('Proleptic','a.','Alt. of Proleptical'),('Proleptical','a.','Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.'),('Proleptical','a.','Previous; antecedent.'),('Proleptical','a.','Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a\n   periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every\n   repetition.'),('Proleptically','adv.','In a proleptical manner.'),('Proleptics','n.','The art and science of predicting in medicine.'),('Proletaire','n.','One of the common people; a low person; also, the\n   common people as a class or estate in a country.'),('Proletaneous','a.','Having a numerous offspring.'),('Proletarian','a.','Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the\n   commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.'),('Proletarian','n.','A proletary.'),('Proletariat','n.','The indigent class in the State; the body of\n   proletarians.'),('Proletariate','n.','The lower classes; beggars.'),('Proletaries','pl. ','of Proletary'),('Proletary','n.','A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not\n   with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.'),('Prolicide','n.','The crime of destroying one\'s offspring, either in the\n   womb or after birth.'),('Proliferate','v. t.','To produce or form cells; especially, to produce\n   cells rapidly.'),('Proliferate','v. t.','To produce zooids by budding.'),('Proliferation','n.','The continuous development of cells in tissue\n   formation; cell formation.'),('Proliferation','n.','The production of numerous zooids by budding,\n   especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.'),('Proliferous','a.','Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within\n   which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another\n   rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae.'),('Proliferous','a.','Producing young by budding.'),('Proliferous','a.','Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the\n   blastostyle of a hydroid.'),('Proliferous','a.','Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger\n   branch; -- said of corals.'),('Prolific','a.','Having the quality of generating; producing young or\n   fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing\n   fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea\n   of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and\n   the like.'),('Prolific','a.','Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a\n   prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.'),('Prolific','a.','Proliferous.'),('Prolificacy','n.','Prolificness.'),('Prolifical','a.','Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful;\n   prolific.'),('Prolificate','v. t.','To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.'),('Prolification','n.','The generation of young.'),('Prolification','n.','Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a\n   plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmae.'),('Prolificness','n.','The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness;\n   prolificacy.'),('Prolix','a.','Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in\n   narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used\n   except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix\n   oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.'),('Prolix','a.','Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; --\n   applied to a speaker or writer.'),('Prolixious','a.','Dilatory; tedious; superfluous.'),('Prolixity','n.','The quality or state of being prolix; great length;\n   minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.'),('Prolixly','adv.','In a prolix manner.'),('Prolixness','n.','Prolixity.'),('Prolled','imp. & p. p.','of Proll'),('Prolling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Proll'),('Proll','v. t.','To search or prowl after; to rob; to plunder.'),('Proll','v. i.','To prowl about; to rob.'),('Proller','n.','Prowler; thief.'),('Prolocutor','n.','One who speaks for another.'),('Prolocutor','n.','The presiding officer of a convocation.'),('Proocutorship','n.','The office of a prolocutor.'),('Prolog','n. & v.','Prologue.'),('Prologize','v. i.','To deliver a Prologue.'),('Prologizer','n.','One who prologizes.'),('Prologue','n.','The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or\n   performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer\'s \"Canterbury Tales;\" esp., a\n   discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance'),('Prologue','n.','One who delivers a prologue.'),('Prologued','imp. & p. p.','of Prologue'),('Prologuing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prologue'),('Prologue','v. t.','To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.'),('Prolonged','imp. & p. p.','of Prolong'),('Prolonging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prolong'),('Prolong','a.','To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.'),('Prolong','a.','To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw\n   out; to continue; as, to prolong one\'s days.'),('Prolong','a.','To put off to a distant time; to postpone.'),('Prolongable','a.','Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by\n   care.'),('Prolongated','imp. & p. p.','of Prolongate'),('Prolongating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prolongate'),('Prolongate','v. t.','To prolong; to extend in space or in time.'),('Prolongation','n.','The act of lengthening in space or in time;\n   extension; protraction.'),('Prolongation','n.','That which forms an additional length.'),('Prolonge','n.','A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a\n   gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other\n   purposes.'),('Prolonger','n.','One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or\n   space.'),('Prolongment','n.','Prolongation.'),('Prolusion','n.','A trial before the principal performance; a prelude;\n   hence, an introductory essay or exercise.'),('Promanation','n.','The act of flowing forth; emanation; efflux.'),('Promenade','n.','A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.'),('Promenade','n.','A place for walking; a public walk.'),('Promenaded','imp. & p. p.','of Promenade'),('Promenading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Promenade'),('Promenade','v. i.','To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.'),('Promenader','n.','One who promenades.'),('Promerit','v. t.','To oblige; to confer a favor on.'),('Promerit','v. t.','To deserve; to procure by merit.'),('Promerops','n.','Any one of several species of very brilliant birds\n   belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related\n   to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a\n   long curved beak and a long graduated tail.'),('Promethea','n.','A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea).\n   Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and\n   suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.'),('Promethean','a.','Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus.'),('Promethean','a.','Having a life-giving quality; inspiring.'),('Promethean','n.','An apparatus for automatic ignition.'),('Promethean','n.','A kind of lucifer match.'),('Prometheus','n.','The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene,\n   fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to\n   have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen\n   from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind\n   Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.'),('Prominence','n.','Alt. of Prominency'),('Prominency','n.','The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out\n   from something; conspicuousness.'),('Prominency','n.','That which is prominent; a protuberance.'),('Prominent','a.','Standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of\n   something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure\n   on a vase.'),('Prominent','a.','Hence; Distinctly manifest; likely to attract attention\n   from its size or position; conspicuous; as, a prominent feature of the\n   face; a prominent building.'),('Prominent','a.','Eminent; distinguished above others; as, a prominent\n   character.'),('Prominently','adv.','In a prominent manner.'),('Promiscuity','n.','Promiscuousness; confusion.'),('Promiscuous','a.','Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass\n   without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous\n   crowd or mass.'),('Promiscuous','a.','Distributed or applied without order or\n   discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common;\n   indiscriminate; as, promiscuous love or intercourse.'),('Promiscuously','adv.','In a promiscuous manner.'),('Promiscuousness','n.','The quality or state of being promiscuous.'),('Promise','a.','In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one\n   person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to\n   forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person\n   to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or\n   forbearance of a specified act.'),('Promise','a.','An engagement by one person to another, either in words or\n   in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or\n   nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to\n   denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the\n   consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it\n   is made.'),('Promise','a.','That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance;\n   especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a\n   youth of great promise.'),('Promise','a.','Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised.'),('Promised','imp. & p. p.','of Promise'),('Promising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Promise'),('Promise','v. t.','To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing,\n   giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise\n   a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment\n   of money.'),('Promise','v. t.','To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance\n   of; as, the clouds promise rain.'),('Promise','v. t.','To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some\n   benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the\n   proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.'),('Promise','v. i.','To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.'),('Promise','v. i.','To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to\n   expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.'),('Promisee','n.','The person to whom a promise is made.'),('Promiser','n.','One who promises.'),('Promising','a.','Making a promise or promises; affording hope or\n   assurance; as, promising person; a promising day.'),('Promisor','n.','One who engages or undertakes; a promiser.'),('Promissive','a.','Making a promise; implying a promise; promising.'),('Promissorily','adv.','In a promissory manner.'),('Promissory','a.','Containing a promise or binding declaration of\n   something to be done or forborne.'),('Promont','n.','Promontory.'),('Promontories','pl. ','of Promontory'),('Promontory','n.','A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea\n   beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.'),('Promontory','n.','A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle\n   of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar\n   vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the\n   ear.'),('Promerphological','a.','Relating to promorphology; as, a promorphological\n   conception.'),('Promorphologist','n.','One versed in the science of promorphology.'),('Promorphology','n.','Crystallography of organic forms; -- a division of\n   morphology created by Haeckel. It is essentially stereometric, and\n   relates to a mathematical conception of organic forms. See Tectology.'),('Promoted','imp. & p. p.','of Promote'),('Promoting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Promote'),('Promote','v. t.','To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity\n   of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to\n   encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote\n   disorder; to promote a business venture.'),('Promote','v. t.','To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to\n   raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.'),('Promote','v. i.','To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to\n   inform against a person.'),('Promoter','n.','One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes;\n   an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.'),('Promoter','n.','Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the\n   preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a\n   joint-stock company, or the like.'),('Promoter','n.','One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.'),('Promoter','n.','An informer; a makebate.'),('Promottion','n.','The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the\n   act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being\n   advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.'),('Promotive','a.','Tending to advance, promote, or encourage.'),('Promove','v. t.','To move forward; to advance; to promote.'),('Promover','n.','A promoter.'),('Promt','superl.','Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting\n   requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or\n   action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience\n   or compliance; -- said of persons.'),('Promt','superl.','Done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately;\n   given without delay or hesitation; -- said of conduct; as, prompt\n   assistance.'),('Promt','superl.','Easy; unobstructed.'),('Prompt','n.','A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce\n   purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.'),('Prompted','imp. & p. p.','of Prompt'),('Prompting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prompt'),('Prompt','v. t.','To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to\n   instigate; to incite.'),('Prompt','v. t.','To suggest; to dictate.'),('Prompt','v. t.','To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics\n   forgotten.'),('Prompt-book','n.','The book used by a prompter of a theater.'),('Prompter','n.','One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or\n   incites to action.'),('Prompter','n.','One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the\n   words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in\n   a theater.'),('Promptitude','a.','The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and\n   action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience.'),('Promptly','adv.','In