cock (n.) The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
Cock (n.) The style of gnomon of a dial.
Cock (v. i.) To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for firing.
Cock (v. i.) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
Cock (v. t.) To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it for firing.
Cock (v. t.) To put into cocks or heaps, as hay.
Cock (v. t.) To set erect; to turn up.
Cock (v. t.) To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.
Cock (v. t.) To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.
Cock (v. t.) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
Cock-a-hoop (a.) Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
Cock-brained (a.) Giddy; rash.
Cock-padle (n.) See Lumpfish.
Cockaded (a.) Wearing a cockade.
Cockal (n.) A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice
Cockal (n.) The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone.
Cockaleekie (n.) A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.
Cockamaroo (n.) The Russian variety of bagatelle.
Cockateel (n.) An Australian parrot (Calopsitta Novae-Hollandiae); -- so called from its note.
Cockatrice (n.) A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.
Cockatrice (n.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.
Cockatrice (n.) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified.
Cockatrice (n.) Any venomous or deadly thing.
Cockbill (v. t.) To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning.
Cockboat (n.) A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.
Cockchafer (n.) A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
Cockcrow (n.) Alt. of Cockcrowing
Cockcrowing (n.) The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning.
Cocked (imp. & p. p.) of Cock
Cocker (n.) A rustic high shoe or half-boots.
Cocker (n.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
Cocker (n.) One given to cockfighting.
Cocker (v. t.) To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
Cockered (imp. & p. p.) of Cocker
Cockerel (n.) A young cock.
Cockering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cocker
Cocket (n.) A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shipper as a warrant that his goods have been duly entered and have paid duty.
Cocket (n.) A measure for bread.
Cocket (n.) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.
Cocket (n.) Pert; saucy.
Cockeye (n.) A squinting eye.
Cockeye (n.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.
Cockfight (n.) A match or contest of gamecocks.
Cockfighting (a.) Addicted to cockfighting.
Cockfighting (n.) The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.
Cockhead (n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.
Cockhorse (a.) Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse.
Cockhorse (a.) Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.
Cockhorse (n.) A child's rocking-horse.
Cockhorse (n.) A high or tall horse.
Cockieleekie (n.) Same as Cockaleekie.
Cocking (n.) Cockfighting.
Cocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cock
Cockle (n.) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
Cockle (n.) A cockleshell.
Cockle (n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
Cockle (n.) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
Cockle (n.) The dome of a heating furnace.
Cockle (n.) The fire chamber of a furnace.
Cockle (n.) The Lotium, or darnel.
Cockle (n.) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
Cockle (v. t.) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
Cocklebur (n.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.
Cockled (a.) Inclosed in a shell.
Cockled (a.) Wrinkled; puckered.
Cockled (imp. & p. p.) of Cockle
Cockler (n.) One who takes and sells cockles.
Cockleshell (n.) A light boat.
Cockleshell (n.) One of the shells or valves of a cockle.
Cockling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cockle
Cockloft (n.) An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building.
Cockmaster (n.) One who breeds gamecocks.
Cockmatch (n.) A cockfight.
Cockney (a.) Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.
Cockney (n.) A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously.
Cockney (n.) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
Cockneydom (n.) The region or home of cockneys; cockneys, collectively.
Cockneyfy (v. t.) To form with the manners or character of a cockney.
Cockneyish (a.) Characteristic of, or resembling, cockneys.
Cockneyism (n.) The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.
Cockneys (pl. ) of Cockney
Cockpit (n.) A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.
Cockpit (n.) In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.
Cockpit (n.) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.
Cockpit (n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.
Cockroach (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.
Cockscomb (n.) See Coxcomb.
Cockshead (n.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.
Cockshut (n.) A kind of net to catch woodcock.
Cockshy (n.) A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
Cockshy (n.) An object at which stones are flung.
Cockspur (n.) A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.
Cocksure (a.) Perfectly safe.
Cocksure (a.) Quite certain.
Cockswain (n.) The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
Cocktail (n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
Cocktail (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.
Cocktail (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
Cocktail (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Cockup (n.) A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.
Cockweed (n.) Peppergrass.
Cocky (a.) Pert.
Cocleariform (a.) Spoon-shaped.
Coco () Alt. of Coco palm
Coco palm () See Cocoa.
Cocoa () Alt. of Cocoa palm
Cocoa (n.) A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.
Cocoanut (n.) The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.
Cocobolas (n.) A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.
Cocobolo (n.) Alt. of Cocobolas
Cocoon (n.) An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.
Cocoon (n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.
Cocoon (n.) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.
Cocoon (n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.
Cocoonery (n.) A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.
Coctible (a.) Capable of being cooked.
Coctile (a.) Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.
Coction (n.) Act of boiling.
Coction (n.) Digestion.
Coction (n.) The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
Cocus wood () A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.
Cod (n.) A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.
Cod (n.) A pillow or cushion.
Cod (n.) A small bag or pouch.
Cod (n.) An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.
Cod (n.) The scrotum.
Cod liver (n.) The liver of the common cod and allied species.
Coda (n.) A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.
Codder (n.) A gatherer of cods or peas.
Codding (a.) Lustful.
Coddle (v. t.) To parboil, or soften by boiling.
Coddle (v. t.) To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.
Coddled (imp. & p. p.) of Coddle
Coddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coddle
Coddymoddy (n.) A gull in the plumage of its first year.
Code (n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
Codefendant (n.) A joint defendant.
Codeine (n.) One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.
Codetta (n.) A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.
Codex (n.) A book; a manuscript.
Codex (n.) A collection of canons.
Codex (n.) A collection or digest of laws; a code.
Codex (n.) An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any part of them, particularly the New Testament.
Codfish (n.) A kind of fish. Same as Cod.
Codger (n.) A miser or mean person.
Codger (n.) A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation.
Codical (a.) Relating to a codex, or a code.
Codices (pl. ) of Codex
Codicil (n.) A clause added to a will.
Codicillary (a.) Of the nature of a codicil.
Codification (n.) The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.
Codified (imp. & p. p.) of Codify
Codifier (n.) One who codifies.
Codify (v. t.) To reduce to a code, as laws.
Codifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Codify
Codilla (n.) The coarse tow of flax and hemp.
Codille (n.) A term at omber, signifying that the game is won.
Codist (n.) A codifier; a maker of codes.
Codle (v. t.) See Coddle.
Codlin (n.) Alt. of Codling
Codling (n.) A young cod; also, a hake.
Codling (n.) An apple fit to stew or coddle.
Codling (n.) An immature apple.
Codpiece (n.) A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous.
Coecilian (n.) See Caecilian.
Coeducation (n.) An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races.
Coefficacy (n.) Joint efficacy.
Coefficiency (n.) Joint efficiency; cooperation.
Coefficient (a.) Cooperating; acting together to produce an effect.
Coefficient (n.) A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.
Coefficient (n.) A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction.
Coefficient (n.) That which unites in action with something else to produce the same effect.
Coehorn (n.) A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.
Coelacanth (a.) Having hollow spines, as some ganoid fishes.
Coelentera (n. pl.) Alt. of Coelenterata
Coelenterata (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.
Coelenterate (a.) Belonging to the Coelentera.
Coelenterate (n.) One of the Coelentera.
Coelia (n.) A cavity.
Coeliac (a.) Alt. of Celiac
Coelodont (a.) Having hollow teeth; -- said of a group lizards.
Coelodont (n.) One of a group of lizards having hollow teeth.
Coelospermous (a.) Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.
Coelum (n.) See Body cavity, under Body.
Coemption (n.) The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity.
Coendoo (n.) The Brazilian porcupine (Cercolades, / Sphingurus, prehensiles), remarkable for its prehensile tail.
Coenenchym (n.) Alt. of Coenenchyma
Coenenchyma (n.) The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.
Coenesthesis (n.) Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.
Coenobite (n.) See Cenobite.
Coenoecium (n.) The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.
Coenogamy (n.) The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual intercourse among its members; -- as in certain primitive tribes or communistic societies.
Coenosarc (n.) The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.
Coenurus (n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.
Coequal (a.) Being on an equality in rank or power.
Coequal (n.) One who is on an equality with another.
Coequality (n.) The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
Coequally (adv.) With coequality.
Coerce (v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.
Coerce (v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.
Coerce (v. t.) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
Coerced (imp. & p. p.) of Coerce
Coercible (a.) Capable of being coerced.
Coercing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coerce
Coercion (n.) The act or process of coercing.
Coercitive (a.) Coercive.
Coercive (a.) Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain.
Coerulignone (n.) A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret.
Coessential (a.) Partaking of the same essence.
Coessentiality (n.) Participation of the same essence.
Coestablishment (n.) Joint establishment.
Coestate (n.) Joint estate.
Coetanean (n.) A person coetaneous with another; a contemporary.
Coetaneous (a.) Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous.
Coeternal (a.) Equally eternal.
Coeternity (n.) Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.
Coeval (n.) Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.
Coeval (n.) One of the same age; a contemporary.
Coevous (a.) Coeval
Coexecutor (n.) A joint executor.
Coexecutrix (n.) A joint executrix.
Coexist (v. i.) To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.
Coexisted (imp. & p. p.) of Coexist
Coexistence (n.) Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence.
Coexistent (a.) Existing at the same time with another.
Coexistent (n.) That which coexists with another.
Coexisting (a.) Coexistent.
Coexisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coexist
Coextend (v. t.) To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree.
Coextended (imp. & p. p.) of Coextend
Coextending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coextend
Coextension (n.) The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended.
Coextensive (a.) Equally extensive; having equal extent; as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.
Coffee (n.) The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.
Coffee (n.) The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry.
Coffee (n.) The coffee tree.
Coffeehouse (n.) A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation.
Coffeeman (n.) One who keeps a coffeehouse.
Coffeepot (n.) A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking.
Coffeeroom (n.) A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained.
Coffer (n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
Coffer (n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
Coffer (n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
Coffer (v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
Coffer (v. t.) To put into a coffer.
Coffer (v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
Cofferdam (n.) A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.
Cofferer (n.) One who keeps treasures in a coffer.
Cofferwork (n.) Rubblework faced with stone.
Coffin (n.) A basket.
Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
Coffin (n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
Coffin (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
Coffin (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
Coffin (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Coffined (imp. & p. p.) of Coffin
Coffining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coffin
Coffinless (a.) Having no coffin.
Coffle (n.) A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.
Cog (n.) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.
Cog (n.) A small fishing boat.
Cog (n.) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
Cog (n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.
Cog (n.) A trick or deception; a falsehood.
Cog (n.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Cog (v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
Cog (v. t.) To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Cog (v. t.) To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
Cog (v. t.) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
Cogency (n.) The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.
Cogenial (a.) Congenial.
Cogent (p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.
Cogent (p. a.) Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.
Cogently (adv.) In a cogent manner; forcibly; convincingly; conclusively.
Cogged (imp. & p. p.) of Cog
Cogger (n.) A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.
Coggery (n.) Trick; deception.
Cogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cog
Coggle (n.) A cobblestone.
Coggle (n.) A small fishing boat.
Cogitability (n.) The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness.
Cogitable (a.) Capable of being brought before the mind as a thought or idea; conceivable; thinkable.
Cogitabund (a.) Full of thought; thoughtful.
Cogitate (v. i.) To engage in continuous thought; to think.
Cogitate (v. t.) To think over; to plan.
Cogitated (imp. & p. p.) of Cogitate
Cogitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cogitate
Cogitation (n.) The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.
Cogitative (a.) Given to thought or contemplation.
Cogitative (a.) Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating.
Cogman (n.) A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth.
Cognac (n.) A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.
Cognate (a.) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
Cognate (a.) Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.
Cognate (n.) One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.
Cognate (n.) One who is related to another on the female side.
Cognateness (n.) The state of being cognate.
Cognati (n. pl.) Relatives by the mother's side.
Cognation (n.) Participation of the same nature.
Cognation (n.) Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.
Cognation (n.) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.
Cognatus (n.) A person connected through cognation.
Cognisee (n.) See Cognizor, Cognizee.
Cognisor (n.) Alt. of Cognisee
Cognition (v. t.) That which is known.
Cognition (v. t.) The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
Cognitive (a.) Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power.
Cognizable (a.) Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes.
Cognizable (a.) Fitted to be a subject of judicial investigation; capable of being judicially heard and determined.
Cognizably (adv.) In a cognizable manner.
Cognizance (n.) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another.
Cognizance (n.) An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.
Cognizance (n.) Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
Cognizance (n.) Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.
Cognizance (n.) Recollection; recognition.
Cognizance (n.) The hearing a matter judicially.
Cognizant (a.) Having cognizance or knowledge. (of).
Cognize (v. t.) To know or perceive; to recognize.
Cognizee (n.) One to whom a fine of land was acknowledged.
Cognizor (n.) One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant.
Cognomen (n.) A surname.
Cognomen (n.) The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.
Cognominal (a.) Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.
Cognominal (n.) One bearing the same name; a namesake.
Cognomination (n.) A cognomen or surname.
Cognoscence (n.) Cognizance.
Cognoscente (n.) A connoisseur.
Cognoscenti (pl. ) of Cognoscente
Cognoscibility (n.) The quality of being cognoscible.
Cognoscible (a.) Capable of being known.
Cognoscible (a.) Liable to judicial investigation.
Cognoscitive (a.) Having the power of knowing.
Cognovit (n.) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.
Coguardian (n.) A joint guardian.
Cogue (n.) A small wooden vessel; a pail.
Cogware (n.) A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century.
Cogwheel (n.) A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.
Cohabit (v.) To dwell or live together as husband and wife.
Cohabit (v.) To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.
Cohabitant (n.) One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country.
Cohabitation (n.) The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.
Cohabitation (n.) The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship.
Cohabited (imp. & p. p.) of Cohabit
Cohabiter (n.) A cohabitant.
Cohabiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cohabit
Coheir (n.) A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.
Coheiress (n.) A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.
Coheirship (n.) The state of being a coheir.
Coherald (n.) A joint herald.
Cohere (a.) To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.
Cohere (a.) To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Cohere (a.) To suit; to agree; to fit.
Cohered (imp. & p. p.) of Cohere
Coherence (n.) Alt. of Coherency
Coherency (n.) A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
Coherency (n.) Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness.
Coherent (a.) Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.
Coherent (a.) Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker.
Coherent (a.) Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.
Coherent (a.) Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant.
Coherently (adv.) In a coherent manner.
Cohering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cohere
Cohesibility (n.) The state of being cohesible.
Cohesible (a.) Capable of cohesion.
Cohesion (n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.
Cohesion (n.) That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.
Cohesion (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Cohesive (a.) Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.
Cohesive (a.) Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.
Cohibit (v. t.) To restrain.
Cohibited (imp. & p. p.) of Cohibit
Cohibiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cohibit
Cohibition (n.) Hindrance; restraint.
Cohobate (v. t.) To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel.
Cohobated (imp. & p. p.) of Cohobate
Cohobating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cohobate
Cohobation (n.) The process of cohobating.
Cohorn (n.) See Coehorn.
Cohort (n.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
Cohort (n.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.
Cohort (n.) Any band or body of warriors.
Coif (n.) A cap.
Coif (n.) A close-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape.
Coif (n.) An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
Coif (v. t.) To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif.
Coifed (a.) Wearing a coif.
Coiffure (n.) A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.
Coigne (n.) A quoin.
Coigne (n.) Alt. of Coigny
Coigny (n.) The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.
Coil (n.) A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion.
Coil (n.) A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
Coil (n.) A series of connected pipes in rows or layers, as in a steam heating apparatus.
Coil (v. i.) To wind itself cylindrically or spirally; to form a coil; to wind; -- often with about or around.
Coil (v. t.) To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils.
Coil (v. t.) To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
Coiled (imp. & p. p.) of Coil
Coiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coil
Coilon (n.) A testicle.
Coin (n.) A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.
Coin (n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.
Coin (n.) That which serves for payment or recompense.
Coin (v. i.) To manufacture counterfeit money.
Coin (v. t.) To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Coin (v. t.) To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.
Coin (v. t.) To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.
Coinage (v. t.) Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
Coinage (v. t.) The act or process of converting metal into money.
Coinage (v. t.) The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
Coinage (v. t.) The cost or expense of coining money.
Coincibency (n.) Coincidence.
Coincide (n.) To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide.
Coincide (n.) To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.
Coincide (n.) To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.
Coincidence (n.) The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc.
Coincidence (n.) The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
Coincident (a.) Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with.
Coincident (n.) One of two or more coincident events; a coincidence.
Coincidental (a.) Coincident.
Coincidently (adv.) With coincidence.
Coincider (n.) One who coincides with another in an opinion.
Coinciding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coincide
Coindication (n.) One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
Coined (imp. & p. p.) of Coin
Coiner (n.) An inventor or maker, as of words.
Coiner (n.) One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money.
Coinhabitant (n.) One who dwells with another, or with others.
Coinhere (v. i.) To inhere or exist together, as in one substance.
Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.
Coinheritor (n.) A coheir.
Coining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coin
Coinitial (a.) Having a common beginning.
Coinquinate (v. t.) To pollute.
Coinquination (n.) Defilement.
Coinstantaneous (a.) Happening at the same instant.
Cointense (a.) Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense.
Cointension (n.) The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension.
Coir (n.) A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut.
Coir (n.) Cordage or cables, made of this material.
Coistril (n.) A mean, paltry fellow; a coward.
Coistril (n.) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.
Coit (n.) A quoit.
Coit (v. t.) To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit.
Coition (n.) A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.
Cojoin (v. t.) To join; to conjoin.
Cojuror (n.) One who swears to another's credibility.
Coke (n.) Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where / smokeless fire is required.
Coke (v. t.) To convert into coke.
Cokenay (n.) A cockney.
Cokernut (n.) The cocoanut.
Cokes (n.) A simpleton; a gull; a dupe.
Cokewold (n.) Cuckold.
Col (n.) A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.
Col- () A prefix signifying with, together. See Com-.
Colaborer (n.) One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
Colander (n.) A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like.
Colation (n.) The act or process of straining or filtering.
Colatitude (n.) The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
Colature (n.) The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer.
Colbertine (n.) A kind of lace.
Colchicine (n.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia.
Colchicum (n.) A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron.
Colcothar (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.
Cold (n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
Cold (n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
Cold (n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
Cold (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
Cold (n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
Cold (n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
Cold (n.) Not pungent or acrid.
Cold (n.) Not sensitive; not acute.
Cold (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.
Cold (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
Cold (n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
Cold (n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
Cold (v. i.) To become cold.
Cold-blooded (a.) Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
Cold-blooded (a.) Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
Cold-blooded (a.) Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.
Cold-hearted (a.) Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.
Cold-short (a.) Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.
Cold-shut (a.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting.
Cold-shut (n.) An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.
Coldfinch (n.) A British wagtail.
Coldish (a.) Somewhat cold; cool; chilly.
Coldly (adv.) In a cold manner; without warmth, animation, or feeling; with indifference; calmly.
Coldness (n.) The state or quality of being cold.
Cole (n.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.
Colegoose (n.) See Coalgoose.
Colemanite (n.) A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.
Colemouse (n.) See Coletit.
Coleopter (n.) One of the Coleoptera.
Coleopteral (a.) Alt. of Coleopterous
Coleopteran (n.) One of the order of Coleoptera.
Coleopterist (n.) One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.
Coleopterous (a.) Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.
Coleorhiza (n.) A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.
Coleperch (n.) A kind of small black perch.
Colera (n.) Bile; choler.
Coleridgian (a.) Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.
Coleseed (n.) The common rape or cole.
Coleslaw (n.) A salad made of sliced cabbage.
Colestaff (n.) See Colstaff.
Colet () Alt. of Collet
Coletit (n.) Alt. of Coaltit
Coleus (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.
Colewort (n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.
Colewort (n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.
Colfox (n.) A crafty fox.
Colic (a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.
Colic (a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.
Colic (n.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.
Colical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, colic.
Colicky (a.) Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.
Colicroot (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.
Colies (pl. ) of Coly
Colin (n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.
Coliseum (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.
Colitis (n.) An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.
Coll (v. t.) To embrace.
Colla (pl. ) of Collum
Collaborateur (n.) See Collaborator.
Collaboration (n.) The act of working together; united labor.
Collaborator (n.) An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.
Collagen (n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.
Collagenous (a.) Containing or resembling collagen.
Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Collapse (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collapse
Collapsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collapse
Collapsion (n.) Collapse.
Collar (n.) A collar beam.
Collar (n.) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
Collar (n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
Collar (n.) A ring or cincture.
Collar (n.) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.
Collar (n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
Collar (n.) An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.
Collar (n.) Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog.
Collar (n.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
Collar (v. t.) To put a collar on.
Collar (v. t.) To seize by the collar.
Collar bone () The clavicle.
Collards (n. pl.) Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.
Collared (a.) Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.
Collared (a.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.
Collared (a.) Wearing a collar.
Collared (imp. & p. p.) of Collar
Collaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collar
Collatable (a.) Capable of being collated.
Collate (v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.
Collate (v. t.) To bestow or confer.
Collate (v. t.) To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.
Collate (v. t.) To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
Collate (v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.
Collated (imp. & p. p.) of Collate
Collateral (a.) Acting in an indirect way.
Collateral (a.) Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.
Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.
Collateral (a.) Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues.
Collateral (a.) Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.
Collateral (n.) A collateral relative.
Collateral (n.) Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.
Collaterally (adv.) In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.
Collaterally (adv.) In collateral relation; not lineally.
Collaterally (adv.) Side by side; by the side.
Collateralness (n.) The state of being collateral.
Collating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collate
Collation (v. i.) To partake of a collation.
Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
Collation (v. t.) A conference.
Collation (v. t.) A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries.
Collation (v. t.) The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general.
Collation (v. t.) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
Collation (v. t.) The act of conferring or bestowing.
Collation (v. t.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
Collation (v. t.) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
Collation (v. t.) The report of the act made by the proper officers.
Collation (v. t.) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
Collationer (n.) One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc.
Collatitious (a.) Brought together; contributed; done by contributions.
Collative (a.) Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.
Collator (n.) One who collates manuscripts, books, etc.
Collator (n.) One who collates to a benefice.
Collator (n.) One who confers any benefit.
Collaud (v. t.) To join in praising.
Colleague (n.) A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.
Colleague (v.t & i.) To unite or associate with another or with others.
Colleagueship (n.) Partnership in office.
Collect (v. i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
Collect (v. i.) To infer; to conclude.
Collect (v. t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
Collect (v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
Collect (v. t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
Collect (v. t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Collectanea (v. t.) Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
Collected (a.) Gathered together.
Collected (a.) Self-possessed; calm; composed.
Collected (imp. & p. p.) of Collect
Collectedly (adv.) Composedly; coolly.
Collectedness (n.) A collected state of the mind; self-possession.
Collectible (a.) Capable of being collected.
Collecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collect
Collection (n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
Collection (n.) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
Collection (n.) An accumulation of any substance.
Collection (n.) That which is collected
Collection (n.) That which is obtained in payment of demands.
Collection (n.) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
Collection (n.) The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
Collection (n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Collective (a.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
Collective (a.) Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
Collective (a.) Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
Collective (a.) Tending to collect; forming a collection.
Collective (n.) A collective noun or name.
Collectively (adv.) In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
Collectiveness (n.) A state of union; mass.
Collectivism (n.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
Collectivist (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, collectivism.
Collectivist (n.) An advocate of collectivism.
Collector (n.) A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Collector (n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
Collector (n.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll.
Collector (n.) One authorized to collect debts.
Collector (n.) One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
Collectorate (n.) The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
Collectorship (n.) The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
Collegatary (n.) A joint legatee.
College (n.) A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
College (n.) A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
College (n.) A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.
College (n.) Fig.: A community.
Collegial (n.) Collegiate.
Collegian (n.) A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.
Collegiate (a.) Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.
Collegiate (n.) A member of a college.
Collembola (n. pl.) The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms.
Collenchyma (n.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.
Collet () An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.
Collet (n.) A small collar or neckband.
Collet (n.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.
Collet (n.) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant.
Collet (n.) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.
Colleterial (a.) Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects.
Colleterium (n.) An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.
Colletic (a.) Agglutinant.
Colletic (n.) An agglutinant.
Colley (n.) See Collie.
Collide (v. i.) To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
Collide (v. t.) To strike or dash against.
Collidine (n.) One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.
Collie (n.) The Scotch shepherd dog. There are two breeds, the rough-haired and smooth-haired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks.
Collied (imp. & p. p.) of Colly
Collied (p. & a.) Darkened. See Colly, v. t.
Collier (n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.
Collier (n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
Collieries (pl. ) of Colliery
Colliery (n.) The coal trade.
Colliery (n.) The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
Colliflower (n.) See Cauliflower.
Colligate (a.) Bound together.
Colligate (v. t.) To bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
Colligate (v. t.) To tie or bind together.
Colligated (imp. & p. p.) of Colligate
Colligating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Colligate
Colligation (n.) A binding together.
Colligation (n.) That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse.
Collimate (v. t.) To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.
Collimated (imp. & p. p.) of Collimate
Collimating (p. p. & vb. n.) of Collimate
Collimation (n.) The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.
Collimator (n.) A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal.
Collimator (n.) A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.
Collin (n.) A very pure form of gelatin.
Colline (n.) A small hill or mount.
Collineation (n.) The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object.
Colling (v. t.) An embrace; dalliance.
Collingly (adv.) With embraces.
Collingual (a.) Having, or pertaining to, the same language.
Colliquable (a.) Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid.
Colliquament (n.) The first rudiments of an embryo in generation.
Colliquate (v. t. & i.) To change from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt.
Colliquated (imp. & p. p.) of Colliquate
Colliquating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Colliquate
Colliquation (n.) A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
Colliquation (n.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.
Colliquefaction (n.) A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
Collish (n.) A tool to polish the edge of a sole.
Collision (n.) A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.
Collision (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
Collisive (a.) Colliding; clashing.
Collitigant (a.) Disputing or wrangling.
Collitigant (n.) One who litigates or wrangles.
Collocate (a.) Set; placed.
Collocate (v. t.) To set or place; to set; to station.
Collocated (imp. & p. p.) of Collocate
Collocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collocate
Collocation (n.) The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
Collocution (n.) A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.
Collocutor (n.) One of the speakers in a dialogue.
Collodionize (v. t.) To prepare or treat with collodion.
Collodiotype (n.) A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.
Collodium (n.) See Collodion.
Collogue (v. i.) To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.
Colloid (a.) Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
Colloid (n.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
Colloid (n.) A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.
Colloidal (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.
Colloidality (n.) The state or quality of being colloidal.
Collop (n.) A part or piece of anything; a portion.
Collop (n.) A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.
Colloped (a.) Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.
Collophore (n.) A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.
Collophore (n.) An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.
Colloquial (a.) Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
Colloquialism (n.) A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
Colloquialize (v. t.) To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
Colloquies (pl. ) of Colloquy
Colloquist (n.) A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue.
Colloquy (n.) In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.
Colloquy (n.) Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
Collow (n.) Soot; smut. See 1st Colly.
Colluctancy (n.) A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.
Colluctation (n.) A struggling; a contention.
Collude (v. i.) To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.
Colluded (imp. & p. p.) of Collude
Colluder (n.) One who conspires in a fraud.
Colluding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Collude
Collum (n.) A neck or cervix.
Collum (n.) Same as Collar.
Collusion (n.) A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.
Collusion (n.) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.
Collusive (a.) Acting in collusion.
Collusive (a.) Characterized by collusion; done or planned in collusion.
Collusory (a.) Collusive.
Collutory (n.) A medicated wash for the mouth.
Colly (n.) A kind of dog. See Collie.
Colly (n.) The black grime or soot of coal.
Colly (v. t.) To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime.
Collybist (n.) A money changer.
Collying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Colly
Collyria (pl. ) of Collyrium
Collyrium (n.) An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.
Collyriums (pl. ) of Collyrium
Colocolo (n.) A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.
Colocynthin (n.) The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.
Cologne (n.) A perfumed liquid, composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils, used in the toilet; -- called also cologne water and eau de cologne.
Cologne earth () An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.
Colombier (n.) A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper.
Colombin (n.) See Calumbin.
Colombo (n.) See Calumba.
Colon (n.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.
Colon (n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]
Colonel (n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.
Colonelcy (n.) The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.
Colonelship (n.) Colonelcy.
Coloner (n.) A colonist.
Colonial (a.) Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.
Colonical (a.) Of or pertaining to husbandmen.
Colonies (pl. ) of Colony
Colonist (n.) A member or inhabitant of a colony.
Colonitis (n.) See Colitis.
Colonization (n.) The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.
Colonizationist (n.) A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.
Colonize (v. i.) To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony.
Colonize (v. t.) To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Colonized (imp. & p. p.) of Colonize
Colonizer (n.) One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.
Colonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Colonize
Colonnade (n.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Colony (n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
Colony (n.) A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
Colony (n.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.
Colophany (n.) See Colophony.
Colophene (n.) A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.
Colophon (n.) An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book.
Colophonite (n.) A coarsely granular variety of garnet.
Colophony (n.) Rosin.
Coloquintida (n.) See Colocynth.
Color (n.) A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
Color (n.) A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc.
Color (n.) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.
Color (n.) Any hue distinguished from white or black.
Color (n.) Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
Color (n.) That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
Color (n.) That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
Color (n.) The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
Color (v. i.) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
Color (v. t.) To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.
Color (v. t.) To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
Color (v. t.) To hide.
Color sergeant () See under Sergeant.
Color-blind (a.) Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
Colorable (a.) Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
Colorado group () A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
Coloradoite (n.) Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
Colorate (a.) Colored.
Coloration (n.) The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.
Colorature (n.) Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
Colored (a.) Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
Colored (a.) Of some other color than black or white.
Colored (a.) Of some other color than green.
Colored (a.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
Colored (a.) Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description.
Colored (imp. & p. p.) of Color
Colorific (a.) Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
Colorimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
Coloring (n.) Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation.
Coloring (n.) The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.
Coloring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Color
Colorist (n.) One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.
Colorless (a.) Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.
Colorless (a.) Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
Colorman (n.) A vender of paints, etc.
Colormen (pl. ) of Colorman
Colossal (a.) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.
Colossal (a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
Colossean (a.) Colossal.
Colosseum (n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome.
Colossi (pl. ) of Colossus
Colossus (n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
Colossus (n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size.
Colossuses (pl. ) of Colossus
Colostrum (n.) A mixture of turpentine and the yolk of an egg, formerly used as an emulsion.
Colostrum (n.) The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.
Colotomy (n.) An operation for opening the colon
Colour (n.) See Color.
Colp (n.) See Collop.
Colportage (n.) The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.
Colporter (n.) Same as Colporteur.
Colporteur (n.) A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.
Colstaff (n.) A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders.
Colt (n.) A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.
Colt (n.) A young, foolish fellow.
Colt (n.) The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.
Colt (v. i.) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
Colt (v. t.) To befool.
Colt (v. t.) To horse; to get with young.
Colt's tooth () See under Colt.
Colter (n.) A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
Coltish (a.) Like a colt; wanton; frisky.
Coltsfoot (n.) A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.
Coluber (n.) A genus of harmless serpents.
Colubrine (a.) Like a snake; cunning; crafty.
Colubrine (a.) like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.
Columba (n.) See Calumba.
Columbae (n. pl.) An order of birds, including the pigeons.
Columbaria (pl. ) of Columbarium
Columbaries (pl. ) of Columbary
Columbarium (n.) A dovecote or pigeon house.
Columbarium (n.) A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
Columbary (n.) A dovecote; a pigeon house.
Columbate (n.) A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium.
Columbatz fly () See Buffalo fly, under Buffalo.
Columbella (n.) A genus of univalve shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.
Columbia (n.) America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer.
Columbiad (n.) A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.
Columbian (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.
Columbic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic.
Columbic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.
Columbier (n.) See Colombier.
Columbiferous (a.) Producing or containing columbium.
Columbin (n.) A white, crystalline, bitter substance. See Calumbin.
Columbine (a.) Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored.
Columbine (n.) A plant of several species of the genus Aquilegia; as, A. vulgaris, or the common garden columbine; A. Canadensis, the wild red columbine of North America.
Columbine (n.) The mistress or sweetheart of Harlequin in pantomimes.
Columbite (n.) A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.
Columbium (n.) A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.
Columbo (n.) See Calumba.
Columella (n.) A columnlike axis in the capsules of mosses.
Columella (n.) A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.
Columella (n.) An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.
Columella (n.) The central pillar or axis of the calicles of certain corals.
Columella (n.) The upright pillar in the axis of most univalve shells.
Columelliform (a.) Shaped like a little column, or columella.
Column (n.) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.
Column (n.) A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.
Column (n.) A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.
Column (n.) A perpendicular line of figures.
Column (n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.
Column (n.) A small army.
Column (n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column.
Column (n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
Columnar (a.) Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.
Columnarity (n.) The state or quality of being columnar.
Columnated (a.) Having columns; as, columnated temples.
Columned (a.) Having columns.
Columniation (n.) The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.
Colures (pl. ) of Colure
Coly (n.) Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.
Colza (n.) A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.
Coma (n.) A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
Coma (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
Coma (n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.
Comanches (n. pl.) A warlike, savage, and nomadic tribe of the Shoshone family of Indians, inhabiting Mexico and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.
Comart (n.) A covenant.
Comate (a.) Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.
Comatose (a.) Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.
Comatous (a.) Comatose.
Comatula (n.) A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.
Comatulid (n.) Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera.
Comb (n.) A dry measure. See Coomb.
Comb (n.) A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening the soft fiber into a bat.
Comb (n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
Comb (n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.
Comb (n.) Alt. of Combe
Comb (n.) An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.
Comb (n.) An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.
Comb (n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.
Comb (n.) The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
Comb (n.) The curling crest of a wave.
Comb (n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
Comb (n.) The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
Comb (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
Comb (n.) The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.
Comb (n.) The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.
Comb (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
Comb (v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing.
Comb-shaped (a.) Pectinate.
Combat (n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
Combat (n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
Combat (v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
Combat (v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
Combatable (a.) Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.
Combatant (a.) Contending; disposed to contend.
Combatant (n.) One who engages in combat.
Combated (imp. & p. p.) of Combat
Combater (n.) One who combats.
Combating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Combat
Combative (a.) Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
Combativeness (n.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.
Combativeness (n.) The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
Combattant (a.) In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
Combbroach (n.) A tooth of a wool comb.
Combe (n.) See Comb.
Combe (n.) That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.
Combed (imp. & p. p.) of Comb
Comber (n.) A long, curling wave.
Comber (n.) Encumbrance.
Comber (n.) One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc.
Comber (n.) The cabrilla. Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.
Comber (v. t.) To cumber.
Combinable (a.) Capable of combining; consistent with.
Combinate (a.) United; joined; betrothed.
Combination (n.) The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
Combination (n.) The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.
Combination (n.) The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.
Combination (n.) The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense.
Combine (v. i.) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
Combine (v. i.) To form a union; to agree; to coalesce; to confederate.
Combine (v. i.) To unite by affinity or natural attraction; as, two substances, which will not combine of themselves, may be made to combine by the intervention of a third.
Combine (v. t.) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
Combine (v. t.) To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union.
Combined (a.) United closely; confederated; chemically united.
Combined (imp. & p. p.) of Combine
Combinedly (adv. In combination or cooperation) ; jointly.
Combiner (n.) One who, or that which, combines.
Combing (n.) Hair arranged to be worn on the head.
Combing (n.) See Coamings.
Combing (n.) That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair.
Combing (n.) The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.
Combing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comb
Combining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Combine
Combless (a.) Without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock.
Comboloio (n.) A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads.
Combust (a.) Burnt; consumed.
Combust (a.) So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun.
Combustibility (n.) The quality of being combustible.
Combustible (a.) Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.
Combustible (a.) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
Combustible (n.) A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.
Combustibleness (n.) Combustibility.
Combustion (n.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.
Come (n.) To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance.
Come (n.) To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another.
Come (n.) To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.
Come (n.) To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
Come (n.) To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied.
Come (n.) To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go.
Come (p. p.) of Come
Come (v. t.) To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here.
Come-outer (n.) One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer.
Comedian (n.) A writer of comedy.
Comedian (n.) An actor or player in comedy.
Comedienne (n.) A women who plays in comedy.
Comedies (pl. ) of Comedy
Comedietta (n.) A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy.
Comedo (n.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).
Comedones (pl. ) of Comedo
Comedown (n.) A downfall; an humiliation.
Comelily (adv.) In a suitable or becoming manner.
Comeliness (n.) The quality or state of being comely.
Comely (adv.) In a becoming manner.
Comely (superl.) Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good-looking; handsome.
Comely (superl.) Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable.
Comer (n.) One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.
Comes (n.) The answer to the theme (dux) in a fugue.
Comessation (n.) A reveling; a rioting.
Comestible (a.) Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.
Comestible (n.) Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural.
Comet- seeker (n.) A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.
Comet-finder (n.) Alt. of Comet- seeker
Cometarium (n.) An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun.
Cometary (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet.
Cometic (a.) Relating to a comet.
Cometographer (n.) One who describes or writes about comets.
Cometography (n.) A description of, or a treatise concerning, comets.
Cometology (n.) The department of astronomy relating to comets.
Comfit (n.) A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
Comfit (v. t.) To preserve dry with sugar.
Comfiture (n.) See Comfit, n.
Comfort (n.) A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition.
Comfort (n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.
Comfort (n.) Assistance; relief; support.
Comfort (n.) Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.
Comfort (n.) Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
Comfort (v. t.) To assist or help; to aid.
Comfort (v. t.) To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer.
Comfort (v. t.) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
Comfortable (a.) Affording or imparting comfort or consolation; able to comfort; cheering; as, a comfortable hope.
Comfortable (a.) Free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress; -- used of a sick person.
Comfortable (a.) In a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life.
Comfortable (a.) Serviceable; helpful.
Comfortable (a.) Strong; vigorous; valiant.
Comfortable (n.) A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort.
Comfortableness (n.) State of being comfortable.
Comfortably (adv.) In a comfortable or comforting manner.
Comforted (imp. & p. p.) of Comfort
Comforter (n.) A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow.
Comforter (n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.
Comforter (n.) One who administers comfort or consolation.
Comforter (n.) The Holy Spirit, -- referring to his office of comforting believers.
Comforting. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comfort
Comfortless (a.) Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.
Comfortment (n.) Act or process of administering comfort.
Comfortress (n.) A woman who comforts.
