('Bolden','v. t.','To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.'),('Bold-faced','a.','Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced\n   woman.'),('Bold-faced','a.','Having a conspicuous or heavy face.'),('Boldly','adv.','In a bold manner.'),('Boldness','n.','The state or quality of being bold.'),('Boldo','n.','Alt. of Boldu'),('Boldu','n.','A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The\n   bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in\n   medicine, and the drupes are eaten.'),('Bole','n.','The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.'),('Bole','n.','An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house,\n   for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.'),('Bole','n.','A measure. See Boll, n., 2.'),('Bole','n.','Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually\n   colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color\n   and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It\n   is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely\n   of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.'),('Bole','n.','A bolus; a dose.'),('Bolection','n.','A projecting molding round a panel. Same as Bilection.'),('Bolero','n.','A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.'),('bolete','n.','any fungus of the family Boletaceae.'),('Boletic','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained from, the Boletus.'),('Boletus','n.','A genus of fungi having the under side of the pileus or\n   cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible,\n   and others very poisonous.'),('Boley','n.','Alt. of Bolye'),('Bolye','n.','Same as Booly.'),('Bolide','n.','A kind of bright meteor; a bolis.'),('Bolis','n.','A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of\n   light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.'),('Bolivian','a.','Of or pertaining to Bolivia.'),('Bolivian','n.','A native of Bolivia.'),('Boll','n.','The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a\n   pericarp of a globular form.'),('Boll','n.','A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it\n   contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six\n   bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for\n   salt of two bushels.'),('Bolled','imp. & p. p.','of Boll'),('Boll','v. i.','To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.'),('Bollandists','n. pl.','The Jesuit editors of the \"Acta Sanctorum\", or\n   Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.'),('Bollard','n.','An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock,\n   used in veering or fastening ropes.'),('Bollen','a.','See Boln, a.'),('Bolling','v. t.','A tree from which the branches have been cut; a\n   pollard.'),('Bollworm','n.','The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours\n   the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage\n   to the crops.'),('Boln','v. i.','To swell; to puff.'),('Boln','a.','Alt. of Bollen'),('Bollen','a.','Swollen; puffed out.'),('Bologna','n.','A city of Italy which has given its name to various\n   objects.'),('Bologna','n.','A Bologna sausage.'),('Bolognese','a.','Of or pertaining to Bologna.'),('Bolognese','n.','A native of Bologna.'),('Bolognian','a. & n.','Bolognese.'),('Bolometer','n.','An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant\n   heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also\n   actinic balance, thermic balance.'),('Bolster','n.','A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a\n   person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.'),('Bolster','n.','A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support\n   any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a\n   compress.'),('Bolster','n.','Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms\n   of mechanism, etc.'),('Bolster','n.','A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.'),('Bolster','n.','A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred\n   canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the\n   collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.'),('Bolster','n.','Anything used to prevent chafing.'),('Bolster','n.','A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a\n   bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the\n   abutment.'),('Bolster','n.','A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the\n   bed or body rests.'),('Bolster','n.','The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a\n   railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.'),('Bolster','n.','the perforated plate in a punching machine on which\n   anything rests when being punched.'),('Bolster','n.','That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the\n   handle.'),('Bolster','n.','The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.'),('Bolster','n.','The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.'),('Bolster','n.','A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which\n   the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.'),('Bolstered','imp. & p. p.','of Bolster'),('Bolstering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bolster'),('Bolster','v. t.','To support with a bolster or pillow.'),('Bolster','v. t.','To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or\n   unusual effort; -- often with up.'),('Bolstered','a.','Supported; upheld.'),('Bolstered','a.','Swelled out.'),('Bolsterer','n.','A supporter.'),('Bolt','n.','A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or\n   catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow,\n   or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.'),('Bolt','n.','Lightning; a thunderbolt.'),('Bolt','n.','A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or\n   hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw\n   thread cut upon the other end.'),('Bolt','n.','A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the\n   portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.'),('Bolt','n.','An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a\n   fetter.'),('Bolt','n.','A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk,\n   often containing about forty yards.'),('Bolt','n.','A bundle, as of oziers.'),('Bolted','imp. & p. p.','of Bolt'),('Bolting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bolt'),('Bolt','v. t.','To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.'),('Bolt','v. t.','To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.'),('Bolt','v. t.','To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.'),('Bolt','v. t.','To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to\n   which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.'),('Bolt','v. t.','To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies,\n   rabbits, etc.'),('Bolt','v. t.','To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as\n   a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.'),('Bolt','v. i.','To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly;\n   to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.'),('Bolt','v. i.','To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.'),('Bolt','v. i.','To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as,\n   the horse bolted.'),('Bolt','v. i.','To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a\n   caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.'),('Bolt','adv.','In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.'),('Bolt','v. i.','A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the\n   horse made a bolt.'),('Bolt','v. i.','A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.'),('Bolt','v. i.','A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with\n   which one has been connected; a breaking away from one\'s party.'),('Bolted','imp. & p. p.','of Bolt'),('Bolting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bolt'),('Bolt','v. t.','To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles\n   of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort,\n   refine, or purify by other means.'),('Bolt','v. t.','To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.'),('Bolt','v. t.','To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases\n   at law.'),('Bolt','n.','A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting\n   flour and meal; a bolter.'),('Boltel','n.','See Boultel.'),('Bolter','n.','One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly\n   aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.'),('Bolter','n.','One who sifts flour or meal.'),('Bolter','n.','An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or\n   the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.'),('Bolter','n.','A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.'),('Bolthead','n.','A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical\n   distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.'),('Bolthead','n.','The head of a bolt.'),('Bolting','n.','A darting away; a starting off or aside.'),('Bolting','n.','A sifting, as of flour or meal.'),('Bolting','n.','A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in\n   the Inns of Court.'),('Boltonite','n.','A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color,\n   found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium,\n   belonging to the chrysolite family.'),('Boltrope','n.','A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the\n   sail.'),('Boltsprit','n.','See Bowsprit.'),('Bolty','n.','An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).'),('Boluses','pl. ','of Bolus'),('Bolus','n.','A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.'),('Bom','n.','A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.'),('Bomb','n.','A great noise; a hollow sound.'),('Bomb','n.','A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from\n   mortars. See Shell.'),('Bomb','n.','A bomb ketch.'),('Bomb','v. t.','To bombard.'),('Bomb','v. i.','To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.'),('Bombace','n.','Cotton; padding.'),('Bombard','n.','A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing\n   stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of\n   cannon.'),('Bombard','n.','A bombardment.'),('Bombard','n.','A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for\n   carrying liquor or beer.'),('Bombard','n.','Padded breeches.'),('Bombard','n.','See Bombardo.'),('Bombarded','imp. & p. p.','of Bombard'),('Bombarding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bombard'),('Bombard','v. t.','To attack with bombards or with artillery; especially,\n   to throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into.'),('Bombardier','n.','One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a\n   gunner.'),('Bombardier','n.','A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.'),('Bombardman','n.','One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard.'),('Bombardment','n.','An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with\n   shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot\n   into a town or fortified place.'),('Bombardo','n.','Alt. of Bombardon'),('Bombardon','n.','Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or\n   bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name\n   bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the\n   saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.'),('Bombasine','n.','Same as Bombazine.'),('Bombast','n.','Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.'),('Bombast','n.','Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing\n   for garments; stuffing; padding.'),('Bombast','n.','Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language\n   above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.'),('Bombast','a.','High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning;\n   magniloquent; bombastic.'),('Bombast','v. t.','To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.'),('Bombastic','a.','Alt. of Bombastical'),('Bombastical','a.','Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.'),('Bombastry','n.','Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language;\n   fustian.'),('Bombax','n.','A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a\n   tree of the genus Bombax.'),('Bombazet Bombazette','n.','A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various\n   colors, and may be plain or twilled.'),('Bombazine','n.','A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk,\n   and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning\n   garments.'),('Bombic','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic\n   acid.'),('Bombilate','n.','To hum; to buzz.'),('Bombilation','n.','A humming sound; a booming.'),('Bombinate','v. i.','To hum; to boom.'),('Bombination','n.','A humming or buzzing.'),('Bomboloes','pl. ','of Bombolo'),('Bombolo','n.','A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the\n   sublimation of camphor.'),('Bombproof','a.','Secure against the explosive force of bombs.'),('Bombproof','n.','A structure which heavy shot and shell will not\n   penetrate.'),('Bombshell','n.','A bomb. See Bomb, n.'),('Bombycid','a.','Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family\n   Bombycidae.'),('Bombycinous','a.','Silken; made of silk.'),('Bombycinous','a.','Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a\n   yellow tint.'),('Bombylious','a.','Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of\n   the horse fly.'),('Bombyx','n.','A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See\n   Silkworm.'),('Bon','a.','Good; valid as security for something.'),('Bon-accord','n.','Good will; good fellowship; agreement.'),('Bona fide','','In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or\n   really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed\n   bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.'),('Bonair','a.','Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.'),('Bonanza','n.','In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence,\n   anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.'),('Bonapartean','a.','Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.'),('Bonapartism','n.','The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.'),('Bonapartist','n.','One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or\n   of the Bonapartes.'),('Bona peritura','','Perishable goods.'),('Bona roba','','A showy wanton; a courtesan.'),('Bonasus','n.','Alt. of Bonassus'),('Bonassus','n.','The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.'),('Bonbon','n.','Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.'),('Bonce','n.','A boy\'s game played with large marbles.'),('Bonchretien','n.','A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.'),('Boncilate','n.','A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters,\n   etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes,\n   etc.'),('Bond','n.','That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which\n   anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a\n   ligament; a shackle or a manacle.'),('Bond','n.','The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.'),('Bond','n.','A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting\n   tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.'),('Bond','n.','Moral or political duty or obligation.'),('Bond','n.','A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his\n   heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before\n   a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition\n   is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a\n   certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain\n   duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified,\n   the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force.\n   If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the\n   obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.'),('Bond','n.','An instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made\n   by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a\n   government, city, or railway bond.'),('Bond','n.','The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the\n   duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.'),('Bond','n.','The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a\n   wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different\n   ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists\n   of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers,\n   and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face\n   of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course\n   consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to\n   break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change\n   of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of\n   the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth\n   line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall\n   is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.'),('Bond','n.','A unit of chemical attraction; as, oxygen has two bonds of\n   affinity. It is often represented in graphic formulae by a short line\n   or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence.'),('Bonded','imp. & p. p.','of Bond'),('Bonding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bond'),('Bond','v. t.','To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to\n   secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a\n   bond.'),('Bond','v. t.','To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as\n   to secure solidity.'),('Bond','n.','A vassal or serf; a slave.'),('Bond','a.','In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.'),('Bondage','a.','The state of being bound; condition of being under\n   restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary\n   servitude; slavery; captivity.'),('Bondage','a.','Obligation; tie of duty.'),('Bondage','a.','Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the\n   meanest services for the owner.'),('Bondager','n.','A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.'),('Bondar','n.','A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to\n   the genet; -- called also musk cat.'),('Bonded','a.','Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of\n   duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.'),('Bonder','n.','One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.'),('Bonder','n.','A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.'),('Bonder','n.','A freeholder on a small scale.'),('Bondholder','n.','A person who holds the bonds of a public or private\n   corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.'),('Bondmaid','n.','A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as\n   distinguished from a hired servant.'),('Bondmen','pl. ','of Bondman'),('Bondman','n.','A man slave, or one bound to service without wages.'),('Bondman','n.','A villain, or tenant in villenage.'),('Bond servant','','A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.'),('Bond service','','The condition of a bond servant; service without wages;\n   slavery.'),('Bondslave','n.','A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and\n   liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.'),('Bondsmen','pl. ','of Bondsman'),('Bondsman','n.','A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.'),('Bondsman','n.','A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for\n   another.'),('Bondstone','n.','A stone running through a wall from one face to another,\n   to bind it together; a binding stone.'),('Bondswoman','n.','See Bondwoman.'),('Bonduc','n.','See Nicker tree.'),('Bondwomen','pl. ','of Bondwoman'),('Bondwoman','n.','A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.'),('Bone','n.','The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate\n   animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate,\n   and gelatine; as, blood and bone.'),('Bone','n.','One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib\n   or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony\n   substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.'),('Bone','n.','Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.'),('Bone','n.','Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and\n   struck together to make a kind of music.'),('Bone','n.','Dice.'),('Bone','n.','Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a\n   corset.'),('Bone','n.','Fig.: The framework of anything.'),('Boned','imp. & p. p.','of Bone'),('Boning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bone'),('Bone','v. t.','To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.'),('Bone','v. t.','To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.'),('Bone','v. t.','To fertilize with bone.'),('Bone','v. t.','To steal; to take possession of.'),('Bone','v. t.','To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it\n   or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.'),('Boneache','n.','Pain in the bones.'),('Boneblack','n.','See Bone black, under Bone, n.'),('Boned','a.','Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned;\n   strong-boned.'),('Boned','a.','Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.'),('Boned','a.','Manured with bone; as, boned land.'),('Bonedog','n.','The spiny dogfish.'),('Bonefish','n.','See Ladyfish.'),('Boneless','a.','Without bones.'),('Boneset','n.','A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium\n   perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.'),('Bonesetter','n.','One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly\n   applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of\n   setting bones.'),('Boneshaw','n.','Sciatica.'),('Bonetta','n.','See Bonito.'),('Bonfire','n.','A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of\n   public joy and exultation, or for amusement.'),('Bongrace','n.','A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion;\n   also, a wide-brimmed hat.'),('Bonhomie','n.','Alt. of Bonhommie'),('Bonhommie','n.','good nature; pleasant and easy manner.'),('Bonibell','n.','See Bonnibel.'),('Boniface','n.','An innkeeper.'),('Boniform','a.','Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.'),('Bonify','v. t.','To convert into, or make, good.'),('Boniness','n.','The condition or quality of being bony.'),('Boning','n.','The clearing of bones from fish or meat.'),('Boning','n.','The manuring of land with bones.'),('Boning','n.','A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along\n   the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced\n   poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.'),('Bonitary','a.','Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as,\n   bonitary dominion of land.'),('Bonitoes','pl. ','of Bonito'),('Bonito','n.','A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the\n   tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes\n   on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.'),('Bonito','n.','The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an\n   important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and\n   (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are\n   large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.'),('Bonito','n.','The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the\n   southern of the United States and the West Indies.'),('Bonito','n.','The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of\n   the Middle and Southern United States.'),('Bonsmots','pl. ','of Bonmot'),('Bonmot','n.','A witty repartee; a jest.'),('Bonne','n.','A female servant charged with the care of a young child.'),('Bonnes bouches','pl. ','of Bonne bouche'),('Bonne bouche','','A delicious morsel or mouthful; a tidbit.'),('Bonnet','n.','A headdress for men and boys; a cap.'),('Bonnet','n.','A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless\n   woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.'),('Bonnet','n.','A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting\n   more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the\n   forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times;\n   formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth\n   of a funnel.'),('Bonnet','n.','Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use'),('Bonnet','n.','A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a\n   parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.'),('Bonnet','n.','A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a\n   fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.'),('Bonnet','n.','A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to\n   prevent escape of sparks.'),('Bonnet','n.','A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants\n   from objects falling down the shaft.'),('Bonnet','n.','In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve\n   chambers.'),('Bonnet','n.','An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or\n   foresail in moderate winds.'),('Bonnet','n.','The second stomach of a ruminating animal.'),('Bonnet','n.','An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices\n   others to bet or to bid; a decoy.'),('Bonnet','v. i.','To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to\n   uncover.'),('Bonneted','a.','Wearing a bonnet.'),('Bonneted','a.','Protected by a bonnet. See Bonnet, 4 (a).'),('Bonnetless','a.','Without a bonnet.'),('Bonnibel','n.','A handsome girl.'),('Bonnie','a.','See Bonny, a.'),('Bonnilass','n.','A \"bonny lass\"; a beautiful girl.'),('Bonnily','adv.','Gayly; handsomely.'),('Bonniness','n.','The quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness.'),('Bonny','a.','Handsome; beautiful; pretty; attractively lively and\n   graceful.'),('Bonny','a.','Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe.'),('Bonny','n.','A round and compact bed of ore, or a distinct bed, not\n   communicating with a vein.'),('Bonnyclabber','n.','Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; --\n   sometimes called simply clabber.'),('Bon Silene','','A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of\n   pink.'),('Bonspiel','n.','A cur/ing match between clubs.'),('Bontebok','n.','The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga).\n   Its face and rump are white. Called also nunni.'),('Bon ton','','The height of the fashion; fashionable society.'),('Bonuses','pl. ','of Bonus'),('Bonus','n.','A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other\n   privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its\n   charter.'),('Bonus','n.','An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock\n   company, out of accumulated profits.'),('Bonus','n.','Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.'),('Bons vivants','pl. ','of Bon vivant'),('Bon vivant','p. pr.','A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.'),('Bony','a.','Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to\n   bones.'),('Bony','a.','Having large or prominent bones.'),('Bonze','n.','A Buddhist or Fohist priest, monk, or nun.'),('Boobies','pl. ','of Booby'),('Booby','n.','A dunce; a stupid fellow.'),('Booby','n.','A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the\n   common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks.\n   It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also\n   sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the\n   red-footed booby.'),('Booby','n.','A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.'),('Booby','a.','Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.'),('Boobyish','a.','Stupid; dull.'),('Boodh','n.','Same as Buddha.'),('Boodhism','n.','Same as Buddhism.'),('Boodhist','n.','Same as Buddhist.'),('Boodle','n.','The whole collection or lot; caboodle.'),('Boodle','n.','Money given in payment for votes or political influence;\n   bribe money; swag.'),('Boohooed','imp. & p. p.','of Boohoe'),('Boohooing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boohoe'),('Boohoe','v. i.','To bawl; to cry loudly.'),('Boohoo','n.','The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.'),('Book','n.','A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank,\n   written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound\n   sheets containing continuous printing or writing.'),('Book','n.','A composition, written or printed; a treatise.'),('Book','n.','A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the\n   tenth book of \"Paradise Lost.\"'),('Book','n.','A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept;\n   a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.'),('Book','n.','Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in\n   certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.'),('Booked','imp. & p. p.','of Book'),('Booking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Book'),('Book','v. t.','To enter, write, or register in a book or list.'),('Book','v. t.','To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose\n   of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for\n   Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.'),('Book','v. t.','To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is\n   booked for the valedictory.'),('Bookbinder','n.','One whose occupation is to bind books.'),('Bookbindery','n.','A bookbinder\'s shop; a place or establishment for\n   binding books.'),('Bookbinding','n.','The art, process, or business of binding books.'),('Bookcase','n.','A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with\n   glazed doors.'),('Bookcraft','n.','Authorship; literary skill.'),('Booked','a.','Registered.'),('Booked','a.','On the way; destined.'),('Booker','n.','One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a\n   bookkeeper.'),('Bookful','n.','As much as will fill a book; a book full.'),('Bookful','a.','Filled with book learning.'),('Bookholder','n.','A prompter at a theater.'),('Bookholder','n.','A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads\n   or copies from it.'),('Booking clerk','','A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for\n   conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at\n   a booking office.'),('Booking office','','An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are\n   registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.'),('Booking office','','An office where passage tickets are sold.'),('Bookish','a.','Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with\n   books than with men; learned from books.'),('Bookish','a.','Characterized by a method of expression generally found in\n   books; formal; labored; pedantic; as, a bookish way of talking; bookish\n   sentences.'),('Bookkeeper','n.','One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of\n   keeping the books and accounts in an office.'),('Bookkeeping','n.','The art of recording pecuniary or business\n   transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their\n   relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they\n   occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a\n   daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal,\n   and Ledger.'),('Bookland','n.','Alt. of Bockland'),('Bockland','n.','Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free\n   services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This\n   species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.'),('Book-learned','a.','Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.'),('Bookless','a.','Without books; unlearned.'),('Booklet','n.','A little book.'),('Bookmaker','n.','One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who\n   gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.'),('Bookmaker','n.','A betting man who \"makes a book.\" See To make a book,\n   under Book, n.'),('Bookmen','pl. ','of Bookman'),('Bookman','n.','A studious man; a scholar.'),('Bookmark','n.','Something placed in a book to guide in finding a\n   particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the\n   owner; a bookplate.'),('Bookmate','n.','A schoolfellow; an associate in study.'),('Bookmonger','n.','A dealer in books.'),('Book muslin','','A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.'),('Book muslin','','A kind of thin white muslin for ladies\' dresses.'),('Bookplate','n.','A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership\n   or its position in a library.'),('Bookseller','n.','One who sells books.'),('Bookselling','n.','The employment of selling books.'),('Bookshelves','pl. ','of Bookshelf'),('Bookshelf','n.','A shelf to hold books.'),('Bookshop','n.','A bookseller\'s shop.'),('Bookstall','n.','A stall or stand where books are sold.'),('Bookstand','n.','A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a\n   bookstall.'),('Bookstand','n.','A stand to hold books for reading or reference.'),('Bookstore','n.','A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in\n   England a bookseller\'s shop.'),('Bookwork','n.','Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office),\n   in distinction from newspaper or job work.'),('Bookwork','n.','Study; application to books.'),('Bookworm','n.','Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to\n   books. Many species are known.'),('Bookworm','n.','A student closely attached to books or addicted to study;\n   a reader without appreciation.'),('Booky','a.','Bookish.'),('Boolies','pl. ','of Booly'),('Booly','n.','A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering\n   from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk,\n   like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for\n   the shelter of cattle or their keepers.'),('Boom','n.','A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the\n   bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom,\n   etc.'),('Boom','n.','A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick,\n   from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.'),('Boom','n.','A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in\n   a river or harbor.'),('Boom','n.','A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together,\n   extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct\n   navigation or passage.'),('Boom','n.','A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a\n   river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from\n   floating away.'),('Boom','v. t.','To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a\n   sail; to boom off a boat.'),('Boomed','imp. & p. p.','of Boom'),('Booming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boom'),('Boom','v. i.','To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the\n   bittern, and some insects.'),('Boom','v. i.','To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.'),('Boom','v. i.','To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press\n   of sail, before a free wind.'),('Boom','v. i.','To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular\n   favor; to go on rushingly.'),('Boom','n.','A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of\n   the bittern; a booming.'),('Boom','n.','A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy\n   excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the\n   demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants\n   to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee.'),('Boom','v. t.','To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad\n   or mining shares; to create a \"boom\" for; as to boom Mr. C. for\n   senator.'),('Boomdas','n.','A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus)\n   resembling the daman.'),('Boomer','n.','One who, or that which, booms.'),('Boomer','n.','A North American rodent, so named because it is said to\n   make a booming noise. See Sewellel.'),('Boomer','n.','A large male kangaroo.'),('Boomer','n.','One who works up a \"boom\".'),('Boomerang','n.','A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of\n   Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of\n   hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three\n   inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown\n   from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable\n   curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of\n   throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then\n   curving upward to a considerable height, and finally taking a\n   retrograde direction, so as to fall near the place from which it was\n   thrown, or even far in the rear of it.'),('Booming','a.','Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound;\n   making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding.'),('Booming','a.','Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming\n   prices; booming popularity.'),('Booming','n.','The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent\n   rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow\n   sound; as, the booming of bitterns.'),('Boomkin','n.','Same as Bumkin.'),('Boomorah','n.','A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus),\n   resembling the musk deer.'),('Boomslange','n.','A large South African tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis).\n   Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.'),('Boon','n.','A prayer or petition.'),('Boon','n.','That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift;\n   a benefaction; a grant; a present.'),('Boon','n.','Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.'),('Boon','n.','Kind; bountiful; benign.'),('Boon','n.','Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.'),('Boon','n.','The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as\n   refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.'),('Boor','n.','A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or\n   unrefined countryman.'),('Boor','n.','A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in\n   South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.'),('Boor','n.','A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.'),('Boorish','a.','Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.'),('Boort','n.','See Bort.'),('Boose','n.','A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.'),('Boose','v. i.','To drink excessively. See Booze.'),('Booser','n.','A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer.'),('Boosted','imp. & p. p.','of Boost'),('Boosting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boost'),('Boost','v. i.','To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to\n   climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in\n   making advancement.'),('Boost','n.','A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb;\n   help.'),('Boot','n.','Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings\n   relief.'),('Boot','n.','That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up\n   for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.'),('Boot','n.','Profit; gain; advantage; use.'),('Booted','imp. & p. p.','of Boot'),('Booting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boot'),('Boot','v. t.','To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed\n   by it; as, what boots it?'),('Boot','v. t.','To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.'),('Boot','n.','A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily\n   made of leather.'),('Boot','n.','An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort\n   confessions, particularly in Scotland.'),('Boot','n.','A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also,\n   a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.'),('Boot','n.','A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned\n   stagecoach.'),('Boot','n.','An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the\n   driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.'),('Boot','n.','The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it\n   passes through a roof.'),('Booted','imp. & p. p.','of Boot'),('Booting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boot'),('Boot','v. t.','To put boots on, esp. for riding.'),('Boot','v. t.','To punish by kicking with a booted foot.'),('Boot','v. i.','To boot one\'s self; to put on one\'s boots.'),('Boot','n.','Booty; spoil.'),('Bootblack','n.','One who blacks boots.'),('Booted','a.','Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for\n   riding; as, a booted squire.'),('Booted','a.','Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of\n   the tarsus of some birds.'),('Bootee','n.','A half boot or short boot.'),('Bootes','n.','A northern constellation, containing the bright star\n   Arcturus.'),('Booth','n.','A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight\n   materials, for temporary occupation.'),('Booth','n.','A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market,\n   or at a polling place.'),('Boothale','v. t. & i.','To forage for booty; to plunder.'),('Boothose','n.','Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.'),('Boothose','n.','Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on\n   horseback.'),('Boothy','n.','See Bothy.'),('Bootikin','n.','A little boot, legging, or gaiter.'),('Bootikin','n.','A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the\n   gout.'),('Booting','n.','Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.'),('Booting','n.','A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.'),('Booting','n.','A kicking, as with a booted foot.'),('Bootjack','n.','A device for pulling off boots.'),('Bootless','a.','Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or\n   success.'),('Bootlick','n.','A toady.'),('Bootmaker','n.','One who makes boots.'),('Boots','n.','A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the\n   boots and shoes.'),('Boottopping','n.','The act or process of daubing a vessel\'s bottom near\n   the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin,\n   as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc.,\n   have been scraped off.'),('Boottopping','n.','Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.'),('Boottree','n.','An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot,\n   consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which,\n   when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.'),('Booty','n.','That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery,\n   especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.'),('Boozed','imp. & p. p.','of Booze'),('Boozing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Booze'),('Booze','v. i.','To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor;\n   to tipple.'),('Booze','n.','A carouse; a drinking.'),('Boozer','n.','One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a\n   bouser.'),('Boozy','a.','A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.'),('Bopeep','n.','The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen,\n   so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out\n   and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.'),('Borable','a.','Capable of being bored.'),('Borachte','n.','A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the\n   skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.'),('Boracic','a.','Pertaining to, or produced from, borax; containing boron;\n   boric; as, boracic acid.'),('Boracite','n.','A mineral of a white or gray color occurring massive and\n   in isometric crystals; in composition it is a magnesium borate with\n   magnesium chloride.'),('Boracous','a.','Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.'),('Borage','n.','A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis),\n   which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.'),('Boragewort','n.','Plant of the Borage family.'),('Boraginaceous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants\n   (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar\'s lice,\n   and many pestiferous plants.'),('Boragineous','a.','Relating to the Borage tribe; boraginaceous.'),('Boramez','n.','See Barometz.'),('Borate','n.','A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base\n   or positive radical.'),('Borax','n.','A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline\n   taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing\n   colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral\n   springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It\n   was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe\n   under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of\n   sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.'),('Borborygm','n.','A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the\n   bowels.'),('Bord','n.','A board; a table.'),('Bord','n.','The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.'),('Bord','n.','See Bourd.'),('Bordage','n.','The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his\n   cottage.'),('Bordar','n.','A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a\n   cottier.'),('Bordeaux','a.','Pertaining to Bordeaux in the south of France.'),('Bordeaux','n.','A claret wine from Bordeaux.'),('Bordel','n.','Alt. of Bordello'),('Bordello','n.','A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.'),('Bordelais','a.','Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the\n   district around Bordeaux.'),('Bordeller','n.','A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel.'),('Border','n.','The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a\n   garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.'),('Border','n.','A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of\n   a country; a frontier district.'),('Border','n.','A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of\n   something, as an ornament or finish.'),('Border','n.','A narrow flower bed.'),('Bordered','imp. & p. p.','of Border'),('Bordering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Border'),('Border','v. i.','To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or\n   adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.'),('Border','v. i.','To approach; to come near to; to verge.'),('Border','v. t.','To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for\n   ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.'),('Border','v. t.','To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be\n   touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or\n   boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north\n   by a forest.'),('Border','v. t.','To confine within bounds; to limit.'),('Borderer','n.','One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or\n   confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to\n   a place or region.'),('Bordland','n.','Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord\n   kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.'),('Bordlode','n.','The service formerly required of a tenant, to carry\n   timber from the woods to the lord\'s house.'),('Bordman','n.','A bordar; a tenant in bordage.'),('Bordrag','n.','Alt. of Bordraging'),('Bordraging','n.','An incursion upon the borders of a country; a raid.'),('Bord service','','Service due from a bordar; bordage.'),('Bordure','n.','A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding\n   the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.'),('Bored','imp. & p. p.','of Bore'),('Boring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bore'),('Bore','v. t.','To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an\n   auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or\n   through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.'),('Bore','v. t.','To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or\n   apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a\n   hole.'),('Bore','v. t.','To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as,\n   to bore one\'s way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult\n   passage through.'),('Bore','v. t.','To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to\n   trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.'),('Bore','v. t.','To befool; to trick.'),('Bore','v. i.','To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring\n   instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as,\n   to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or\n   oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).'),('Bore','v. i.','To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as\n   it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.'),('Bore','v. i.','To push forward in a certain direction with laborious\n   effort.'),('Bore','v. i.','To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; -- said of a\n   horse.'),('Bore','n.','A hole made by boring; a perforation.'),('Bore','n.','The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or\n   other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.'),('Bore','n.','The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun\n   barrel; the caliber.'),('Bore','n.','A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.'),('Bore','n.','Caliber; importance.'),('Bore','n.','A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a\n   tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.'),('Bore','n.','A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into\n   certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more\n   waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height,\n   dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America,\n   the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.'),('Bore','n.','Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so\n   abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.'),('Bore','','imp. of 1st & 2d Bear.'),('Boreal','a.','Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind;\n   as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast.'),('Boreas','n.','The north wind; -- usually a personification.'),('Borecole','n.','A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for\n   its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage,\n   but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.'),('Boredom','n.','The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.'),('Boredom','n.','The realm of bores; bores, collectively.'),('Boree','n.','Same as BourrEe.'),('Borel','n.','See Borrel.'),('Borele','n.','The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus\n   bicornis).'),('Borer','n.','One that bores; an instrument for boring.'),('Borer','n.','A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies,\n   which burrows in wood. See Teredo.'),('Borer','n.','Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores\n   into limestone and similar substances.'),('Borer','n.','One of the larvae of many species of insects, which\n   penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under\n   Apple.'),('Borer','n.','The hagfish (Myxine).'),('Boric','a.','Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.'),('Boride','n.','A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic\n   element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.'),('Boring','n.','The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as,\n   the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain\n   marine mollusks.'),('Boring','n.','A hole made by boring.'),('Boring','n.','The chips or fragments made by boring.'),('Born','v. t.','Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced\n   by birth.'),('Born','v. t.','Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth;\n   by nature; innate; as, a born liar.'),('Borne','p. p.','Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.'),('Borneol','n.','A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary\n   camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to\n   occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops\n   camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or\n   American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also\n   Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.'),('Bornite','n.','A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and\n   sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion\n   to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.'),('Borofluoride','n.','A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some\n   other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and\n   formerly fluoborate.'),('Boroglyceride','n.','A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an\n   antiseptic.'),('Boron','n.','A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is\n   reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in\n   several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in\n   a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the\n   diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in\n   boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight\n   10.9. Symbol B.'),('Borosilicate','n.','A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the\n   natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.'),('Borough','n.','In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also,\n   a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate,\n   consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the\n   sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated\n   town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.'),('Borough','n.','The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a\n   borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.'),('Borough','n.','An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the\n   king for the good behavior of each other.'),('Borough','n.','The pledge or surety thus given.'),('Borough-English','n.','A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which\n   lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest;\n   or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.'),('Boroughhead','n.','See Headborough.'),('Boroughholder','n.','A headborough; a borsholder.'),('Boroughmaster','n.','The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.'),('Boroughmonger','n.','One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of\n   boroughs.'),('Boroughmongering','n.','Alt. of Boroughmongery'),('Boroughmongery','n.','The practices of a boroughmonger.'),('Borracho','n.','See Borachio.'),('Borrage','a.','Alt. of Borraginaceous'),('Borraginaceous','a.','See Borage, n., etc.'),('Borrel','n.','Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment.'),('Borrel','n.','A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.'),('Borrel','n.','Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.'),('Borrowed','imp. & p. p.','of Borrow'),('Borrowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Borrow'),('Borrow','v. t.','To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or\n   expressed intention of returning the identical article or its\n   equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.'),('Borrow','v. t.','To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination\n   in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the\n   figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the\n   minuend.'),('Borrow','v. t.','To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style,\n   manner, or opinions of another.'),('Borrow','v. t.','To feign or counterfeit.'),('Borrow','v. t.','To receive; to take; to derive.'),('Borrow','n.','Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a\n   hostage.'),('Borrow','n.','The act of borrowing.'),('Borrower','n.','One who borrows.'),('Borsholder','a.','The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d\n   Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.'),('Bort','n.','Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments\n   made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in\n   lapidary work.'),('Boruret','n.','A boride.'),('Borwe','n.','Pledge; borrow.'),('Bos','n.','A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and\n   domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a\n   large fold of skin hanging from the neck.'),('Bosa','n.','A drink, used in the East. See Boza.'),('Boscage','n.','A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick\n   foliage; a wooded landscape.'),('Boscage','n.','Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and\n   trees; also, a tax on wood.'),('Bosh','n.','Figure; outline; show.'),('Bosh','n.','Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug.'),('Boshes','pl. ','of Bosh'),('Bosh','n.','One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast\n   furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a\n   puddling or boiling furnace.'),('Bosh','n.','The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or\n   the widest space at the top of this part.'),('Bosh','n.','In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots\n   are cooled.'),('Boshbok','n.','A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.'),('Boshvark','n.','The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.'),('Bosjesman','n.','See Bushman.'),('Bosk','n.','A thicket; a small wood.'),('Boskage','n.','Same as Boscage.'),('Bosket','n.','Alt. of Bosquet'),('Bosquet','n.','A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by\n   branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.'),('Boskiness','n.','Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.'),('Bosky','a.','Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.'),('Bosky','a.','Caused by boscage.'),('Bosom','n.','The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to\n   which anything is pressed when embraced by them.'),('Bosom','n.','The breast, considered as the seat of the passions,\n   affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.'),('Bosom','n.','Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.'),('Bosom','n.','Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting\n   surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.'),('Bosom','n.','The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a\n   portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the\n   bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.'),('Bosom','n.','Inclination; desire.'),('Bosom','n.','A depression round the eye of a millstone.'),('Bosom','a.','Of or pertaining to the bosom.'),('Bosom','a.','Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished;\n   beloved; as, a bosom friend.'),('Bosomed','imp. & p. p.','of Bosom'),('Bosoming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bosom'),('Bosom','v. t.','To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to\n   take to heart; to cherish.'),('Bosom','v. t.','To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.'),('Bosomed','a.','Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.'),('Bosomy','a.','Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.'),('Boson','n.','See Boatswain.'),('Bosporian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian\n   Bosporus.'),('Bosporus','n.','A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a\n   seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of\n   Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian\n   Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof.'),('Bosquet','n.','See Bosket.'),('Bosses','pl. ','of Boss'),('Boss','n.','Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a\n   knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.'),('Boss','n.','A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different\n   material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or\n   bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See\n   Umbilicus.'),('Boss','n.','A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs\n   of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.'),('Boss','n.','A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry,\n   hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.'),('Boss','n.','The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or\n   at the end, where it is coupled to another.'),('Boss','n.','A swage or die used for shaping metals.'),('Boss','n.','A head or reservoir of water.'),('Bossed','imp. & p. p.','of Boss'),('Bossing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boss'),('Boss','v. t.','To ornament with bosses; to stud.'),('Boss','n.','A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a\n   political dictator.'),('Bossage','n.','A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be\n   afterward carved into shape.'),('Bossage','n.','Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance\n   beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels\n   left in the joinings.'),('Bossed','a.','Embossed; also, bossy.'),('Bosset','n.','A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.'),('Bossism','n.','The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses.'),('Bossy','a.','Ornamented with bosses; studded.'),('Bossy','n.','A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.'),('Boston','n.','A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of\n   fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston,\n   Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army\n   in America during the Revolutionary war.'),('Boswellian','a.','Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the\n   biographer of Dr. Johnson.'),('Boswellism','n.','The style of Boswell.'),('Bot','n.','See Bots.'),('Botanic','a.','Alt. of Botanical'),('Botanical','a.','Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of\n   plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.'),('Botanist','n.','One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of\n   plants.'),('Botanized','imp. & p. p.','of Botanize'),('Botanizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Botanize'),('Botanize','v. i.','To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to\n   study plants.'),('Botanize','v. t.','To explore for botanical purposes.'),('Botanizer','n.','One who botanizes.'),('Botanologer','n.','A botanist.'),('Botanology','n.','The science of botany.'),('Botanomancy','n.','An ancient species of divination by means of plants,\n   esp. sage and fig leaves.'),('Botanies','pl. ','of Botany'),('Botany','a. & n.','The science which treats of the structure of plants,\n   the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their\n   classification, and the terms which are employed in their description\n   and denomination. See Plant.'),('Botany','a. & n.','A book which treats of the science of botany.'),('Botany Bay','','A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English\n   convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants\n   