a prompt manner.'),('Promptness','n.','Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or\n   action.'),('Promptness','n.','Cheerful willingness; alacrity.'),('Prompt-note','n.','A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due,\n   given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.'),('Promptuary','a.','Of or pertaining to preparation.'),('Promptuary','a.','That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a\n   magazine; a repository.'),('Prompture','a.','Suggestion; incitement; prompting.'),('Promulgated','imp. & p. p.','of Promulgate'),('Promulgating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Promulgate'),('Promulgate','v. t.','To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees,\n   or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.'),('Promulgation','n.','The act of promulgating; publication; open\n   declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel.'),('Promulgator','n.','One who promulgates or publishes.'),('Promulged','imp. & p. p.','of Promulge'),('Promulging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Promulge'),('Promulge','v. t.','To promulgate; to publish or teach.'),('Promulger','n.','One who promulges or publishes what was before unknown.'),('Promuscis','n.','The proboscis of hemipterous insects. See Illust. under\n   Hemiptera.'),('Pronaos','n.','The porch or vestibule of a temple.'),('Pronate','a.','Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees.'),('Pronation','n.','The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the\n   forefoot downward.'),('Pronation','n.','That motion of the forearm whereby the palm or palmar,\n   surface is turned downward.'),('Pronation','n.','The position of the limb resulting from the act of\n   pronation. Opposed to supination.'),('Pronator','n.','A muscle which produces pronation.'),('Prone','a.','Bending forward; inclined; not erect.'),('Prone','a.','Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed\n   to supine.'),('Prone','a.','Headlong; running downward or headlong.'),('Prone','a.','Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous;\n   inclined; not level.'),('Prone','a.','Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or\n   affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.'),('Pronely','adv.','In a prone manner or position.'),('Proneness','n.','The quality or state of being prone, or of bending\n   downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of\n   man.'),('Proneness','n.','The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to\n   supineness.'),('Proneness','n.','Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.'),('Proneness','n.','Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension;\n   disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.'),('Pronephric','a.','Of or pertaining to the pronephros.'),('Pronephros','n.','Alt. of Pronephron'),('Pronephron','n.','The head kidney. See under Head.'),('Prong','n.','A sharp-pointed instrument.'),('Prong','n.','The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork\n   of two or three prongs.'),('Prong','n.','A sharp projection, as of an antler.'),('Prong','n.','The fang of a tooth.'),('Prongbuck','n.','The springbuck.'),('Prongbuck','n.','The pronghorn.'),('Pronged','a.','Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as,\n   a three-pronged fork.'),('Prong-hoe','n.','A hoe with prongs to break the earth.'),('Pronghorn','n.','An American antelope (Antilocapra Americana), native of\n   the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly\n   yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and\n   the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed\n   annually. Called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned\n   antelope.'),('Pronity','n.','Proneness; propensity.'),('Pronominal','a.','Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.'),('Pronominalize','v. t.','To give the effect of a pronoun to; as, to\n   pronominalize the substantives person, people, etc.'),('Pronominally','adv.','In a pronominal manner/ with the nature or office\n   of a pronoun; as a pronoun.'),('Prononce','a.','Strongly marked; decided, as in manners, etc.'),('Pronotary','n.','See Prothonotary.'),('Pronota','pl. ','of Pronotum'),('Pronotum','n.','The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects. See Illust.\n   of Coleoptera.'),('Pronoun','n.','A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the\n   repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you,\n   he, she, it, we, ye, and they.'),('Pronounced','imp. & p. p.','of Pronounce'),('Pronounging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pronounce'),('Pronounce','v. t.','To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to\n   utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent\n   as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.'),('Pronounce','v. t.','To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a\n   decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.'),('Pronounce','v. t.','To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to\n   recite; as, to pronounce an oration.'),('Pronounce','v. t.','To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to\n   be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.'),('Pronounce','v. i.','To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to\n   pronounce faultlessly.'),('Pronounce','v. i.','To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak\n   with confidence.'),('Pronounce','n.','Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.'),('Pronounceable','a.','Capable of being pronounced.'),('Pronounced','a.','Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [A Gallicism]'),('Pronouncement','n.','The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal\n   announcement.'),('Pronouncer','n.','One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a\n   pronouncing book.'),('Pronouncing','a.','Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a\n   pronouncing dictionary.'),('Pronubial','a.','Presiding over marriage.'),('Pronuclei','pl. ','of Pronucleus'),('Pronucleus','n.','One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female\n   pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an\n   impregnated ovum.'),('Pronuncial','a.','Of or pertaining to pronunciation; pronunciative.'),('Pronunciamento','n.','A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcement\n   or declaration.'),('Pronunciamiento','n.','See Pronunciamento.'),('Pronunciation','n.','The act of uttering with articulation; the act of\n   giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of\n   syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.'),('Pronunciation','n.','The mode of uttering words or sentences.'),('Pronunciation','n.','The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly\n   with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.'),('Pronunciative','a.','Of or pertaining to pronunciation.'),('Pronunciative','a.','Uttering confidently; dogmatical.'),('Pronunciator','n.','One who pronounces; a pronouncer.'),('Pronunciatory','a.','Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces.'),('Proof','n.','Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or\n   discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.'),('Proof','n.','That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any\n   truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that\n   induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive\n   evidence; demonstration.'),('Proof','n.','The quality or state of having been proved or tried;\n   firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to\n   force; impenetrability of physical bodies.'),('Proof','n.','Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.'),('Proof','n.','A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or\n   examination; -- called also proof sheet.'),('Proof','n.','A process for testing the accuracy of an operation\n   performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5.'),('Proof','v. t.','Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed\n   impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.'),('Proof','a.','Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof\n   charge.'),('Proof','a.','Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm;\n   waterproof; bombproof.'),('Proof','a.','Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of\n   alcoholic liquors.'),('Proof-arm','v. t.','To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to\n   proof-arm herself.'),('Proofless','a.','Wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not\n   proved.'),('Proof-proof','a.','Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong.'),('Proostraca','pl. ','of Proostracum'),('Proostracum','n.','The anterior prolongation of the guard of the\n   phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny\n   or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone.'),('Prootic','a.','In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to\n   a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule.'),('Prootic','n.','A prootic bone.'),('Prop','n.','A shell, used as a die. See Props.'),('Propped','imp. & p. p.','of Prop'),('Propping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prop'),('Prop','v. t.','To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something\n   under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to\n   sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.'),('Prop','v.','That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which\n   anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for\n   a building.'),('Propaedeutic','a.','Alt. of Propaedeutical'),('Propaedeutical','a.','Of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary\n   instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing\n   beforehand.'),('Propaedeutics','n.','The preliminary learning connected with any art or\n   science; preparatory instruction.'),('Propagable','a.','Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or\n   multiplied by natural generation or production.'),('Propagable','a.','Capable of being spread or extended by any means; --\n   said of tenets, doctrines, or principles.'),('Propaganda','n.','A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622,\n   charged with the management of missions.'),('Propaganda','n.','The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban\n   VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the\n   world.'),('Propaganda','n.','Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a\n   particular doctrine or a system of principles.'),('Propagandism','n.','The art or practice of propagating tenets or\n   principles; zeal in propagating one\'s opinions.'),('Propagandist','n.','A person who devotes himself to the spread of any\n   system of principles.'),('Propagated','imp. & p. p.','of Propagate'),('Propagating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Propagate'),('Propagate','v. t.','To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or\n   successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to\n   propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit\n   tree.'),('Propagate','v. t.','To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue\n   forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.'),('Propagate','v. t.','To spread from person to person; to extend the\n   knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to\n   disseminate; as, to propagate a story or report; to propagate the\n   Christian religion.'),('Propagate','v. t.','To multiply; to increase.'),('Propagate','v. t.','To generate; to produce.'),('Propagate','v. i.','To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied\n   by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate\n   rapidly.'),('Propagation','n.','The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication\n   of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation\n   of animals or plants.'),('Propagation','n.','The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything;\n   diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation\n   of the gospel.'),('Propagative','a.','Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.'),('Propagator','n.','One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.'),('Propagula','pl. ','of Propagulum'),('Propagulum','n.','A runner terminated by a germinating bud.'),('Propane','n.','A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series,\n   occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made\n   artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.'),('Propargyl','n.','Same as Propinyl.'),('Proparoxytone','n.','A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.'),('Proped','n.','Same as Proleg.'),('Propelled','imp. & p. p.','of Propel'),('Propelling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Propel'),('Propel','v. t.','To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to\n   move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are\n   propelled by gunpowder.'),('Propeller','n.','One who, or that which, propels.'),('Propeller','n.','A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually\n   consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to\n   revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel.'),('Propeller','n.','A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.'),('Propend','v. i.','To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or\n   disposed; to incline; to tend.'),('Propendency','n.','Propensity.'),('Propendency','n.','Attentive deliberation.'),('Propendent','a.','Inclining forward or toward.'),('Propene','n.','Same as Propylene.'),('Propense','a.','Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed;\n   prone; as, women propense to holiness.'),('Propension','n.','The quality or state of being propense; propensity.'),('Propensities','pl. ','of Propensity'),('Propensity','n.','The quality or state of being propense; natural\n   inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.'),('Propenyl','n.','A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, C3H5, isomeric with\n   allyl and glyceryl, and regarded as the essential residue of glycerin.