Comfrey (n.) A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum.
Comic (a.) Causing mirth; ludicrous.
Comic (a.) Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.
Comic (n.) A comedian.
Comical (a.) Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story.
Comical (a.) Relating to comedy.
Comicalities (pl. ) of Comicality
Comicality (n.) The quality of being comical; something comical.
Comicry (n.) The power of exciting mirth; comicalness.
Coming (a.) Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.
Coming (a.) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
Coming (n.) Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.
Coming (n.) Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ.
Coming (p. pr & vb. n.) of Come
Comitia (n. pl.) A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.
Comitial (a.) Relating to the comitia, or popular assemblies of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws.
Comities (pl. ) of Comity
Comity (n.) Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States.
Comma (n.) A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
Comma (n.) A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.
Command (n.) A body of troops, or any naval or military force or post, or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.
Command (n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
Command (n.) Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.
Command (n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.
Command (n.) Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.
Command (n.) The possession or exercise of authority.
Command (v. i.) To have a view, as from a superior position.
Command (v. i.) To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.
Command (v. t.) To direct to come; to bestow.
Command (v. t.) To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.
Command (v. t.) To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.
Command (v. t.) To have within a sphere of control, influence, access, or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.
Command (v. t.) To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
Commandable (a.) Capable of being commanded.
Commandant (n.) A commander; the commanding officer of a place, or of a body of men; as, the commandant of a navy-yard.
Commander (n.) A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.
Commander (n.) A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
Commander (n.) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.
Commander (n.) The chief officer of a commandery.
Commanderies (pl. ) of Commandery
Commandership (n.) The office of a commander.
Commandery (n.) A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.
Commandery (n.) A district under the administration of a military commander or governor.
Commandery (n.) An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.
Commandery (n.) The office or rank of a commander.
Commanding (a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
Commanding (a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
Commanding (a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
Commanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Command
Commandingly (adv.) In a commanding manner.
Commandment (n.) An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.
Commandment (n.) One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
Commandment (n.) The act of commanding; exercise of authority.
Commandment (n.) The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.
Commandress (n.) A woman invested with authority to command.
Commandry (n.) See Commandery.
Commark (n.) The frontier of a country; confines.
Commaterial (a.) Consisting of the same material.
Commatic (a.) Having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise.
Commatism (n.) Conciseness in writing.
Commeasurable (a.) Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional.
Commeasure (v. t.) To be commensurate with; to equal.
Commemorable (a.) Worthy to be commemorated.
Commemorated (imp. & p. p.) of Commemorate
Commemorating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commemorate
Commemoration (n.) The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event.
Commemoration (n.) Whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
Commemorative (a.) Tending or intended to commemorate.
Commemorator (n.) One who commemorates.
Commemoratory (a.) Serving to commemorate; commemorative.
Commence (v. i.) To begin to be, or to act as.
Commence (v. i.) To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.
Commence (v. i.) To take a degree at a university.
Commence (v. t.) To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.
Commenced (imp. & p. p.) of Commence
Commencement (n.) The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
Commencement (n.) The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
Commencing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commence
Commend (n.) Commendation; praise.
Commend (n.) Compliments; greetings.
Commend (v. t.) To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.
Commend (v. t.) To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will.
Commend (v. t.) To mention with approbation; to praise; as, to commend a person or an act.
Commend (v. t.) To recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention.
Commendable (a.) Worthy of being commended or praised; laudable; praiseworthy.
Commendam (n.) A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836.
Commendatary (n.) One who holds a living in commendam.
Commendation (n.) A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting.
Commendation (n.) That which is the ground of approbation or praise.
Commendation (n.) The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation.
Commendator (n.) One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary.
Commendatory (a.) Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop.
Commendatory (a.) Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising.
Commendatory (n.) A commendation; eulogy.
Commended (imp. & p. p.) of Commend
Commender (n.) One who commends or praises.
Commending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commend
Commensal (a.) Having the character of a commensal.
Commensal (n.) An animal, not truly parasitic, which lives in, with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food. Both species may be benefited by the association.
Commensal (n.) One who eats at the same table.
Commensalism (n.) The act of eating together; table fellowship.
Commensality (n.) Fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table.
Commensation (n.) Commensality.
Commensurability (n.) The quality of being commensurable.
Commensurable (a.) Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.
Commensurably (adv.) In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
Commensurate (a.) Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
Commensurate (a.) Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
Commensurate (v. t.) To proportionate; to adjust.
Commensurate (v. t.) To reduce to a common measure.
Commensurated (imp. & p. p.) of Commensurate
Commensurately (adv.) In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.
Commensurately (adv.) With equal measure or extent.
Commensurateness (n.) The state or quality of being commensurate.
Commensurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commensurate
Commensuration (n.) The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.
Comment (n.) A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition.
Comment (n.) A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.
Comment (v. i.) To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon.
Comment (v. t.) To comment on.
Commentaries (pl. ) of Commentary
Commentary (v. i.) A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
Commentary (v. i.) A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.
Commentate (v. t. & i.) To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.
Commentation (n.) The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition.
Commentation (n.) The result of the labors of a commentator.
Commentator (n.) One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator.
Commentatorial (a.) Pertaining to the making of commentaries.
Commentatorship (n.) The office or occupation of a commentator.
Commented (imp. & p. p.) of Comment
Commenter (n.) One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
Commenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comment
Commentitious (a.) Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion.
Commerce (n.) A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
Commerce (n.) Sexual intercourse.
Commerce (n.) Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
Commerce (n.) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
Commerce (v. i.) To carry on trade; to traffic.
Commerce (v. i.) To hold intercourse; to commune.
Commerced (imp. & p. p.) of Commerce
Commercial (a.) Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.
Commercialism (n.) The commercial spirit or method.
Commercially (adv.) In a commercial manner.
Commercing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commerce
Commigrate (v. i.) To migrate together.
Commigration (n.) Migration together.
Commination (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
Commination (n.) An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.
Comminatory (a.) Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms.
Commingle (v. t. & i.) To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.
Commingled (imp. & p. p.) of Commingle
Commingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commingle
Comminute (v. t.) To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.
Comminuted (imp. & p. p.) of Comminute
Comminuting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comminute
Comminution (n.) Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.
Comminution (n.) Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away.
Comminution (n.) The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.
Commiserable (a.) Pitiable.
Commiserate (v. t.) To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.
Commiserated (imp. & p. p.) of Commiserate
Commiserating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commiserate
Commiseration (n.) The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.
Commiserative (a.) Feeling or expressing commiseration.
Commiserator (n.) One who pities.
Commissarial (a.) Of or pertaining to a commissary.
Commissariat (n.) The body of officers charged with such service.
Commissariat (n.) The organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.
Commissaries (pl. ) of Commissary
Commissary (n.) An officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters.
Commissary (n.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
Commissary (n.) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.
Commissary (n.) One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
Commissaryship (n.) The office or employment of a commissary.
Commission (n.) A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.
Commission (n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.
Commission (n.) A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.
Commission (n.) The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
Commission (n.) The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
Commission (n.) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another.
Commission (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
Commission (n.) The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.
Commission (n.) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.
Commission (v. t.) To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.
Commission (v. t.) To send out with a charge or commission.
Commissional (a.) Alt. of Commissionary
Commissionary (a.) Of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.
Commissionate (v. t.) To commission
Commissioned (imp. & p. p.) of Commission
Commissioner (n.) A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.
Commissioner (n.) An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.
Commissioning (p. pr & vb. n.) of Commission
Commissionnaire (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.
Commissionnaire (n.) One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
Commissionship (n.) The office of commissioner.
Commissive (a.) Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission.
Commissural (a.) Of or pertaining to a commissure.
Commissure (n.) A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.
Commissure (n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.
Commissure (n.) The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
Commissure (n.) The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.
Commit (v. i.) To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
Commit (v. t.) To confound.
Commit (v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
Commit (v. t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
Commit (v. t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
Commit (v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
Commit (v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
Commitment (n.) A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
Commitment (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
Commitment (n.) The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
Commitment (n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
Commitment (n.) The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
Committable (a.) Capable of being committed.
Committal (n.) The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
Committed (imp. & p. p.) of Commit
Committee (n.) One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.
Committee (v. t.) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.
Committeeman (n.) A member of a committee.
Committer (n.) A fornicator.
Committer (n.) One who commits; one who does or perpetrates.
Committible (a.) Capable of being committed; liable to be committed.
Committing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commit
Commix (v. t. & i.) To mix or mingle together; to blend.
Commixed (imp. & p. p.) of Commix
Commixing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commix
Commixion (n.) Commixture.
Commixtion (n.) Commixture; mingling.
Commixture (n.) The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.
Commixture (n.) The mass formed by mingling different things; a compound; a mixture.
Commodate (n.) A gratuitous loan.
Commode (n.) A chest of drawers or a bureau.
Commode (n.) A kind of close stool.
Commode (n.) A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
Commode (n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet.
Commode (n.) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel.
Commode (n.) A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion
Commodious (a.) Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house.
Commodiously (adv.) In a commodious manner.
Commodiousness (n.) State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convenience; roominess.
Commodity (n.) That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.
Commodore (n.) A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.
Commodore (n.) A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet.
Commodore (n.) A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.
Commodore (n.) An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.
Common (n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.
Common (n.) The people; the community.
Common (v. i.) To board together; to eat at a table in common.
Common (v. i.) To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
Common (v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
Common (v. i.) To participate.
Common (v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
Common (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
Common (v.) Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
Common (v.) Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
Common (v.) Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
Common (v.) Profane; polluted.
Common sense () See Common sense, under Sense.
Commonable (a.) Allowed to pasture on public commons.
Commonable (a.) Held in common.
Commonage (n.) The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.
Commonalties (pl. ) of Commonalty
Commonalty (n.) The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
Commonalty (n.) The majority or bulk of mankind.
Commoner (n.) A member of the House of Commons.
Commoner (n.) A prostitute.
Commoner (n.) A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.
Commoner (n.) One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
Commoner (n.) One sharing with another in anything.
Commoner (n.) One who has a joint right in common ground.
Commonitory (a.) Calling to mind; giving admonition.
Commonly (adv.) In common; familiarly.
Commonly (adv.) Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.
Commonness (n.) State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.
Commonness (n.) Triteness; meanness.
Commonplace (a.) Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
Commonplace (n.) A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
Commonplace (n.) An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
Commonplace (v. i.) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
Commonplace (v. t.) To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
Commonplaceness (n.) The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
Commons (n. pl.) A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.
Commons (n. pl.) A common; public pasture ground.
Commons (n. pl.) Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities.
Commons (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.
Commons (n. pl.) The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
Commonty (n.) A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right.
Commonweal (n.) Commonwealth.
Commonwealth (n.) 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 (n.) 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.
Commonwealth (n.) The whole body of people in a state; the public.
Commorance (n.) See Commorancy.
Commorancy (n.) A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.
Commorancy (n.) Residence temporarily, or for a short time.
Commorant (n.) A resident.
Commorant (n.) Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.
Commorant (n.) Ordinarily residing; inhabiting.
Commoration (n.) The act of staying or residing in a place.
Commorient (a.) Dying together or at the same time.
Commorse (n.) Remorse.
Commote (v. t.) To commove; to disturb; to stir up.
Commotion (n.) A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot.
Commotion (n.) Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
Commotion (n.) Disturbed or violent motion; agitation.
Commove (v. t.) To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle.
Commove (v. t.) To urge; to persuade; to incite.
Commoved (imp. & p. p.) of Commove
Commoving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commove
Communal (a.) Pertaining to a commune.
Communalist (n.) An advocate of communalism.
Communalistic (a.) Pertaining to communalism.
Commune (n.) A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement.
Commune (n.) Absolute municipal self-government.
Commune (n.) Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.
Commune (n.) The commonalty; the common people.
Commune (v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
Commune (v. i.) To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.
Communed (imp. & p. p.) of Commune
Communicability (n.) The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.
Communicable (a.) Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
Communicable (a.) Communicative; free-speaking.
Communicant (a.) Communicating.
Communicant (n.) One who communicates.
Communicant (n.) One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member.
Communicate (v. i.) To administer the communion to.
Communicate (v. i.) To give alms, sympathy, or aid.
Communicate (v. i.) To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.
Communicate (v. i.) To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
Communicate (v. i.) To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
Communicate (v. i.) To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.
Communicate (v. i.) To share in common; to participate in.
Communicate (v. i.) To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
Communicated (imp. & p. p.) of Communicate
Communicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Communicate
Communication (n.) A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you.
Communication (n.) Association; company.
Communication (n.) Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.
Communication (n.) Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
Communication (n.) Participation in the Lord's supper.
Communication (n.) That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.
Communication (n.) The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
Communicative (a.) Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.
Communicativeness (n.) The quality of being communicative.
Communicator (n.) One who communicates.
Communicatory (a.) Imparting knowledge or information.
Communing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commune
Communion (n.) A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion.
Communion (n.) Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints.
Communion (n.) The act of sharing; community; participation.
Communion (n.) The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion.
Communist (n.) A supporter of the commune of Paris.
Communist (n.) An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.
Communistic (a.) Living or having their nests in common, as certain birds.
Communistic (a.) Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories.
Communities (pl. ) of Community
Community (n.) Common character; likeness.
Community (n.) Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
Community (n.) Commonness; frequency.
Community (n.) Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.
Commutability (n.) The quality of being commutable.
Commutable (a.) Capable of being commuted or interchanged.
Commutableness (n.) The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.
Commutation (n.) A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
Commutation (n.) The act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Commutation (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment.
Commutative (a.) Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.
Commutator (n.) A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.
Commute (v. i.) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
Commute (v. i.) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
Commuted (imp. & p. p.) of Commute
Commuter (n.) One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.
Commuting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commute
Commutual (a.) Mutual; reciprocal; united.
Comose (a.) Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.
Compact (n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.
Compact (p. p. & a) Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.
Compact (p. p. & a) Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
Compact (p. p. & a) Composed or made; -- with of.
Compact (p. p. & a) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
Compact (v. t.) To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
Compact (v. t.) To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
Compacted (a.) Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.
Compacted (imp. & p. p.) of Compact
Compactedly (adv.) In a compact manner.
Compactedness (n.) A state of being compact.
Compacter (n.) One who makes a compact.
Compactible (a.) That may be compacted.
Compacting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compact
Compaction (n.) The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.
Compactly (adv.) In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.
Compactness (n.) The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.
Compacture (n.) Close union or connection of parts; manner of joining; construction.
Compages (v. t.) A system or structure of many parts united.
Compaginate (v. t.) To unite or hold together; as, the side pieces compaginate the frame.
Compagination (n.) Union of parts; structure.
Companable (a.) Companionable; sociable.
Companator (n.) Same as Impanator.
Companiable (a.) Companionable; sociable.
Companied (imp. & p. p.) of Company
Companies (pl. ) of Company
Companion (n.) A fellow; -- in contempt.
Companion (n.) A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
Companion (n.) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
Companion (n.) A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.
Companion (n.) One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.
Companion (v. t.) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
Companion (v. t.) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
Companionable (a.) Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable.
Companionless (a.) Without a companion.
Companionship (n.) Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.
Company (n.) A companion or companions.
Company (n.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.
Company (n.) An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.
Company (n.) An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.
Company (n.) Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.
Company (n.) Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.
Company (n.) Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.
Company (n.) The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.
Company (n.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.
Company (n.) The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.
Company (v. i.) To associate.
Company (v. i.) To be a gay companion.
Company (v. i.) To have sexual commerce.
Company (v. t.) To accompany or go with; to be companion to.
Companying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Company
Comparable (a.) Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison.
Comparate (n.) One of two things compared together.
Comparation (n.) A making ready; provision.
Comparative (a.) Estimated by comparison; relative; not positive or absolute, as compared with another thing or state.
Comparative (a.) Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -er, more, or less; as, brighter, more bright, or less bright.
Comparative (a.) Of or pertaining to comparison.
Comparative (a.) Proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison; as, the comparative sciences; the comparative anatomy.
Comparative (n.) An equal; a rival; a compeer.
Comparative (n.) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
Comparative (n.) The comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, the form by which the comparative degree is expressed; as, stronger, wiser, weaker, more stormy, less windy, are all comparatives.
Comparatively (adv.) According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely.
Comparator (n.) An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.
Compare (n.) Comparison.
Compare (n.) Illustration by comparison; simile.
Compare (v. i.) To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
Compare (v. i.) To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
Compare (v. t.) To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.
Compare (v. t.) To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire
Compare (v. t.) To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.
Compared (imp. & p. p.) of Compare
Comparer (n.) One who compares.
Comparing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compare
Comparison (n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.
Comparison (n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
Comparison (n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
Comparison (n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
Comparison (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.
Comparison (n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
Comparison (v. t.) To compare.
Compart (v. t.) To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions.
Comparted (imp. & p. p.) of Compart
Comparting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compart
Compartition (n.) The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment.
Compartment (n.) One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden.
Compartment (n.) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.
Compartner (n.) See Copartner.
Compass (n.) A circle; a continent.
Compass (n.) A pair of compasses.
Compass (n.) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
Compass (n.) An inclosed space; an area; extent.
Compass (n.) An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
Compass (n.) An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.
Compass (n.) Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.
Compass (n.) Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.
Compass (n.) The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.
Compass (v. t.) To curve; to bend into a circular form.
Compass (v. t.) To go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.
Compass (v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about.
Compass (v. t.) To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.
Compass (v. t.) To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.
Compassable (a.) Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
Compassed (a.) Rounded; arched.
Compassed (imp. & p. p.) of Compass
Compasses (n.) An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.
Compatriot (a.) Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
Compatriot (n.) One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.
Compatriotism (n.) The condition of being compatriots.
Compear (v. i.) To appear in court personally or by attorney.
Compear (v. i.) To appear.
Compeer () An equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate.
Compeer (v. i.) Alt. of Compeir
Compeer (v. t.) To be equal with; to match.
Compeir (v. i.) See Compear.
Compel (v. i.) To make one yield or submit.
Compel (v. t.) To call forth; to summon.
Compel (v. t.) To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
Compel (v. t.) To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
Compel (v. t.) To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.
Compellable (a.) Capable of being compelled or constrained.
Compellably (adv.) By compulsion.
Compellation (n.) Style of address or salutation; an appellation.
Compellative (n.) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
Compellatory (a.) Serving to compel; compulsory.
Compelled (imp. & p. p.) of Compel
Compeller (n.) One who compels or constrains.
Compelling (p. pr. & vb. n) of Compel
Compend (n.) A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
Compendia (pl. ) of Compendium
Compendiarious (a.) Short; compendious.
Compendiate (v. t.) To sum or collect together.
Compendious (a.) Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.
Compendiously (adv.) In a compendious manner.
Compendiousness (n.) The state or quality of being compendious.
Compendium (n.) A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
Compendiums (pl. ) of Compendium
Compensate (v. i.) To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
Compensate (v. t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
Compensate (v. t.) To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
Compensated (imp. & p. p.) of Compensate
Compensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compensate
Compensation (n.) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
Compensation (n.) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
Compensation (n.) That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
Compensation (n.) The act or principle of compensating.
Compensation (n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
Compensative (a.) Affording compensation.
Compensative (n.) Compensation.
Compensator (n.) An iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.
Compensator (n.) One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.
Compensatory (a.) Serving for compensation; making amends.
Compense (v. t.) To compensate.
Comperendinate (v. t.) To delay.
Compesce (v. t.) To hold in check; to restrain.
Compete (v. i.) To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
Competed (imp. & p. p.) of Compete
Competence (n.) Alt. of Competency
Competency (n.) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.
Competency (n.) Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
Competency (n.) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.
Competency (n.) The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
Competent (a.) Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
Competent (a.) Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.
Competently (adv.) In a competent manner; adequately; suitably.
Competible (a.) Compatible; suitable; consistent.
Competing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compete
Competitive (a.) Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.
Competitor (n.) An associate; a confederate.
Competitor (n.) One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.
Competitory (a.) Acting in competition; competing; rival.
Competitress (n.) A woman who competes.
Competitrix (n.) A competitress.
Compilation (n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
Compilation (n.) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
Compilator (n.) Compiler.
Compile (v. t.) To contain or comprise.
Compile (v. t.) To put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.
Compile (v. t.) To put together; to construct; to build.
Compile (v. t.) To write; to compose.
Compiled (imp. & p. p.) of Compile
Compilement (n.) Compilation.
Compiler (n.) One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.
Complacency (n.) The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
Complacent (a.) Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.
Complacential (a.) Marked by, or causing, complacence.
Complacently (adv.) In a complacent manner.
Complain (v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
Complain (v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.
Complain (v. t.) To lament; to bewail.
Complainable (a.) That may be complained of.
Complainant (n.) One who commences a legal process by a complaint.
Complainant (n.) One who makes complaint.
Complainant (n.) The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law.
Complained (imp. & p. p.) of Complain
Complainer (n.) One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.
Complaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Complain
Complaint (n.) An ailment or disease of the body.
Complaint (n.) Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.
Complaint (n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.
Complaintful (a.) Full of complaint.
Complaisance (n.) Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility.
Complaisant (a.) Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman.
Complanar (a.) See Coplanar.
Complanate (v. t.) Flattened to a level surface.
Complanate (v. t.) To make level.
Complected (a.) Complexioned.
Complement (v. t.) A compliment.
Complement (v. t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
Complement (v. t.) Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.
Complement (v. t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
Complement (v. t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
Complement (v. t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.
Complement (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
Complement (v. t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
Complement (v. t.) To compliment.
Complement (v. t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
Complemental (a.) Complimentary; courteous.
Complemental (a.) Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.
Complementary (a.) Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.
Complementary (n.) One skilled in compliments.
Complete (a.) Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.
Complete (a.) Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.
Complete (a.) Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.
Complete (v. t.) To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.
Completed (imp. & p. p.) of Complete
Completely (adv.) In a complete manner; fully.
Completement (n.) Act of completing or perfecting; completion.
Completeness (n.) The state of being complete.
Completing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Complete
Completion (n.) State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization.
Completion (n.) The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.
Completive (a.) Making complete.
Completory (a.) Serving to fulfill.
Completory (n.) Same as Compline.
Complex (n.) Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.
Complex (n.) Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.
Complex (n.) Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.
Complexed (a.) Complex, complicated.
Complexedness (n.) The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication.
Complexion (n.) A combination; a complex.
Complexion (n.) The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature.
Complexion (n.) The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.
Complexion (n.) The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.
Complexion (n.) The state of being complex; complexity.
Complexional (a.) Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.
Complexionally (adv.) Constitutionally.
Complexionary (a.) Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it.
Complexioned (a.) Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person.
Complexities (pl. ) of Complexity
Complexity (n.) That which is complex; intricacy; complication.
Complexity (n.) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
Complexly (adv.) In a complex manner; not simply.
Complexness (n.) The state of being complex; complexity.
Complexus (n.) A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
Compliable (a.) Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant.
Compliance (n.) A disposition to yield to others; complaisance.
Compliance (n.) The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.
Compliancy (n.) Compliance; disposition to yield to others.
Complicacy (n.) A state of being complicate or intricate.
Complicant (a.) Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.
Complicate (a.) Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
Complicate (a.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.
Complicate (v. t.) To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
Complicated (imp. & p. p.) of Complicate
Complicately (adv.) In a complex manner.
Complicateness (n.) Complexity.
Complicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Complicate
Complication (n.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
Complication (n.) The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
Complice (n.) An accomplice.
Complices (pl. ) of Complice
Complicities (pl. ) of Complicity
Complicity (n.) The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
Complied (imp. & p. p.) of Comply
Complier (n.) One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.
Compliment (n.) An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend.
Compliment (v. i.) To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.
Compliment (v. t.) To praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to.
Complimental (a.) Complimentary.
Complimentary (a.) Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket.
Complimentative (a.) Complimentary.
Complimenter (n.) One who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer.
Complin (n.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.
Compline (n.) Alt. of Complin
Complot (n.) A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.
Complot (v. t. & i.) To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.
Complotment (n.) A plotting together.
Complotted (imp. & p. p.) of Complot
Complotter (n.) One joined in a plot.
Complotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Complot
Complutensian (a.) Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.
Compluvium (n.) A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.
Comply (v. i.) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
Comply (v. i.) To fulfill; to accomplish.
Comply (v. i.) To infold; to embrace.
Comply (v. i.) To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.
Complying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comply
Compone (a.) See Compony.
Compone (v. t.) To compose; to settle; to arrange.
Component (n.) A constituent part; an ingredient.
Component (v. t.) Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
Compony (a.) Alt. of Compone
Comport (n.) Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.
Comport (v. i.) To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.
Comport (v. i.) To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
Comport (v. t.) To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with.
Comport (v. t.) To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
Comportable (a.) Suitable; consistent.
Comportance (n.) Behavior; comport.
Comportation (n.) A bringing together.
Comported (imp. & p. p.) of Comport
Comporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comport
Comportment (n.) Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
Compose (v. i.) To come to terms.
Compose (v. t.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
Compose (v. t.) To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.
Compose (v. t.) To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
Compose (v. t.) To form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.
Compose (v. t.) To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
Composed (a.) Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.
Composed (imp. & p. p.) of Compose
Composer (n.) One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.
Composer (n.) One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.
Composing (a.) Pertaining to, or used in, composition.
Composing (a.) Tending to compose or soothe.
Composing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compose
Compositae (n. pl.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
Composite (n.) That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.
Composite (v. t.) Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Composite (v. t.) Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
Composition (n.) A literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.
Composition (n.) A mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.
Composition (n.) Consistency; accord; congruity.
Composition (n.) Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.
Composition (n.) Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
Composition (n.) The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.
Composition (n.) The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.
Composition (n.) The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment.
Composition (n.) The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below.
Composition (n.) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music.
Composition (n.) The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.
Composition (n.) The state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.
Compositive (a.) Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
Compositor (n.) One who composes or sets in order.
Compositor (n.) One who sets type and arranges it for use.
Compositous (a.) Belonging to the Compositae; composite.
Compossible (a.) Able to exist with another thing; consistent.
Compost (n.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap.
Compost (n.) A mixture; a compound.
Compost (v. t.) To manure with compost.
Compost (v. t.) To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.
Composture (n.) Manure; compost.
Composure (n.) A combination; a union; a bond.
Composure (n.) A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose.
Composure (n.) Frame; make; temperament.
Composure (n.) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
Composure (n.) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
Compotation (n.) The act of drinking or tippling together.
Compotator (n.) One who drinks with another.
Compote (n.) A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.
Compound (n.) A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.
Compound (n.) In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
Compound (n.) That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
Compound (v. i.) To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.
Compound (v. t.) Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.
Compound (v. t.) To compose; to constitute.
Compound (v. t.) To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.
Compound (v. t.) To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.
Compound (v. t.) To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.
Compound (v. t.) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.
Compoundable (a.) That may be compounded.
Compounded (imp. & p. p.) of Compound
Compounder (n.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.
Compounder (n.) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
Compounder (n.) One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises.
Compounder (n.) One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
Compounder (n.) One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.
Compounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compound
Comprador (n.) A kind of steward or agent.
Comprecation (n.) A praying together.
Comprehend (v. t.) To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
Comprehend (v. t.) To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
Comprehend (v. t.) To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
Comprehended (imp. & p. p.) of Comprehend
Comprehending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comprehend
Comprehensibility (n.) The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.
Comprehensible (a.) Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
Comprehensible (a.) Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.
Comprehensibleness (n.) The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.
Comprehensibly (adv.) Intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood.
Comprehensibly (adv.) With great extent of signification; comprehensively.
Comprehension (n.) A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.
Comprehension (n.) That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.
Comprehension (n.) The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
Comprehension (n.) The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.
Comprehension (n.) The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.
Comprehensive (a.) Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
Comprehensive (a.) Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
Comprehensive (a.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.
Comprehensively (adv.) In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.
Comprehensiveness (n.) The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope.
Comprehensor (n.) One who comprehends; one who has attained to a full knowledge.
Compress (n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
Compress (v. t.) To embrace sexually.
Compress (v. t.) To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
Compressed (a.) Flattened lengthwise.
Compressed (a.) Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.
Compressed (imp. & p. p.) of Compress
Compressibility (n.) The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.
Compressible (a.) Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.
Compressibleness (n.) The quality of being compressible; compressibility.
Compressing (p. pr & vb. n.) of Compress
Compression (n.) The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.
Compressive (a.) Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.
Compressor (n.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an air compressor.
Compressor (n.) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
Compressor (n.) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium.
Compressor (n.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part.
Compressor (n.) Anything which serves to compress
Compressure (n.) Compression.
Comprint (n.) The surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed.
Comprint (v. t. & i.) To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another.
Comprint (v. t. & i.) To print together.
Comprisal (n.) The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome.
Comprise (v. t.) To comprehend; to include.
Comprised (imp. & p. p.) of Comprise
Comprising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Comprise
Comprobate (v. i.) To agree; to concur.
Comprobation (n.) Approbation.
Comprobation (n.) Joint attestation; proof.
Compromise (n.) A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right.
Compromise (n.) A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators.
Compromise (n.) A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement.
Compromise (n.) To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
Compromise (n.) To bind by mutual agreement; to agree.
Compromise (n.) To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
Compromise (v. i.) To agree; to accord.
Compromise (v. i.) To make concession for conciliation and peace.
Compromised (imp. & p. p.) of Compromise
Compromiser (n.) One who compromises.
Compromising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compromise
Compromissorial (a.) Relating to compromise.
Compromit (n.) To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.
Compromit (n.) To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation.
Compromitted (imp. & p. p.) of Compromit
Compromitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compromit
Comprovincial (a.) Belonging to, or associated in, the same province.
Comprovincial (n.) One who belongs to the same province.
Compsognathus (n.) A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features.
Comptroler (n.) A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.
Compulsative (a.) Compulsatory.
Compulsatively (adv.) By compulsion.
Compulsatory (a.) Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion.
Compulsion (n.) The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.
Compulsive (a.) Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
Compulsively (adv.) By compulsion; by force.
Compulsorily (adv.) In a compulsory manner; by force or constraint.
Compulsory (a.) Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Compulsory (a.) Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.
Compunct (a.) Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken.
Compunction (n.) A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.
Compunction (n.) A pricking; stimulation.
Compunctionless (a.) Without compunction.
Compunctious (a.) Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction.
Compunctiously (adv.) With compunction.
Compunctive (a.) Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious.
Compurgation (v. t.) Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence.
Compurgation (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.
Compurgator (n.) One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.
Compurgatorial (a.) Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation.
Computable (a.) Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned.
Computation (n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
Computation (n.) The result of computation; the amount computed.
Compute (n.) Computation.
Compute (v. t.) To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.
Computed (imp. & p. p.) of Compute
Computer (n.) One who computes.
Computing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Compute
Computist (n.) A computer.
Comrade (n.) A mate, companion, or associate.
Comradery (n.) The spirit of comradeship; comradeship.
Comradeship (n.) The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship.
Comrogue (n.) A fellow rogue.
Comtism (n.) Positivism; the positive philosophy. See Positivism.
Comtist (n.) A disciple of Comte; a positivist.
Con (adv.) Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.
Con (v. t.) To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.
Con (v. t.) To know; to understand; to acknowledge.
Con (v. t.) To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.
Con- () A prefix, fr. L. cum, signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.
Conacre (n.) A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop.
Conacre (n.) Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle.
Conacre (v. t.) To underlet a portion of, for a single crop; -- said of a farm.
Conarium (n.) The pineal gland.
Conation (n.) The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
Conative (a.) Of or pertaining to conation.
Conatus (n.) A natural tendency inherent in a body to develop itself; an attempt; an effort.
Concamerate (v. t.) To arch over; to vault.
Concamerate (v. t.) To divide into chambers or cells.
Concameration (n.) A chamber of a multilocular shell.
Concameration (n.) An arch or vault.
Concatenate (v. t.) To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.
Concatenated (imp. & p. p.) of Concatenate
Concatenating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concatenate
Concatenation (n.) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
Concause (n.) A joint cause.
Concavation (n.) The act of making concave.
Concave (a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
Concave (a.) Hollow; void of contents.
Concave (n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.
Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
Concave (v. t.) To make hollow or concave.
Concaved (a.) Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.
Concaved (imp. & p. p.) of Concave
Concaveness (n.) Hollowness; concavity.
Concaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concave
Concavities (pl. ) of Concavity
Concavity (n.) A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.
Concavo-concave (a.) Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.
Concavo-convex (a.) Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.
Concavo-convex (a.) Specifically, having such a combination of concave and convex sides as makes the focal axis the shortest line between them. See Illust. under Lens.
Concavous (a.) Concave.
Conceal (v. t.) To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.
Concealable (a.) Capable of being concealed.
Concealed (a.) Hidden; kept from sight; secreted.
Concealed (imp. & p. p.) of Conceal
Concealer (n.) One who conceals.
Concealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conceal
Concealment (n.) A place of hiding; a secret place; a retreat frem observation.
Concealment (n.) A secret; out of the way knowledge.
Concealment (n.) Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known.
Concealment (n.) The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.
Concede (v. i.) To yield or make concession.
Concede (v. t.) To admit to be true; to acknowledge.
Concede (v. t.) To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
Concede (v. t.) To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.
Conceded (imp. & p. p.) of Concede
Conceding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concede
Conceit (n.) A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.
Conceit (n.) An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.
Conceit (n.) Design; pattern.
Conceit (n.) Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.
Conceit (n.) Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
Conceit (n.) That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
Conceit (v. i.) To form an idea; to think.
Conceit (v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.
Conceited (a.) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
Conceited (a.) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
Conceited (a.) Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.
Conceitedly (adv.) Fancifully; whimsically.
Conceitedly (adv.) In an egotistical manner.
Conceitedness (n.) The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity.
Conceitless (a.) Without wit; stupid.
Conceivable (a.) Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood.
Conceive (v. i.) To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of.
Conceive (v. i.) To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
Conceive (v. t.) To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
Conceive (v. t.) To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
Conceive (v. t.) To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
Conceived (imp. & p. p.) of Conceive
Conceiver (n.) One who conceives.
Conceiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conceive
Concelebrate (v. t.) To celebrate together.
Concent (n.) Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes.
Concent (n.) Consistency; accordance.
Concenter (v. i.) Alt. of Concentre
Concenter (v. t.) Alt. of Concentre
Concentered (imp. & p. p.) of Concentre
Concentering (p. pr & vb. n.) of Concentre
Concentrate (v. i.) To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.
Concentrate (v. t.) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.
Concentrate (v. t.) To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to dilute.
Concentrated (imp. & p. p.) of Concentrate
Concentrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concentrate
Concentration (n.) The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
Concentration (n.) The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
Concentration (n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
Concentrative (a.) Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration.
Concentrativeness (n.) The faculty or propensity which has to do with concentrating the intellectual the intellectual powers.
Concentrativeness (n.) The quality of concentrating.
Concentrator (n.) An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.
Concentre (v. i.) To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center.
Concentre (v. t.) To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate.
Concentred () of Concentre
Concentric (a.) Alt. of Concentrical
Concentric (n.) That which has a common center with something else.
Concentrical (a.) Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another.
Concentrically (adv.) In a concentric manner.
Concentricity (n.) The state of being concentric.
Concentring () of Concentre
Concentual (a.) Possessing harmony; accordant.
Concept (n.) An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
Conceptacle (n.) A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.
Conceptacle (n.) One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.
Conceptacle (n.) That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.
Conceptibility (n.) The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness.
Conceptible (a.) Capable of being conceived; conceivable.
Conception (n.) Conceit; affected sentiment or thought.
Conception (n.) Idea; purpose; design.
Conception (n.) The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.
Conception (n.) The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.
Conception (n.) The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept.
Conception (n.) The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.
Conception (n.) The state of being conceived; beginning.
Conceptional (a.) Pertaining to conception.
Conceptionalist (n.) A conceptualist.
Conceptious (a.) Apt to conceive; fruitful.
Conceptive (a.) Capable of conceiving.
Conceptual (a.) Pertaining to conception.
Conceptualism (n.) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects.
Conceptualist (n.) One who maintains the theory of conceptualism.
Concern (n.) Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.
Concern (n.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.
Concern (n.) That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.
Concern (n.) That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.
Concern (v. i.) To be of importance.
Concern (v. t.) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
Concern (v. t.) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
Concerned (imp. & p. p.) of Concern
Concerned (v. t.) Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.
Concernedly (adv.) In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
Concerning (n.) Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety.
Concerning (n.) Importance; moment; consequence.
Concerning (n.) That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.
Concerning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concern
Concerning (prep.) Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards.
Concert (v. i.) To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
Concert (v. t.) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
Concert (v. t.) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
Concert (v. t.) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
Concert (v. t.) To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
Concert (v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.
Concertante (n.) A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts.
Concertina (n.) A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.
Concerting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concert
Concertino (n.) A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.
Concertion (n.) Act of concerting; adjustment.
Concertmeister (n.) The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.
Concerto (n.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.
Concertos (pl. ) of Concerto
Concession (n.) A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal.
Concession (n.) The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
Concessionist (n.) One who favors concession.
Concessive (a.) Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction.
Concessively (adv.) By way of concession.
Concessory (a.) Conceding; permissive.
Concetti (pl. ) of Concetto
Concettism (n.) The use of concetti or affected conceits.
Concetto (n.) Affected wit; a conceit.
Conch (n.) 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 (n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
Conch (n.) 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 (n.) See Concha, n.
Conch (n.) The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.
Concha (n.) The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.
Concha (n.) The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.
Conchal (a.) Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.
Conchifer (n.) One of the Conchifera.
Conchifera (n. pl.) That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.
Conchiferous (a.) Producing or having shells.
Conchiform (a.) Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.
Conchinine (n.) See Quinidine.
Conchite (n.) A fossil or petrified conch or shell.
Conchitic (a.) Composed of shells; containing many shells.
Concho-spiral (n.) A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.
Conchoid (n.) A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.
Conchoidal (a.) Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.
Conchological (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.
Conchologist (n.) One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.
Conchology (n.) The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.
Conchometer (n.) An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.
Conchometry (n.) The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.
Conchylaceous (a.) Alt. of Conchyliaceous
Conchyliaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions.
Conchyliologist (n.) Alt. of Conchyliology
Conchyliology (n.) See Conchologist, and Conchology.
Conchyliometry (n.) Same as Conchometry.
Conchylious (a.) Conchylaceous.
Conciator (a.) The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.
Concierge (n.) One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.
Conciliable (a.) Capable of being conciliated or reconciled.
Conciliable (n.) A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature.