found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.'),('Botargo','n.','A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the\n   mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to\n   drink.'),('Botches','pl. ','of Botch'),('Botch','n.','A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil;\n   an eruptive disease.'),('Botch','n.','A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in\n   a clumsy manner.'),('Botch','n.','Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a\n   piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly\n   finished; a bungle.'),('Botched','imp. & p. p.','of Botch'),('Botching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Botch'),('Botch','n.','To mark with, or as with, botches.'),('Botch','n.','To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect\n   manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.'),('Botch','n.','To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or\n   perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.'),('Botchedly','adv.','In a clumsy manner.'),('Botcher','n.','One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.'),('Botcher','n.','A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.'),('Botcher','n.','A young salmon; a grilse.'),('Botcherly','a.','Bungling; awkward.'),('Botchery','n.','A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or\n   careless workmanship.'),('Botchy','a.','Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.'),('Bote','n.','Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote,\n   a compensation or a man slain.'),('Bote','n.','Payment of any kind.'),('Bote','n.','A privilege or allowance of necessaries.'),('Boteless','a.','Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.'),('Botfly','n.','A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many\n   different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to\n   domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit\n   their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse\n   (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the\n   stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through\n   their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives\n   under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.'),('Both','a. or pron.','The one and the other; the two; the pair, without\n   exception of either.'),('Both','conj.','As well; not only; equally.'),('Bothered','imp. & p. p.','of Bother'),('Bothering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bother'),('Bother','v. t.','To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.'),('Bother','v. i.','To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be\n   troublesome.'),('Bother','n.','One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or\n   annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be\n   in a bother.'),('Botheration','n.','The act of bothering, or state of being bothered;\n   cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.'),('Botherer','n.','One who bothers.'),('Bothersome','a.','Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or\n   perplexity; troublesome.'),('Both-hands','n.','A factotum.'),('Bothie','n.','Same as Bothy.'),('Bothnian','a.','Alt. of Bothnic'),('Bothnic','a.','Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe,\n   or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the\n   Baltic sea.'),('Bothrenchyma','n.','Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores\n   seen in many kinds of wood.'),('-ies','pl. ','of Boothy'),('Bothy','n.','Alt. of Boothy'),('Boothy','n.','A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for\n   unmarried farm servants; a shepherd\'s or hunter\'s hut; a booth.'),('Botocudos','n. pl.','A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of\n   poisons; -- also called Aymbores.'),('Bo tree','','The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at\n   Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which\n   Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have\n   become Buddha.'),('Botryogen','n.','A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often\n   occurs in botryoidal form.'),('Botryoid','a.','Alt. of Botryoidal'),('Botryoidal','a.','Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of\n   grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or\n   spheroidal prominences.'),('Botryolite','n.','A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal\n   structure.'),('Botryose','a.','Having the form of a cluster of grapes.'),('Botryose','a.','Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.'),('Bots','n. pl.','The larvae of several species of botfly, especially those\n   larvae which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse,\n   and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments.'),('Bottine','n.','A small boot; a lady\'s boot.'),('Bottine','n.','An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with\n   straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the\n   lower extremities of children.'),('Bottle','n.','A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but\n   formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.'),('Bottle','n.','The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as,\n   to drink a bottle of wine.'),('Bottle','n.','Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one\'s reason in the\n   bottle.'),('Bottled','imp. & p. p.','of Bottle'),('Bottling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bottle'),('Bottle','v. t.','To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle\n   or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or\n   porter; to bottle up one\'s wrath.'),('Bottle','n.','A bundle, esp. of hay.'),('Bottled','a.','Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as\n   in, a bottle.'),('Bottled','a.','Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.'),('Bottle green','','A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.'),('Bottlehead','n.','A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also\n   bottle-nosed whale.'),('Bottleholder','n.','One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so\n   called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.'),('Bottleholder','n.','One who assists or supports another in a contest; an\n   abettor; a backer.'),('Bottle-nose','n.','A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species,\n   as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.'),('Bottle-nose','n.','The puffin.'),('Bottle-nosed','a.','Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.'),('Bottler','n.','One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.'),('Bottlescrew','n.','A corkscrew.'),('Bottling','n.','The act or the process of putting anything into bottles\n   (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.'),('Bottom','n.','The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a\n   tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.'),('Bottom','n.','The part of anything which is beneath the contents and\n   supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the\n   circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a\n   ship\'s hold; the under surface.'),('Bottom','n.','That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal\n   or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.'),('Bottom','n.','The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.'),('Bottom','n.','The fundament; the buttocks.'),('Bottom','n.','An abyss.'),('Bottom','n.','Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river;\n   low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.'),('Bottom','n.','The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence,\n   the vessel itself; a ship.'),('Bottom','n.','Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.'),('Bottom','n.','Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.'),('Bottom','a.','Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under;\n   as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.'),('Bottomed','imp. & p. p.','of Bottom'),('Bottoming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bottom'),('Bottom','v. t.','To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; --\n   followed by on or upon.'),('Bottom','v. t.','To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.'),('Bottom','v. t.','To reach or get to the bottom of.'),('Bottom','v. i.','To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or\n   grounded; -- usually with on or upon.'),('Bottom','v. i.','To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede\n   free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space\n   between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.'),('Bottom','n.','A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.'),('Bottom','v. t.','To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.'),('Bottomed','a.','Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a\n   bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed;\n   well-bottomed.'),('Bottomless','a.','Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a\n   bottomless abyss.'),('Bottomry','n.','A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the\n   owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the\n   ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment\n   of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates\n   her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the\n   lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive\n   the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it\n   may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See\n   Hypothecation.'),('Bottony','a.','Alt. of Bottone'),('Bottone','a.','Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end;\n   furnished with knobs or buttons.'),('Botts','n. pl.','See Bots.'),('Botuliform','a.','Having the shape of a sausage.'),('Bouche','n.','Same as Bush, a lining.'),('Bouche','v. t.','Same as Bush, to line.'),('Bouche','n.','Alt. of Bouch'),('Bouch','n.','A mouth.'),('Bouch','n.','An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior\n   officers or servants in a nobleman\'s palace or at court.'),('Bouchees','n. pl.','Small patties.'),('Boud','n.','A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.'),('Boudoir','n.','A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to\n   which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a\n   lady\'s (or sometimes a gentleman\'s) private room.'),('Bouffe','n.','Comic opera. See Opera Bouffe.'),('Bougainvillaea','n.','A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from\n   tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.'),('Bouged','imp. & p. p.','of Bouge'),('Bouge','v. i.','To swell out.'),('Bouge','v. i.','To bilge.'),('Bouge','v. t.','To stave in; to bilge.'),('Bouge','n.','Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions.'),('Bouget','n.','A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water;\n   -- also called water bouget.'),('Bough','n.','An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.'),('Bough','n.','A gallows.'),('Bought','n.','A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope;\n   as the boughts of a serpent.'),('Bought','n.','The part of a sling that contains the stone.'),('Bought','','imp. & p. p. of Buy.'),('Bought','p. a.','Purchased; bribed.'),('Boughten','a.','Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.'),('Boughty','a.','Bending.'),('Bougie','n.','A long, flexible instrument, that is'),('Bougie','n.','A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other\n   substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated\n   with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.'),('Bouilli','n.','Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in\n   water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or\n   soup has been made.'),('Bouillon','n.','A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other\n   meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.'),('Bouillon','n.','An excrescence on a horse\'s frush or frog.'),('Bouk','n.','The body.'),('Bouk','n.','Bulk; volume.'),('Boul','n.','A curved handle.'),('Boulangerite','n.','A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster,\n   usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is a sulphide of antimony\n   and lead.'),('Boulder','n.','Same as Bowlder.'),('Bouldery','a.','Characterized by bowlders.'),('Boule','n.','Alt. of Boulework'),('Boulework','n.','Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.'),('Boulevard','n.','Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or\n   fortified town.'),('Boulevard','n.','A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished\n   fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.'),('Bouleversement','n.','Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside\n   down.'),('Buolt','n.','Corrupted form Bolt.'),('Boultel','n.','Alt. of Boultin'),('Boultin','n.','A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a\n   circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman\n   Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.'),('Boultin','n.','One of the shafts of a clustered column.'),('Boulter','n.','A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are\n   attached.'),('Boun','a.','Ready; prepared; destined; tending.'),('Boun','v. t.','To make or get ready.'),('Bounced','imp. & p. p.','of Bounce'),('Bouncing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bounce'),('Bounce','v. i.','To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a\n   sudden noise; a knock loudly.'),('Bounce','v. i.','To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound;\n   as, she bounced into the room.'),('Bounce','v. i.','To boast; to talk big; to bluster.'),('Bounce','v. t.','To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to\n   bump; to thump.'),('Bounce','v. t.','To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.'),('Bounce','v. t.','To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge\n   unceremoniously, as from employment.'),('Bounce','v. t.','To bully; to scold.'),('Bounce','n.','A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.'),('Bounce','n.','A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.'),('Bounce','n.','An explosion, or the noise of one.'),('Bounce','n.','Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration;\n   an impudent lie; a bouncer.'),('Bounce','n.','A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).'),('Bounce','adv.','With a sudden leap; suddenly.'),('Bouncer','n.','One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much\n   noise in moving.'),('Bouncer','n.','A boaster; a bully.'),('Bouncer','n.','A bold lie; also, a liar.'),('Bouncer','n.','Something big; a good stout example of the kind.'),('Bouncing','a.','Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.'),('Bouncing','a.','Excessive; big.'),('Bouncingly','adv.','With a bounce.'),('Bound','n.','The external or limiting line, either real or imaginary, of\n   any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within which\n   something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary.'),('Bounded','imp. & p. p.','of Bound'),('Bounding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bound'),('Bound','v. t.','To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of\n   extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or\n   form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to\n   confine.'),('Bound','v. t.','To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.'),('Bound','v. i.','To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a\n   succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the\n   herd bounded across the plain.'),('Bound','v. i.','To rebound, as an elastic ball.'),('Bound','v. t.','To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse.'),('Bound','v. t.','To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound;\n   as, to bound a ball on the floor.'),('Bound','n.','A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.'),('Bound','n.','Rebound; as, the bound of a ball.'),('Bound','n.','Spring from one foot to the other.'),('Bound','','imp. & p. p. of Bind.'),('Bound','p. p. & a.','Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the\n   like.'),('Bound','p. p. & a.','Inclosed in a binding or cover; as, a bound volume.'),('Bound','p. p. & a.','Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.'),('Bound','p. p. & a.','Constrained or compelled; destined; certain; --\n   followed by the infinitive; as, he is bound to succeed; he is bound to\n   fail.'),('Bound','p. p. & a.','Resolved; as, I am bound to do it.'),('Bound','p. p. & a.','Constipated; costive.'),('Bound','v.','Ready or intending to go; on the way toward; going; -- with\n   to or for, or with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz,\n   or for Cadiz.'),('Boundaries','pl. ','of Boundary'),('Boundary','n.','That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks\n   a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or\n   imaginary limit.'),('Bounden','p. p & a.','Bound; fastened by bonds.'),('Bounden','p. p & a.','Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered;\n   obliged; beholden.'),('Bounden','p. p & a.','Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.'),('Bounder','n.','One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.'),('Bounding','a.','Moving with a bound or bounds.'),('Boundless','a.','Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast;\n   unlimited.'),('Bounteous','a.','Liberal in charity; disposed to give freely; generously\n   liberal; munificent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous\n   production.'),('Bountiful','a.','Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.'),('Bountiful','a.','Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.'),('Bountihead','n.','Alt. of Bountyhood'),('Bountyhood','n.','Goodness; generosity.'),('Bounties','pl. ','of Bounty'),('Bounty','n.','Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.'),('Bounty','n.','Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or\n   liberal giving; generosity; munificence.'),('Bounty','n.','That which is given generously or liberally.'),('Bounty','n.','A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the\n   public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or\n   manufactures.'),('Bouquet','n.','A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.'),('Bouquet','n.','A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.'),('Bouquetin','n.','The ibex.'),('Bour','n.','A chamber or a cottage.'),('Bourbon','n.','A member of a family which has occupied several European\n   thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.'),('Bourbon','n.','A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician\n   who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.'),('Bourbonism','n.','The principles of those adhering to the house of\n   Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.'),('Bourbonist','n.','One who adheres to the house of Bourbon; a legitimist.'),('Bourbon whisky','','See under Whisky.'),('Bourd','n.','A jest.'),('Bourd','v. i.','To jest.'),('Bourder','n.','A jester.'),('Bourdon','n.','A pilgrim\'s staff.'),('Bourdon','n.','A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See\n   Burden (of a song.)'),('Bourdon','n.','A kind of organ stop.'),('Bourgeois','n.','A size of type between long primer and brevier. See\n   Type.'),('Bourgeois','n.','A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping\n   class.'),('Bourgeois','a.','Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.'),('Bourgeoisie','n.','The French middle class, particularly such as are\n   concerned in, or dependent on, trade.'),('Bourgeon','v. i.','To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a\n   branch.'),('Bouri','n.','A mullet (Mugil capito) found in the rivers of Southern\n   Europe and in Africa.'),('Bourn','v.','Alt. of Bourne'),('Bourne','v.','A stream or rivulet; a burn.'),('Bourn','n.','Alt. of Bourne'),('Bourne','n.','A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.'),('Bournless','a.','Without a bourn or limit.'),('Bournonite','n.','A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic\n   luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like\n   cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony,\n   lead, and copper.'),('Bournous','n.','See Burnoose.'),('Bourree','n.','An old French dance tune in common time.'),('Bourse','n.','An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet\n   for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.'),('Bouse','v. i.','To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.'),('Bouse','n.','Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze.'),('Bouser','n.','A toper; a boozer.'),('Boustrophedon','n.','An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions,\n   one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields\n   are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.'),('Boustrophedonic','a.','Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.'),('Boustorphic','a.','Boustrophedonic.'),('Bousy','a.','Drunken; sotted; boozy.'),('Bout','n.','As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and\n   returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.'),('Bout','n.','A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything;\n   as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.'),('Boutade','n.','An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.'),('Boutefeu','n.','An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.'),('Boutonniere','n.','A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.'),('Bouts-rimes','n. pl.','Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses,\n   to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are\n   offered.'),('Bovate','n.','An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an\n   ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated\n   at fifteen acres.'),('Bovey coal','','A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a\n   weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey\n   Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and\n   not of the true coal era.'),('Bovid','a.','Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the\n   genus Bos is the type.'),('Boviform','a.','Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.'),('Bovine','a.','Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or\n   resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine\n   antelope.'),('Bovine','a.','Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish\n   and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.'),('Bowed','imp. & p. p.','of Bow'),('Bowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bow'),('Bow','v. t.','To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect;\n   to make crooked or curved.'),('Bow','v. t.','To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to\n   bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.'),('Bow','v. t.','To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of\n   respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.'),('Bow','v. t.','To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to\n   crush; to subdue.'),('Bow','v. t.','To express by bowing; as, to bow one\'s thanks.'),('Bow','v. i.','To bend; to curve.'),('Bow','v. i.','To stop.'),('Bow','v. i.','To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or\n   submission; -- often with down.'),('Bow','v. i.','To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or\n   assent; to make bow.'),('Bow','n.','An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token\n   of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow\n   of deep humility.'),('Bow','v. t.','Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.'),('Bow','v. t.','A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic\n   material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an\n   arrow is propelled.'),('Bow','v. t.','An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by\n   doubling a ribbon or string.'),('Bow','v. t.','The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and\n   fastens it to the yoke.'),('Bow','v. t.','An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of\n   horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a\n   stringed instrument.'),('Bow','v. t.','An arcograph.'),('Bow','v. t.','Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends\n   connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a\n   drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by\n   hatters.'),('Bow','v. t.','A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun\'s\n   altitude at sea.'),('Bow','sing. or pl.','Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward\n   part of a saddletree.'),('Bowed','imp. & p. p.','of Bow'),('Bowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bow'),('Bow','v. i.','To play (music) with a bow.'),('Bow','v. i. ','To manage the bow.'),('Bow','n.','The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or\n   prow.'),('Bow','n.','One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.'),('Bowable','a.','Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily\n   influenced; yielding.'),('Bowbell','n.','One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.'),('Bow-bells','n. pl.','The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.'),('Bowbent','a.','Bent, like a bow.'),('Bow-compasses','pl. ','of Bow-compass'),('Bow-compass','n.','An arcograph.'),('Bow-compass','n.','A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a\n   pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by\n   a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint.'),('Bow-compass','n.','A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate\n   riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.'),('Bowel','n.','One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially\n   of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.'),('Bowel','n.','Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the\n   bowels of the earth.'),('Bowel','n.','The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.'),('Bowel','n.','Offspring.'),('Boweled','imp. & p. p.','of Bowel'),('Bowelled','','of Bowel'),('Boweling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bowel'),('Bowelling','','of Bowel'),('Bowel','v. t.','To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.'),('Boweled','a.','Having bowels; hollow.'),('Bowelless','a.','Without pity.'),('Bowenite','n.','A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode\n   Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.'),('Bower','v. & n.','One who bows or bends.'),('Bower','v. & n.','An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.'),('Bower','v. & n.','A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.'),('Bower','n.','One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in\n   the game of euchre.'),('Bower','n.','Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady\'s private\n   apartment.'),('Bower','n.','A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode\n   or retreat.'),('Bower','n.','A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of\n   trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.'),('Bower','v. t.','To embower; to inclose.'),('Bower','v. i.','To lodge.'),('Bower','n.','A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.'),('Bower bird','','An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus /\n   holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers\n   or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects;\n   the satin bird.'),('Bowery','a.','Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.'),('Boweries','pl. ','of Bowery'),('Bowery','n.','A farm or plantation with its buildings.'),('Bowery','a.','Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York\n   city; swaggering; flashy.'),('Bowess','n.','Same as Bower.'),('Bowfin','n.','A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh\n   waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny\n   Grindle, and dogfish.'),('Bowge','v. i.','To swell out. See Bouge.'),('Bowge','v. t.','To cause to leak.'),('Bowgrace','n.','A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides\n   or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.'),('Bow hand','','The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand.'),('Bow hand','','The hand that draws the bow, i. e., the right hand.'),('Bowhead','n.','The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus).\n   See Baleen, and Whale.'),('Bowie knife','','A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches\n   long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and\n   formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It\n   was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension,\n   any large sheath knife.'),('Bowing','n.','The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed\n   instruments.'),('Bowing','n.','In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and\n   distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for\n   felting.'),('Bowingly','adv.','In a bending manner.'),('Bowknot','n.','A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through\n   in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.'),('Bowl','n.','A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately\n   hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.'),('Bowl','n.','Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous\n   liquors; hence, convivial drinking.'),('Bowl','n.','The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.'),('Bowl','n.','The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.'),('Bowl','n.','A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level\n   surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the\n   other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.'),('Bowl','n.','An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased\n   balls on a level plat of greensward.'),('Bowl','n.','The game of tenpins or bowling.'),('Bowled','imp. & p. p.','of Bowl'),('Bowling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bowl'),('Bowl','v. t.','To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.'),('Bowl','v. t.','To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we\n   were bowled rapidly along the road.'),('Bowl','v. t.','To pelt or strike with anything rolled.'),('Bowl','v. i.','To play with bowls.'),('Bowl','v. i.','To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.'),('Bowl','v. i.','To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the\n   carriage bowled along.'),('Bowlder','n.','Alt. of Boulder'),('Boulder','n.','A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of\n   water; a large pebble.'),('Boulder','n.','A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been\n   transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift.'),('Bowldery','a.','Characterized by bowlders.'),('Bowleg','n.','A crooked leg.'),('Bowl-legged','a.','Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.'),('Bowler','n.','One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or\n   any other game.'),('Bowless','a.','Destitute of a bow.'),('Bowline','n.','A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or\n   perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called\n   bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward,\n   when the ship is closehauled.'),('Bowling','n.','The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the\n   ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.'),('Bowls','n. pl.','See Bowl, a ball, a game.'),('Bowmen','pl. ','of Bowman'),('Bowman','n.','A man who uses a bow; an archer.'),('Bowman','n.','The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.'),('Bowne','v. t.','To make ready; to prepare; to dress.'),('Bow net','','A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a\n   funnel-shaped entrance at one end.'),('Bow net','','A net for catching birds.'),('Bow oar','','The oar used by the bowman.'),('Bow oar','','One who rows at the bow of a boat.'),('Bow-pen','n.','Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.'),('Bow-pencil','n.','Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.'),('Bow-saw','n.','A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.'),('Bowse','v. i.','To carouse; to bouse; to booze.'),('Bowse','v. i.','To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away,\n   i. e., to pull all together.'),('Bowse','n.','A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.'),('Bowshot','n.','The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.'),('Bowsprit','n.','A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a\n   ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.'),('Bowssen','v. t.','To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water\n   believed to have curative properties).'),('Bowstring','n.','The string of a bow.'),('Bowstring','n.','A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders.'),('Bowstringed','imp. & p. p.','of Bowstring'),('Bowstrung','','of Bowstring'),('Bowstringing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bowstring'),('Bowstring','v. t.','To strangle with a bowstring.'),('Bowstringed','p.a.','Furnished with bowstring.'),('Bowstringed','p.a.','Put to death with a bowstring; strangled.'),('Bowtel','n.','See Boultel.'),('Bowwow','n.','An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.'),('Bowwow','a.','Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow\n   word.'),('Bowyer','n.','An archer; one who uses bow.'),('Bowyer','n.','One who makes or sells bows.'),('Box','n.','A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world.\n   The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which,\n   the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens.\n   The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is\n   extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical\n   instrument makers, etc.'),('Boxes','pl. ','of Box'),('Box','n.','A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various\n   shapes.'),('Box','n.','The quantity that a box contain.'),('Box','n.','A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or\n   other place of public amusement.'),('Box','n.','A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor\n   box; a contribution box.'),('Box','n.','A small country house.'),('Box','n.','A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.'),('Box','n.','An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.'),('Box','n.','A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the\n   bucket of a lifting pump.'),('Box','n.','The driver\'s seat on a carriage or coach.'),('Box','n.','A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.'),('Box','n.','The square in which the pitcher stands.'),('Box','n.','A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.'),('Boxed','imp. & p. p.','of Box'),('Boxing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Box'),('Box','v. t.','To inclose in a box.'),('Box','v. t.','To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.'),('Box','v. t.','To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to\n   a required form.'),('Box','n.','A blow on the head or ear with the hand.'),('Box','v. i.','To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the\n   hand or fist; to spar.'),('Box','v. t.','To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on\n   the ear, or on the side of the head.'),('Box','v. t.','To boxhaul.'),('Boxberry','n.','The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).'),('Boxen','a.','Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box\n   (Buxus).'),('Boxer','n.','One who packs boxes.'),('Boxer','n.','One who boxes; a pugilist.'),('Boxfish','n.','The trunkfish.'),('Boxhauled','imp. & p. p.','of Boxhaul'),('Boxhaul','v. t.','To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her\n   short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing\n   the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind).'),('Boxhauling','n.','A method of going from one tack to another. See\n   Boxhaul.'),('Boxing','n.','The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or\n   transportation.'),('Boxing','n.','Material used in making boxes or casings.'),('Boxing','n.','Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.'),('Boxing','n.','The external case of thin material used to bring any member\n   to a required form.'),('Boxing','n.','The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist;\n   sparring.'),('Box-iron','n.','A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.'),('Boxkeeper','n.','An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.'),('Boxthorn','n.','A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.'),('Boxwood','n.','The wood of the box (Buxus).'),('Boy','n.','A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence,\n   a son.'),('Boy','v. t.','To act as a boy; -- in allusion to the former practice of\n   boys acting women\'s parts on the stage.'),('Boyar','n.','Alt. of Boyard'),('Boyard','n.','A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter\n   the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.'),('Boyaux','pl. ','of Boyau'),('Boyaus','pl. ','of Boyau'),('Boyau','n.','A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication\n   from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.'),('Boycotted','imp. & p. p.','of Boycott'),('Boycotting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Boycott'),('Boycott','v. t.','To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or\n   other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and\n   to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.'),('Boycott','n.','The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining\n   to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman,\n   employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of\n   coercion.'),('Boycotter','n.','A participant in boycotting.'),('Boycottism','n.','Methods of boycotters.'),('Boydekin','n.','A dagger; a bodkin.'),('Boyer','n.','A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.'),('Boyhood','n.','The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a\n   boy.'),('Boyish','a.','Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a\n   boy; childish; trifling; puerile.'),('Boyishly','adv.','In a boyish manner; like a boy.'),('Boyishness','n.','The manners or behavior of a boy.'),('Boyism','n.','Boyhood.'),('Boyism','n.','The nature of a boy; childishness.'),('Boyle\'s law','','See under Law.'),('Boza','n.','An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians,\n   made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an\n   intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water.'),('Brabantine','a.','Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the\n   Netherlands.'),('Brabble','v. i.','To clamor; to contest noisily.'),('Brabble','n.','A broil; a noisy contest; a wrangle.'),('Brabblement','n.','A brabble.'),('Brabbler','n.','A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler.'),('Braccate','a.','Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.'),('Brace','n.','That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a\n   bandage or a prop.'),('Brace','n.','A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining\n   tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.'),('Brace','n.','The state of being braced or tight; tension.'),('Brace','n.','A piece of material used to transmit, or change the\n   direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or\n   truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as\n   a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the\n   structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a\n   diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.'),('Brace','n.','A vertical curved line connecting two or more words or\n   lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music,\n   used to connect staves.'),('Brace','n.','A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which\n   the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.'),('Brace','n.','A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding\n   and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.'),('Brace','n.','A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied\n   to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt.'),('Brace','n.','Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.'),('Brace','n.','Harness; warlike preparation.'),('Brace','n.','Armor for the arm; vantbrace.'),('Brace','n.','The mouth of a shaft.'),('Braced','imp. & p. p.','of Brace'),('Bracing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brace'),('Brace','v. t.','To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace\n   a beam in a building.'),('Brace','v. t.','To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension;\n   to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.'),('Brace','v. t.','To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.'),('Brace','v. t.','To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold\n   firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.'),('Brace','v. t.','To move around by means of braces; as, to brace the\n   yards.'),('Brace','v. i.','To get tone or vigor; to rouse one\'s energies; -- with\n   up.'),('Bracelet','n.','An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in\n   modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.'),('Bracelet','n.','A piece of defensive armor for the arm.'),('Bracer','n.','That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage.'),('Bracer','n.','A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the\n   vibration of the string; also, a brassart.'),('Bracer','n.','A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives\n   tension or tone to any part of the body.'),('Brach','n.','A bitch of the hound kind.'),('Brachelytra','n. pl.','A group of beetles having short elytra, as the\n   rove beetles.'),('Brachia','n. pl.','See Brachium.'),('Brachial','a.','Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial\n   artery; the brachial nerve.'),('Brachial','a.','Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.'),('Brachiata','n. pl.','A division of the Crinoidea, including those\n   furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.'),('Brachiate','a.','Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly\n   horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the\n   maple and lilac.'),('Brachioganoid','n.','One of the Brachioganoidei.'),('Brachioganoidei','n. pl.','An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir\n   of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.'),('Brachiolaria','n. pl.','A peculiar early larval stage of certain\n   starfishes, having a bilateral structure, and swimming by means of\n   bands of vibrating cilia.'),('Brachiopod','n.','One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.'),('Brachiopoda','n.','A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve\n   shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.'),('Bracchia','pl. ','of Brachium'),('Brachium','n.','The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the\n   shoulder and the elbow.'),('Brachman','n.','See Brahman.'),('Brachycatalectic','n.','A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.'),('Brachycephalic','a.','Alt. of Brachycephalous'),('Brachycephalous','a.','Having the skull short in proportion to its\n   breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.'),('Brachycephaly','n.','Alt. of Brachycephalism'),('Brachycephalism','n.','The state or condition of being brachycephalic;\n   shortness of head.'),('Brachyceral','a.','Having short antennae, as certain insects.'),('Brachydiagonal','a.','Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic\n   prism.'),('Brachydiagonal','n.','The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.'),('Brachydome','n.','A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.'),('Brachygrapher','n.','A writer in short hand; a stenographer.'),('Brachygraphy','n.','Stenography.'),('Brachylogy','n.','Conciseness of expression; brevity.'),('Brachypinacoid','n.','A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is\n   parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral\n   (brachydiagonal) axis.'),('Brachyptera','n. pl.','A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove\n   beetles.'),('Brachypteres','n.pl.','A group of birds, including auks, divers, and\n   penguins.'),('Brachypterous','a.','Having short wings.'),('Brachystochrone','n.','A curve, in which a body, starting from a given\n   point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach\n   another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path.\n   This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a\n   vacuum, the same as the cycloid.'),('Brachytypous','a.','Of a short form.'),('Brachyura','n. pl.','A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common\n   crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up\n   beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab,\n   and Illustration in Appendix.'),('Brachyural','a.','Alt. of Brachyurous'),('Brachyurous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Brachyura.'),('Brachyuran','n.','One of the Brachyura.'),('Bracing','a.','Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating;\n   as, a bracing north wind.'),('Bracing','n.','The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a\n   brace or braces; the state of being braced.'),('Bracing','n.','Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as, the\n   bracing of a truss.'),('Brack','n.','An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack\n   or breach; a flaw.'),('Brack','n.','Salt or brackish water.'),('Bracken','n.','A brake or fern.'),('Bracket','n.','An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting\n   from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same;\n   also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.'),('Bracket','n.','A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in\n   general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other\n   surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.'),('Bracket','n.','A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a\n   support.'),('Bracket','n.','The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.'),('Bracket','n.','One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference,\n   explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to\n   indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an\n   omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.'),('Bracket','n.','A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a\n   wall, column, or the like.'),('Bracketed','imp. & p. p.','of Bracket'),('Bracketing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bracket'),('Bracket','v. t.','To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to\n   furnish with brackets.'),('Bracketing','n.','A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.'),('Brackish','a.','Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline\n   soil.'),('Brackishness','n.','The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat\n   salt.'),('Bracky','a.','Brackish.'),('Bract','n.','A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant,\n   from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.'),('Bract','n.','Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the\n   base of a flower.'),('Bractea','n.','A bract.'),('Bracteal','a.','Having the nature or appearance of a bract.'),('Bracteate','a.','Having a bract or bracts.'),('Bracted','a.','Furnished with bracts.'),('Bracteolate','a.','Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.'),('Bracteole','n.','Same as Bractlet.'),('Bractless','a.','Destitute of bracts.'),('Bractlet','n.','A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself\n   on a main stalk that support several flowers.'),('Brad','n.','A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the\n   top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat\n   circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing\n   nail, with a countersunk head.'),('Brad awl','','A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for\n   brads, etc.'),('Bradoon','n.','Same as Bridoon.'),('Brae','n.','A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.'),('Bragged','imp. & p. p.','of Brag'),('Bragging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brag'),('Brag','v. i.','To talk about one\'s self, or things pertaining to one\'s\n   self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to\n   talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of\n   one\'s exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends\n   to do.'),('Brag','v. t.','To boast of.'),('Brag','n.','A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self\n   glorification.'),('Brag','n.','The thing which is boasted of.'),('Brag','n.','A game at cards similar to bluff.'),('Brag','v. i.','Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.'),('Brag','adv.','Proudly; boastfully.'),('Braggadocio','n.','A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.'),('Braggadocio','n.','Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.'),('Braggardism','n.','Boastfulness; act of bragging.'),('Braggart','v. i.','A boaster.'),('Braggart','a.','Boastful.'),('Bragger','n.','One who brags; a boaster.'),('Bragget','n.','A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices,\n   etc.'),('Braggingly','adv.','Boastingly.'),('Bragless','a.','Without bragging.'),('Bragly','adv.','In a manner to be bragged of; finely; proudly.'),('Brahma','n.','The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods.\n   The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and\n   Siva, the Destroyer.'),('Brahma','n.','A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in\n   having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well\n   feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light;\n   -- called also Brahmapootra.'),('Brahmans','pl. ','of Brahmin'),('Brahmins','pl. ','of Brahmin'),('Brahman','n.','Alt. of Brahmin'),('Brahmin','n.','A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the\n   Hindoos.'),('Brahmaness','n.','A Brahmani.'),('Brahmani','n.','Any Brahman woman.'),('Brahmanic','a.','Alt. of ical'),('-ical','a.','Alt. of ical'),('Brahminic','a.','Alt. of ical'),('ical','a.','Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and\n   worship.'),('Brahmanism','n.','Alt. of Brahminism'),('Brahminism','n.','The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans;\n   the religion of Brahma.'),('Brahmanist','n.','Alt. of Brahminist'),('Brahminist','n.','An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.'),('Brahmoism','n.','The religious system of Brahmo-somaj.'),('Brahmo-somaj','n.','A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindoos.'),('Braided','imp. &. p. p.','of Braid'),('Braiding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Braid'),('Braid','v. t.','To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or\n   more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.'),('Braid','v. t.','To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence,\n   by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.'),('Braid','v. t.','To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.'),('Braid','n.','A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or\n   weaving together different strands.'),('Braid','n.','A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for\n   binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.'),('Braid','n.','A quick motion; a start.'),('Braid','n.','A fancy; freak; caprice.'),('Braid','v. i.','To start; to awake.'),('Braid','v. t.','Deceitful.'),('Braiding','n.','The act of making or using braids.'),('Braiding','n.','Braids, collectively; trimming.'),('Brail','n.','A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk\'s wing.'),('Brail','n.','Ropes passing through pulleys, and used to haul in or up the\n   leeches, bottoms, or corners of sails, preparatory to furling.'),('Brail','n.','A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.'),('Brail','v. t.','To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail\n   up a sail.'),('Brain','n.','The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous\n   system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed\n   in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is\n   simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed\n   from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the\n   central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the\n   central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and\n   become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.'),('Brain','n.','The anterior or cephalic ganglion in insects and other\n   invertebrates.'),('Brain','n.','The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding.'),('Brain','n.','The affections; fancy; imagination.'),('Brained','imp. & p. p.','of Brain'),('Braining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brain'),('Brain','v. t.','To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the\n   brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat.'),('Brain','v. t.','To conceive; to understand.'),('Brained','p.a.','Supplied with brains.'),('Brainish','a.','Hot-headed; furious.'),('Brainless','a.','Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.'),('Brainpan','n.','The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the\n   cranium.'),('Brainsick','a.','Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.'),('Brainsickly','adv.','In a brainsick manner.'),('Brainy','a.','Having an active or vigorous mind.'),('Braise','n.','Alt. of Braize'),('Braize','n.','A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the\n   American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related\n   species.'),('Braise','n.','Alt. of Braize'),('Braize','n.','Charcoal powder; breeze.'),('Braize','n.','Braised meat.'),('Braise','v. t.','To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan.'),('Braiser','n.','A kettle or pan for braising.'),('Brait','n.','A rough diamond.'),('Braize','n.','See Braise.'),('Brake','','imp. of Break.'),('Brake','n.','A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in\n   almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three\n   principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.'),('Brake','n.','A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with\n   undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.'),('Brake','v. t.','An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody\n   part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber.'),('Brake','v. t.','An extended handle by means of which a number of men can\n   unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.'),('Brake','v. t.','A baker\'s kneading though.'),('Brake','v. t.','A sharp bit or snaffle.'),('Brake','v. t.','A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith\n   is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.'),('Brake','v. t.','That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or\n   engine, which enables it to turn.'),('Brake','v. t.','An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and\n   ballista.'),('Brake','v. t.','A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a\n   drag.'),('Brake','v. t.','A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by\n   friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers\n   against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or\n   roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.'),('Brake','v. t.','An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or\n   other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will\n   overcome; a friction brake.'),('Brake','v. t.','A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in\n   horses.'),('Brake','v. t.','An ancient instrument of torture.'),('Brakemen','pl. ','of Brakeman'),('Brakeman','n.','A man in charge of a brake or brakes.'),('Brakeman','n.','The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for\n   a mine.'),('Braky','a.','Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns;\n   rough; thorny.'),('Brama','n.','See Brahma.'),('Bramah press','','A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by\n   Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.'),('Bramble','n.','Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and\n   blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.'),('Bramble','n.','The brambling or bramble finch.'),('Bramble bush','','The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing\n   together.'),('Brambled','a.','Overgrown with brambles.'),('Bramble net','','A net to catch birds.'),('Brambling','n.','The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla);\n   -- called also bramble finch and bramble.'),('Brambly','a.','Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.'),('Brame','n.','Sharp passion; vexation.'),('Bramin','','Alt. of Braminic'),('Braminic','','See Brahman, Brachmanic, etc.'),('Bran','n.','The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal\n   grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the\n   coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.'),('Bran','n.','The European carrion crow.'),('Brancard','n.','A litter on which a person may be carried.'),('Branches','pl. ','of Branch'),('Branch','n.','A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or\n   from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.'),('Branch','n.','Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part\n   connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of\n   an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of\n   a railway.'),('Branch','n.','Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article;\n   a section or subdivision; a department.'),('Branch','n.','One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an\n   indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.'),('Branch','n.','A line of family descent, in distinction from some other\n   line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as,\n   the English branch of a family.'),('Branch','n.','A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him\n   to pilot vessels in certain waters.'),('Branch','a.','Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way,\n   theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic;\n   a branch store.'),('Branched','imp. & p. p.','of Branch'),('Branching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Branch'),('Branch','v. i.','To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into\n   branches; to ramify.'),('Branch','v. i.','To divide into separate parts or subdivision.'),('Branch','v. t.','To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division\n   in.'),('Branch','v. t.','To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers,\n   or twigs.'),('Brancher','n.','That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in\n   various directions.'),('Brancher','n.','A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to\n   the branches.'),('Branchery','n.','A system of branches.'),('Branchiae','pl. ','of Branchia'),('Branchia','n.','A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air\n   contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.'),('Branchial','a.','Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.'),('Branchiate','a.','Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments.'),('Branchiferous','a.','Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous\n   gastropods.'),('Branchiness','n.','Fullness of branches.'),('Branching','a.','Furnished with branches; shooting our branches;\n   extending in a branch or branches.'),('Branching','n.','The act or state of separation into branches; division\n   into branches; a division or branch.'),('Branchiogastropoda','n. pl.','Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae,\n   including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.'),('Branchiomerism','n.','The state of being made up of branchiate segments.'),('Branchiopod','n.','One of the Branchiopoda.'),('Branchiopoda','n. pl.','An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the\n   feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of\n   gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and\n   Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called\n   Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a\n   broader sense.'),('Branchiostegal','a.','Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of\n   fishes.'),('Branchiostegal','n.','A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial\n   arches in Appendix.'),('Branchiostege','','The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in\n   Appendix.'),('Branchiostegous','a.','Branchiostegal.'),('Branchiostoma','n.','The lancelet. See Amphioxus.'),('Branchiura','n. pl.','A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths,\n   including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).'),('Branchless','a.','Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable\n   product; barren; naked.'),('Branchlet','n.','A little branch; a twig.'),('Branch pilot','','A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity\n   House, England, for special navigation.'),('Branchy','a.','Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches;\n   consisting of branches.'),('Brand','v. t.','A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood\n   partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.'),('Brand','v. t.','A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing\n   brightness.'),('Brand','v. t.','A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask,\n   to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon\n   an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar\n   purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately:\n   Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.'),('Brand','v. t.','A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any\n   mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.'),('Brand','v. t.','An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.'),('Brand','v. t.','Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in\n   plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order\n   Pucciniaei.'),('Branded','imp. & p. p.','of Brand'),('Branding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brand'),('Brand','v. t.','To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron,\n   to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a\n   convict).'),('Brand','v. t.','To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way,\n   as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture,\n   etc.'),('Brand','v. t.','Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.'),('Brand','v. t.','To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.'),('Brander','n.','One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron.'),('Brander','n.','A gridiron.'),('Brand goose','','A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called\n   in America brant. See Brant.'),('Brandied','a.','Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of\n   brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.'),('Branding iron','','An iron to brand with.'),('Brand iron','','A branding iron.'),('Brand iron','','A trivet to set a pot on.'),('Brand iron','','The horizontal bar of an andiron.'),('Brandished','imp. & p. p.','of Brandish'),('Brandishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brandish'),('Brandish','n.','To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in\n   various directions; to shake or flourish.'),('Brandish','n.','To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.'),('Brandish','n.','A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.'),('Brandisher','n.','One who brandishes.'),('Brandle','v. t. & i.','To shake; to totter.'),('Brandling','n.','Alt. of Brandlin'),('Brandlin','n.','Same as Branlin, fish and worm.'),('Brand-new','a.','Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.'),('Brand spore','','One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and\n   produced by one of the fungi called brand.'),('Brandies','pl. ','of Brandy'),('Brandy','n.','A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is\n   also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United\n   States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it\n   is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.'),('Brandywine','n.','Brandy.'),('Brangle','n.','A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute.'),('Brangled','imp. & p. p.','of Brangle'),('Brangling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brangle'),('Brangle','v. i.','To wrangle; to dispute contentiously; to squabble.'),('Branglement','n.','Wrangle; brangle.'),('Brangler','n.','A quarrelsome person.'),('Brangling','n.','A quarrel.'),('Brank','n.','Buckwheat.'),('Brank','n.','Alt. of Branks'),('Branks','n.','A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.'),('Branks','n.','A scolding bridle, an instrument formerly used for\n   correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head\n   and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.'),('Brank','v. i.','To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as\n   spurning the bit.'),('Brank','v. i.','To prance; to caper.'),('Brankursine','n.','Bear\'s-breech, or Acanthus.'),('Branlin','n.','A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has\n   transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.'),('Branlin','n.','A small red worm or larva, used as bait for small\n   fresh-water fish; -- so called from its red color.'),('Bran-new','a.','See Brand-new.'),('Branny','a.','Having the appearance of bran; consisting of or containing\n   bran.'),('Bransle','n.','A brawl or dance.'),('Brant','n.','A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also\n   brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related\n   species.'),('Brant','a.','Steep.'),('Brantail','n.','The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of\n   its tail.'),('Brant-fox','n.','A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller\n   than the common fox (V. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.'),('Branular','a.','Relating to the brain; cerebral.'),('Brasen','a.','Same as Brazen.'),('Brash','a.','Hasty in temper; impetuous.'),('Brash','a.','Brittle, as wood or vegetables.'),('Brash','n.','A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.'),('Brash','n.','Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.'),('Brash','n.','Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial\n   deposits.'),('Brash','n.','Broken fragments of ice.'),('Brasier','n.','Alt. of Brazier'),('Brazier','n.','An artificer who works in brass.'),('Brasier','n.','Alt. of Brazier'),('Brazier','n.','A pan for holding burning coals.'),('Brasses','pl. ','of Brass'),('Brass','n.','An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable\n   proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of\n   zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.'),('Brass','n.','A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of\n   brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is\n   generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and\n   Bearing.'),('Brass','n.','Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.'),('Brass','n.','Impudence; a brazen face.'),('Brass','n.','Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.'),('Brass','n.','A brass plate engraved with a figure or device.\n   Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having\n   the portrait, coat of arms, etc.'),('Brass','n.','Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is\n   near to that of brass.'),('Brassage','n.','A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; --\n   now called seigniorage.'),('Brassart','n.','Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm\n   from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th\n   centuries, of many parts.'),('Brasse','n.','A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling\n   a perch.'),('Brassets','n.','See Brassart.'),('Brassica','n.','A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties\n   differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage\n   (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B.\n   campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B.\n   napus), etc.'),('Brassicaceous','a.','Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of\n   the Cabbage family.'),('Brassiness','n.','The state, condition, or quality of being brassy.'),('Brass-visaged','a.','Impudent; bold.'),('Brassy','a.','Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance,\n   or hardness, of brass.'),('Brassy','a.','Impudent; impudently bold.'),('Brast','v. t. & i.','To burst.'),('Brat','n.','A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.'),('Brat','n.','A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.'),('Brat','n.','A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but\n   now usually in a contemptuous sense.'),('Brat','n.','The young of an animal.'),('Brat','n.','A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.'),('Bratsche','n.','The tenor viola, or viola.'),('Brattice','n.','A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for\n   ventilation.'),('Brattice','n.','Planking to support a roof or wall.'),('Brattishing','n.','See Brattice, n.'),('Brattishing','n.','Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or\n   parapet.'),('Braunite','n.','A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black\n   color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.'),('Bravade','n.','Bravado.'),('Bravadoes','pl. ','of Bravado'),('Bravado','n.','Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.'),('Brave','superl.','Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to\n   cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.'),('Brave','superl.','Having any sort of superiority or excellence; --\n   especially such as in conspicuous.'),('Brave','superl.','Making a fine show or display.'),('Brave','n.','A brave person; one who is daring.'),('Brave','n.','Specifically, an Indian warrior.'),('Brave','n.','A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.'),('Brave','n.','A challenge; a defiance; bravado.'),('Braved','imp. & p. p.','of Brave'),('Braving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brave'),('Brave','v. t.','To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at\n   defiance; to defy; to dare.'),('Brave','v. t.','To adorn; to make fine or showy.'),('Bravely','adv.','In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly;\n   splendidly; nobly.'),('Bravely','adv.','Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily.'),('Bravely','adv.','Well; thrivingly; prosperously.'),('Braveness','n.','The quality of state or being brave.'),('Bravery','n.','The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity.'),('Bravery','n.','The act of braving; defiance; bravado.'),('Bravery','n.','Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation;\n   fine dress.'),('Bravery','n.','A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau.'),('Braving','n.','A bravado; a boast.'),('Bravingly','adv.','In a defiant manner.'),('Bravoes','pl. ','of Bravo'),('Bravo','a.','A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a\n   professional assassin or murderer.'),('Bravo','interj.','Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of\n   applause.'),('Bravura','n.','A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to\n   show the range and flexibility of a singer\'s voice, or the technical\n   force and skill of a performer; virtuoso music.'),('Brawled','imp. & p. p.','of Brawl'),('Brawling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brawl'),('Brawl','v. i.','To quarrel noisily and outrageously.'),('Brawl','v. i.','To complain loudly; to scold.'),('Brawl','v. i.','To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid\n   stream running over stones.'),('Brawl','n.','A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a\n   tumult; as, a drunken brawl.'),('Brawler','n.','One that brawls; wrangler.'),('Brawling','a.','Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy.'),('Brawling','a.','Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3.'),('Brawlingly','adv.','In a brawling manner.'),('Brawn','n.','A muscle; flesh.'),('Brawn','n.','Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular\n   strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.'),('Brawn','n.','The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of\n   a boar.'),('Brawn','n.','A boar.'),('Brawned','a.','Brawny; strong; muscular.'),('Brawner','n.','A boor killed for the table.'),('Brawniness','n.','The quality or state of being brawny.'),('Brawny','a.','Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.'),('Braxy','n.','A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in\n   different localities.'),('Braxy','n.','A diseased sheep, or its mutton.'),('Brayed','imp. & p. p.','of Bray'),('Braying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bray'),('Bray','v. t.','To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.'),('Bray','v. i.','To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.'),('Bray','v. i.','To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.'),('Bray','v. t.','To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and\n   grating sound.'),('Bray','n.','The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or\n   discordant sound.'),('Bray','n.','A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now\n   the usual spelling.'),('Brayer','n.','An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand\n   printing.'),('Brayer','n.','One that brays like an ass.'),('Braying','a.','Making a harsh noise; blaring.'),('Brazed','imp. & p. p.','of Braze'),('Brazing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Braze'),('Braze','v. i.','To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper\n   and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.'),('Braze','v. i.','To harden.'),('Braze','v. t.','To cover or ornament with brass.'),('Brazen','a.','Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.'),('Brazen','a.','Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.'),('Brazen','a.','Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass;\n   as, a brazen countenance.'),('Brazened','imp. & p. p.','of Brazen'),('Brazening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brazen'),('Brazen','v. t.','To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to\n   brazen the matter through.'),('Brazen-browed','a.','Shamelessly impudent.'),('Brazenface','n.','An impudent or shameless person.'),('Brazenfaced','a.','Impudent; shameless.'),('Brazenly','adv.','In a bold, impudent manner.'),('Brazenness','n.','The quality or state of being brazen.'),('Brazier','n.','Same as Brasier.'),('Braziletto','n.','See Brazil wood.'),('Brazilian','a.','Of or pertaining to Brazil.'),('Brazilian','n.','A native or an inhabitant of Brazil.'),('Brazilin','n.','A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood,\n   from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is\n   white when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies.'),('Brazil nut','','An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia\n   excelsa; the cream nut.'),('Brazil wood','','The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; -- so called\n   before the discovery of America.'),('Brazil wood','','A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from\n   Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing.\n   The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree;\n   but other trees also yield it. An inferior sort comes from Jamaica, the\n   timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as\n   Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.'),('Breach','n.','The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.'),('Breach','n.','Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any\n   obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of\n   contract; a breach of promise.'),('Breach','n.','A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in\n   a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body\n   rent by violence; a break; a rupture.'),('Breach','n.','A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters\n   themselves; surge; surf.'),('Breach','n.','A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.'),('Breach','n.','A bruise; a wound.'),('Breach','n.','A hernia; a rupture.'),('Breach','n.','A breaking out upon; an assault.'),('Breached','imp. & p. p.','of Breach'),('Breaching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Breach'),('Breach','v. t.','To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls\n   of a city.'),('Breach','v. i.','To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a\n   whale.'),('Breachy','a.','Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly;\n   as, breachy cattle.'),('Bread','a.','To spread.'),('Bread','n.','An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening,\n   kneading, and baking.'),('Bread','n.','Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.'),('Bread','v. t.','To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as,\n   breaded cutlets.'),('Breadbasket','n.','The stomach.'),('Breadcorn','','Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.'),('Breaded','a.','Braided'),('Breaden','a.','Made of bread.'),('Breadfruit','n.','The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the\n   islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish\n   form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked,\n   somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.'),('Breadfruit','n.','The tree itself, which is one of considerable size,\n   with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber\n   is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.'),('Breadless','a.','Without bread; destitute of food.'),('Breadroot','n.','The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta),\n   found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds\n   in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.'),('Breadstuff','n.','Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.'),('Breadth','a.','Distance from side to side of any surface or thing;\n   measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.'),('Breadthless','a.','Without breadth.'),('Breadthways','ads.','Breadthwise.'),('Breadthwise','ads.','In the direction of the breadth.'),('Breadthwinner','n.','The member of a family whose labor supplies the food\n   of the family; one who works for his living.'),('broke','imp.','of Break'),('Brake','','of Break'),('Broken','p. p.','of Break'),('Broke','','of Break'),('Breaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Break'),('Break','v. t.','To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with\n   violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an\n   axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.'),('Break','v. t.','To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a\n   package of goods.'),('Break','v. t.','To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or\n   communicate.'),('Break','v. t.','To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or\n   promise.'),('Break','v. t.','To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve\n   or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one\'s sleep; to break\n   one\'s journey.'),('Break','v. t.','To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from;\n   as, to break a set.'),('Break','v. t.','To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to\n   pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.'),('Break','v. t.','To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.'),('Break','v. t.','To exchange for other money or currency of smaller\n   denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.'),('Break','v. t.','To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as,\n   to break flax.'),('Break','v. t.','To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.'),('Break','v. t.','To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a\n   fall or blow.'),('Break','v. t.','To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to,\n   and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the\n   news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.'),('Break','v. t.','To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to\n   discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.'),('Break','v. t.','To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to\n   ruin.'),('Break','v. t.','To destroy the official character and standing of; to\n   cashier; to dismiss.'),('Break','v. i.','To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually\n   with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.'),('Break','v. i.','To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a\n   bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.'),('Break','v. i.','To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to\n   appear; to dawn.'),('Break','v. i.','To burst forth violently, as a storm.'),('Break','v. i.','To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the\n   clouds are breaking.'),('Break','v. i.','To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose\n   health or strength.'),('Break','v. i.','To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as,\n   my heart is breaking.'),('Break','v. i.','To fall in business; to become bankrupt.'),('Break','v. i.','To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait;\n   as, to break into a run or gallop.'),('Break','v. i.','To fail in musical quality; as, a singer\'s voice breaks\n   when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not\n   completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to\n   change in tone, as a boy\'s voice at puberty.'),('Break','v. i.','To fall out; to terminate friendship.'),('Break','v. t.','An opening made by fracture or disruption.'),('Break','v. t.','An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a\n   break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.'),('Break','v. t.','A projection or recess from the face of a building.'),('Break','v. t.','An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting\n   the electrical current.'),('Break','v. t.','An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a\n   break in the conversation.'),('Break','v. t.','An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as\n   where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.'),('Break','v. t.','The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the\n   dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.'),('Break','v. t.','A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and\n   calash top, with the driver\'s seat in front and the footman\'s behind.'),('Break','v. t.','A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction.\n   See Brake, n. 9 & 10.'),('Break','n.','See Commutator.'),('Breakable','a.','Capable of being broken.'),('Breakage','n.','The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles\n   broken.'),('Breakage','n.','An allowance or compensation for things broken\n   accidentally, as in transportation or use.'),('Breakbone fever','','See Dengue.'),('Break-circuit','n.','A key or other device for breaking an electrical\n   circuit.'),('Breakdown','n.','The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage;\n   downfall.'),('Breakdown','n.','A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively\n   by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored\n   people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because\n   the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break\n   down.'),('Breakdown','n.','Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet,\n   usually by one person at a time.'),('Breaker','n.','One who, or that which, breaks.'),('Breaker','n.','Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for\n   breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine\n   is placed.'),('Breaker','n.','A small water cask.'),('Breaker','n.','A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a\n   sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.'),('Breakfast','n.','The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the\n   first meal.'),('Breakfast','n.','A meal after fasting, or food in general.'),('breakfasted','imp. & p. p.','of Breakfast'),('Breakfasting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Breakfast'),('Breakfast','v. i.','To break one\'s fast in the morning; too eat the first\n   meal in the day.'),('Breakfast','v. t.','To furnish with breakfast.'),('Breakman','n.','See Brakeman.'),('Breakneck','n.','A fall that breaks the neck.'),('Breakneck','n.','A steep place endangering the neck.'),('Breakneck','a.','Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.'),('Break-up','n.','Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts or\n   members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of\n   the government.'),('Breakwater','n.','Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at\n   the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford\n   protection from their violence.'),('Bream','n.','A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis,\n   little valued as food. Several species are known.'),('Bream','n.','An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis\n   and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See\n   Pondfish.'),('Bream','n.','A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied\n   genera. See Sea Bream.'),('Breamed','imp. & p. p.','of Bream'),('Breaming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bream'),('Bream','v. t.','To clean, as a ship\'s bottom of adherent shells, seaweed,\n   etc., by the application of fire and scraping.'),('Breast','n.','The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly;\n   the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.'),('Breast','n.','Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front\n   of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia,\n   in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a\n   teat.'),('Breast','n.','Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front\n   or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the\n   breast of a hill.'),('Breast','n.','The face of a coal working.'),('Breast','n.','The front of a furnace.'),('Breast','n.','The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and\n   self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and\n   passions; the heart.'),('Breast','n.','The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called,\n   probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie\n   within the breast.'),('Breasted','imp. & p. p.','of Breast'),('Breasting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Breast'),('Breast','v. t.','To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose\n   manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.'),('Breastband','n.','A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of\n   canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the\n   man who heaves the lead in sounding.'),('Breastbeam','n.','The front transverse beam of a locomotive.'),('Breastbone','n.','The bone of the breast; the sternum.'),('Breast-deep','a.','Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the\n   breast.'),('Breasted','a.','Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying\n   words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a\n   single-breasted coat.'),('Breastfast','n.','A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a\n   wharf, or to another vessel.'),('Breastheight','n.','The interior slope of a fortification, against which\n   the garrison lean in firing.'),('Breast-high','a.','High as the breast.'),('Breasthook','n.','A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed\n   across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the\n   bows on each side.'),('Breasting','n.','The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is\n   closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of\n   its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has\n   spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.'),('Breastknot','n.','A knot of ribbons worn on the breast.'),('Breastpin','n.','A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for\n   ornament; a brooch.'),('Breastplate','n.','A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive\n   armor.'),('Breastplate','n.','A piece against which the workman presses his breast\n   in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.'),('Breastplate','n.','A strap that runs across a horse\'s breast.'),('Breastplate','n.','A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon\n   the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered\n   stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were\n   engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.'),('Breastplow','n.','Alt. of Breastplough'),('Breastplough','n.','A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman;\n   -- used to cut or pare turf.'),('Breastrail','n.','The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of\n   a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.'),('Breastrope','n.','See Breastband.'),('Breastsummer','n.','A summer or girder extending across a building flush\n   with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a\n   long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.'),('Breastwheel','n.','A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes\n   neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the\n   undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being\n   kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float\n   boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.'),('Breastwork','n.','A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up,\n   of earth or other material.'),('Breastwork','n.','A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.'),('Breath','n.','The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in\n   the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received\n   carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.'),('Breath','n.','The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or\n   capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.'),('Breath','n.','The power of respiration, and hence, life.'),('Breath','n.','Time to breathe; respite; pause.'),('Breath','n.','A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single\n   act; an instant.'),('Breath','n.','Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life.'),('Breath','n.','A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.'),('Breath','n.','A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.'),('Breath','n.','Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.'),('Breath','n.','Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.'),('Breathable','a.','Such as can be breathed.'),('Breathableness','n.','State of being breathable.'),('Breathed','imp. & p. p.','of Breathe'),('Breathing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Breathe'),('Breathe','v. i.','To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.'),('Breathe','v. i.','To take breath; to rest from action.'),('Breathe','v. i.','To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale;\n   to emanate; to blow gently.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to\n   respire.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to\n   whisper; as, to breathe a vow.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe\n   odors or perfumes.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To express; to manifest; to give forth.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by\n   breathing.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To promote free respiration in; to exercise.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural\n   breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To put out of breath; to exhaust.'),('Breathe','v. t.','To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.'),('Breather','n.','One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who\n   utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.'),('Breather','n.','That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.'),('Breathful','a.','Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant.'),('Breathing','n.','Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.'),('Breathing','n.','Air in gentle motion.'),('Breathing','n.','Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the\n   breathings of the Spirit.'),('Breathing','n.','Aspiration; secret prayer.'),('Breathing','n.','Exercising; promotion of respiration.'),('Breathing','n.','Utterance; communication or publicity by words.'),('Breathing','n.','Breathing place; vent.'),('Breathing','n.','Stop; pause; delay.'),('Breathing','n.','Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction\n   of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is\n   wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h.'),('Breathing','n.','A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough\n   breathing, Smooth breathing, below.'),('Breathless','a.','Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.'),('Breathless','a.','Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear,\n   expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the\n   breath; as, breathless attention.'),('Breathless','a.','Dead; as, a breathless body.'),('Breathlessly','adv.','In a breathless manner.'),('Breathlessness','n.','The state of being breathless or out of breath.'),('Breccia','n.','A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same\n   mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and\n   commonly presenting a variety of colors.'),('Brecciated','a.','Consisting of angular fragments cemented together;\n   resembling breccia in appearance.'),('Bred','','imp. & p. p. of Breed.'),('Brede','n.','Alt. of Breede'),('Breede','n.','Breadth.'),('Brede','n.','A braid.'),('Breech','n.','The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.'),('Breech','n.','Breeches.'),('Breech','n.','The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or\n   other firearm, behind the chamber.'),('Breech','n.','The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is\n   called the throat.'),('Breeched','imp. & p. p.','of Breech'),('Breeching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Breech'),('Breech','v. t.','To put into, or clothe with, breeches.'),('Breech','v. t.','To cover as with breeches.'),('Breech','v. t.','To fit or furnish with a breech; as, to breech a gun.'),('Breech','v. t.','To whip on the breech.'),('Breech','v. t.','To fasten with breeching.'),('Breechblock','n.','The movable piece which closes the breech of a\n   breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the\n   discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed\n   again before the gun is fired.'),('Breechcloth','n.','A cloth worn around the breech.'),('Breeches','n. pl.','A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs;\n   smallclothes.'),('Breeches','n. pl.','Trousers; pantaloons.'),('Breeching','n.','A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the\n   breech.'),('Breeching','n.','That part of a harness which passes round the breech of\n   a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.'),('Breeching','n.','A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and\n   secured to ringbolts in the ship\'s side, to limit the recoil of the gun\n   when it is discharged.'),('Breeching','n.','The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey\n   the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.'),('Breechloader','n.','A firearm which receives its load at the breech.'),('Breech-loading','a.','Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at\n   the muzzle.'),('Breech pin','','Alt. of Breech screw'),('Breech screw','','A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of\n   a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.'),('Breech sight','','A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide\n   the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.'),('Bred','imp. & p. p.','of Breed'),('Breeding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Breed'),('Breed','v. t.','To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to\n   procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.'),('Breed','v. t.','To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth;\n   to bring up; to nurse and foster.'),('Breed','v. t.','To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train;\n   -- sometimes followed by up.'),('Breed','v. t.','To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to\n   produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.'),('Breed','v. t.','To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond\n   breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.'),('Breed','v. t.','To raise, as any kind of stock.'),('Breed','v. t.','To produce or obtain by any natural process.'),('Breed','v. i.','To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply\n   itself; to be pregnant.'),('Breed','v. i.','To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to\n   grow, as young before birth.'),('Breed','v. i.','To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.'),('Breed','v. i.','To raise a breed; to get progeny.'),('Breed','n.','A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants),\n   perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.'),('Breed','n.','Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.'),('Breed','n.','A number produced at once; a brood.'),('Breedbate','n.','One who breeds or originates quarrels.'),('Breeder','n.','One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.'),('Breeder','n.','A cause.'),('Breeding','n.','The act or process of generating or bearing.'),('Breeding','n.','The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals;\n   as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.'),('Breeding','n.','Nurture; education; formation of manners.'),('Breeding','n.','Deportment or behavior in the external offices and\n   decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the\n   ceremonies, or polite observances of society.'),('Breeding','n.','Descent; pedigree; extraction.'),('Breeze','n.','Alt. of Breeze fly'),('Breeze fly','n.','A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae,\n   noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their\n   blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest\n   of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different\n   species of botflies.'),('Breeze','n.','A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.'),('Breeze','n.','An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of\n   excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a\n   breeze.'),('Breeze','n.','Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning\n   charcoal.'),('Breeze','n.','Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning\n   of bricks.'),('Breeze','v. i.','To blow gently.'),('Breezeless','a.','Motionless; destitute of breezes.'),('Breeziness','n.','State of being breezy.'),('Breezy','a.','Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy.'),('Breezy','a.','Fresh; brisk; full of life.'),('Bregma','n.','The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures\n   of the skull.'),('Bregmatic','a.','Pertaining to the bregma.'),('Brehon','n.','An ancient Irish or Scotch judge.'),('Breme','a.','Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel.'),('Breme','a.','Famous; renowned; well known.'),('Brent','imp. & p. p.','of Brenne'),('Brenning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brenne'),('Bren','v. t. & i.','Alt. of Brenne'),('Brenne','v. t. & i.','To burn.'),('Bren','n.','Bran.'),('Brennage','n.','A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of\n   bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.'),('Brenningly','adv.','Burningly; ardently.'),('Brent','a.','Alt. of Brant'),('Brant','a.','Steep; high.'),('Brant','a.','Smooth; unwrinkled.'),('Brent','imp. & p. p.','Burnt.'),('Brent','n.','A brant. See Brant.'),('Brequet chain','','A watch-guard.'),('Brere','n.','A brier.'),('Brest','3d sing.pr.','for Bursteth.'),('Brest','n.','Alt. of Breast'),('Breast','n.','A torus.'),('Brast','imp.','of Breste'),('Brusten','p. p.','of Breste'),('Borsten','','of Breste'),('Bursten','','of Breste'),('Breste','v. t. & i.','To burst.'),('Brestsummer','n.','See Breastsummer.'),('Bret','n.','See Birt.'),('Bretful','a.','Brimful.'),('Brethren','n.','pl. of Brother.'),('Breton','a.','Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.'),('Breton','n.','A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France;\n   also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican.'),('Brett','n.','Same as Britzska.'),('Brettices','pl. ','of Brettice'),('Brettice','n.','The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and\n   walls of coal mines. See Brattice.'),('Bretwalda','n.','The official title applied to that one of the\n   Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them\n   in their warfare against the British tribes.'),('Bretzel','n.','See Pretzel.'),('Breve','n.','A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or\n   four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was\n   formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a\n   line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much\n   used for choir service.'),('Breve','n.','Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.'),('Breve','n.','A curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short\n   quantity of a vowel.'),('Breve','n.','The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a\n   very short tail.'),('Brevet','n.','A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title,\n   or dignity. [French usage].'),('Brevet','n.','A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for\n   which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.'),('Brevetted','imp. & p. p.','of Brevet'),('Brevetting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brevet'),('Brevet','v. t.','To confer rank upon by brevet.'),('Brevet','a.','Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel;\n   a brevet commission.'),('Brevetcies','pl. ','of Brevetcy'),('Brevetcy','n.','The rank or condition of a brevet officer.'),('Breviaries','pl. ','of Breviary'),('Breviary','n.','An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or\n   summary.'),('Breviary','n.','A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers\n   of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical\n   hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth\n   hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.'),('Breviate','n.','A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.'),('Breviate','n.','A lawyer\'s brief.'),('Breviate','v. t.','To abbreviate.'),('Breviature','n.','An abbreviature; an abbreviation.'),('Brevier','n.','A size of type between bourgeois and minion.'),('Breviloquence','n.','A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.'),('Breviped','a.','Having short legs.'),('Breviped','n.','A breviped bird.'),('Brevipen','n.','A brevipennate bird.'),('Brevipennate','a.','Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly,\n   owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.'),('Brevirostral','a.','Alt. of Brevirostrate'),('Brevirostrate','a.','Short-billed; having a short beak.'),('Brevities','pl. ','of Brevity'),('Brevity','n.','Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity\n   of human life.'),('Brevity','n.','Contraction into few words; conciseness.'),('Brewed','imp. & p. p.','of Brew'),('Brewing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brew'),('Brew','v. t.','To boil or seethe; to cook.'),('Brew','v. t.','To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops,\n   or from other materials, by steeping, boiling, and fermentation.'),('Brew','v. t.','To prepare by steeping and mingling; to concoct.'),('Brew','v. t.','To foment or prepare, as by brewing; to contrive; to plot;\n   to concoct; to hatch; as, to brew mischief.'),('Brew','v. i.','To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of\n   brewing or making beer.'),('Brew','v. i.','To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or\n   gathering; as, a storm brews in the west.'),('Brew','n.','The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed.'),('Brewage','n.','Malt liquor; drink brewed.'),('Brewer','n.','One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt\n   liquors.'),('Brewery','n.','A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is\n   carried on.'),('Brewhouse','n.','A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.'),('Brewing','n.','The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed,\n   as beer and ale.'),('Brewing','n.','The quantity brewed at once.'),('Brewing','n.','A mixing together.'),('Brewing','n.','A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by\n   thick, dark clouds.'),('Brewis','n.','Broth or pottage.'),('Brewis','n.','Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or\n   water and butter.'),('Brewsterite','n.','A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic\n   crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia,\n   baryta, and strontia.'),('Brezilin','n.','See Brazilin.'),('Briar','n.','Same as Brier.'),('Briarean','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to\n   have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.'),('Bribable','a.','Capable of being bribed.'),('Bribe','n.','A gift begged; a present.'),('Bribe','n.','A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a\n   view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge,\n   witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust.'),('Bribe','n.','That which seduces; seduction; allurement.'),('Bribed','imp. & p. p.','of Bribe'),('Bribing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bribe'),('Bribe','v. t.','To rob or steal.'),('Bribe','v. t.','To give or promise a reward or consideration to (a judge,\n   juror, legislator, voter, or other person in a position of trust) with\n   a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct; to induce or\n   influence by a bribe; to give a bribe to.'),('Bribe','v. t.','To gain by a bribe; of induce as by a bribe.'),('Bribe','v. i.','To commit robbery or theft.'),('Bribe','v. i.','To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or\n   corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or\n   promise.'),('Bribeless','a.','Incapable of being bribed; free from bribes.'),('Briber','n.','A thief.'),('Briber','n.','One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices.'),('Briber','n.','That which bribes; a bribe.'),('Briberies','pl. ','of Bribery'),('Bribery','n.','Robbery; extortion.'),('Bribery','n.','The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of\n   influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt\n   inducements.'),('Bric-a brac','n.','Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art,\n   considered collectively.'),('Brick','n.','A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into\n   a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln,\n   or in a heap or stack called a clamp.'),('Brick','n.','Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material;\n   as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.'),('Brick','n.','Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a\n   penny brick (of bread).'),('Brick','n.','A good fellow; a merry person; as, you \'re a brick.'),('Bricked','imp. & p. p.','of Brick'),('Bricking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brick'),('Brick','v. t.','To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or\n   construct with bricks.'),('Brick','v. t.','To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing\n   plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and\n   pointing them.'),('Brickbat','n.','A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.'),('Brickkiln','n.','A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt;\n   or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to\n   receive the wood or fuel for burning them.'),('Bricklayer','n.','One whose occupation is to build with bricks.'),('Bricklaying','n.','The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by\n   cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying\n   bricks.'),('Brickle','a.','Brittle; easily broken.'),('Brickleness','n.','Brittleness.'),('Brickmaker','n.','One whose occupation is to make bricks.'),('Brickwork','n.','Anything made of bricks.'),('Brickwork','n.','The act of building with or laying bricks.'),('Bricky','a.','Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or\n   brick dust.'),('Brickyard','n.','A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed\n   place.'),('Bricole','n.','A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag\n   and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.'),('Brid','n.','A bird.'),('Bridal','n.','Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as,\n   bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.'),('Bridal','n.','A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.'),('Bridalty','n.','Celebration of the nuptial feast.'),('Bride','n.','A woman newly married, or about to be married.'),('Bride','n.','Fig.: An object ardently loved.'),('Bride','v. t.','To make a bride of.'),('Bride-ale','n.','A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale.'),('Bridebed','n.','The marriage bed.'),('Bridecake','n.','Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the\n   guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding.'),('Bridechamber','n.','The nuptial apartment.'),('Bridegroom','n.','A man newly married, or just about to be married.'),('Brideknot','n.','A knot of ribbons worn by a guest at a wedding; a\n   wedding favor.'),('Bridemaid','n.','Alt. of Brideman'),('Brideman','n.','See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.'),('Bridesmaid','n.','A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.'),('Bridesmen','pl. ','of Bridesman'),('Bridesman','n.','A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at\n   their marriage; the \"best man.\"'),('Bridestake','n.','A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a\n   wedding to dance round.'),('Bridewell','n.','A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly\n   persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride\'s\n   (or Bridget\'s) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal\n   workhouse.'),('Bridge','n.','A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron,\n   erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad,\n   etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.'),('Bridge','n.','Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some\n   other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving,\n   watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which\n   something passes or is conveyed.'),('Bridge','n.','The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a\n   violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their\n   vibrations to the body of the instrument.'),('Bridge','n.','A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other\n   conductor forming part of an electric circuit.'),('Bridge','n.','A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a\n   furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.'),('Bridged','imp. & p. p.','of Bridge'),('Bridging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bridge'),('Bridge','v. t.','To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a\n   river.'),('Bridge','v. t.','To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.'),('Bridge','v. t.','To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; --\n   generally with over.'),('Bridgeboard','n.','A notched board to which the treads and risers of the\n   steps of wooden stairs are fastened.'),('Bridgeboard','n.','A board or plank used as a bridge.'),('Bridgehead','n.','A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge\n   nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the\n   bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont.'),('Bridgeless','a.','Having no bridge; not bridged.'),('Bridgepot','n.','The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle.'),('Bridgetree','n.','The beam which supports the spindle socket of the\n   runner in a grinding mill.'),('Bridge-ward','n.','A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.'),('Bridge-ward','n.','The principal ward of a key.'),('Bridgeing','n.','The system of bracing used between floor or other\n   timbers to distribute the weight.'),('Bridgey','a.','Full of bridges.'),('Bridle','n.','The head gear with which a horse is governed and\n   restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other\n   appendages.'),('Bridle','n.','A restraint; a curb; a check.'),('Bridle','n.','The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in\n   place the tumbler, sear, etc.'),('Bridle','n.','A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so\n   that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.'),('Bridle','n.','A mooring hawser.'),('Bridled','imp. & p. p.','of Bridle'),('Bridling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bridle'),('Bridle','v. t.','To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to\n   bridle a horse.'),('Bridle','v. t.','To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a\n   bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to\n   bridle a muse.'),('Bridle','v. i.','To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an\n   expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; --\n   usually with up.'),('Bridle iron','','A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in\n   a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing\n   can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.'),('Bridler','n.','One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a\n   bridle.'),('Bridoon','n.','The snaffle and rein of a military bridle, which acts\n   independently of the bit, at the pleasure of the rider. It is used in\n   connection with a curb bit, which has its own rein.'),('Brief','a.','Short in duration.'),('Brief','a.','Concise; terse; succinct.'),('Brief','a.','Rife; common; prevalent.'),('Brief','adv.','Briefly.'),('Brief','adv.','Soon; quickly.'),('Brief','a.','A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.'),('Brief','a.','An epitome.'),('Brief','a.','An abridgment or concise statement of a client\'s case, made\n   out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is\n   applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.'),('Brief','a.','A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.'),('Brief','n.','A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge\n   ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to\n   inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.'),('Brief','n.','A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a\n   collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any\n   public or private purpose.'),('Brief','v. t.','To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to\n   brief pleadings.'),('Briefless','a.','Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless\n   barrister.'),('Briefly','adv.','Concisely; in few words.'),('Briefman','n.','One who makes a brief.'),('Briefman','n.','A copier of a manuscript.'),('Briefness','n.','The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in\n   discourse or writing.'),('Brier','n.','Alt. of Briar'),('Briar','n.','A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles;\n   especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.'),('Briar','n.','Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.'),('Briered','a.','Set with briers.'),('Briery','a.','Full of briers; thorny.'),('Briery','n.','A place where briers grow.'),('Brig','n.','A bridge.'),('Brig','n.','A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.'),('Brigade','n.','A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or\n   mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a\n   brigadier general.'),('Brigade','n.','Any body of persons organized for acting or marching\n   together under authority; as, a fire brigade.'),('Brigaded','imp. & p. p.','of Brigade'),('Brigading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brigade'),('Brigade','v. t.','To form into a brigade, or into brigades.'),('Brigadier general','','An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below\n   a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a\n   shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.'),('Brigand','n.','A light-armed, irregular foot soldier.'),('Brigand','n.','A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of\n   robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a\n   highwayman; a freebooter.'),('Brigandage','n.','Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery;\n   plunder.'),('Brigandine','n.','A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or\n   plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed\n   to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.'),('Brigandish','a.','Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.'),('Brigandism','n.','Brigandage.'),('Brigantine','n.','A practical vessel.'),('Brigantine','n.','A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a\n   brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.'),('Brigantine','n.','See Brigandine.'),('Brigge','n.','A bridge.'),('Bright','v. i.','See Brite, v. i.'),('Bright','a.','Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much\n   light; shining; luminous; not dark.'),('Bright','a.','Transmitting light; clear; transparent.'),('Bright','a.','Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or\n   that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms;\n   as, bright beauty.'),('Bright','a.','Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.'),('Bright','a.','Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding\n   cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.'),('Bright','a.','Illustrious; glorious.'),('Bright','a.','Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear;\n   evident; plain.'),('Bright','a.','Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.'),('Bright','n.','Splendor; brightness.'),('Bright','adv.','Brightly.'),('Brightened','imp. & p. p.','of Brighten'),('Brightening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brighten'),('Brighten','a.','To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase\n   the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.'),('Brighten','a.','To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster\n   or splendor to.'),('Brighten','a.','To improve or relieve by dispelling gloom or removing\n   that which obscures and darkens; to shed light upon; to make cheerful;\n   as, to brighten one\'s prospects.'),('Brighten','a.','To make acute or witty; to enliven.'),('Brighten','v. i.','To grow bright, or more bright; to become less dark or\n   gloomy; to clear up; to become bright or cheerful.'),('Bright-harnessed','a.','Having glittering armor.'),('Brightly','adv.','Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly\n   shining armor.'),('Brightly','adv.','With lively intelligence; intelligently.'),('Brightness','n.','The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster;\n   brilliancy; clearness.'),('Brightness','n.','Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.'),('Bright\'s disease','','An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory\n   in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal\n   casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright\'s disease are now\n   recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the\n   intensity and course of the morbid process.'),('Brightsome','a.','Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant.'),('Brigose','n.','Contentious; quarrelsome.'),('Brigue','n.','A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel.'),('Brigue','n.','To contend for; to canvass; to solicit.'),('Brike','n.','A breach; ruin; downfall; peril.'),('Brill','n.','A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed\n   in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.'),('Brillante','a.','In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.'),('Brillance','n.','Brilliancy.'),('Brillancy','n.','The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great\n   brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense.'),('Brilliant','p. pr.','Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as,\n   a brilliant star.'),('Brilliant','p. pr.','Distinguished by qualities which excite admiration;\n   splendid; shining; as, brilliant talents.'),('Brilliant','a.','A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into\n   faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it\n   is rendered more brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal\n   face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping\n   facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel\n   to the table, connected with the girdle by a pavilion of elongated\n   facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is\n   entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below.'),('Brilliant','a.','The smallest size of type used in England printing.'),('Brilliant','a.','A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.'),('Brilliantly','adv.','In a brilliant manner.'),('Brilliantness','n.','Brilliancy; splendor; glitter.'),('Brills','n. pl.','The hair on the eyelids of a horse.'),('Brim','n.','The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow\n   vessel used for holding anything.'),('Brim','n.','The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water\n   contained in it; the brink; border.'),('Brim','n.','The rim of a hat.'),('Brimmed','imp. & p. p.','of Brim'),('Brimming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brim'),('Brim','v. i.','To be full to the brim.'),('Brim','v. t.','To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.'),('Brim','a.','Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.'),('Brimful','a.','Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.'),('Brimless','a.','Having no brim; as, brimless caps.'),('Brimmed','a.','Having a brim; -- usually in composition.'),('Brimmed','a.','Full to, or level with, the brim.'),('Brimmer','n.','A brimful bowl; a bumper.'),('Brimming','a.','Full to the brim; overflowing.'),('Brimstone','v. t.','Sulphur; See Sulphur.'),('Brimstone','a.','Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone\n   matches.'),('Brimstony','a.','Containing or resembling brimstone; sulphurous.'),('Brin','n.','One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are\n   larger and longer, and are called panaches.'),('Brinded','a.','Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue;\n   streaked; brindled.'),('Brindle','n.','The state of being brindled.'),('Brindle','n.','A brindled color; also, that which is brindled.'),('Brindle','a.','Brindled.'),('Brindled','a.','Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground;\n   brinded.'),('Brine','n.','Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle;\n   hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong\n   mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial\n   waters.'),('Brine','n.','The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.'),('Brine','n.','Tears; -- so called from their saltness.'),('Brine','v. t.','To steep or saturate in brine.'),('Brine','v. t.','To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.'),('Brought','imp. & p. p.','of Bring'),('Bringing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bring'),('Bring','v. t.','To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be;\n   to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.'),('Bring','v. t.','To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to\n   make to come; to produce; to draw to.'),('Bring','v. t.','To convey; to move; to carry or conduct.'),('Bring','v. t.','To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.'),('Bring','v. t.','To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what\n   does coal bring per ton?'),('Bringer','n.','One who brings.'),('Brininess','n.','The state or quality of being briny; saltness;\n   brinishness.'),('Brinish','a.','Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish.'),('Brinishness','n.','State or quality of being brinish.'),('Brinjaree','n.','A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.'),('Brink','n.','The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a\n   precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as,\n   the brink of a chasm. Also Fig.'),('Briny','a.','Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the\n   nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.'),('Briony','n.','See Bryony.'),('Brisk','a.','Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness\n   of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.'),('Brisk','a.','Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling;\n   as, brick cider.'),('Bricked','imp. & p. p.','of Brisk'),('Bricking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brisk'),('Brisk','v. t. & i.','To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to\n   take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.'),('Brisket','n.','That part of the breast of an animal which extends from\n   the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a\n   horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.'),('Briskly','adv.','In a brisk manner; nimbly.'),('Briskness','n.','Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety;\n   vivacity; effervescence.'),('Bristle','n.','A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.'),('Bristle','n.','A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.'),('Bristled','imp. & p. p.','of Bristle'),('Bristling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bristle'),('Bristle','v. t.','To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the\n   bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.'),('Bristle','v. t.','To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.'),('Bristle','v. i.','To rise or stand erect, like bristles.'),('Bristle','v. i.','To appear as if covered with bristles; to have\n   standing, thick and erect, like bristles.'),('Bristle','v. i.','To show defiance or indignation.'),('Bristle-pointed','a.','Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some\n   leaves.'),('Bristle-shaped','a.','Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped\n   leaf.'),('Bristletail','n.','An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc.,\n   belonging to the Thysanura.'),('Bristliness','n.','The quality or state of having bristles.'),('Bristly','a.','Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling\n   bristles; rough.'),('Bristol','n.','A seaport city in the west of England.'),('Brisure','n.','Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the\n   general direction.'),('Brisure','n.','A mark of cadency or difference.'),('Brit','n.','Alt. of Britt'),('Britt','n.','The young of the common herring; also, a small species of\n   herring; the sprat.'),('Britt','n.','The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which\n   the right whales feed.'),('Britannia','n.','A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper,\n   etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and is used for table ware. Called\n   also Britannia metal.'),('Britannic','a.','Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her\n   Britannic Majesty.'),('Brite','v. t.','Alt. of Bright'),('Bright','v. t.','To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.'),('Briticism','n.','A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any\n   manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain.'),('British','a.','Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants;\n   -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.'),('British','n. pl.','People of Great Britain.'),('Britisher','n.','An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain,\n   esp. one in the British military or naval service.'),('Briton','a.','British.'),('Briton','n.','A native of Great Britain.'),('Brittle','a.','Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or\n   tenacious.'),('Brittlely','adv.','In a brittle manner.'),('Brittleness','n.','Aptness to break; fragility.'),('Brittle star','','Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.'),('Britzska','n.','A long carriage, with a calash top, so constructed as to\n   give space for reclining at night, when used on a journey.'),('Brize','n.','The breeze fly. See Breeze.'),('Broach','n.','A spit.'),('Broach','n.','An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at\n   each end, used by thatchers.'),('Broach','n.','A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal\n   form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging\n   holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for\n   burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels\n   is commonly square and without taper.'),('Broach','n.','A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be\n   pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by\n   revolving tools; a drift.'),('Broach','n.','A broad chisel for stonecutting.'),('Broach','n.','A spire rising from a tower.'),('Broach','n.','A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.'),('Broach','n.','A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.'),('Broach','n.','The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for\n   dipping.'),('Broach','n.','The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.'),('Broached','imp. & p. p.','of Broach'),('Broaching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Broach'),('Broach','n.','To spit; to pierce as with a spit.'),('Broach','n.','To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor.\n   Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.'),('Broach','n.','To open for the first time, as stores.'),('Broach','n.','To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth;\n   to introduce as a topic of conversation.'),('Broach','n.','To cause to begin or break out.'),('Broach','n.','To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a\n   coarse tool.'),('Broach','n.','To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.'),('Broacher','n.','A spit; a broach.'),('Broacher','n.','One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or\n   promoter.'),('Broad','superl.','Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; --\n   opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.'),('Broad','superl.','Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad\n   expanse of ocean.'),('Broad','superl.','Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.'),('Broad','superl.','Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality;\n   not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining\n   the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending\n   largely on the substantive.'),('Broad','superl.','Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.'),('Broad','superl.','Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.'),('Broad','superl.','Free; unrestrained; unconfined.'),('Broad','superl.','Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.'),('Broad','superl.','Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a\n   broad joke; broad humor.'),('Broad','superl.','Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.'),('Broad','n.','The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.'),('Broad','n.','The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.'),('Broad','n.','A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of\n   cylinders.'),('Broadax Broadaxe','n.','An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.'),('Broadax Broadaxe','n.','An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.'),('Broadbill','n.','A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears\n   in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn;\n   -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See\n   Scaup duck.'),('Broadbill','n.','The shoveler. See Shoveler.'),('Broadbrim','n.','A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of\n   the society of Friends.'),('Broadbrim','n.','A member of the society of Friends; a Quaker.'),('Broad-brimmed','a.','Having a broad brim.'),('Broadcast','n.','A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from\n   the hand in sowing.'),('Broadcast','a.','Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the\n   hand in sowing; widely diffused.'),('Broadcast','a.','Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); --\n   opposed to planting in hills, or rows.'),('Broadcast','adv.','So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so\n   as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the\n   press.'),('Broad Church','','A portion of the Church of England, consisting of\n   persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and\n   fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low\n   Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to other\n   bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian\n   doctrine and fellowship.'),('Broadcloth','n.','A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men\'s garments,\n   usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in\n   distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.'),('Broadened','imp. & p. p.','of Broaden'),('Broadening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Broaden'),('Broaden','a.','To grow broad; to become broader or wider.'),('Broaden','v. t.','To make broad or broader; to render more broad or\n   comprehensive.'),('Broad gauge','','A wider distance between the rails than the \"standard\"\n   gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge.'),('Broad-horned','a.','Having horns spreading widely.'),('Broadish','a.','Rather broad; moderately broad.'),('Broadleaf','n.','A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of\n   which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called\n   the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.'),('Broad-leaved','a.','Alt. of Broad-leafed'),('Broad-leafed','a.','Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves.'),('Broadly','adv.','In a broad manner.'),('Broadmouth','n.','One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian\n   passerine birds.'),('Broadness','n.','The condition or quality of being broad; breadth;\n   coarseness; grossness.'),('Broadpiece','n.','An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a\n   Carolus or Jacobus.'),('Broad seal','','The great seal of England; the public seal of a country\n   or state.'),('Broadseal','v. t.','To stamp with the broad seal; to make sure; to\n   guarantee or warrant.'),('Broadside','n.','The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to\n   the quarter.'),('Broadside','n.','A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a\n   ship, at the same time.'),('Broadside','n.','A volley of abuse or denunciation.'),('Broadside','n.','A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed\n   on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.'),('Broadspread','a.','Widespread.'),('Broadspreading','a.','Spreading widely.'),('Broadsword','n.','A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a\n   claymore.'),('Broadwise','adv.','Breadthwise.'),('Brob','n.','A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end\n   of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.'),('Brobdingnagian','a.','Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.'),('Brobdingnagian','n.','A giant.'),('Brocade','n.','Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or\n   ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other\n   stuffs thus wrought and enriched.'),('Brocaded','a.','Woven or worked, as brocade, with gold and silver, or\n   with raised flowers, etc.'),('Brocaded','a.','Dressed in brocade.'),('Brocage','n.','See Brokkerage.'),('Brocard','n.','An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial\n   rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics.'),('Brocatel','n.','A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly\n   for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.'),('Brocatel','n.','A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow,\n   and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena\n   marble, from its locality.'),('Brocatello','n.','Same as Brocatel.'),('Broccoli','n.','A plant of the Cabbage species (Brassica oleracea) of\n   many varieties, resembling the cauliflower. The \"curd,\" or flowering\n   head, is the part used for food.'),('Brochantite','n.','A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green\n   crystals.'),('Broche','a.','Woven with a figure; as, broche goods.'),('Broche','n.','See Broach, n.'),('Brochure','v. t.','A printed and stitched book containing only a few\n   leaves; a pamphlet.'),('Brock','n.','A badger.'),('Brock','n.','A brocket.'),('Brocket','n.','A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.'),('Brocket','n.','A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus\n   superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus).'),('Brockish','a.','Beastly; brutal.'),('Brodekin','n.','A buskin or half-boot.'),('Brog','n.','A pointed instrument, as a joiner\'s awl, a brad awl, a\n   needle, or a small sharp stick.'),('Brog','v. t.','To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to\n   broggle.'),('Brogan','n.','A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.'),('Broggle','n.','To sniggle, or fish with a brog.'),('Brogue','n.','A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.'),('Brogue','v. t.','A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of\n   pronouncing English.'),('Brogues','n. pl.','Breeches.'),('Broid','v. t.','To braid.'),('Broidered','imp. & p. p.','of Broider'),('Broider','v. t.','To embroider.'),('Broiderer','n.','One who embroiders.'),('Broidery','n.','Embroidery.'),('Broil','n.','A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl;\n   contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.'),('Broiled','imp. & p. p.','of Broil'),('Broiling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Broil'),('Broil','v. t.','To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon\n   a gridiron over coals.'),('Broil','v. t.','To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.'),('Broil','v. i.','To be subjected to the action of heat, as meat over the\n   fire; to be greatly heated, or to be made uncomfortable with heat.'),('Broiler','n.','One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes\n   noisy quarrels.'),('Broiler','n.','One who broils, or cooks by broiling.'),('Broiler','n.','A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling.'),('Broiler','n.','A chicken or other bird fit for broiling.'),('Broiling','a.','Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun.'),('Broiling','n.','The act of causing anything to broil.'),('Brokage','n.','See Brokerage.'),('Broke','v. i.','To transact business for another.'),('Broke','v. i.','To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.'),('Broke','','imp. & p. p. of Break.'),('Broken','v. t.','Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into\n   fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish.'),('Broken','v. t.','Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a\n   broken surface.'),('Broken','v. t.','Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;\n   apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.'),('Broken','v. t.','Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships.'),('Broken','v. t.','Subdued; humbled; contrite.'),('Broken','v. t.','Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.'),('Broken','v. t.','Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope;\n   blighted.'),('Broken','v. t.','Not carried into effect; not adhered to; violated; as, a\n   broken promise, vow, or contract; a broken law.'),('Broken','v. t.','Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises\n   made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken\n   tradesman.'),('Broken','v. t.','Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken\n   English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few\n   broken words at parting.'),('Broken-backed','a.','Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.'),('Broken-backed','a.','Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each\n   end; -- said of a ship.'),('Broken-bellied','a.','Having a ruptured belly.'),('Broken-hearted','a.','Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or\n   despair.'),('Brokenly','adv.','In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in\n   broken language.'),('Brokenness','n.','The state or quality of being broken; unevenness.'),('Brokenness','n.','Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.'),('Broken wind','','The heaves.'),('Broken-winded','a.','Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a\n   horse.'),('Broker','v. t.','One who transacts business for another; an agent.'),('Broker','v. t.','An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a\n   middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation\n   commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the\n   subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names\n   of those who employ him, and not in his own.'),('Broker','v. t.','A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.'),('Broker','v. t.','A dealer in secondhand goods.'),('Broker','v. t.','A pimp or procurer.'),('Brokerage','n.','The business or employment of a broker.'),('Brokerage','n.','The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for\n   transacting business as a broker.'),('Brokerly','a.','Mean; servile.'),('Brokery','n.','The business of a broker.'),('Broking','a.','Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage.'),('Broma','n.','Aliment; food.'),('Broma','n.','A light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made\n   from it.'),('Bromal','n.','An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform,\n   as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on\n   alcohol.'),('Bromate','n.','A salt of bromic acid.'),('Bromate','v. t.','To combine or impregnate with bromine; as, bromated\n   camphor.'),('Bromatologist','n.','One versed in the science of foods.'),('Bromatology','n.','The science of aliments.'),('Brome','n.','See Bromine.'),('Brome grass','','A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the\n   chess or cheat.'),('Bromeliaceous','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, a family of endogenous\n   and mostly epiphytic or saxicolous plants of which the genera\n   Tillandsia and Billbergia are examples. The pineapple, though\n   terrestrial, is also of this family.'),('Bromic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those\n   compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or\n   the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.'),('Bromide','n.','A compound of bromine with a positive radical.'),('Brominate','v. t.','See Bromate, v. t.'),('Bromine','n.','One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to\n   chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep\n   reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish\n   vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute\n   quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in\n   the mineral bromyrite.'),('Bromism','n.','A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of\n   bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness\n   and muscular weakness.'),('Bromize','v. t.','To prepare or treat with bromine; as, to bromize a\n   silvered plate.'),('Bromlife','n.','A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between\n   witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.'),('Bromoform','n.','A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and\n   sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine\n   and caustic potash upon wood spirit, alcohol, or acetone, as also by\n   certain other reactions. In composition it is the same as chloroform,\n   with the substitution of bromine for chlorine. It is somewhat similar\n   to chloroform in its effects.'),('Brompicrin','n.','A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3,\n   analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin.'),('Bromuret','n.','See Bromide.'),('Bromyrite','n.','Silver bromide, a rare mineral; -- called also\n   bromargyrite.'),('Bronchi','n. pl.','See Bronchus.'),('Bronchia','n. pl.','The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of\n   the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.'),('Bronchial','a.','Belonging to the bronchi and their ramifications in the\n   lungs.'),('Bronchic','a.','Bronchial.'),('Bronchiole','n.','A minute bronchial tube.'),('Bronchitic','a.','Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic\n   inflammation.'),('Bronchitis','n.','Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes\n   or any part of them.'),('Broncho','n.','A native or a Mexican horse of small size.'),('Bronchocele','n.','See Goiter.'),('Bronchophony','n.','A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are\n   intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the\n   chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.'),('Broncho-pneumonia','n.','Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal\n   pneumonia.'),('Bronchotome','n.','An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.'),('Bronchotomy','n.','An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the\n   operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.'),('Bronchi','pl. ','of Bronchus'),('Bronchus','n.','One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp.\n   one of the two primary divisions.'),('Bronco','n.','Same as Broncho.'),('Brond','n.','A sword.'),('Brontolite','n.','Alt. of Brontolith'),('Brontolith','n.','An aerolite.'),('Brontology','n.','A treatise upon thunder.'),('Brontosaurus','n.','A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of\n   sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.'),('Brontotherium','n.','A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene\n   strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros,\n   but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the\n   orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.'),('Brontozoum','n.','An extinct animal of large size, known from its\n   three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.'),('Bronze','a.','An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of\n   other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and\n   sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions\n   of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The\n   varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in\n   bell metal and speculum metal.'),('Bronze','a.','A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.'),('Bronze','a.','A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a\n   pigment or powder for imitating bronze.'),('Bronze','a.','Boldness; impudence; \"brass.\"'),('Bronzed','imp. & p. p.','of Bronze'),('Bronzing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bronze'),('Bronze','n.','To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze\n   powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to\n   bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.'),('Bronze','n.','To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.'),('Bronzewing','n.','An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several\n   species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.'),('Bronzine','n.','A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze.'),('Bronzine','a.','Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.'),('Bronzing','n.','The act or art of communicating to articles in metal,\n   wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze\n   powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.'),('Bronzing','n.','A material for bronzing.'),('Bronzist','n.','One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.'),('Bronzite','n.','A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster.\n   It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.'),('Bronzy','a.','Like bronze.'),('Brooch','n.','An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop\n   for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a\n   breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.'),('Brooch','n.','A painting all of one color, as a sepia painting, or an\n   India painting.'),('Brooch','imp. & p. p.','To adorn as with a brooch.'),('Brood','v. t.','The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood\n   of chickens.'),('Brood','v. t.','The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same\n   time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of\n   the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.'),('Brood','v. t.','That which is bred or produced; breed; species.'),('Brood','v. t.','Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.'),('Brood','a.','Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.'),('Brood','a.','Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock;\n   having young; as, a brood sow.'),('Brooded','imp. & p. p.','of Brood'),('Brooding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brood'),('Brood','v. i.','To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of\n   warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as\n   a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit\n   quietly, as if brooding.'),('Brood','v. i.','To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a\n   subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy,\n   serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over\n   misfortunes.'),('Brood','v. t.','To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her\n   chickens.'),('Brood','v. t.','To cherish with care.'),('Brood','v. t.','To think anxiously or moodily upon.'),('Broody','a.','Inclined to brood.'),('Brook','v. t.','A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.'),('Brooked','imp. & p. p.','of Brook'),('Brooking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brook'),('Brook','v. t.','To use; to enjoy.'),('Brook','v. t.','To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as,\n   young men can not brook restraint.'),('Brook','v. t.','To deserve; to earn.'),('Brookite','n.','A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence\n   identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing\n   in the orthorhombic system.'),('Brooklet','n.','A small brook.'),('Brooklime','n.','A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually\n   blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is V. Americana.'),('Brook mint','','See Water mint.'),('Brookside','n.','The bank of a brook.'),('Brookweed','n.','A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found\n   usually in wet places; water pimpernel.'),('Broom','n.','A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep\n   with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western\n   Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular\n   branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.'),('Broom','n.','An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the\n   panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long\n   wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the\n   broom.'),('Broom','v. t.','See Bream.'),('Broom corn','','A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like\n   maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds\n   on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.'),('Broom rape','','A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and\n   Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves,\n   and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as\n   furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to\n   other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand A.\n   Ludovicianum.'),('Broomstaff','n.','A broomstick.'),('Broomstick','n.','A stick used as a handle of a broom.'),('Broomy','a.','Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom;\n   resembling broom or a broom.'),('Brose','n.','Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp.\n   oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc.,\n   according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.'),('Brotel','a.','Brittle.'),('Brotelness','n.','Brittleness.'),('Broth','n.','Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as\n   barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.'),('Brothel','n.','A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by\n   prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.'),('Brotheler','n.','One who frequents brothels.'),('Brothelry','n.','Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel.'),('Brothers','pl. ','of Brother'),('Brethren','pl. ','of Brother'),('Brothers','pl. ','of Brother'),('Brethren','pl. ','of Brother'),('Brother','n.','A male person who has the same father and mother with\n   another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is\n   more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.'),('Brother','n.','One related or closely united to another by some common\n   tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil,\n   suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians,\n   lawyers, professors of religion, etc.'),('Brother','n.','One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive\n   qualities or traits of character.'),('Brothered','imp. & p. p.','of Brother'),('Brother','v. t.','To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to\n   admit to a brotherhood.'),('Brother german','','A brother by both the father\'s and mother\'s side, in\n   contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.'),('Brotherhood','n.','The state of being brothers or a brother.'),('Brotherhood','n.','An association for any purpose, as a society of monks;\n   a fraternity.'),('Brotherhood','n.','The whole body of persons engaged in the same\n   business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or\n   medical brotherhood.'),('Brotherhood','n.','Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.'),('Brothers-in-law','pl. ','of Brother-in-law'),('Brother-in-law','n.','The brother of one\'s husband or wife; also, the\n   husband of one\'s sister; sometimes, the husband of one\'s wife\'s sister.'),('Brotherliness','n.','The state or quality of being brotherly.'),('Brotherly','a.','Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for\n   brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.'),('Brotherly','adv.','Like a brother; affectionately; kindly.'),('Brouded','p.a.','Braided; broidered.'),('Brougham','n.','A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or\n   four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.'),('Brow','n.','The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers\n   it, forming an arch above the orbit.'),('Brow','n.','The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the\n   eyebrow.'),('Brow','n.','The forehead; as, a feverish brow.'),('Brow','n.','The general air of the countenance.'),('Brow','n.','The edge or projecting upper part of a steep place; as, the\n   brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill.'),('Brow','v. t.','To bound to limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.'),('Browbeat','imp.','of Browbeat'),('Browbeaten','p. p.','of Browbeat'),('Browbeating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Browbeat'),('Browbeat','v. t.','To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or\n   with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by\n   impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat\n   witnesses.'),('Browbeating','n.','The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting,\n   with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions.'),('Browbound','a.','Crowned; having the head encircled as with a diadem.'),('Browdyng','n.','Embroidery.'),('Browed','a.','Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as,\n   dark-browed, stern-browed.'),('Browless','a.','Without shame.'),('Brown','superl.','Of a dark color, of various shades between black and\n   red or yellow.'),('Brown','n.','A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the\n   mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky\n   hue.'),('Browned','imp. & p. p.','of Brown'),('Browning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brown'),('Brown','v. t.','To make brown or dusky.'),('Brown','v. t.','To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or\n   flour.'),('Brown','v. t.','To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by\n   forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.'),('Brown','v. i.','To become brown.'),('Brownback','n.','The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.'),('Brown bill','','A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th\n   Bill.'),('Brownian','a.','Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated\n   (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below.'),('Brownie','n.','An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often\n   to perform important services around the house by night, such as\n   thrashing, churning, sweeping.'),('Browning','n.','The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun\n   barrels, etc.'),('Browning','n.','A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat,\n   and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.'),('Brownish','a.','Somewhat brown.'),('Brownism','n.','The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.'),('Brownism','n.','The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See\n   Brunonian.'),('Brownist','n.','A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th\n   century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in\n   itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place,\n   having full power to elect and depose its officers.'),('Brownist','n.','One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine.'),('Brownness','n.','The quality or state of being brown.'),('Brownstone','n.','A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building\n   purposes.'),('Brown thrush','','A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus),\n   allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.'),('Brownwort','n.','A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and\n   other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous\n   coarse flowers.'),('Browny','a.','Brown or, somewhat brown.'),('Browpost','n.','A beam that goes across a building.'),('Browse','n.','The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for\n   the food of cattle and other animals; green food.'),('Browsed','imp. & p. p.','of Browse'),('Browsing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Browse'),('Browse','n.','To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees,\n   shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.'),('Browse','n.','To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.'),('Browse','v. i.','To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or\n   trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.'),('Browse','v. i.','To pasture; to feed; to nibble.'),('Browser','n.','An animal that browses.'),('Browsewood','n.','Shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse.'),('Browsing','n.','Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals\n   may browse.'),('Browspot','n.','A rounded organ between the eyes of the frog; the\n   interocular gland.'),('Bruang','n.','The Malayan sun bear.'),('Brucine','n.','A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with\n   strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially\n   in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also\n   brucia and brucina.'),('Brucite','n.','A white, pearly mineral, occurring thin and foliated, like\n   talc, and also fibrous; a native magnesium hydrate.'),('Brucite','n.','The mineral chondrodite.'),('Bruckeled','a.','Wet and dirty; begrimed.'),('Bruh','n.','The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.'),('Bruin','a.','A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.'),('Bruised','imp. & p. p.','of Bruise'),('Bruising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bruise'),('Bruise','v. t.','To injure, as by a blow or collision, without\n   laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one\'s finger with a hammer; to\n   bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting\n   it fall.'),('Bruise','v. t.','To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots,\n   etc.; to crush.'),('Bruise','v. i.','To fight with the fists; to box.'),('Bruise','n.','An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit,\n   etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other\n   body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.'),('Bruiser','n.','One who, or that which, bruises.'),('Bruiser','n.','A boxer; a pugilist.'),('Bruiser','n.','A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of\n   telescopes.'),('Bruisewort','n.','A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy,\n   the soapwort, and the comfrey.'),('Bruit','n.','Report; rumor; fame.'),('Bruit','n.','An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.'),('Bruited','imp. & p. p.','of Bruit'),('Bruiting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bruit'),('Bruit','v. t.','To report; to noise abroad.'),('Brumaire','n.','The second month of the calendar adopted by the first\n   French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See\n   Vendemiaire.'),('Brumal','a.','Of or pertaining to winter.'),('Brume','n.','Mist; fog; vapors.'),('Brummagem','a.','Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.'),('Brumous','a.','Foggy; misty.'),('Brun','n.','Same as Brun, a brook.'),('Brunette','a.','A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.'),('Brunette','a.','Having a dark tint.'),('Brunion','n.','A nectarine.'),('Brunonian','a.','Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied\n   to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown,\n   of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a\n   state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents\n   upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of\n   excitation.'),('Brunswick black','','See Japan black.'),('Brunswick green','','An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment;\n   also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.'),('Brunt','v. t.','The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength\n   or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.'),('Brunt','v. t.','The force of a blow; shock; collision.'),('Brush','n.','An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material,\n   set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used\n   for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on\n   colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their\n   use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.'),('Brush','n.','The bushy tail of a fox.'),('Brush','n.','A tuft of hair on the mandibles.'),('Brush','n.','Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.'),('Brush','n.','A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small\n   trees in a wood; underbrush.'),('Brush','n.','A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to\n   conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo,\n   electric motor, or similar apparatus.'),('Brush','n.','The act of brushing; as, to give one\'s clothes a brush; a\n   rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a\n   brush from the wheel as it passed.'),('Brush','n.','A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to\n   have a brush with an enemy.'),('Brush','n.','A short contest, or trial, of speed.'),('Brushed','imp. & p. p.','of Brush'),('Brushing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brush'),('Brush','n.','To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to\n   rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.'),('Brush','n.','To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a\n   brush.'),('Brush','n.','To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of\n   brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; -- commonly with off.'),('Brush','v. i.','To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely\n   to be perceived; as, to brush by.'),('Brusher','n.','One who, or that which, brushes.'),('Brushiness','n.','The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition;\n   shagginess.'),('Brushing','a.','Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.'),('Brushing','a.','Brisk; light; as, a brushing gallop.'),('Brushite','n.','A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the\n   acid phosphate of calcium.'),('Brush turkey','','A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia\n   (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidae. Also applied to several\n   allied species of New Guinea.'),('Brush wheel','','A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the\n   friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the\n   circumference.'),('Brush wheel','','A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries,\n   silversmiths, etc., for polishing.'),('Brushwood','n.','Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.'),('Brushwood','n.','Small branches of trees cut off.'),('Brushy','a.','Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.'),('Brusk','a.','Same as Brusque.'),('Brusque','a.','Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a\n   brusque man; a brusque style.'),('Brusqueness','n.','Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with\n   promptness; bluntness.'),('Brussels','n.','A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a\n   kind of lace, etc.'),('Brustled','imp. & p. p.','of Brustle'),('Brustling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brustle'),('Brustle','v. i.','To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.'),('Brustle','v. i.','To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.'),('Brustle','n.','A bristle.'),('Brut','n.','To browse.'),('Brut','n.','See Birt.'),('Bruta','n.','See Edentata.'),('Brutal','a.','Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature.'),('Brutal','a.','Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling;\n   merciless; gross; as, brutal manners.'),('Brutalism','n.','Brutish quality; brutality.'),('Brutalities','pl. ','of Brutality'),('Brutality','n.','The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness;\n   pitilessness.'),('Brutality','n.','An inhuman act.'),('Brutalization','n.','The act or process of making brutal; state of being\n   brutalized.'),('Brutalized','imp. & p. p.','of Brutalize'),('Brutalizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brutalize'),('Brutalize','v. t.','To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.'),('Brutalize','v. i.','To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and\n   beasty.'),('Brutally','adv.','In a brutal manner; cruelly.'),('Brute','a.','Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious;\n   without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers\n   of nature.'),('Brute','a.','Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute\n   beast; the brute creation.'),('Brute','a.','Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast.\n   Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute\n   violence.'),('Brute','a.','Having the physical powers predominating over the mental;\n   coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.'),('Brute','a.','Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.'),('Brute','n.','An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human;\n   esp. a quadruped; a beast.'),('Brute','n.','A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling\n   or coarse person.'),('Brute','v. t.','To report; to bruit.'),('Brutely','adv.','In a rude or violent manner.'),('Bruteness','n.','Brutality.'),('Bruteness','n.','Insensibility.'),('Brutified','imp. & p. p.','of Brutify'),('Brutifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Brutify'),('Brutify','v. t.','To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or\n   unfeeling; to brutalize.'),('Brutish','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a\n   cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.'),('Brutism','n.','The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a\n   brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.'),('Bruting','n.','Browsing.'),('Bryological','a.','Relating to bryology; as, bryological studies.'),('Bryologist','n.','One versed in bryology.'),('Bryology','n.','That part of botany which relates to mosses.'),('Bryonin','n.','A bitter principle obtained from the root of the bryony\n   (Bryonia alba and B. dioica). It is a white, or slightly colored,\n   substance, and is emetic and cathartic.'),('Bryony','n.','The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the\n   genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B.\n   dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.'),('Bryophyta','n. pl.','See Cryptogamia.'),('Bryozoa','n. pl.','A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals\n   which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.'),('Bryozoan','a.','Of or pertaining to the Bryozoa.'),('Bryozoan','n.','One of the Bryozoa.'),('Bryozoum','n.','An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which\n   there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually\n   have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed\n   stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other\n   zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).'),('Buansuah','n.','The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primaevus), supposed\n   by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.'),('Buat','n.','A lantern; also, the moon.'),('Bub','n.','Strong malt liquor.'),('Bub','n.','A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address\n   of a small boy.'),('Bub','v. t.','To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.'),('Bubale','n.','A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the\n   Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.'),('Bubaline','a.','Resembling a buffalo.'),('Bubble','n.','A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap\n   bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.'),('Bubble','n.','A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as,\n   bubbles rising in champagne or aerated waters.'),('Bubble','n.','A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent\n   solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens.'),('Bubble','n.','A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for\n   testing the strength of spirits.'),('Bubble','n.','The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.'),('Bubble','n.','Anything that wants firmness or solidity; that which is\n   more specious than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive\n   scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea\n   bubble.'),('Bubble','n.','A person deceived by an empty project; a gull.'),('Bubbled','imp. & p. p.','of Bubble'),('Bubbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bubble'),('Bubble','n.','To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to\n   contain bubbles.'),('Bubble','n.','To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a\n   bubbling stream.'),('Bubble','n.','To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.'),('Bubbler','v. t.','To cheat; to deceive.'),('Bubbler','n.','One who cheats.'),('Bubbler','n.','A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it\n   makes.'),('Bubble shell','','A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied\n   genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.'),('Bubbling Jock','','The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in\n   allusion to its notes.'),('Bubbly','a.','Abounding in bubbles; bubbling.'),('Bubby','n.','A woman\'s breast.'),('Bubby','n.','Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a\n   small boy.'),('Buboes','pl. ','of Bubo'),('Bubo','n.','An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp.\n   in the groin, as in syphilis.'),('Bubonic','a.','Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by\n   buboes.'),('Bubonocele','n.','An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in\n   which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a\n   swelling there like a bubo.'),('Bubukle','n.','A red pimple.'),('Buccal','a.','Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.'),('Buccaneer','n.','A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied\n   especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the\n   Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.'),('Buccaneer','v. i.','To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a\n   piratical adventurer or sea robber.'),('Buccaneerish','a.','Like a buccaneer; piratical.'),('Buccinal','a.','Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.'),('Buccinator','n.','A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in\n   blowing wind instruments.'),('Buccinoid','a.','Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the\n   Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and\n   Prosobranchiata.'),('Buccinum','n.','A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic\n   seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).'),('Bucentaur','n.','A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.'),('Bucentaur','n.','The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the\n   ceremony of espousing the Adriatic.'),('Buceros','n.','A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.'),('Bucholzite','n.','Same as Fibrolite.'),('Buchu','n.','A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are\n   dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in\n   medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species\n   furnish the leaves.'),('Buck','n.','Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of\n   bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.'),('Buck','n.','The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.'),('Bucked','imp. & p. p.','of Buck'),('Bucking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Buck'),('Buck','v. t.','To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in\n   bleaching.'),('Buck','v. t.','To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by\n   beating them on stones in running water.'),('Buck','v. t.','To break up or pulverize, as ores.'),('Buck','n.','The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of\n   goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.'),('Buck','n.','A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.'),('Buck','n.','A male Indian or negro.'),('Buck','v. i.','To copulate, as bucks and does.'),('Buck','v. i.','To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the\n   fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a\n   vicious horse or mule.'),('Buck','v. t.','To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying\n   the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting\n   a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.'),('Buck','v. t.','To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.'),('Buck','n.','A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.'),('Buck','n.','The beech tree.'),('Buck-basket','n.','A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.'),('Buck bean','','A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and\n   boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely\n   bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called\n   also bog bean.'),('Buckboard','n.','A four-wheeled vehicle, having a long elastic board or\n   frame resting on the bolsters or axletrees, and a seat or seats placed\n   transversely upon it; -- called also buck wagon.'),('Bucker','n.','One who bucks ore.'),('Bucker','n.','A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.'),('Bucker','n.','A horse or mule that bucks.'),('Bucket','n.','A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching,\n   holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.'),('Bucket','n.','A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying\n   coal, ore, grain, etc.'),('Bucket','n.','One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into\n   which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of\n   a paddle wheel.'),('Bucket','n.','The valved piston of a lifting pump.'),('Bucket shop','','An office or a place where facilities are given for\n   betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.'),('Buckety','n.','Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.'),('Buckeye','n.','A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the\n   same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.'),('Buckeye','n.','A cant name for a native in Ohio.'),('Buck-eyed','a.','Having bad or speckled eyes.'),('Buckhound','n.','A hound for hunting deer.'),('Buckie','n.','A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See\n   Buccinum.'),('Bucking','n.','The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an\n   alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.'),('Bucking','n.','A washing.'),('Bucking','n.','The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.'),('Buckish','a.','Dandified; foppish.'),('Buckle','n.','A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one\n   more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as\n   parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the\n   frame and pierced by the tongue.'),('Buckle','n.','A distortion bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a\n   plate of sheet metal.'),('Buckle','n.','A curl of hair, esp. a kind of crisp curl formerly worn;\n   also, the state of being curled.'),('Buckle','n.','A contorted expression, as of the face.'),('Buckled','imp. & p. p.','of Buckle'),('Buckling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Buckle'),('Buckle','n.','To fasten or confine with a buckle or buckles; as, to\n   buckle a harness.'),('Buckle','n.','To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted.'),('Buckle','n.','To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness;\n   -- generally used reflexively.'),('Buckle','n.','To join in marriage.'),('Buckle','v. i.','To bend permanently; to become distorted; to bow; to\n   curl; to kink.'),('Buckle','v. i.','To bend out of a true vertical plane, as a wall.'),('Buckle','v. i.','To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.'),('Buckle','v. i.','To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close\n   fight; to struggle; to contend.'),('Buckler','n.','A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one\n   of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.'),('Buckler','n.','One of the large, bony, external plates found on many\n   ganoid fishes.'),('Buckler','n.','The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.'),('Buckler','n.','A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole,\n   or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering\n   when the vessel pitches.'),('Buckler','v. t.','To shield; to defend.'),('Buckler-headed','a.','Having a head like a buckler.'),('Buckling','a.','Wavy; curling, as hair.'),('Buckra','n.','A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African\n   coast, West Indies, etc.'),('Buckra','a.','White; white man\'s; strong; good; as, buckra yam, a white\n   yam.'),('Buckram','n.','A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or\n   glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for\n   wrappers to cover merchandise.'),('Buckram','n.','A plant. See Ramson.'),('Buckram','a.','Made of buckram; as, a buckram suit.'),('Buckram','a.','Stiff; precise.'),('Buckram','v. t.','To strengthen with buckram; to make stiff.'),('Buck\'s-horn','n.','A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck\'s\n   horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.'),('Buckshot','n.','A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in\n   hunting deer and large game.'),('Buckskin','n.','The skin of a buck.'),('Buckskin','n.','A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in\n   color, made of deerskin.'),('Buckskin','n.','A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American\n   soldier of the Revolutionary war.'),('Buckskin','n.','Breeches made of buckskin.'),('Buckstall','n.','A toil or net to take deer.'),('Buckthorn','n.','A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter\n   branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See\n   Rhamnus.'),('Bucktooth','n.','Any tooth that juts out.'),('Buckwheat','n.','A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family,\n   the seed of which is used for food.'),('Buckwheat','n.','The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle\n   cakes, etc.'),('Bucolic','a.','Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd;\n   pastoral; rustic.'),('Bucolic','n.','A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life,\n   manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus\n   and Virgil.'),('Bucolical','a.','Bucolic.'),('Bucrania','pl. ','of Bucranium'),('Bucranium','n.','A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned\n   with wreaths, etc.'),('Bud','n.','A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant,\n   containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an\n   undeveloped branch or flower.'),('Bud','n.','A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and\n   vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached.\n   See Hydra.'),('Budded','imp. & p. p.','of Bud'),('Budding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bud'),('Bud','v. i.','To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud\n   does, into a flower or shoot.'),('Bud','v. i.','To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of\n   a bud, as a horn.'),('Bud','v. i.','To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or\n   growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.'),('Bud','v. t.','To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by\n   inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other,\n   in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that\n   which it would naturally bear.'),('Buddha','n.','The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and\n   wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama\n   Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.'),('Buddhism','n.','The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by\n   the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, \"the awakened or\n   enlightened,\" in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by\n   the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the\n   Indian Islands. Buddha\'s teaching is believed to have been atheistic;\n   yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents\n   release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the\n   greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all\n   phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at\n   470,000,000.'),('Buddhist','n.','One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.'),('Buddhist','a.','Of or pertaining to Buddha, Buddhism, or the Buddhists.'),('Buddhistic','a.','Same as Buddhist, a.'),('Budding','n.','The act or process of producing buds.'),('Budding','n.','A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism\n   or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or\n   vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to\n   the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See\n   Hydroidea.'),('Budding','n.','The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon\n   another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.'),('Buddle','n.','An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in\n   which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of\n   running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.'),('Buddle','v. i.','To wash ore in a buddle.'),('Bude burner','','A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand\n   burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which\n   oxygen gas or common air is supplied.'),('Bude light','','A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by\n   introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a\n   flame fed with coal gas or with oil.'),('Budged','imp. & p. p.','of Budge'),('Budging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Budge'),('Budge','v. i.','To move off; to stir; to walk away.'),('Budge','v.','Brisk; stirring; jocund.'),('Budge','n.','A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool\n   on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic\n   habits.'),('Budge','a.','Lined with budge; hence, scholastic.'),('Budge','a.','Austere or stiff, like scholastics.'),('Budgeness','n.','Sternness; severity.'),('Budger','n.','One who budges.'),('budgerow','n.','A large and commodious, but generally cumbrous and\n   sluggish boat, used for journeys on the Ganges.'),('Budget','n.','A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store;\n   an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.'),('Budget','n.','The annual financial statement which the British chancellor\n   of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a\n   general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of\n   taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a\n   similar statement in other countries.'),('Budgy','n.','Consisting of fur.'),('Budlet','n.','A little bud springing from a parent bud.'),('Buff','n.','A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo,\n   dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and\n   other animals, dressed in like manner.'),('Buff','n.','The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray,\n   or brown.'),('Buff','n.','A military coat, made of buff leather.'),('Buff','n.','The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See\n   Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.'),('Buff','a.','A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing\n   cutlery, spoons, etc.'),('Buff','a.','The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.'),('Buff','a.','Made of buff leather.'),('Buff','a.','Of the color of buff.'),('Buff','v. t.','To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.'),('Buff','v. t.','To strike.'),('Buff','n.','A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase\n   \"Blindman\'s buff.