\n   Cf. Allyl, and Glyceryl.'),('Propepsin','n.','See Persinogen.'),('Propeptone','n.','A product of gastric digestion intermediate between\n   albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.'),('Proper','a.','Belonging to one; one\'s own; individual.'),('Proper','a.','Belonging to the natural or essential constitution;\n   peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper\n   instincts and appetites.'),('Proper','a.','Befitting one\'s nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all\n   respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper\n   element for fish; a proper dress.'),('Proper','a.','Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome.'),('Proper','a.','Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the\n   whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin\n   is the proper name of a city.'),('Proper','a.','Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper;\n   the garden proper.'),('Proper','a.','Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object\n   used as a charge.'),('Proper','adv.','Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper\n   good.'),('Properate','v. t. & i.','To hasten, or press forward.'),('Properation','n.','The act of hastening; haste.'),('Properispome','n.','Properispomenon.'),('Properispomena','pl. ','of Properispomenon'),('Properispomenon','n.','A word which has the circumflex accent on the\n   penult.'),('Properly','adv.','In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly;\n   as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.'),('Properly','adv.','Individually; after one\'s own manner.'),('Properness','n.','The quality of being proper.'),('Properness','n.','Tallness; comeliness.'),('Propertied','a.','Possessing property; holding real estate, or other\n   investments of money.'),('Properties','pl. ','of Property'),('Property','a.','That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a\n   thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to\n   it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.'),('Property','a.','An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by\n   art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which\n   constitute excellence.'),('Property','a.','The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and\n   disposing of a thing; ownership; title.'),('Property','a.','That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his\n   possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or\n   money; as, a man of large property, or small property.'),('Property','a.','All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the\n   dresses of the actors; stage requisites.'),('Property','a.','Propriety; correctness.'),('Property','v. t.','To invest which properties, or qualities.'),('Property','v. t.','To make a property of; to appropriate.'),('Prophane','a. & v. t.','See Profane.'),('Prophasis','n.','Foreknowledge of a disease; prognosis.'),('Prophecies','pl. ','of Prophecy'),('Prophecy','n.','A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a\n   prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.'),('Prophecy','n.','A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of\n   Ahijah.'),('Prophecy','n.','Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching;\n   exhortation or instruction.'),('Prophesier','n.','A prophet.'),('Prophesied','imp. & p. p.','of Prophesy'),('Prophesying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prophesy'),('Prophesy','v. t.','To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.'),('Prophesy','v. t.','To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.'),('Prophesy','v. i.','To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to\n   come.'),('Prophesy','v. i.','To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret\n   or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to\n   expound.'),('Prophet','n.','One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a\n   foreteller.'),('Prophet','n.','One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or\n   announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.'),('Prophet','n.','An interpreter; a spokesman.'),('Prophet','n.','A mantis.'),('Prophetess','n.','A female prophet.'),('Prophetic','a.','Alt. of Prophetical'),('Prophetical','a.','Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling\n   events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of\n   before the thing foretold.'),('Propheticality','n.','Propheticalness.'),('Prophetically','adv.','In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.'),('Propheticalness','n.','The quality or state of being prophetical; power\n   or capacity to foretell.'),('Prophetize','v. i.','To give predictions; to foreshow events; to\n   prophesy.'),('Prophoric','a.','Enunciative.'),('Prophragmata','pl. ','of Prophragma'),('Prophragma','n.','An internal dorsal chitinous process between the first\n   two divisions of the thorax of insects.'),('Prophylactic','n.','A medicine which preserves or defends against\n   disease; a preventive.'),('Prophylactic','a.','Alt. of Prophylactical'),('Prophylactical','a.','Defending or preserving from disease; preventive.'),('Prophylaxis','n.','The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease;\n   the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health;\n   preservative or preventive treatment.'),('Propice','a.','Fit; propitious.'),('Propidene','n.','The unsymmetrical hypothetical hydrocarbon radical,\n   CH3.CH2.CH, analogous to ethylidene, and regarded as the type of\n   certain derivatives of propane; -- called also propylidene.'),('Propination','n.','The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then\n   offering the cup to another.'),('Propine','v. t.','To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the\n   manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.'),('Propine','v. t.','Hence, to give in token of friendship.'),('Propine','v. t.','To give, or deliver; to subject.'),('Propine','n.','A pledge.'),('Propine','n.','A gift; esp., drink money.'),('Propine','n.','Same as Allylene.'),('Propinquity','n.','Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity.'),('Propinquity','n.','Nearness in time.'),('Propinquity','n.','Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity.'),('Propinyl','n.','A hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of\n   propine and allied compounds.'),('Propiolate','n.','A salt of propiolic acid.'),('Propiolic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called\n   also propargylic acid) of the acetylene or tetrolic series, analogous\n   to propionic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance.'),('Propionate','n.','A salt of propionic acid.'),('Propione','n.','The ketone of propionic acid, obtained as a colorless\n   fragrant liquid.'),('Propionic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic\n   acid which is produced in the distillation of wood, in the fermentation\n   of various organic substances, as glycerin, calcium lactate, etc., and\n   is obtained as a colorless liquid having a sharp, pungent odor.\n   Propionic acid is so called because it is the first or lowest member of\n   the fatty acid series whose salts have a fatty feel.'),('Propionyl','n.','The hypothetical radical C3H5O, regarded as the\n   essential residue of propionic acid and certain related compounds.'),('Propithecus','n.','A genus including the long-tailed, or diadem, indris.\n   See Indris.'),('Propitiable','a.','Capable of being propitiated.'),('Propitiated','imp. & p. p.','of Propitiate'),('Propitiating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Propitiate'),('Propitiate','v. t.','To appease to render favorable; to make propitious;\n   to conciliate.'),('Propitiate','v. i.','To make propitiation; to atone.'),('Propitiation','n.','The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the\n   favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.'),('Propitiation','n.','That which propitiates; atonement or atoning\n   sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of\n   Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine\n   favor.'),('Propitiator','n.','One who propitiates or appeases.'),('Propitiatorily','adv.','By way of propitiation.'),('Propitiatory','a.','Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to,\n   or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice.'),('Propitiatory','n.','The mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the\n   propitiated Jehovah.'),('Propitious','a.','Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a\n   propitious season; a propitious breeze.'),('Propitious','a.','Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a\n   person or a divinity.'),('Proplasm','n.','A mold; a matrix.'),('Proplastic','a.','Forming a mold.'),('Proplastics','n.','The art of making molds for castings.'),('Propleg','n.','Same as Proleg.'),('Propodial','a.','Of or pertaining to the propodialia, or the parts of the\n   limbs to which they belong.'),('Propodialia','pl. ','of Propodiale'),('Propodiale','n.','The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the\n   propodialia being the humerus and femur.'),('Propodite','n.','The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean;\n   usually, the penultimate joint.'),('Propodia','pl. ','of Propodium'),('Propodium','n.','The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk.'),('Propodium','n.','The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax\n   of a hymenopterous insect.'),('Propolis','n.','Same as Bee glue, under Bee.'),('Propone','v. t.','To propose; to bring forward.'),('Proponent','a.','Making proposals; proposing.'),('Proponent','n.','One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition.'),('Proponent','n.','The propounder of a thing.'),('Proportion','n.','The relation or adaptation of one portion to another,\n   or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative\n   relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of\n   the body.'),('Proportion','n.','Harmonic relation between parts, or between different\n   things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment;\n   symmetry; as, to be out of proportion.'),('Proportion','n.','The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by\n   a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot.'),('Proportion','n.','A part considered comparatively; a share.'),('Proportion','n.','The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of\n   geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the\n   quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the\n   third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in\n   distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the\n   difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the\n   third and fourth.'),('Proportion','n.','The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three\n   given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional.'),('Proportioned','imp. & p. p.','of Proportion'),('Proportioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Proportion'),('Proportion','v.','To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one\n   part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its\n   height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.'),('Proportion','v.','To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of\n   the body.'),('Proportion','v.','To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.'),('Proportionable','a.','Capable of being proportioned, or made\n   proportional; also, proportional; proportionate.'),('Proportionably','adv.','Proportionally.'),('Proportional','a.','Having a due proportion, or comparative relation;\n   being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are\n   proportional.'),('Proportional','a.','Relating to, or securing, proportion.'),('Proportional','a.','Constituting a proportion; having the same, or a\n   constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional\n   to quantity of matter.'),('Proportional','n.','Any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean\n   proportional.'),('Proportional','n.','The combining weight or equivalent of an element.'),('Proportionality','n.','The state of being in proportion.'),('Proportionally','adv.','In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively;\n   as, all parts of the building are proportionally large.'),('Proportionate','a.','Adjusted to something else according to a\n   proportion; proportional.'),('Proportionated','imp. & p. p.','of Proportionate'),('Proportionating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Proportionate'),('Proportionate','v.','To make proportional; to adjust according to a\n   settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to\n   proportionate punishment to crimes.'),('Proportionately','adv.','In a proportionate manner; with due proportion;\n   proportionally.'),('Proportionateness','n.','The quality or state of being proportionate.'),('Proportionless','a.','Without proportion; unsymmetrical.'),('Proportionment','n.','The act or process of dividing out proportionally.'),('Proposal','n.','That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration\n   or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer;\n   as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for\n   erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.'),('Proposal','n.','The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an\n   intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a\n   contract.'),('Proposed','imp. & p. p.','of Propose'),('Proposing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Propose'),('Propose','v.','To set forth.'),('Propose','v.','To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or\n   adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for\n   discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.'),('Propose','v.','To set before one\'s self or others as a purpose formed;\n   hence, to purpose; to intend.'),('Propose','v. i.','To speak; to converse.'),('Propose','v. i.','To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a\n   scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.'),('Propose','v. i.','To offer one\'s self in marriage.'),('Propose','n.','Talk; discourse.'),('Proposer','n.','One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or\n   adoption.'),('Proposer','n.','A speaker; an orator.'),('Proposition','n.','The act of setting or placing before; the act of\n   offering.'),('Proposition','n.','That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for\n   consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made\n   propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.'),('Proposition','n.','A statement of religious doctrine; an article of\n   faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.'),('Proposition','n.','A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting\n   of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or\n   propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is\n   affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.'),('Proposition','n.','A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or\n   of an operation to be performed.'),('Proposition','n.','That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of\n   the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or\n   illustration.'),('Proposition','n.','The part of a poem in which the author states the\n   subject or matter of it.'),('Propositional','a.','Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition;\n   considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense.'),('Propounded','imp. & p. p.','of Propound'),('Propounding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Propound'),('Propound','v. t.','To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose;\n   as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.'),('Propound','v. t.','To propose or name as a candidate for admission to\n   communion with a church.'),('Propounder','n.','One who propounds, proposes, or offers for\n   consideration.'),('Propretor','n.','A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was\n   appointed to the government of a province.'),('Proprietaries','pl. ','of Proprietary'),('Proprietary','n.','A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to\n   a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own\n   right.'),('Proprietary','n.','A body proprietors, taken collectively.'),('Proprietary','n.','A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself,\n   notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.'),('Proprietary','a.','Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered\n   as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.'),('Proprietor','n.','One who has the legal right or exclusive title to\n   anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of\n   farm or of a mill.'),('Proprietorial','a.','Of or pertaining to ownership; proprietary; as,\n   proprietorial rights.'),('Proprietorship','n.','The state of being proprietor; ownership.'),('Proprietress','n.','A female proprietor.'),('Proprieties','pl. ','of Propriety'),('Propriety','n.','Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal\n   title; property.'),('Propriety','n.','That which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property\n   or quality; peculiarity.'),('Propriety','n.','The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an\n   acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established\n   principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety\n   of behavior, language, manners, etc.'),('Proproctor','n.','A assistant proctor.'),('Props','n. pl.','A game of chance, in which four sea shells, each called\n   a prop, are used instead of dice.'),('Propterygia','pl. ','of Propterygium'),('Propterygium','n.','The anterior of three principal cartilages in the\n   fins of some fishes.'),('Propugn','v. t.','To contend for; to defend; to vindicate.'),('Propugnacle','n.','A fortress.'),('Propugnation','n.','Means of defense; defense.'),('Propugner','n.','A defender; a vindicator.'),('Propulsation','n.','The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a\n   distance.'),('Propulse','v. t.','To repel; to drive off or away.'),('Propulsion','n.','The act driving forward or away; the act or process of\n   propelling; as, steam propulsion.'),('Propulsion','n.','An impelling act or movement.'),('Propulsive','a.','Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on;\n   urging.'),('Propulsory','a.','Propulsive.'),('Propyl','n.','The hypothetical radical C3H7, regarded as the essential\n   residue of propane and related compounds.'),('Propylaea','pl. ','of Propylaeum'),('Propylaeum','n.','Any court or vestibule before a building or leading\n   into any inclosure.'),('Propylene','n.','A colorless gaseous hydrocarbon (C3H6) of the ethylene\n   series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced\n   artificially in various ways. Called also propene.'),('Propylic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as,\n   propylic alcohol.'),('Propylidene','n.','See Propidene.'),('Propyla','pl. ','of Propylon'),('Propylon','n.','The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.'),('Pro rata','','In proportion; proportionately; according to the share,\n   interest, or liability of each.'),('Proratable','a.','Capable of being prorated, or divided proportionately.'),('Prorated','imp. & p. p.','of Prorate'),('Prorating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prorate'),('Prorate','v. t.','To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro\n   rata.'),('Prore','n.','The prow or fore part of a ship.'),('Prorector','n.','An officer who presides over the academic senate of a\n   German university.'),('Prorectorate','n.','The office of prorector.'),('Prorenal','a.','Pronephric.'),('Proreption','n.','A creeping on.'),('Prorhinal','a.','Situated in front of the nasal chambers.'),('Prorogate','v. t.','To prorogue.'),('Prorogation','n.','The act of counting in duration; prolongation.'),('Prorogation','n.','The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of\n   Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command of the\n   sovereign.'),('Prorogued','imp. & p. p.','of Prorogue'),('Proroguing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prorogue'),('Prorogue','v. t.','To protract; to prolong; to extend.'),('Prorogue','v. t.','To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath;\n   to prorogue a marriage.'),('Prorogue','v. t.','To end the session of a parliament by an order of the\n   sovereign, thus deferring its business.'),('Proruption','n.','The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.'),('Prosaic','a.','Alt. of Prosaical'),('Prosaical','a.','Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form\n   of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic\n   composition.'),('Prosaical','a.','Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy;\n   as, a prosaic person.'),('Prosaicism','n.','The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner\n   or style.'),('Prosaism','n.','That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic\n   manner.'),('Prosaist','n.','A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer.'),('Prosal','a.','Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic.'),('Proscenia','pl. ','of Proscenium'),('Proscenium','n.','The part where the actors performed; the stage.'),('Proscenium','n.','The part of the stage in front of the curtain;\n   sometimes, the curtain and its framework.'),('Proscolices','pl. ','of Proscolex'),('Proscolex','n.','An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. See\n   Redia.'),('Proscribed','imp. & p. p.','of Proscribe'),('Proscribing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Proscribe'),('Proscribe','v. t.','To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection\n   of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each\n   other\'s adherents.'),('Proscribe','v. t.','To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit;\n   as, the Puritans proscribed theaters.'),('Proscriber','n.','One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or\n   prohibits.'),('Proscript','n.','A proscription; a prohibition; an interdict.'),('Proscript','n.','One who is proscribed.'),('Proscription','n.','The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile;\n   outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a\n   reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate,\n   many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.'),('Proscription','n.','The state of being proscribed; denunciation;\n   interdiction; prohibition.'),('Proscriptional','a.','Proscriptive.'),('Proscriptionist','n.','One who proscribes.'),('Proscriptive','a.','Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or\n   of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.'),('Prose','n.','The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing;\n   language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished\n   from verse, or metrical composition.'),('Prose','n.','Hence, language which evinces little imagination or\n   animation; dull and commonplace discourse.'),('Prose','n.','A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the\n   Mass. See Sequence.'),('Prose','a.','Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as,\n   prose composition.'),('Prose','a.','Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain;\n   dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.'),('Prosed','imp. & p. p.','of Prose'),('Prosing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prose'),('Prose','v. t.','To write in prose.'),('Prose','v. t.','To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.'),('Prose','v. i.','To write prose.'),('Prosector','n.','One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration;\n   usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.'),('Prosecutable','a.','Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.'),('Prosecuted','imp. & p. p.','of Prosecute'),('Prosecuting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prosecute'),('Prosecute','v. t.','To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or\n   accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to\n   continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.'),('Prosecute','v. t.','To seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute\n   a right or a claim in a court of law.'),('Prosecute','v. t.','To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse\n   of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment,\n   before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to\n   prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot.'),('Prosecute','v. i.','To follow after.'),('Prosecute','v. i.','To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to\n   prosecute for public offenses.'),('Prosecution','n.','The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring\n   to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind;\n   as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the\n   prosecution of war.'),('Prosecution','n.','The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court\n   of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some\n   wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a\n   complaining party, as distinguished from defense.'),('Prosecution','n.','The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a\n   criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an\n   offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment\n   on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.'),('Prosecution','n.','The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted.'),('Prosecutor','n.','One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or\n   business.'),('Prosecutor','n.','The person who institutes and carries on a criminal\n   suit against another in the name of the government.'),('Prosecutrix','n.','A female prosecutor.'),('Proselyte','n.','A new convert especially a convert to some religion or\n   religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus,\n   a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity,\n   is a proselyte.'),('Proselyted','imp. & p. p.','of Proselyte'),('Proselyting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Proselyte'),('Proselyte','v. t.','To convert to some religion, opinion, or system; to\n   bring over.'),('Proselytism','n.','The act or practice of proselyting; the making of\n   converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system,\n   or party.'),('Proselytism','n.','Conversion to a religion, system, or party.'),('proselytized','imp. & p. p.','of Proselytize'),('Proselytizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Proselytize'),('Proselytize','v. t.','To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or\n   the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.'),('Proselytize','v. i.','To make converts or proselytes.'),('Proselytizer','n.','One who proselytes.'),('Proseman','n.','A writer of prose.'),('Proseminary','n.','A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher\n   institution.'),('Prosemination','n.','Propagation by seed.'),('Prosencephalic','a.','Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.'),('Prosencephalon','n.','The anterior segment of the brain, including the\n   cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.'),('Prosencephalon','n.','The cerebrum.'),('Prosenchyma','n.','A general term applied to the tissues formed of\n   elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities,\n   as the principal cells of ordinary wood.'),('Proser','n.','A writer of prose.'),('Proser','n.','One who talks or writes tediously.'),('Prosiliency','n.','The act of leaping forth or forward; projection.'),('Prosily','adv.','In a prosy manner.'),('Prosimetrical','a.','Consisting both of prose and verse.'),('Prosimiae','n. pl.','Same as Lemuroidea.'),('Prosiness','n.','The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness;\n   tiresomeness.'),('Prosing','n.','Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy\n   manner.'),('Prosingly','adv.','Prosily.'),('Prosiphon','n.','A minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and\n   not connected with the true siphon.'),('Proslavery','a.','Favoring slavery.'),('Proslavery','n.','Advocacy of slavery.'),('Prosobranch','n.','One of the Prosobranchiata.'),('Prosobranchiata','n. pl.','The highest division, or subclass, of\n   gastropod mollusks, including those that have the gills situated\n   anteriorly, or forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.'),('Prosocoele','n.','The entire cavity of the prosencephalon.'),('Prosocoelle','pl. ','of Prosocoelia'),('Prosocoelia','n.','Same as Prosocoele.'),('Prosodiacal','a.','Prosodical.'),('Prosodiacally','adv.','Prosodically.'),('Prosodial','a.','Prosodical.'),('Prosodian','n.','A prosodist.'),('Prosodical','a.','Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of\n   prosody.'),('Prosdist','n.','One skilled in prosody.'),('Prosody','n.','That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of\n   syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical\n   composition.'),('Prosomata','pl. ','of Prosoma'),('Prosoma','n.','The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod;\n   the thorax of an arthropod.'),('Prosopalgia','n.','Facial neuralgia.'),('Prosopocephala','n. pl.','Same as Scaphopoda.'),('Prosopolepsy','n.','Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion\n   or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance.'),('Prosopop/ia','n.','A figure by which things are represented as persons,\n   