Conciliabule (n.) An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.
Conciliar (a.) Alt. of Conciliary
Conciliary (a.) Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council.
Conciliate (v. t.) To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.
Conciliated (imp. & p. p.) of Conciliate
Conciliating (p. pr & vb. n.) of Conciliate
Conciliation (n.) The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated.
Conciliative (a.) Conciliatory.
Conciliator (n.) One who conciliates.
Conciliatory (a.) Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating.
Concinnate (v. t.) To place fitly together; to adapt; to clear.
Concinnity (n.) Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse.
Concinnous (a.) Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant.
Concionate (v. i.) To preach.
Concionator (n.) A common councilman.
Concionator (n.) An haranguer of the people; a preacher.
Concionatory (a.) Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses.
Concise (a.) Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.
Concisely (adv.) In a concise manner; briefly.
Conciseness (n.) The quality of being concise.
Concision (n.) A cutting off; a division; a schism; a faction.
Concitation (n.) The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating.
Concite (v. t.) To excite or stir up.
Conclamation (n.) An outcry or shout of many together.
Conclave (n.) A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
Conclave (n.) The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.
Conclave (n.) The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
Conclavist (n.) One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave.
Conclude (v. i.) To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate.
Conclude (v. i.) To form a final judgment; to reach a decision.
Conclude (v. t.) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain.
Conclude (v. t.) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
Conclude (v. t.) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
Conclude (v. t.) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
Conclude (v. t.) To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause.
Conclude (v. t.) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument.
Conclude (v. t.) To shut up; to inclose.
Concluded (imp. & p. p.) of Conclude
Concludency (n.) Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion.
Concludent (a.) Bringing to a close; decisive; conclusive.
Concluder (n.) One who concludes.
Concluding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conclude
Concludingly (adv.) Conclusively.
Conclusible (a.) Demonstrable; determinable.
Conclusion (n.) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
Conclusion (n.) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
Conclusion (n.) Any inference or result of reasoning.
Conclusion (n.) Drawing of inferences.
Conclusion (n.) Final decision; determination; result.
Conclusion (n.) The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace," etc.
Conclusion (n.) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism.
Conclusion (n.) The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
Conclusive (a.) Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision.
Conclusively (adv.) In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively.
Conclusiveness (n.) The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
Conclusory (a.) Conclusive.
Concoct (v. t.) To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
Concoct (v. t.) To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
Concoct (v. t.) To mature or perfect; to ripen.
Concoct (v. t.) To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.
Concoct (v. t.) To purify or refine chemically.
Concocted (imp. & p. p.) of Concoct
Concocter (n.) One who concocts.
Concocting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concoct
Concoction (n.) A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.
Concoction (n.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition.
Concoction (n.) The act of concocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.
Concoction (n.) The act of digesting in the mind; planning or devising; rumination.
Concoction (n.) The act of perfecting or maturing.
Concoctive (a.) Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.
Concolor (a.) Of the same color; of uniform color.
Concolorous (a.) Of the same color throughout.
Concomitance (n.) Alt. of Concomitancy
Concomitancy (n.) The doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communicating in one kind only.
Concomitancy (n.) The state of accompanying; accompaniment.
Concomitant (n.) One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment.
Concomitantly (adv.) In company with others; unitedly; concurrently.
Concord (n.) A state of agreement; harmony; union.
Concord (n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
Concord (n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
Concord (n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
Concord (n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
Concord (n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine.
Concord (v. i.) To agree; to act together.
Concordable (a.) Capable of according; agreeing; harmonious.
Concordance (n.) A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.
Concordance (n.) Agreement; accordance.
Concordance (n.) An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
Concordat (n.) A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything.
Concordat (n.) An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801.
Concordist (n.) The compiler of a concordance.
Concorporate (a.) United in one body; incorporated.
Concorporate (v. t. & i.) To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate.
Concorporation (n.) Union of things in one mass or body.
Concourse (n.) A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.
Concourse (n.) An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.
Concourse (n.) An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.
Concourse (n.) Concurrence; cooperation.
Concourse (n.) The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.
Concreate (v. t.) To create at the same time.
Concremation (n.) The act of burning different things together.
Concrement (n.) A growing together; the collection or mass formed by concretion, or natural union.
Concrescence (n.) Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles.
Concrescible (a.) Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state.
Concrescive (a.) Growing together, or into union; uniting.
Concrete (a.) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.
Concrete (a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract.
Concrete (a.) United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
Concrete (n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
Concrete (n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.
Concrete (n.) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
Concrete (n.) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
Concrete (v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
Concrete (v. t.) To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.
Concrete (v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
Concreted (imp. & p. p.) of Concrete
Concretely (adv.) In a concrete manner.
Concreteness (n.) The quality of being concrete.
Concreting (p. pr & vb. n.) of Concrete
Concretion (n.) A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus.
Concretion (n.) A rounded mass or nodule produced by an aggregation of the material around a center; as, the calcareous concretions common in beds of clay.
Concretion (n.) The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.
Concretional (a.) Concretionary.
Concretionary (a.) Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions.
Concretive (a.) Promoting concretion.
Concretively (adv.) In a concrete manner.
Concreture (n.) A mass formed by concretion.
Concrew (a.) To grow together.
Concrimination (n.) A joint accusation.
Concubinacy (n.) The practice of concubinage.
Concubinage (n.) A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine.
Concubinage (n.) The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.
Concubinal (a.) Of or pertaining to concubinage.
Concubinarian (a. & n.) Concubinary.
Concubinaries (pl. ) of Concubinary
Concubinary (a.) Relating to concubinage; living in concubinage.
Concubinary (n.) One who lives in concubinage.
Concubinate (n.) Concubinage.
Concubine (n.) A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.
Conculcate (v. t.) To tread or trample under foot.
Conculcating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conculcate
Concultated (imp. & p. p.) of Conculcate
Concupiscence (n.) Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion.
Concupiscent (a.) Having sexual lust; libidinous; lustful; lecherous; salacious.
Concupiscential (a.) Relating to concupiscence.
Concupiscentious (a.) Concupiscent.
Concupiscible (a.) Exciting desire, good or evil.
Concupiscible (a.) Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires.
Concupiscibleness (n.) The state of being concupiscible.
Concupy (n.) Concupiscence. [Used only in "Troilus and Cressida"]
Concur (v. i.) To assent; to consent.
Concur (v. i.) To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
Concur (v. i.) To run together; to meet.
Concur (v. i.) To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
Concurred (imp. & p. p.) of Concur
Concurrence (n.) A common right; coincidence of equal powers; as, a concurrence of jurisdiction in two different courts.
Concurrence (n.) A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation.
Concurrence (n.) Agreement or consent, implying aid or contribution of power or influence; cooperation.
Concurrence (n.) The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination.
Concurrency (n.) Concurrence.
Concurrent (a.) Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect; cooperating.
Concurrent (a.) Conjoined; associate; concomitant; existing or happening at the same time.
Concurrent (a.) Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts.
Concurrent (a.) Meeting in one point.
Concurrent (n.) One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.
Concurrent (n.) One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
Concurrent (n.) One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
Concurrently (adv.) With concurrence; unitedly.
Concurrentness (n.) The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.
Concurring (a.) Agreeing.
Concurring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concur
Concuss (v. t.) To force (a person) to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce.
Concuss (v. t.) To shake or agitate.
Concussation (n.) A violent shock or agitation.
Concussion (n.) A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.
Concussion (n.) A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies.
Concussion (n.) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.
Concussive (a.) Having the power or quality of shaking or agitating.
Cond (v. t.) To con, as a ship.
Condemn (v. t.) To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
Condemn (v. t.) To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
Condemn (v. t.) To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
Condemn (v. t.) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
Condemn (v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
Condemn (v. t.) To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
Condemnable () Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.
Condemnation (n.) The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
Condemnation (n.) The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
Condemnation (n.) The ground or reason of condemning.
Condemnation (n.) The state of being condemned.
Condemnatory (a.) Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.
Condemned (a.) Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
Condemned (a.) Used for condemned persons.
Condemned (imp. & p. p.) of Condemn
Condemner (n.) One who condemns or censures.
Condemning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condemn
Condensability (n.) Capability of being condensed.
Condensable (a.) Capable of being condensed; as, vapor is condensable.
Condensate (v. t.) Made dense; condensed.
Condensate (v. t.) To condense.
Condensated (imp. & p. p.) of Condensate
Condensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condensate
Condensation (n.) The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
Condensation (n.) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.
Condensative (a.) Having the property of condensing.
Condense (a.) Condensed; compact; dense.
Condense (v. i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
Condense (v. i.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
Condense (v. i.) To undergo polymerization.
Condense (v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
Condense (v. t.) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
Condensed (imp. & p. p.) of Condense
Condenser (n.) A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object.
Condenser (n.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.
Condenser (n.) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine.
Condenser (n.) An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate.
Condenser (n.) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape.
Condenser (n.) One who, or that which, condenses.
Condensible (a.) Capable of being condensed; as, a gas condensible to a liquid by cold.
Condensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condense
Conder (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.
Condescend (v. i.) To consent.
Condescend (v. i.) To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
Condescended (imp. & p. p.) of Condescend
Condescendence (n.) Alt. of Condescendency
Condescendency (n.) Condescension.
Condescending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condescend
Condescendingly (adv.) In a condescending manner.
Condescension (n.) The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.
Condescent (n.) An act of condescension.
Condign (a.) Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime.
Condign (a.) Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.
Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.
Condignly (adv.) According to merit.
Condignness (n.) Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.
Condiment (n.) Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning.
Condisciple (n.) A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
Condite (a.) Preserved; pickled.
Condite (v. t.) To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc.
Condition (n.) Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
Condition (n.) That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.
Condition (n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
Condition (n.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
Condition (n.) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
Condition (n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
Condition (n.) train; acclimate.
Condition (v. i.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
Condition (v. i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
Conditional (a.) Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.
Conditional (a.) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.
Conditional (n.) A conditional word, mode, or proposition.
Conditional (n.) A limitation.
Conditionality (n.) The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
Conditionally (adv.) In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively.
Conditionate (v. t.) Conditional.
Conditionate (v. t.) To put under conditions; to render conditional.
Conditionate (v. t.) To qualify by conditions; to regulate.
Conditioned (a.) Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not absolute.
Conditioned (a.) Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man.
Conditioned (imp. & p. p.) of Condition
Conditioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condition
Conditionly (adv.) Conditionally.
Conditories (pl. ) of Conditory
Conditory (n.) A repository for holding things; a hinding place.
Condog (v. i.) To concur; to agree.
Condolatory (a.) Expressing condolence.
Condole (v. i.) To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.
Condole (v. t.) To lament or grieve over.
Condoled (imp. & p. p.) of Condole
Condolement (n.) Condolence.
Condolement (n.) Sorrow; mourning; lamentation.
Condolence (n.) Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
Condoler (n.) One who condoles.
Condoling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condole
Condonation (n.) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated.
Condonation (n.) The act of condoning or pardoning.
Condone (v. t.) To pardon; to forgive.
Condone (v. t.) To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of either the husband or the wife.
Condoned (imp. & p. p.) of Condone
Condoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Condone
Condor (n.) A very large bird of the Vulture family (Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated parts of the Andes.
Condottiere (n.) A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.
Condottieri (pl. ) of Condottiere
Conduce (n.) To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; -- usually followed by to or toward.
Conduce (v. t.) To conduct; to lead; to guide.
Conduced (imp. & p. p.) of Conduce
Conducent (a.) Conducive; tending.
Conducibility (n.) The state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness.
Conducible (a.) Conducive; tending; contributing.
Conducibleness (n.) Quality of being conducible.
Conducibly (adv.) In a manner to promote.
Conducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conduce
Conducive (a.) Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote.
Conduciveness (n.) The quality of conducing.
Conduct (n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
Conduct (n.) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
Conduct (n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
Conduct (n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
Conduct (n.) The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
Conduct (n.) The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
Conduct (n.) To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.
Conduct (n.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
Conduct (n.) To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.
Conduct (n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
Conduct (n.) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
Conduct (v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
Conduct (v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave.
Conducted (imp. & p. p.) of Conduct
Conductibility (n.) Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity.
Conductibility (n.) Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.
Conductible (a.) Capable of being conducted.
Conducting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conduct
Conduction (n.) The act of leading or guiding.
Conduction (n.) The act of training up.
Conduction (n.) Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity.
Conductive (a.) Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil.
Conductivity (n.) The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve.
Conductor (n.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director.
Conductor (n.) A substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod.
Conductor (n.) One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car.
Conductor (n.) One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.
Conductor (n.) Same as Leader.
Conductor (n.) The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus.
Conductory (a.) Having the property of conducting.
Conductress (n.) A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
Conduit (n.) A narrow passage for private communication.
Conduit (n.) A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.
Conduit (n.) A structure forming a reservoir for water.
Conduplicate (a.) Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or aestivation.
Conduplication (n.) A doubling together or folding; a duplication.
Condurango (n.) See Cundurango.
Condurrite (n.) A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.
Condylar (a.) Of or pertaining to a condyle.
Condyle (n.) A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.
Condyloid (a.) Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.
Condyloma (n.) Alt. of Condylome
Condylomata (pl. ) of Condylome
Condylome (n.) A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrane.
Condylomes (pl. ) of Condylome
Condylopod (n.) An arthropod.
Cone (n.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
Cone (n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
Cone (n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
Cone (v. t.) To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
Cone pulley () A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.
Cone-in-cone (a.) Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks.
Coneine (n.) See Conine.
Conepate (n.) Alt. of Conepatl
Conepatl (n.) The skunk.
Coney (n.) A fish. See Cony.
Coney (n.) A rabbit. See Cony.
Confab (n.) Familiar talk or conversation.
Confabulate (v. i.) To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.
Confabulatory (a.) Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue.
Confalon (n.) One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents.
Confarreation (n.) A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.
Confated (p.a.) Fated or decreed with something else.
Confect (n.) A comfit; a confection.
Confect (v. t.) To construct; to form; to mingle or mix.
Confect (v. t.) To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.
Confected (imp. & p. p.) of Confect
Confecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confect
Confection (n.) A composition of different materials.
Confection (n.) A composition of drugs.
Confection (n.) A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.
Confection (n.) A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.
Confectionary (a.) Prepared as a confection.
Confectionary (n.) A confectioner.
Confectioner (n.) A compounder.
Confectioner (n.) One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc.
Confectionery (n.) A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold.
Confectionery (n.) Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.
Confectory (a.) Pertaining to the art of making sweetmeats.
Confecture (n.) Same as Confiture.
Confeder (v. i.) To confederate.
Confederacies (pl. ) of Confederacy
Confederacy (n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
Confederacy (n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
Confederacy (n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
Confederate (a.) United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
Confederate (n.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
Confederate (n.) One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.
Confederate (v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.
Confederate (v. t.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
Confederated (imp. & p. p.) of Confederate
Confederater (n.) A confederate.
Confederating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confederate
Confederation (n.) The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.
Confederation (n.) The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.
Confederative (a.) Of or pertaining to a confederation.
Confederator (n.) A confederate.
Confer (v. i.) To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.
Confer (v. t.) To bring together for comparison; to compare.
Confer (v. t.) To contribute; to conduce.
Confer (v. t.) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
Conferee (n.) One upon whom something is conferred.
Conferee (n.) One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate.
Conference (n.) A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.
Conference (n.) A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.
Conference (n.) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
Conference (n.) A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
Conference (n.) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
Conference (n.) The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
Conferential (a.) Relating to conference.
Conferrable (a.) Capable of being conferred.
Conferred (imp. & p. p.) of Confer
Conferree (n.) Same as Conferee.
Conferrer (n.) One who bestows; a giver.
Conferrer (n.) One who confers; one who converses.
Conferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confer
Conferruminate (a.) Alt. of Conferruminated
Conferruminated (a.) Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.
Conferva (n.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.
Confervaceous (a.) Belonging to the confervae.
Confervae (pl. ) of Conferva
Confervoid (a.) Like, or related to, the confervae.
Confervous (a.) Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae.
Confess (v. i.) To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
Confess (v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
Confess (v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
Confess (v. t.) To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
Confess (v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
Confess (v. t.) To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
Confess (v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Confessant (n.) One who confesses to a priest.
Confessary (n.) One who makes a confession.
Confessed (imp. & p. p.) of Confess
Confessedly (adv.) By confession; without denial.
Confesser (n.) One who makes a confession.
Confessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confess
Confession (n.) A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
Confession (n.) Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
Confession (n.) Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
Confession (n.) An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted.
Confession (n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
Confessional (a.) Pertaining to a confession of faith.
Confessionalism (n.) An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.
Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.
Confessionary (a.) Pertaining to auricular confession; as, a confessionary litany.
Confessionary (n.) A confessional.
Confessionist (n.) One professing a certain faith.
Confessor (n.) A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.
Confessor (n.) One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith.
Confessorship (n.) The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith.
Confestly (adv.) See Cofessedly.
Confidant (n. fem.) Alt. of Confidante
Confidante (n. fem.) One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.
Confide (v. i.) To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
Confide (v. t.) To intrust; to give in charge; to commit to one's keeping; -- followed by to.
Confided (imp. & p. p.) of Confide
Confidence (n.) Giving occasion for confidence.
Confidence (n.) Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
Confidence (n.) Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
Confidence (n.) Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.
Confidence (n.) That in which faith is put or reliance had.
Confidence (n.) The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.
Confidence (n.) The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed.
Confidence (n.) Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
Confident (n.) See Confidant.
Confidential (a.) Communicated in confidence; secret.
Confidential (a.) Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.
Confidentially (adv.) In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.
Confidently (adv.) With confidence; with strong assurance; positively.
Confidentness (n.) The quality of being confident.
Confider (n.) One who confides.
Confiding (a.) That confides; trustful; unsuspicious.
Confiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confide
Configurate (v. i.) To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern.
Configuration (n.) Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.
Configuration (n.) Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
Configure (v. t.) To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.
Configured (imp. & p. p.) of Configure
Configuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Configure
Confinable (a.) Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited.
Confine (n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
Confine (n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Confine (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
Confine (v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
Confined (imp. & p. p.) of Confine
Confineless (a.) Without limitation or end; boundless.
Confinement (n.) Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
Confinement (n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
Confiner (n.) One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.
Confiner (n.) One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
Confining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confine
Confinity (n.) Community of limits; contiguity.
Confirm (v. t.) To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
Confirm (v. t.) To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate; as, to confirm a rumor.
Confirm (v. t.) To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
Confirm (v. t.) To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty.
Confirm (v. t.) To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
Confirmable (a.) That may be confirmed.
Confirmance (n.) Confirmation.
Confirmation (n.) A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voidable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable.
Confirmation (n.) A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc.
Confirmation (n.) That which confirms; that which gives new strength or assurance; as to a statement or belief; additional evidence; proof; convincing testimony.
Confirmation (n.) The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
Confirmative (a.) Tending to confirm or establish.
Confirmator (n.) One who, or that which, confirms; a confirmer.
Confirmatory (a. .) Pertaining to the rite of confirmation.
Confirmatory (a. .) Serving to confirm; corroborative.
Confirmedly (adv.) With confirmation.
Confirmedness (n.) A fixed state.
Confirmee (n.) One to whom anything is confirmed.
Confirmer (n.) One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates.
Confirming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confirm
Confirmingly (adv.) In a confirming manner.
Confiscable (a.) Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.
Confiscate (a.) Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
Confiscate (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
Confiscated (imp. & p. p.) of Confiscate
Confiscating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confiscate
Confiscation (n.) The act or process of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use.
Confiscator (n.) One who confiscates.
Confiscatory (a.) Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations.
Confit (n.) Same as Comfit.
Confitent (n.) One who confesses his sins and faults.
Confiteor (n.) A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.
Confiture (n.) Composition; preparation, as of a drug, or confection; a sweetmeat.
Confix (v. t.) To fix; to fasten.
Confixed (imp. & p. p.) of Confix
Confixure (n.) Act of fastening.
Conflagrant (a.) Burning together in a common flame.
Conflagration (n.) A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
Conflate (v. t.) To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.
Conflated (imp. & p. p.) of Conflate
Conflating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conflate
Conflation (n.) A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
Conflict (v. i.) To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
Conflict (v. i.) To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
Conflict (v. i.) To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
Conflict (v.) A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
Conflict (v.) A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
Conflicted (imp. & p. p.) of Conflict
Conflicting (a.) Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.
Conflicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conflict
Conflictive (a.) Tending to conflict; conflicting.
Confluence (n.) Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.
Confluence (n.) The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.
Confluent (a.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox.
Confluent (a.) Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.
Confluent (a.) Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
Confluent (n.) A small steam which flows into a large one.
Confluent (n.) The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.
Conflux (n.) A flowing together; a meeting of currents.
Conflux (n.) A large assemblage; a passing multitude.
Confluxibility (n.) The tendency of fluids to run together.
Confluxible (a.) Inclined to flow or run together.
Confocal (a.) Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.
Conform (a.) Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.
Conform (v. i.) To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient; to submit; -- with to or with.
Conform (v. i.) To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to be a conformist.
Conform (v. t.) To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto.
Conformability (n.) The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.
Conformability (n.) The state of being conformable.
Conformable (a.) Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; -- usually followed by to.
Conformable (a.) Disposed to compliance or obedience; ready to follow direstions; submissive; compliant.
Conformable (a.) Parallel, or nearly so; -- said of strata in contact.
Conformableness (n.) The quality of being conformable; conformability.
Conformably (adv.) With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
Conformance (n.) Conformity.
Conformate (a.) Having the same form.
Conformation (n.) The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
Conformation (n.) The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form; arrangement.
Conformed (imp. & p. p.) of Conform
Conformer (n.) One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
Conforming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conform
Conformist (n.) One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.
Conformities (pl. ) of Conformity
Conformity (n.) Compliance with the usages of the Established Church.
Conformity (n.) Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.
Confortation (n.) The act of strengthening.
Confound (v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; to waste.
Confound (v. t.) To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
Confound (v. t.) To mistake for another; to identify falsely.
Confound (v. t.) To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.
Confoundedness (n.) The state of being confounded.
Confounder (n.) One who confounds.
Confounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confound
Confract (a.) Broken in pieces; severed.
Confragose (a.) Broken; uneven.
Confraternities (pl. ) of Confraternity
Confraternity (n.) A society of body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.
Confrere (n.) Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.
Confrication (n.) A rubbing together; friction.
Confrier (n.) A confr/re.
Confrmed (imp. & p. p.) of Confirm
Confront (v. t.) To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
Confront (v. t.) To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.
Confront (v. t.) To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
Confrontation (n.) Act of confrontating.
Confronte (a.) Same as Affronte.
Confronted (imp. & p. p.) of Confront
Confronter (n.) One who confronts.
Confronting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confront
Confrontment (n.) The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
Confrontment (n.) The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
Confucian (a.) Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher.
Confucian (n.) A Confucianist.
Confucianism (n.) The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god.
Confucianist (n.) A follower of Confucius; a Confucian.
Confus (a.) Confused, disturbed.
Confusability (n.) Capability of being confused.
Confusable (a.) Capable of being confused.
Confuse (a.) Mixed; confounded.
Confuse (v. t.) To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.
Confuse (v. t.) To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.
Confused (imp. & p. p.) of Confuse
Confusedly (adv.) In a confused manner.
Confusedness (n.) A state of confusion.
Confusely (adv.) Confusedly; obscurely.
Confusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confuse
Confusion (n.) One who confuses; a confounder.
Confusion (n.) Overthrow; defeat; ruin.
Confusion (n.) The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame.
Confusion (n.) The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.
Confusive (a.) Confusing; having a tendency to confusion.
Confutable (a.) That may be confuted.
Confutant (n.) One who undertakes to confute.
Confutation (n.) The act or process of confuting; refutation.
Confutative (a.) Adapted or designed to confute.
Confute (v. t.) To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.
Confuted (imp. & p. p.) of Confute
Confutement (n.) Confutation.
Confuter (n.) One who confutes or disproves.
Confuting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confute
Cong (n.) An abbreviation of Congius.
Conge (n.) An apophyge.
Conge (n.) The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.
Conge (n.) The customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy.
Conge (n.) To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.
Congeal (v. i.) To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.
Congeal (v. t.) To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.
Congeal (v. t.) To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.
Congealable (a.) Capable of being congealed.
Congealed (imp. & p. p.) of Congeal
Congealedness (n.) The state of being congealed.
Congealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Congeal
Congealment (n.) That which is formed by congelation; a clot.
Congealment (n.) The act or the process of congealing; congeliation.
Congee (n. & v.) See Conge, Conge.
Congee (n.) A jail; a lockup.
Congee (n.) Boiled rice; rice gruel.
Congelation (n.) That which is congealed.
Congelation (n.) The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.
Congelation (n.) The state of being congealed.
Congener (n.) A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.
Congeneracy (n.) Similarity of origin; affinity.
Congeneric (a.) Alt. of Congenerical
Congenerical (a.) Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action.
Congenerous (a.) Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases.
Congenial (a.) Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition.
Congenial (a.) Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.
Congeniality (n.) The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.
Congenialize (v. t.) To make congenial.
Congenially (adv.) In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
Congenialness (n.) Congeniality.
Congenious (a.) Congeneric.
Congenital (a.) Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.
Congenitally (dv.) In a congenital manner.
Congenite (a.) Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital.
Conger (n.) The conger eel; -- called also congeree.
Congeries (n. sing & pl.) A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.
Congest (v. t. ) To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.
Congest (v. t. ) To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.
Congested (a.) Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperaemic; -- said of any part of the body.
Congested (a.) Crowded together.
Congestion (n.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
Congestion (n.) The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
Congestive (a.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.
Congiaries (pl. ) of Congiary
Congiary (n.) A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius.
Congius (n.) A gallon, or four quarts.
Congius (n.) A liquid measure containing about three quarts.
Conglaciate (v. t. & i.) To turn to ice; to freeze.
Conglaciation (n.) The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost.
Conglobate (a.) Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers.
Conglobate (v. t.) To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.
Conglobated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglobate
Conglobating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conglobate
Conglobation (n.) A round body.
Conglobation (n.) The act or process of forming into a ball.
Conglobe (v. i.) To collect, unite, or coalesce in a round mass.
Conglobe (v. t. ) To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.
Conglobed (imp. & p. p.) of Conglobe
Conglobing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conglobe
Conglobulate (v. i.) To gather into a small round mass.
Conglomerate (a.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
Conglomerate (a.) Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
Conglomerate (n.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia.
Conglomerate (n.) That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
Conglomerate (v. t.) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
Conglomerated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglomerate
Conglomerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conglomerate
Conglomeration (n.) The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass.
Conglutin (n.) A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc.
Conglutinant (a.) Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.
Conglutinate (a.) Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.
Conglutinate (v. i.) To unite by the intervention of some glutinous substance; to coalesce.
Conglutinate (v. t.) To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together.
Conglutinated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglutinate
Conglutination (n.) A gluing together; a joining by means of some tenacious substance; junction; union.
Conglutinative (a.) Conglutinant.
Congo (n.) Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea.
Congo snake () An amphibian (Amphiuma means) of the order Urodela, found in the southern United States. See Amphiuma.
Congratulate (v. i.) To express of feel sympathetic joy; as, to congratulate with one's country.
Congratulate (v. t.) To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.
Congratulated (imp. & p. p.) of Congratulate
Congratulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Congratulate
Congratulation (n.) The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.
Congratulator (n.) One who offers congratulation.
Congratulatory (a.) Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.
Congree (v. i.) To agree.
Congreet (v. t.) To salute mutually.
Congregate (a.) Collected; compact; close.
Congregate (v. i.) To come together; to assemble; to meet.
Congregate (v. t.) To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
Congregated (imp. & p. p.) of Congregate
Congregating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Congregate
Congregation (n.) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
Congregation (n.) A collection or mass of separate things.
Congregation (n.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
Congregation (n.) An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
Congregation (n.) The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
Congregation (n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
Congregation (n.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.
Congregation (n.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
Congregational (a.) Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church.
Congregational (a.) Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.
Congregationalism (n.) That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.
Congregationalism (n.) The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.
Congregationalist (n.) One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism.
Congress (n.) A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.
Congress (n.) A gathering or assembly; a conference.
Congress (n.) A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.
Congress (n.) A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things.
Congress (n.) The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
Congress (n.) The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.
Congress (n.) The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.
Congresses (pl. ) of Congress
Congression (n.) A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse.
Congressional (a.) Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.
Congressive (a.) Encountering, or coming together.
Congressman (n.) A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.
Congressmen (pl. ) of Congressman
Congreve rocket () See under Rocket.
Congrue (v. i.) To agree; to be suitable.
Congruence (n.) Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.
Congruity (n.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another.
Congruity (n.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace.
Congruity (n.) The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
Congruous (a.) Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.
Congruously (adv.) In a congruous manner.
Conhydrine (n.) A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.
Conia (n.) Same as Conine.
Conic (a.) Alt. of Conical
Conic (n.) A conic section.
Conical (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.
Conical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections.
Conicality (n.) Conicalness.
Conically (adv.) In the form of a cone.
Conicalness (n.) State or quality of being conical.
Conico- (a.) A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico-hemispherical; conico-subulate.
Conicoid (a.) Same as Conoidal.
Conics (n.) Conic sections.
Conics (n.) That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.
Conida (pl. ) of Conidium
Conidium (n.) A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores.
Conifer (n.) A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.
Coniferin (n.) A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.
Coniferous (a.) Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
Coniferous (a.) Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.
Coniform (a.) Cone-shaped; conical.
Coniine (n.) See Conine.
Conimene (n.) Same as Olibene.
Coniroster (n.) One of the Conirostres.
Conirostral (a.) Belonging to the Conirostres.
Conirostres (n. pl.) A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.
Conisor (n.) See Cognizor.
Conistra (n.) Originally, a part of the palestra, or gymnasium among the Greeks; either the place where sand was stored for use in sprinkling the wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.
Conite (n.) A magnesian variety of dolomite.
Conium (n.) A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.
Conject (n.) To throw together, or to throw.
Conject (v. t.) To conjecture; also, to plan.
Conjector (n.) One who guesses or conjectures.
Conjecturable (a.) Capable of being conjectured or guessed.
Conjecturally (adv.) In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture.
Conjecturally (n.) That which depends upon guess; guesswork.
Conjecture (n.) An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
Conjecture (v. i.) To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form an opinion; to imagine.
Conjecture (v. t.) To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.
Conjectured (imp. & p. p.) of Conjecture
Conjecturer (n.) One who conjectures.
Conjecturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conjecture
Conjoin (v. i.) To unite; to join; to league.
Conjoin (v. t.) To join together; to unite.
Conjoined (a.) Joined together or touching.
Conjoined (imp. & p. p.) of Conjoin
Conjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conjoin
Conjoint (a.) United; connected; associated.
Conjointly (adv.) In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together.
Conjointness (n.) The quality of being conjoint.
Conjubilant (a.) Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together.
Conjugal (a.) Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.
Conjugality (n.) The conjugal state; sexual intercourse.
Conjugally (adv.) In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.
Conjugate (a.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.
Conjugate (a.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
Conjugate (a.) In single pairs; coupled.
Conjugate (a.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
Conjugate (a.) United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
Conjugate (n.) A complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical.
Conjugate (n.) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.
Conjugate (v. i.) To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.
Conjugate (v. t.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.
Conjugate (v. t.) To unite in marriage; to join.
Conjugated (imp. & p. p.) of Conjugate
Conjugating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conjugate
Conjugation (n.) A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner.
Conjugation (n.) A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.
Conjugation (n.) A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb.
Conjugation (n.) The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.
Conjugation (n.) the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
Conjugation (n.) Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple.
Conjugational (a.) relating to conjugation.
Conjugial (a.) Conjugal.
Conjugium (n.) The marriage tie.
Conjunct (a.) Same as Conjoined.
Conjunct (a.) United; conjoined; concurrent.
Conjunction (n.) A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.
Conjunction (n.) The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
Conjunction (n.) The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6.
Conjunctional (a.) Relating to a conjunction.
Conjunctiva (n.) The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membrane.
Conjunctival (a.) Joining; connecting.
Conjunctival (a.) Of or pertaining to the conjunctiva.
Conjunctive (a.) Closely united.
Conjunctive (a.) Serving to unite; connecting together.
Conjunctively (adv.) In conjunction or union; together.
Conjunctiveness (n.) The state or quality of being conjunctive.
Conjunctivitis (n.) Inflammation of the conjunctiva.
Conjunctly (adv.) In union; conjointly; unitedly; together.
Conjuncture (n.) A crisis produced by a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions.
Conjuncture (n.) The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination.
Conjuration (n.) A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy.
Conjuration (n.) The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.
Conjuration (n.) The act or process of invoking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment.
Conjurator (n.) One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator.
Conjure (v. i.) To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.
Conjure (v. i.) To practice magical arts; to use the tricks of a conjurer; to juggle; to charm.
Conjure (v. t.) To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers.
Conjure (v. t.) To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.
Conjured (imp. & p. p.) of Conjure
Conjurement (n.) Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.
Conjurer (n.) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
Conjurer (n.) One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
Conjurer (n.) One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand.
Conjuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conjure
Conjuror (n.) One bound by a common oath with others.
Conjury (n.) The practice of magic; enchantment.
Conn (v. t.) See Con, to direct a ship.
Connascence (n.) Alt. of Connascency
Connascency (n.) That which is born or produced with another.
Connascency (n.) The act of growing together.
Connascency (n.) The common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together.
Connascent (a.) Born together; produced at the same time.
Connate (a.) Born with another; being of the same birth.
Connate (a.) Congenital; existing from birth.
Connate (a.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate.
Connate-perfoliate (a.) Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.
Connation (n.) Connection by birth; natural union.
Connatural (a. ) Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural.
Connatural (a. ) Partaking of the same nature.
Connaturality (n.) Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection.
Connaturalize (v. t.) To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt.
Connaturally (adv.) By the act of nature; originally; from birth.
Connaturalness (n.) Participation of the same nature; natural union.
Connature (n.) Participation in a common nature or character.
Connect (v. i.) To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.
Connect (v. t.) To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.
Connect (v. t.) To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
Connected (imp. & p. p.) of Connect
Connectedly (adv.) In a connected manner.
Connecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Connect
Connection (n.) A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.
Connection (n.) That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.
Connection (n.) The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.
Connection (n.) The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.
Connective (a.) Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
Connective (n.) A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition.
Connective (n.) That part of an anther which connects its thecae, lobes, or cells.
Connective (n.) That which connects
Connectively (adv.) In connjunction; jointly.
Connector (n.) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
Connector (n.) A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments.
Connector (n.) One who, or that which, connects
Conned (imp. & p. p.) of Con
Conner (n.) A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner.
Connex (v. t.) To connect.
Connexion (n.) Connection. See Connection.
Connexive (a.) See Connective.
Conning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Con
Conning tower (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.
Connivance (n.) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it.
Connivance (n.) Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation.
Connive (v. i.) To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at.
Connive (v. i.) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
Connive (v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.
Connived (imp. & p. p.) of Connive
Connivency (n.) Connivance.
Connivent (a.) Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc.
Connivent (a.) Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice.
Conniver (n.) One who connives.
Conniving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Connive
Connoisseur (n.) One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts.
Connoisseurship (n.) State of being a connoisseur.
Connotate (v. t.) To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply.
Connotation (n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Connotative (a.) Implying an attribute. See Connote.
Connotatively (adv.) In a connotative manner; expressing connotation.
Connote (v. t.) To imply as an attribute.
Connote (v. t.) To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.
Connoted (imp. & p. p.) of Connote
Connoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Connote
Connubial (a.) Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.
Connubiality (n.) The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.
Connumeration (n.) A reckoning together.
Connusance (n.) See Cognizance.
Connusant (a.) See Cognizant.
Connusor (n.) See Cognizor.
Connutritious (a.) Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food.
Conny (a.) Brave; fine; canny.
Conodont (n.) A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.
Conoid (a.) Resembling a cone; conoidal.
Conoid (n.) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.
Conoid (n.) A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane.
Conoid (n.) Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.
Conoidal (a.) Nearly, but not exactly, conical.
Conoidic (a.) Alt. of Conoidical
Conoidical (a.) Pertaining to a conoid; having the form of a conoid.
Conominee (n.) One nominated in conjunction with another; a joint nominee.
Conquadrate (v. t.) To bring into a square.
Conquassate (v. t.) To shake; to agitate.
Conquer (v. i.) To gain the victory; to overcome; to prevail.
Conquer (v. t.) To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish.
Conquer (v. t.) To gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace.
Conquer (v. t.) To subdue or overcome by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptation, etc.
Conquerable (a.) Capable of being conquered or subdued.
Conquered (imp. & p. p.) of Conquer
Conqueress (n.) A woman who conquers.
Conquering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conquer
Conqueror (n.) One who conquers.
Conquest (n.) That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
Conquest (n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
Conquest (n.) The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.
Conquest (n.) The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.
Consanguineal (a.) Of the same blood; related by birth.
Consanguined (a.) Of kin blood; related.
Consanguineous (a.) Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
Consanguinity (n.) The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.
Consarcination (n.) A patching together; patchwork.
Conscience (n.) Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
Conscience (n.) Tenderness of feeling; pity.
Conscience (n.) The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
Conscienced (a.) Having a conscience.
Conscienceless (a.) Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous.
Conscient (a.) Conscious.
Conscientious (a.) Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; -- said of actions.
Conscientious (a.) Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person.
Conscientiously (adv.) In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.
Conscientiousness (n.) The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.
Conscionable (a.) Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.
Conscionableness (n.) The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness.
Conscionably (adv.) Reasonably; justly.
Conscious (a.) Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self; as, conscious guilt.
Conscious (a.) Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.
Conscious (a.) Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.
Consciously (adv.) In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.
Consciousness (n.) Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence.
Consciousness (n.) Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.
Consciousness (n.) The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.
Conscribe (v. t.) To enroll; to enlist.
Conscript (a.) Enrolled; written; registered.
Conscript (n.) One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
Conscript (v. t.) To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
Conscription (a.) Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.
Conscription (n.) A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.
Consecrate (v. t.) To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor.
Consecrate (v. t.) To make, or declare to be, sacred; to appropriate to sacred uses; to set apart, dedicate, or devote, to the service or worship of God; as, to consecrate a church; to give (one's self) unreservedly, as to the service of God.
Consecrate (v. t.) To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.