\"'),('Buff','a.','Firm; sturdy.'),('Buffa','n. fem.','The comic actress in an opera.'),('Buffa','a.','Comic, farcical.'),('Buffaloes','pl. ','of Buffalo'),('Buffalo','n.','A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus),\n   originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of\n   the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox,\n   and is fond of marshy places and rivers.'),('Buffalo','n.','A very large and savage species of the same genus (B.\n   Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.'),('Buffalo','n.','Any species of wild ox.'),('Buffalo','n.','The bison of North America.'),('Buffalo','n.','A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.'),('Buffalo','n.','The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.'),('Buffel duck','','A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or\n   butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated\n   feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.'),('Buffer','n.','An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar\n   caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a\n   railroad car.'),('Buffer','n.','A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which\n   receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.'),('Buffer','n.','One who polishes with a buff.'),('Buffer','n.','A wheel for buffing; a buff.'),('Buffer','n.','A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an\n   elderly man.'),('Bufferhead','n.','The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in\n   railroad carriages.'),('Buffet','n.','A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at\n   one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.'),('Buffet','n.','A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad\n   station, or place of public gathering.'),('Buffet','v. i.','A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.'),('Buffet','v. i.','A blow from any source, or that which affects like a\n   blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action;\n   an affliction; a trial; adversity.'),('Buffet','v. i.','A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.'),('Buffeted','imp. & p. p.','of Buffet'),('Buffeting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Buffet'),('Buffet','v. t.','To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to\n   cuff; to slap.'),('Buffet','v. t.','To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive\n   with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.'),('Buffet','v. t.','To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.'),('Buffet','v. i.','To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to\n   strive; to contend.'),('Buffet','v. i.','To make one\'s way by blows or struggling.'),('Buffeter','n.','One who buffets; a boxer.'),('Buffeting','n.','A striking with the hand.'),('Buffeting','n.','A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds\n   or waves; afflictions; adversity.'),('Buffin','n.','A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.'),('Buffing apparatus','','See Buffer, 1.'),('Buffle','n.','The buffalo.'),('Buffle','v. i.','To puzzle; to be at a loss.'),('Bufflehead','n.','One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.'),('Bufflehead','n.','The buffel duck. See Buffel duck.'),('Buffle-headed','a.','Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid;\n   blundering.'),('Buffo','n.masc.','The comic actor in an opera.'),('Buffoon','n.','A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low\n   tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a\n   merry-andrew.'),('Buffoon','a.','Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.'),('Buffoon','v. i.','To act the part of a buffoon.'),('Buffoon','v. t.','To treat with buffoonery.'),('Buffooneries','pl. ','of Buffoonery'),('Buffoonery','n.','The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests,\n   ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.'),('Buffoonish','a.','Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.'),('Buffoonism','n.','The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.'),('Buffoonly','a.','Low; vulgar.'),('Buffy','a.','Resembling, or characterized by, buff.'),('Bufo','n.','A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.'),('Bufonite','n.','An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified\n   teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts\n   (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations;\n   toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in\n   the head of a toad.'),('Bug','n.','A bugbear; anything which terrifies.'),('Bug','n.','A general name applied to various insects belonging to the\n   Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.'),('Bug','n.','An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C.\n   lectularius). See Bedbug.'),('Bug','n.','One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato\n   bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.'),('Bug','n.','One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug;\n   bait bug; salve bug, etc.'),('Bugaboo','n.','Alt. of Bugbear'),('Bugbear','n.','Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that\n   causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also,\n   something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.'),('Bugbane','n.','A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae\n   and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.'),('Bugbear','n.','Same as Bugaboo.'),('Bugbear','a.','Causing needless fright.'),('Bugbear','v. t.','To alarm with idle phantoms.'),('Bugfish','n.','The menhaden.'),('Bugger','n.','One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.'),('Bugger','n.','A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful\n   disparagement.'),('Buggery','n.','Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.'),('Bugginess','a.','The state of being infested with bugs.'),('Buggy','a.','Infested or abounding with bugs.'),('Buggies','pl. ','of Buggy'),('Buggy','n.','A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.'),('Buggy','n.','A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and\n   with or without a calash top.'),('Bugle','n.','A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.'),('Bugle','n.','A horn used by hunters.'),('Bugle','n.','A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and\n   more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in\n   military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the\n   cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.'),('Bugle','n.','An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly\n   black.'),('Bugle','a.','Jet black.'),('Bugle','n.','A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of\n   the Old World.'),('Bugled','a.','Ornamented with bugles.'),('Bugle horn','','A bugle.'),('Bugle horn','','A drinking vessel made of horn.'),('Bugler','n.','One who plays on a bugle.'),('Bugleweed','n.','A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L.\n   Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is\n   sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.'),('Buglosses','pl. ','of Bugloss'),('Bugloss','n.','A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A.\n   officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.'),('Bugwort','n.','Bugbane.'),('Buhl','n.','Alt. of Buhlwork'),('Buhlwork','n.','Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow\n   metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.'),('Buhlbuhl','n.','See Bulbul.'),('Buhrstone','n.','A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.'),('Built','imp. & p. p.','of Build'),('Building','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Build'),('Builded','imp. & p. p.','of Build'),('Build','v. t.','To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any\n   kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to\n   fabricate; to make; to raise.'),('Build','v. t.','To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or\n   produce by using appropriate means.'),('Build','v. t.','To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and\n   stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with\n   up; as, to build up one\'s constitution.'),('Build','v. i.','To exercise the art, or practice the business, of\n   building.'),('Build','v. i.','To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one\'s\n   self or one\'s hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to\n   rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.'),('Build','n.','Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the\n   build of a ship.'),('Builder','n.','One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a\n   carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.'),('Building','n.','The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.'),('Building','n.','The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of\n   civil architecture.'),('Building','n.','That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as\n   a house, a church, etc.'),('Built','n.','Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.'),('Built','a.','Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in\n   composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as,\n   frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.'),('Buke muslin','','See Book muslin.'),('Bukshish','n.','See Backsheesh.'),('Bulau','n.','An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii),\n   somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.'),('Bulb','n.','A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below\n   the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a\n   cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a\n   stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs\n   from a corm in not being solid.'),('Bulb','n.','A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain\n   bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.'),('Bulb','n.','An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb\n   of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical,\n   curved, etc.'),('Bulb','v. i.','To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.'),('Bulbaceous','n.','Bulbous.'),('Bulbar','a.','Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine,\n   pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as,\n   bulbar paralysis.'),('Bulbed','a.','Having a bulb; round-headed.'),('Bulbel','n.','A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.'),('Bulbiferous','n.','Producing bulbs.'),('Bulblet','n.','A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some\n   aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or\n   replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.'),('Bulbose','a.','Bulbous.'),('Bulbo-tuber','n.','A corm.'),('Bulbous','n.','Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs;\n   bulblike in shape or structure.'),('Bulbul','n.','The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is\n   also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family\n   Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied\n   genera.'),('Bulbule','n.','A small bulb; a bulblet.'),('Bulchin','n.','A little bull.'),('Bulge','n.','The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.'),('Bulge','n.','A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when\n   caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.'),('Bulge','n.','The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.'),('Bulged','imp. & p. p.','of Bulge'),('Bulging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bulge'),('Bulge','v. i.','To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it\n   yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.'),('Bulge','v. i.','To bilge, as a ship; to founder.'),('Bulgy','a.','Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward.'),('Bulimia','n.','Alt. of Bulimy'),('Bulimy','n.','A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable\n   appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.'),('Bulimus','n.','A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell,\n   often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical\n   America.'),('Bulk','n.','Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as,\n   an ox or ship of great bulk.'),('Bulk','n.','The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the\n   majority; as, the bulk of a debt.'),('Bulk','n.','The cargo of a vessel when stowed.'),('Bulk','n.','The body.'),('Bulked','imp. & p. p.','of Bulk'),('Bulking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bulk'),('Bulk','v. i.','To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.'),('Bulk','v.','A projecting part of a building.'),('Bulker','n.','A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods,\n   in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.'),('Bulkhead','n.','A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the\n   same deck.'),('Bulkhead','n.','A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of\n   earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the\n   limiting wall along a water front.'),('Bulkiness','n.','Greatness in bulk; size.'),('Bulky','a.','Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick;\n   massive; as, bulky volumes.'),('Bull','n.','The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male\n   of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.'),('Bull','n.','One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or\n   action.'),('Bull','n.','Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.'),('Bull','n.','A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It\n   contains the Pleiades.'),('Bull','n.','One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of\n   stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.'),('Bull','a.','Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large;\n   fierce.'),('Bull','v. i.','To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.'),('Bull','v. t.','To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull\n   railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to\n   raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.'),('Bull','v. i.','A seal. See Bulla.'),('Bull','v. i.','A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in\n   Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated \"a\n   die Incarnationis,\" i. e., \"from the day of the Incarnation.\" See\n   Apostolical brief, under Brief.'),('Bull','v. i.','A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity,\n   but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so\n   called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial\n   nature of the pope\'s bulls and his professions of humility.'),('Bullae','pl. ','of Bulla'),('Bulla','n.','A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle,\n   containing a transparent watery fluid.'),('Bulla','n.','The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the\n   skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.'),('Bulla','n.','A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal\n   attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of\n   St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses\n   it.'),('Bulla','n.','A genus of marine shells. See Bubble shell.'),('Bullace','n.','A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita).\n   See Plum.'),('Bullace','n.','The bully tree.'),('Bullantic','a.','Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls.'),('Bullary','n.','A collection of papal bulls.'),('Bullaries','pl. ','of Bullary'),('Bullary','n.','A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.'),('Bullate','a.','Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.'),('Bullbeggar','n.','Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in\n   children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear.'),('Bull brier','','A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New\n   Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and\n   farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of\n   bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called\n   also bamboo brier and China brier.'),('Bullcomber','n.','A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typhaeus vulgaris of\n   Europe.'),('Bulldog','n.','A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and\n   tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed\n   in baiting bulls.'),('Bulldog','n.','A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained\n   by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling\n   mill.'),('Bulldog','a.','Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as,\n   bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.'),('Bulldozed','imp. & p. p.','of Bulldoze'),('Bulldozing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bulldoze'),('Bulldoze','v. t.','To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation\n   or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in\n   Louisiana.'),('Bulldozer','n.','One who bulldozes.'),('Bulled','a.','Swollen.'),('Bullen-bullen','n.','The lyre bird.'),('Bullen-nail','n.','A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and\n   lacquered.'),('Bullet','n.','A small ball.'),('Bullet','n.','A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form,\n   to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.'),('Bullet','n.','A cannon ball.'),('Bullet','n.','The fetlock of a horse.'),('Bullet-proof','a.','Capable of resisting the force of a bullet.'),('Bulletin','n.','A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event,\n   as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage,\n   issued by authority for the information of the public.'),('Bulletin','n.','Any public notice or announcement, especially of news\n   recently received.'),('Bulletin','n.','A periodical publication, especially one containing the\n   proceeding of a society.'),('Bullfaced','a.','Having a large face.'),('Bullfeast','n.','See Bullfight.'),('Bullfight','n.','Alt. of Bullfighting'),('Bullfighting','n.','A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men\n   torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public\n   amusement, -- still popular in Spain.'),('Bullfinch','n.','A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera,\n   especially the P. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the\n   grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.'),('Bullfist','n.','Alt. of Bullfice'),('Bullfice','n.','A kind of fungus. See Puffball.'),('Bull fly','n.','Alt. of Bullfly'),('Bullfly','n.','Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and\n   breeze flies.'),('Bullfrog','n.','A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in\n   North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.'),('Bullhead','n.','A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus\n   Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United\n   States; -- called also miller\'s thumb.'),('Bullhead','n.','In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also\n   catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.'),('Bullhead','n.','A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.'),('Bullhead','n.','The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); --\n   called also beetlehead.'),('Bullhead','n.','The golden plover.'),('Bullhead','n.','A stupid fellow; a lubber.'),('Bullhead','n.','A small black water insect.'),('Bullheaded','a.','Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong;\n   obstinate; dogged.'),('Bullion','n.','Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.'),('Bullion','n.','Base or uncurrent coin.'),('Bullion','n.','Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on\n   bridles, saddles, etc.'),('Bullion','n.','Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and\n   used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are\n   prominent.'),('Bullionist','n.','An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper\n   currency always convertible into gold.'),('Bullirag','n.','To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to\n   badger.'),('Bullish','a.','Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder.'),('Bullist','n.','A writer or drawer up of papal bulls.'),('Bullition','v. i.','The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See\n   Ebullition.'),('Bull-necked','a.','Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull.'),('Bullock','n.','A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.'),('Bullock','n.','An ox, steer, or stag.'),('Bullock','v. t.','To bully.'),('Bullock\'s-eye','n.','See Bull\'s-eye, 3.'),('Bullon','n.','A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis).'),('Bullpout','n.','See Bullhead, 1 (b).'),('Bull\'s-eye','n.','A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves,\n   having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting\n   rigging.'),('Bull\'s-eye','n.','A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by\n   sailors to portend a storm.'),('Bull\'s-eye','n.','A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof,\n   floor, ship\'s side, etc., to let in light.'),('Bull\'s-eye','n.','A circular or oval opening for air or light.'),('Bull\'s-eye','n.','A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for\n   concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself.'),('Bull\'s-eye','n.','Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the\n   Bull.'),('Bull\'s-eye','n.','The center of a target.'),('Bull\'s-eye','n.','A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end\n   of the pipe through which it was blown.'),('Bull\'s-eye','n.','A small and thick old-fashioned watch.'),('Bull\'s-nose','n.','An external angle when obtuse or rounded.'),('Bull terrier','','A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and\n   the terrier.'),('Bull trout','','In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as\n   Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea\n   trout.'),('Bull trout','','Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also\n   Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout.'),('Bull trout','','The huso or salmon of the Danube.'),('Bullweed','n.','Knapweed.'),('Bullwort','n.','See Bishop\'s-weed.'),('Bullies','pl. ','of Bully'),('Bully','n.','A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous;\n   one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.'),('Bully','n.','A brisk, dashing fellow.'),('Bully','a.','Jovial and blustering; dashing.'),('Bully','a.','Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.'),('Bullied','imp. & p. p.','of Bully'),('Bullying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bully'),('Bully','v. t.','To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing,\n   swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.'),('Bully','v. i.','To act as a bully.'),('Bullyrag','v. t.','Same as Bullirag.'),('Bullyrock','n.','A bully.'),('Bully tree','','The name of several West Indian trees of the order\n   Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most\n   of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.'),('Bulrush','n.','A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.'),('Bulse','n.','A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc.'),('Bultel','n.','A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran.'),('Bulti','n.','Same as Bolty.'),('Bultow','n.','A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or\n   spiller.'),('Bulwark','n.','A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.'),('Bulwark','n.','That which secures against an enemy, or defends from\n   attack; any means of defense or protection.'),('Bulwark','n.','The sides of a ship above the upper deck.'),('Bulwarked','imp. & p. p.','of Bulwark'),('Bulwarking','n.','of Bulwark'),('Bulwark','v. t.','To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to\n   secure by fortification; to protect.'),('Bum','n.','The buttock.'),('Bummed','imp. & p. p.','of Bum'),('Bumming','n.','of Bum'),('Bum','v. i.,','To make murmuring or humming sound.'),('Bum','n.','A humming noise.'),('Bumbailiff','n.','See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a.'),('Bumbard','','See Bombard.'),('Bumbarge','n.','See Bumboat.'),('Bumbast','','See Bombast.'),('Bumbeloes','pl. ','of Bumbelo'),('Bumbelo','n.','A glass used in subliming camphor.'),('Bumble','n.','The bittern.'),('Bumble','v. i.','To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a\n   bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.'),('Bumblebee','n.','A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called\n   humblebee; -- so named from its sound.'),('Bumboat','n.','A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc.,\n   for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.'),('Bumkin','n.','A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each\n   bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b)\n   One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace\n   bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the\n   mizzen.'),('Bummalo','n.','A small marine Asiatic fish (Saurus ophidon) used in India\n   as a relish; -- called also Bombay duck.'),('Bummer','n.','An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means\n   of support; a dissipated sponger.'),('Bummery','n.','See Bottomery.'),('Bumped','imp. & p. p.','of Bump'),('Bumping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bump'),('Bump','v. t.','To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to\n   thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.'),('Bump','v. i.','To come in violent contact with something; to thump.'),('Bump','n.','A thump; a heavy blow.'),('Bump','n.','A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a\n   protuberance.'),('Bump','n.','One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated\n   with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of\n   \"veneration;\" the bump of \"acquisitiveness.\"'),('Bump','n.','The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the\n   prow of the boat following.'),('Bump','v. i.','To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to\n   boom.'),('Bump','n.','The noise made by the bittern.'),('Bumper','n.','A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs\n   over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.'),('Bumper','n.','A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some\n   favorite performer.'),('Bumper','n.','That which bumps or causes a bump.'),('Bumper','n.','Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a\n   buffer.'),('Bumpkin','n.','An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.'),('Bumptious','a.','Self-conceited; forward; pushing.'),('Bumptiousness','n.','Conceitedness.'),('Bun','n.','Alt. of Bunn'),('Bunn','n.','A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of\n   sugar and milk on the top crust.'),('Bunch','n.','A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.'),('Bunch','n.','A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the\n   same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch\n   of keys.'),('Bunch','n.','A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a\n   continuous vein.'),('Bunched','imp. & p. p.','of Bunch'),('Bunching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bunch'),('Bunch','v. i.','To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be\n   protuberant or round.'),('Bunch','v. t.','To form into a bunch or bunches.'),('Bunch-backed','a.','Having a bunch on the back; crooked.'),('Bunchberry','n.','The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a\n   dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.'),('Bunch grass','','A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In\n   California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of\n   Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good\n   bunch grass.'),('Bunchiness','n.','The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.'),('Bunchy','a.','Swelling out in bunches.'),('Bunchy','a.','Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts;\n   as, the bird\'s bunchy tail.'),('Bunchy','a.','Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a\n   bunchy mine.'),('Buncombe','n.','Alt. of Bunkum'),('Bunkum','n.','Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to\n   gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything\n   said for mere show.'),('Bund','n.','League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.'),('Bund','n.','An embankment against inundation.'),('Bunder','n.','A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of\n   passengers and goods.'),('Bundesrath','n.','The federal council of the German Empire. In the\n   Bundesrath and the Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The\n   federal council of Switzerland is also so called.'),('Bundle','n.','A number of things bound together, as by a cord or\n   envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance;\n   a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of\n   old clothes.'),('Bundled','imp. & p. p.','of Bundle'),('Bundling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bundle'),('Bundle','v. t.','To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.'),('Bundle','v. t.','To send off abruptly or without ceremony.'),('Bundle','v. i.','To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or\n   without ceremony.'),('Bundle','v. i.','To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied\n   to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.'),('Bung','n.','The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.'),('Bung','n.','The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is\n   filled; bunghole.'),('Bung','n.','A sharper or pickpocket.'),('Bunged','imp. & p. p.','of Bung'),('Bunging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bung'),('Bung','v. t.','To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a\n   bung; to close; -- with up.'),('Bungalow','n.','A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story,\n   usually surrounded by a veranda.'),('Bungarum','n.','A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied\n   to the cobras, but without a hood.'),('Bunghole','n.','See Bung, n., 2.'),('Bungled','imp. & p. p.','of Bungle'),('Bungling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bungle'),('Bungle','v. i.','To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.'),('Bungle','v. t.','To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch;\n   -- sometimes with up.'),('Bungle','n.','A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.'),('Bungler','n.','A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.'),('Bungling','a.','Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.'),('Bunglingly','adv.','Clumsily; awkwardly.'),('Bungo','n.','A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a\n   kind of boat used in the Southern United States.'),('Bunion','n.','Same as Bunyon.'),('Bunk','n.','A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime\n   and for a bed at night.'),('Bunk','n.','One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.'),('Bunk','n.','A piece of wood placed on a lumberman\'s sled to sustain the\n   end of heavy timbers.'),('Bunked','imp. & p. p.','of Bunk'),('Bunking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bunk'),('Bunk','v. i.','To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.'),('Bunker','n.','A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which\n   serves for a seat.'),('Bunker','n.','A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.'),('Bunko','n.','A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by\n   a sham lottery.'),('Bunkum','n.','See Buncombe.'),('Bunn','n.','See Bun.'),('Bunnian','n.','See Bunyon.'),('Bunny','n.','A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or\n   going out from it.'),('Bunny','n.','A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.'),('Bunodonta','n. pl.','Alt. of Bunodonts'),('Bunodonts','n. pl.','A division of the herbivorous mammals including the\n   hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated.'),('Bunsen\'s battery','','Alt. of Bunsen\'s burner'),('Bunsen\'s burner','','See under Battery, and Burner.'),('Bunt','n.','A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals,\n   filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.'),('Bunt','n.','The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a\n   furled sail which is at the center of the yard.'),('Bunt','v. i.','To swell out; as, the sail bunts.'),('Bunt','v. t. & i.','To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt;\n   as, the ram bunted the boy.'),('Bunter','n.','A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low,\n   vulgar woman.'),('Bunting','n.','A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus,\n   related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).'),('Bunting','n.','Alt. of Buntine'),('Buntine','n.','A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and\n   ships\' signals.'),('Buntline','n.','One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used\n   to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.'),('Bunyon','n.','Alt. of Bunion'),('Bunion','n.','An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac\n   (one of the bursae muscosae), usually occurring on the first joint of\n   the great toe.'),('Buoy','n.','A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark\n   a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water,\n   as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.'),('Buoyed','imp. & p. p.','of Buoy'),('Buoying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Buoy'),('Buoy','v. t.','To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to\n   keep afloat; -- with up.'),('Buoy','v. t.','To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin\n   or despondency.'),('Buoy','v. t.','To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to\n   buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.'),('Buoy','v. i.','To float; to rise like a buoy.'),('Buoyage','n.','Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the\n   guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.'),('Buoyance','n.','Buoyancy.'),('Buoyancies','pl. ','of Buoyancy'),('Buoyancy','n.','The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or\n   in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is\n   inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.'),('Buoyancy','n.','The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a\n   fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the\n   weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid\n   displaced.'),('Buoyancy','n.','Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the\n   opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.'),('Buoyant','v. t. & i.','Having the quality of rising or floating in a\n   fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.'),('Buoyant','v. t. & i.','Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by\n   being specifically heavier.'),('Buoyant','v. t. & i.','Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant\n   disposition; buoyant spirits.'),('Buprestidan','n.','One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and\n   allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are\n   usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very\n   destructive to trees.'),('Bur','n.','Alt. of Burr'),('Burr','n.','Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether\n   a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and\n   burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.'),('Burr','n.','The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal.\n   See Burr, n., 2.'),('Burr','n.','A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.'),('Burr','n.','The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.'),('Burr','n.','The sweetbread.'),('Burr','n.','A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.'),('Burr','n.','A small circular saw.'),('Burr','n.','A triangular chisel.'),('Burr','n.','A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used\n   by dentists.'),('Burr','n.','The round knob of an antler next to a deer\'s head.'),('Burbolt','n.','A birdbolt.'),('Burbot','n.','A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose\n   two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.'),('Burdelais','n.','A sort of grape.'),('Burden','n.','That which is borne or carried; a load.'),('Burden','n.','That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is\n   grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.'),('Burden','n.','The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she\n   will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.'),('Burden','n.','The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream\n   of tin.'),('Burden','n.','The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a\n   blast furnace.'),('Burden','n.','A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of\n   gad steel, 120 pounds.'),('Burden','n.','A birth.'),('Burdened','imp. & p. p.','of Burden'),('Burdening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burden'),('Burden','v. t.','To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay\n   a heavy load upon; to load.'),('Burden','v. t.','To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to\n   overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.'),('Burden','v. t.','To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a\n   burden (something heavy or objectionable).'),('Burden','n.','The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at\n   the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often\n   repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a\n   prayer.'),('Burden','n.','The drone of a bagpipe.'),('Burden','n.','A club.'),('Burdener','n.','One who loads; an oppressor.'),('Burdenous','a.','Burdensome.'),('Burdensome','a.','Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue;\n   oppressive.'),('Burdock','n.','A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small\n   burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of\n   animals.'),('Burdon','n.','A pilgrim\'s staff.'),('Bureaus','pl. ','of Bureau'),('Bureaux','pl. ','of Bureau'),('Bureau','n.','Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for\n   papers.'),('Bureau','n.','The place where such a bureau is used; an office where\n   business requiring writing is transacted.'),('Bureau','n.','Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of\n   clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the\n   direction of a chief.'),('Bureau','n.','A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an\n   ornamental piece of furniture.'),('Bureaucracy','n.','A system of carrying on the business of government by\n   means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in\n   contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an\n   associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on\n   this system.'),('Bureaucracy','n.','Government officials, collectively.'),('Bureaucrat','n.','An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in\n   a narrow and arbitrary routine.'),('Bureaucratic','a.','Alt. of Bureaucratical'),('Bureaucratical','a.','Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.'),('Bureaucratist','n.','An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.'),('Burel','n. & a.','Same as Borrel.'),('Burette','n.','An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid\n   or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged.\n   It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished\n   with a small aperture and stopcock.'),('Bur fish','','A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the\n   United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of\n   distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut\n   bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.'),('Burg','n.','A fortified town.'),('Burg','n.','A borough.'),('Burgage','n.','A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or\n   other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by\n   services relating to trade or handicraft.'),('Burgall','n.','A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.'),('Burgamot','n.','See Bergamot.'),('Burganet','n.','See Burgonet.'),('Burgee','n.','A kind of small coat.'),('Burgee','n.','A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by\n   cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.'),('Burgeois','n.','See 1st Bourgeois.'),('Burgeois','n.','A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois.'),('Burgeon','v. i.','To bud. See Bourgeon.'),('Burgess','n.','An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who\n   possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.'),('Burgess','n.','One who represents a borough in Parliament.'),('Burgess','n.','A magistrate of a borough.'),('Burgess','n.','An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for\n   municipal officers.'),('Burgess-ship','n.','The state of privilege of a burgess.'),('Burggrave','n.','Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg\n   (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a\n   domain attached.'),('Burgh','n.','A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland.\n   See Borough.'),('Burghal','a.','Belonging to a burgh.'),('Burghbote','n.','A contribution toward the building or repairing of\n   castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.'),('Burghbrech','n.','The offense of violating the pledge given by every\n   inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.'),('Burgher','n.','A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the\n   privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.'),('Burgher','n.','A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which\n   asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess\n   \"the true religion professed within the realm\"), the opposite party\n   being called antiburghers.'),('Burghermaster','n.','See Burgomaster.'),('Burghership','n.','The state or privileges of a burgher.'),('Burghmaster','n.','A burgomaster.'),('Burghmaster','n.','An officer who directs and lays out the meres or\n   boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster.'),('Burghmote','n.','A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough\n   court held three times yearly.'),('Burglar','n.','One guilty of the crime of burglary.'),('Burglarer','n.','A burglar.'),('Burglarious','a.','Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of\n   burglary.'),('Burglariously','adv.','With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner\n   of a burglar.'),('Burglaries','pl. ','of Burglary'),('Burglary','n.','Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in\n   the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the\n   felonious purpose be accomplished or not.'),('Burgomaster','n.','A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland,\n   Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United\n   States; a burghmaster.'),('Burgomaster','n.','An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus),\n   common in arctic regions.'),('Burgonet','n.','A kind of helmet.'),('Burgoo','n.','A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.'),('Burgrass','n.','Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having\n   burs for fruit.'),('Burgrave','n.','See Burggrave.'),('Burgundy','n.','An old province of France (in the eastern central part).'),('Burgundy','n.','A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy,\n   France.'),('Burh','n.','See Burg.'),('Burhel','n.','Alt. of Burrhel'),('Burrhel','n.','The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (Ovis burrhel).'),('Burial','n.','A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.'),('Burial','n.','The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in\n   a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies;\n   sepulture; interment.'),('Burier','n.','One who, or that which, buries.'),('Burin','n.','The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line\n   engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off\n   obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in\n   a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in\n   marble.'),('Burin','n.','The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft\n   burin; a brilliant burin.'),('Burinist','n.','One who works with the burin.'),('Burion','n.','The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus\n   frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch.'),('Burked','imp. & p. p.','of Burke'),('Burking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burke'),('Burke','v. t.','To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks\n   of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for\n   dissection.'),('Burke','v. t.','To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to\n   smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.'),('Burkism','n.','The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling\n   their bodies for dissection.'),('Burled','imp. & p. p.','of Burl'),('Burling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burl'),('Burl','v. t.','To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose\n   threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.'),('Burl','n.','A knot or lump in thread or cloth.'),('Burl','n.','An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer\n   made from such excrescences.'),('Burlap','n.','A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging;\n   also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.'),('Burler','n.','One who burls or dresses cloth.'),('Burlesque','a.','Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant\n   images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating\n   it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular;\n   ironical.'),('Burlesque','n.','Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque\n   satire.'),('Burlesque','n.','An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite\n   laughter, or to ridicule anything.'),('Burlesque','n.','A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross\n   perversion.'),('Burlesqued','imp. & p. p.','of Burlesque'),('Burlesquing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burlesque'),('Burlesque','v. t.','To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque\n   representation in action or in language.'),('Burlesque','v. i.','To employ burlesque.'),('Burlesquer','n.','One who burlesques.'),('Burletta','a.','A comic operetta; a music farce.'),('Burliness','n.','Quality of being burly.'),('Burly','a.','Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now\n   used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of\n   stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky.'),('Burly','a.','Coarse and rough; boisterous.'),('Burmans','pl. ','of Burman'),('Burman','n.','A member of the Burman family, one of the four great\n   families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese.'),('Burman','a.','Of or pertaining to the Burmans or to Burmah.'),('Bur marigold','','See Beggar\'s ticks.'),('Burmese','a.','Of or pertaining to Burmah, or its inhabitants.'),('Burmese','n. sing. & pl.','A native or the natives of Burmah. Also\n   (sing.), the language of the Burmans.'),('Burned','imp. & p. p.','of Burn'),('Burnt','','of Burn'),('Burning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burn'),('Burn','v. t.','To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of\n   heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.'),('Burn','v. t.','To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some\n   property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to\n   scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn\n   steel in forging; to burn one\'s face in the sun; the sun burns the\n   grass.'),('Burn','v. t.','To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the\n   action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change\n   some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due\n   degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake;\n   as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to\n   produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.'),('Burn','v. t.','To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the\n   application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to\n   burn letters into a block.'),('Burn','v. t.','To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by\n   action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the\n   mouth with pepper.'),('Burn','v. t.','To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.'),('Burn','v. t.','To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent,\n   with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a\n   certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.'),('Burn','v. i.','To be of fire; to flame.'),('Burn','v. i.','To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.'),('Burn','v. i.','To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or\n   emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with\n   destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong\n   desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.'),('Burn','v. i.','To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as,\n   copper burns in chlorine.'),('Burn','v. i.','In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object\n   which is sought.'),('Burn','n.','A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or\n   intense heat.'),('Burn','n.','The operation or result of burning or baking, as in\n   brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.'),('Burn','n.','A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.'),('Burn','n.','A small stream.'),('Burnable','a.','Combustible.'),('Burned','p. p. & a.','See Burnt.'),('Burned','p. p.','Burnished.'),('Burner','n.','One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.'),('Burner','n.','The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is\n   produced.'),('Burnet','n.','A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially,\n   P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.'),('Burnettized','imp. & p. p.','of Burnettize'),('Burnettizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burnettize'),('Burnettize','v. t.','To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of\n   saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a\n   process invented by Sir William Burnett.'),('Burnie','n.','A small brook.'),('Burniebee','n.','The ladybird.'),('Burning','a.','That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.'),('Burning','a.','Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement;\n   powerful; as, burning zeal.'),('Burning','n.','The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to\n   the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively\n   heated.'),('Burnished','imp. & p. p.','of Burnish'),('Burnishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burnish'),('Burnish','a.','To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish;\n   specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as,\n   to burnish brass or paper.'),('Burnish','v. i.','To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and\n   glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.'),('Burnish','n.','The effect of burnishing; gloss; brightness; luster.'),('Burnisher','n.','One who burnishes.'),('Burnisher','n.','A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as\n   of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing.\n   It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.'),('Burnoose','n.','Alt. of Burnous'),('Burnous','n.','A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by\n   Arabs.'),('Burnous','n.','A combination cloak and hood worn by women.'),('Burnstickle','n.','A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).'),('Burnt','p. p. & a.','Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried,\n   as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.'),('Burr','n.','A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.'),('Burr','n.','The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping\n   metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck\n   left on a bullet in casting.'),('Burr','n.','A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching;\n   a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.'),('Burr','n.','A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to\n   prevent the hand from slipping.'),('Burr','n.','The lobe or lap of the ear.'),('Burr','n.','A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by\n   trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the\n   tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or\n   Tweedside, burr.'),('Burr','n.','The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.'),('Burred','imp. & p. p.','of Burr'),('Burring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burr'),('Burr','v. i.','To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.'),('Burrel','n.','A sort of pear, called also the red butter pear, from its\n   smooth, delicious, soft pulp.'),('Burrel','n.','Same as Borrel.'),('Burrel fly','','The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See\n   Gadfly.'),('Burrel shot','','A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron,\n   etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency.'),('Burring machine','','A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and\n   other substances.'),('Burr millstone','','See Buhrstone.'),('Burro','n.','A donkey.'),('Burrock','n.','A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to\n   gaps where fish traps are placed.'),('Burrow','n.','An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.'),('Burrow','n.','A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain\n   animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.'),('Burrow','n.','A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.'),('Burrow','n.','A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.'),('Burrowed','imp. & p. p.','of Burrow'),('Burrowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burrow'),('Burrow','v. i.','To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to\n   lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.'),('Burrow','v. i.','To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed\n   place; to hide.'),('Burrower','n.','One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a\n   hole under ground and lives in it.'),('Burrstone','n.','See Buhrstone.'),('Burry','a.','Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as,\n   burry wool.'),('Bursae','pl. ','of Bursa'),('Bursa','n.','Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial\n   sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed\n   between tendons and bony prominences.'),('Bursal','a.','Of or pertaining to a bursa or to bursae.'),('Bursar','n.','A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a\n   college, or of a monastery.'),('Bursar','n.','A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his\n   complete or partial support.'),('Bursarship','n.','The office of a bursar.'),('-ries','pl. ','of Bursary'),('Bursary','n.','The treasury of a college or monastery.'),('Bursary','n.','A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as\n   in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.'),('Burschen','pl. ','of Bursch'),('Bursch','n.','A youth; especially, a student in a german university.'),('Burse','n.','A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.'),('Burse','n.','A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars\n   in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.'),('Burse','n.','An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.'),('Burse','n.','An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of\n   continental Europe. Same as Bourse.'),('Burse','n.','A kind of bazaar.'),('Bursiculate','a.','Bursiform.'),('Bursiform','a.','Shaped like a purse.'),('Bursitis','n.','Inflammation of a bursa.'),('Burst','imp. & p. p.','of Burst'),('Bursting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Burst'),('Burst','v. i.','To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to\n   force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of\n   force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had\n   burst; the buds will burst in spring.'),('Burst','v. i.','To exert force or pressure by which something is made\n   suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence,\n   to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in\n   such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as\n   forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.'),('Burst','v. t.','To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by\n   strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to\n   burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.'),('Burst','v. t.','To break.'),('Burst','v. t.','To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole\n   through the wall.'),('Burst','n.','A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion;\n   as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a\n   burst of inspiration.'),('Burst','n.','Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst\n   of speed.'),('Burst','n.','A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.'),('Burst','n.','A rupture or hernia; a breach.'),('Bursten','','p. p. of Burst, v. i.'),('Burster','n.','One that bursts.'),('Burstwort','n.','A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for\n   the cure of hernia or rupture.'),('Burt','n.','See Birt.'),('Burthen','n. & v. t.','See Burden.'),('Burton','n.','A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or\n   pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the\n   running part.'),('Bury','n.','A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond\'s'),('Bury','n.','A manor house; a castle.'),('Buried','imp. & p. p.','of Bury'),('Burying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bury'),('Bury','v. t.','To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over,\n   or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering;\n   to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.'),('Bury','v. t.','Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a\n   deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a\n   corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to\n   inhume.'),('Bury','v. t.','To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as,\n   to bury strife.'),('Burying ground','','Alt. of Burying place'),('Burying place','','The ground or place for burying the dead; burial\n   place.'),('Bus','n.','An omnibus.'),('Busbies','pl. ','of Busby'),('Busby','n.','A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is\n   of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment,\n   hanging from the top over the right shoulder.'),('Buscon','n.','One who searches for ores; a prospector.'),('Bush','n.','A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild\n   forest.'),('Bush','n.','A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the\n   root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.'),('Bush','n.','A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes\n   to support pea vines.'),('Bush','n.','A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to\n   Bacchus), hung out at vintners\' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a\n   tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.'),('Bush','n.','The tail, or brush, of a fox.'),('Bush','v. i.','To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.'),('Bushed','imp. & p. p.','of Bush'),('Bushing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Bush'),('Bush','v. t.','To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush\n   peas.'),('Bush','v. t.','To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown;\n   to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into\n   the ground.'),('Bush','n.','A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of\n   metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive\n   the wear of a pivot or arbor.'),('Bush','n.','A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the\n   venthole is bored.'),('Bush','v. t.','To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot\n   hole.'),('Bushboy','n.','See Bushman.'),('Bushel','n.','A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or\n   thirty-two quarts.'),('Bushel','n.','A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a\n   bushel measure.'),('Bushel','n.','A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap\n   containing ten bushels of apples.'),('Bushel','n.','A large indefinite quantity.'),('Bushel','n.','The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the\n   United States it is called a box. See 4th Bush.'),('Bushelage','n.','A duty payable on commodities by the bushel.'),('Bushelman','n.','A tailor\'s assistant for repairing garments; -- called\n   also busheler.'),('Bushet','n.','A small bush.'),('Bushfighter','n.','One accustomed to bushfighting.'),('Bushfighting','n.','Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees,\n   or thickets.'),('Bushhammer','n.','A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars,\n   with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face\n   cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.'),('Bushhammer','v. t.','To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block\n   of granite.'),('Bushiness','n.','The condition or quality of being bushy.'),('Bushing','n.','The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or\n   places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot\n   holes, etc.'),('Bushing','n.','A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th\n   Bush.'),('Bushless','a.','Free from bushes; bare.'),('Bushmen','pl. ','of Bushman'),('Bushman','n.','A woodsman; a settler in the bush.'),('Bushman','n.','One of a race of South African nomads, living principally\n   