or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a\n   figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a\n   deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes\n   personification, but is more extensive in its signification.'),('Prosopulmonata','n. pl.','A division of pulmonate mollusks having the\n   breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.'),('Prospect','v.','That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which\n   the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.'),('Prospect','v.','Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a\n   landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.'),('Prospect','v.','A position affording a fine view; a lookout.'),('Prospect','v.','Relative position of the front of a building or other\n   structure; face; relative aspect.'),('Prospect','v.','The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as,\n   a prospect of the future state.'),('Prospect','v.','That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation;\n   expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.'),('Prospected','imp. & p. p.','of Prospect'),('Prospecting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prospect'),('Prospect','v. t.','To look over; to explore or examine for something; as,\n   to prospect a district for gold.'),('Prospect','v. i.','To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or\n   the like; as, to prospect for gold.'),('Prospection','n.','The act of looking forward, or of providing for future\n   wants; foresight.'),('Prospective','n.','Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect;\n   perspective.'),('Prospective','n.','Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; --\n   opposed to retrospective.'),('Prospective','n.','Being within view or consideration, as a future event\n   or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective\n   benefit.'),('Prospective','n.','The scene before or around, in time or in space; view;\n   prospect.'),('Prospective','n.','A perspective glass.'),('Prospectively','adv.','In a prospective manner.'),('Prospectiveness','n.','Quality of being prospective.'),('Prospectless','a.','Having no prospect.'),('Prospector','n.','One who prospects; especially, one who explores a\n   region for minerals and precious metals.'),('Prospectus','n.','A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed,\n   affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the\n   scheme of an unpublished literary work.'),('Prospered','imp. & p. p.','of Prosper'),('Prospering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prosper'),('Prosper','v. t.','To favor; to render successful.'),('Prosper','v. i.','To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or\n   prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.'),('Prosper','v. i.','To grow; to increase.'),('Prosperity','n.','The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in\n   anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or\n   enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success;\n   as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.'),('Prosperous','a.','Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.'),('Prosperous','a.','Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything\n   desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a\n   prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or\n   nation.'),('Prosphysis','n.','A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid\n   adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball.'),('Prospicience','n.','The act of looking forward.'),('Prostate','a.','Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in\n   the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder\n   where this joins the urethra.'),('Prostate','n.','The prostate gland.'),('Prostatic','a.','Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.'),('Prostatitis','n.','Inflammation of the prostate.'),('Prosternation','n.','Dejection; depression.'),('Prosternum','n.','The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.'),('Prosthesis','n.','The addition to the human body of some artificial part,\n   to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also\n   prothesis.'),('Prosthesis','n.','The prefixing of one or more letters to the beginning\n   of a word, as in beloved.'),('Prosthetic','a.','Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter\n   or letters to a word.'),('Prostibulous','a.','Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution;\n   meretricious.'),('Prostituted','imp. & p. p.','of Prostitute'),('Prostituting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prostitute'),('Prostitute','v. t.','To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to\n   lewdness for hire.'),('Prostitute','v. t.','To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up\n   to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute\n   official powers.'),('Prostitute','a.','Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or\n   infamous purposes.'),('Prostitute','n.','A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a\n   harlot.'),('Prostitute','n.','A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to\n   infamous employments for hire.'),('Prostitution','n.','The act or practice of prostituting or offering the\n   body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a\n   woman.'),('Prostitution','n.','The act of setting one\'s self to sale, or of devoting\n   to infamous purposes what is in one\'s power; as, the prostitution of\n   abilities; the prostitution of the press.'),('Prostitutor','n.','One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or\n   offers another, to vile purposes.'),('Prostomia','pl. ','of Prostomium'),('Prostomium','n.','That portion of the head of an annelid situated in\n   front of the mouth.'),('Prostrate','a.','Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground\n   or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.'),('Prostrate','a.','Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.'),('Prostrate','a.','Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.'),('Prostrate','a.','Trailing on the ground; procumbent.'),('Prostrated','imp. & p. p.','of Prostrate'),('Prostrating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prostrate'),('Prostrate','v. t.','To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to\n   prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.'),('Prostrate','v. t.','to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of\n   efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a\n   government; to prostrate law or justice.'),('Prostrate','v. t.','To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or\n   adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as,\n   he prostrated himself.'),('Prostrate','v. t.','To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to\n   reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.'),('Prostration','n.','The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat;\n   as, the prostration of the body.'),('Prostration','n.','The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or\n   adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually\n   applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.'),('Prostration','n.','The condition of being prostrate; great depression;\n   lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.'),('Prostration','n.','A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital\n   energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.'),('Prostyle','a.','Having columns in front.'),('Prostyle','n.','A prostyle portico or building.'),('Prosy','superl.','Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.'),('Prosy','superl.','Dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.'),('Prosylogism','n.','A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to\n   another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a\n   premise of the following syllogism.'),('Protactic','a.','Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the\n   plot or personages of a play; introductory.'),('Protagon','n.','A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain\n   tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other\n   bodies.'),('Protagonist','n.','One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one\n   who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.'),('Protamin','n.','An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic\n   fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction,\n   and unites with acids and metallic bases.'),('Protandric','a.','Having male sexual organs while young, and female\n   organs later in life.'),('Protandrous','a.','Proterandrous.'),('Protasis','n.','A proposition; a maxim.'),('Protasis','n.','The introductory or subordinate member of a sentence,\n   generally of a conditional sentence; -- opposed to apodosis. See\n   Apodosis.'),('Protasis','n.','The first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the\n   introduction; opposed to epitasis.'),('Protatic','a.','Of or pertaining to the protasis of an ancient play;\n   introductory.'),('Proteaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Proteaceae, an order of\n   apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the Cape of Good Hope or\n   of Australia.'),('Protean','a.','Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.'),('Protean','a.','Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or\n   forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.'),('Proteanly','adv.','In a protean manner.'),('Protected','imp. & p. p.','of Protect'),('Protecting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Protect'),('Protect','v. t.','To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to\n   guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.'),('Protectingly','adv.','By way of protection; in a protective manner.'),('Protection','n.','The act of protecting, or the state of being protected;\n   preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the\n   weak need protection.'),('Protection','n.','That which protects or preserves from injury; a\n   defense; a shield; a refuge.'),('Protection','n.','A writing that protects or secures from molestation or\n   arrest; a pass; a safe-conduct; a passport.'),('Protection','n.','A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a\n   country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition\n   of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will\n   restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade.'),('Protectionism','n.','The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See\n   Protection, 4.'),('Protectionist','n.','One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.'),('Protective','a.','Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.'),('Protectiveness','n.','The quality or state of being protective.'),('Protector','n.','One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury,\n   evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.'),('Protector','n.','One having the care of the kingdom during the king\'s\n   minority; a regent.'),('Protector','n.','A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman\n   Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome;\n   also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious\n   order, etc.'),('Protectoral','a.','Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as,\n   protectoral power.'),('Protectorate','n.','Government by a protector; -- applied especially to\n   the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.'),('Protectorate','n.','The authority assumed by a superior power over an\n   inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter\n   from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.'),('Protectorial','a.','Same as Protectoral.'),('Protectorless','a.','Having no protector; unprotected.'),('Protectorship','n.','The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.'),('Protectress','n.','Alt. of Protectrix'),('Protectrix','n.','A woman who protects.'),('Protege','n. f.','Alt. of Protegee'),('Protegee','n. f.','One under the care and protection of another.'),('Proteid','n.','One of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles,\n   containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as\n   blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc. Proteids are present in nearly all\n   animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and\n   organs. They are also important constituents of vegetable tissues. See\n   2d Note under Food.'),('Proteidea','n. pl.','An order of aquatic amphibians having prominent\n   external gills and four legs. It includes Proteus and Menobranchus\n   (Necturus). Called also Proteoidea, and Proteida.'),('Proteiform','a.','Changeable in form; resembling a Proteus, or an amoeba.'),('Protein','n.','A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally\n   considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its\n   name.'),('Proteinaceous','a.','Of or related to protein; albuminous; proteid.'),('Proteinous','a.','Proteinaceuos.'),('Proteles','n.','A South Africa genus of Carnivora, allied to the hyenas,\n   but smaller and having weaker jaws and teeth. It includes the\n   aard-wolf.'),('Protended','imp. & p. p.','of Protend'),('Protending','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Protend'),('Protend','v. t.','To hold out; to stretch forth.'),('Protense','n.','Extension.'),('Protension','n.','A drawing out; extension.'),('Protensive','a.','Drawn out; extended.'),('Proteolysis','n.','The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by\n   proteolytic ferments.'),('Proteolytic','a.','Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble\n   and diffusible products, as peptones.'),('Proterandrous','a.','Having the stamens come to maturity before the\n   pistil; -- opposed to proterogynous.'),('Proterandry','n.','The condition of being proterandrous.'),('Proteranthous','a.','Having flowers appearing before the leaves; -- said\n   of certain plants.'),('Proteroglypha','n. pl.','A suborder of serpents including those that have\n   permanently erect grooved poison fangs, with ordinary teeth behind them\n   in the jaws. It includes the cobras, the asps, and the sea snakes.\n   Called also Proteroglyphia.'),('Proterogynous','a.','Having the pistil come to maturity before the\n   stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.'),('Proterosaurus','n.','An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period.