Consecrate (v. t.) To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop.
Consecrated (imp. & p. p.) of Consecrate
Consecrater (n.) Consecrator.
Consecrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consecrate
Consecration (n.) The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.
Consecrator (n.) One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.
Consecratory (a.) Of or pertaining to the act of consecration; dedicatory.
Consectaneous (a.) Following as a matter of course.
Consectary (a.) Following by consequence; consequent; deducible.
Consectary (n.) That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary.
Consecute (v. t.) To follow closely; to endeavor to overtake; to pursue.
Consecution (n.) A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
Consecution (n.) A succession or series of any kind.
Consecutive (a.) Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
Consecutive (a.) Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.
Consecutive (a.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.
Consecutively (adv.) In a consecutive manner; by way of sequence; successively.
Consecutiveness (n.) The state or quality of being consecutive.
Consension (n.) Agreement; accord.
Consensual (v. i.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions.
Consensual (v. i.) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
Consensus (n.) Agreement; accord; consent.
Consent (n.) Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord.
Consent (n.) Capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose, implying physical and mental power and free action.
Consent (n.) Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence.
Consent (n.) Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4.
Consent (n.) Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
Consent (v. i.) To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
Consent (v. i.) To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.
Consent (v. t.) To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit.
Consentingly (adv.) With consent; in a compliant manner.
Consequence (n.) A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
Consequence (n.) Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
Consequence (n.) Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction.
Consequence (n.) That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.
Consequencing (n.) Drawing inference.
Consequent (a.) Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
Consequent (a.) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.
Consequent (n.) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
Consequent (n.) That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
Consequent (n.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.
Consequential (a.) Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4.
Consequential (a.) Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent.
Consequentially (adv.) By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially.
Consequentially (adv.) In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously.
Consequentially (adv.) With assumed importance; pompously.
Consequentially (adv.) With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically.
Consequentialness (n.) The quality of being consequential.
Consequently (adv.) By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.
Consertion (n.) Junction; adaptation
Conservable (a.) Capable of being preserved from decay or injury.
Conservancy (n.) Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use.
Conservant (a.) Having the power or quality of conservation.
Conservation (n.) The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Conservational (a.) Tending to conserve; preservative.
Conservatism (n.) The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.
Conservative (a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
Conservative (a.) Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.
Conservative (a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
Conservative (n.) A member of the Conservative party.
Conservative (n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
Conservative (n.) One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
Conservativeness (a.) The quality of being conservative.
Conservatoire (n.) A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].
Conservator (n.) An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.
Conservator (n.) One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate.
Conservator (n.) One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.
Conservatory (a.) Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
Conservatory (n.) A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants.
Conservatory (n.) A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.
Conservatory (n.) That which preserves from injury.
Conservatrix (n.) A woman who preserves from loss, injury, etc.
Conserve (n.) A conservatory.
Conserve (n.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.
Conserve (n.) Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.
Conserve (v. t.) To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
Conserve (v. t.) To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.
Conserved (imp. & p. p.) of Conserve
Conserver (n.) One who conserves.
Conserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conserve
Consider (v. i.) To hesitate.
Consider (v. i.) To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
Consider (v. t.) To estimate; to think; to regard; to view.
Consider (v. t.) To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.
Consider (v. t.) To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
Consider (v. t.) To look at attentively; to observe; to examine.
Considerable (a.) Of importance or value.
Considerable (a.) Of some distinction; noteworthy; influential; respectable; -- said of persons.
Considerable (a.) Worthy of consideration, borne in mind, or attended to.
Considerableness (n.) Worthiness of consideration; dignity; value; size; amount.
Considerably (adv.) In a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much.
Considerance (n.) Act of considering; consideration.
Considerate (a.) Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other.
Considerate (a.) Having respect to; regardful.
Consideration (n.) Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence.
Consideration (n.) Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence.
Consideration (n.) That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason.
Consideration (n.) The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.
Consideration (n.) The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent.
Consideration (n.) The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession.
Consideration (n.) Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice.
Considerer (n.) One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker.
Considering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consider
Consideringly (adv.) With consideration or deliberation.
Consign (v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.
Consign (v. i.) To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce.
Consign (v. t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.
Consign (v. t.) To give in charge; to commit; to intrust.
Consign (v. t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.
Consign (v. t.) To stamp or impress; to affect.
Consignatary (n.) A consignee.
Consignation (n.) A stamp; an indication; a sign.
Consignation (n.) The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state.
Consignation (n.) The act of ratifying or establishing, as if by signing; confirmation; ratification.
Consignatory (n.) One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty.
Consignature (n.) Joint signature.
Consigne (n.) A countersign; a watchword.
Consigne (n.) One who is orders to keep within certain limits.
Consigned (imp. & p. p.) of Consign
Consignee (n.) The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor.
Consigner (n.) One who consigns. See Consignor.
Consignificant (a.) Having joint or equal signification; synonymous.
Consignify (v. t.) To signify or denote in combination with something else.
Consigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consign
Consignment (n.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.
Consignment (n.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.
Consignment (n.) The act of consigning; consignation.
Consignment (n.) The writing by which anything is consigned.
Consignor (n.) One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee.
Consilience (n.) Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.
Consimilitude (n.) Alt. of Consimility
Consimility (n.) Common resemblance.
Consist (v. i.) To be composed or made up; -- followed by of.
Consist (v. i.) To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with.
Consist (v. i.) To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in.
Consist (v. i.) To insist; -- followed by on.
Consist (v. i.) To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.
Consisted (imp. & p. p.) of Consist
Consistence (n.) Alt. of Consistency
Consistency (n.) A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude.
Consistency (n.) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
Consistency (n.) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
Consistency (n.) The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.
Consistent (a.) Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory.
Consistent (a.) Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions.
Consistent (a.) Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.
Consistently (adv.) In a consistent manner.
Consisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consist
Consistorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a consistory.
Consistorian (a.) Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.
Consistories (pl. ) of Consistory
Consistory (a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.
Consistory (n.) A church tribunal or governing body.
Consistory (n.) A civil court of justice.
Consistory (n.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
Consistory (n.) Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
Consistory (n.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
Consociate (n.) An associate; an accomplice.
Consociate (v. i.) To be allied, confederated, or associated; to coalescence.
Consociate (v. i.) To form an ecclesiastical consociation.
Consociate (v. t.) To bring into alliance, confederacy, or relationship; to bring together; to join; to unite.
Consociate (v. t.) To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.
Consociated (imp. & p. p.) of Consociate
Consociating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consociate
Consociation (n.) A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and cooperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.
Consociational (a.) Of or pertaining to a consociation.
Consolable (a.) Capable of receiving consolation.
Consolate (v. t.) To console; to comfort.
Consolation (n.) The act of consoling; the state of being consoled; allevation of misery or distress of mind; refreshment of spirit; comfort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit.
Consolato del mare () A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws.
Consolator (n.) One who consoles or comforts.
Consolatory (a.) Of a consoling or comforting nature.
Consolatory (n.) That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.
Console (n.) A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.
Console (n.) Any small bracket; also, a console table.
Console (v. t.) To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
Consoled (imp. & p. p.) of Console
Consoler (n.) One who gives consolation.
Consolidant (a.) Serving to unite or consolidate; having the quality of consolidating or making firm.
Consolidate (a.) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.
Consolidate (v. i.) To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.
Consolidate (v. t.) To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
Consolidate (v. t.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound.
Consolidate (v. t.) To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic.
Consolidated (imp. & p. p.) of Consolidate
Consolidated (p. p. & a.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus.
Consolidated (p. p. & a.) Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.
Consolidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consolidate
Consolidation (n.) The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
Consolidation (n.) The combination of several actions into one.
Consolidation (n.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
Consolidative (a.) Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.
Consoling (a.) Adapted to console or comfort; cheering; as, this is consoling news.
Consoling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Console
Consols (n. pl. ) The leading British funded government security.
Consomme (n.) A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.
Consonance (n.) Alt. of Consonancy
Consonancy (n.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth.
Consonancy (n.) Agreement or congruity; harmony; accord; consistency; suitableness.
Consonant (a.) Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to.
Consonant (a.) Having like sounds.
Consonant (a.) Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
Consonant (n.) An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.
Consonantal (a.) Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants.
Consonantize (v. t.) To change into, or use as, a consonant.
Consonantly (adv.) In a consonant, consistent, or congruous manner; agreeably.
Consonantness (n.) The quality or condition of being consonant, agreeable, or consistent.
Consonous (a.) Agreeing in sound; symphonious.
Consopiation (n.) The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep.
Consopite (a.) Lulled to sleep.
Consopite (v. t.) To lull to sleep; to quiet; to compose.
Consort (n.) A ship keeping company with another.
Consort (n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
Consortship (n.) The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership.
Consound (n.) A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.
Conspecific (a.) Of the same species.
Conspectuities (pl. ) of Conspectuity
Conspectuity (n.) The faculty of seeing; sight; eye.
Conspectus (n.) A general sketch or outline of a subject; a synopsis; an epitome.
Conspersion (n.) The act of sprinkling.
Conspicuity (n.) The state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuousness.
Conspicuous (a.) Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault.
Conspicuous (a.) Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye.
Conspiracies (pl. ) of Conspiracy
Conspiracy (n.) A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
Conspiracy (n.) A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
Conspiracy (n.) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.
Conspirant (a.) Engaging in a plot to commit a crime; conspiring.
Conspiration (n.) Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.
Conspirator (n.) One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter.
Conspire (v. i.) To concur to one end; to agree.
Conspire (v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.
Conspire (v. t.) To plot; to plan; to combine for.
Conspired (imp. & p. p.) of Conspire
Conspirer (n.) One who conspires; a conspirator.
Conspiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conspire
Conspiringly (adv.) In the manner of a conspirator; by conspiracy.
Conspissation (n.) A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation.
Conspurcate (v. t.) To pollute; to defile.
Conspurcation (n.) The act of defiling; defilement; pollution.
Constable (n.) A high officer in the monarchical establishments of the Middle Ages.
Constable (n.) An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to execute the warrants of judicial officers.
Constablery (n.) The constabulary.
Constablery (n.) The district or jurisdiction of a constable.
Constableship (n.) The office or functions of a constable.
Constabless (n.) The wife of a constable.
Constablewick (n.) The district to which a constable's power is limited.
Constabulary (a.) Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.
Constabulary (n.) The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country.
Constabulatory (n.) A constabulary.
Constancy (n.) Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity.
Constancy (n.) The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.
Constant (n.) A quantity that does not change its value; -- used in countradistinction to variable.
Constant (n.) That which is not subject to change; that which is invariable.
Constant (v. t.) Not liable, or given, to change; permanent; regular; continuous; continually recurring; steadfast; faithful; not fickle.
Constant (v. t.) Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc.
Constantia (n.) A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
Constantly (adv.) With constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly.
Constat (n.) A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.
Constate (v. t.) To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.
Constellate (v. i. ) To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.
Constellate (v. t.) To set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens.
Constellate (v. t.) To unite in one luster or radiance, as stars.
Constellation (n.) A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.
Constellation (n.) An assemblage of splendors or excellences.
Constellation (n.) Fortune; fate; destiny.
Consternation (n.) Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
Constipate (v. t.) To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense.
Constipate (v. t.) To render costive; to cause constipation in.
Constipate (v. t.) To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
Constipated (imp. & p. p.) of Constipate
Constipating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Constipate
Constipation (n.) A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.
Constipation (n.) Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
Constituencies (pl. ) of Constituency
Constituency (n.) A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.
Constituent (a.) Having the power of electing or appointing.
Constituent (a.) Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
Constituent (n.) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
Constituent (n.) One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.
Constituent (n.) That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
Constituent (n.) The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
Constitute (n.) An established law.
Constitute (v. t.) To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
Constitute (v. t.) To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
Constitute (v. t.) To make up; to compose; to form.
Constituted (imp. & p. p.) of Constitute
Constituter (n.) One who constitutes or appoints.
Constituting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Constitute
Constitution (n.) An authoritative ordinance, regulation or enactment; especially, one made by a Roman emperor, or one affecting ecclesiastical doctrine or discipline; as, the constitutions of Justinian.
Constitution (n.) The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.
Constitution (n.) The aggregate of all one's inherited physical qualities; the aggregate of the vital powers of an individual, with reference to ability to endure hardship, resist disease, etc.; as, a robust constitution.
Constitution (n.) The aggregate of mental qualities; temperament.
Constitution (n.) The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes a system or body; natural condition; structure; texture; conformation.
Constitutional (a.) Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.
Constitutional (a.) For the benefit or one's constitution or health; as, a constitutional walk.
Constitutional (a.) In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society; as, constitutional reforms.
Constitutional (a.) Regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights.
Constitutional (a.) Relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis.
Constitutional (n.) A walk or other exercise taken for one's health or constitution.
Constitutionalism (n.) The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherence to a constitution or constitutional government.
Constitutionalist (n.) One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
Constitutionality (n.) The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame.
Constitutionality (n.) The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions.
Constitutionally (adv.) In accordance with the constitution or fundamental law; legally; as, he was not constitutionally appointed.
Constitutionally (adv.) In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid.
Constitutionist (n.) One who adheres to the constitution of the country.
Constitutive (a.) Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.
Constitutive (a.) Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential.
Constitutively (adv.) In a constitutive manner.
Constrain (v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.
Constrain (v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
Constrain (v. t.) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.
Constrain (v. t.) To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.
Constrain (v. t.) To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
Constrain (v. t.) To violate; to ravish.
Constrainable (a.) Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint.
Constrained (a.) Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
Constrained (imp. & p. p.) of Constrain
Constrainedly (adv.) By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner.
Constrainer (n.) One who constrains.
Constraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Constrain
Constraint (n.) The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.
Constraintive (a.) Constraining; compulsory.
Constrict (v. t.) To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.
Constricted (a.) Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others.
Constriction (n.) The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
Constriction (n.) The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.
Constrictive (a.) Serving or tending to bind or constrict.
Constrictor (n.) A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter.
Constrictor (n.) A serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor.
Constrictor (n.) That which constricts, draws together, or contracts.
Constringe (v. t.) To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.
Constringed (imp. & p. p.) of Constringe
Constringent (a.) Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.
Constringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Constringe
Construct (a.) Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.
Construct (v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.
Construct (v. t.) To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.
Constructed (imp. & p. p.) of Construct
Constructer (n.) One who, or that which, constructs or frames.
Constructing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Construct
Construction (n.) The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.
Construction (n.) The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.
Construction (n.) The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense.
Construction (n.) The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.
Constructional (a.) Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
Constructionist (n.) One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
Constructive (a.) Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
Constructive (a.) Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power.
Constructively (adv.) In a constructive manner; by construction or inference.
Constructiveness (n.) Tendency or ability to form or construct.
Constructiveness (n.) The faculty which enables one to construct, as in mechanical, artistic, or literary matters.
Constructor (n.) A constructer.
Constructure (n.) That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric.
Construe (v. t. ) To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.
Construe (v. t. ) To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.
Construed (imp. & p. p.) of Construe
Construing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Construe
Construprated (imp. & p. p.) of Constuprate
Constuprate (v. t.) To ravish; to debauch.
Constuprating (p. p. & vb. n.) of Constuprate
Constupration (n.) The act of ravishing; violation; defilement.
Consubstantial (a.) Of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential.
Consubstantialism (n.) The doctrine of consubstantiation.
Consubstantialist (n.) One who believes in consubstantiation.
Consubstantiality (n.) Participation of the same nature; coexistence in the same substance.
Consubstantially (adv.) In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.
Consubstantiate (a.) Partaking of the same substance; united; consubstantial.
Consubstantiate (v. i.) To profess or belive the doctrine of consubstantion.
Consubstantiate (v. t. ) To cause to unite, or to regard as united, in one common substance or nature.
Consubstantiated (imp. & p. p.) of Consubstantiate
Consubstantiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consubstantiate
Consubstantiation (n.) An identity or union of substance.
Consubstantiation (n.) The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation; -- opposed to transubstantiation.
Consuetude (n.) Custom, habit; usage.
Consuetudinal (a.) According to custom; customary; usual.
Consuetudinaries (pl. ) of Cussuetudinary
Consuetudinary (a.) Customary.
Consul (n.) A senator; a counselor.
Consul (n.) An official commissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen.
Consul (n.) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul.
Consul (n.) One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.
Consulage (n.) A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.
Consular (a.) Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.
Consulary (a.) Consular.
Consulate (n.) Consular government; term of office of a consul.
Consulate (n.) The jurisdiction or residence of a consul.
Consulate (n.) The office of a consul.
Consulship (n.) The office of a consul; consulate.
Consulship (n.) The term of office of a consul.
Consult (n.) A council; a meeting for consultation.
Consult (n.) Agreement; concert
Consult (n.) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.
Consult (v. i.) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
Consult (v. t.) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.
Consult (v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
Consult (v. t.) To deliberate upon; to take for.
Consult (v. t.) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
Consultary (a.) Formed by consultation; resulting from conference.
Consultation (n.) A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.
Consultation (n.) The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.
Consultative (a.) Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.
Consultatory (a.) Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.
Consulted (imp. & p. p.) of Consult
Consulter (n.) One who consults, or asks counsel or information.
Consulting (a.) That consults.
Consulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consult
Consultive (a.) Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative.
Consumable (a.) Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent.
Consume (v. i.) To waste away slowly.
Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
Consumed (imp. & p. p.) of Consume
Consumedly (adv.) Excessively.
Consumer (n.) One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.
Consuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consume
Consumingly (adv.) In a consuming manner.
Consummate (a.) Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.
Consummate (v. t. ) To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
Consummated (imp. & p. p.) of Consummate
Consummately (adv.) In a consummate manner; completely.
Consummating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Consummate
Consummation (n.) The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).
Consummative (a.) Serving to consummate; completing.
Consumption (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.
Consumption (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Consumption (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
Consumptive (a.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
Consumptive (a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
Consumptive (n.) One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
Consumptively (adv.) In a way tending to or indication consumption.
Consumptiveness (n.) A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
Contabescent (a.) Wasting away gradually.
Contact (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Contact (n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Contact (n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
Contaction (n.) Act of touching.
Contagion (n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
Contagion (n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
Contagion (n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
Contagion (n.) Venom; poison.
Contagioned (a.) Affected by contagion.
Contagionist (n.) One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.
Contagious (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
Contagious (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
Contagious (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
Contagiously (adv.) In a contagious manner.
Contagiousness (n.) Quality of being contagious.
Contagium (n.) Contagion; contagious matter.
Contain (v. i.) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
Contain (v. t.) To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
Contain (v. t.) To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
Contain (v. t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
Containable (a.) Capable of being contained or comprised.
Containant (n.) A container.
Contained (imp. & p. p.) of Contain
Container (n.) One who, or that which, contains.
Containing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contain
Containment (n.) That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
Contaminate (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
Contaminated (imp. & p. p.) of Contaminate
Contaminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contaminate
Contamination (n.) The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
Contamitive (a.) Tending or liable to contaminate.
Contango (n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.
Contango (n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.
Contangoes (pl. ) of Contango
Contection (n.) A covering.
Contek (n.) Contumely; reproach.
Contek (n.) Quarrel; contention; contest.
Contemn (v. t.) To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.
Contemned (imp. & p. p.) of Contemn
Contemner (n.) One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner.
Contemning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contemn
Contemningly (adv.) Contemptuously.
Contemper (v. t.) To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften.
Contemperate (v. t.) To temper; to moderate.
Contemperation (n.) Proportionate mixture or combination.
Contemperation (n.) The act of tempering or moderating.
Contemperature (n.) The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature.
Contemplance (n.) Contemplation.
Contemplant (a.) Given to contemplation; meditative.
Contemplate (v. i.) To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.
Contemplate (v. t.) To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.
Contemplate (v. t.) To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.
Contemplated (imp. & p. p.) of Contemplate
Contemplating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contemplate
Contemplation (n.) Holy meditation.
Contemplation (n.) The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
Contemplation (n.) The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
Contemplatist (n.) A contemplator.
Contemplative (a.) Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties.
Contemplative (a.) Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative.
Contemplative (n.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.
Contemplatively (adv.) With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.
Contemplativeness (n.) The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.
Contemplator (n.) One who contemplates.
Contemporaneity (n.) The state of being contemporaneous.
Contemporaneous (a.) Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.
Contemporaneously (adv.) At the same time with some other event.
Contemporaries (pl. ) of Contemporary
Contemporariness (n.) Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness.
Contemporary (a.) Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
Contemporary (a.) Of the same age; coeval.
Contemporary (n.) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
Contempt (n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.
Contempt (n.) The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
Contempt (n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.
Contemptibility (n.) The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness.
Contemptible (a.) Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.
Contemptibleness (n.) The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
Contemptibly (adv.) In a contemptible manner.
Contemptuous (a.) Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
Contemptuously (adv.) In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.
Contemptuousness (n.) Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
Contend (v. i.) To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
Contend (v. i.) To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
Contend (v. i.) To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
Contend (v. t.) To struggle for; to contest.
Contended (imp. & p. p.) of Contend
Contendent (n.) An antagonist; a contestant.
Contender (n.) One who contends; a contestant.
Contending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contend
Contendress (n.) A female contestant.
Contenement (n.) That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling; appurtenance.
Content (a.) Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.
Content (a.) To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.
Content (a.) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
Content (n.) Acquiescence without examination.
Content (n.) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "Content.".
Content (n.) Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.
Content (n.) Power of containing; capacity; extent; size.
Content (n.) Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.
Content (n.) That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
Content (n.) That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book.
Contentation (n.) Content; satisfaction.
Contented (a.) Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing.
Contentful (a.) Full of content.
Contention (n.) A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position taken or contended for.
Contention (n.) A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.
Contention (n.) Strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention.
Contention (n.) Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal.
Contentious (a.) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.
Contentious (a.) Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.
Contentious (a.) Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention.
Contentment (v. t.) The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.
Contentment (v. t.) The state of being contented or satisfied; content.
Contents (n. pl.) See Content, n.
Contents (pl. ) of Content
Conterminable (a.) Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous.
Conterminal (a.) Conterminous.
Conterminant (a.) Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous.
Conterminate (a.) Having the same bounds; conterminous.
Conterminous (a.) Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.
Conterranean (a.) Alt. of Conterraneous
Conterraneous (a.) Of or belonging to the same country.
Contertionist (n.) One who makes or practices contortions.
Contesseration (n.) An assemblage; a collection; harmonious union.
Contest (n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
Contest (n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
Contest (v. i.) To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.
Contest (v. t.) To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
Contest (v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
Contest (v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
Contestable (a.) Capable of being contested; debatable.
Contestant (n.) One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
Contestation (n.) Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.
Contestation (n.) The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.
Contested (imp. & p. p.) of Contest
Contesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contest
Contestingly (adv.) In a contending manner.
Contex (v. t.) To context.
Context (a.) Knit or woven together; close; firm.
Context (n.) The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
Context (v. t.) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
Contextural (a.) Pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven.
Contexture (n.) The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture.
Contextured (a.) Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed.
Conticent (a.) Silent.
Contignation (n.) A framework or fabric, as of beams.
Contignation (n.) The act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.
Contiguate (a.) Contiguous; touching.
Contiguity (n.) The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.
Contiguous (a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.
Continence (n.) Alt. of Continency
Continency (n.) Self-restraint; self-command.
Continency (n.) The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence.
Continency (n.) Uninterrupted course; continuity.
Continent (a.) Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
Continent (a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
Continent (a.) Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
Continent (a.) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
Continent (a.) That which contains anything; a receptacle.
Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to a continent.
Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
Continental (a.) Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.
Continental (n.) A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.
Continently (adv.) In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.
Contingence (n.) See Contingency.
Contingencies (pl. ) of Contingency
Contingency (n.) A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
Contingency (n.) An adjunct or accessory.
Contingency (n.) An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
Contingency (n.) The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
Contingency (n.) Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
Contingent (a.) Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate.
Contingent (a.) Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.
Contingent (a.) Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
Contingent (n.) An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.
Contingent (n.) That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.
Contingently (adv.) In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
Contingentness (n.) The state of being contingent; fortuitousness.
Continuable (a.) Capable of being continued
Continual (a.) Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated.
Continual (a.) Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding.
Continually (adv.) In regular or repeated succession; very often.
Continually (adv.) Without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually.
Continuance (n.) A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.
Continuance (n.) A holding together; continuity.
Continuance (n.) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
Continuance (n.) The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.
Continuation (n.) That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
Continuation (n.) That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story.
Continuative (n.) A term or expression denoting continuance.
Continuative (n.) A word that continues the connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction.
Continuator (n.) One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.
Continue (v. i.) To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.
Continue (v. i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.
Continue (v. i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
Continue (v. t.) To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.
Continue (v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.
Continue (v. t.) To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.
Continue (v. t.) To unite; to connect.
Continued (imp. & p. p.) of Continue
Continued (p. p. & a.) Having extension of time, space, order of events, exertion of energy, etc.; extended; protracted; uninterrupted; also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story.
Continuedly (adv.) Continuously.
Continuer (n.) One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence.
Continuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Continue
Continuities (pl. ) of Continuity
Continuity (n.) the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers.
Continuo (n.) Basso continuo, or continued bass.
Continuous (a.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
Continuous (a.) Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.
Continuously (adv.) In a continuous maner; without interruption.
Contline (n.) The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.
Contline (n.) The space between the strands on the outside of a rope.
Contorniate (n.) A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors.
Contorniate (n.) Alt. of Contorniate
Contorsion (n.) See Contortion.
Contort (v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.
Contorted (a.) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation.
Contorted (a.) Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
Contorted (a.) Twisted, or twisted together.
Contortion (n.) A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.
Contortive (a.) Expressing contortion.
Contortuplicate (a.) Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory.
Contour (n.) The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.
Contour (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.
Contourne' (a.) Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like.
Contourniated (a.) Having furrowed edges, as if turned in a lathe.
Contra () A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.
Contraband (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
Contraband (n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
Contraband (n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
Contraband (n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.
Contraband (v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.
Contraband (v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
Contrabandism (n.) Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling.
Contrabandist (n.) One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
Contrabass (n.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.
Contrabasso (n.) The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.
Contract (a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
Contract (a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.
Contract (n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
Contract (n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
Contract (n.) To betroth; to affiance.
Contract (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
Contract (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
Contract (n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Contract (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
Contract (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
Contract (v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.
Contract (v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
Contracted (a.) Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
Contracted (a.) Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
Contractedness (n.) The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
Contractibility (n.) Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
Contractible (a.) Capable of contraction.
Contractibleness (n.) Contractibility.
Contractile (a.) tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
Contractility (n.) The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
Contracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contract
Contraction (n.) A marriage contract.
Contraction (n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
Contraction (n.) The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
Contraction (n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
Contraction (n.) The process of shortening an operation.
Contraction (n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
Contractive (a.) Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
Contracture (n.) A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
Contradance (n.) A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.
Contradict (v. i.) To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.
Contradict (v. t.) To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
Contradict (v. t.) To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
Contradictable (a.) Capable of being contradicting.
Contradicted (imp. & p. p.) of Contradict
Contradicter (n.) one who contradicts.
Contradicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contradict
Contradiction (n.) An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
Contradiction (n.) Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.
Contradictions (a.) Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
Contradictions (a.) Inclined to contradict or cavil
Contradictive (a.) Contradictory; inconsistent.
Contradictor (n.) A contradicter.
Contradictories (pl. ) of Contradictory
Contradictorily (adv.) In a contradictory manner.
Contradictoriness (n.) The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency.
Contradictory (a.) Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.
Contradictory (a.) Opposing or opposed; repugnant.
Contradictory (n.) A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety.
Contradictory (n.) propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.
Contradistinct (a.) Distinguished by opposite qualities.
Contradistinction (n.) Distinction by contrast.
Contradistinctive (a.) having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.
Contradistinguish (v. t. ) To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities.
Contradistinguished (imp. & p. p.) of Contradistinguish
Contradistinguishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contradistinguish
Contrafagetto (n.) The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.
Contrafissure (n.) A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
Contrahent (a.) Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties.
Contraindicant (n.) Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed.
Contraindicate (v. t.) To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require.
Contraindicated (imp. & p. p.) of Contraindicate
Contraindicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contraindicate
Contraindication (n.) An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.
Contralto (a.) Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice.
Contralto (n.) The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
Contralto (n.) the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto.
Contramure (n.) An outer wall.
Contranatural (a.) Opposed to or against nature; unnatural.
Contraposition (n.) A placing over against; opposite position.
Contraposition (n.) A so-called immediate inference which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e.g.: Every S is P; therefore, no Not-P is S.
Contrapuntal (a.) Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.
Contrapuntist (n.) One skilled in counterpoint.
Contraremonstrant (n.) One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant.
Contraries (n.) Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.
Contraries (pl. ) of Contrary
Contrarieties (pl. ) of Contrariety
Contrariety (n.) Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency.
Contrariety (n.) The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.
Contrarily (adv.) In a contrary manner; in opposition; on the other side; in opposite ways.
Contrariness (n.) state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy.
Contrary (a.) Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.
Contrary (n.) A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.
Contrary (n.) An opponent; an enemy.
Contrary (n.) See Contraries.
Contrary (n.) the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1.
Contrast (n.) Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.
Contrast (n.) The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.
Contrast (n.) The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.
Contrast (v. i.) To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.
Contrast (v. t.) To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.
Contrast (v. t.) To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.
Contrasted (imp. & p. p.) of Contrast
Contrastimulant (a.) Counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants.
Contrastimulant (n.) An agent which counteracts the effect of a stimulant.
Contrasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contrast
Contrate (a.) Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.
Contratenor (n.) Counter tenor; contralto.
Contravallation (n.) A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.
Contravene (v. t.) To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.
Contravene (v. t.) To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law.
Contravened (imp. & p. p.) of Contravene
Contravener (n.) One who contravenes.
Contravening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contravene
Contravention (n.) The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.
Contraversion (n.) A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.
Contrayerva (n.) A species of Dorstenia (D. Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.
Contrecoup (n.) A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.
Contretemps (n.) An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch.
Contributable (a.) Capable of being contributed.
Contributary (a.) Contributory.
Contributary (a.) Tributary; contributing.
Contribute (v. i.) To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect.
Contribute (v. i.) To give or use one's power or influence for any object; to assist.
Contribute (v. t.) To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.
Contributed (imp. & p. p.) of Contribute
Contributer (n.) One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.
Contributing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contribute
Contribution (n.) An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
Contribution (n.) Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.
Contribution (n.) That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals.
Contribution (n.) The act of contributing.
Contributional (a.) Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
Contributive (a.) Contributing, or tending to contribute.
Contributories (pl. ) of Contributory
Contributory (a.) Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
Contributory (n.) One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
Contrist (v. t.) To make sad.
Contristate (v. t. & i.) To make sorrowful.
Contrite (a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.
Contrite (a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.
Contrite (n.) A contrite person.
Contrite (v.) In a contrite manner.
Contriteness (n.) Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.
Contrition (n.) The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.
Contrition (n.) The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through repentance.
Contriturate (v. t.) To triturate; to pulverize.
Contrivance (n.) The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
Contrivance (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
Contrivble (a.) Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.
Contrive (v. i.) To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
Contriver (n.) One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.
Contriving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contrive
Control (n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
Control (n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
Control (v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
Control (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Controllability (n.) Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
Controllable (a.) Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command.
Controllableness (n.) Capability of being controlled.
Controlled (imp. & p. p.) of Control
Controller (n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
Controller (n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.
Controller (n.) One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
Contumacious (a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.
Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
Contumacy (n.) Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
Contumely (n.) Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
Contuse (v. t.) To beat, pound, or together.
Contuse (v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.
Contused (imp. & p. p.) of Contuse
Contusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contuse
Contusion (n.) A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
Contusion (n.) The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
Conundrum (n.) A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.
Conundrum (n.) A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.
Conure (n.) An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.
Conus (n.) A cone.
Conus (n.) A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4.
Conusable (a.) Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged.
Conusant (a.) See Cognizant.
Conusor (n.) See Cognizor.
Convalesce (v. i.) To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.
Convalesced (a.) Convalescent.
Convalesced (imp. & p. p.) of Convalesce
Convalescence (n.) Alt. of Convalescency
Convalescency (n.) The recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.
Convalescent (a.) Of or pertaining to convalescence.
Convalescent (a.) Recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.
Convalescent (n.) One recovering from sickness.
Convalescently (adv.) In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
Convalescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convalesce
Convallamarin (n.) A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet.
Convallaria (n.) The lily of the valley.
Convallarin (n.) A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.
Convection (n.) A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes.
Convection (n.) The act or process of conveying or transmitting.
Convective (a.) Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity.
Convectively (adv.) In a convective manner.
Convellent (a.) Tending to tear or pull up.
Convenable (a.) Capable of being convened or assembled.
Convenance (n.) That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient.
Convene (v. i.) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
Convene (v. i.) To come together; to meet; to unite.
Convene (v. t.) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
Convene (v. t.) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
Convened (imp. & p. p.) of Convene
Convener (n.) One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.
Convener (n.) One who convenes or meets with others.
Convenience (n.) Alt. of Conveniency
Conveniency (n.) A convenient or fit time; opportunity; as, to do something at one's convenience.
Conveniency (n.) Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation.
Conveniency (n.) That which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation.
Conveniency (n.) The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.
Convenient (v. i.) Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.
Convenient (v. i.) Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.
Convenient (v. i.) Near at hand; easy of access.
Convenient (v. i.) Seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season.
Conveniently (adv.) In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
Convenong (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convene
Convent (v. i.) A coming together; a meeting.
Convent (v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
Convent (v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
Convent (v. i.) To be convenient; to serve.
Convent (v. i.) To meet together; to concur.
Convent (v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
Conventical (a.) Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent.
Conventicle (n.) A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.
Conventicler (n.) One who supports or frequents conventicles.
Conventicling (a.) Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.
Convention (v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
Convention (v. i.) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.
Convention (v. i.) General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
Convention (v. i.) The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
Conventional (a.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.
Conventional (a.) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
Conventional (a.) Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
Conventional (a.) Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
Conventionalily (adv.) In a conventional manner.
Conventionalism (n.) That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
Conventionalism (n.) The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t.
Conventionalist (n.) One who adheres to a convention or treaty.
Conventionalist (n.) One who is governed by conventionalism.
Conventionalities (pl. ) of Conventionality
Conventionality (n.) The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
Conventionalization (n.) The act of making conventional.
Conventionalization (n.) The state of being conventional.
Conventionalize (v. i.) To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.
Conventionalized (imp. & p. p.) of Conventionalizw
Conventionalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conventionalizw
Conventionalizw (v. t.) To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage.
Conventionalizw (v. t.) To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.
Conventionalizw (v. t.) To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.
Conventionary (a.) Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants.
Conventioner (n.) One who belongs to a convention or assembly.
Conventionist (n.) One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
Conventual (a.) Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.
Conventual (n.) One who lives in a convent; a monk or nun; a recluse.
Converge (v. i.) To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.
Converge (v. t.) To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.
Converged (imp. & p. p.) of Converge
Convergence (n.) Alt. of Convergency
Convergency (n.) The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point.
Convergent (a.) tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
Converging (a.) Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines.
Converging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Converge
Conversable (a.) Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse.
Conversableness (n.) The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.
Conversably (adv.) In a conversable manner.
Conversance (n.) The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.
Conversancy (n.) Conversance
Conversant (a.) Concerned; occupied.
Conversant (a.) Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in.
Conversant (a.) Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
Conversant (n.) One who converses with another; a convenser.
Conversantly (adv.) In a familiar manner.
Conversation (n.) Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
Conversation (n.) Commerce; intercourse; traffic.
Conversation (n.) Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.
Conversation (n.) General course of conduct; behavior.
Conversation (n.) Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.
Conversational (a.) Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.
Conversationalist (n.) A conversationist.
Conversationed (a.) Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved.
Conversationism (n.) A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism.
Conversationist (n.) One who converses much, or who excels in conversation.
Conversative (a.) Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative.
Conversazi-one (n.) A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects.
Conversazioni (pl. ) of Conversazi-one
Converse (a.) Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.
Converse (n.) A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.
Converse (n.) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
Converse (v. i.) To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.
Converse (v. i.) To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.
Converse (v. i.) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.
Conversed (imp. & p. p.) of Converse
Conversely (adv.) In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.
Converser (n.) One who engages in conversation.
Conversible (a.) Capable of being converted or reversed.
Conversing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Converse
Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
Conversion (n.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
Conversion (n.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.
Conversion (n.) An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.
Conversion (n.) The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.
Conversion (n.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
Conversion (n.) The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Conversive (a.) Capable of being converted or changed.
Conversive (a.) Ready to converse; social.
Convert (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
Convert (v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.
Convert (v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
Convert (v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.
Convert (v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
Convert (v. t.) To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.
Convert (v. t.) To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.
Convert (v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
Convert (v. t.) To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.
Convert (v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.
Converted (imp. & p. p.) of Convert
Convertend (n.) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic).
Converter (n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
Converter (n.) One who converts; one who makes converts.
Convertibility (n.) The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness.
Convertible (a.) Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.
Convertible (a.) Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
Convertibleness (n.) The state of being convertible; convertibility.
Convertibly (adv.) In a convertible manner.
Converting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convert
Convertite (n.) A convert.
Convex (a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.
Convex (n.) A convex body or surface.
Convexed (a.) Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.
Convexedly (dv.) In a convex form; convexly.
Convexedness (n.) Convexity.
Convexities (pl. ) of Convexity
Convexity (n.) The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.
Convexly (adv.) In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.
Convexness (n.) The state of being convex; convexity.
Convexo-concave (a.) Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus.
Convexo-convex (a.) Convex on both sides; double convex. See under Convex, a.
Convexo-plane (a.) Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
Convey (v. i.) To play the thief; to steal.
Convey (v. t.) To accompany; to convoy.
Convey (v. t.) To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
Convey (v. t.) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
Convey (v. t.) To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.
Convey (v. t.) To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.
Convey (v. t.) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
Convey (v. t.) To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.
Conveyable (a.) Capable of being conveyed or transferred.
Conveyance (n.) Dishonest management, or artifice.
Conveyance (n.) The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another.
Conveyance (n.) The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
Conveyance (n.) The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.
Conveyancer (n.) One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc.
Conveyancing (n.) The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.
Conveyed (imp. & p. p.) of Convey
Conveyer (n.) One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.
Conveyer (n.) One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.
Conveying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convey
Conveyor (n.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.
Conviciate (v. i.) To utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail.