in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any\n   other people.'),('Bushment','n.','A thicket; a cluster of bushes.'),('Bushment','n.','An ambuscade.'),('Bushranger','n.','One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially,\n   in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.'),('Bushwhacker','n.','One accustomed to beat about, or travel through,\n   bushes.'),('Bushwhacker','n.','A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to\n   be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its\n   sympathizers.'),('Bushwhacking','n.','Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling\n   by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.'),('Bushwhacking','n.','The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers.'),('Bushy','a.','Thick and spreading, like a bush.'),('Bushy','a.','Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.'),('Busily','adv.','In a busy manner.'),('Businesses','pl. ','of Business'),('Business','n.','That which busies one, or that which engages the time,\n   attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest,\n   whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular\n   occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.'),('Business','n.','Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for\n   livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.'),('Business','n.','Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in\n   general; mercantile transactions.'),('Business','n.','That which one has to do or should do; special service,\n   duty, or mission.'),('Business','n.','Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense,\n   and modified by the connected words.'),('Business','n.','The position, distribution, and order of persons and\n   properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage\n   manager in rehearsal.'),('Business','n.','Care; anxiety; diligence.'),('Businesslike','a.','In the manner of one transacting business wisely and\n   by right methods.'),('Busk','n.','A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other\n   material, worn in the front of a corset.'),('Busked','imp. & p. p.','of Busk'),('Busk','v. t. & i.','To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.'),('Busk','v. t. & i.','To go; to direct one\'s course.'),('Busked','a.','Wearing a busk.'),('Busket','n.','A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet.'),('Busket','n.','A part of a garden devoted to shrubs.'),('Buskin','n.','A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some\n   distance up the leg.'),('Buskin','n.','A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very\n   thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn\n   by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of\n   tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy.'),('Buskined','a.','Wearing buskins.'),('Buskined','a.','Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy.'),('Busky','a.','See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n.'),('Buss','n.','A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.'),('Bussed','imp. & p. p.','of Buss'),('Bussing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Buss'),('Buss','v. t.','To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.'),('Buss','n.','A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used\n   in the herring fishery.'),('Bust','n.','A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human\n   figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.'),('Bust','n.','The portion of the human figure included between the head and\n   waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the\n   upper part of the trunk of the body.'),('Bustard','n.','A bird of the genus Otis.'),('Buster','n.','Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree.'),('Bustled','imp. & p. p.','of Bustle'),('Bustling','n.','of Bustle'),('Bustle','v. i.','To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way\n   to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.'),('Bustle','n.','Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.'),('Bustle','n.','A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist,\n   by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and\n   tournure.'),('Bustler','n.','An active, stirring person.'),('Bustling','a.','Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused\n   activity; as, a bustling crowd.'),('Bustoes','pl. ','of Busto'),('Busto','n.','A bust; a statue.'),('Busy','a.','Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or\n   only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor\n   at leisure; as, a busy merchant.'),('Busy','a.','Constantly at work; diligent; active.'),('Busy','a.','Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and\n   times; as, a busy street.'),('Busy','a.','Officious; meddling; foolish active.'),('Busy','a.','Careful; anxious.'),('Busied','imp. & p. p.','of Busy'),('Busying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Busy'),('Busy','v. t.','To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep\n   engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one\'s self with books.'),('Busybodies','pl. ','of Busybody'),('Busybody','n.','One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of\n   others; a meddling person.'),('But','adv. & conj.','Except with; unless with; without.'),('But','adv. & conj.','Except; besides; save.'),('But','adv. & conj.','Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that;\n   were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.'),('But','adv. & conj.','Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a\n   negative, with that.'),('But','adv. & conj.','Only; solely; merely.'),('But','adv. & conj.','On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet;\n   still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of\n   sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive\n   or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but\n   the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.'),('But','prep., adv. & conj.','The outer apartment or kitchen of a\n   two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.'),('But','n.','A limit; a boundary.'),('But','n.','The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in\n   distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.'),('Butted','imp. & p. p.','of But'),('Butting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of But'),('But','v. i.','See Butt, v., and Abut, v.'),('Butane','n.','An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh\n   gas, or paraffin, series.'),('Butcher','n.','One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for\n   market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.'),('Butcher','n.','A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with\n   unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.'),('Butchered','imp. & p. p.','of Butcher'),('Butchering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Butcher'),('Butcher','v. t.','To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market;\n   as, to butcher hogs.'),('Butcher','v. t.','To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody\n   or barbarous manner.'),('Butchering','n.','The business of a butcher.'),('Butchering','n.','The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and\n   needlessly.'),('Butcherliness','n.','Butchery quality.'),('Butcherly','a.','Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody;\n   inhuman; fell.'),('Butcher\'s broom','','A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which\n   has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.'),('Butchery','n.','The business of a butcher.'),('Butchery','n.','Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual\n   barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.'),('Butchery','n.','A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is\n   shed.'),('Butler','n.','An officer in a king\'s or a nobleman\'s household, whose\n   principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.;\n   the head servant in a large house.'),('Butlerage','n.','A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported\n   into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the\n   king\'s butler for the king.'),('Butlership','n.','The office of a butler.'),('Butment','n.','A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which\n   joins it to the upright pier.'),('Butment','n.','The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by\n   which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge\n   without arches is supported.'),('Butt','v. t.','Alt. of But'),('But','v. t.','A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.'),('But','v. t.','The thicker end of anything. See But.'),('But','v. t.','A mark to be shot at; a target.'),('But','v. t.','A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed;\n   as, the butt of the company.'),('But','v. t.','A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an\n   animal; as, the butt of a ram.'),('But','v. t.','A thrust in fencing.'),('But','v. t.','A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.'),('But','v. t.','A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely\n   together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.'),('But','v. t.','The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which\n   the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.'),('But','v. t.','The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a\n   hose.'),('But','v. t.','The joint where two planks in a strake meet.'),('But','v. t.','A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named\n   because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the\n   casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt\n   hinge.'),('But','v. t.','The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for\n   soles of boots, harness, trunks.'),('But','v. t.','The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets\n   in rifle practice.'),('Butted','imp. & p. p.','of Butt'),('Butting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Butt'),('Butt','v. i.','To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to\n   terminate; to be bounded; to abut.'),('Butt','v. i.','To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the\n   head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]'),('Butt','v. t.','To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with\n   the head.'),('Butt','n.','A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two\n   hogsheads.'),('Butt','n.','The common English flounder.'),('Butte','n.','A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the\n   general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar\n   elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.'),('Butter','n.','An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by\n   churning.'),('Butter','n.','Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence,\n   or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as\n   butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete\n   fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of\n   cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.'),('Buttered','imp. & p. p.','of Butter'),('Buttering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Butter'),('Butter','v. t.','To cover or spread with butter.'),('Butter','v. t.','To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.'),('Butter','n.','One who, or that which, butts.'),('Butterball','n.','The buffel duck.'),('Butterbird','n.','The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the\n   island of Jamaica.'),('Butterbump','n.','The European bittern.'),('Butterbur','n.','A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the\n   Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up\n   pats of butter.'),('Buttercup','n.','A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot,\n   particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also\n   butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of\n   Shakespeare.'),('Butter-fingered','a.','Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away;\n   slippery; careless.'),('Butterfish','n.','A name given to several different fishes, in allusion\n   to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of\n   the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast,\n   the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.'),('Butterflies','pl. ','of Butterfly'),('Butterfly','n.','A general name for the numerous species of diurnal\n   Lepidoptera.'),('Butterine','n.','A substance prepared from animal fat with some other\n   ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.'),('Butteris','n.','A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in\n   a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is\n   operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.'),('Buttermen','pl. ','of Butterman'),('Butterman','n.','A man who makes or sells butter.'),('Buttermilk','n.','The milk that remains after the butter is separated\n   from the cream.'),('Butternut','n.','An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family,\n   and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the\n   latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.'),('Butternut','n.','The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of\n   S. America; -- called also Souari nut.'),('Butter-scotch','n.','A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and\n   butter.'),('Butterweed','n.','An annual composite plant of the Mississippi valley\n   (Senecio lobatus).'),('Butterweight','n.','Over weight.'),('Butterwort','n.','A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves\n   which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to\n   which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects\n   are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North\n   Temperate zone.'),('Buttery','a.','Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of\n   butter.'),('Butteries','pl. ','of Buttery'),('Buttery','n.','An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other\n   provisions are kept.'),('Buttery','n.','A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and\n   refreshments are kept for sale to the students.'),('Buttery','n.','A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.'),('Butt hinge','','See 1st Butt, 10.'),('But-thorn','n.','The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).'),('Butting','n.','An abuttal; a boundary.'),('Butting joint','','A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the\n   end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain,\n   as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; --\n   sometimes called abutting joint.'),('Butt joint','','A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united\n   come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.'),('Buttock','n.','The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one\n   of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.'),('Buttock','n.','The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.'),('Button','n.','A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.'),('Button','n.','A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten\n   together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part,\n   and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used\n   also for ornament.'),('Button','n.','A bud; a germ of a plant.'),('Button','n.','A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated,\n   turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.'),('Button','n.','A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a\n   crucible, after fusion.'),('Buttoned','imp. & p. p.','of Button'),('Buttoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Button'),('Button','n.','To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make\n   secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.'),('Button','n.','To dress or clothe.'),('Button','v. i.','To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will\n   not button.'),('Buttonball','n.','See Buttonwood.'),('Buttonbush','n.','A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the\n   waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See\n   Capitulum.'),('Buttonhole','n.','The hole or loop in which a button is caught.'),('Buttonhole','v. t.','To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in\n   conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of\n   an hour.'),('Buttonmold','n.','A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made\n   into a button by covering it with cloth.'),('Buttons','n.','A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on\n   his livery.'),('Buttonweed','n.','The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and\n   Diodia, of the Madder family.'),('Buttonwood','n.','The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a\n   large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called\n   also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States,\n   sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.'),('Buttony','a.','Ornamented with a large number of buttons.'),('Buttress','n.','A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the\n   thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.'),('Buttress','n.','Anything which supports or strengthens.'),('Buttressed','imp. & p. p.','of Buttress'),('Buttressing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Buttress'),('Buttress','v. t.','To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.'),('Butt shaft','','An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow.'),('Butt weld','','See Butt weld, under Butt.'),('Buttweld','v. t.','To unite by a butt weld.'),('Butty','n.','One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or\n   ore.'),('Butyl','n.','A compound radical, regarded as butane, less one atom of\n   hydrogen.'),('Butylene','n.','Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the\n   ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.'),('Butyraceous','a.','Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.'),('Butyrate','n.','A salt of butyric acid.'),('Butyric','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.'),('Butyrin','n.','A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity\n   in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.'),('Butyrometer','n.','An instrument for determining the amount of fatty\n   matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.'),('Butyrone','n.','A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.'),('Butyrous','a.','Butyraceous.'),('Buxeous','a.','Belonging to the box tree.'),('Buxine','n.','An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common\n   box tree. It is identical with bebeerine; -- called also buxina.'),('Buxom','a.','Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient;\n   tractable; docile; meek; humble.'),('Buxom','a.','Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness,\n   combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.'),('Bought','imp. & p. p.','of Buy'),('Buying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Buy'),('Buy','v. t.','To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an\n   accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to\n   acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to\n   sell.'),('Buy','v. t.','To acquire or procure by something given or done in\n   exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to\n   buy pleasure with pain.'),('Buy','v. i.','To negotiate or treat about a purchase.'),('Buyer','n.','One who buys; a purchaser.'),('Buz','v. & n.','See Buzz.'),('Buzzed','imp. & p. p.','of Buzz'),('Buzzing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Buzz'),('Buzz','v. i.','To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like\n   that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound;\n   to speak with a low, humming voice.'),('Buzz','v. t.','To sound forth by buzzing.'),('Buzz','v. t.','To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to\n   spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.'),('Buzz','v. t.','To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming\n   voice.'),('Buzz','v. t.','To sound with a \"buzz\".'),('Buzz','n.','A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur,\n   as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of\n   surprise or approbation.'),('Buzz','n.','A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.'),('Buzz','n.','The audible friction of voice consonants.'),('Buzzard','n.','A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus\n   Buteo and related genera.'),('Buzzard','n.','A blockhead; a dunce.'),('Buzzard','a.','Senseless; stupid.'),('Buzzardet','n.','A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with legs relatively\n   longer.'),('Buzzer','n.','One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer.'),('Buzzingly','adv.','In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound.'),('Buzzsaw','','A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when\n   running at full speed.'),('By','pref.','In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close\n   to; along with; as, come and sit by me.'),('By','pref.','On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.'),('By','pref.','Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side\n   of; past; as, to go by a church.'),('By','pref.','Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty\n   feet by forty.'),('By','pref.','Against.'),('By','pref.','With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with\n   aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed\n   by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.'),('By','adv.','Near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person\n   by at the time.'),('By','adv.','Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession\n   has gone by; a bird flew by.'),('By','adv.','Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.'),('By','a.','Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving\n   the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral\n   matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place,\n   by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition\n   than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design,\n   by-interest, etc.'),('Byard','n.','A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who\n   drag sledges in coal mines.'),('By-bidder','n.','One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer\n   or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles.'),('By-blow','n.','A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.'),('By-blow','n.','An illegitimate child; a bastard.'),('By-corner','n.','A private corner.'),('By-dependence','n.','An appendage; that which depends on something else,\n   or is distinct from the main dependence; an accessory.'),('By-drinking','n.','A drinking between meals.'),('Bye','n.','A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary\n   object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye,\n   i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication.'),('Bye','n.','A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye.'),('Bye','n.','A dwelling.'),('Bye','n.','In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.'),('By-election','n.','An election held by itself, not at the time of a\n   general election.'),('By-end','n.','Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.'),('Bygone','a.','Past; gone by.'),('Bygone','n.','Something gone by or past; a past event.'),('By-interest','n.','Self-interest; private advantage.'),('Byland','n.','A peninsula.'),('Bylander','n.','See Bilander.'),('By-lane','n.','A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.'),('By-law','n.','A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation\n   made by a corporation for its own government.'),('By-law','n.','A law that is less important than a general law or\n   constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a\n   matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and\n   by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has\n   probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.'),('By-name','n.','A nickname.'),('Byname','v. t.','To give a nickname to.'),('By-pass','n.','A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert\n   circulation from the usual course.'),('By-passage','n.','A passage different from the usual one; a byway.'),('By-past','a.','Past; gone by.'),('Bypaths','pl. ','of Bypath'),('Bypath','n.','A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.'),('By-place','n.','A retired or private place.'),('Byplay','n.','Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while\n   the main action proceeds.'),('By-product','n.','A secondary or additional product; something produced,\n   as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal\n   product.'),('Byre','n.','A cow house.'),('By-respect','n.','Private end or view; by-interest.'),('Byroad','n.','A private or obscure road.'),('Byronic','a.','Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.'),('By-room','n.','A private room or apartment.'),('Bysmottered','p.a.','Bespotted with mud or dirt.'),('By-speech','n.','An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to\n   the point.'),('By-spell','n.','A proverb.'),('Byss','n.','See Byssus, n., 1.'),('Byssaceous','a.','Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as\n   some very delicate filamentous algae.'),('Byssiferous','a.','Bearing a byssus or tuft.'),('Byssin','n.','See Byssus, n., 1.'),('Byssine','a.','Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance.'),('Byssoid','a.','Byssaceous.'),('Byssolite','n.','An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.'),('Byssuses','pl. ','of Byssus'),('Byssi','pl. ','of Byssus'),('Byssus','n.','A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients.\n   It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.'),('Byssus','n.','A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a\n   groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain\n   bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach\n   themselves to rocks, etc.'),('Byssus','n.','An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender\n   threads.'),('Byssus','n.','Asbestus.'),('Bystander','n.','One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern\n   with the business transacting.'),('By-street','n.','A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the\n   way or cross street.'),('By-stroke','n.','An accidental or a slyly given stroke.'),('By-turning','n.','An obscure road; a way turning from the main road.'),('By-view','n.','A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose.'),('By-walk','n.','A secluded or private walk.'),('By-wash','n.','The outlet from a dam or reservoir; also, a cut to divert\n   the flow of water.'),('Byway','n.','A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside\n   from the main one.'),('By-wipe','n.','A secret or side stroke, as of raillery or sarcasm.'),('Byword','n.','A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general\n   currency.'),('Byword','n.','The object of a contemptuous saying.'),('Bywork','n.','Work aside from regular work; subordinate or secondary\n   business.'),('Byzant','n.','Alt. of Byzantine'),('Byzantine','n.','A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium.\n   See Bezant.'),('Byzantian','a. & n.','See Byzantine.'),('Byzantine','a.','Of or pertaining to Byzantium.'),('Byzantine','n.','A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople;\n   sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of\n   Constantinople.\n   C () C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the\n   Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g\n   (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or\n   Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k.\n   The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek /, /, and came from the\n   Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph/nicians. The English name\n   of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the\n   French. Etymologically C is related to g, h, k, q, s (and other\n   sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L. acutus, E.\n   acute, ague; E. acrid, eager, vinegar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat,\n   kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cerchier, E. search.'),('C','','The keynote of the normal or \"natural\" scale, which has neither\n   flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative\n   minor scale of the same.'),('C','','C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure\n   is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is\n   written /.'),('C','','The \"C clef,\" a modification of the letter C, placed on any line\n   of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.'),('C','','As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc.'),('Caaba','n.','The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which\n   all Mohammedans must pray.'),('Caas','n. sing. & pl.','Case.'),('Cab','n.','A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a\n   public vehicle.'),('Cab','n.','The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has\n   his station.'),('Cab','n.','A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37)\n   pints.'),('Cabal','n.','Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala'),('Cabal','n.','A secret.'),('Cabal','n.','A number of persons united in some close design, usually to\n   promote their private views and interests in church or state by\n   intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a\n   junto.'),('Cabal','n.','The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united\n   in a close design; intrigue.'),('Caballed','imp. & p. p.','of Cabal'),('Caballing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cabal'),('Cabal','v. i.','To unite in a small party to promote private views and\n   interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.'),('Cabala','n.','A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of\n   the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians,\n   which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence.\n   It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture\n   contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation\n   for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to\n   foretell events by this means.'),('Cabala','n.','Secret science in general; mystic art; mystery.'),('Cabalism','n.','The secret science of the cabalists.'),('Cabalism','n.','A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion\n   which one professes.'),('Cabalist','n.','One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish\n   traditions.'),('Cabalistic','a.','Alt. of Cabalistical'),('Cabalistical','a.','Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or\n   conveying an occult meaning; mystic.'),('Cabalistically','adv.','In a cabalistic manner.'),('Cabalize','v. i.','To use cabalistic language.'),('Caballer','n.','One who cabals.'),('Caballine','a.','Of or pertaining to a horse.'),('Caballine','n.','Caballine aloes.'),('Cabaret','n.','A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.'),('Cabaret','n.','a type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served,\n   and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians,\n   and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a\n   nightclub. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an\n   establishment.'),('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\n   workbasket, reticule, or hand bag; -- often written caba.'),('Cabassou','n.','A species of armadillo of the genus Xenurus (X.\n   unicinctus and X. hispidus); the tatouay.'),('Cabbage','n.','An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the\n   wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head\n   of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes\n   classed as cabbages.'),('Cabbage','n.','The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like,\n   cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.'),('Cabbage','n.','The cabbage palmetto. See below.'),('Cabbage','v. i.','To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make\n   lettuce cabbage.'),('Cabbaged','imp. & p. p','of Cabbage'),('Cabbaging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cabbage'),('Cabbage','v. i.','To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth\n   remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.'),('Cabbage','n.','Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts\n   out garments.'),('Cabbler','n.','One who works at cabbling.'),('Cabbling','n.','The process of breaking up the flat masses into which\n   wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be\n   reheated and wrought into bar iron.'),('Cabeca','n.','Alt. of Cabesse'),('Cabesse','n.','The finest kind of silk received from India.'),('Caber','n.','A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial\n   of strength.'),('Cabezon','n.','A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the\n   sculpin.'),('Cabiai','n.','The capybara. See Capybara.'),('Cabin','n.','A cottage or small house; a hut.'),('Cabin','n.','A small room; an inclosed place.'),('Cabin','n.','A room in ship for officers or passengers.'),('Cabined','imp. & p. p.','of Cabin'),('Cabining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cabin'),('Cabin','v. i.','To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.'),('Cabin','v. t.','To confine in, or as in, a cabin.'),('Cabinet','n.','A hut; a cottage; a small house.'),('Cabinet','n.','A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.'),('Cabinet','n.','A private room in which consultations are held.'),('Cabinet','n.','The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a\n   nation; a cabinet council.'),('Cabinet','n.','A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain\n   articles of value. Hence:'),('Cabinet','n.','A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an\n   etagere or closed with doors. See Etagere.'),('Cabinet','n.','Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and\n   exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.'),('Cabinet','a.','Suitable for a cabinet; small.'),('Cabineting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cabinet'),('Cabinet','v. i.','To inclose'),('Cabinetmaker','n.','One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other\n   choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus,\n   etc.'),('Cabinetmaking','n.','The art or occupation of making the finer articles\n   of household furniture.'),('Cabinetwork','n.','The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture\n   requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.'),('Cabirean','n.','One of the Cabiri.'),('Cabbiri','n. pl.','Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical\n   rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards\n   throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as\n   being masters of the art of working metals.'),('Cabirian','a.','Same as Cabiric.'),('Cabiric','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cabiri, or to their mystical\n   worship.'),('Cable','n.','A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used\n   to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of\n   hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.'),('Cable','n.','A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with\n   some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension\n   bridge; a telegraphic cable.'),('Cable','n.','A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex,\n   rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called\n   also cable molding.'),('Cable','v. t.','To fasten with a cable.'),('Cable','v. t.','To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.'),('Cabled','imp. & p. p.','of Cable'),('Cabling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cable'),('Cable','v. t. & i.','To telegraph by a submarine cable'),('Cabled','a.','Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.'),('Cabled','a.','Adorned with cabling.'),('Cablegram','n.','A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.'),('Cablelaid','a.','Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers,\n   twisted together to form a cable.'),('Cablelaid','a.','Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid\n   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\n   pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the\n   hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third\n   of the height of the shaft.'),('Cabmen','pl. ','of Cabman'),('Cabman','n.','The driver of a cab.'),('Cabob','n.','A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer;\n   -- so called in Turkey and Persia.'),('Cabob','n.','A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and\n   sweet herbs.'),('Cabob','v. t.','To roast, as a cabob.'),('Caboched','a.','Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said\n   of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.'),('Caboodle','n.','The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; --\n   usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.'),('Caboose','n.','A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly\n   called the galley.'),('Caboose','n.','A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen,\n   workmen, etc.; a tool car.'),('Cabotage','n.','Navigation along the coast; the details of coast\n   pilotage.'),('Cabree','n.','The pronghorn antelope.'),('Cabrerite','n.','An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel,\n   cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.'),('Cabrilla','n.','A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the\n   genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the\n   coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called\n   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,\n   seize tackles, etc.'),('Cacaemia','n.','Alt. of Cachaemia'),('Cachaemia','n.','A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.'),('Cacaine','n.','The essential principle of cacao; -- now called\n   theobromine.'),('Cacajao','n.','A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia (/\n   Brachyurus) melanocephala).'),('Cacao','n.','A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America\n   and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds\n   about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are\n   prepared.'),('Cachalot','n.','The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the\n   top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after\n   death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called\n   spermaceti. See Sperm whale.'),('Cache','n.','A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and\n   preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.'),('Cachectic','a.','Alt. of Cachectical'),('Cachectical','a.','Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic\n   remedies; cachectical blood.'),('Cachepot','n.','An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain,\n   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\n   to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid\n   process (as cancer or tubercle).'),('Cachinnation','n.','Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of\n   hysterical or maniacal affections.'),('Cachinnatory','a.','Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate\n   laughter.'),('Cachiri','n.','A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of\n   the manioc, and resembling perry.'),('Cacholong','n.','An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz;\n   also, a similar variety of opal.'),('Cachou','n.','A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the\n   breath.'),('Cachucha','n.','An Andalusian dance in three-four time, resembling the\n   bolero.'),('Cachunde','n.','A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and\n   other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a\n   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\n   considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.'),('Cackled','imp. & p. p.','of Cackle'),('Cackling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cackle'),('Cackle','v. i.','To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose\n   does.'),('Cackle','v. i.','To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen\n   or a goose; to giggle.'),('Cackle','v. i.','To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.'),('Cackle','n.','The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has\n   laid an egg.'),('Cackle','n.','Idle talk; silly prattle.'),('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.'),('Cacochymia','n.','Alt. of Cacochymy'),('Cacochymy','n.','A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body,\n   especially of the blood.'),('Cacochymic','a.','Alt. of Cacochymical'),('Cacochymical','a.','Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially\n   the blood.'),('Cacodemon','n.','An evil spirit; a devil or demon.'),('Cacodemon','n.','The nightmare.'),('Cacodoxical','a.','Heretical.'),('Cacodoxy','n.','Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy.'),('Cacodyl','n.','Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid,\n   As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely\n   disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to\n   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,\n   cacoethes scribendi, \"The itch for writing\".'),('Cacoethes','n.','A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable\n   ulcer.'),('Cacogastric','a.','Troubled with bad digestion.'),('Cacographic','a.','Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly\n   written or spelled.'),('Cacography','n.','Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.'),('Cacolet','n.','A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back\n   or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous\n   districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an\n   army.'),('Cacology','n.','Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words.'),('Cacomixle','n.','Alt. of Cacomixl'),('Cacomixtle','n.','Alt. of Cacomixl'),('Cacomixl','n.','A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the\n   size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and\n   California.'),('Cacoon','n.','One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada\n   scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc.'),('Cacophonic','a.','Alt. of Cacophonious'),('Cacophonical','a.','Alt. of Cacophonious'),('Cacophonous','a.','Alt. of Cacophonious'),('Cacophonious','a.','Harsh-sounding.'),('Cacophonies','pl. ','of Cacophony'),('Cacophony','n.','An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the\n   concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.'),('Cacophony','n.','A combination of discordant sounds.'),('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\n   radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.'),('Cactaceous','a.','Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which\n   the prickly pear is a common example.'),('Cactuses','pl. ','of Cactus'),('Cacti','pl. ','of Cactus'),('Cactus','n.','Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and\n   the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems\n   and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives\n   of the warmer parts of America.'),('Cacuminal','a.','Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; --\n   applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.'),('Cacuminate','v. i.','To make sharp or pointed.'),('Cad','n.','A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut\n   it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.'),('Cad','n.','A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.'),('Cadastral','a.','Of or pertaining to landed property.'),('Cadastre','n.','Alt. of Cadaster'),('Cadaster','n.','An official statement of the quantity and value of real\n   estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such\n   property.'),('Cadaver','n.','A dead human body; a corpse.'),('Cadaveric','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a corpse, or the\n   changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity.'),('Cadaverous','a.','Having the appearance or color of a dead human body;\n   pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.'),('Cadaverous','a.','Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead\n   body.'),('Cadbait','n.','See Caddice.'),('Caddice','n.','Alt. of Caddis'),('Caddis','n.','The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in\n   cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces\n   of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait\n   with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm.'),('Caddis','n.','A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.'),('Caddish','a.','Like a cad; lowbred and presuming.'),('Caddow','n.','A jackdaw.'),('Caddies','pl. ','of Caddy'),('Caddy','n.','A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.'),('Cade','a.','Bred by hand; domesticated; petted.'),('Cade','v. t.','To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to\n   coddle; to tame.'),('Cade','n.','A barrel or cask, as of fish.'),('Cade','n.','A species of juniper (Juniperus Oxycedrus) of Mediterranean\n   countries.'),('Cadence','n.','The act or state of declining or sinking.'),('Cadence','n.','A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at\n   the end of a sentence.'),('Cadence','n.','A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as,\n   music of bells in cadence sweet.'),('Cadence','n.','Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.'),('Cadence','n.','See Cadency.'),('Cadence','n.','Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed\n   horse.'),('Cadence','n.','A uniform time and place in marching.'),('Cadence','n.','The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly\n   reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.'),('Cadence','n.','A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the\n   end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.'),('Cadence','v. t.','To regulate by musical measure.'),('Cadency','n.','Descent of related families; distinction between the\n   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\n   of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.'),('Cader','n.','See Cadre.'),('Cadet','n.','The younger of two brothers; a younger brother or son; the\n   youngest son.'),('Cadet','n.','A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer,\n   with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.'),('Cadet','n.','A young man in training for military or naval service; esp.\n   a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or\n   Woolwich.'),('Cadetship','n.','The position, rank, or commission of a cadet; as, to get\n   a cadetship.'),('Cadew','n.','Alt. of Cadeworm'),('Cadeworm','n.','A caddice. See Caddice.'),('Cadged','imp. & p. p.','of Cadge'),('Cadging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cadge'),('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.'),('Cadge','n.','A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.'),('Cadger','v. t.','A packman or itinerant huckster.'),('Cadger','v. t.','One who gets his living by trickery or begging.'),('Cadger','n.','One who carries hawks on a cadge.'),('Cadgy','a.','Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking;\n   also, wanton.'),('Cadi','n.','An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans,\n   usually the judge of a town or village.'),('Cadie','n.','Alt. of Caddie'),('Caddie','n.','A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger.'),('Cadilesker','n.','A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named\n   originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers,\n   who are now tried only by their own officers.'),('Cadillac','n.','A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly\n   for cooking.'),('Cadis','n.','A kind of coarse serge.'),('Cadmean','a.','Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes,\n   who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters\n   of the alphabet -- /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /, /.\n   These are called Cadmean letters.'),('Cadmia','n.','An oxide of zinc which collects on the sides of furnaces\n   where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral calamine.'),('Cadmian','a.','See Cadmean.'),('Cadmic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as,\n   cadmic sulphide.'),('Cadmium','n.','A comparatively rare element related to zinc, and\n   occurring in some zinc ores. It is a white metal, both ductile and\n   malleable. Symbol Cd. Atomic weight 111.8. It was discovered by\n   Stromeyer in 1817, who named it from its association with zinc or zinc\n   ore.'),('Cadrans','n.','An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the\n   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\n   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\n   messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald\'s staff of\n   olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about\n   it, and two wings at the top.'),('Caducibranchiate','a.','With temporary gills: -- applied to those\n   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\n   poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.'),('Caduke','a.','Perishable; frail; transitory.'),('Cady','n.','See Cadie.'),('Caeca','n. pl.','See Caecum.'),('Caecal','a.','Of or pertaining to the caecum, or blind gut.'),('Caecal','a.','Having the form of a caecum, or bag with one opening;\n   baglike; as, the caecal extremity of a duct.'),('Caecias','n.','A wind from the northeast.'),('Caecilian','n.','A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or\n   Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.'),('Caecums','pl. ','of Caecum'),('Caeca','pl. ','of Caecum'),('Caecum','n.','A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or\n   duct.'),('Caecum','n.','The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance\n   of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.'),('Caenozoic','a.','See Cenozoic.'),('Caen stone','','A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen,\n   France.'),('Caesar','n.','A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar.\n   Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful\n   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\n   exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has\n   been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or\n   support of such a system of government.'),('Caesious','a.','Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture\n   of gray.'),('Caesium','n.','A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called\n   from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the\n   first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly\n   basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight\n   132.6.'),('Caespitose','a.','Same as Cespitose.'),('Caesuras','pl. ','of Caesura'),('Caesurae','pl. ','of Caesura'),('Caesura','n.','A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a\n   foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the\n   middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent\n   rests, or which is used as a foot.'),('Caesural','a.','Of or pertaining to a caesura.'),('Cafe','n.','A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or\n   restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.'),('Cafenet','n.','Alt. of Cafeneh'),('Cafeneh','n.','A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee\n   is sold.'),('Caffeic','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained from, coffee.'),('Caffeine','n.','A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from\n   coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and\n   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\n   government caravan; a string of pack horses.'),('Caftan','n.','A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long\n   gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by\n   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\n   metal, used for confining birds or other animals.'),('Cage','n.','A place of confinement for malefactors'),('Cage','n.','An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it;\n   as, the cage of a staircase.'),('Cage','n.','A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a\n   ball valve.'),('Cage','n.','A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.'),('Cage','n.','The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator;\n   a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.'),('Cage','n.','The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.'),('Cage','n.','The catcher\'s wire mask.'),('Caged','imp. & p. p.','of Cage'),('Caging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cage'),('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.'),('Cageling','n.','A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.'),('Cagit','n.','A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green color, found in the\n   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\n   until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They\n   are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.'),('Cahier','n.','A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one\n   of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.'),('Cahier','n.','A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings,\n   etc.'),('Cahincic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name\n   of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. racemosa; as, cahincic\n   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\n   Levantine vessel of larger size.'),('Ca ira','','The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution.'),('Caird','n.','A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.'),('Cairn','n.','A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early\n   inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.'),('Cairn','n.','A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest\n   attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party,\n   etc.'),('Cairngormstone','','A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or\n   crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in\n   Scotland.'),('Caisson','n.','A chest to hold ammunition.'),('Caisson','n.','A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition,\n   consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries\n   there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the\n   body, and one on the limber.'),('Caisson','n.','A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the\n   way of an enemy and exploded on his approach.'),('Caisson','n.','A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is\n   carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level.'),('Caisson','n.','A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to\n   close the entrances of docks and basins.'),('Caisson','n.','A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a\n   vessel to lift or float it.'),('Caisson','n.','A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits.'),('Caitiff','a.','Captive; wretched; unfortunate.'),('Caitiff','a.','Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable.'),('Caitiff','n.','A captive; a prisoner.'),('Caitiff','n.','A wretched or unfortunate man.'),('Caitiff','n.','A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness\n   and wickedness meet.'),('Cajeput','n.','See Cajuput.'),('Cajoled','imp. & p. p.','of Cajole'),('Cajoling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cajole'),('Cajole','v. i.','To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle.'),('Cajolement','n.','The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled;\n   cajolery.'),('Cajoler','n.','A flatterer; a wheedler.'),('Cajoleries','pl. ','of Cajolery'),('Cajolery','n.','A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery.'),('Cajuput','n.','A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled\n   from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is\n   greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.'),('Cajuputene','n.','A colorless or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.'),('Cake','n.','A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from\n   unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.'),('Cake','n.','A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients,\n   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\n   pancake; as buckwheat cakes.'),('Cake','n.','A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid\n   mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of\n   soap; an ague cake.'),('Cake','v. i.','To form into a cake, or mass.'),('Caked','imp. & p. p.','of Cake'),('Caking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cake'),('Cake','v. i.','To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in\n   an oven; to coagulate.'),('Cake','v. i.','To cackle as a goose.'),('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\n   it in the calabar bean.'),('Calabash','n.','The common gourd (plant or fruit).'),('Calabash','n.','The fruit of the calabash tree.'),('Calabash','n.','A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made\n   from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.'),('Calaboose','n.','A prison; a jail.'),('Calade','n.','A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse\n   is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.'),('Caladium','n.','A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are\n   cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched\n   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\n   a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a\n   species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called\n   also Coromandel wood.'),('Calamar','n.','Alt. of Calamary'),('Calamary','n.','A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related\n   genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which\n   they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order\n   to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the\n   flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they\n   are called squids. See Squid.'),('Calambac','n.','A fragrant wood; agalloch.'),('Calambour','n.','A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or\n   mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than\n   calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers.'),('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\n   family, esp. the C. Nepeta and C. Acinos, which are called also basil\n   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\n   legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibers in\n   the construction of their webs.'),('Calamite','n.','A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general\n   form of plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rush\n   family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the\n   stem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.'),('Calamitous','a.','Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable.'),('Calamitous','a.','Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making\n   wretched; wretched; unhappy.'),('Calamities','pl. ','of Calamity'),('Calamity','n.','Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally\n   applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to\n   communities or individuals.'),('Calamity','n.','A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.'),('Calami','pl. ','of Calamus'),('Calamus','n.','The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes\n   the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon\'s blood.'),('Calamus','n.','A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus,\n   or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in\n   medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were\n   formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.'),('Calamus','n.','The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.'),('Calando','a.','Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.'),('Calash','n.','A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that\n   can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the\n   driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an\n   open or a close carriage.'),('Calash','n.','In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash\n   top, and the driver\'s seat elevated in front.'),('Calash','n.','A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at\n   pleasure.'),('Calash','n.','A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn\n   forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.'),('Calaverite','n.','A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a\n   telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.'),('Calcaneal','a.','Pertaining to the calcaneum; as, calcaneal arteries.'),('-neums','pl. ','of Calcaneum'),('-nea','pl. ','of Calcaneum'),('Calcaneum','n.','One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the\n   great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.'),('Calcar','n.','A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the\n   calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.'),('Calcaria','pl. ','of Calcar'),('Calcar','n.','A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.'),('Calcar','n.','A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which\n   helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.'),('Calcar','n.','A spur, or spurlike prominence.'),('Calcar','n.','A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the\n   brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.'),('Calcarate','a.','Alt. of Calcarated'),('Calcarated','a.','Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and\n   larkspur; spurred.'),('Calcarated','a.','Armed with a spur.'),('Calcareo-argillaceous','a.','consisting of, or containing, calcareous and\n   argillaceous earths.'),('Calcareo-bituminous','a.','Consisting of, or containing, lime and\n   bitumen.'),('Calcareo-siliceous','a.','Consisting of, or containing calcareous and\n   siliceous earths.'),('Calcareous','a.','Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium\n   carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate\n   of lime.'),('Calcareousness','n.','Quality of being calcareous.'),('Calcariferous','a.','Lime-yielding; calciferous'),('Calcarine','a.','Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the\n   brain.'),('Calcavella','n.','A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the\n   district of Carcavelhos.'),('Calceated','a.','Fitted with, or wearing, shoes.'),('Calced','a.','Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced\n   or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.'),('Calcedon','n.','A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.'),('Calcedonic','a.','Alt. of Calcedonian'),('Calcedonian','a.','See Chalcedonic.'),('Calceiform','a.','Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the\n   lady\'s-slipper; calceolate.'),('Calceolaria','n.','A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought\n   from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower,\n   often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.'),('Calceolate','a.','Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.'),('Calces','n. pl.','See Calx.'),('Calcic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or\n   lime.'),('Calciferous','a.','Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or\n   carbonate of lime.'),('Calcific','a.','Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to\n   the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and\n   reptiles.'),('Calcification','n.','The process of change into a stony or calcareous\n   substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the\n   formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous\n   degeneration of tissue.'),('Calcified','a.','Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime\n   salts; calcareous.'),('Calciform','a.','In the form of chalk or lime.'),('Calcified','imp. & p. p.','of Calcify'),('Calcifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calcify'),('Calcify','v. t.','To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion\n   of salts of lime.'),('Calcify','v. i.','To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition,\n   in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.'),('Calcigenous','a.','Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike\n   substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.'),('Calcigerous','a.','Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the\n   calcigerous cells of the teeth.'),('Calcimine','n.','A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other\n   plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris\n   white or zinc white, and water.'),('Calcimined','imp. &p. p.','of Calcimine'),('Calcimining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calcimine'),('Calcimine','v. t.','To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine\n   walls.'),('Calciminer','n.','One who calcimines.'),('Calcinable','a.','That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.'),('Calcinate','v. i.','To calcine.'),('Calcination','n.','The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or\n   rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of\n   some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from\n   carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.'),('Calcination','n.','The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or\n   metallic calx; oxidation.'),('Calcinatory','n.','A vessel used in calcination.'),('Calciden','imp. & p. p.','of Calcine'),('Calcining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calcine'),('Calcine','v. i.','To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the\n   action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as\n   carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce\n   disintegration; as to, calcine bones.'),('Calcine','v. i.','To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce\n   to a metallic calx.'),('Calcine','v. i.','To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or\n   into a calx, by the action of heat.'),('Calciner','n.','One who, or that which, calcines.'),('Calcispongiae','n. pl.','An order of marine sponges, containing\n   calcareous spicules. See Porifera.'),('Calcite','n.','Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is\n   rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from\n   aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also\n   calc-spar and calcareous spar.'),('Calcitrant','a.','Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.'),('Calcitrate','v. i. & i.','To kick.'),('Calcitration','n.','Act of kicking.'),('Calcium','n.','An elementary substance; a metal which combined with\n   oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and\n   malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements.\n   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.'),('Calc-sinter','n.','See under Calcite.'),('Calc-spar','n.','Same as Calcite.'),('Calc-tufa','n.','See under Calcite.'),('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\n   the pear and other fruits.'),('Calculater','imp. & p. p.','of Calculate'),('Calculating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calculate'),('Calculate','v. i.','To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes,\n   usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate;\n   to compute.'),('Calculate','v. i.','To ascertain or predict by mathematical or\n   astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions\n   of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to\n   calculate or cast one\'s nativity.'),('Calculate','v. i.','To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or\n   calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end;\n   as, to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of\n   a free people.'),('Calculate','v. i.','To plan; to expect; to think.'),('Calculate','v. i.','To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to\n   estimate; to compute.'),('Calculated','p. p. & a.','Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables\n   for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of\n   calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated\n   velocity of a cannon ball.'),('Calculated','p. p. & a.','Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or\n   forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to\n   deceive the people.'),('Calculated','p. p. & a.','Likely to produce a certain effect, whether\n   intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited.'),('Calculating','a.','Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations;\n   performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.'),('Calculating','a.','Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting;\n   scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition.'),('Calculating','n.','The act or process of making mathematical computations\n   or of estimating results.'),('Calculation','n.','The act or process, or the result, of calculating;\n   computation; reckoning, estimate.'),('Calculation','n.','An expectation based on circumstances.'),('Calculative','a.','Of or pertaining to calculation; involving\n   calculation.'),('Calculator','n.','One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or\n   considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct\n   estimate of the effects.'),('Calculatory','a.','Belonging to calculation.'),('Calcule','n.','Reckoning; computation.'),('Calcule','v. i.','To calculate'),('Calculi','n. pl.','See Calculus.'),('Calculous','a.','Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a\n   calculous concretion.'),('Calculous','a.','Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus\n   or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as,\n   a calculous person.'),('Calculi','pl. ','of Calculus'),('Calculus','n.','Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but\n   most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages\n   connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.'),('Calculus','n.','A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the\n   use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.'),('Caldron','n.','A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron.\n   [Written also cauldron.]'),('Caleche','n.','See Calash.'),('Caledonia','n.','The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in\n   poetry.'),('Caledonian','a.','Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish;\n   Scotch.'),('Caledonian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Caledonia or Scotland.'),('Caledonite','n.','A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some\n   parts of Caledonia or Scotland.'),('Calefacient','a.','Making warm; heating.'),('Calefacient','n.','A substance that excites warmth in the parts to which\n   it is applied, as mustard.'),('Calefaction','n.','The act of warming or heating; the production of heat\n   in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other\n   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\n   stove, etc.'),('Calefactory','a.','Making hot; producing or communicating heat.'),('Calefactory','n.','An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a\n   sitting room.'),('Calefactory','n.','A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a\n   chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to\n   warm his hands with.'),('Calefied','imp. & p. p.','of Calefy'),('Calefying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calefy'),('Calefy','v. i.','To make warm or hot.'),('Calefy','v. i.','To grow hot or warm.'),('Calembour','n.','A pun.'),('Calendar','n.','An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted\n   to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also,\n   a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.'),('Calendar','n.','A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices,\n   saints\' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly\n   according to the varying date of Easter.'),('Calendar','n.','An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or\n   events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills\n   presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for\n   trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.'),('Calendared','imp. & p. p.','of Calendar'),('Calendaring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calendar'),('Calendar','v. t.','To enter or write in a calendar; to register.'),('Calendarial','a.','Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.'),('Calendary','a.','Calendarial.'),('Calender','n.','A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper,\n   etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot\n   pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It\n   consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the\n   necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.'),('Calender','n.','One who pursues the business of calendering.'),('Calendered','imp. & p. p.','of Calender'),('Calendering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calender'),('Calender','n.','To press between rollers for the purpose of making smooth\n   and glossy, or wavy, as woolen and silk stuffs, linens, paper, etc.'),('Calender','n.','One of a sect or order of fantastically dressed or\n   painted dervishes.'),('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\n   calendar.'),('Calendula','n.','A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species,\n   Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to\n   blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.'),('Calendulin','n.','A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained\n   from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.'),('Calenture','n.','A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in\n   tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among\n   sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to\n   be a green field, and to throw himself into it.'),('Calenture','v. i.','To see as in the delirium of one affected with\n   calenture.'),('Calescence','n.','Growing warmth; increasing heat.'),('Calves','pl. ','of Calf'),('Calf','n.','The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds.\n   Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros,\n   hippopotamus, and whale.'),('Calf','n.','Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine,\n   light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.'),('Calf','n.','An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a\n   dolt.'),('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\n   glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.'),('Calf','n.','The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.'),('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'),('Calibre','n.','The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or\n   of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm\n   will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber.'),('Calibre','n.','The diameter of round or cylindrical body, as of a bullet\n   or column.'),('Calibre','n.','Fig.: Capacity or compass of mind.'),('Calibrate','v. i.','To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer\n   tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of,\n   as of the various standards or graduated instruments.'),('Calibration','n.','The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a\n   thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also,\n   more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in\n   any graduated instrument.'),('Calice','n.','See Chalice.'),('Calicle','n.','One of the small cuplike cavities, often with elevated\n   borders, covering the surface of most corals. Each is formed by a\n   polyp. (b) One of the cuplike structures inclosing the zooids of\n   certain hydroids. See Campanularian.'),('Calicoes','pl. ','of Calico'),('Calico','n.','Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives\n   distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes,\n   shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.'),('Calico','n.','Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.'),('Calico','a.','Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often\n   applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large\n   patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.'),('Calicoback','n.','The calico bass.'),('Calicoback','n.','An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which\n   injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug\n   and harlequin cabbage bug.'),('Calicular','a.','Alt. of Caliculate'),('Caliculate','a.','Relating to, or resembling, a cup; also improperly used\n   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\n   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\n   canisters.'),('Calipash','n.','A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It\n   contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge,\n   much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.'),('Calipee','n.','A part of a turtle which is attached to the lower shell.\n   It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a light yellowish\n   color, much esteemed as a delicacy.'),('Calipers','n. pl.','An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers\n   or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness\n   of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot,\n   etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper\n   compasses, or caliber compasses.'),('Caliph','n.','Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of\n   Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans\n   of Turkey.'),('Caliphate','n.','The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the\n   caliphs.'),('Calippic','a.','Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.'),('Calisaya bark','','A valuable kind of Peruvian bark obtained from the\n   Cinchona Calisaya, and other closely related species.'),('Calistheneum','n.','A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by\n   women and children.'),('Calisthenis','a.','Of or pertaining to calisthenics.'),('Calisthenics','n.','The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise\n   of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light\n   gymnastics.'),('Caliver','n.','An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus;\n   originally a gun having a regular size of bore.'),('Calix','n.','A cup. See Calyx.'),('Calked','imp. &p. p.','of Calk'),('Calking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calk'),('Calk','v. t.','To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of\n   (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by\n   smearing the seams with melted pitch.'),('Calk','v. t.','To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as\n   along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of\n   the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.'),('Calk','v. t.','To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red\n   or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the\n   lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against\n   which it is laid or held.'),('Calk','n.','A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on\n   the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; --\n   called also calker, calkin.'),('Calk','n.','An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe\n   or boot, to prevent slipping.'),('Calk','v. i.','To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to\n   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\n   foot with a calk on one of the other feet.'),('Calker','n.','One who calks.'),('Calker','n.','A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.'),('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\n   of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing.'),('Called','imp. & p. p.','of Call'),('Calling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Call'),('Call','v. t.','To command or request to come or be present; to summon;\n   as, to call a servant.'),('Call','v. t.','To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to\n   designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious\n   character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the\n   ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor\n   of a church.'),('Call','v. t.','To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with\n   together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and\n   summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.'),('Call','v. t.','To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a\n   specifed name.'),('Call','v. t.','To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to\n   denominate; to designate.'),('Call','v. t.','To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to\n   characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance\n   ten miles; he called it a full day\'s work.'),('Call','v. t.','To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality\n   of.'),('Call','v. t.','To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;\n   as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of\n   a military company.'),('Call','v. t.','To invoke; to appeal to.'),('Call','v. t.','To rouse from sleep; to awaken.'),('Call','v. i.','To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; --\n   sometimes with to.'),('Call','v. i.','To make a demand, requirement, or request.'),('Call','v. i.','To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place\n   designated, as for orders.'),('Call','n.','The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often\n   otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a\n   summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle\'s\n   call.'),('Call','n.','A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon\n   soldiers or sailors to duty.'),('Call','n.','An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its\n   pastor.'),('Call','n.','A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the\n   case; a moral requirement or appeal.'),('Call','n.','A divine vocation or summons.'),('Call','n.','Vocation; employment.'),('Call','n.','A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the\n   daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.'),('Call','n.','A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.'),('Call','n.','A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to\n   summon the sailors to duty.'),('Call','n.','The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a\n   bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.'),('Call','n.','A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance,\n   or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or\n   calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.'),('Call','n.','The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any\n   commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.'),('Call','n.','See Assessment, 4.'),('Calla','n.','A genus of plants, of the order Araceae.'),('Callat','n.','Same as Callet.'),('Calle','n.','A kind of head covering; a caul.'),('Caller','n.','One who calls.'),('Caller','a.','Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air.'),('Caller','a.','Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.'),('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.','The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to\n   summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.'),('Calling','n.','A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament.'),('Calling','n.','A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being\n   divinely called.'),('Calling','n.','A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in\n   order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in\n   legislative bodies.'),('Calling','n.','One\'s usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business;\n   trade.'),('Calling','n.','The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular\n   professions or employment.'),('Calling','n.','Title; appellation; name.'),('Calliope','n.','The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry;\n   mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.'),('Calliope','n.','One of the asteroids. See Solar.'),('Calliope','n.','A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam\n   whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged\n   like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.'),('Calliope','n.','A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope)\n   of California and adjacent regions.'),('Calliopsis','n.','A popular name given to a few species of the genus\n   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\n   of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade;\n   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\n   and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of\n   continued pressure or friction.'),('Callosum','n.','The great band commissural fibers which unites the two\n   cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.'),('Callot','n.','A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.'),('Callous','a.','Hardened; indurated.'),('Callous','a.','Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.'),('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\n   exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous\n   in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites\n   the fragments into a single piece.'),('Callus','n.','The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts\n   out rootlets.'),('Calm','n.','Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation\n   or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or\n   waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.'),('Calmed','imp. & p. p.','of Calm'),('Calming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calm'),('Calm','n.','To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to\n   calm the winds.'),('Calm','n.','To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe,\n   as the mind or passions.'),('Calm','super.','Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still;\n   quiet; serene; undisturbed.'),('Calm','super.','Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or\n   excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.'),('Calmer','n.','One who, or that which, makes calm.'),('Calmly','adv.','In a calm manner.'),('Calmness','n.','The state of quality of being calm; quietness;\n   tranquillity; self-repose.'),('Calmucks','n. pl.','A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of\n   the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the\n   Calmucks.'),('Calmy','n.','Tranquil; peaceful; calm.'),('Calomel','n.','Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or\n   yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in\n   medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs\n   native as the mineral horn quicksilver.'),('Calorescence','n.','The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light;\n   the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.'),('Caloric','n.','The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena\n   of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in\n   scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat.'),('Caloric','a.','Of or pertaining to caloric.'),('Caloricity','n.','A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the\n   heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat.'),('Caloriduct','n.','A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.'),('Calorie','n.','The unit of heat according to the French standard; the\n   amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram\n   (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0¡ to 1¡.\n   Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound.'),('Calorifacient','a.','See Calorificient.'),('Calorifere','n.','An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat,\n   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;\n   -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are\n   supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.'),('Calorimeter','n.','An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat\n   contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical\n   process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.'),('Calorimeter','n.','An apparatus for measuring the proportion of\n   unevaporated water contained in steam.'),('Calorimetric','a.','Of or pertaining to the process of using the\n   calorimeter.'),('Calorimetry','n.','Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.'),('Calorimotor','n.','A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate,\n   and producing powerful heating effects.'),('Calotte','n.','Alt. of Callot'),('Callot','n.','A close cap without visor or brim.'),('Callot','n.','Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law.'),('Callot','n.','Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets.'),('Callot','n.','Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic\n   Church.'),('Calotype','n.','A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper\n   sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the\n   inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot.'),('Caloyer','n.','A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or\n   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'),('Caltrap','n.','A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order\n   Zygophylleae, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout\n   spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The\n   species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.'),('Caltrap','n.','An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any\n   three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are\n   scattered on the ground where an enemy\'s cavalry are to pass, to impede\n   their progress by endangering the horses\' feet.'),('Calumba','n.','The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably\n   Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly\n   bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic.'),('Calumbin','n.','A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline\n   substance from the calumba root.'),('Calumet','n.','A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for\n   smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the\n   tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.'),('Calumniated','imp. & p. p.','of Calumniate'),('Calumniating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calumniate'),('Calumniate','v. t.','To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or\n   offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.'),('Calumniate','v. i.','To propagate evil reports with a design to injure\n   the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some\n   offense or crime.'),('Calumniation','n.','False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious\n   and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a\n   view to injure his good name.'),('Calumniator','n.','One who calumniates.'),('Calumniatory','a.','Containing calumny; slanderous.'),('Calumnious','a.','Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and\n   injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports.'),('Calumnies','pl. ','of Calumny'),('Calumny','n.','False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made\n   or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation;\n   slander; detraction.'),('Calvaria','n.','The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of\n   the domelike upper portion.'),('Calvary','n.','The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill\n   outside of Jerusalem.'),('Calvary','n.','A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three\n   crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as\n   life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were\n   present at the crucifixion.'),('Calvary','n.','A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called\n   cross calvary.'),('Calved','imp. & p. p.','of Calve'),('Calving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Calve'),('Calve','v. i.','To bring forth a calf.'),('Calve','v. i.','To bring forth young; to produce offspring.'),('Calver','v. i.','To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon.'),('Calver','v. i.','To crimp; as, calvered salmon.'),('Calver','v. i.','To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as,\n   grayling\'s flesh will calver.'),('Calvessnout','n.','Snapdragon.'),('Calvinism','n.','The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a\n   French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers,\n   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\n   Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism.'),('Calvinize','v. t.','To convert to Calvinism.'),('Calvish','a.','Like a calf; stupid.'),('Calxes','pl. ','of Calx'),('Calces','pl. ','of Calx'),('Calx','n.','Quicklime.'),('Calx','n.','The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been\n   subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may\n   be, reduced to a fine powder.'),('Calx','n.','Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.'),('Calycifloral','a.','Alt. of callyciflorous'),('Callyciflorous','a.','Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx;\n   -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the\n   French botanist Candolle.'),('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\n   outside.'),('Calycled','a.','Calyculate.'),('Calycozoa','n. pl.','A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type.\n   The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate\n   tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is\n   divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.'),('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.'),('Calypso','n.','A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower\n   variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet\n   localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso\n   borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N.'),('Calyptra','n.','A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form\n   and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which\n   contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.'),('Calyptriform','a.','Having the form a calyptra, or extinguisher.'),('Calyxes','pl. ','of Calyx'),('Calyces','pl. ','of Calyx'),('Calyx','n.','The covering of a flower. See Flower.'),('Calyx','n.','A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which\n   surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.'),('Calzoons','n. pl.','Drawers.'),('Cam','n.','A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its\n   periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or\n   intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or\n   block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.'),('Cam','n.','A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or\n   clamping two pieces together.'),('Cam','n.','A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped\n   as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which\n   it acts.'),('Cam','n.','A ridge or mound of earth.'),('Cam','a.','Crooked.'),('Camaieu','n.','A cameo.'),('Camaieu','n.','Painting in shades of one color; monochrome.'),('Camail','n.','A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or\n   other headpiece.'),('Camail','n.','A hood of other material than mail;'),('Camail','n.','a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.'),('Camarasaurus','n.','A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs,\n   having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.'),('Camarilla','n.','The private audience chamber of a king.'),('Camarilla','n.','A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a\n   king; a cabal or clique.'),('Camass','n.','A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) of\n   northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the\n   Indians.'),('Camber','n.','An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has\n   a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).'),('Camber','n.','An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or\n   lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See\n   Hogback.'),('Cambered','imp. & p. p.','of Camber'),('Cambering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Camber'),('Camber','v. t.','To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck,\n   with an upward curve.'),('Camber','v. i.','To curve upward.'),('Camberkeeled','a.','Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually\n   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\n   bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.'),('Cambistry','n.','The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc.'),('Cambium','n.','A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood\n   proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place\n   in the cambium, which is very soft.'),('Cambium','n.','A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate\n   in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its\n   increase.'),('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\n   its resemblance to cambric.'),('Cambrel','n.','See Gambrel, n., 2.'),('Cambria','n.','The ancient Latin name of Wales. It is used by modern\n   poets.'),('Cambrian','a.','Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.'),('Cambrian','a.','Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks\n   of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to\n   the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See\n   the Diagram under Geology.'),('Cambrian','n.','A native of Cambria or Wales.'),('Cambrian','n.','The Cambrian formation.'),('Cambric','n.','A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.'),('Cambric','n.','A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine,\n   hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called\n   cotton cambric, and cambric muslin.'),('Cambro-Briton','n.','A Welshman.'),('Came','','imp. of Come.'),('Came','n.','A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in\n   casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or\n   pieces of glass.'),('Camel','n.','A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying\n   burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a\n   long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the\n   extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the\n   callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back,\n   while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca,\n   and vicua, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia).'),('Camel','n.','A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to\n   assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow\n   water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached\n   beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out\n   the vessel is lifted.'),('Camel-backed','a.','Having a back like a camel; humpbacked.'),('Cameleon','n.','See Chaceleon.'),('Camellia','n.','An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining\n   leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for\n   ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the\n   oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to\n   this genus under the name of Camellia Thea.'),('Camelopard','n.','An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe.'),('Camelot','n.','See Camelet.'),('Camelshair','a.','Of camel\'s hair.'),('Cameos','pl. ','of Cameo'),('Cameo','n.','A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a\n   jewel for personal adornment, or like.'),('Cameras','pl. ','of Camera'),('Camerae','pl. ','of Camera'),('Camera','n.','A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically:\n   The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera\n   obscura.'),('Camerade','n.','See Comrade.'),('Cameralistic','a.','Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.'),('Cameralistics','n.','The science of finance or public revenue.'),('Camera lucida','','An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar\n   form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an\n   external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane\n   surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently\n   traced. It is generally used with the microscope.'),('Camera obscura','','An apparatus in which the images of external objects,\n   formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or\n   other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a\n   darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced.'),('Camera obscura','','An apparatus in which the image of an external object\n   or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or\n   surface placed at the back of an extensible darkened box or chamber\n   variously modified; -- commonly called simply the camera.'),('Camerated','imp. & p. p.','of Camerate'),('Camerzting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Camerate'),('Camerate','v. i.','To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.'),('Camerate','v. i.','To divide into chambers.'),('Cameration','n.','A vaulting or arching over.'),('Camerlingo','n.','The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over\n   the pope\'s household. He has at times possessed great power.'),('Cameronian','n.','A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch\n   Covenanter of the time of Charles II.'),('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\n   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\n   against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so\n   called from the peasant\'s smock (camise) which they wore.'),('Camisated','a.','Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.'),('Camisole','n.','A short dressing jacket for women.'),('Camisole','n.','A kind of straitjacket.'),('Camlet','n.','A woven fabric originally made of camel\'s hair, now chiefly\n   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\n   spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also\n   called cammock.'),('Camomile','n.','Alt. of Chamomile'),('Chamomile','n.','A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The\n   common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers\n   have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are\n   tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is\n   carminative.'),('Camonflet','n.','A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an\n   enemy\'s gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the\n   miners.'),('Camous','a.','Alt. of Camoys'),('Camoys','a.','Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.'),('Camoused','a.','Depressed; flattened.'),('Camously','adv.','Awry.'),('Camp','n.','The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected\n   for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.'),('Camp','n.','A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly\n   arranged in an orderly manner.'),('Camp','n.','A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter\'s camp.'),('Camp','n.','The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of\n   surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.'),('Camp','n.','A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are\n   stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.'),('Camp','n.','An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.'),('Camped','imp. & p. p.','of Camp'),('Camping','p. pr. & vb n.','of Camp'),('Camp','v. t.','To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.'),('Camp','v. i.','To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp;\n   -- often with out.'),('Camp','n.','To play the game called camp.'),('Campagna','n.','An open level tract of country; especially \"Campagna di\n   Roma.\" The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.'),('Campagnol','n.','A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse,\n   which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on\n   roots and seeds.'),('Campaign','n.','An open field; a large, open plain without considerable\n   hills. SeeChampaign.'),('Campaign','n.','A connected series of military operations forming a\n   distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.'),('Campaign','n.','Political operations preceding an election; a canvass.'),('Campaign','n.','The period during which a blast furnace is continuously\n   in operation.'),('Campaign','v. i.','To serve in a campaign.'),('Campaigner','n.','One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an\n   old soldier; a veteran.'),('Campana','n.','A church bell.'),('Campana','n.','The pasque flower.'),('Campana','n.','Same as Gutta.'),('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.'),('Campaniliform','a.','Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.'),('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,\n   often of great beauty; -- also called bellflower.'),('Campanulaceous','a.','Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of\n   plants (Camponulaceae) of which Campanula is the type, and which\n   includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus\'s\n   looking-glass.'),('Campanularian','n.','A hydroid of the family ampanularidae, characterized\n   by having the polyps or zooids inclosed in bell-shaped calicles or\n   hydrothecae.'),('Campanulate','a.','Bell-shaped.'),('Campbellite','n.','A member of the denomination called Christians or\n   Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as\n   a nickname. See Christian, 3.'),('Campeachy Wood','','Logwood.'),('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;\n   growing in a field, or open ground.'),('Camptight','n.','A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.'),('Camphene','n.','One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor,\n   regarded as modified terpenes.'),('Camphine','n.','Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps,\n   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 tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from\n   different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara\n   (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and\n   fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or\n   sedative.'),('Camphor','n.','A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree\n   (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also\n   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','v. t.','To impregnate or treat with camphor.'),('Camphorate','n.','A salt of camphoric acid.'),('Camphorate','','Alt. of Camporated'),('Camporated','','Combined or impregnated with camphor.'),('Camphoric','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor.'),('Camphretic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from camphor.'),('Camping','n.','Lodging in a camp.'),('Camping','n.','A game of football.'),('Campion','n.','A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing\n   berries regarded as poisonous.'),('Campus','n.','The principal grounds of a college or school, between the\n   buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.'),('Campylospermous','a.','Having seeds grooved lengthwise on the inner face,\n   as in sweet cicely.'),('Campylotropous','a.','Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down\n   upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close\n   together.'),('Camus','n.','See Camis.'),('Camwood','n.','See Barwood.'),('Can','','an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in\n   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\n   forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a\n   milk can.'),('Canned','imp. & p. p.','of Can'),('Canning','p. pr. &vb. n.','of Can'),('Can','v. t.','To preserve by putting in sealed cans'),('Could','imp.','of Can'),('Can','v. t. & i.','To know; to understand.'),('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;\n   as, I can go, but do not wish to.'),('Canaanite','n.','A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of\n   Noah.'),('Canaanite','n.','A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a\n   member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the\n   exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.'),('Canaanite','n.','A zealot.'),('Canaanitish','a.','Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.'),('Caada','n.','A small caon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less\n   frequently, an open valley.'),('Canada','n.','A British province in North America, giving its name to\n   various plants and animals.'),('Canadian','a.','Of or pertaining to Canada.'),('Canadian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Canada.'),('Canaille','n.','The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.'),('Canaille','n.','Shorts or inferior flour.'),('Canakin','n.','A little can or cup.'),('Canal','n.','An artificial channel filled with water and designed for\n   navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.'),('Canal','n.','A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular\n   canals of the ear.'),('Canal coal','','See Cannel coal.'),('Canaliculate','a.','Alt. of Canaliculated'),('Canaliculated','a.','Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of\n   most palms.'),('Canaliculi','pl. ','of Canaliculus'),('Canaliculus','n.','A minute canal.'),('Canalization','n.','Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or\n   canals.'),('Canard','n.','An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated\n   sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers\n   to hoax the public.'),('Canarese','a.','Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.'),('Canary','a.','Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine;\n   canary birds.'),('Canary','a.','Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.'),('Canaries','pl. ','of Canary'),('Canary','n.','Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.'),('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','v. i.','To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.'),('Canary bird','','A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus\n   Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in\n   the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a\n   yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state\n   it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called\n   canary finch.'),('Canaster','n.','A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves,\n   coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is\n   packed in South America.'),('Can buoy','','See under Buoy, n.'),('Cancan','n.','A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or\n   extravagant postures and gestures.'),('Canceled','imp. & p. p.','of Cancel'),('Cancelled','','of Cancel'),('Canceling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cancel'),('Cancelling','','of Cancel'),('Cancel','v. i.','To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with\n   latticework.'),('Cancel','v. i.','To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to\n   exclude.'),('Cancel','v. i.','To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a\n   word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.'),('Cancel','v. i.','To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.'),('Cancel','v. i.','To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.'),('Cancel','v. i.','An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.'),('Cancel','v. i.','The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of\n   a printed page or pages.'),('Cancel','v. i.','The part thus suppressed.'),('Cancelier','v. i.','To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.'),('Cancelier','n.','Alt. of Canceleer'),('Canceleer','n.','The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself,\n   when she misses her aim in the stoop.'),('Cancellarean','a.','Cancellarean.'),('Cancellate','v. t.','Consisting of a network of veins, without\n   intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.'),('Cancellate','v. t.','Having the surface coveres with raised lines,\n   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\n   cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.'),('Cancellation','n.','The operation of striking out common factors, in both\n   the dividend and divisor.'),('Cancelli','v. t.','An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure;\n   latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of\n   justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.'),('Cancelli','v. t.','The interlacing osseous plates constituting the\n   elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their\n   articular extremities.'),('Cancellous','a.','Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of\n   cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many\n   bones.'),('Cancer','n.','A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most\n   common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah\n   crab, etc. See Crab.'),('Cancer','n.','The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first\n   point is the northern limit of the sun\'s course in summer; hence, the\n   sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.'),('Cancer','n.','A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo.'),('Cancer','n.','Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with\n   great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It\n   was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it,\n   compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now\n   restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial\n   cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular\n   framework.'),('Cancerated','imp. & p. p.','of Cancerate'),('Cancerate','v. i.','To grow into a canser; to become cancerous.'),('Canceration','n.','The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into\n   a cancer.'),('Cancerite','n.','Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a\n   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\n   massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime,\n   soda, and carbon dioxide.'),('Cancroid','a.','Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of\n   the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.'),('Cancroid','a.','Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.'),('Cand','n.','Fluor spar. See Kand.'),('Candelabra','pl. ','of Candelabrum'),('Candelabrums','pl. ','of Candelabrum'),('Candelabrum','n.','A lamp stand of any sort.'),('Candelabrum','n.','A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous\n   material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to\n   a temple.'),('Candelabrum','n.','A large candlestick, having several branches.'),('Candent','a.','Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.'),('Canderos','n.','An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from\n   which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.'),('Candescence','n.','See Incandescence.'),('Candicant','a.','Growing white.'),('Candid','a.','White.'),('Candid','a.','Free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according\n   to truth and justice, or without partiality or prejudice; fair; just;\n   impartial; as, a candid opinion.'),('Candid','a.','Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.'),('Candidacy','n.','The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate;\n   candidateship.'),('Candidate','n.','One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as\n   a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office,\n   privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a\n   candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.'),('Candidateship','n.','Candidacy.'),('Candidating','n.','The taking of the position of a candidate;\n   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.','Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike\n   substance; as, candied fruits.'),('Candied','a.','Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as\n   candied sirup.'),('Candied','a.','Conted or more or less with sugar; as, candidied raisins'),('Candied','a.','Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering.'),('Candied','a.','Covered or incrusted with that which resembles sugar or\n   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\n   Ceylon.'),('Candle','n.','A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick\n   composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to\n   furnish light.'),('Candle','n.','That which gives light; a luminary.'),('Candleberry tree','','A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing\n   myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered\n   with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening\n   candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.'),('Candlebomb','n.','A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if\n   placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.'),('Candlebomb','n.','A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with\n   a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.'),('Candle coal','','See Cannel coal.'),('Candlefish','n.','A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the\n   smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is\n   so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick\n   through it'),('Candlefish','n.','The beshow.'),('Candleholder','n.','One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who\n   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\n   feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the\n   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\n   or dissipation.'),('Candock','n.','A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of\n   Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).'),('Candor','n.','Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions)\n   usullied purity; innocence.'),('Candor','n.','A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from\n   prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity.'),('Candroy','n.','A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them\n   for printing.'),('Candied','imp. & p. p.','of Candy'),('Candying','p. pr & vb. n.','of Candy'),('Candy','v. t.','To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to\n   candy ginger.'),('Candy','v. t.','To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass\n   resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.'),('Candy','v. t.','To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which\n   resembles sugar or candy.'),('Candy','v. i.','To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits\n   preserved in sugar candy after a time.'),('Candy','v. i.','To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form\n   or mass.'),('Candy','v. t.','A more or less solid article of confectionery made by\n   boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than\n   crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often\n   flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.'),('Candy','n.','A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.'),('Candytuft','n.','An annual plant of the genus Iberis, cultivated in\n   gardens. The name was originally given to the I. umbellata, first,\n   discovered in the island of Candia.'),('Cane','n.','A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus\n   and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly\n   called rattans.'),('Cane','n.','Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and\n   bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.'),('Cane','n.','Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the\n   canes of a raspberry.'),('Cane','n.','A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally\n   made of one the species of cane.'),('Cane','n.','A lance or dart made of cane.'),('Cane','n.','A local European measure of length. See Canna.'),('Caned','imp. & p. p.','of Cane'),('Caning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cane'),('Cane','v. t.','To beat with a cane.'),('Cane','v. t.','To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane\n   chairs.'),('Canebrake','n.','A thicket of canes.'),('Caned','a.','Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when\n   containing mother.'),('Canella','n.','A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the\n   West Indies.'),('Canescent','a.','Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.'),('Can hook','','A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each\n   end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.'),('Cannicula','n.','The Dog Star; Sirius.'),('Canicular','a.','Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog\n   Star.'),('Canicule','n.','Canicula.'),('Caninal','a.','See Canine, a.'),('Canine','a.','Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves;\n   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\n   incisors.'),('Canine','n.','A canine tooth.'),('Canes','pl. ','of Canis'),('Canis','n.','A genus of carnivorous mammals, of the family Canidae,\n   including the dogs and wolves.'),('Canister','n.','A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.'),('Canister','n.','A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.'),('Canister','n.','A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead\n   or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; --\n   called also canister shot.'),('Canker','n.','A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous\n   ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also\n   water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.'),('Canker','n.','Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.'),('Canker','n.','A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and\n   fall off.'),('Canker','n.','An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse\'s foot,\n   characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of\n   fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.'),('Canker','n.','A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.'),('Cankered','imp. & p. p.','of Canker'),('Cankering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Canker'),('Canker','v. t.','To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to\n   consume.'),('Canker','v. t.','To infect or pollute; to corrupt.'),('Canker','v. i.','To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.'),('Canker','v. i.','To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with\n   canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.'),('Canker-bit','a.','Eaten out by canker, or as by canker.'),('Canker bloom','','The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.'),('Canker blossom','','That which blasts a blossom as a canker does.'),('Cankered','a.','Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.'),('Cankered','a.','Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore,\n   envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured.'),('Cankeredly','adv.','Fretfully; spitefully.'),('Canker fly','','A fly that preys on fruit.'),('Cankerous','a.','Affecting like a canker.'),('Canker rash','','A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or\n   putrid sore throat.'),('Cankerworm','n.','The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are\n   very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely\n   destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called\n   cankerworms.'),('Cankery','a.','Like a canker; full of canker.'),('Cankery','a.','Surly; sore; malignant.'),('Canna','n.','A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven\n   feet. See Cane, 4.'),('Canna','n.','A genus of tropical plants, with large leaves and often with\n   showy flowers. The Indian shot (C. Indica) is found in gardens of the\n   northern United States.'),('Cannabene','n.','A colorless oil obtained from hemp by distillation, and\n   possessing its intoxicating properties.'),('Cannabin','n.','A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa,\n   variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this\n   resin.'),('Cannabine','a.','Pertaining to hemp; hempen.'),('Cannabis','n.','A genus of a single species belonging to the order\n   Uricaceae; hemp.'),('Cannel coal','','A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently\n   hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear,\n   yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for\n   candles.'),('Cannery','n.','A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc.,\n   is carried on.'),('Cannibal','n.','A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that\n   devours its own kind.'),('Cannibal','a.','Relating to cannibals or cannibalism.'),('Cannibalism','n.','The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind.\n   Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.'),('Cannibally','adv.','In the manner of cannibal.'),('Cannikin','n.','A small can or drinking vessel.'),('Cannily','adv.','In a canny manner.'),('Canniness','n.','Caution; crafty management.'),('Cannons','pl. ','of Cannon'),('Cannon','pl. ','of Cannon'),('Cannon','n.','A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm\n   for discharging heavy shot with great force.'),('Cannon','n.','A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on\n   which it may, however, revolve independently.'),('Cannon','n.','A kind of type. See Canon.'),('Cannon','n. & v.','See Carom.'),('Cannonade','n.','The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell,\n   etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship,\n   or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.'),('Cannonade','n.','Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.'),('Cannonade','imp. & p. p.','of Cannonade'),('Cannonading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cannonade'),('Cannonade','v. t.','To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon\n   shot.'),('Cannonade','v. i.','To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.'),('Cannon bone','','See Canon Bone.'),('Cannoned','a.','Furnished with cannon.'),('Cannoneer','n.','Alt. of Cannonier'),('Cannonier','n.','A man who manages, or fires, cannon.'),('Cannonering','n.','The use of cannon.'),('Cannonry','n.','Cannon, collectively; artillery.'),('Cannot','','Am, is, or are, not able; -- written either as one word or\n   two.'),('Cannula','n.','A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for\n   various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is\n   usually associated with a trocar.'),('Cannular','a.','Having the form of a tube; tubular.'),('Cannulated','a.','Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length\n   for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle.'),('Canny','a.','Alt. of Cannei'),('Cannei','a.','Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary.'),('Cannei','a.','Skillful; knowing; capable.'),('Cannei','a.','Cautious; prudent; safe..'),('Cannei','a.','Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle.'),('Cannei','a.','Reputed to have magical powers.'),('Canoes','pl. ','of Canoe'),('Canoe','n.','A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree,\n   excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is\n   propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no\n   rudder.'),('Canoe','n.','A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.'),('Canoe','n.','A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one\n   who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled\n   by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.'),('Canoed','imp. & p. p.','of Canoe'),('Canoeing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Canoe'),('Canoe','v. i.','To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.'),('Canoeing','n.','The act or art of using a canoe.'),('Canoeist','n.','A canoeman.'),('Canoemen','pl. ','of Canoeman'),('Canoeman','n.','One who uses a canoe; one who travels in a canoe.'),('Canon','n.','A law or rule.'),('Canon','n.','A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a\n   council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision,\n   regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.'),('Canon','n.','The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures,\n   called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty,\n   given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical\n   Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.'),('Canon','n.','In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious\n   order.'),('Canon','n.','A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the\n   Roman Catholic Church.'),('Canon','n.','A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a\n   prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.'),('Canon','n.','A musical composition in which the voices begin one after\n   another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject.\n   It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes,\n   commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the\n   strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.'),('Canon','n.','The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so\n   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\n   ear and shank.'),('Canon','n.','See Carom.'),('Caon','n.','A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks,\n   worn by water courses.'),('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\n   fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to\n   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'),('Cannonical','a.','Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or\n   according to a , canon or canons.'),('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\n   clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional\n   dress.'),('Canonicate','n.','The office of a canon; a canonry.'),('Canonicity','n.','The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with\n   the canon.'),('Canonist','n.','A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge\n   and practice of ecclesiastical law.'),('Canonistic','a.','Of or pertaining to a canonist.'),('Canonization','n.','The final process or decree (following beatifacation)\n   by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue\n   (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.'),('Canonization','n.','The state of being canonized or sainted.'),('Canonized','imp. & p. p.','of Canonize'),('Canonizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Canonize'),('Canonize','v. t.','To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the\n   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.'),('Canonry','n. pl.','A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate\n   church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues;\n   the dignity or emoluments of a canon.'),('Canonship','a.','Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic\n   vases, used in embalming.'),('Canopus','n.','A star of the first magnitude in the southern\n   constellation Argo.'),('Canopies','pl. ','of Canopy'),('Canopy','n.','A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried\n   on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as\n   a mark of honor.'),('Canopy','n.','An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.'),('Canopy','n.','Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an\n   altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.'),('Canopes','imp. & p. p.','of Canopy'),('Canopying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Canopy'),('Canopy','v. t.','To cover with, or as with, a canopy.'),('Canorous','a.','Melodious; musical.'),('Canorousness','n.','The quality of being musical.'),('Canstick','n.','Candlestick.'),('Cant','n.','A corner; angle; niche.'),('Cant','n.','An outer or external angle.'),('Cant','n.','An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or\n   bevel; a titl.'),('Cant','n.','A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a\n   bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to\n   give a ball a cant.'),('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 piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the\n   bulkheads.'),('Canted','imp. & p. p.','of Cant'),('Canting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cant'),('Cant','v. t.','To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon\n   the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.'),('Cant','v. t.','To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant\n   round a stick of timber; to cant a football.'),('Cant','v. t.','To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of\n   timber, or from the head of a bolt.'),('Cant','n.','An affected, singsong mode of speaking.'),('Cant','n.','The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or\n   occupation.'),('Cant','n.','The use of religious phraseology without understanding or\n   sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy.'),('Cant','n.','Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies,\n   thieves, tramps, or beggars.'),('Cant','a.','Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.'),('Cant','v. i.','To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong\n   tone.'),('Cant','v. i.','To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an\n   affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as,\n   a canting fanatic.'),('Cant','v. i.','To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or\n   technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning.'),('Cant','n.','A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.'),('Cant','v. t.','to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.'),('Can\'t','','A colloquial contraction for can not.'),('Cantab','n.','A Cantabrigian.'),('Cantabile','a.','In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as\n   opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.'),('Cantabile','n.','A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental,\n   peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.'),('Cantabrian','a.','Of or pertaining to Cantabria on the Bay of Biscay in\n   Spain.'),('Cantabrigian','n.','A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or\n   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\n   outer end; one which overhangs.'),('Cantaloupe','n.','A muskmelon of several varieties, having when mature, a\n   yellowish skin, and flesh of a reddish orange color.'),('Cantankerous','a.','Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.'),('Cantar','n.','Alt. of Cantarro'),('Cantarro','n.','A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy\n   articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly\n   75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in\n   Syria about 503 pounds.'),('Cantarro','n.','A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to\n   four gallons.'),('Cantata','n.','A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising\n   choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic\n   manner; originally, a composition for a single noise, consisting of\n   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.'),('Canteen','n.','A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or\n   other drink.'),('Canteen','n.','The sutler\'s shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing\n   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.'),('Cantered','imp. & p. p.','of Canter'),('Cantering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Canter'),('Canter','v. i.','To move in a canter.'),('Canter','v. t.','To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a\n   horse) at a canter.'),('Canter','n.','One who cants or whines; a beggar.'),('Canter','n.','One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who\n   uses canting language.'),('Canterbury','n.','A city in England, giving its name various articles. It\n   is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England),\n   and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were\n   formerly made.'),('Canterbury','n.','A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose\n   papers, etc.'),('Cantharidal','a.','Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of\n   cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.'),('Cantharides','n. pl.','See Cantharis.'),('Cantharidin','n.','The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly,\n   a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms.'),('Cantharides','pl. ','of Cantharis'),('Cantharis','n.','A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an\n   elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous\n   odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also\n   called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same\n   purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The\n   plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.'),('Cant hook','','A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; --\n   used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.'),('Canthoplasty','n.','The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has\n   been destroyed by injury or disease.'),('Canthi','pl. ','of Canthus'),('Canthus','n.','The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each\n   side of the eye.'),('Canticles','pl. ','of Canticle'),('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\n   the Old Testament.'),('Canticle','n.','A canto or division of a poem'),('Canticle','n.','A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for\n   chanting in church service.'),('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\n   modulations.'),('Cantine','n.','See Canteen.'),('Canting','a.','Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or\n   religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a\n   canting tone.'),('Canting','n.','The use of cant; hypocrisy.'),('Cantiniere','n.','A woman who carries a canteen for soldiers; a\n   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\n   the pommel.'),('Cantle','v. t.','To cut in pieces; to cut out from.'),('Cantlet','n.','A piece; a fragment; a corner.'),('Cantos','pl. ','of Canto'),('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;\n   anciently the tenor, now the soprano.'),('Canton','n.','A song or canto'),('Canton','n.','A small portion; a division; a compartment.'),('Canton','n.','A small community or clan.'),('Canton','n.','A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two\n   independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a\n   subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.'),('Canton','n.','A division of a shield occupying one third part of the\n   chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from\n   the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.'),('Cantoned','imp. & p. p.','of Canton'),('Cantoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Canton'),('Canton','v. i.','To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or\n   separate, as a distinct portion or division.'),('Canton','v. i.','To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or\n   divisions of an army or body of troops.'),('Cantonal','a.','Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of\n   a canton.'),('Canton crape','','A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy\n   texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies\' scarfs, shawls, bonnet\n   trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape.'),('Cantoned','a.','Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a\n   cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.'),('Cantoned','a.','Having the angles marked by, or decorated with,\n   projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.'),('Canton flannel','','See Cotton flannel.'),('Cantonize','v. i.','To divide into cantons or small districts.'),('Cantonment','n.','A town or village, or part of a town or village,\n   assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place\n   of rest for an army; quarters.'),('Cantoon','n.','A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a\n   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\n   choir; a cantoris stall.'),('Cantrap','n.','Alt. of Cantrip'),('Cantrip','n.','A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit\n   mischief.'),('Cantred','n.','Alt. of Cantref'),('Cantref','n.','A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales.'),('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','n.','A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for\n   tents, sails, etc.'),('Canvas','n.','A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for\n   working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.'),('Canvas','n.','A piece of strong cloth of which the surface has been\n   prepared to receive painting, commonly painting in oil.'),('Canvas','n.','Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a\n   collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A\n   painting, or a picture on canvas.'),('Canvas','n.','A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or\n   musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses\n   he is to make.'),('Canvas','a.','Made of, pertaining to, or resembling, canvas or coarse\n   cloth; as, a canvas tent.'),('Canvasback','n.','A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for\n   the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn;\n   particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the\n   markings of the plumage on its back.'),('Canvassed','imp. & p. p.','of Canvass'),('Canvassing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Canvass'),('Canvass','n.','To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize;\n   as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district\n   with reference to its probable vote.'),('Canvass','n.','To examine by discussion; to debate.'),('Canvass','n.','To go trough, with personal solicitation or public\n   addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for\n   subscriptions.'),('Canvass','v. i.','To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by\n   traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes;\n   to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; --\n   commonly followed by for.'),('Canvass','n.','Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a\n   canvass of votes.'),('Canvass','n.','Examination in the way of discussion or debate.'),('Canvass','n.','Search; exploration; solicitation; systematic effort to\n   obtain votes, subscribers, etc.'),('Canvasser','n.','One who canvasses.'),('Cany','a.','Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes.'),('Canyon','n.','The English form of the Spanish word Caon.'),('Canzone','n.','A song or air for one or more voices, of Provencal origin,\n   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,\n   obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.'),('Caoutchouc','n.','A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the\n   milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the\n   euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and\n   Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected\n   by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when\n   vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also\n   called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was\n   formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See\n   Vulcanization.'),('Caoutchoucin','n.','See Caoutchin.'),('Cap','n.','A covering for the head'),('Cap','n.','One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys'),('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\n   dignity, as that of a cardinal.'),('Cap','n.','The top, or uppermost part; the chief.'),('Cap','n.','A respectful uncovering of the head.'),('Cap','n.','The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill\n   to the nape of the neck.'),('Cap','n.','Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use'),('Cap','n.','The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of\n   column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.'),('Cap','n.','Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or\n   ornament.'),('Cap','n.','A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast\n   and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of\n   tarred canvas at the end of a rope.'),('Cap','n.','A percussion cap. See under Percussion.'),('Cap','n.','The removable cover of a journal box.'),('Cap','n.','A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.'),('Cap','n.','A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal\n   cap.'),('Capped','imp. & p. p.','of Cap'),('Capping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cap'),('Cap','v. t.','To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a\n   cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the\n   proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.'),('Cap','v. t.','To deprive of cap.'),('Cap','v. t.','To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or\n   consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.'),('Cap','v. t.','To salute by removing the cap.'),('Cap','v. t.','To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to;\n   as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.'),('Cap','v. i.','To uncover the head respectfully.'),('Capabilities','pl. ','of Capability'),('Capability','n.','The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness;\n   esp. intellectual power or ability.'),('Capability','n.','Capacity of being used or improved.'),('Capable','a.','Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility;\n   having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of\n   holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault.'),('Capable','a.','Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully\n   competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of\n   nice investigations.'),('Capable','a.','Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of\n   making a contract, or a will.'),('Capable','a.','Capacious; large; comprehensive.'),('Capableness','n.','The quality or state of being capable; capability;\n   adequateness; competency.'),('Capacified','imp. & p. p.','of Capacify'),('Capacify','v. t.','To quality.'),('Capacious','a.','Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy;\n   spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or\n   harbor.'),('Capacious','a.','Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in\n   obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal.'),('Capaciosly','adv.','In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively.'),('Capaciousness','n.','The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a\n   reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.'),('Capacitated','imp. & p. p.','of Capacitate'),('Capacitating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Capacitate'),('Capacitate','v. t.','To render capable; to enable; to qualify.'),('Capacities','pl. ','of Capacity'),('Capacity','n.','The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or\n   space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.'),('Capacity','n.','The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge,\n   etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty;\n   capability of undestanding or feeling.'),('Capacity','n.','Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the\n   possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of\n   doing.'),('Capacity','n.','Outward condition or circumstances; occupation;\n   profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason\n   or a carpenter.'),('Capacity','n.','Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence,\n   character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office,\n   for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right;\n   competency.'),('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\n   harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when\n   decorative.'),('Caparison','n.','Gay or rich clothing.'),('Caparisoned','imp. & p. p.','of Caparison'),('Caparisoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Caparison'),('Caparison','v. t.','To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit\n   out with decorative trappings, as a horse.'),('Caparison','v. t.','To aborn with rich dress; to dress.'),('Caparro','n.','A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with\n   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\n   into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.'),('Cape','v. i.','To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes\n   southwest by south.'),('Cape','n.','A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the\n   neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the\n   hips. See Cloak.'),('Cape','v. i.','To gape.'),('Capel','n.','Alt. of Caple'),('Caple','n.','A horse; a nag.'),('Capel','n.','A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the\n   walls of tin and copper lodes.'),('Capelan','n.','See Capelin.'),('Capelin','n.','A small marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of the family\n   Salmonidae, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland,\n   Newfoundland, and Alaska. It is used as a bait for the cod.'),('Cappeline','n.','A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the\n   stump of an amputated limb.'),('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\n   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\n   choir-master.'),('Capered','imp. & p. p.','of Caper'),('Capering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Caper'),('Caper','v. i.','To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut\n   capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.'),('Caper','n.','A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or\n   dancing; a prank.'),('Caper','n.','A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer.'),('Caper','n.','The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and\n   Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.'),('Caper','n.','A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush,\n   caper tree.'),('Caperberry','n.','The small olive-shaped berry of the European and\n   Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.'),('Caperberry','n.','The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper\n   (Capparis sodado).'),('Caper bush','','Alt. of Caper tree'),('Caper tree','','See Capper, a plant, 2.'),('Capercailzie','n.','Alt. of Capercally'),('Capercally','n.','A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size\n   and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; --\n   called also cock of the woods.'),('Caperclaw','v. t.','To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a\n   mouse; to abuse.'),('Caperer','n.','One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.'),('Capful','n.','As much as will fill a cap.'),('Capias','n.','A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body\n   of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ\n   of capias.'),('Capibara','n.','See Capybara.'),('Capillaceous','a.','Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender.\n   See Capillary.'),('Capillaire','n.','A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly\n   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\n   filament, as of the nerves.'),('Capillariness','n.','The quality of being capillary.'),('Capillarity','n.','The quality or condition of being capillary.'),('Capillarity','n.','The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid,\n   where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is\n   elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.'),('Capillary','a.','Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having\n   minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary\n   vessels of animals and plants.'),('Capillary','a.','Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary\n   action.'),('Capillary','n.','A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.'),('Capillary','n.','A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the\n   smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for\n   the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.'),('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.'),('Capital','n.','Of or pertaining to the head.'),('Capital','n.','Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the\n   head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital\n   trials; capital punishment.'),('Capital','n.','First in importance; chief; principal.'),('Capital','n.','Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the\n   general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are\n   capital cities.'),('Capital','n.','Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or\n   song.'),('Capital','n.','The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc.\n   It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and\n   necking. See these terms, and Column.'),('Capital','n.','The seat of government; the chief city or town in a\n   country; a metropolis.'),('Capital','n.','Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures,\n   etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or\n   interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.'),('Capital','a.','That portion of the produce of industry, which may be\n   directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in\n   production.'),('Capital','a.','Anything which can be used to increase one\'s power or\n   influence.'),('Capital','a.','An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other\n   work, into two equal parts.'),('Capital','a.','A chapter, or section, of a book.'),('Capital','a.','See Capital letter, under Capital, a.'),('Capitalist','n.','One who has capital; one who has money for investment,\n   or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed\n   in business.'),('Capitalization','n.','The act or process of capitalizing.'),('Capitalized','imp. & p. p.','of Capitalize'),('Capitalizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Capitalize'),('Capitalize','v. t.','To convert into capital, or to use as capital.'),('Capitalize','v. t.','To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of\n   (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)'),('Capitalize','v. t.','To print in capital letters, or with an initial\n   capital.'),('Capitally','adv.','In a way involving the forfeiture of the head or life;\n   as, to punish capitally.'),('Capitally','adv.','In a capital manner; excellently.'),('Capitalness','n.','The quality of being capital; preeminence.'),('Capitan Pasha','','Alt. of Pacha'),('Pacha','','The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.'),('Capitate','a.','Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged\n   and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.'),('Capitate','a.','Having the flowers gathered into a head.'),('Capitatim','a.','Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim\n   grant.'),('Capitation','n.','A numbering of heads or individuals.'),('Capitation','n.','A tax upon each head or person, without reference to\n   property; a poll tax.'),('Capite','n.','See under Tenant.'),('Capitellate','a.','Having a very small knoblike termination, or collected\n   into minute capitula.'),('Capitibranchiata','n. pl.','A division of annelids in which the gills\n   arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.'),('Capitol','','The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus,\n   where the Senate met.'),('Capitol','','The edifice at Washington occupied by the Congress of the\n   United States; also, the building in which the legislature of State\n   holds its sessions; a statehouse.'),('Capitolian','a.','Alt. of Capitoline'),('Capitoline','a.','Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome.'),('Capitula','n. pl.','See Capitulum.'),('Capitular','n.','An act passed in a chapter.'),('Capitular','n.','A member of a chapter.'),('Capitular','n.','The head or prominent part.'),('Capitular','a.','Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.'),('Capitular','a.','Growing in, or pertaining to, a capitulum.'),('Capitular','a.','Pertaining to a capitulum; as, the capitular process of\n   a vertebra, the process which articulates with the capitulum of a rib.'),('Capitularly','adv.','In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter.'),('Capitularies','pl. ','of Capitulary'),('Capitulary','n.','A capitular.'),('Capitulary','n.','The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an\n   ecclesiastical council.'),('Capitulary','n.','A collection of laws or statutes, civil and\n   ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections.'),('Capitulary','a.','Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.'),('Capitulated','imp. & p. p.','of Capitulate'),('Capitulating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Capitulate'),('Capitulate','n.','To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an\n   agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.'),('Capitulate','n.','To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up\n   under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.'),('Capitulate','v. t.','To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress,\n   on certain conditions.'),('Capitulation','n.','A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.'),('Capitulation','n.','The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny\n   upon stipulated terms.'),('Capitulation','n.','The instrument containing the terms of an agreement\n   or surrender.'),('Capitulator','n.','One who capitulates.'),('Capitule','n.','A summary.'),('Capitulum','n.','A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a\n   clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be\n   either globular or flat.'),('Capitulum','n.','A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of\n   a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]'),('Capivi','n.','A balsam of the Spanish West Indies. See Copaiba.'),('Caple','n.','See Capel.'),('Caplin','n.','See Capelin.'),('Caplin','n.','Alt. of Capling'),('Capling','n.','The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs\n   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\n   from beech tar.'),('Capoc','n.','A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun,\n   used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.'),('Capoches','pl. ','of Capoch'),('Capoch','n.','A hood; especially, the hood attached to the gown of a\n   monk.'),('Capoched','imp. & p. p.','of Capoch'),('Capoch','v. t.','To cover with, or as with, a hood; hence, to hoodwink or\n   blind.'),('Capon','n.','A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded\n   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\n   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\n   for forty points.'),('Capotted','imp. & p. p.','of Capot'),('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.'),('Capouch','n. & v. t.','Same as Capoch.'),('Cappadine','n.','A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk\n   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\n   visor.'),('Cappella','n.','See A cappella.'),('Capper','n.','One whose business is to make or sell caps.'),('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\n   cartridge.'),('Capping plane','','A plane used for working the upper surface of\n   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.'),('Cariccio','n.','A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from\n   the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice.'),('Cariccio','n.','A caprice; a freak; a fancy.'),('Capricioso','a.','In a free, fantastic style.'),('Caprice','v. i.','An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action,\n   proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.'),('Caprice','v. i.','See Capriccio.'),('Capricious','a.','Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change\n   suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.'),('Capricorn','n.','The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at\n   the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.'),('Capricorn','n.','A southern constellation, represented on ancient\n   monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like\n   a fish.'),('Caprid','a.','Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the\n   goat, or genus Capra, is the type.'),('Caprification','n.','The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig\n   tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous\n   insects.'),('Caprifole','n.','The woodbine or honeysuckle.'),('Caprifoliaceous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Honeysuckle\n   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 that a horse makes with all fours, upwards\n   only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when\n   at the height of the leap.'),('Capriole','v. i.','A leap or caper, as in dancing.'),('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\n   Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.'),('Capsheaf','n.','The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or\n   finishing part of a thing.'),('Capsicin','n.','A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species\n   of capsicum.'),('Capsicine','n.','A volatile alkaloid extracted from Capsicum annuum or\n   from capsicin.'),('Capsicum','n.','A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or\n   dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting\n   taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce.'),('Capsized','imp. & p. p.','of Capsize'),('Capsizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Capsize'),('Capsize','v. t. & i.','To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.'),('Capsize','n.','An upset or overturn.'),('Capsquare','n.','A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions\n   of a cannon, and holds it in place.'),('Capstan','n.','A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an\n   upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or\n   levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising\n   heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable,\n   passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a\n   number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a\n   lever fixed in its socket.'),('Capstone','n.','A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from\n   its supposed resemblance to a cap.'),('Capsular','a.','Alt. of Capsulary'),('Capsulary','a.','Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a\n   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\n   carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the\n   poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.'),('Capsule','n.','A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of\n   ores, etc.; a scorifier.'),('Capsule','n.','a small, shallow, evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.'),('Capsule','n.','A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in\n   which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.'),('Capsule','n.','A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ\n   or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike\n   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,\n   cartridge, etc.'),('Captain','n.','A head, or chief officer'),('Captain','n.','The military officer who commands a company, troop, or\n   battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be\n   employed on other service.'),('Captain','n.','An officer in the United States navy, next above a\n   commander and below a commodore, and ranking with a colonel in the\n   army.'),('Captain','n.','By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel,\n   although not having the rank of captain.'),('Captain','n.','The master or commanding officer of a merchant vessel.'),('Captain','n.','One in charge of a portion of a ship\'s company; as, a\n   captain of a top, captain of a gun, etc.'),('Captain','n.','The foreman of a body of workmen.'),('Captain','n.','A person having authority over others acting in concert;\n   as, the captain of a boat\'s crew; the captain of a football team.'),('Captain','n.','A military leader; a warrior.'),('Captain','v. t.','To act as captain of; to lead.'),('Captain','a.','Chief; superior.'),('Captaincy','n.','The rank, post, or commission of a captain.'),('Captainry','n.','Power, or command, over a certain district;\n   chieftainship.'),('Captainship','n.','The condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain\n   or chief commander.'),('Captainship','n.','Military skill; as, to show good captainship.'),('Captation','n.','A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address;\n   a captivating quality; an attraction.'),('Caption','n.','A caviling; a sophism.'),('Caption','n.','The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial\n   process.'),('Caption','n.','That part of a legal instrument, as a commission,\n   indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it\n   was taken, found, or executed.'),('Caption','n.','The heading of a chapter, section, or page.'),('Captious','a.','Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to\n   cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.'),('Captious','a.','Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious;\n   troublesome.'),('Captiously','adv.','In a captious manner.'),('Captiousness','n.','Captious disposition or manner.'),('Captivated','imp. & p. p.','of Captivate'),('Captivating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Captivate'),('Captivate','v. t.','To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.'),('Captivate','v. t.','To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or\n   attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony;\n   the orator captivated all hearts.'),('Captivate','p. a.','Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed.'),('Captivating','a.','Having power to captivate or charm; fascinating; as,\n   captivating smiles.'),('Captivation','n.','The act of captivating.'),('Captive','n.','A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy,\n   in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.'),('Captive','n.','One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection;\n   one who is captivated.'),('Captive','a.','Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in\n   confinement.'),('Captive','a.','Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.'),('Captive','a.','Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to\n   confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.'),('Captived','imp. & p. p.','of Captive'),('Captiving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Captive'),('Captive','v. t.','To take prisoner; to capture.'),('Captivity','n.','The state of being a captive or a prisoner.'),('Captivity','n.','A state of being under control; subjection of the will\n   or affections; bondage.'),('Captor','n.','One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a\n   prize.'),('Capture','n.','The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by\n   superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel,\n   or a criminal.'),('Capture','n.','The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the\n   power of some attraction.'),('Capture','n.','The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize;\n   prey.'),('Captured','imp. & p. p.','of Capture'),('Capturing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Capture'),('Capture','v. t.','To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or\n   stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.'),('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\n   1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed\n   cowl or capoch of St. Francis.'),('Capuchin','n.','A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood,\n   resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.'),('Capuchin','n.','A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus),\n   having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown\n   reflexed and resembling a monk\'s cowl, the rest being of a grayish\n   white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.'),('Capuchin','n.','Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or\n   horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.'),('Capuchin','n.','A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft\n   of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.'),('Capucine','n.','See Capuchin, 3.'),('Capulet','n.','Same as Capellet.'),('Capulin','n.','The Mexican cherry (Prunus Capollin).'),('Capita','pl. ','of Caput'),('Caput','n.','The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.'),('Caput','n.','The top or superior part of a thing.'),('Caput','n.','The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge\n   prior to the constitution of 1856.'),('Capybara','n.','A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara)\n   Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant\n   rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It\n   somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called\n   also cabiai and water hog.'),('Car','n.','A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two\n   wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.'),('Car','n.','A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.'),('Car','n.','A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor,\n   dignity, or solemnity.'),('Car','n.','The stars also called Charles\'s Wain, the Great Bear, or the\n   Dipper.'),('Car','n.','The cage of a lift or elevator.'),('Car','n.','The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain\n   passengers, ballast, etc.'),('Car','n.','A floating perforated box for living fish.'),('Carabid','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Carbus or\n   family Carabidae.'),('Carabid','n.','One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous\n   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.\n   They devour many injurious insects.'),('Carac','n.','See Carack.'),('Caracal','n.','A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa\n   and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black\n   hairs.'),('Caracara','n.','A south American bird of several species and genera,\n   resembling both the eagles and the vultures. The caracaras act as\n   scavengers, and are also called carrion buzzards.'),('Carack','n.','A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and\n   Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon.'),('Caracole','n.','A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right\n   or the left.'),('Caracole','n.','A staircase in a spiral form.'),('Caracoled','imp. & p. p.','of Caracole'),('Caracole','v. i.','To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel.'),('Caracoly','n.','An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an\n   inferior quality of jewelry is made.'),('Caracore','n.','Alt. of Caracora'),('Caracora','n.','A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo,\n   etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.'),('Carafe','n.','A glass water bottle for the table or toilet; -- called\n   also croft.'),('Carageen','n.','Alt. of Caragheen'),('Caragheen','n.','See Carrageen.'),('Carambola','n.','An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid,\n   juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.'),('Caramel','n.','Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by\n   heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring\n   spirits, gravies, etc.'),('Caramel','n.','A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of\n   tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor.'),('Carangoid','a.','Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied\n   to the mackerels, and including the caranx, American bluefish, and the\n   pilot fish.'),('Caranx','n.','A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including\n   the yellow or golden mackerel.'),('Carapace','n.','The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the\n   tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.'),('Carapato','n.','A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are\n   several species, very troublesome to man and beast.'),('Carapax','n.','See Carapace.'),('Carat','n.','The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.'),('Carat','n.','A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the\n   proportionate fineness of gold.'),('Caravan','n.','A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized\n   and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together,\n   esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile\n   tribes, as in Asia or Africa.'),('Caravan','n.','A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for\n   conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of\n   wild beasts.'),('Caravan','n.','A covered vehicle for carrying passengers or for moving\n   furniture, etc.; -- sometimes shorted into van.'),('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\n   night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court.'),('Caravel','n.','A name given to several kinds of vessels.'),('Caravel','n.','The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with\n   broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus\n   commanded three caravels on his great voyage.'),('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.'),('Caraway','n.','A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The\n   seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used\n   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\n   are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.'),('Carbanil','n.','A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the\n   phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.'),('Carbazol','n.','A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from\n   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\n   radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly\n   termed carburet.'),('Carbimide','n.','The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under\n   Isocyanic.'),('Carbine','n.','A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted\n   soldiers or cavalry.'),('Carbineer','n.','A soldier armed with a carbine.'),('Carbinol','n.','Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in\n   the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is\n   the type.'),('Carbohydrate','n.','One of a group of compounds including the sugars,\n   starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon\n   atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but\n   with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose,\n   C6H12O6.'),('Carbohydride','n.','A hydrocarbon.'),('Carbolic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal\n   tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and\n   phenol). See Phenol.'),('Carbolize','v. t.','To apply carbolic acid to; to wash or treat with\n   carbolic acid.'),('Carbon','n.','An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which\n   is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it\n   is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and\n   enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it\n   constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in\n   monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is\n   graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal\n   prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide,\n   commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the\n   proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various\n   compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite.'),('Carbonaceous','a.','Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.'),('Carbonade','n.','Alt. of Carbonado'),('Carbonado','n.','Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on\n   coals; a chop.'),('Carbonadoed','imp. & p. p.','of Carbonade'),('Carbonadoing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carbonade'),('Carbonado','v. t.','Alt. of Carbonade'),('Carbonade','v. t.','To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut\n   or slice and broil.'),('Carbonade','v. t.','To cut or hack, as in fighting.'),('Carbonadoes','pl. ','of Carbonado'),('Carbonado','n.','A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used\n   for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely\n   distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.'),('Carbonarism','n.','The principles, practices, or organization of the\n   Carbonari.'),('Carbonari','pl. ','of Carbonaro'),('Carbonaro','n.','A member of a secret political association in Italy,\n   organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of\n   changing the government into a republic.'),('Carbonatation','n.','The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic\n   acid gas.'),('Carbonate','n.','A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of\n   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\n   oxide.'),('Carbonide','n.','A carbide.'),('Carboniferous','a.','Producing or containing carbon or coal.'),('Carbonization','n.','The act or process of carbonizing.'),('Carbonized','imp. & p. p.','of Carbonize'),('Carbonizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carbonize'),('Carbonize','v. t.','To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a\n   residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to\n   char.'),('Carbonize','v. t.','To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making\n   steel by cementation.'),('Carbonometer','n.','An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount\n   of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide,\n   by its action on limewater or by other means.'),('Carbonyl','n.','The radical (CO)\'\', occuring, always combined, in many\n   compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.'),('Carbostyril','n.','A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid\n   properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.'),('Carboxide','n.','A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some\n   element or radical; as, potassium carboxide.'),('Carboxyl','n.','The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and\n   characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic,\n   acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.'),('Carboy','n.','A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass,\n   inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly\n   for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.'),('Carbuncle','n.','A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of\n   scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When\n   held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color\n   of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire,\n   though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.'),('Carbuncle','n.','A very painful acute local inflammation of the\n   subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck,\n   characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of\n   the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It\n   differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a\n   central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.'),('Carbuncle','n.','A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious\n   stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center.\n   Called also escarbuncle.'),('Carbuncled','a.','Set with carbuncles.'),('Carbuncled','a.','Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with\n   red sores; pimpled and blotched.'),('Carbuncular','a.','Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red;\n   inflamed.'),('Carbunculation','n.','The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants,\n   by excessive heat or cold.'),('Carburet','n.','A carbide. See Carbide'),('Carbureted','imp. & p. p.','of Carburet'),('Carburetted','','of Carburet'),('Carbureting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carburet'),('Carburetting','','of Carburet'),('Carburet','v. t.','To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing\n   through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize.'),('Carburetant','n.','Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating\n   gases.'),('Carbureted','a.','Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or\n   carbide.'),('Carbureted','a.','Saturated or impregnated with some volatile carbon\n   compound; as, water gas is carbureted to increase its illuminating\n   power.'),('Carburetor','n.','An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is\n   passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or\n   increase illuminating power.'),('Carburization','n.','The act, process, or result of carburizing.'),('Carburized','imp. & p. p.','of Carburize'),('Carburizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carburize'),('Carburize','v. t.','To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said\n   esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power\n   on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile\n   hydrocarbons.'),('Carcajou','n.','The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the\n   Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.'),('Carcanet','n.','A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar.'),('Carcase','n.','See Carcass.'),('Carcasses','pl. ','of Carcass'),('Carcass','n.','A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now\n   commonly the dead body of a beast.'),('Carcass','n.','The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or\n   ridicule.'),('Carcass','n.','The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once\n   comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished\n   frame, of a thing.'),('Carcass','n.','A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be\n   thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.'),('Carcavelhos','n.','A sweet wine. See Calcavella.'),('Carcelage','n.','Prison fees.'),('Carcel lamp','','A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a\n   superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork.'),('Carceral','a.','Belonging to a prison.'),('Carcinological','a.','Of or pertaining to carcinology.'),('Carcinology','n.','The department of zoology which treats of the\n   Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and\n   crustaceology.'),('Carcinoma','n.','A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied\n   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 piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for\n   various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of\n   invitation; pl. a game played with cards.'),('Card','n.','A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation,\n   request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the\n   newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or\n   inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.'),('Card','n.','A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the\n   dial or face of the mariner\'s compass.'),('Card','n.','A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp\n   threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.'),('Card','n.','An indicator card. See under Indicator.'),('Carded','imp. & p. p.','of Card'),('Carding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Card'),('Card','v. i.','To play at cards; to game.'),('Card','n.','An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of\n   cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of\n   animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows\n   in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.'),('Card','n.','A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a\n   carding machine.'),('Card','v. t.','To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding;\n   as, to card wool; to card a horse.'),('Card','v. t.','To clean or clear, as if by using a card.'),('Card','v. t.','To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.'),('Cardamine','n.','A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the\n   lady\'s-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.'),('Cardamom','n.','The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several\n   plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere,\n   and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.'),('Cardamom','n.','A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria\n   Cardamomum and several species of Amomum.'),('Cardboard','n.','A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for\n   making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.'),('Cardcase','n.','A case for visiting cards.'),('Cardecu','n.','A quarter of a crown.'),('Carder','n.','One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc.'),('Cardia','n.','The heart.'),('Cardia','n.','The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the\n   esophagus enters it.'),('Cardiac','a.','Pertaining to, resembling, or hear the heart; as, the\n   cardiac arteries; the cardiac, or left, end of the stomach.'),('Cardiac','a.','Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the\n   stomach; cordial; stimulant.'),('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,\n   referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac\n   palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.'),('Cardigan jacket','','A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without\n   sleeves.'),('Cardinal','a.','Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief;\n   principal.'),('Cardinal','a.','One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the\n   pope\'s council, or the sacred college.'),('Cardinal','a.','A woman\'s short cloak with a hood.'),('Cardinal','a.','Mulled red wine.'),('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'),('Carding','a.','The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc.,\n   by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.'),('Carding','v. t.','A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the\n   carding machine.'),('Cardiograph','n.','An instrument which, when placed in contact with the\n   chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity\n   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\n   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\n   auscultation.'),('Cardiosphygmograph','n.','A combination of cardiograph and sphygmograph.');