\n   Called also Protosaurus.'),('Protervity','n.','Peevishness; petulance.'),('Protested','imp. & p. p.','of Protest'),('Protesting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Protest'),('Protest','v. i.','To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear\n   witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.'),('Protest','v. i.','To make a solemn declaration (often a written one)\n   expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your\n   votes.'),('Protest','v. t.','To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to\n   proclaim; to display; as, to protest one\'s loyalty.'),('Protest','v. t.','To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to\n   prove an affirmation; to appeal to.'),('Protest','v.','A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal\n   objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn\n   declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a\n   legislative body; as, the protest of lords in Parliament.'),('Protest','v.','A solemn declaration in writing, in due form, made by a\n   notary public, usually under his notarial seal, on behalf of the holder\n   of a bill or note, protesting against all parties liable for any loss\n   or damage by the nonacceptance or nonpayment of the bill, or by the\n   nonpayment of the note, as the case may be.'),('Protest','v.','A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a\n   notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port\n   after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any\n   damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her\n   officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may\n   be, and protesting against them.'),('Protest','v.','A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a\n   tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal,\n   denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims,\n   in order to show that the payment was not voluntary.'),('Protestancy','n.','Protestantism.'),('Protestant','v.','One who protests; -- originally applied to those who\n   adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration\n   of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of\n   Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general\n   council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who\n   does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church.'),('Protestant','a.','Making a protest; protesting.'),('Protestant','a.','Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those\n   Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as,\n   Protestant writers.'),('Protestantical','a.','Protestant.'),('Protestantism','n.','The quality or state of being protestant, especially\n   against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the\n   Protestants.'),('Protestantly','adv.','Like a Protestant; in conformity with\n   Protestantism.'),('Protestation','n.','The act of making a protest; a public avowal; a\n   solemn declaration, especially of dissent.'),('Protestation','n.','Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by\n   which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some\n   fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time\n   avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.'),('Protestator','n.','One who makes protestation; a protester.'),('Protester','n.','One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration.'),('Protester','n.','One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.'),('Protestingly','adv.','By way of protesting.'),('Proteus','n.','A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different\n   shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or\n   principles.'),('Proteus','n.','A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in\n   Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes\n   are small and the legs are weak.'),('Proteus','n.','A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.'),('Prothalamion','n.','Alt. of Prothalamium'),('Prothalamium','n.','A song in celebration of a marriage.'),('Prothallia','pl. ','of Prothallium'),('Prothallium','n.','Same as Prothallus.'),('Prothalli','pl. ','of Prothallus'),('Prothallus','n.','The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and\n   other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric\n   generation of ferns, etc.'),('Prothesis','n.','A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek\n   Church.'),('Prothesis','n.','See Prosthesis.'),('Prothetic','a.','Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic\n   apparatus.'),('-ries','pl. ','of Protonotary'),('Prothonotary','n.','Alt. of Protonotary'),('Protonotary','n.','A chief notary or clerk.'),('Protonotary','n.','Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King\'s Bench\n   and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master.'),('Protonotary','n.','A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States\n   of the United States.'),('Protonotary','n.','Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts\n   of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of\n   twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office\n   is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official\n   record of beatifications.'),('Protonotary','n.','The chief secretary of the patriarch of\n   Constantinople.'),('Prothonotaryship','n.','Office of a prothonotary.'),('Prothoracic','a.','Of or pertaining to the prothorax.'),('Prothorax','n.','The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects.\n   See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.'),('Prothyalosomata','pl. ','of Pro thyalosoma'),('Pro thyalosoma','n.','The investing portion, or spherical envelope,\n   surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.'),('Prothyalosome','n.','Same as Prothyalosoma.'),('Protist','n.','One of the Protista.'),('Protista','n. pl.','A provisional group in which are placed a number of\n   low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants,\n   others animals.'),('Protista','pl. ','of Protiston'),('Protiston','n.','One of the Protista.'),('Proto-','','A combining form prefix signifying first, primary,\n   primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive\n   in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.'),('Proto-','','Denoting the first or lowest of a series, or the one having\n   the smallest amount of the element to the name of which it is prefixed;\n   as protoxide, protochloride, etc.'),('Proto-','','Sometimes used as equivalent to mono-, as indicating that the\n   compound has but one atom of the element to the name of which it is\n   prefixed. Also used adjectively.'),('Protocanonical','a.','Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which\n   contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; --\n   opposed to deutero-canonical.'),('Protocatechuic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an\n   organic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance from\n   catechin, asafetida, oil of cloves, etc., and by distillation itself\n   yields pyrocatechin.'),('Protocercal','a.','Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the\n   vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of\n   fishes; diphycercal.'),('Protococcus','n.','A genus of minute unicellular algae including the red\n   snow plant (Protococcus nivalis).'),('Protocol','n.','The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty,\n   dispatch, or other instrument.'),('Protocol','n.','The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or\n   transaction.'),('Protocol','n.','A preliminary document upon the basis of which\n   negotiations are carried on.'),('Protocol','n.','A convention not formally ratified.'),('Protocol','n.','An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results\n   reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.'),('Protocol','v. t.','To make a protocol of.'),('Protocol','v. i.','To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to\n   issue protocols.'),('Protocolist','n.','One who draughts protocols.'),('Protoconch','n.','The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and\n   other cephalopods.'),('Proto-Doric','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which\n   the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.'),('Protogine','n.','A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose\n   mineral.'),('Protogynous','a.','Same as Proterogynous.'),('Protohippus','n.','A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They\n   had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.'),('Protomartyr','n.','The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is\n   sacrificed, in any cause; -- applied esp. to Stephen, the first\n   Christian martyr.'),('Protomerite','n.','The second segment of one of the Gregarinae.'),('Protomorphic','a.','Having the most primitive character; in the earliest\n   form; as, a protomorphic layer of tissue.'),('Protonemata','pl. ','of Protonema'),('Protonema','n.','The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually\n   consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem\n   and leaf buds may be developed.'),('Protonotary','n.','Same as Prothonotary.'),('Protoorganism','n.','An organism whose nature is so difficult to\n   determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the\n   vegetable kingdom.'),('Protopapas','n.','A protopope.'),('Protophyte','n.','Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a\n   plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell\n   division.'),('Protophytology','n.','Paleobotany.'),('Protopine','n.','An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and\n   extracted as a white crystalline substance.'),('Protoplasm','n.','The viscid and more or less granular material of\n   vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the\n   processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called\n   \" physical basis of life;\" the original cell substance, cytoplasm,\n   cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.'),('Protoplasmatic','a.','Protoplasmic.'),('Protoplasmic','a.','Of or pertaining to the first formation of living\n   bodies.'),('Protoplasmic','a.','Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or\n   resembling, protoplasm.'),('Protoplast','n.','The thing first formed; that of which there are\n   subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.'),('Protoplast','n.','A first-formed organized body; the first individual, or\n   pair of individuals, of a species.'),('Protoplasta','n. pl.','A division of fresh-water rhizopods including\n   those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The\n   genus Gromia is one of the best-known.'),('Protoplastic','a.','First-formed.'),('Protopodite','n.','The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less\n   consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.'),('Protopope','n.','One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of\n   secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.'),('Protopterus','n.','See Komtok.'),('Protosalt','n.','A salt derived from a protoxide base.'),('Protosilicate','n.','A silicate formed with the lowest proportion of\n   silicic acid, or having but one atom of silicon in the molecule.'),('Protosomite','n.','One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an\n   animal.'),('Protosulphide','n.','That one of a series of sulphides of any element\n   which has the lowest proportion of sulphur; a sulphide with but one\n   atom of sulphur in the molecule.'),('Protosulphuret','n.','A protosulphide.'),('Prototheria','n. pl.','Same as Monotremata.'),('Prototracheata','n. pl.','Same as Malacopoda.'),('Prototype','n.','An original or model after which anything is copied; the\n   pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the\n   like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.'),('Protovertebrae','pl. ','of Protovertebra'),('Protovertebra','n.','One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which\n   the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the\n   anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral,\n   somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm.'),('Protovertebral','a.','Of or pertaining to the protovertebrae.'),('Protoxide','n.','That one of a series of oxides having the lowest\n   proportion of oxygen. See Proto-, 2 (b).'),('Protoxidize','v. t.','To combine with oxygen, as any elementary\n   substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.'),('Protozoa','n. pl.','The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal\n   kingdom.'),('Protozoan','a.','Of or pertaining to the Protozoa.'),('Protozoan','n.','One of the Protozoa.'),('Protozoic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Protozoa.'),('Protozoic','a.','Containing remains of the earliest discovered life of\n   the globe, which included mollusks, radiates and protozoans.'),('Protozoa','pl. ','of Protozoon'),('Protozoon','n.','One of the Protozoa.'),('Protozoon','n.','A single zooid of a compound protozoan.'),('Protozoonite','n.','One of the primary, or first-formed, segments of an\n   embryonic arthropod.'),('Protracheata','n. pl.','Same as Malacopoda.'),('Protracted','imp. & p. p.','of Protract'),('Protracting','p. pr. vb. n.','of Protract'),('Protract','v. t.','To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space;\n   to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a\n   war.'),('Protract','v. t.','To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as,\n   to protract a decision or duty.'),('Protract','v. t.','To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles\n   of, with scale and protractor; to plot.'),('Protract','v. t.','To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its\n   claws; -- opposed to retract.'),('Protract','n.','Tedious continuance or delay.'),('Protracted','a.','Prolonged; continued.'),('Protracter','n.','A protractor.'),('Protractile','a.','Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.'),('Protraction','n.','A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the\n   termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the\n   protraction of a debate.'),('Protraction','n.','The act or process of making a plot on paper.'),('Protraction','n.','A plot on paper.'),('Protractive','a.','Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging;\n   continuing; delaying.'),('Protractor','n.','One who, or that which, protracts, or causes\n   protraction.'),('Protractor','n.','A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring\n   angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various\n   forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular.'),('Protractor','n.','An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or\n   