Convict (n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
Convict (n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
Convict (p.a.) Proved or found guilty; convicted.
Convict (v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction.
Convict (v. t.) To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.
Convict (v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
Convict (v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.
Convict1ible (a.) Capable of being convicted.
Convicted (imp. & p. p.) of Convict
Convicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convict
Conviction (n.) A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.
Conviction (n.) The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.
Conviction (n.) The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.
Conviction (n.) The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.
Convictism (n.) The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
Convictive (a.) Convincing.
Convince (v. t.) To confute; to prove the fallacy of.
Convince (v. t.) To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.
Convince (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master.
Convince (v. t.) To prove guilty; to convict.
Convinced (imp. & p. p.) of Convince
Convincement (n.) Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction.
Convincer (n.) One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
Convincible (a.) Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable.
Convincible (a.) Capable of being convinced or won over.
Convincing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convince
Convincingly (adv.) in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.
Convincingness (n.) The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing.
Convival (a.) pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial.
Convive (n.) A quest at a banquet.
Convive (v. i.) To feast together; to be convivial.
Convivial (a.) Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.
Convivialist (n.) A person of convivial habits.
Convivialities (pl. ) of Conviviality
Conviviality (n.) The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.
Convivially (adv.) In a convivial manner.
Convocate (v. t.) To convoke; to call together.
Convocated (imp. & p. p.) of Convocate
Convocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convocate
Convocation (n.) An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
Convocation (n.) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
Convocation (n.) An assembly or meeting.
Convocation (n.) The act of calling or assembling by summons.
Convocational (a.) Of or pertaining to a convocation.
Convocationist (n.) An advocate or defender of convocation.
Convoke (v. t.) To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons.
Convoked (imp. & p. p.) of Convoke
Convoking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convoke
Convoluluses (pl. ) of Convolvulus
Convolute (a.) Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.
Convoluted (a.) Folded in tortuous windings.
Convoluted (a.) Having convolutions.
Convolution (n.) An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain.
Convolution (n.) The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.
Convolution (n.) The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself.
Convolve (v. t.) To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.
Convolved (imp. & p. p.) of Convolve
Convolving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convolve
Convolvulaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.
Convolvuli (pl. ) of Convolvulus
Convolvulin (n.) A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.
Convolvulus (n.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea.
Convoy (n.) A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.
Convoy (n.) A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.
Convoy (n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.
Convoy (n.) Conveyance; means of transportation.
Convoy (n.) The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.
Convoy (v. t.) To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.
Convoyed (imp. & p. p.) of Convoy
Convoying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convoy
Convulse (v. t.) To agitate greatly; to shake violently.
Convulse (v. t.) To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.
Convulsed (imp. & p. p.) of Convulse
Convulsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convulse
Convulsion (n.) An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.
Convulsion (n.) Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion.
Convulsional (a.) Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary.
Convulsionary (a.) Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive.
Convulsionary (n.) A convulsionist.
Convulsionist (n.) One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Medard.
Convulsive (a.) Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.
Convulsively (adv.) in a convulsive manner.
Cony (n.) A local name of the burbot.
Cony (n.) A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus)
Cony (n.) A simpleton.
Cony (n.) An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.
Cony (n.) The chief hare.
Cony-catch (v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
Cony-catcher (n.) A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver.
Conylene (n.) An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.
Conyrine (n.) A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.
Coo (v. i.) To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.
Coo (v. i.) To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i.
Cooed (imp. & p. p.) of Coo
Cooee (n.) A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal.
Cooey (n.) Alt. of Cooee
Cooing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coo
Cook (n.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.
Cook (n.) One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.
Cook (v. i.) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Cook (v. i.) To prepare food for the table.
Cook (v. t.) To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
Cook (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
Cook (v. t.) To throw.
Cookbook (n.) A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.
Cooked (imp. & p. p.) of Cook
Cookee (n.) A female cook.
Cookery (n.) A delicacy; a dainty.
Cookery (n.) The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.
Cookey (n.) Alt. of Cookie
Cookie (n.) See Cooky.
Cookies (pl. ) of Cooky
Cooking (p. pr & vb. n.) of Cook
Cookmaid (n.) A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.
Cookroom (n.) A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.
Cookshop (n.) An eating house.
Cooky (n.) A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.
Cool (n.) A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
Cool (superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
Cool (superl.) Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
Cool (superl.) Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
Cool (superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
Cool (superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
Cool (superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
Cool (v. i.) To become less hot; to lose heat.
Cool (v. i.) To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.
Cool (v. t.) To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
Cool (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
Cool-headed (a.) Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion.
Cooled (imp. & p. p.) of Cool
Cooler (n.) Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.
Cooler (n.) That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.
Coolie (n.) An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
Coolie (n.) Same as Cooly.
Coolies (pl. ) of Coolie
Cooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cool
Cooling (p.a.) Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.
Coolish (a.) Somewhat cool.
Coolly (a.) Coolish; cool.
Coolly (adv.) In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.
Coolness (n.) Calm impudence; self-possession.
Coolness (n.) The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.
Coolung (n.) The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea).
Cooly (n.) Alt. of Coolie
Coom (n.) Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.
Coomb (n.) A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
Coomb (n.) Alt. of Coombe
Coombe (n.) A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.
Coon (n.) A raccoon. See Raccoon.
Coontie (n.) A cycadaceous plant of Florida and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.
Coop (n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.
Coop (n.) A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
Coop (n.) An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
Coop (v. t.) To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.
Coop (v. t.) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
Cooped (imp. & p. p.) of Coop
Coopee (n.) See Coupe.
Cooper (n.) One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.
Cooper (n.) Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.
Cooper (v. t.) To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.
Cooperage (n.) A place where coopers' work is done.
Cooperate (v. i.) To act or operate jointly with another or others; to concur in action, effort, or effect.
Cooperated (imp. & p. p.) of Cooperate
Cooperating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cooperate
Cooperation (n.) The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.
Cooperation (n.) The association of a number of persons for their benefit.
Cooperative (a.) Operating jointly to the same end.
Cooperator (n.) One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end.
Coopered (imp. & p. p.) of Cooper
Coopering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cooper
Coopery (a.) Relating to a cooper; coopered.
Coopery (n.) The occupation of a cooper.
Cooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coop
Coopt (v. t.) To choose or elect in concert with another.
Cooptate (v. t.) To choose; to elect; to coopt.
Cooptation (n.) The act of choosing; selection; choice.
Coordain (v. t.) To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.
Coordinance (n.) Joint ordinance.
Coordinate (a.) Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.
Coordinate (n.) A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.
Coordinate (n.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa.
Coordinate (v. t.) To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coordinate muscular movements.
Coordinate (v. t.) To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.
Coordinated (imp. & p. p.) of Coordinate
Coordinately (adv.) In a coordinate manner.
Coordinateness (n.) The state of being coordinate; equality of rank or authority.
Coordinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coordinate
Coordination (n.) The state of being coordinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc.
Coordinative (a.) Expressing coordination.
Coot (n.) A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.
Coot (n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.
Coot (n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.
Cooter (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Pseudemus concinna) of Florida.
Cooter (n.) The box tortoise.
Cootfoot (n.) The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.
Coothay (n.) A striped satin made in India.
Cop (n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
Cop (n.) A policeman.
Cop (n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
Cop (n.) Same as Merlon.
Cop (n.) The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
Cop-rose (n.) The red, or corn, poppy.
Copaiba (n.) Alt. of Copaiva
Coparcenaries (pl. ) of Coparcenary
Coparcenary (n.) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.
Coparcener (n.) One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.
Coparceny (n.) An equal share of an inheritance.
Copart (v. t.) To share.
Copartment (n.) A compartment.
Copartner (n.) One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.
Copartneries (pl. ) of Copartnery
Copartnership (n.) A partnership or firm; as, A. and B. have this day formed a copartnership.
Copartnership (n.) The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.
Copartnery (n.) the state of being copartners in any undertaking.
Copatain (a.) Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.
Copatriot (n.) A joint patriot.
Cope (n.) A covering for the head.
Cope (n.) An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
Cope (n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
Cope (n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
Cope (n.) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
Cope (v. i.) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
Cope (v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.
Cope (v. i.) To exchange or barter.
Cope (v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
Cope (v. t.) To bargain for; to buy.
Cope (v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
Cope (v. t.) To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.
Cope (v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
Cope-chisel (n.) A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.
Copeck (n.) A Russian copper coin. See Kopeck.
Coped (a.) Clad in a cope.
Coped (imp. & p. p.) of Cope
Copelata (n. pl.) See Larvalla.
Copeman (v. i.) A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.
Copepod (a.) Of or pertaining to the Copepoda.
Copepod (n.) One of the Copepoda.
Copepoda (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.
Copernican (a.) Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.
Copesmate (n.) An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.
Copestone (n.) A stone for coping. See Coping.
Copied (imp. & p. p.) of Copy
Copier (n.) An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist.
Copier (n.) One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.
Copies (pl. ) of Copy
Coping (n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.
Coping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cope
Copious (a.) Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.
Copiously (adv.) In a copious manner.
Copiousness (n.) The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style.
Copist (n.) A copier.
Copland (n.) A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.
Coplaner (a.) Situated in one plane.
Coplatry (a.) Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.
Coplatry (a.) Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects.
Coportion (n.) Equal share.
Copped (a.) Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested.
Coppel (n. & v.) See Cupel.
Copper (n.) A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.
Copper (n.) A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
Copper (n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.
Copper (v. t.) To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.
Copper works () A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.
Copper-bottomed (a.) Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
Copper-faced (a.) Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
Copper-fastened (a.) Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
Copper-nickel (n.) Niccolite.
Copper-nose (n.) A red nose.
Coppered (imp. & p. p.) of Copper
Copperhead (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
Copperhead (n.) A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper.
Coppering (n.) An envelope or covering of copper.
Coppering (n.) The act of covering with copper.
Coppering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Copper
Copperish (a.) Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
Copperplate (n.) A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
Copperplate (n.) An impression on paper taken from such a plate.
Coppersmith (n.) One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
Copperworm (n.) The ringworm.
Copperworm (n.) The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper.
Coppery (a.) Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
Coppice (n.) A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
Coppin (n.) A cop of thread.
Copple (n.) Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point.
Copple dust () Cupel dust.
Copple-crown (n.) A created or high-topped crown or head.
Coppled (a.) Rising to a point; conical; copped.
Copplestone (n.) A cobblestone.
Copps (n.) See Copse.
Copra (n.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.
Coprolite (n.) A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.
Coprolitic (a.) Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.
Coprophagan (n.) A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.
Coprophagous (a.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.
Cops (n.) The connecting crook of a harrow.
Copse (n.) A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
Copse (v. t.) To plant and preserve, as a copse.
Copse (v. t.) To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
Copsewood (n.) Brushwood; coppice.
Copsy (a.) Characterized by copses.
Coptic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Copts.
Coptic (n.) The language of the Copts.
Copts (n. pl.) An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians.
Copts (n. pl.) The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.
Copula (n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.
Copula (n.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.
Copulate (a.) Joined; associated; coupled.
Copulate (a.) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
Copulate (v. i.) To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.
Copulated (imp. & p. p.) of Copulate
Copulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Copulate
Copulation (n.) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
Copulation (n.) The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.
Copulative (a.) Serving to couple, unite, or connect; as, a copulative conjunction like "and".
Copulative (n.) A copulative conjunction.
Copulative (n.) Connection.
Copulatively (adv.) In a copulative manner.
Copy (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper.
Copy (n.) An abundance or plenty of anything.
Copy (n.) An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue.
Copy (n.) An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison.
Copy (n.) Copyhold; tenure; lease.
Copy (n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.
Copy (n.) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
Copy (n.) To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life.
Copy (n.) To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave, or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off.
Copy (v. i.) To make a copy or copies; to imitate.
Copy (v. i.) To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well.
Copyer (n.) See Copier.
Copygraph (n.) A contrivance for producing manifold copies of a writing or drawing.
Copyhold (n.) A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court.
Copyhold (n.) Land held in copyhold.
Copyholder (n.) A device for holding copy for a compositor.
Copyholder (n.) One possessed of land in copyhold.
Copyholder (n.) One who reads copy to a proof reader.
Copying (a. & n.) From Copy, v.
Copying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Copy
Copyist (n.) A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.
Copyright (v. t.) To secure a copyright on.
Coquelicot (n.) The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet.
Coquelicot (n.) The wild poppy, or red corn rose.
Coquet (v. i.) To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.
Coquet (v. t.) To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.
Coquetries (pl. ) of Coquetry
Coquetry (n.) Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.
Coquette (n.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.
Coquette (n.) A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.
Coquetted (imp. & p. p.) of Coquet
Coquetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coquet
Coquettish (a.) Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.
Coquettishly (adv.) In a coquettish manner.
Coquilla nut () The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.).
Coquimbite (n.) A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili.
Coquina (n.) A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.
Cor (n.) A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer.
Cor- () A prefix signifying with, together, etc. See Com-.
Cor/niculate (a.) Having processes resembling small horns.
Cor/niculate (a.) Horned; having horns.
Cora (n.) The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.
Coracle (n.) A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.
Coracoid (a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals.
Coracoid (a.) Shaped like a crow's beak.
Coracoid (n.) The coracoid bone or process.
Corage (n.) See Courage
Coral (n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
Coral (n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.
Coral (n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.
Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.
Coral-rag (n.) Same as Corallian.
Coraled (a.) Having coral; covered with coral.
Corallaceous (a.) Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.
Corallian (n.) A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag.
Corallin (n.) A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic.
Coralline (a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone.
Coralline (n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
Coralline (n.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.
Corallinite (n.) A fossil coralline.
Corallite (n.) A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.
Corallite (n.) One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal.
Coralloid (a.) Having the form of coral; branching like coral.
Coralloidal (a.) resembling coral; coralloid.
Corallum (n.) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
Coralwort (n.) A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.
Coranach (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.
Corant (n.) Alt. of Coranto
Coranto (n.) A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.
Corb (n.) A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf.
Corb (n.) An ornament in a building; a corbel.
Corban (n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.
Corban (n.) An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow.
Corbe (a.) Crooked.
Corbel (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
Corbel (v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Corbel-table (n.) A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.
Corbell (n.) A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel.
Corbell (n.) Small gabions.
Corbie (n.) Alt. of Corby
Corbies (pl. ) of Corby
Corbiestep (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.
Corby (n.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge.
Corby (n.) The raven.
Corchorus (n.) The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.
Corcle (n.) Alt. of Corcule
Corcule (n.) The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ.
Cord (imp. & p. p.) of Core
Cord (n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
Cord (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
Cord (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
Cord (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
Cord (n.) See Chord.
Cord (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
Cord (v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
Cordage (n.) Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.
Cordal (n.) Same as Cordelle.
Cordate (a.) Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.
Cordately (adv.) In a cordate form.
Corded (a.) Bound about, or wound, with cords.
Corded (a.) Bound or fastened with cords.
Corded (a.) Made of cords.
Corded (a.) Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.
Corded (a.) Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface.
Corded (imp. & p. p.) of Cord
Cordelier (n.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.
Cordelier (n.) A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.
Cordeling (a.) Twisting.
Cordelle (n.) A twisted cord; a tassel.
Cordial (a.) Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.
Cordial (a.) Proceeding from the heart.
Cordial (a.) Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.
Cordial (n.) Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial.
Cordial (n.) Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.
Cordial (n.) Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.
Cordialities (pl. ) of Cordiality
Cordiality (n.) Relation to the heart.
Cordiality (n.) Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness.
Cordialize (v. i.) To grow cordial; to feel or express cordiality.
Cordialize (v. t.) To make into a cordial.
Cordialize (v. t.) To render cordial; to reconcile.
Cordially (adv.) In a cordial manner.
Cordialness (n.) Cordiality.
Cordierite (n.) See Iolite.
Cordillera (n.) A mountain ridge or chain.
Cordiner (n.) A cordwainer.
Cording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cord
Cordoform (a.) Heart-shaped.
Cordon (n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.
Cordon (n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
Cordon (n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.
Cordon (n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
Cordon (n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
Cordonnet (n.) Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc.
Cordovan (n.) Same as Cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.
Corduroy (n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.
Corduroy (n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy.
Corduroy (v. t.) To form of logs laid side by side.
Cordwain (n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.
Cordwainer (n.) A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker.
Core (n.) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
Core (n.) A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
Core (n.) A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
Core (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.
Core (n.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
Core (n.) The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
Core (n.) The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.
Core (n.) The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.
Core (v. t.) To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
Core (v. t.) To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
Coreopsis (n.) A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.
Corer (n.) That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.
Corf (n.) A basket.
Corf (n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.
Corf (n.) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.
Corfiote (n.) Alt. of Corfute
Corfute (n.) A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Coriaceous (a.) Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.
Coriaceous (a.) Stiff, like leather or parchment.
Coriander (n.) An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.
Corindon (n.) See Corrundum.
Coring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Core
Corinne (n.) The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle.
Corinth (n.) A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.
Corinth (n.) A small fruit; a currant.
Corinthiac (a.) Pertaining to Corinth.
Corinthian (a.) Debauched in character or practice; impure.
Corinthian (a.) Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)
Corinthian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Corinthian order of architecture, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans.
Corinthian (a.) Of or relating to Corinth.
Corinthian (n.) A gay, licentious person.
Corinthian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Corinth.
Corium (n.) Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.
Corium (n.) Same as Dermis.
Corium (n.) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.
Corival (n.) A rival; a corrival.
Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.
Corivalry (n.) Alt. of Corivalship
Corivalship (n.) Joint rivalry.
Cork (n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
Cork (n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
Cork (n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
Cork (v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
Cork (v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
Cork fossil () A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
Corkage (n.) The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.
Corked (a.) having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.
Corked (imp. & p. p.) of Cork
Corkiness (n.) The quality of being corky.
Corking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cork
Corking pin () A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold.
Corkscrew (n.) An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.
Corkscrew (v. t.) To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd.
Corkwing (n.) A fish; the goldsinny.
Corky (a.) Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.
Corky (a.) Tasting of cork.
Corm (n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.
Corm (n.) Same as Cormus, 2.
Cormogeny (n.) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.
Cormophylogeny (n.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals.
Cormophyta (n. pl.) A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.
Cormophytes (n. pl.) Alt. of Cormophyta
Cormorant (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.
Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese.
Cormoraut (a.) Ravenous; voracious.
Cormus (n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.
Cormus (n.) See Corm.
Corn (n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
Corn (n.) A small, hard particle; a grain.
Corn (n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
Corn (n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.
Corn (n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
Corn (v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
Corn (v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
Corn (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.
Corn (v. t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
Cornage (n.) Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.
Cornamute (n.) A cornemuse.
Cornbind (n.) A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.
Corncob (n.) The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow.
Corncrake (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.
Corncrib (n.) A crib for storing corn.
Corncutter (n.) A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.
Corncutter (n.) An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn.
Corndodger (n.) A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.
Cornea (n.) The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Corneal (a.) Pertaining to the cornea.
Corneas (pl. ) of Cornea
Corned (imp. & p. p.) of Corn
Cornel (n.) Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.
Cornel (n.) The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.
Cornelian (n.) Same as Carnelian.
Cornemuse (n.) A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.
Corneocalcareous (a.) Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.
Corneocalcareous (a.) Horny on one side and calcareous on the other.
Corneouss (a.) Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.
Corner (n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
Corner (n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
Corner (n.) Direction; quarter.
Corner (n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
Corner (n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
Corner (v. t.) To drive into a corner.
Corner (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
Corner (v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
Cornercap (n.) The chief ornament.
Cornered (imp. & p. p.) of Corner
Cornered (p. a.) 1 Having corners or angles.
Cornered (p. a.) In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
Cornering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corner
Cornerwise (adv.) With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
Cornet (n.) A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.
Cornet (n.) A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
Cornet (n.) A certain organ stop or register.
Cornet (n.) A headdress
Cornet (n.) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
Cornet (n.) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
Cornet (n.) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
Cornet (n.) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
Cornet (n.) See Coronet, 2.
Cornet (n.) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.
Cornet (n.) The standard of such a troop.
Cornet-a-piston (n.) A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
Cornetcy (n.) The commission or rank of a cornet.
Corneter (n.) One who blows a cornet.
Cornets-a-piston (pl. ) of Cornet-a-piston
Corneule (n.) One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates.
Cornfield (n.) A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.
Cornfloor (n.) A thrashing floor.
Cornflower (n.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.
Corni (-n/) di basseto (pl. ) of Corno di bassetto
Corni Inglesi (pl. ) of Corno Inglese
Cornic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).
Cornice (n.) Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
Corniced (a.) Having a cornice.
Cornicle (n.) A little horn.
Cornicula (pl. ) of Corniculum
Cornicular (n.) A secretary or clerk.
Corniculum (n.) A small hornlike part or process.
Cornific (a.) Producing horns; forming horn.
Cornification (n.) Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.
Cornified (a.) Converted into horn; horny.
Corniform (a.) Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.
Cornigerous (a.) Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals.
Cornin (n.) A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.
Cornin (n.) An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.
Corning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corn
Corniplume (n.) A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.
Cornish (a.) Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.
Cornish (n.) The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall.
Cornist (n.) A performer on the cornet or horn.
Cornloft (n.) A loft for corn; a granary.
Cornmuse (n.) A cornemuse.
Corno di bassetto () A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.
Corno Inglese () A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.
Cornopean (n.) An obsolete name for the cornet-a-piston.
Cornsheller (n.) A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.
Cornshuck (n.) The husk covering an ear of Indian corn.
Cornstalk (n.) A stalk of Indian corn.
Cornstarch (n.) Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.
Cornu (n.) A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
Cornu Ammonis () A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.
Cornua (pl. ) of Cornu
Cornua Ammonis (pl. ) of Cornu Ammonis
Cornucopia (n.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.
Cornucopia (n.) The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.
Cornucopias (pl. ) of Cornucopia
Cornute (a.) Alt. of Cornuted
Cornute (v. t.) To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold.
Cornuted (a.) Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped.
Cornuted (a.) Cuckolded.
Cornuto (n.) A man that wears the horns; a cuckold.
Cornutor (n.) A cuckold maker.
Corny (a.) Containing corn; tasting well of malt.
Corny (a.) Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
Corny (a.) Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.
Corny (a.) Tipsy.
Corocore (n.) A kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago.
Corody (n.) An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it.
Corol (n.) A corolla.
Corollaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla.
Corollaries (pl. ) of Corollary
Corollary (n.) Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence.
Corollary (n.) That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous.
Corollate (a.) Alt. of Corollated
Corollated (a.) Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.
Corollet (n.) A floret in an aggregate flower.
Corollifloral (a.) Alt. of Corolliflorous
Corolliflorous (a.) Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral.
Corolline (a.) Of or pertaining to a corolla.
Coromandel (n.) The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal.
Corona (n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold.
Corona (n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.
Corona (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.
Corona (n.) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
Corona (n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.
Corona (n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.
Corona (n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
Corona (n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.
Corona (n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.
Corona (n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
Corona (n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.
Coronach (n.) See Coranach.
Coronae (pl. ) of Corona
Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses).
Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation.
Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.
Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.
Coronal (n.) A crown; wreath; garland.
Coronal (n.) The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
Coronamen (n.) The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet.
Coronary (a.) Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.
Coronary (a.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.
Coronary (n.) A small bone in the foot of a horse.
Coronary (n.) Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack.
Coronas (pl. ) of Corona
Coronate (a.) Alt. of Coronated
Coronated (a.) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.
Coronated (a.) Having a crest or a crownlike appendage.
Coronated (a.) Having or wearing a crown.
Coronated (a.) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.
Coronation (n.) The act or solemnity of crowning a sovereign; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.
Coronation (n.) The pomp or assembly at a coronation.
Coronel (n.) A colonel.
Coronel (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points.
Coroner (n.) An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred.
Coronet (n.) An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown.
Coronet (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel.
Coronet (n.) The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin.
Coroneted (a.) Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.
Coroniform (a.) Having the form of a crown or coronet; resembling a crown.
Coronilla (n.) A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.
Coronis (n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.
Coronis (n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.
Coronoid (a.) Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.
Coronule (n.) A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus.
Corosso (n.) The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut.
Coroun (v. & n.) Crown.
Corozo (n.) Alt. of Corosso
Corpora (pl. ) of Corpus
Corpora callosa (pl. ) of Corpus
Corpora lutea (pl. ) of Corpus
Corpora striata (pl. ) of Corpus
Corporace (n.) See Corporas.
Corporal (a.) Alt. of Corporale
Corporal (a.) Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
Corporal (a.) Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
Corporal (n.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
Corporale (a.) A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.
Corporalities (pl. ) of Corporality
Corporality (n.) A confraternity; a guild.
Corporality (n.) The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality.
Corporally (adv.) In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present.
Corporalship (n.) A corporal's office.
Corporas (n.) The corporal, or communion cloth.
Corporate (a.) Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
Corporate (a.) Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.
Corporate (a.) United; general; collectively one.
Corporate (v. i.) To become incorporated.
Corporate (v. t.) To incorporate.
Corporately (adv.) In a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body.
Corporately (adv.) In, or as regarda, the body.
Corporation (n.) A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.
Corporator (n.) A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.
Corporature (n.) The state of being embodied; bodily existence.
Corporeal (a.) Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.
Corporealism (n.) Materialism.
Corporealist (n.) One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist.
Corporealities (pl. ) of Corporeality
Corporeality (n.) The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
Corporeally (adv.) In the body; in a bodily form or manner.
Corporealness (n.) Corporeality; corporeity.
Corporeity (n.) The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality.
Corporify (v. t.) To embody; to form into a body.
Corposant (n.) St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.
Corps (n. sing. & pl.) A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps.
Corps (n. sing. & pl.) A body or code of laws.
Corps (n. sing. & pl.) The human body, whether living or dead.
Corps (n. sing. & pl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.
Corpse (n.) A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
Corpse (n.) The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.
Corpus (n.) A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
Corpuscle (n.) A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
Corpuscle (n.) A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood.
Corpuscular (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.
Corpuscularian (a.) Corpuscular.
Corpuscularian (n.) An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy.
Corpuscule (n.) A corpuscle.
Corpusculous (a.) Corpuscular.
Corrade (v. t.) To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion.
Corrade (v. t.) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
Corradial (a.) Radiating to or from the same point.
Corradiate (v. t.) To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays.
Corradiation (n.) A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point.
Corral (n.) A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.
Corraled (imp. & p. p.) of Corral
Corralling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corral
Corrasion (n.) The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.
Corrasive (a.) Corrosive.
Correct (a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
Correct (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.
Correct (v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
Correct (v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
Correct (v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).
Correctable (a.) Capable of being corrected.
Corrected (imp. & p. p.) of Correct
Correctible (a.) Alt. of Correctable
Correctify (v. t.) To correct.
Correcting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Correct
Correction (n.) Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.
Correction (n.) An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.
Correction (n.) That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.
Correction (n.) The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
Correction (n.) The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
Correctional (a.) Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.
Correctioner (n.) One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction.
Corrective (a.) Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
Corrective (a.) Qualifying; limiting.
Corrective (n.) Limitation; restriction.
Corrective (n.) That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.
Correctly (adv.) In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
Correctness (n.) The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.
Corrector (n.) One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.
Correctory (a.) Containing or making correction; corrective.
Correctress (n.) A woman who corrects.
Corregidor (n.) The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
Correi (n.) A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies.
Correlatable (a.) Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.
Correlate (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.
Correlate (v. i.) To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.
Correlate (v. t.) To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena.
Correlated (imp. & p. p.) of Correlate
Correlating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Correlate
Correlation (n.) Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.
Correlative (a.) Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.
Correlative (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.
Correlative (n.) The antecedent of a pronoun.
Correlatively (adv.) In a correlative relation.
Correlativeness (n.) Quality of being correlative.
Correligionist (n.) A co-religion/ist.
Correption (n.) Chiding; reproof; reproach.
Correspond (v. i.) To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to.
Correspond (v. i.) To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.
Correspond (v. i.) To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with.
Corresponded (imp. & p. p.) of Correspond
Correspondence (n.) Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
Correspondence (n.) Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
Correspondence (n.) The letters which pass between correspondents.
Correspondencies (pl. ) of Correspondency
Correspondency (n.) Same as Correspondence, 3.
Correspondent (a.) Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.
Correspondent (n.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.
Correspondent (n.) One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.
Correspondent (n.) One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.
Correspondently (adv.) In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.
Corroborant (n.) Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic.
Corroborate (a.) Corroborated.
Corroborate (v. t.) To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.
Corroborate (v. t.) To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
Corroborated (imp. & p. p.) of Corroborate
Corroborating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corroborate
Corroboration (n.) That which corroborates.
Corroboration (n.) The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.
Corroborative (a.) Tending to strengthen of confirm.
Corroborative (n.) A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.
Corroboratory (a.) Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.
Corrode (v. i.) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
Corrode (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
Corroded (imp. & p. p.) of Corrode
Corrodent (a.) Corrosive.
Corrodent (n.) Anything that corrodes.
Corrodiate (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to corrode.
Corrodibility (n.) The quality of being corrodible.
Corrodible (a.) Capable of being corroded; corrosible.
Corroding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrode
Corrosibility (n.) Corrodibility.
Corrosible (a.) Corrodible.
Corrosibleness (n.) The quality or state of being corrosible.
Corrosion (n.) The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.
Corrosive (a.) Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.
Corrosive (a.) Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
Corrosive (n.) That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
Corrosive (n.) That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
Corroval (n.) A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
Corrovaline (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.
Corrugant (a.) Having the power of contracting into wrinkles.
Corrugate (a.) Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
Corrugate (v. t.) To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.
Corrugated (imp. & p. p.) of Corrugate
Corrugating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrugate
Corrugation (n.) The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
Corrugator (n.) A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.
Corrugent (a.) Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator.
Corrump (v. t.) To corrupt. See Corrupt.
Corrumpable (a.) Corruptible.
Corrupt (a.) Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
Corrupt (a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Corrupt (a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
Corrupt (v. i.) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
Corrupt (v. i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
Corrupt (v. t.) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
Corrupt (v. t.) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
Corrupt (v. t.) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
Corrupt (v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
Corrupted (imp. & p. p.) of Corrupt
Corrupter (n.) One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.
Corruptful (a.) Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.
Corruptibility (n.) The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness.
Corruptible (a.) Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
Corruptible (a.) Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay.
Corruptible (n.) That which may decay and perish; the human body.
Corrupting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrupt
Corruptingly (adv.) In a manner that corrupts.
Corruption (n.) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
Corruption (n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
Corruption (n.) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
Corruption (n.) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
Corruptionist (n.) One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption.
Corruptive (a.) Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.
Corruptless (a.) Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.
Corruptly (adv.) In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully.
Corruptness (n.) The quality of being corrupt.
Corruptress (n.) A woman who corrupts.
Corsac (n.) The corsak.
Corsage (n.) The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
Corsair (n.) A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
Corsair (n.) A piratical vessel.
Corsak (n.) A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia.
Corse (n.) A corpse; the dead body of a human being.
Corse (n.) A living body or its bulk.
Corselet (n.) Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
Corselet (n.) The thorax of an insect.
Corsepresent (n.) An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.
Corset (n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
Corset (n.) In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
Corset (v. t.) To inclose in corsets.
Corseted (imp. & p. p.) of Corset
Corseting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corset
Corslet (n.) A corselet.
Cortege (n.) A train of attendants; a procession.
Cortes (n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.
Cortex (n.) Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.
Cortex (n.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.
Cortical (a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.
Corticate (a.) Alt. of Corticated
Corticated (a.) Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.
Cortices (pl. ) of Cortex
Corticifer (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.
Corticiferous (a.) Having a barklike c/nenchyms.
Corticiferous (a.) Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.
Corticiform (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.
Corticine (n.) A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.
Corticose (a.) Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.
Corticous (a.) Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.
Cortile (n.) An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
Corundums (pl. ) of Corundum
Coruscant (a.) Glittering in flashes; flashing.
Coruscate (v. i.) To glitter in flashes; to flash.
Coruscation (n.) A flash of intellectual brilliancy.
Coruscation (n.) A sudden flash or play of light.
Corve (n.) See Corf.
Corvee (n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
Corven () p. p. of Carve.
Corves (pl. ) of Corf
Corvet (n.) Alt. of Corvette
Corvette (n.) A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
Corvetto (n.) A curvet.
Corvine (a.) Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.
Corvorant (n.) See Cormorant.
Corybant (n.) One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
Corybantes (pl. ) of Corybant
Corybantiasm (n.) A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.
Corybantic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.
Corybants (pl. ) of Corybant
Corymb (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.
Corymb (n.) Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.
Corymbed (a.) Corymbose.
Corymbiferous (a.) Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.
Corymbose (a.) Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.
Corymbosely (adv.) In corymbs.
Coryphaenoid (a.) Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin.
Coryphee (n.) A ballet dancer.
Coryphei (pl. ) of Corypheus
Coryphene (n.) A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2)
Corypheus (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.
Corypheuses (pl. ) of Corypheus
Coryphodon (n.) A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.
Coryphodont (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.
Coryza (n.) Nasal catarrh.
Coscinomancy (n.) Divination by means of a suspended sieve.
Coscoroba (n.) A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.
Cosecant (n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Cosen (v. t.) See Cozen.
Cosenage (n.) See Cozenage.
Cosening (n.) Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.
Cosentient (a.) Perceiving together.
Cosey (a.) See Cozy.
Cosher (v. t.) To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.
Cosher (v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to pet.
Cosherer (n.) One who coshers.
Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
Cosier (n.) A tailor who botches his work.
Cosignificative (a.) Having the same signification.
Cosignitaries (pl. ) of Cosignitary
Cosignitary (a.) Signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers.
Cosignitary (n.) One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin.
Cosily (adv.) See Cozily.
Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.
Cosinage (n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
Cosine (n.) The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Cosmetic (a.) Alt. of Cosmetical
Cosmetic (n.) Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.
Cosmetical (a.) Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation.
Cosmic (a.) Alt. of Cosmical
Cosmical (a.) Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed.
Cosmical (a.) Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone.
Cosmical (a.) Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.
Cosmical (a.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.
Cosmically (adv.) Universally.
Cosmically (adv.) With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.
Cosmogonal (a.) Alt. of Cosmogonical
Cosmogonic (a.) Alt. of Cosmogonical
Cosmogonical (a.) Belonging to cosmogony.
Cosmogonies (pl. ) of Cosmogony
Cosmogonist (n.) One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.
Cosmogony (n.) The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato.
Cosmographer (n.) One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.
Cosmographic (a.) Alt. of Cosmographical
Cosmographical (a.) Of or pertaining to cosmography.
Cosmographically (adv.) In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.
Cosmographies (pl. ) of Cosmography
Cosmography (n.) A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.
Cosmolabe (n.) An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.
Cosmolatry (n.) Worship paid to the world.
Cosmoline (n.) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.
Cosmological (a.) Of or pertaining to cosmology.
Cosmologist (n.) One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.
Cosmology (n.) The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
Cosmometry (n.) The art of measuring the world or the universe.
Cosmoplastic (a.) Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.
Cosmopolitan (a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
Cosmopolitan (n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
Cosmopolitanism (n.) The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.
Cosmopolite (a. & n.) See Cosmopolitan.
Cosmopolite (a.) Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.
Cosmopolite (a.) Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
Cosmopolite (n.) One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.
Cosmopolitical (a.) Having the character of a cosmopolite.
Cosmopolitism (n.) The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.
Cosmorama (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality.
Cosmoramic (a.) Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.
Cosmos (n.) The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.
Cosmos (n.) The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
Cosmosphere (n.) An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
Cosmotheism (n.) Same as Pantheism.
Cosmothetic (a.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.
Cosovereign (n.) A joint sovereign.
Coss (n.) A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.
Coss (n.) A thing (only in phrase below).
Cossas (n.) Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.
Cosset (n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
Cosset (v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle.
Cossic (a.) Alt. of Cossical
Cossical (a.) Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art.
Cost (imp. & p. p.) of Cost
Cost (n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.
Cost (n.) See Cottise.
Cost (v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.
Cost (v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
Cost (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
Cost (v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
Cost (v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
Costa (n.) A rib of an animal or a human being.
Costa (n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.
Costa (n.) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.
Costa (n.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
Costage (n.) Expense; cost.
Costal (a.) Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.
Costal (a.) Relating to a costa, or rib.
Costal-nerved (a.) Having the nerves spring from the midrib.
Costard (n.) An apple, large and round like the head.
Costard (n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.
Costardmonger (n.) A costermonger.
Costate (a.) Alt. of Costated
Costated (a.) Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.
Costean (v. i.) To search after lodes. See Costeaning.
Costellate (a.) Finely ribbed or costated.
Coster (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
Costermonger (n.) An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
Costiferous (a.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae.
Costing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cost
Costive (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
Costive (a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.
Costive (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
Costively (adv.) In a costive manner.
Costiveness (n.) An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
Costiveness (n.) Inability to express one's self; stiffness.
Costless (a.) Costing nothing.
Costlewe (a.) Costly.
Costliness (n.) The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
Costly (a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous.
Costly (a.) Of great cost; expensive; dear.
Costmary (n.) A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.
Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections.
Costrel (n.) A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
Costume (n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Costume (n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
Costume (n.) Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.
Costumer (n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.
Cosupreme (n.) A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme.
Cosureties (pl. ) of Cosurety
Cosurety (n.) One who is surety with another.
Cosy (a.) See Cozy.
Cot (n.) A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.
Cot (n.) A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.
Cot (n.) A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.
Cot (n.) A small house; a cottage or hut.
Cot (n.) A small, rudely-formed boat.
Cotangent (n.) The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Cotarnine (n.) A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.
Cote (n.) A cottage or hut.
Cote (n.) A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves.
Cote (v. t.) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare.
Cote (v. t.) To quote.
Cotemporaneous (a.) Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous.
Cotemporaries (pl. ) of Cotemporary
Cotemporary (a.) Living or being at the same time; contemporary.
Cotemporary (n.) One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.
Cotenant (n.) A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
Coterie (n.) A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.
Coterminous (a.) Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.
Cotgare (n.) Refuse wool.
Cothurn (n.) A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.
Cothurnate (a.) Alt. of Cothurnated
Cothurnated (a.) Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.
Cothurnated (a.) Wearing a cothurn.
Cothurnus (n.) Same as Cothurn.
Coticular (a.) Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.
Cotidal (a.) Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
Cotillion (n.) A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.
Cotillion (n.) A formal ball.
Cotillion (n.) A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
Cotillion (n.) A tune which regulates the dance.
Cotillon (n.) Alt. of Cotillion
Cotinga (n.) A bird of the family Cotingidae, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.
Cotise (n.) See Cottise.
Cotised (a.) See Cottised.
Cotland (n.) Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.
Cotquean (n.) A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women.
Cotquean (n.) A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy.
Cotqueanity (n.) The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean.
Cotrustee (n.) A joint trustee.
Cotswold (n.) An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
Cottage (n.) A small house; a cot; a hut.
Cottaged (a.) Set or covered with cottages.
Cottagely (a.) Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic.
Cottager (n.) One who lives in a cottage.
Cottager (n.) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.
Cottar (n.) A cottager; a cottier.
Cotter (n.) A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key.
Cotter (n.) A toggle.
Cotter (n.) Alt. of Cottar
Cotter (v. t.) To fasten with a cotter.
Cottier (n.) In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.
Cottise (n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.
Cottised (a.) Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.
Cottoid (a.) Like a fish of the genus Cottus.
Cottoid (n.) A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.
Cottolene (n.) A product from cotton-seed, used as lard.
Cotton (n.) Cloth made of cotton.
Cotton (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
Cotton (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.
Cotton (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
Cotton (v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
Cotton (v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
Cottonade (n.) A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.
Cottonary (a.) Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.
Cottonous (a.) Resembling cotton.
Cottontail (n.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.
Cottonweed (n.) See Cudweed.
Cottonwood (n.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
Cottony (a.) Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
Cottony (a.) Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
Cottrel (n.) A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire.
Cotyla (n.) Alt. of Cotyle
Cotyle (n.) A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.
Cotyledon (n.) A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.
Cotyledon (n.) One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.
Cotyledonal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.
Cotyledonary (a.) Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.
Cotyledonous (a.) Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.
Cotyliform (a.) Shaped like a cotyle or a cup.
Cotyligerous (a.) Having cotyles.
Cotyloid (a.) Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.
Cotyloid (a.) Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.
Couage (v. t.) To inspire with courage.
Coucal (n.) A large, Old World, ground cuckoo of the genus Centropus, of several species.
Couch (v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
Couch (v. i.) To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
Couch (v. i.) To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
Couch (v. t.) A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
Couch (v. t.) 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 (v. t.) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
Couch (v. t.) Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
Couch (v. t.) To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Couch (v. t.) To arrange; to place; to inlay.
Couch (v. t.) To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
Couch (v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
Couch (v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
Couch (v. t.) To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
Couch (v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
Couch (v. t.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
Couch grass () See Quitch grass.
Couchancy (n.) State of lying down for repose.
Couchant (v. t.) Lying down with head erect; squatting.
Couchant (v. t.) Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast.
Couche (v. t.) Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
Couche (v. t.) Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
Couched (a.) Same as Couch/.
Couched (imp. & p. p.) of Couch
Couchee (v. t.) A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.
Coucher (n.) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
Coucher (n.) One who couches paper.
Coucher (n.) One who couches.
Coucher (n.) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
Couching (n.) Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.
Couching (n.) The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.
Couching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Couch
Couchless (a.) Having no couch or bed.
Coudee (n.) A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.
Cough (v. i.) 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 (v. i.) The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.
Cough (v. i.) To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
Cough (v. t.) To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.
Cough (v. t.) To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
Coughed (imp. & p. p.) of Cough
Cougher (n.) One who coughs.
Coughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cough
Couhage (n.) See Cowhage.
Could (imp.) of Can
Could (imp.) Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
Coulee (n.) A stream
Coulisse (n.) A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.
Coulisse (n.) One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.
Couloir (n.) A deep gorge; a gully.
Couloir (n.) A dredging machine for excavating canals, etc.
Coulter (n.) Same as Colter.
Coulterneb (n.) The puffin.
Coumaric (a.) Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana.
Council (n.) A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council.
Council (n.) Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation.
Council (n.) An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.
Councilist (n.) One who belong to a council; one who gives an opinion.
Councilman (n.) A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.
Councilmen (pl. ) of Councilman
Councilor (n.) A member of a council.
Counsel (n.) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
Counsel (n.) Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence.
Counsel (n.) Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.
Counsel (n.) One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel.
Counsel (n.) Result of consultation; advice; instruction.
Counsel (v. t.) To advise or recommend, as an act or course.
Counsel (v. t.) To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.
Counselable (a.) Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise.
Counselable (a.) Willing to receive counsel or follow advice.
Counseled (imp. & p. p.) of Counsel
Counseling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counsel
Counselled () of Counsel
Counselling () of Counsel
Counselor (n.) A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [See under Consilor.]
Counselor (n.) One who counsels; an adviser.
Counselor (n.) One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.
Counselorship (n.) The function and rank or office of a counselor.
Count (n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
Count (v. i.) To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
Count (v. i.) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
Count (v. i.) To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.
Count (v. i.) To take account or note; -- with
Count (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.
Count (v. t.) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
Count (v. t.) The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
Count (v. t.) To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
Count (v. t.) To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
Count (v. t.) To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
Countable (a.) Capable of being numbered.
Counted (imp. & p. p.) of Count
Countenance (v. t.) To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.
Countenanced (imp. & p. p.) of Countenance
Countenancer (n.) One who countenances, favors, or supports.
Countenancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countenance
Counter (a.) Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
Counter (adv.) A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
Counter (adv.) At or against the front or face.
Counter (adv.) Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
Counter (adv.) In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
Counter (adv.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.
Counter (adv.) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
Counter (adv.) The back leather or heel part of a boot.
Counter (adv.) The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
Counter (n.) An encounter.
Counter (v. i.) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
Counter (v. t.) A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.
Counter (v. t.) A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.
Counter (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.
Counter (v. t.) A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
Counter (v. t.) Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
Counter (v. t.) One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.
Counter brace () A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
Counter brace () The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
Counter tenor () One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.
Counter weight (n.) A counterpoise.
Counter-compony (a.) See Compony.
Counter-couchant (a.) Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.
Counter-courant (a.) Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
Counter-roll (n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
Counter-salient (a.) Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.
Counteract (v. t.) To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
Counteracted (imp. & p. p.) of Counteract
Counteractibely (adv.) By counteraction.
Counteracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counteract
Counteraction (n.) Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.
Counteractive (a.) Tending to counteract.
Counteractive (n.) One who, or that which, counteracts.
Counterbalance (n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Counterbalance (n.) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
Counterbalance (n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
Counterbalance (v. t.) To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
Counterbalanced (imp. & p. p.) of Counterbalance
Counterbalancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterbalance
Counterbore (n.) A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
Counterbore (n.) A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.
Counterbore (v. t.) To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
Counterbrace (v. t.) To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
Counterbrace (v. t.) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.
Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.
Counterbuff (v. t.) To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
Countercast (n.) A trick; a delusive contrivance.
Countercaster (n.) A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
Counterchange (n.) Exchange; reciprocation.
Counterchange (v. t.) To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2.
Counterchange (v. t.) To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
Counterchanged (a.) Exchanged.
Counterchanged (a.) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.
Counterchanged (imp. & p. p.) of Counterchange
Counterchanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterchange
Countercharge (n.) An opposing charge.
Countercharm (n.) That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm.
Countercharm (v. t.) To destroy the effect of a charm upon.
Countercharmed (imp. & p. p.) of Countercharm
Countercharming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countercharm
Countercheck (n.) A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover.
Countercheck (n.) Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.
Countercheck (v. t.) To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
Counterchecked (imp. & p. p.) of Countercheck
Counterchecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countercheck
Counterclaim (n.) A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.
Countercurrent (a.) Running in an opposite direction.
Countercurrent (n.) A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.
Counterdraw (v. t.) To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.
Counterdrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterdraw
Counterdrawn (p. p.) of Counterdraw
Counterdrew (imp.) of Counterdraw
Counterfaisance (n.) See Counterfesance.
Counterfeit (adv.) Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.
Counterfeit (adv.) Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin.
Counterfeit (adv.) Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
Counterfeit (n.) That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit.
Counterfeit (n.) That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Counterfeit (v. i.) To make counterfeits.
Counterfeit (v. t.) To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
Counterfeit (v. t.) To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.
Counterfeited (imp. & p. p.) of Counterfeit
Counterfeiter (n.) One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses.
Counterfeiter (n.) One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.
Counterfeiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterfeit
Counterfeitly (adv.) By forgery; falsely.
Counterfesance (a.) The act of forging; forgery.
Counterfleury (a.) Counterflory.
Counterflory (a.) Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.
Counterfoil (n.) That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock.
Counterfoil (n.) The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued.
Counterforce (n.) An opposing force.
Counterfort (n.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
Counterfort (n.) A spur or projection of a mountain.
Countergage (n.) An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.
Counterguard (n.) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
Counterirritant (n.) Alt. of Counterirritation
Counterirritate (v. t.) To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.
Counterirritation (n.) See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.
Counterjumper (n.) A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemptuously.
Counterman (n.) A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods.
Countermand (n.) A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.
Countermand (v. t.) To oppose; to revoke the command of.
Countermand (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
Countermand (v. t.) To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.
Countermandable (a.) Capable of being countermanded; revocable.
Countermanded (imp. & p. p.) of Countermand
Countermanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countermand
Countermarch (n.) A change of measures; alteration of conduct.
Countermarch (n.) A marching back; retrocession.
Countermarch (v. i.) To march back, or to march in reversed order.
Countermarched (imp. & p. p.) of Countermarch
Countermarching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countermarch
Countermark (n.) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
Countermark (v. t.) To apply a countermark to; as, to countermark silverware; to countermark a horse's teeth.
Countermen (pl. ) of Counterman
Countermine (n.) A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.
Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Countermine (v. i.) To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.
Countermine (v. t.) To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
Countermine (v. t.) To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.
Countermined (imp. & p. p.) of Countermine
Countermining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countermine
Countermove () Alt. of Countermovement
Countermove (v. t. & i.) To move in a contrary direction to.
Countermovement () A movement in opposition to another.
Countermure (n.) A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure.
Countermure (v. t.) To fortify with a wall behind another wall.
Countermured (imp. & p. p.) of Countermure
Countermuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countermure
Counternatural (a.) Contrary to nature.
Counterpane (n.) A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures.
Counterpane (n.) A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart.
Counterpart (n.) A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.
Counterpart (n.) A person who closely resembles another.
Counterpart (n.) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.
Counterpassant (a.) Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals.
Counterplead (v. t.) To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
Counterplot (n.) A plot or artifice opposed to another.
Counterplot (v. t.) To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
Counterplotted (imp. & p. p.) of Counterplot
Counterplotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterplot
Counterpoint (n.) A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane.
Counterpoint (n.) An opposite point
Counterpoint (n.) Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony.
Counterpoint (n.) The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.
Counterpoint (n.) The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody
Counterpoise (n.) A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
Counterpoise (n.) An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
Counterpoise (n.) The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.
Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal power; to balance.
Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
Counterpoised (imp. & p. p.) of Counterpoise
Counterpoising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterpoise
Counterpole (n.) The exact opposite.
Counterponderate (v. t.) To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.
Counterprove (v. t.) To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter.
Counterproved (imp. & p. p.) of Counterprove
Counterproving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterprove
Counterrolment (n.) A counter account. See Control.
Counterscale (n.) Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another.
Counterscarf (n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.
Counterseal (v. t.) To seal or ratify with another or others.
Countersealed (imp. & p. p.) of Counterseal
Countersealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterseal
Countersecure (v. t.) To give additional security to or for.
Countershaft (n.) An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.
Countersign (a.) A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.
Countersign (a.) The signature of a secretary or other officer to a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity.
Countersign (v. t.) To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.
Countersigned (imp. & p. p.) of Countersign
Countersigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countersign
Countersink (n.) A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.
Countersink (n.) An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt.
Countersink (v. t.) To cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork.
Countersink (v. t.) To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.
Countersinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countersink
Counterstand (n.) Resistance; opposition; a stand against.
Counterstep (n.) A contrary method of procedure; opposite course of action.
Counterstock (n.) See Counterfoil.
Counterstroke (n.) A stroke or blow in return.
Countersunk (imp. & p. p.) of Countersink
Countersunk (p. p. & a.) Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead.
Countersunk (p. p. & a.) Chamfered at the top; -- said of a hole.
Countersunk (p. p. & a.) Sunk into a chamfer; as, a countersunk bolt.
Countersway (n.) A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.
Counterterm (n.) A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, "foe" is the counterterm of "friend".
Countertime (n.) Resistance; opposition.
Countertime (n.) The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.
Countertrippant (a.) Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.
Countertripping (a.) Same as Countertrippant.
Counterturn (n.) The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties.
Countervail (n.) Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.
Countervail (v. t.) To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.
Countervailed (imp. & p. p.) of Countervail
Countervailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countervail
Countervallation (n.) See Contravallation.
Counterview (n.) A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.
Counterview (n.) An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.
Countervote (v. t.) To vote in opposition to; to balance or overcome by voting; to outvote.
Counterwait (v. t.) To wait or watch for; to be on guard against.
Counterweigh (v. t.) To weigh against; to counterbalance.
Counterwheel (v. t.) To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.
Counterwork (v. t.) To work in opposition to; to counteract.
Countess (n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.
Countesses (pl. ) of Countess
Counties (pl. ) of County
Counting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Count
Countinghouse (v.) Alt. of Countingroom
Countingroom (v.) The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.
Countless (a.) Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.
Countor (v. t.) An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause.
Countour (n.) Alt. of Countourhouse
Countourhouse (n.) A merchant's office; a countinghouse.
Countre- () Same as prefix Counter-.
Countreplete (v. t.) To counterplead.
Countretaille (n.) A counter tally; correspondence (in sound).
Countries (pl. ) of Country
Countrified (p. a.) Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude.
Countrify (v. t.) To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic.
Country (a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
Country (a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
Country (a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
Country (adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
Country (adv.) A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
Country (adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
Country (adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
Country (adv.) The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
Country (adv.) The rock through which a vein runs.
Country seat () A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
Country-base (n.) Same as Prison base.
Country-dance (n.) See Contradance.
Countryman (n.) An inhabitant or native of a region.
Countryman (n.) One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun.
Countryman (n.) One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.
Countrymen (pl. ) of Countryman
Countryside (n.) A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.
Countrywoman (n.) A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant.
Countrywomen (pl. ) of Countrywoman
Counttenance (n.) Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien.
Counttenance (n.) Approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence, favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement.
County (n.) A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire.
County (n.) A count; an earl or lord.
County (n.) An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.
Coup (n.) A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.
Coupable (a.) Culpable.
Coupe (n.) A four-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.
Coupe (n.) The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways.
Coupe-gorge (n.) Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.
Couped (a.) Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.
Coupee (n.) A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.
Couple (a.) A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.
Couple (a.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
Couple (a.) See Couple-close.
Couple (a.) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
Couple (a.) Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.
Couple (a.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.
Couple (v. i.) To come together as male and female; to copulate.
Couple (v.) To join in wedlock; to marry.
Couple (v.) To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.
Couple-beggar (n.) One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other.
Couple-close (n.) A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.
Couple-close (n.) A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam.
Couple-closes (pl. ) of Couple-close
Coupled (imp. & p. p.) of Couple
Couplement (n.) Union; combination; a coupling; a pair.
Coupler (n.) One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars.
Couplet (n.) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
Coupling (n.) The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.
Coupling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Couple
Coupon (n.) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
Coupon (n.) A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.
Coupure (n.) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
Courage (n.) Heart; inclination; desire; will.
Courage (n.) That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
Courage (n.) The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
Courageous (a.) Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.
Courageously (adv.) In a courageous manner.
Courageousness (n.) The quality of being courageous; courage.
Courant (a.) Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.
Courant (p. pr.) A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.
Courant (p. pr.) A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.
Couranto (n.) A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.
Courap (n.) A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.
Courb (a.) Curved; rounded.
Courb (v. i.) To bend; to stop; to bow.
Courbaril (n.) See Anime, n.
Courche (n.) A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.
Courier (n.) A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.
Courier (n.) An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.
Courlan (n.) A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the rails.
Course (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
Course (n.) A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.
Course (n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
Course (n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
Course (n.) Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
Course (n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
Course (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
Course (n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
Course (n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
Course (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
Course (n.) The menses.
Course (n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
Course (v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
Course (v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.
Course (v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
Course (v. t.) To run through or over.
Course (v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
Coursed (a.) Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
Coursed (a.) Hunted; as, a coursed hare.
Coursed (imp. & p. p.) of Course
Courser (n.) A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.
Courser (n.) A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
Courser (n.) One who courses or hunts.
Coursey (n.) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.
Coursing (n.) The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.
Coursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Course
Court (n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
Court (n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
Court (n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
Court (n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.
Court (n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
Court (n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
Court (n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
Court (n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
Court (n.) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
Court (n.) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
Court (n.) The session of a judicial assembly.
Court (v. i.) To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.
Court (v. t.) To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
Court (v. t.) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
Court tennis () See under Tennis.
Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
Court-cupboard (n.) A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions.
Court-leet (n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.
Court-martial (n.) A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
Court-martial (v. t.) To subject to trial by a court-martial.
Court-martialed (imp. & p. p.) of Court-martial
Court-martialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Court-martial
Court-plaster (n.) Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
Courtbred (a.) Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
Courted (imp. & p. p.) of Court
Courtehouse (n.) A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States.
Courtehouse (n.) A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.
Courteous (a.) Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.
Courteously (adv.) In a courteous manner.
Courteousness (n.) The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
Courtepy (n.) A short coat of coarse cloth.
Courter (n.) One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles.
Courtesan (n.) A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
Courtesanship (n.) Harlotry.
Courtesied (imp. & p. p.) of Courtesy
Courtesies (pl. ) of Courtesy
Courtesy (n.) An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.
Courtesy (n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.
Courtesy (n.) Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy.
Courtesy (v. i.) To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.
Courtesy (v. t.) To treat with civility.
Courtesying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Courtesy
Courtier (n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
Courtier (n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
Courtiery (n.) The manners of a courtier; courtliness.
Courting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Court
Courtlike (a.) After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
Courtliness (n.) The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.
Courtling (n.) A sycophantic courtier.
Courtly (a.) Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious.
Courtly (adv.) In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.
Courts-martial (pl. ) of Court-martial
Courtship (n.) Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse.
Courtship (n.) Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy.
Courtship (n.) The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor.
Courtship (n.) The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage.
Courtyard (n.) A court or inclosure attached to a house.
Couscous (n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.
Couscousou (n.) A favorite dish in Barbary. See Couscous.
Cousin (n.) A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.
Cousin (n.) Allied; akin.
Cousin (n.) One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
Cousin-german (n.) A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.
Cousinage (n.) Relationship; kinship.
Cousinhood (n.) The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.
Cousinly (a.) Like or becoming a cousin.
Cousinry (n.) A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.
Cousinship (n.) The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood.
Coussinet (n.) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
Coussinet (n.) That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
Couteau (n.) A knife; a dagger.
Couth (imp. & p. p.) Could; was able; knew or known; understood.
Couvade (n.) A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
Cove (n.) A boy or man of any age or station.
Cove (n.) A concave molding.
Cove (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
Cove (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
Cove (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
Cove (v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
Coved (imp. & p. p.) of Cove
Covelline (n.) Alt. of Covellite
Covellite (n.) A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.
Covenable (a.) Fit; proper; suitable.
Covenably (adv.) Fitly; suitably.
Covenant (n.) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.
Covenant (n.) A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.
Covenant (n.) A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.
Covenant (n.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant."
Covenant (n.) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement.
Covenant (n.) The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc.
Covenant (v. i.) To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.
Covenant (v. t.) To grant or promise by covenant.
Covenanted (imp. & p. p.) of Covenant
Covenantee (n.) The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
Covenanter (n.) One who makes a covenant.
Covenanter (n.) One who subscribed and defended the "Solemn League and Covenant." See Covenant.
Covenanting (a.) Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.
Covenanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Covenant
Covenantor (n.) The party who makes a covenant.
Covenous (a.) See Covinous, and Covin.
Covent (n.) A convent or monastery.
Coventry (n.) A town in the county of Warwick, England.
Cover (n.) A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.
Cover (n.) Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.
Cover (n.) Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.
Cover (n.) Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.
Cover (n.) The lap of a slide valve.
Cover (n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.
Cover (v. i.) To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.
Cover (v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
Cover (v. t.) To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male.
Cover (v. t.) To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.
Cover (v. t.) To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.
Cover (v. t.) To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.
Cover (v. t.) To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
Cover (v. t.) To put the usual covering or headdress on.
Cover (v. t.) To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.
Cover (v. t.) To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.
Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
Cover-shame (n.) Something used to conceal infamy.
Coverchief (n.) A covering for the head.
Covercle (n.) A small cover; a lid.
Covered (a.) Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.
Covered (imp. & p. p.) of Cover
Covered (imp. & p. p.) of Covet
Coverer (n.) One who, or that which, covers.
Covering (n.) Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
Covering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cover
Coverlet (n.) The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.
Coverlid (n.) A coverlet.
Coversed sine () The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Covert (a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
Covert (a.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Covert (v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
Covert (v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.
Covert baron () Under the protection of a husband; married.
Covertly (adv.) Secretly; in private; insidiously.
Coverture (n.) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.
Covet (v. i.) To have or indulge inordinate desire.
Covet (v. t.) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
Covet (v. t.) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.
Covetable (a.) That may be coveted; desirable.
Coveter (n.) One who covets.
Coveting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Covet
Covetise (v. t.) Avarice.
Covetiveness (n.) Acquisitiveness.
Covetous (v. t.) Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.
Covetous (v. t.) Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
Covetously (adv.) In a covetous manner.
Covetousness (n.) A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.
Covetousness (n.) Strong desire.
Covey (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.
Covey (n.) A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.
Covey (n.) A pantry.
Covey (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
Covin (n.) A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.
Cow (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.
Cow (n.) The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.
Cow (n.) The mature female of bovine animals.
Cow (v. t.) To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.
Cow parsley () An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chaerophyllum (C. temulum and C. sylvestre).
Cow parsnip () A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).
Cow tree () A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.
Cow-pilot (n.) A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.
Cow's lungwort () Mullein.
Cowage (n.) See Cowhage.
Cowan (n.) One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship.
Coward (a.) Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
Coward (a.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
Coward (a.) Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
Coward (n.) A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
Coward (v. t.) To make timorous; to frighten.
Cowardice (n.) Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
Cowardie (n.) Cowardice.
Cowardish (a.) Cowardly.
Cowardize (v. t. ) To render cowardly
Cowardliness (n.) Cowardice.
Cowardly (a.) Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.
Cowardly (a.) Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
Cowardly (adv.) In the manner of a coward.
Cowardship (n.) Cowardice.
Cowbane (n.) A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.
Cowberries (pl. ) of Cowberry
Cowberry (n.) A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.
Cowbird (n.) The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle.
Cowblakes (n. pl.) Dried cow dung used as fuel.
Cowboy (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
Cowboy (n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
Cowcatxjer (n.) A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot.
Cowdie (n.) See Kauri.
Cowed (imp. & p. p.) of Cow
Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.
Cower (v. t.) To cherish with care.
Cowered (imp. & p. p.) of Cower
Cowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cower
Cowfish (n.) A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).
Cowfish (n.) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.
Cowfish (n.) The grampus.
Cowhage (n.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.
Cowhearted (a.) Cowardly.
Cowherd (n.) One whose occupation is to tend cows.
Cowhide (n.) A coarse whip made of untanned leather.
Cowhide (n.) Leather made of the hide of a cow.
Cowhide (n.) The hide of a cow.
Cowhide (v. t.) To flog with a cowhide.
Cowhided (imp. & p. p.) of Cowhide
Cowhiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cowhide
Cowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cow
Cowish (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.
Cowish (v. t.) Timorous; fearful; cowardly.
Cowitch (n.) See Cowhage.
Cowl (n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.
Cowl (n.) A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together.
Cowl (n.) A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.
Cowl (n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.
Cowled (a.) Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk.
Cowleech (n.) One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.
Cowleeching (n.) Healing the distemper of cows.
Cowlick (n.) A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.
Cowlike (a.) Resembling a cow.
Cowlstaff (n.) A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.
Coworker (n.) One who works with another; a co/perator.
Cowpea (n.) The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States.
Cowper's glands () Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
Cowpock (n.) See Cowpox.
Cowpox (n.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.
Cowquake (n.) A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.
Cowrie (n.) Alt. of Cowry
Cowrie (n.) Same as Kauri.
Cowries (pl. ) of Cowry
Cowry (n.) A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.
Cows (pl. ) of Cow
Cowslip (n.) A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.
Cowslip (n.) In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold.
Cowslipped (a.) Adorned with cowslips.
Cowweed (n.) Same as Cow parsley.
Cowwheat (n.) A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
Cox (n.) A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.
Coxa (n.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.
Coxalgia (n.) Alt. of Coxalgy
Coxalgy (n.) Pain in the hip.
Coxcomb (n.) A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb.
Coxcomb (n.) A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.
Coxcomb (n.) The cap itself.
Coxcomb (n.) The top of the head, or the head itself
Coxcombical (a.) Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited.
Coxcombly (a.) like a coxcomb.
Coxcombry (n.) The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.
Coxcomical (a.) Coxcombical.
Coxcomically (adv.) Conceitedly.
Coxswain (n.) See Cockswain.
Coy (a.) Quiet; still.
Coy (a.) Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.
Coy (a.) Soft; gentle; hesitating.
Coy (v. i.) To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.
Coy (v. i.) To make difficulty; to be unwilling.
Coy (v. t.) To allure; to entice; to decoy.
Coy (v. t.) To caress with the hand; to stroke.
Coyed (imp. & p. p.) of Coy
Coying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coy
Coyish (a.) Somewhat coy or reserved.
Coyly (adv.) In a coy manner; with reserve.
Coyness (n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
Coyote (n.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.
Coypu (n.) A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria.
Coystrel (n.) Same as Coistril.
Coz (n.) A contraction of cousin.
Cozen (v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
Cozen (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
Cozenage (n.) The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.
Cozened (imp. & p. p.) of Cozen
Cozener (n.) One who cheats or defrauds.
Cozening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cozen
Cozier (n.) See Cosier.
Cozily (adv.) Snugly; comfortably.
Coziness (n.) The state or quality of being cozy.
Cozy (a.) A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.
Cr/che (n.) A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.
Crab (a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
Crab (a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
Crab (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
Crab (a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
Crab (a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
Crab (a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
Crab (a.) Sour; rough; austere.
Crab (n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
Crab (n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
Crab (v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
Crab (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
Crab (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.
Crab tree () See under Crab.
Crab-yaws (n.) A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.
Crabbed (n.) Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
Crabbed (n.) Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
Crabbed (n.) Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author.
Crabber (n.) One who catches crabs.
Crabbing (n.) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
Crabbing (n.) The act or art of catching crabs.
Crabbing (n.) The fighting of hawks with each other.
Crabbish (a.) Somewhat sour or cross.
Crabby (a.) Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
Crabeater (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
Crabeater (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
Crabeater (n.) The cobia.
Craber (n.) The water rat.
Crabfaced (a.) Having a sour, disagreeable countenance.
Crabsidle (v. i.) To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular].
Crabstick (n.) A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.
Crache (v.) To scratch.
Crack (a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
Crack (n.) A boast; boasting.
Crack (n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
Crack (n.) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
Crack (n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.
Crack (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
Crack (n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
Crack (n.) Breach of chastity.
Crack (n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.
Crack (n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
Crack (n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
Crack (n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
Crack (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
Crack (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
Crack (v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
Crack (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
Crack (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
Crack (v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
Crack (v. t.) To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
Crack (v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
Crack (v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
Crack-brained (a.) Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.
Cracked (a.) Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
Cracked (a.) Crack-brained.
Cracked (imp. & p. p.) of Crack
Cracker (n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
Cracker (n.) A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
Cracker (n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Cracker (n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
Cracker (n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
Cracker (n.) One who, or that which, cracks.
Cracker (n.) The pintail duck.
Cracking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crack
Crackle (n.) A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.
Crackle (n.) A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.
Crackle (n.) The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
Crackle (v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
Crackled (a.) Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
Crackleware (n.) See Crackle, n., 3.
Crackling (n.) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
Crackling (n.) The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
Crackling (n.) The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.
Cracknel (v. t.) A hard brittle cake or biscuit.
Cracksman (n.) A burglar.
Cracksmen (pl. ) of Cracksman
Cracovian (a.) Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.
Cracovienne (n.) A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.
Cracowes (n. pl.) Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century.
Cradgedness (n.) The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.
Cradle (n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.
Cradle (n.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
Cradle (n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
Cradle (n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
Cradle (n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.
Cradle (n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
Cradle (n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
Cradle (n.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
Cradle (n.) Infancy, or very early life.
Cradle (n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
Cradle (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
Cradle (v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
Cradle (v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
Cradle (v. t.) To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
Cradle (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.
Cradle (v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
Cradled (imp. & p. p.) of Cradle
Cradling (n.) Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.
Cradling (n.) The act of using a cradle.
Cradling (n.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
Cradling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cradle
Craft (n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
Craft (n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
Craft (n.) Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.
Craft (n.) Strength; might; secret power.
Craft (n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
Craft (v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.
Craftily (adv.) With craft; artfully; cunningly.
Craftiness (n.) Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
Craftless (a.) Without craft or cunning.
Craftsman (n.) One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
Craftsmanship (n.) The work of a craftsman.
Craftsmaster (n.) One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.
Crafty (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
Crafty (a.) Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
Crag (n.) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age.
Crag (n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
Crag (n.) The neck or throat
Crag (n.) The neck piece or scrag of mutton.
Cragged (a.) Full of crags, or steep, broken //cks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.
Cragginess (n.) The state of being craggy.
Craggy (a.) Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.
Cragsman (n.) One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.
Cragsmen (pl. ) of Cragsman
Craie (n.) See Crare.
Craig flounder () The pole flounder.
Crail (n.) A creel or osier basket.
Crake (n.) A boast. See Crack, n.
Crake (n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
Crake (v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
Crake (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
Crakeberry (n.) See Crowberry.
Craker (n.) One who boasts; a braggart.
Cram (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
Cram (n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
Cram (n.) The act of cramming.
Cram (v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
Cram (v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
Cram (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Cram (v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
Cram (v. t.) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
Crambo (a.) A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.
Crambo (a.) A word rhyming with another word.
Crammed (imp. & p. p.) of Cram
Crammer (n.) One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.
Cramming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cram
Cramoisie (a.) Alt. of Cramoisy
Cramoisy (a.) Crimson.
Cramp (n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
Cramp (n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
Cramp (n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
Cramp (n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
Cramp (n.) Knotty; difficult.
Cramp (n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
Cramp (v. t.) To afflict with cramp.
Cramp (v. t.) to bind together; to unite.
Cramp (v. t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
Cramp (v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
Cramp (v. t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
Cramp iron () See Cramp, n., 2.
Cramped (imp. & p. p.) of Cramp
Crampet (n.) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
Crampfish (n.) The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.
Cramping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cramp
Crampit (n.) See Crampet.
Crampon (n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
Cramponee (a.) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.
Crampoons (n.) A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.
Crampoons (n.) Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold.
Crampy () Affected with cramp.
Crampy () Productive of, or abounding in, cramps.
Cran (n.) Alt. of Crane
Cranage (n.) The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.
Cranage (n.) The money or price paid for the use of a crane.
Cranberries (pl. ) of Cranberry
Cranch (v. t.) See Craunch.
Crane (n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.
Crane (n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
Crane (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
Crane (n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
Crane (n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.
Crane (v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.
Crane (v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.
Crane (v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.
Crane's-bill (n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps.
Crane's-bill (n.) The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.
Craned (imp. & p. p.) of Crane
Crang (n.) See Krang.
Crania (n.) A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.
Crania (pl. ) of Cranium
Cranial (a.) Of or pertaining to the cranium.
Craning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crane
Cranioclasm (n.) The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery.
Cranioclast (n.) An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.
Craniofacial (a.) Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle.
Craniognomy (n.) The science of the form and characteristics of the skull.
Craniological (a.) Of or pertaining to craniology.
Craniologist (n.) One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.
Craniology (n.) The department of science (as of ethnology or archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.
Craniometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.
Craniometric (a.) Alt. of Craniometrical
Craniometrical (a.) Pertaining to craniometry.
Craniometry (n.) The art or act of measuring skulls.
Cranioscopist (n.) One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy.
Cranioscopy (n.) Scientific examination of the cranium.
Craniota (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.
Craniotomy (n.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.
Cranium (n.) The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.
Craniums (pl. ) of Cranium
Crank (n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
Crank (n.) A sick person; an invalid.
Crank (n.) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
Crank (n.) A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
Crank (n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
Crank (n.) Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
Crank (n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.
Crank (n.) Sick; infirm.
Crank (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Crankbird (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).
Cranked (a.) Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.
Crankiness (n.) Crankness.
Crankle (n.) A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.
Crankle (v. i.) To bend, turn, or wind.
Crankle (v. t.) To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
Crankness (n.) Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.
Crankness (n.) Sprightliness; vigor; health.
Cranky (a.) Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety.
Cranky (a.) Full of spirit; crank.
Cranky (a.) Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.
Crannied (a.) Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall.
Crannied (imp. & p. p.) of Cranny
Crannies (pl. ) of Cranny
Crannog (n.) Alt. of Crannoge
Cranny (a.) Quick; giddy; thoughtless.
Cranny (n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
Cranny (n.) A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
Cranny (v. i.) To crack into, or become full of, crannies.
Cranny (v. i.) To haunt, or enter by, crannies.
Crannying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cranny
Crantara (n.) The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.
Crants (n.) A garland carried before the bier of a maiden.
Crapaudine (n.) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse.
Crapaudine (n.) Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.
Crape (n.) A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen.
Crape (n.) To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk.
Craped (imp. & p. p.) of Crape
Crapefish (n.) Salted codfish hardened by pressure.
Craping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crape
Crapnel (n.) A hook or drag; a grapnel.
Crappie (n.) A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species.
Crapple (n.) A claw.
Craps (n.) A gambling game with dice.
Crapula (n.) Alt. of Crapule
Crapule (n.) Same as Crapulence.
Crapulence (n.) The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.
Crapulent (a.) Alt. of Crapulous
Crapulous (a.) Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses.
Crapy (a.) Resembling crape.
Crare (n.) A slow unwieldy trading vessel.
Crase (v. t.) To break in pieces; to crack.
Crash (n.) A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once.
Crash (n.) Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.
Crash (n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.
Crash (v. i.) To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in falling crashed through the roof.
Crash (v. i.) To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.
Crash (v. t. ) To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
Crashed (imp. & p. p.) of Crash
Crashing (n.) The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.
Crashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crash
Crasis (n.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago.
Crasis (n.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.
Craspedota (n. pl.) The hydroid or naked-eyed medusae. See Hydroidea.
Craspedote (a.) Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.
Crass (a.) Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.
Crassament (a.) Alt. of Crassamentum
Crassamentum (a.) A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.
Crastination (n.) Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow.
Crataegus (n.) A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.
Cratch (n.) A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.
Crate (n.) A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.
Crate (n.) A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.
Crate (v. t.) To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.
Crated (imp. & p. p.) of Crate
Crater (n.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.
Crater (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
Crater (n.) The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
Crateriform (a.) Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.
Craterous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater.
Crating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crate
Cratureless (a.) Without created beings; alone.
Craunch (v. t. & i.) To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.
Craunched (imp. & p. p.) of Craunch
Craunching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Craunch
Cravat (n.) A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.
Cravatted (a.) Wearing a cravat.
Crave (v. i.) To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.
Crave (v. t.) To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
Crave (v. t.) To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.
Craved (imp. & p. p.) of Crave
Craven (a.) Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.
Craven (n.) A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n.
Craven (v. t.) To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.
Cravened (imp. & p. p.) of Craven
Cravening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Craven
Craver (n.) One who craves or begs.
Craving (n.) Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.
Craving (p pr. & vb. n.) of Crave
Craw (n.) The crop of a bird.
Craw (n.) The stomach of an animal.
Crawfish (n.) Alt. of Crayfish
Crawford (n.) A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.
Crawl (n.) A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
Crawl (n.) The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
Crawl (v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Crawl (v. i.) To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
Crawl (v. i.) to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
Crawl (v. i.) To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
Crawled (imp. & p. p.) of Crawl
Crawler (n.) One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
Crawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crawl
Crawly (a.) Creepy.
Cray (n.) Alt. of Crayer
Crayer (n.) See Crare.
Crayfish (n.) See Crawfish.
Crayon (n.) A crayon drawing.
Crayon (n.) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Crayon (n.) An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
Crayon (v. t.) To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
Crayoned (imp. & p. p.) of Crayon
Crayoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crayon
Craze (n.) A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
Craze (n.) A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
Craze (n.) Craziness; insanity.
Craze (v. i.) To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
Craze (v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
Craze (v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
Craze (v. t.) To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
Craze (v. t.) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
Craze-mill (n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill
Crazed (imp. & p. p.) of Craze
Crazedness (n.) A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.
Crazily (adv.) In a crazy manner.
Craziness (n.) The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.
Craziness (n.) The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.
Crazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Craze
Crazing-mill (n.) A mill for grinding tin ore.
Crazy (a.) Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
Crazy (a.) Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
Creak (n.) The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
Creak (v. i.) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.
Creak (v. t.) To produce a creaking sound with.
Creaked (imp. & p. p.) of Creak
Creaking (n.) A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound.
Creaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creak
Cream (n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
Cream (n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
Cream (n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.
Cream (n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
Cream (n.) The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
Cream (v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.
Cream (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, cream.
Cream (v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
Cream (v. t.) To take off the best or choicest part of.
Cream laid () See under Laid.
Cream-colored (a.) Of the color of cream; light yellow.
Cream-faced (a.) White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion.
Cream-fruit (n.) A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.
Cream-slice (n.) A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.
Cream-white (a.) As white as cream.
Creamcake (n.) A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.
Creamed (imp. & p. p.) of Cream
Creameries (pl. ) of Creamery
Creamery (n.) A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream.
Creamery (n.) A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.
Creamery (n.) An establishment where cream is sold.
Creaminess (n.) The quality of being creamy.
Creaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cream
Creamy (a.) Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous.
Creance (n.) A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk's leash, when it is first lured.
Creance (n.) Faith; belief; creed.
Creance (v. i. & t.) To get on credit; to borrow.
Creant (a.) Creative; formative.
Crease (n.) A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
Crease (n.) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
Crease (n.) See Creese.