offensive matter from a wound.'),('Protractor','n.','A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to\n   retractor.'),('Protractor','n.','An adjustable pattern used by tailors.'),('Protreptical','a.','Adapted to persuade; hortatory; persuasive.'),('Protrudable','a.','That may be protruded; protrusile.'),('Protruded','imp. & p. p.','of Protrude'),('Protruding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Protrude'),('Protrude','v. t.','To thrust forward; to drive or force along.'),('Protrude','v. t.','To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from\n   confinement; to cause to come forth.'),('Protrude','v. i.','To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend\n   beyond a limit; to project.'),('Protrusile','a.','Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile;\n   protrusive.'),('Protrusion','n.','The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond\n   the usual limit.'),('Protrusion','n.','The state of being protruded, or thrust forward.'),('Protrusive','a.','Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion.'),('Protrusive','a.','Capable of being protruded; protrusile.'),('Protrusively','adv.','In a protrusive manner.'),('Protuberance','n.','That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond\n   the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a\n   prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.'),('Protuberancy','n.','The quality or state of being protuberant;\n   protuberance; prominence.'),('Protuberant','a.','Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond\n   the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint;\n   a protuberant eye.'),('Protuberate','v. i.','To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent\n   surface; to bulge out.'),('Protuberation','n.','The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface.'),('Protuberous','a.','Protuberant.'),('Protureter','n.','The duct of a pronephros.'),('Protyle','n.','The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the\n   original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are\n   recognized as distinct chemical elements.'),('Proud','superl.','Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense'),('Proud','superl.','Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating\n   one\'s excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.'),('Proud','superl.','Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem;\n   exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one\'s country.'),('Proud','superl.','Giving reason or occasion for pride or\n   self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent;\n   admirable; ostentatious.'),('Proud','superl.','Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to\n   the females of some animals.'),('Proudish','a.','Somewhat proud.'),('Proudling','n.','A proud or haughty person.'),('Proudly','adv.','In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily;\n   arrogantly; boastfully.'),('Proudness','n.','The quality of being proud; pride.'),('Proustite','n.','A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful\n   cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also\n   massive; ruby silver.'),('Provable','a.','Capable of being proved; demonstrable.'),('Provand','n.','Alt. of Proant'),('Proant','n.','Provender or food.'),('Provant','v. t.','To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.'),('Provant','a.','Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence,\n   common in quality; inferior.'),('Proved','imp. & p. p.','of Prove'),('Proving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prove'),('Prove','v. t.','To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or\n   standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of\n   ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.'),('Prove','v. t.','To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or\n   fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.'),('Prove','v. t.','To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of;\n   to verify; as, to prove a will.'),('Prove','v. t.','To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by\n   trial; to experience; to suffer.'),('Prove','v. t.','To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness\n   of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference\n   between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to\n   the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.'),('Prove','v. t.','To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to\n   prove a page.'),('Prove','v. i.','To make trial; to essay.'),('Prove','v. i.','To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out\n   to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.'),('Prove','v. i.','To succeed; to turn out as expected.'),('Provect','a.','Carried forward; advanced.'),('Provection','n.','A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a\n   following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename.'),('Proveditor','n.','One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a\n   steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another.'),('Provedore','n.','A proveditor; a purveyor.'),('Proven','p. p. / a.','Proved.'),('Proven/al','a.','Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.'),('Proven/al','n.','A native or inhabitant of Provence in France.'),('Proven/al','n.','The Provencal language. See Langue d\'oc.'),('Provence rose','','The cabbage rose (Rosa centifolia).'),('Provence rose','','A name of many kinds of roses which are hybrids of\n   Rosa centifolia and R. Gallica.'),('Provencial','a.','Of or pertaining to Provence in France.'),('Provend','n.','See Provand.'),('Provender','n.','Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn,\n   oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.'),('Provender','n.','Food or provisions.'),('Provent','n.','See Provand.'),('Proventricle','n.','Proventriculus.'),('Proventriulus','n.','The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above\n   the crop.'),('Prover','n.','One who, or that which, proves.'),('Proverb','n.','An old and common saying; a phrase which is often\n   repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses\n   some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a\n   maxim; a saw; an adage.'),('Proverb','n.','A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an\n   enigma; a parable.'),('Proverb','n.','A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous\n   reference.'),('Proverb','n.','A drama exemplifying a proverb.'),('Proverb','v. t.','To name in, or as, a proverb.'),('Proverb','v. t.','To provide with a proverb.'),('Proverb','v. i.','To write or utter proverbs.'),('Proverbial','a.','Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb;\n   hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was\n   proverbial.'),('Proverbial','a.','Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb.'),('Proverbialism','n.','A proverbial phrase.'),('Proverbialist','n.','One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or\n   writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.'),('Proverbialize','v. t. & i.','To turn into a proverb; to speak in\n   proverbs.'),('Proverbially','adv.','In a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence,\n   commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is\n   proverbially busy.'),('Provexity','n.','Great advance in age.'),('Provided','imp. & p. p.','of Provide'),('Providing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Provide'),('Provide','v. t.','To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to\n   get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.'),('Provide','v. t.','To supply; to afford; to contribute.'),('Provide','v. t.','To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now\n   by with.'),('Provide','v. t.','To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as,\n   the contract provides that the work be well done.'),('Provide','v. t.','To foresee.'),('Provide','v. t.','To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is\n   vacant. See Provisor.'),('Provide','v. i.','To procure supplies or means in advance; to take\n   measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need,\n   especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to\n   provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the\n   education of a child.'),('Provide','v. i.','To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the\n   agreement provides for an early completion of the work.'),('Provided','conj.','On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding;\n   if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act\n   shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.'),('Providence','n.','The act of providing or preparing for future use or\n   application; a making ready; preparation.'),('Providence','n.','Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care\n   which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as\n   exercising a constant wise prescience.'),('Providence','n.','A manifestation of the care and superintendence which\n   God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine\n   direction.'),('Providence','n.','Prudence in the management of one\'s concerns; economy;\n   frugality.'),('Provident','a.','Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them;\n   prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; --\n   sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of\n   the future.'),('Providential','a.','Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or\n   superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a\n   providential escape.'),('Providently','adv.','In a provident manner.'),('Providentness','n.','The quality or state of being provident;\n   carefulness; prudence; economy.'),('Provider','n.','One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who\n   procures what is wanted.'),('Providore','n.','One who makes provision; a purveyor.'),('Province','n.','A country or region, more or less remote from the city of\n   Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond\n   the limits of Italy.'),('Province','n.','A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a\n   portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.'),('Province','n.','A region of country; a tract; a district.'),('Province','n.','A region under the supervision or direction of any\n   special person; the district or division of a country, especially an\n   ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the\n   province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury\n   exercises ecclesiastical authority.'),('Province','n.','The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or\n   body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.'),('Province','n.','Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of\n   Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in\n   the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the\n   Dominion of Canada.'),('Provincial','a.','Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province;\n   as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.'),('Provincial','a.','Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province;\n   characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan;\n   countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.'),('Provincial','a.','Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to\n   the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial\n   synod.'),('Provincial','a.','Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.'),('Provincial','n.','A person belonging to a province; one who is\n   provincial.'),('Provincial','n.','A monastic superior, who, under the general of his\n   order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same\n   fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.'),('Provincialism','n.','A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a\n   province or a district remote from the mother country or from the\n   metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness;\n   illiberality.'),('Provincialist','n.','One who lives in a province; a provincial.'),('Provinciality','n.','The quality or state of being provincial;\n   peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.'),('Provincialized','imp. & p. p.','of Provincialize'),('Provincializing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Provincialize'),('Provincialize','v. t.','To render provincial.'),('Provincially','adv.','In a provincial manner.'),('Provinciate','v. t.','To convert into a province or provinces.'),('Provine','v. t.','To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for\n   propagation.'),('Provision','n.','The act of providing, or making previous preparation.'),('Provision','n.','That which is provided or prepared; that which is\n   brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand;\n   preparation.'),('Provision','n.','Especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables\n   collected or stored; -- often in the plural.'),('Provision','n.','That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a\n   previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the\n   statute has many provisions.'),('Provision','n.','A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice,\n   comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.'),('Provision','n.','A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became\n   vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.'),('Provisioned','imp. & p. p.','of Provision'),('Provisioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Provision'),('Provision','v. t.','To supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a\n   garrison.'),('Provisional','a.','Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision\n   for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a\n   provisional government; a provisional treaty.'),('Provisionally','adv.','By way of provision for the time being;\n   temporarily.'),('Provisionary','a.','Provisional.'),('Provisos','pl. ','of Proviso'),('Proviso','n.','An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract,\n   grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually\n   beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that\n   affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the\n   contract was impaired by its proviso.'),('Provisor','n.','One who provides; a purveyor.'),('Provisor','n.','The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house.'),('Provisor','n.','One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See\n   