Crease (v. t.) To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
Creased (imp. & p. p.) of Crease
Creaser (n.) A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.
Creaser (n.) A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back.
Creaser (n.) A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.
Creasing (n.) A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.
Creasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crease
Creasote (n.) See Creosote.
Creasy (a.) Full of creases.
Creat (n.) An usher to a riding master.
Creatable (a.) That may be created.
Create (a.) Created; composed; begotten.
Create (v. t.) To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
Create (v. t.) To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.
Create (v. t.) To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.
Created (imp. & p. p.) of Create
Creatic (a.) Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea.
Creatin (n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue.
Creating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
Creatinin (n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine.
Creation (n.) That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.
Creation (n.) The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
Creation (n.) The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
Creational (a.) Of or pertaining to creation.
Creationism (n.) The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.
Creative (a.) Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.
Creativeness (n.) The quality of being creative.
Creatorship (n.) State or condition of a creator.
Creatress (n.) She who creates.
Creatrix (n.) A creatress.
Creatural (a.) Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature.
Creature (n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.
Creature (n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
Creature (n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
Creature (n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
Creaturely (a.) Creatural; characteristic of a creature.
Creatureship (n.) The condition of being a creature.
Creaturize (v. t.) To make like a creature; to degrade
Creaze (n.) The tin ore which collects in the central part of the washing pit or buddle.
Crebricostate (a.) Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
Crebrisulcate (a.) Marked with closely set transverse furrows.
Crebritude (n.) Frequency.
Crebrous (a.) Frequent; numerous.
Credence (n.) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose.
Credence (n.) Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.
Credence (n.) That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence.
Credence (n.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.
Credence (v. t.) To give credence to; to believe.
Credenda (pl. ) of Credendum
Credendum (n.) A thing to be believed; an article of faith; -- distinguished from agendum, a practical duty.
Credent (a.) Having credit or authority; credible.
Credential (a.) Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.
Credential (n.) Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate.
Credential (n.) That which gives a title to credit or confidence.
Credibility (n.) The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.
Credible (a.) Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.
Credibleness (n.) The quality or state of being credible; worthiness of belief; credibility.
Credibly (adv.) In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.
Credit (n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation.
Credit (n.) Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest.
Credit (n.) Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.
Credit (n.) Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.
Credit (n.) That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor.
Credit (n.) The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.
Credit (v. t.) To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
Credit (v. t.) To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.
Credit (v. t.) To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond.
Credit foncier () A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities.
Creditable (a.) Bringing credit, reputation, or honor; honorable; as, such conduct is highly creditable to him.
Creditable (a.) Deserving or possessing reputation or esteem; reputable; estimable.
Creditable (a.) Worthy of belief.
Creditableness (n.) The quality of being creditable.
Creditably (adv.) In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.
Credited (imp. & p. p.) of Credit
Crediting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Credit
Creditor (n.) One who credits, believes, or trusts.
Creditor (n.) One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor.
Creditress (n.) Alt. of Creditrix
Creditrix (n.) A female creditor.
Credo (n.) The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church.
Credulity (n.) Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence.
Credulous (a.) Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting.
Credulous (a.) Believed too readily.
Credulously (adv.) With credulity.
Credulousness (n.) Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.
Creed (v. t.) A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.
Creed (v. t.) Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
Creed (v. t.) To believe; to credit.
Creedless (a.) Without a creed.
Creek (n.) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
Creek (n.) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
Creek (n.) Any turn or winding.
Creekfish (n.) The chub sucker.
Creeks (n. pl.) A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.
Creeky (a.) Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding.
Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
Creel (n.) An osier basket, such as anglers use.
Creep (n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
Creep (n.) The act or process of creeping.
Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
Creep (v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
Creep (v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
Creep (v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
Creep (v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
Creep (v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
Creep (v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
Creep (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
Creeper (n.) A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
Creeper (n.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
Creeper (n.) A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
Creeper (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.
Creeper (n.) An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.
Creeper (n.) Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
Creeper (n.) Crockets. See Crocket.
Creeper (n.) One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
Creephole (n.) A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger.
Creephole (n.) A subterfuge; an excuse.
Creepie (n.) A low stool.
Creepiness (n.) An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.
Creeping (a.) Crawling, or moving close to the ground.
Creeping (a.) Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
Creeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creep
Creepingly (adv.) by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly.
Creeple (n.) A creeping creature; a reptile.
Creeple (n.) One who is lame; a cripple.
Creepy (a.) Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.
Crees (n. pl.) An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.
Creese (n.) A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having a serpentine blade.
Crefting (n.) Croftland.
Crefting (n.) Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.
Cremaillere (n.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.
Cremaster (n.) A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.
Cremaster (n.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.
Cremasteric (a.) Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
Cremate (v. t.) To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.
Cremation (n.) A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
Cremationist (n.) One who advocates the practice of cremation.
Cremator (n.) One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.
Crematories (pl. ) of Crematory
Crematorium (n.) Alt. of Crematory
Crematoriums (pl. ) of Crematory
Crematory (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.
Crematory (n.) A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.
Cremocarp (n.) The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.
Cremona (n.) A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.
Cremor (n.) Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.
Cremosin (n.) See Crimson.
Crems (n.) See Krems.
Crenate (a.) Alt. of Crenated
Crenated (a.) Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.
Crenation (n.) A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.
Crenation (n.) The condition of being crenate.
Crenature (n.) A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.
Crenature (n.) The state of being crenated or notched.
Crenel (n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.
Crenel (n.) Same as Crenature.
Crenel (n.) See Crenelle.
Crenelate (v. t.) To furnish with crenelles.
Crenelate (v. t.) To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf.
Crenelated (imp. & p. p.) of Crenelate
Crenelating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crenelate
Crenelation (n.) The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
Crenelle (n.) Alt. of Crenel
Crenelled (a.) Same as Crenate.
Crengle (n.) Alt. of Crenkle
Crenkle (n.) See Cringle.
Crenulate (a.) Alt. of Crenulated
Crenulated (a.) Minutely crenate.
Crenulation (n.) A minute crenation.
Crenulation (n.) The state of being minutely scalloped.
Creole (a.) Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.
Creolean (a.) Alt. of Creolian
Creolian (a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles.
Creolian (n. ) A Creole.
Creosol (n.) A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum.
Creosote (v. t.) To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.
Creosoted (imp. & p. p.) of Creosote
Creosoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creosote
Crepance (n.) Alt. of Crepane
Crepane (n.) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.
Crepe (n.) Same as Crape.
Crepitant (a.) Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.
Crepitate (v.) To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.
Crepitated (imp. & p. p.) of Crepitate
Crepitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crepitate
Crepitation (n.) A crepitant rale.
Crepitation (n.) A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.
Crepitation (n.) The act of crepitating or crackling.
Crepitus (n.) Same as Crepitation, 2.
Crepitus (n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
Crepon (n.) A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.
Crept () imp. & p. p. of Creep.
Crept (imp.) of Creep
Crept (p. p.) of Creep
Crepuscle (n.) Alt. of Crepuscule
Crepuscular (a.) Alt. of Crepusculous
Crepuscule (n.) Twilight.
Crepusculine (a.) Crepuscular.
Crepusculous (a.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects.
Crepusculous (a.) Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.
Crescence (n.) Increase; enlargement.
Crescendo (a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.
Crescendo (n.) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.
Crescendo (n.) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
Crescent (a.) Increasing; growing.
Crescent (a.) Shaped like a crescent.
Crescent (n.) A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge
Crescent (n.) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana.
Crescent (n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
Crescent (n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.
Crescent (n.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
Crescent (n.) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople.
Crescent (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.
Crescent (v. t.) To adorn with crescents.
Crescent (v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.
Crescentic (a.) Crescent-shaped.
Crescentwise (adv.) In the form of a crescent; like a crescent.
Crescive (a.) Increasing; growing.
Cresol (n.) Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH, homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also cresylic acid.]
Cresorcin (n.) Same as Isorcin.
Cress (n.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.
Cresselle (n.) A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent.
Cresses (pl. ) of Cress
Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
Cresset (n.) An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.
Cressy (a.) Abounding in cresses.
Crest (n.) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.
Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
Crest (n.) The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
Crest (n.) The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
Crest (n.) The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.
Crest (n.) The ridge or top of a wave.
Crest (n.) The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
Crest (n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.
Crest (n.) The upper curve of a horse's neck.
Crest (v. i.) To form a crest.
Crest (v. t.) To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
Crest (v. t.) To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.
Crested (a.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.
Crested (a.) Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head.
Crested (a.) Having a crest.
Crested (imp. & p. p.) of Crest
Crestfallen (a.) Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.
Crestfallen (a.) With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed.
Cresting (n.) An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.
Cresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crest
Crestless (a.) Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth.
Cresylic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.
Cretaceous (a.) Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.
Cretaceously (adv.) In a chalky manner; as chalk.
Cretan (a.) Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.
Cretan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.
Crete (n.) A Cretan
Cretian (a. & n.) See Cretan.
Cretic (n.) A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).
Creticism (n.) Falsehood; lying; cretism.
Cretin (n.) One afflicted with cretinism.
Cretinism (n.) A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.
Cretinous (a.) Having the characteristics of a cretin.
Cretism (n.) A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.
Cretonne (n.) A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.
Cretonne (n.) A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.
Cretonne (n.) A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.
Cretor (n.) One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being.
Cretose (a.) Chalky; cretaceous.
Creutzer (n.) See Kreutzer.
Creux (n.) Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.
Crevalle (n.) The cavally or jurel.
Crevalle (n.) The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).
Crevasse (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.
Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
Crevet (n.) A crucible or melting pot; a cruset.
Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Crevice (v. t.) To crack; to flaw.
Creviced (a.) Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn.
Crevis (n.) The crawfish.
Crew () imp. of Crow
Crew (imp.) of Crow
Crew (n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
Crew (n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
Crew (n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
Crew (n.) The Manx shearwater.
Crewel (n.) Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.
Crewelwork (n.) Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.
Crewet (n.) See Cruet.
Crib (n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
Crib (n.) A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
Crib (n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
Crib (n.) A miner's luncheon.
Crib (n.) A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
Crib (n.) A small raft of timber.
Crib (n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
Crib (n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle.
Crib (n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
Crib (n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
Crib (n.) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
Crib (v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
Crib (v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
Crib (v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
Crib (v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
Crib (v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
Crib-biter (n.) A horse that has the habit of cribbing.
Crib-biting (n.) Same as Cribbing, 4.
Cribbage (v. t.) A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.
Cribbed (imp. & p. p.) of Crib
Cribbing (n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.
Cribbing (n.) A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.
Cribbing (n.) Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.
Cribbing (n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.
Cribbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crib
Cribble (a.) Coarse; as, cribble bread.
Cribble (n.) A coarse sieve or screen.
Cribble (n.) Coarse flour or meal.
Cribble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.
Cribbled (imp. & p. p.) of Cribble
Cribbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cribble
Cribellum (n.) A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk.
Criber (n.) Alt. of Crib-biter
Cribrate (a.) Cribriform.
Cribration (n.) The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.
Cribriform (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.
Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.
Cric (n.) The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp.
Crick (n.) A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.
Crick (n.) A small jackscrew.
Crick (n.) The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
Cricket (n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.
Cricket (n.) A low stool.
Cricket (n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.
Cricket (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.
Cricket (v. i.) To play at cricket.
Cricketer (n.) One who plays at cricket.
Cricoid (a.) Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.
Cricothyroid (a.) Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.
Cried () imp. & p. p. of Cry.
Cried (imp. & p. p.) of Cry
Crier (n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.
Crier (n.) One who cries; one who makes proclamation.
Cries (pl. ) of Cry
Crime (n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
Crime (n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
Crime (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.
Crime (n.) That which occasion crime.
Crimeful (a.) Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury.
Crimeless (a.) Free from crime; innocent.
Criminal (a.) Guilty of crime or sin.
Criminal (a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.
Criminal (a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.
Criminal (n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.
Criminalist (n.) One versed in criminal law.
Criminality (n.) The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.
Criminally (adv.) In violation of law; wickedly.
Criminalness (n.) Criminality.
Criminate (v. t. ) To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.
Criminate (v. t. ) To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to render liable to a criminal charge.
Criminated (imp. & p. p.) of Criminate
Criminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Criminate
Crimination (n.) The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.
Criminative (a.) Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.
Criminatory (a.) Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience.
Criminology (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.
Criminous (a.) Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.
Crimosin (n.) See Crimson.
Crimp (a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Crimp (a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Crimp (n.) A coal broker.
Crimp (n.) A game at cards.
Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Crimp (n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
Crimp (n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
Crimp (v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
Crimp (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
Crimp (v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
Crimpage (n.) The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
Crimped (imp. & p. p.) of Crimp
Crimper (n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
Crimper (n.) A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
Crimper (n.) A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
Crimper (n.) One who, or that which, crimps
Crimping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimp
Crimple (v. t.) To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl.
Crimpled (imp. & p. p.) of Crimple
Crimpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimple
Crimpy (a.) Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.
Crimson (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.
Crimson (b. t.) To become crimson; to blush.
Crimson (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.
Crimson (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
Crimsoned (imp. & p. p.) of Crimson
Crimsoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crimson
Crinal (a.) Of or pertaining to the hair.
Crinated (a.) Having hair; hairy.
Crinatory (a.) Crinitory.
Crincum (n.) A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey.
Crincum-crancum (n.) A twist; a whimsey or whim.
Crined (a.) Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.
Crinel (n.) Alt. of Crinet
Crinet (n.) A very fine, hairlike feather.
Cringe (n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
Cringe (v. t.) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
Cringe (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
Cringeling (n.) One who cringes meanly; a fawner.
Cringer (n.) One who cringes.
Cringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cringe
Cringingly (adv.) In a cringing manner.
Cringle (n.) A withe for fastening a gate.
Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.
Crinicultural (a.) Relating to the growth of hair.
Crinigerous (a.) Bearing hair; hairy.
Crinital (a.) Same as Crinite, 1.
Crinite (a.) Bearded or tufted with hairs.
Crinite (a.) Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train.
Crinitory (a.) Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering.
Crinkle (n.) A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.
Crinkle (v. i.) To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
Crinkle (v. t.) To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.
Crinkled (a.) Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag.
Crinkled (imp. & p. p.) of Crinkle
Crinkling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crinkle
Crinkly (a.) Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.
Crinoid (a.) Crinoidal.
Crinoid (n.) One of the Crinoidea.
Crinoidal (a.) Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing, crinoids.
Crinoidean (n.) One of the Crinoidea.
Crinoline (n.) A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.
Crinoline (n.) A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt.
Crinose (a.) Hairy.
Crinosity (n.) Hairiness.
Crinum (n.) A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/, cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.
Criosphinx (n.) A sphinx with the head of a ram.
Cripple (a.) Lame; halting.
Cripple (n.) One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.
Cripple (v. t.) To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
Cripple (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
Crippled (a.) Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded.
Crippled (imp. & p. p.) of Cripple
Crippleness (n.) Lameness.
Crippler (n.) A wooden tool used in graining leather.
Crippling (n.) Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
Crippling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cripple
Cripply (a.) Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition.
Crises (pl. ) of Crisis
Crisis (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
Crisis (n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
Crisp (a.) Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
Crisp (a.) Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.
Crisp (a.) Curled with the ripple of the water.
Crisp (a.) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.
Crisp (a.) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
Crisp (a.) Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
Crisp (a.) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.
Crisp (a.) To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.
Crisp (a.) To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.
Crisp (n.) That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.
Crisp (v. i.) To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.
Crispate (a.) Alt. of Crispated
Crispated (a.) Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.
Crispation (n.) A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.
Crispation (n.) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
Crispature (n.) The state of being crispate.
Crisped (imp. & p. p.) of Crisp
Crisper (n.) One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.
Crispin (n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
Crispin (n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.
Crisping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crisp
Crisply (adv.) In a crisp manner.
Crispness (n.) The state or quality of being crisp.
Crispy (a.) Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.
Crispy (a.) Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.
Crissa (pl. ) of Crissum
Crissal (a.) Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal thrasher.
Crissal (a.) Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.
Crisscross (adv.) In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
Crisscross (adv.) With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.
Crisscross (n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
Crisscross (n.) A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
Crisscross (v. t.) To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.
Crisscross-row (n.) See Christcross-row.
Crissum (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.
Cristallology (n.) The science of the crystalline structure of inorganic bodies.
Cristate (a.) Crested.
Criteria (pl. ) of Criterion
Criterion (n.) A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them.
Criterions (pl. ) of Criterion
Crith (n.) 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.
Crithomancu (n.) A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.
Critic (a.) Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical.
Critic (n.) An act of criticism; a critique.
Critic (n.) One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer.
Critic (n.) One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.
Critic (n.) The art of criticism.
Critic (v. i.) To criticise; to play the critic.
Critical (n.) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.
Critical (n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
Critical (n.) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.
Critical (n.) Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.
Critical (n.) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.
Critical (n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.
Critically (adv.) At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated.
Critically (adv.) In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly.
Criticalness (n.) Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.
Criticalness (n.) The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.
Criticaster (n.) A contemptible or vicious critic.
Criticisable (a.) Capable of being criticised.
Criticise (v. i.) To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon.
Criticise (v. i.) To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault.
Criticise (v. t.) To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.
Criticise (v. t.) To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct.
Criticised (imp. & p. p.) of Criticise
Criticiser (n.) One who criticises; a critic.
Criticising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Criticise
Criticism (n.) The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.
Criticism (n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.
Critique (n.) A critic; one who criticises.
Critique (n.) A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason."
Critique (n.) The art of criticism.
Critique (v.) To criticise or pass judgment upon.
Crizzel (n.) A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds its transparency.
Crnged (imp. & p. p.) of Cringe
Cro-quette (n.) A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried.
Croak (n.) The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.
Croak (v. i.) To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
Croak (v. i.) To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
Croak (v. t.) To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.
Croaked (imp. & p. p.) of Croak
Croaker (n.) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast.
Croaker (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum.
Croaker (n.) One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.
Croaker (n.) The surf fish of California.
Croaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croak
Croat (n.) A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native Slavic race.
Croat (n.) An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.
Croatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Croatia.
Croatian (n.) A Croat.
Crocein (n.) A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.
Croceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow.
Crocetin (n.) A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow.
Croche (n.) A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.
Crochet (n.) A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.
Crochet (v. t. & i.) To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.
Crocheted (imp. & p. p.) of Crochet
Crocheting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crochet
Crociary (n.) One who carries the cross before an archbishop.
Crocin (n.) A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.
Crocin (n.) The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora.
Crock (n.) A low stool.
Crock (n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
Crock (n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.
Crock (v. i.) To give off crock or smut.
Crock (v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.
Crock (v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
Crocked (imp. & p. p.) of Crock
Crocker (n.) A potter.
Crockery (n.) Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.
Crocket (n.) A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.
Crocket (n.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.
Crocketed (a.) Ornamented with crockets.
Crocketing (n.) Ornamentation with crockets.
Crocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crock
Crocky (a.) Smutty.
Crocodile (n.) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
Crocodilia (n. pl.) An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.
Crocodilian (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.
Crocodilian (n.) One of the Crocodilia.
Crocodility (n.) A caption or sophistical mode of arguing.
Crocoisite (n.) Same as Crocoite.
Crocoite (n.) Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.
Croconate (n.) A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.
Croconic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.
Croconic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid.
Crocose (n.) A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron.
Crocus (n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.
Crocus (n.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.
Croesus (n.) A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Croesus.
Croft (n.) A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
Crofter (n.) One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.
Croftland (n.) Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised.
Crois (n.) See Cross, n.
Croisade (n.) Alt. of Croisado
Croisado (n.) A holy war; a crusade.
Croise (n.) A crusader.
Croise (n.) A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.
Croissante (a.) Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.
Croker (n.) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.
Croma (n.) A quaver.
Cromorna (n.) A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.
Crone (n.) An old ewe.
Crone (n.) An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman.
Crone (n.) An old woman; -- usually in contempt.
Cronel (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear.
Cronet (n.) The coronet of a horse.
Cronian (a.) Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea.
Cronies (pl. ) of Crony
Cronstedtite (n.) A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.
Crony (n.) A crone.
Crony (n.) An intimate companion; a familiar frend
Croodle (v. i.) To coo.
Croodle (v. i.) To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.
Croodle (v. i.) To fawn or coax.
Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
Crook (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
Crook (n.) A pothook.
Crook (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
Crook (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
Crook (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
Crook (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Crook (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Crookack (a.) Hunched.
Crookback (n.) A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
Crookbill (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
Crooked (imp. & p. p.) of Crook
Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Crookedness (n.) The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.
Crooken (v. t.) To make crooked.
Crookes tube () A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
Crooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crook
Croon (n.) A low singing; a plain, artless melody.
Croon (n.) A low, continued moan; a murmur.
Croon (v. i.) To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.
Croon (v. i.) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
Croon (v. t.) To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.
Croon (v. t.) To soothe by singing softly.
Crooned (imp. & p. p.) of Croon
Crooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croon
Crop (n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
Crop (n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
Crop (n.) Anything cut off or gathered.
Crop (n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
Crop (n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
Crop (n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
Crop (n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
Crop (n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
Crop (n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
Crop (n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
Crop (v. i.) To yield harvest.
Crop (v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
Crop (v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
Crop (v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
Crop-ear (n.) A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
Crop-eared (a.) Having the ears cropped.
Crop-tailed (a.) Having the tail cropped.
Crope () of Creep
Cropful (a.) Having a full crop or belly; satiated.
Cropped (imp. & p. p.) of Crop
Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.
Cropper (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
Cropper (n.) A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
Cropper (n.) One that crops.
Cropping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crop
Cropsick (a.) Sick from excess in eating or drinking.
Croquet (n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
Croquet (n.) The act of croqueting.
Croquet (v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.
Croqueted (imp. & p. p.) of Croquet
Croqueting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croquet
Crore (n.) Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000).
Crosier (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
Crosiered (a.) Bearing a crosier.
Croslet (n.) See Crosslet.
Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
Cross (a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.
Cross (a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
Cross (a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
Cross (n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
Cross (n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.
Cross (n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
Cross (n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
Cross (n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.
Cross (n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
Cross (n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
Cross (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
Cross (n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
Cross (n.) Church lands.
Cross (n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
Cross (n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.
Cross (prep.) Athwart; across.
Cross (v. i.) To be inconsistent.
Cross (v. i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
Cross (v. i.) To lie or be athwart.
Cross (v. i.) To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.
Cross (v. t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.
Cross (v. t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
Cross (v. t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
Cross (v. t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
Cross (v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
Cross (v. t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
Cross (v. t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
Cross (v. t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
Cross (v. t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
Cross-armed (a.) With arms crossed.
Cross-banded (a.) A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc., so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.
Cross-bearer (n.) A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
Cross-birth (n.) 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.
Cross-bun (n.) A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.
Cross-crosslet (n.) A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
Cross-days (n. pl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
Cross-examination (n.) The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.
Cross-examine (v. t.) To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
Cross-examined (imp. & p. p.) of Cross-examine
Cross-examiner (n.) One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
Cross-examining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross-examine
Cross-eye (n.) See Strabismus.
Cross-eyed (a.) Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
Cross-garnet (n.) A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.
Cross-pawl (n.) Same as Cross-spale.
Cross-purpose (n.) A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.
Cross-purpose (n.) A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
Cross-question (v. t.) To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
Cross-questioned (imp. & p. p.) of Cross-question
Cross-questioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cross-question
Cross-reading (n.) The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
Cross-spale (n.) Alt. of Cross-spall
Cross-spall (n.) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl.
Cross-springer (n.) One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]
Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
Cross-staff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.
Cross-stitch (n.) A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.
Cross-stone (n.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide.
Cross-tail (n.) A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
Cross-tie (n.) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
Cross-tining (n.) A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
Cross-vaulting (n.) Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
Cross-week (n.) Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
Crossbarred (a.) Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as, crossbarred muslin.
Crossbarred (a.) Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.
Crossbeak (n.) Same as Crossbill.
Crossbeam (n.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
Crossbeam (n.) A girder.
Crossbill () A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
Crossbill (n.) A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.
Crossbite (b. t.) To deceive; to trick; to gull.
Crossbite (n.) A deception; a cheat.
Crossbones (n. pl.) A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
Crossbow (n.) A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
Crossbower (n.) A crossbowman.
Crossbowman (n.) One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Crossbred (a.) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
Crossbreed (n.) A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.
Crossbreed (n.) Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
Crosscut (n.) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
Crosscut (n.) A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
Crosscut (v. t.) To cut across or through; to intersect.
Crossed (imp. & p. p.) of Cross
Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.
Crossette (n.) The shoulder of a joggled keystone.
Crossfish (n.) A starfish.
Crossflow (v. i.) To flow across, or in a contrary direction.
Crossgrained (a.) Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing.
Crossing (v. t.) Intersection, as of two paths or roads.
Crossing (v. t.) The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean.
Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
Crossing (v. t.) The act of making the sign of the cross.
Crossjack (n.) The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
CRosslegged (a.) Having the legs crossed.
Crosslet (a.) Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. SeeCross-crosslet.
Crosslet (n.) A crucible.
Crosslet (n.) A small cross.
Crossly (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
Crossnath (v. t.) To shade by means of crosshatching.
Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Crossopterygian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.
Crossopterygian (n.) One of the Crossopterygii.
Crossopterygii (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.
Crosspatch (n.) An ill-natured person.
Crosspiece (n.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.
Crosspiece (n.) A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
Crossroad (n.) A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.
Crossrow (n.) A row that crosses others.
Crossrow (n.) The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.
Crossruff (n.) The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
Crosstrees (n. pl.) Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
Crossway (n.) See Crossroad.
Crosswise (adv.) In the form of a cross; across; transversely.
Crosswort (n.) A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.
Crotalaria (n.) A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.
Crotaline (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.
Crotalo (n.) A Turkish musical instrument.
Crotalum (n.) A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.
Crotalus (n.) A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.
Crotaphite (n.) The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.
Crotaphitic (n.) Pertaining to the temple; temporal.
Crotch (n.) A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.
Crotch (n.) 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.
Crotched (a.) Cross; peevish.
Crotched (a.) Having a crotch; forked.
Crotches (pl. ) of Crotch
Crotchet (n.) A bracket. See Bracket.
Crotchet (n.) A forked support; a crotch.
Crotchet (n.) A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
Crotchet (n.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.
Crotchet (n.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
Crotchet (n.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
Crotchet (n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
Crotchet (v. i.) To play music in measured time.
Crotcheted (a.) Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation.
Crotchetiness (n.) The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.
Crotchety (a.) Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
Croton (n.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.
Croton bug () A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.
Crotonic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil.
Crotonine (n.) A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil.
Crotonylene (n.) A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.
Crottles (n. pl.) A name given to various lichens gathered for dyeing.
Crouch (v. i.) 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 (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Crouch (v. t.) To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.
Crouch (v. t.) To sign with the cross; to bless.
Crouched (a.) Marked with the sign of the cross.
Crouched (imp. & p. p.) of Crouch
Crouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crouch
Croud (n.) See Crowd, a violin.
Crouke (n.) A crock; a jar.
Croup (n.) The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.
Croupade (n.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.
Croupal (a.) Croupy.
Crouper (n.) See Crupper.
Croupier (n.) One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.
Croupier (n.) One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.
Croupous (a.) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis.
Croupy (a.) Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough.
Crouse (a.) Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent.
Croustade (n.) Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.
Crout (n.) See Sourkrout.
Crouton (n.) Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.
Crow (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
Crow (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
Crow (v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Crow (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
Crow (v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
Crow (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
Crow-quill (n.) A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.
Crow-silk (n.) A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).
Crow-trodden (a.) Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes.
Crow's-feet (pl. ) of Crow's-foot
Crow's-foot (n.) A caltrop.
Crow's-foot (n.) Same as Bird's-mouth.
Crow's-foot (n.) The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.
Crow's-nest (n.) A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.
Crowbar (n.) A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.
Crowberry (n.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.
Crowd (n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
Crowd (v. i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
Crowd (v. i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
Crowd (v. t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
Crowd (v. t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
Crowd (v. t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
Crowd (v. t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
Crowd (v. t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
Crowd (v. t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Crowd (v. t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
Crowd (v. t.) To push, to press, to shove.
Crowded (imp. & p. p.) of Crowd
Crowder (n.) One who crowds or pushes.
Crowder (n.) One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler.
Crowding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crowd
Crowdy (n.) A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.
Crowed () of Crow
Crowed (p. p.) of Crow
Crowflower (n.) A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos-cuculi.
Crowfoot (n.) A caltrop.
Crowfoot (n.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.
Crowfoot (n.) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.
Crowfoot (n.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.
Crowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crow
Crowkeeper (n.) A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.
Crown () of Crow
Crown () p. p. of Crow.
Crown (n.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
Crown (n.) A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.
Crown (n.) A size of writing paper. See under Paper.
Crown (n.) A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.
Crown (n.) An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.
Crown (n.) Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.
Crown (n.) Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.
Crown (n.) Same as Corona.
Crown (n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.
Crown (n.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.
Crown (n.) The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.
Crown (n.) The dome of a furnace.
Crown (n.) The part of a hat above the brim.
Crown (n.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.
Crown (n.) The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.
Crown (n.) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
Crown (n.) The topmost part of anything; the summit.
Crown (n.) The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.
Crown (n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
Crown (n.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.
Crown (n.) To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
Crown (n.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
Crown (n.) To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
Crown (n.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
Crown (n.) To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
Crown office () The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases.
Crown side () See Crown office.
Crown wheel () A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
Crown-imperial (n.) A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
Crown-post (n.) Same as King-post.
Crown-saw (n.) A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.
Crowned (imp. & p. p.) of Crown
Crowned (p. p. & a.) Great; excessive; supreme.
Crowned (p. p. & a.) Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected.
Crowner (n.) A coroner.
Crowner (n.) One who, or that which, crowns.
Crownet (n.) A coronet.
Crownet (n.) The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end.
Crowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crown
Crownless (a.) Without a crown.
Crownlet (n.) A coronet.
Crownpiece (n.) A coin [In sense (b) properly crown piece.] See Crown, 19.
Crownpiece (n.) A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.
Crownwork (n.) A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.
Crows (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.
Crowstep (n.) See Corriestep.
Crowstone (n.) The top stone of the gable end of a house.
Crowth (n.) An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.
Crowtoe (n.) An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.
Crowtoe (n.) The Lotus corniculatus.
Croylstone (n.) Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.
Croys (n.) See Cross, n.
Croze (n.) A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.
Crozier (n.) See Crosier.
Croziered (a.) Crosiered.
Cruces (pl. ) of Crux
Crucial (a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
Crucial (a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
Crucian carp () A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp.
Cruciate (a.) Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross; cruciform.
Cruciate (a.) Tormented.
Cruciate (v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.
Cruciation (n.) The act of torturing; torture; torment.
Crucible (n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.
Crucible (n.) A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction.
Crucible (n.) A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc.
Crucifer (n.) Any plant of the order Cruciferae.
Cruciferous (a.) Bearing a cross.
Cruciferous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc.
Crucified (imp. & p. p.) of Crucify
Crucifier (n.) One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial.
Crucifix (n.) A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their devotions.
Crucifix (n.) The cross or religion of Christ.
Crucifixes (pl. ) of Crucifix
Crucifixion (n.) Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.
Crucifixion (n.) The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.
Crucifixion (n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.
Cruciform (a.) Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the form of a cross.
Crucify (v. t.) To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.
Crucify (v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
Crucify (v. t.) To vex or torment.
Crucifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crucify
Crucigerous (a.) Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross.
Crud (n.) See Curd.
Cruddle (v. i.) To curdle.
Crude (superl.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
Crude (superl.) Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
Crude (superl.) In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
Crude (superl.) Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
Crude (superl.) Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
Crude (superl.) Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
Crudely (adv.) In a crude, immature manner.
Crudeness (n.) A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.
Crudities (pl. ) of Crudity
Crudity (n.) That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.
Crudity (n.) The condition of being crude; rawness.
Crudle (v. i.) See Cruddle.
Crudy (a.) Characterized by crudeness; raw.
Crudy (a.) Coagulated.
Cruel (a.) Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
Cruel (a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
Cruel (a.) Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
Cruel (n.) See Crewel.
Cruelly (adv.) Extremely; very.
Cruelly (adv.) In a cruel manner.
Cruelness (n.) Cruelty.
Cruels (n. pl.) Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
Cruelties (pl. ) of Cruelty
Cruelty (n.) A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.
Cruelty (n.) The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.
Cruentate (a.) Smeared with blood.
Cruentous (a.) Bloody; cruentate.
Cruet (n.) A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.
Cruet (n.) A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.
Cruise (n.) A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.
Cruise (n.) See Cruse, a small bottle.
Cruise (v. i.) To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.
Cruise (v. i.) To wander hither and thither on land.
Cruised (imp. & p. p.) of Cruise
Cruiser (n.) One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed vessel.
Cruising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cruise
Cruive (n.) A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel.
Crull (a.) Curly; curled.
Cruller (n.) A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted, and fried crisp in boiling fat.
Crumb (n.) A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.
Crumb (n.) Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.
Crumb (n.) The soft part of bread.
Crumb (v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.
Crumbcloth (n.) A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean.
Crumbed (imp. & p. p.) of Crumb
Crumbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crumb
Crumble (v. i.) To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.
Crumble (v. t.) To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.
Crumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Crumble
Crumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crumble
Crumbly (a.) EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Crumenal (n.) A purse.
Crummable (a.) Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.
Crummy (a.) Full of crumb or crumbs.
Crummy (a.) Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.
Crump (a.) Crooked; bent.
Crump (a.) Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf.
Crumpet (n.) A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.
Crumple (v. i.) To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.
Crumple (v. t.) To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.
Crumpled (imp. & p. p.) of Crumple
Crumpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crumple
Crumpy (a.) Brittle; crisp.
Crunch (v. i.) To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
Crunch (v. i.) To emit a grinding or craunching noise.
Crunch (v. i.) To grind or press with violence and noise.
Crunch (v. t.) To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.
Crunched (imp. & p. p.) of Crunch
Crunching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crunch
Crunk (v. i.) Alt. of Crunkle
Crunkle (v. i.) To cry like a crane.
Crunodal (a.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.
Crunode (n.) A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.
Cruor (n.) The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.
Cruorin (n.) The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; haemoglobin.
Crup (a.) Short; brittle; as, crup cake.
Crup (n.) See Croup, the rump of a horse.
Crupper (n.) A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
Crupper (n.) The buttocks or rump of a horse.
Crupper (v. t.) To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse.
Crura (n. pl.) See Crus.
Crura (pl. ) of Crus
Crural (a.) Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal; crural ring.
Crus (n.) That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.
Crusade (n.) A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.
Crusade (n.) Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance.
Crusade (n.) Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.
Crusade (v. i.) To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner.
Crusaded (imp. & p. p.) of Crusade
Crusader (n.) One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages.
Crusading (a.) Of or pertaining to a crusade; as, a crusading spirit.
Crusading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crusade
Crusado (n.) An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents.
Cruse (n.) A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc.
Cruse (n.) A cup or dish.
Cruset (n.) A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.
Crush (n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
Crush (n.) Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
Crush (v. i.) 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 (v. t.) To oppress or burden grievously.
Crush (v. t.) To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
Crush (v. t.) 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 (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.
Crushed (imp. & p. p.) of Crush
Crusher (n.) One who, or that which, crushes.
Crushing (a.) That crushes; overwhelming.
Crushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crush
Crust (n.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
Crust (n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
Crust (n.) The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
Crust (n.) The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.
Crust (n.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
Crust (n.) The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
Crust (n.) The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
Crust (n.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
Crust (n.) To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.
Crust (v. i.) To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
Crusta (n.) A crust or shell.
Crusta (n.) A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.
Crustacea (n. pl.) One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.
Crustacean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.
Crustacean (n.) An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.
Crustaceological (a.) Pertaining to crustaceology.
Crustaceologist (n.) One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.
Crustaceology (n.) That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.
Crustaceous (a.) Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.
Crustaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
Crustaceousness (n.) The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.
Crustal (a.) Relating to a crust.
Crustalogical (a.) Pertaining to crustalogy.
Crustalogist (n.) One versed in crustalogy.
Crustalogy (n.) Crustaceology.
Crustated (a.) Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.
Crustation (n.) An adherent crust; an incrustation.
Crusted (a.) Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.
Crusted (imp. & p. p.) of Crust
Crustific (a.) Producing or forming a crust or skin.
Crustily (adv.) In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.
Crustiness (n.) The quality of being crusty or surly.
Crustiness (n.) The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness.
Crusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crust
Crusty (a.) Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly.
Crusty (a.) Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.
Crut (n.) The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.
Crutch (n.) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.
Crutch (n.) A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
Crutch (n.) A knee, or piece of knee timber
Crutch (n.) 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 (v. t.) To support on crutches; to prop up.
Crutched (a.) Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched.
Crutched (a.) Supported upon crutches.
Crutches (pl. ) of Crutch
Cruth (n.) See 4th Crowd.
Crux (n.) Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
Cruxes (pl. ) of Crux
Cruzado (n.) A coin. See Crusado.
Crwth (n.) See 4th Crowd.
Cry (v. i.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
Cry (v. i.) A pack of hounds.
Cry (v. i.) A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
Cry (v. i.) A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
Cry (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
Cry (v. i.) Common report; fame.
Cry (v. i.) Importunate supplication.
Cry (v. i.) Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
Cry (v. i.) Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
Cry (v. i.) Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
Cry (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
Cry (v. i.) To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
Cry (v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
Cry (v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
Cry (v. t.) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
Cry (v. t.) To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
Cry (v. t.) to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
Cry (v. t.) To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
Cryal (n.) The heron
Cryer (n.) The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.
Crying (a.) Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.
Crying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cry
Cryohydrate (n.) A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water.
Cryolite (n.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.
Crypt (n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
Crypt (n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
Cryptal (a.) Of or pertaining to crypts.
Cryptic (a.) Alt. of Cryptical
Cryptical (a.) Hidden; secret; occult.
Cryptically (adv.) Secretly; occultly.
Cryptidine (n.) One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.
Cryptobranchiata (n. pl.) A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.
Cryptobranchiata (n. pl.) A group of nudibranch mollusks.
Cryptobranchiate (a.) Having concealed or rudimentary gills.
Cryptocrystalline (a.) Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.
Cryptogam (n.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.
Cryptogamia (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.
Cryptogamiae (pl. ) of Cryptogamia
Cryptogamian (a.) Alt. of Cryptogamous
Cryptogamic (a.) Alt. of Cryptogamous
Cryptogamist (n.) One skilled in cryptogamic botany.
Cryptogamous (a.) Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.
Cryptogram (n.) A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.
Cryptograph (n.) Cipher; something written in cipher.
Cryptographal (a.) Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical.
Cryptographer (n.) One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.
Cryptographic (a.) Alt. of Cryptographical
Cryptographical (a.) Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.
Cryptographist (n.) Same as Cryptographer.
Cryptography (n.) The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.
Cryptology (n.) Secret or enigmatical language.
Cryptonym (n.) A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.
Cryptopine (n.) A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.
Crypturi (n. pl.) An order of flying, drom/ognathous birds, including the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou.
Crystal (n.) A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.
Crystal (n.) Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc.
Crystal (n.) The glass over the dial of a watch case.
Crystalline (a.) Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
Crystalline (a.) Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.
Crystalline (n.) A crystalline substance.
Crystalline (n.) See Aniline.
Crystallizable (a.) Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
Crystallization (n.) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
Crystallization (n.) The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.
Crystallize (v. i.) To be converted into a crystal; to take on a crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive attraction.
Crystallize (v. t.) To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
Crystallized (imp. & p. p.) of Crystallize
Crystallizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crystallize
Crystallogenic (a.) Alt. of Crystallogenical
Crystallogenical (a.) Pertaining to the production of crystals; crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.
Crystallogeny (n.) The science which pertains to the production of crystals.
Crystallographer (n.) One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
Crystallographic (a.) Alt. of Crystallographical
Crystallographical (a.) Pertaining to crystallography.
Crystallographically (adv.) In the manner of crystallography.
Crystallography (n.) A discourse or treatise on crystallization.
Crystallography (n.) The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.
Crystalloid (a.) Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
Crystalloid (n.) A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.
Crystalloid (n.) One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also protein crystal.
Crystallomancy (n.) Divination by means of a crystal or other transparent body, especially a beryl.
Crystallometry (n.) The art of measuring crystals.
Crystallurgy (n.) Crystallization.
Ctenocyst (n.) An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory.
Ctenoid (a.) Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale
Ctenoid (a.) Pertaining to the Ctenoidei.
Ctenoid (n.) A ctenoidean.
Ctenoidean (a.) Relating to the Ctenoidei.
Ctenoidean (n.) One of the Ctenoidei.
Ctenoidei (n. pl.) A group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.
Ctenophora (n. pl.) A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.
Ctenophore (n.) One of the Ctenophora.
Ctenophoric (a.) Alt. of Ctenophorous
Ctenophorous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ctenophora.
Ctenostomata (n. pl.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.
Cub (n.) A cupboard.
Cub (n.) A stall for cattle.
Cub (n.) A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.
Cub (n.) Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
Cub (v. t. & i.) To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons.
Cub (v. t.) To shut up or confine.
Cuban (a.) Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants.
Cuban (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Cuba.
Cubation (n.) The act of lying down; a reclining.
Cubatory (a.) Lying down; recumbent.
Cubature (n.) The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.
Cubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Cub
Cubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cub
Cubbridge-head (n.) A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
Cubby (n.) Alt. of Cubbyhole
Cubbyhole (n.) A snug or confined place.
Cubdrawn (a.) Sucked by cubs.
Cube (n.) A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
Cube (n.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.
Cube (v. t.) To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.
Cubebic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).
Cubed (imp. & p. p.) of Cube
Cubhood (n.) The state of being a cub.
Cubic (a.) Alt. of Cubical
Cubic (n.) A curve of the third degree.
Cubical (a.) Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.
Cubical (a.) Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See Crystallization.
Cubically (adv.) In a cubical method.
Cubicalness (n.) The quality of being cubical.
Cubicle (n.) A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.
Cubicular (a.) Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.
Cubiform (a.) Of the form of a cube.
Cubile (n.) The lowest course of stones in a building.
Cubilose (n.) A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.
Cubing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cube
Cubit (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.
Cubit (n.) The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist.
Cubital (a.) Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.
Cubital (a.) Of the length of a cubit.
Cubital (n.) A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand.
Cubited (a.) Having the measure of a cubit.
Cubless (a.) Having no cubs.
Cubo-octahedral (a.) Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.
Cubo-octahedron (n.) A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.
Cuboid (a.) Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.
Cuboid (n.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.
Cuboidal (a.) Cuboid.
Cuca (n.) See Coca.
Cuckold (n.) A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
Cuckold (n.) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
Cuckold (n.) The cowfish.
Cuckold (v. t.) To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
Cuckold's knot () A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck.
Cuckolded (imp. & p. p.) of Cuckold
Cuckolding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cuckold
Cuckoldize (v. t.) To cuckold.
Cuckoldly (a.) Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking.
Cuckoldom (n.) The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively.
Cuckoldry (n.) The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.
Cuckoo (n.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.
Cuckoobud (n.) A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.
Cuckooflower (n.) A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi).
Cuckoopint (n.) A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin.
Cucquean (n.) A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.
Cucujo (n.) The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.
Cucullate (a.) Alt. of Cucullated
Cucullated (a.) Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.
Cucullated (a.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.
Cucullated (a.) Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects.
Cucullated (a.) Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
Cuculoid (a.) Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidae).
Cucumber (n.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.
Cucumiform (a.) Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.
Cucumis (n.) A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same kinds of gourds.
Cucurbit (n.) Alt. of Cucurbite
Cucurbitaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.
Cucurbite (n.) A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.
Cucurbitive (a.) Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain small worms.
Cud (n.) A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.
Cud (n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
Cud (n.) The first stomach of ruminating beasts.
Cudbear (n.) A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.
Cudbear (n.) A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea.
Cudden (n.) A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.
Cudden (n.) The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy.
Cuddle (n.) A close embrace.
Cuddle (v. i.) To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
Cuddle (v. t.) To embrace closely; to fondle.
Cuddled (imp. & p. p.) of Cuddle
Cuddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cuddle
Cuddy (n.) A blockhead; a lout.
Cuddy (n.) A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
Cuddy (n.) A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.
Cuddy (n.) An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
Cuddy (n.) The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).
Cudgel (n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
Cudgel (v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.
Cudgeled (imp. & p. p.) of Cudgel
Cudgeler (n.) One who beats with a cudgel.
Cudgeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cudgel
Cudgelled () of Cudgel
Cudgelling () of Cudgel
Cudweed (n.) A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.
Cue (n.) A hint or intimation.
Cue (n.) A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing.
Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
Cue (n.) Humor; temper of mind.
Cue (n.) The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword.
Cue (n.) The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.
Cue (n.) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
Cue (v. t.) To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
Cuerpo (n.) The body.
Cuff (n.) A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
Cuff (n.) Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.
Cuff (n.) The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.
Cuff (v. i.) To fight; to scuffle; to box.
Cuff (v. t.) To buffet.
Cuff (v. t.) To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.
Cuffed (imp. & p. p.) of Cuff
Cuffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cuff
Cuffy (n.) A name for a negro.
Cufic (a.) Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language.
Cuinage (n.) The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.
Cuirass (n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
Cuirass (n.) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
Cuirass (n.) The breastplate taken by itself.
Cuirassed (a.) Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; -- said of certain fishes.
Cuirassed (a.) Wearing a cuirass.
Cuirasses (pl. ) of Cuirass
Cuirassier (n.) A soldier armed with a cuirass.
Cuish (n.) Defensive armor for the thighs.
Cuisine (n.) Manner or style of cooking.
Cuisine (n.) The kitchen or cooking department.
Cul-de-sac (n.) A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.
Cul-de-sac (n.) a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front.
Cul-de-sac (n.) Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.
Culasse (n.) The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.
Culdee (n.) One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
Culerage (n.) See Culrage.
Culex (n.) A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and mosquito.
Culiciform (a.) Gnat-shaped.
Culinarily (adv.) In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen or cooking.
Culinary (a.) Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.
Cull (n.) A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.
Cull (v. t.) To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
Culled (imp. & p. p.) of Cull
Cullender (n.) A strainer. See Colander.
Culler (n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.
Cullet (n.) A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).
Cullet (v. t.) Broken glass for remelting.
Cullibility (n.) Gullibility.
Cullible (a.) Easily deceived; gullible.
Cullies (pl. ) of Cully
Culling (n.) Anything separated or selected from a mass.
Culling (n.) The act of one who culls.
Culling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cull
Cullion (n.) A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.
Cullionly (a.) Mean; base.
Cullis (n.) A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.
Cullis (n.) A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly.
Cullises (pl. ) of Cullis
Culls (v. t.) Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.
Culls (v. t.) Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out.
Cully (n.) A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull.
Cully (n.) To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive.
Cullyism (n.) The state of being a cully.
Culm (n.) Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
Culm (n.) The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.
Culmen (n.) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
Culmen (n.) Top; summit; acme.
Culmiferous (a.) Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.
Culmiferous (a.) Having jointed stems or culms.
Culminal (a.) Pertaining to a culmen.
Culminant (a.) Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.
Culminate (a.) Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.
Culminate (v. i.) To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
Culminate (v. i.) To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
Culminated (imp. & p. p.) of Culminate
Culminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Culminate
Culmination (n.) Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
Culmination (n.) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.
Culpa (n.) Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.
Culpabilities (pl. ) of Culpability
Culpability (n.) The state of being culpable.
Culpable (a.) Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
Culprit (p. p.) One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
Culprit (p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.
Culrage (n.) Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper).
Culs-de-sac (pl. ) of Cul-de-sac
Cult (n .) A system of religious belief and worship.
Cult (n .) Attentive care; homage; worship.
Cultch (n.) Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster.
Culter (n.) A colter. See Colter.
Cultirostral (a.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.
Cultirostres (n. pl.) A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.
Cultivable (a.) Capable of being cultivated or tilled.
Cultivatable (a.) Cultivable.
Cultivate (v. t.) To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
Cultivate (v. t.) To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
Cultivate (v. t.) To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.
Cultivate (v. t.) To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.
Cultivate (v. t.) To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.
Cultivated (imp. & p. p.) of Cultivate
Cultivating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cultivate
Cultivation (n.) Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.
Cultivation (n.) The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
Cultivation (n.) The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.
Cultivator (n.) An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles.
Cultivator (n.) One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature.
Cultrate (a.) Alt. of Cultrated
Cultrated (a.) Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.
Cultriform (a.) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity.
Culturable (a.) Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured.
Cultural (a.) Of or pertaining to culture.
Culture (n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
Culture (n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
Culture (n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
Culture (v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.
Cultured (a.) Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.
Cultured (a.) Under culture; cultivated.
Cultured (imp. & p. p.) of Culture
Cultureless (a.) Having no culture.
Culturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Culture
Culturist (n.) A cultivator.
Culturist (n.) One who is an advocate of culture.
Cultus (n. sing. & pl.) Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2.
Cultus cod () See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.
Cultuses (pl. ) of Cultus
Culver (n.) A culverin.
Culver (n.) A dove.
Culverhouse (n.) A dovecote.
Culverin (n.) A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.
Culverkey (n.) A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree.
Culverkey (n.) An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans).
Culvert (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Culvertail (n.) Dovetail.
Culvertailed (a.) United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.
Cumacea (n. pl.) An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.
Cumbent (a.) Lying down; recumbent.
Cumber (v. t.) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.
Cumber (v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.
Cumbered (imp. & p. p.) of Cumber
Cumbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cumber
Cumbersome (a.) Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.
Cumbersome (a.) Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or machine.
Cumbrance (n.) Encumbrance.
Cumbrian (a.) Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of rocks found there.
Cumbrous (a.) Giving trouble; vexatious.
Cumbrous (a.) Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
Cumene (n.) A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.
Cumfrey (n.) See Comfrey.
Cumic (a.) See Cuming.
Cumidine (n.) A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.
Cumin (n.) A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway.
Cuminic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid.
Cuminil (n .) A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.
Cuminol (n.) A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; -- called also cuminic aldehyde.
Cummin (n.) Same as Cumin.
Cumshaw (n.) A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton.
Cumshaw (v. t.) To give or make a present to.
Cumu-cirro-stratus (n.) Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.
Cumulate (v. t.) To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.
Cumulated (imp. & p. p.) of Cumulate
Cumulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cumulate
Cumulation (n.) The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.
Cumulatist (n.) One who accumulates; one who collects.
Cumulative (a.) Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases as the statement proceeds.
Cumulative (a.) Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; aggregated.
Cumulative (a.) Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy.
Cumulative (a.) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
Cumuli (pl. ) of Cumulus
Cumulose (a.) Full of heaps.
Cumulostratus (n.) A form of cloud. See Cloud.
Cumulus (n.) One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.
Cun (v. t.) To con (a ship).
Cun (v. t.) To know. See Con.
Cunabula (n. pl.) The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.
Cunabula (n. pl.) The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.
Cundurango (n.) The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer.
Cuneal () Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped.
Cuneate (a.) Alt. of Cuneated
Cuneated (a.) Wedge-shaped
Cuneated (a.) wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.
Cuneatic (a.) Cuneiform.
Cuneiform (a.) Alt. of Cuniform
Cuneiform (n.) Alt. of Cuniform
Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.
Cuniform (a.) Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them.
Cuniform (a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.
Cuniform (n.) One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.
Cuniform (n.) One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.
Cuniform (n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.
Cunner (n.) A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer.
Cunner (n.) A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
Cunning (a.) Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
Cunning (a.) The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
Cunning (a.) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
Cunningly (adv.) In a cunning manner; with cunning.
Cunningman (n.) A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
Cunningness (n.) Quality of being cunning; craft.
Cup (n.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
Cup (n.) A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
Cup (n.) Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
Cup (n.) Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
Cup (n.) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
Cup (n.) The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
Cup (v. t.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
Cup (v. t.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.
Cup (v. t.) To supply with cups of wine.
Cup-gall (n.) A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.
Cup-moss (n.) A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.
Cup-rose (n.) Red poppy. See Cop-rose.
Cupbearer (n.) One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master.
Cupbearer (n.) One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an entertainment.
Cupboard (n.) A board or shelf for cups and dishes.
Cupboard (n.) A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.
Cupboard (v. t.) To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
Cupel (n.) A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
Cupel (v. t.) To refine by means of a cupel.
Cupellation (n.) The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.
Cupelled (imp. & p. p.) of Cupel
Cupelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cupel
Cupful (n.) As much as a cup will hold.
Cupfuls (pl. ) of Cupful
Cupid (n .) The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.
Cupidity (n.) A passionate desire; love.
Cupidity (n.) Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness
Cupola (n.) A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.
Cupola (n.) A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.
Cupola (n.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.
Cupola (n.) A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.
Cupola (n.) The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.
Cupolas (pl. ) of Cupola
Cupped (imp. & p. p.) of Cup
Cupper (n.) One who performs the operation of cupping.
Cupping (n.) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes, a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess.
Cupping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cup
Cupreous (a.) Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.
Cupric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.
Cuprite (n.) The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.
Cuproid (n.) A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.
Cuprous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.
Cuprum (n.) Copper.
Cupulate (a.) Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.
Cupule (n.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.
Cupule (n.) A sucker or acetabulum.
Cupuliferous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.
Cur (n.) A mongrel or inferior dog.
Cur (n.) A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt.
Curability (n.) The state of being curable; curableness.
Curable (v. t.) Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.
Curacao (n.) Alt. of Curacoa
Curacies (pl. ) of Curacy
Curacoa (n.) A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaccao.
Curacy (n.) The office or employment of a curate.
Curare (n.) Alt. of Curari
Curarine (n.) A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.
Curarize (v. t.) To poison with curare.
Curassow (n.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidae.
Curat (n.) A cuirass or breastplate.
Curate (n.) One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
Curateship (n.) A curacy.
Curation (n.) Cure; healing.
Curative (v. t.) Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.
Curator (n.) One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.
Curator (n.) One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.
Curatorship (n.) The office of a curator.
Curatrix (n.) A woman who cures.
Curatrix (n.) A woman who is a guardian or custodian.
Curb (n.) A curbstone.
Curb (n.) A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
Curb (n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
Curb (n.) An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
Curb (n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.
Curb (v. i.) To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
Curb (v. t.) To bend or curve
Curb (v. t.) To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
Curb (v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.
Curb roof () A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.
Curbed (imp. & p. p.) of Curb
Curbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curb
Curbless (a.) Having no curb or restraint.
Curbstone (n.) A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.
Curch (n.) See Courche.
Curculio (n.) One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.
Curculionidous (a.) Pertaining to the Curculionideae, or weevil tribe.
Curculios (pl. ) of Curculio
Curcuma (n.) A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the turmeric plant (Curcuma longa).
Curcumin (n.) The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluorescence.
Curd (n.) The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese.
Curd (n.) The coagulated part of any liquid.
Curd (n.) The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower.
Curd (v. i.) To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey
Curd (v. t.) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
Curded (imp. & p. p.) of Curd
Curdiness (n.) The state of being curdy.
Curding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curd
Curdle (v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
Curdle (v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.
Curdle (v. t.) To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.
Curdle (v. t.) To congeal or thicken.
Curdled (imp. & p. p.) of Curdle
Curdless (a.) Destitute of curd.
Curdling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curdle
Curdy (a.) Like curd; full of curd; coagulated.
Cure (n.) A curate; a pardon.
Cure (n.) Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
Cure (n.) Care, heed, or attention.
Cure (n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
Cure (n.) Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
Cure (n.) Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
Cure (v. i.) To become healed.
Cure (v. i.) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Cure (v. i.) To restore health; to effect a cure.
Cure (v. t.) To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient.
Cure (v. t.) To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
Cure (v. t.) To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
Cure (v. t.) To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.
Cureall (n.) A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea.
Cured (imp. & p. p.) of Cure
Cureless (a.) Incapable of cure; incurable.
Curer (n.) One who cures; a healer; a physician.
Curer (n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.
Curette (n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.
Curfew (n.) A utensil for covering the fire.
Curfew (n.) The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.
Curia (n.) Any court of justice.
Curia (n.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Curia (n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
Curia (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
Curia (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
Curialism (n.) The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Curialist (n.) One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Curialistic (a.) Pertaining to a court.
Curialistic (a.) Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Curiality (n.) The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.
Curiet (n.) A cuirass.
Curing () p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.
Curing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cure
Curio (n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu.
Curiologic (a.) Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.
Curios (pl. ) of Curio
Curiosities (pl. ) of Curiosity
Curiosity (n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
Curiosity (n.) That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward attention.
Curiosity (n.) The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
Curioso (n.) A virtuoso.
Curiosos (pl. ) of Curioso
Curious (a.) Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of.
Curious (a.) Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.
Curious (a.) Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare.
Curious (a.) Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed; elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.
Curiously (adv.) In a curious manner.
Curiousness (n.) Carefulness; painstaking.
Curiousness (n.) Inquisitiveness; curiosity.
Curiousness (n.) The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.
Curl (n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Curl (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Curl (n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curl (n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
Curl (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Curl (v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
Curl (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
Curl (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
Curl (v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
Curl (v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
Curl (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
Curle (pl. ) of Curia
Curled (a.) Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
Curled (imp. & p. p.) of Curl
Curledness (n.) State of being curled; curliness.
Curler (n.) A player at the game called curling.
Curler (n.) One who, or that which, curls.
Curlew (n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
Curliness (n.) State of being curly.
Curling (n.) A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
Curling (n.) The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
Curling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curl
Curlingly (adv.) With a curl, or curls.
Curly (a.) Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
Curlycue (n.) Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.
Curmudgeon (n.) An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
Curmudgeonly (a.) Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
Curmurring (n.) Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.
Curr (v. i.) To coo.
Currant (n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
Currant (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
Currant (n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
Currencies (pl. ) of Currency
Currency (n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
Currency (n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Currency (n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
Currency (n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
Currency (n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
Current (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Current (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
Current (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
Current (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
Current (a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
Current (a.) Running or moving rapidly.
Currently (adv.) In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed.
Currentness (n.) Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
Currentness (n.) The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception.
Curricle (n.) A small or short course.
Curricle (n.) A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.
Curricula (pl. ) of Curriculum
Curriculum (n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.
Curriculum (n.) A race course; a place for running.
Curriculums (pl. ) of Curriculum
Currie (n. & v.) See 2d & 3d Curry.
Curried (imp. & p. p.) of Curry
Curried (n.) Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.
Curried (n.) Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.
Currier (n.) One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.
Currish (a.) Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal.
Curry (n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
Curry (n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
Curry (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
Curry (v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
Curry (v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.
Currycomb (n.) A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.
Currycomb (v. t.) To comb with a currycomb.
Currying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curry
Curse (v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.
Curse (v. t.) An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
Curse (v. t.) Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
Curse (v. t.) The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
Curse (v. t.) To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
Curse (v. t.) To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
Cursed (a.) Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable.
Cursed (imp. & p. p.) of Curse
Cursedly (adv.) In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
Cursedness (n.) Shrewishness.
Cursedness (n.) The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.
Cursedness (n.) Wickedness; sin; cursing.
Curser (n.) One who curses.
Curship (n.) The state of being a cur; one who is currish.
Cursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curse
Cursitating (a.) Moving about slightly.
Cursitor (n.) A courier or runner.
Cursitor (n.) An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs.
Cursive (a.) Running; flowing.
Cursive (n.) A character used in cursive writing.
Cursive (n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.
Cursor (n.) Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
Cursorary (a.) Cursory; hasty.
Cursores (n. pl.) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.
Cursores (n. pl.) An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaae.
Cursorial (a.) Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.
Cursorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
Cursorily (adv.) In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
Cursoriness (n.) The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.
Cursory (a.) Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.
Curt (a.) Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
Curtail (n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Curtail (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
Curtailed (imp. & p. p.) of Curtail
Curtailer (n.) One who curtails.
Curtailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curtail
Curtailment (n.) The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
Curtain (n.) A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
Curtain (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
Curtain (n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
Curtain (v. t.) To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
Curtained (imp. & p. p.) of Curtain
Curtaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curtain
Curtal (a.) Curt; brief; laconic.
Curtal (n.) A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.
Curtal ax () Alt. of Curtelasse
Curtal friar () A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.
Curtana (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.
Curtation (n.) The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
Curtein (n.) Same as Curtana.
Curtelasse () A corruption of Cutlass.
Curtes (a.) Courteous.
Curtesies (pl. ) of Curtesy
Curtesy (n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.
Curtilage (n.) A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.
Curtle ax () Alt. of Curtelasse
Curtly (adv.) In a curt manner.
Curtness (n.) The quality of bing curt.
Curtsy (n.) Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.
Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.
Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.
Cururo (n.) A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus.
Curval (p. pr.) Alt. of Curvant
Curvant (p. pr.) Bowed; bent; curved.
Curvate (a.) Alt. of Curvated
Curvated (a.) Bent in a regular form; curved.
Curvation (n.) The act of bending or crooking.
Curvative (a.) Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves.
Curvature (n.) The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.
Curvature (n.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point.
Curve (a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
Curve (a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
Curve (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
Curve (a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
Curve (v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
Curved (imp. & p. p.) of Curve
Curvedness (n.) The state of being curved.
Curvet (n.) A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.
Curvet (n.) A prank; a frolic.
Curvet (n.) To leap and frisk; to frolic.
Curvet (n.) To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.
Curvet (v. t.) To cause to curvet.
Curveted (imp. & p. p.) of Curvet
Curveting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curvet
Curvicaudate (a.) Having a curved or crooked tail.
Curvicostate (a.) Having bent ribs.
Curvidentate (a.) Having curved teeth.
Curviform (a.) Having a curved form.
Curvilinead (n.) An instrument for drawing curved lines.
Curvilineal (a.) Alt. of Curvilinear
Curvilinear (a.) Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.
Curvilinearity (n.) The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
Curvilinearly (adv.) In a curvilinear manner.
Curvinerved (a.) Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.
Curving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curve
Curvirostral (a.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.
Curvirostres (n. pl.) A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
Curviserial (a.) Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
Curvograph (n.) An arcograph.
Cushat (n.) The ringdove or wood pigeon.
Cushewbird (n.) The galeated curassow. See Curassow.
Cushion (n.) A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.
Cushion (n.) a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston
Cushion (n.) a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf
Cushion (n.) A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.
Cushion (n.) Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use
Cushion (n.) the elastic edge of a billiard table.
Cushion (v. t.) To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
Cushion (v. t.) To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.
Cushion (v. t.) To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
Cushioned (imp. & p. p.) of Cushion
Cushionet (n.) A little cushion.
Cushioning (p. pr. & vb.) of Cushion
Cushionless (a.) Hot furnished with a cushion.
Cushiony (a.) Like a cushion; soft; pliable.
Cushite (n.) A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.
Cusk (n.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.
Cuskin (n.) A kind of drinking cup.
Cusp (n.) A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.
Cusp (n.) A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.
Cusp (n.) A sharp and rigid point.
Cusp (n.) A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.
Cusp (n.) The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.
Cusp (n.) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.
Cusp (v. t.) To furnish with a cusp or cusps.
Cuspated (a.) Ending in a point.
Cusped (imp. & p. p.) of Cusp
Cuspid (n.) One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.
Cuspidal (a.) Ending in a point.
Cuspidate (a.) Alt. of Cuspidated
Cuspidate (v. t.) To make pointed or sharp.
Cuspidated (a.) Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear; terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.
Cuspidor (n.) Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.
Cusping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cusp
Cuspis (n.) A point; a sharp end.
Cussuetudinary (n.) A manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises.
Custard (n.) A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.
Custode (n.) See Custodian.
Custodes (pl. ) of Custos
Custodial (a.) Relating to custody or guardianship.
Custodian (n.) One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.
Custodianship (n.) Office or duty of a custodian.
Custodier (n.) A custodian.
Custody (n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.
Custody (n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.
Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Custom (n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
Custom (n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
Custom (n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
Custom (n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
Custom (n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
Custom (n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
Custom (v. i.) To have a custom.
Custom (v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.
Custom (v. t.) To pay the customs of.
Custom (v. t.) To supply with customers.
Customable (a.) Customary.
Customable (a.) Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
Customableness (n.) Quality of being customable; conformity to custom.
Customably (adv.) Usually.
Customarily (adv.) In a customary manner; habitually.
Customariness (n.) Quality of being customary.
Customary (a.) Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
Customary (a.) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
Customary (n.) A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans.
Customer (n.) A lewd woman.
Customer (n.) A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer.
Customer (n.) A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.
Customer (n.) One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.
Customer (n.) One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
Customhouse (n.) The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.
Custos (n.) A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.
Custrel (n.) An armor-bearer to a knight.
Custrel (n.) See Costrel.
Custumary (a.) See Customary.
Cut (a.) Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
Cut (a.) Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
Cut (a.) Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
Cut (imp. & p. p.) of Cut
Cut (n.) A common work horse; a gelding.
Cut (n.) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.
Cut (n.) A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.
Cut (n.) A skein of yarn.
Cut (n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.
Cut (n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.
Cut (n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.
Cut (n.) Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.
Cut (n.) That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.
Cut (n.) The act of dividing a pack cards.
Cut (n.) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
Cut (n.) The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?
Cut (n.) The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.
Cut (v. i.) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
Cut (v. i.) To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.
Cut (v. i.) To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
Cut (v. i.) To interfere, as a horse.
Cut (v. i.) To make a stroke with a whip.
Cut (v. i.) To move or make off quickly.
Cut (v. i.) To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
Cut (v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.
Cut (v. t.) To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
Cut (v. t.) To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.
Cut (v. t.) To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.
Cut (v. t.) To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.
Cut (v. t.) To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.
Cut (v. t.) To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.
Cut (v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
Cut (v. t.) To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.
Cut-off (n.) Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.
Cut-off (n.) That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.
Cut-out (n.) A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
Cut-out (n.) A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.
Cutaneous (a.) Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.
Cutaway (a.) Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.
Cutgrass () A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.
Cuticle (n.) A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
Cuticle (n.) The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.
Cuticle (n.) The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.
Cuticular (a.) Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.
Cutin (n.) The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.
Cutinization (n.) The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.
Cutinize (v. t. & i.) To change into cutin.
Cutis (n.) See Dermis.
Cutlass (n.) A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.
Cutlasses (pl. ) of Cutlass
Cutler (n.) One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other cutting instruments.
Cutlery (n.) Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.
Cutlery (n.) The business of a cutler.
Cutlet (n.) A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.
Cutling (n.) The art of making edged tools or cutlery.
Cutose (n.) A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.
Cutpurse (n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket
Cutter (n.) A boat used by ships of war.
Cutter (n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.
Cutter (n.) A fore tooth; an incisor.
Cutter (n.) A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
Cutter (n.) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
Cutter (n.) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.
Cutter (n.) A small, light one-horse sleigh.
Cutter (n.) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
Cutter (n.) One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
Cutter (n.) That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
Cutthroat (a.) Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
Cutthroat (n.) One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
Cutting (a.) Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
Cutting (a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.
Cutting (a.) Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.
Cutting (n.) The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
Cutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cut
Cuttingly (adv.) In a cutting manner.
Cuttle (n.) A knife.
Cuttle (n.) Alt. of Cuttlefish
Cuttle bone () The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
Cuttlefish (n.) 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 (n.) A foul-mouthed fellow.
Cuttoo plate () A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
Cutty (n.) A light or unchaste woman.
Cutty (n.) A short spoon.
Cutty (n.) A short tobacco pipe.
Cuttystool (n.) A low stool
Cuttystool (n.) A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
Cutwal (n.) The chief police officer of a large city.
Cutwater (n.) A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.
Cutwater (n.) A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.
Cutwater (n.) The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
Cutwork (n.) An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
Cuvette (n.) A cunette.
Cuvette (n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
Cuvette (n.) A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.
Cyamelide (n.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.
Cyamellone (n.) A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid, and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.
Cyanate (n.) A salt of cyanic acid.
Cyanaurate (n.) See Aurocyanide.
Cyanean (a.) Having an azure color.
Cyanic (a.) Of or pertaining to a blue color.
Cyanic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.
Cyanide (n.) A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.
Cyanin (n.) The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.
Cyanine (n.) One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.
Cyanite (n.) A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.
Cyanometer (n.) An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.
Cyanopathy (n.) A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.
Cyanophyll (n.) A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of chlorophyll.
Cyanosed (a.) Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a/ration of the blood.
Cyanosis (n.) A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.
Cyanosite (n.) Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.
Cyanotic (a.) Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.
Cyanotype (n.) A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.
Cyanurate (n.) A salt of cyanuric acid.
Cyanuret (n.) A cyanide.
Cyanuric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.
Cyanuric acid () an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide.
Cyathiform (a.) In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.
Cyatholith (n.) A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch.
Cyathophylloid (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidae.
Cyathophylloid (n.) A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae; sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.
Cycad (n.) Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm, etc.
Cycadaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.
Cycas (n.) A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.
Cyclamin (n.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum.
Cyclas (n.) A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.
Cycle (n.) A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.
Cycle (n.) An age; a long period of time.
Cycle (n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
Cycle (n.) An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
Cycle (n.) One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set of leaves.
Cycle (v. i.) To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.
Cycle (v. i.) To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.
Cycled (imp. & p. p.) of Cycle
Cyclic (a.) Alt. of Cyclical
Cyclical (a.) Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
Cyclide (n.) A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides.
Cycling (n.) The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.
Cycling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cycle
Cyclist (n.) A cycler.
Cyclo- () A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel.
Cyclobranchiate (a.) Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.
Cycloganoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei.
Cycloganoid (n.) One of the Cycloganoidei.
Cycloganoidei (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example.
Cyclograph (n.) See Arcograph.
Cycloid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.
Cycloid (n.) A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane.
Cycloid (n.) One of the Cycloidei.
Cycloidal (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.
Cycloidei (n. pl.) An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.
Cycloidian (a. & n.) Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid.
Cyclometer (n.) A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.
Cyclometry (n.) The art of measuring circles.
Cyclone (n.) A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
Cyclonic (a.) Pertaining to a cyclone.
Cyclop (n.) See Note under Cyclops, 1.
Cyclopean (a.) Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture.
Cyclopedia (n.) Alt. of Cyclopaedia
Cyclopedic (a.) Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.
Cyclopedist (n.) A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.
Cyclopic (a.) Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.
Cyclops (n. sing. & pl.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
Cyclops (n. sing. & pl.) A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
Cyclops (n. sing. & pl.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
Cycloscope (n.) A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine.
Cyclosis (n.) The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.
Cyclostoma (n. pl.) A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.
Cyclostomata (n. pl.) Alt. of Cyclostoma
Cyclostome (a.) Alt. of Cyclostomous
Cyclostomi (n. pl.) A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.
Cyclostomous (a.) Pertaining to the Cyclostomi.
Cyclostylar (a.) Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within.
Cyder (n.) See Cider.
Cydonin (n.) A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.
Cygnet (n.) A young swan.
Cygnus (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.
Cylinder (n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
Cylinder (n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form
Cylinder (n.) The barrel of an air or other pump.
Cylinder (n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
Cylinder (n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
Cylinder (n.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
Cylinder (n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
Cylinder (n.) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
Cylindraceous (a.) Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.
Cylindric (a.) Alt. of Cylindrical
Cylindrical (a.) Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.
Cylindrically (adv.) In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.
Cylindricity (n.) The quality or condition of being cylindrical.
Cylindriform (a.) Having the form of a cylinder.
Cylindroid (n.) A certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body.
Cylindroid (n.) A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.
Cylindrometric (a.) Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders.
Cyma (n.) A cyme. See Cyme.
Cyma (n.) A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.
Cymar (n.) A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.
Cymatium (n.) A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.
Cymbal (n.) A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.
Cymbal (n.) A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.
Cymbal (n.) A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.
Cymbalist (n.) A performer upon cymbals.
Cymbiform (a.) Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.
Cymbium (n.) A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.
Cymbling (n.) A scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.
Cyme (n.) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.
Cymene (n.) A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.
Cymenol (n.) See Carvacrol.
Cymidine (n.) A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.
Cymiferous (a.) Producing cymes.
Cymling (n.) Alt. of Cymbling
Cymogene (n.) A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for producing low temperatures.
Cymoid (a.) Having the form of a cyme.
Cymophane (n.) See Chrysoberyl.
Cymophanous (a.) Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
Cymose (a.) Alt. of Cymous
Cymous (a.) Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.
Cymric (a.) Welsh.
Cymric (n.) The Welsh language.
Cymry (n.) A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by themselves .
Cymule (n.) A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.
Cynanche (n.) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and swallowing.
Cynanthropy (n.) A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.
Cynarctomachy (n.) Bear baiting with a dog.
Cynarrhodium (n.) A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.
Cynegetics (n.) The art of hunting with dogs.
Cynic (a.) Alt. of Cynical
Cynical (a.) Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.
Cynical (a.) Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.
Cynical (a.) Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.
Cynically (adv.) In a cynical manner.
Cynicalness (n.) The quality of being cynical.
Cynicism (n.) The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.
Cynoidea (n. pl.) A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.
Cynorexia (n.) A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.
Cynosural (a.) Of or pertaining to a cynosure.
Cynosure (n.) Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.
Cynosure (n.) That which serves to direct.
Cynosure (n.) The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were often directed.
Cyon (n.) See Cion, and Scion.
Cyperaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.
Cyperus (n.) A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus.
Cypher (n. & v.) See Cipher.
Cyphonautes (n.) The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa.
Cyphonism (n.) A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations.
Cypraea (n.) A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie.
Cypres (n.) A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.
Cypress (n.) A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
Cypresses (pl. ) of Cypress
Cyprian (a.) Belonging to Cyprus.
Cyprian (a.) Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness.
Cyprian (n.) A lewd woman; a harlot.
Cyprian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.
Cyprides (pl. ) of Cypris
Cyprine (a.) Cyprinoid.
Cyprine (a.) Of or pertaining to the cypress.
Cyprinodont (n.) One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.
Cyprinoid (a.) Like the carp (Cyprinus).
Cyprinoid (n.) One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc.
Cypriot (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyprus.
Cypripedium (n.) A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.
Cypris (n.) A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
Cyprus (n.) A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning.
Cypruslawn (n.) Same as Cyprus.
Cypsela (n.) A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.
Cypseliform (a.) Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidae.)
Cyrenaic (a.) Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene.
Cyrenaic (n.) A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n.
Cyrenian (a.) Pertaining to Cyrene, in Africa; Cyrenaic.
Cyrenian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyrene.
Cyrenian (n.) One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.
Cyriologic (a.) Relating to capital letters.
Cyrtostyle (n.) A circular projecting portion.
Cyst (n.) A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.
Cyst (n.) A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
Cyst (n.) A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.
Cyst (n.) In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.
Cyst (n.) One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores.
Cystic (a.) Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.
Cystic (a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
Cysticerce (n.) Alt. of Cysticercus
Cysticercus (n.) The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).
Cysticule (n.) An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.
Cystid (n.) One of the Cystidea.
Cystidea (n. pl.) An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.
Cystidean (n.) One of the Cystidea.
Cystine (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.
Cystis (n.) A cyst. See Cyst.
Cystitis (n.) Inflammation of the bladder.
Cystocarp (n.) A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.
Cystocele (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
Cystoid (n.) Alt. of Cystoidean
Cystoidea (n.) Same as Cystidea.
Cystoidean (n.) Same as Cystidean.
Cystolith (n.) A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.
Cystolith (n.) A urinary calculus.
Cystolithic (a.) Relating to stone in the bladder.
Cystoplast (n.) A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
Cystose (a.) Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.
Cystotome (n.) A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.
Cystotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.
Cytherean (a.) Pertaining to the goddess Venus.
Cytoblast (n.) The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.
Cytoblastema (n.) See Protoplasm.
Cytococci (pl. ) of Cytococcus
Cytococcus (n.) The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.
Cytode (n.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.
Cytogenesis (n.) Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.
Cytogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.
Cytogenic (a.) Alt. of Cytogenetic
Cytogenous (a.) Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.
Cytogeny (n .) Cell production or development; cytogenesis.
Cytoid (a.) Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.
Cytoplasm (n.) The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.
Cytty (a.) Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
Cytula (n.) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.
Czar (n.) A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.
Czarevna (n.) The title of the wife of the czarowitz.
Czarina (n.) The title of the empress of Russia.
Czarinian (a.) Of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina; czarish.
Czarish (a.) Of or pertaining to the czar.
Czarowitz (n.) The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia.
Czarowitzes (pl. ) of Czarowitz
Czech (n.) One of the Czechs.
Czech (n.) The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.
Czechic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Czechs.
Czechs (n. pl.) The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia.