Provision, 5.'),('Provisor','n.','One who procures or receives a papal provision. See\n   Provision, 6.'),('Provisorily','adv.','In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a\n   proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily.'),('Provisorship','n.','The office or position of a provisor.'),('Provisory','a.','Of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or\n   condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause.'),('Provisory','a.','Making temporary provision; provisional.'),('Provocation','n.','The act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger.'),('Provocation','n.','That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of\n   resentment; as, to give provocation.'),('Provocation','n.','Incitement; stimulus; as, provocation to mirth.'),('Provocation','n.','Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under\n   the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made\n   in retort or redress.'),('Provocation','n.','An appeal to a court. [A Latinism]'),('Provocative','a.','Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate;\n   exciting.'),('Provocative','n.','Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a\n   provocative of appetite.'),('Provocativeness','n.','Quality of being provocative.'),('Provocatory','a.','Provocative.'),('Provokable','a.','That may be provoked.'),('Provoked','imp. & p. p.','of Provoke'),('Provoking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Provoke'),('Provoke','v. t.','To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to\n   incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition;\n   hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by\n   taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend\n   intolerably; to cause to retaliate.'),('Provoke','v. i.','To cause provocation or anger.'),('Provoke','v. i.','To appeal. [A Latinism]'),('Provokement','n.','The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or\n   other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition.'),('Provoking','a.','Having the power or quality of exciting resentment;\n   tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or\n   treatment.'),('Provost','n.','A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over,\n   something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the\n   provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other\n   cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost\n   or head of certain collegiate churches.'),('Provost','n.','The keeper of a prison.'),('Provostship','n.','The office of a provost.'),('Prow','n.','The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the\n   vessel itself.'),('Prow','n.','See Proa.'),('Prow','superl.','Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous.'),('Prow','a.','Benefit; profit; good; advantage.'),('Prowess','a.','Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery\n   and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness.'),('Prowled','imp. & p. p.','of Prowl'),('Prowling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prowl'),('Prowl','v. t.','To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner;\n   esp., to search in, as for prey or booty.'),('Prowl','v. t.','To collect by plunder; as, to prowl money.'),('Prowl','v. i.','To rove or wander stealthily, esp. for prey, as a wild\n   beast; hence, to prey; to plunder.'),('Prowl','n.','The act of prowling.'),('Prowler','n.','One that prowls.'),('Prowling','a.','Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as\n   for prey.'),('Prox','n.','\"The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to\n   the people for their votes.\"'),('Proxene','n.','An officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to\n   those who came from a friendly city or state.'),('Proxenet','n.','A negotiator; a factor.'),('Proximad','adv.','Toward a proximal part; on the proximal side of;\n   proximally.'),('Proximal','a.','Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of\n   dependence; proximate.'),('Proximal','a.','Situated near the point of attachment or origin; as, the\n   proximal part of a limb.'),('Proximal','a.','Of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the\n   proximal bones of a limb. Opposed to distal.'),('Proximally','adv.','On or toward a proximal part; proximad.'),('Proximate','a.','Nearest; next immediately preceding or following.'),('Proximately','adv.','In a proximate manner, position, or degree;\n   immediately.'),('Proxime','a.','Next; immediately preceding or following.'),('Proximious','a.','Proximate.'),('Proximity','n.','The quality or state of being next in time, place,\n   causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood,\n   or alliance.'),('Proximo','','In the next month after the present; -- often contracted to\n   prox.; as, on the 3d proximo.'),('Proxies','pl. ','of Proxy'),('Proxy','n.','The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority\n   to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate\n   capacity.'),('Proxy','n.','The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for\n   another.'),('Proxy','n.','A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in\n   his stead, as in a corporation meeting.'),('Proxy','n.','The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the\n   ecclesiastical courts.'),('Proxy','n.','See Procuration.'),('Proxy','v. i.','To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of\n   another.'),('Proxyship','n.','The office or agency of a proxy.'),('Pruce','n.','Prussian leather.'),('Prude','a.','A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is\n   overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in\n   conduct and speech.'),('Prudence','n.','The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way\n   of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also,\n   economy; frugality.'),('Prudency','n.','Prudence.'),('Prudent','a.','Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in\n   action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise;\n   judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a\n   prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought;\n   evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.'),('Prudent','a.','Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman;\n   prudent expenditure of money.'),('Prudential','a.','Proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by,\n   prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as\n   distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential\n   motives.'),('Prudential','a.','Exercising prudence; discretionary; advisory;\n   superintending or executive; as, a prudential committee.'),('Prudential','n.','That which relates to or demands the exercise of,\n   discretion or prudence; -- usually in the pl.'),('Prudentialist','n.','One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential\n   motives.'),('Prudentiality','n.','The quality or state of being prudential.'),('Prudentially','adv.','In a prudential manner; prudently.'),('Prudently','adv.','In a prudent manner.'),('Pruderies','pl. ','of Prudery'),('Prudery','n.','The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or\n   affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.'),('Prudhomme','n.','A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman. See Citation\n   under 3d Commune, 1.'),('Prudish','a.','Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved;\n   affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.'),('Prudishly','adv.','In a prudish manner.'),('Pruinate','a.','Same as Pruinose.'),('Pruinose','a.','Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or\n   the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.'),('Pruinous','a.','Frosty; pruinose.'),('Pruned','imp. & p. p.','of Prune'),('Pruning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Prune'),('Prune','v. t.','To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or\n   shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by\n   trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.'),('Prune','v. t.','To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.'),('Prune','v. t.','To preen; to prepare; to dress.'),('Prune','v. i.','To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.'),('Prune','n.','A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or\n   Turkish prunes; California prunes.'),('Prunella','n.','Angina, or angina pectoris.'),('Prunella','n.','Thrush.'),('Prunella','n.','Alt. of Prunello'),('Prunello','n.','A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making\n   shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen\'s gowns.'),('Prunelle','n.','A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied\n   especially to the stoned and dried fruit.'),('Prunello','n.','A species of dried plum; prunelle.'),('Pruner','n.','One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.'),('Pruner','n.','Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the\n   branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American\n   oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches,\n   and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the\n   bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.'),('Pruniferous','a.','Bearing plums.'),('Pruning','n.','The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.'),('Pruning','n.','That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers;\n   leavings.'),('Prunus','n.','A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a\n   single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.'),('Prurience','n.','Alt. of Pruriency'),('Pruriency','n.','The quality or state of being prurient.'),('Prurient','a.','Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a\n   lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.'),('Pruriginous','a.','Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of\n   the nature of, prurigo.'),('Prurigo','n.','A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is\n   the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy\n   cuticle in color.'),('Pruritus','n.','Itching.'),('Prussian','a.','Of or pertaining to Prussia.'),('Prussian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Prussia.'),('Prussiate','n.','A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide.'),('Prussic','a.','designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but\n   formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it\n   or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.'),('Prutenic','a.','Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables\n   published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of\n   Copernicus, a Prussian.'),('Pry','n.','A lever; also, leverage.'),('Pried','imp. & p. p.','of Pry'),('Prying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pry'),('Pry','v. t.','To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry\n   or lever; to prize.'),('Pry','v. i.','To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt\n   to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying\n   reproach.'),('Pry','n.','Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.'),('Pryan','n.','See Prian.'),('Prying','a.','Inspecting closely or impertinently.'),('Pryingly','adv.','In a prying manner.'),('Prytaneum','n.','A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a\n   public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which\n   official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and\n   strangers.'),('Prytanes','pl. ','of Prytanis'),('Prytanis','n.','A member of one of the ten sections into which the\n   Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which\n   belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.'),('Prytany','n.','The period during which the presidency of the senate\n   belonged to the prytanes of the section.'),('Prythee','interj.','See Prithee.'),('Psalm','n.','A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise\n   or worship of God.'),('Psalm','n.','Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected\n   into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of\n   such a hymn for public worship.'),('Psalm','v. t.','To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.'),('Psalmist','n.','A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title\n   particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural\n   psalms.'),('Psalmist','n.','A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the\n   church.'),('Psalmistry','n.','The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.'),('Psalmodic','a.','Alt. of Psalmodical'),('Psalmodical','a.','Relating to psalmody.'),('Psalmodist','n.','One who sings sacred songs; a psalmist.'),('Psalmodize','v. i.','To practice psalmody.'),('Psalmody','n.','The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred\n   songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.'),('Psalmograph','n.','A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.'),('Psalmographer','n.','Alt. of Psalmographist'),('Psalmographist','n.','A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.'),('Psalmography','n.','The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred\n   songs.'),('Psalter','n.','The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing\n   the Psalms separately printed.'),('Psalter','n.','Specifically, the Book of Psalms as printed in the Book of\n   Common Prayer; among the Roman Catholics, the part of the Breviary\n   which contains the Psalms arranged for each day of the week.'),('Psalter','n.','A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads,\n   corresponding to the number of the psalms.'),('Psalterial','a.','Of or pertaining to the psalterium.'),('Psalteria','pl. ','of Psalterium'),('Psalterium','n.','The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.'),('Psalterium','n.','The lyra of the brain.'),('Psalteries','pl. ','of Psaltery'),('Psaltery','n.','A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the\n   form of which is not known.'),('Psammite','n.','A species of micaceous sandstone.'),('Psarolite','n.','A silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in\n   the Triassic sandstone.'),('Psellism','n.','Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.'),('Psephism','n.','A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially,\n   one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute.'),('Pseudaesthesia','n.','False or imaginary feeling or sense perception such\n   as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that\n   has been removed, as an amputated foot.'),('Pseudembryo','n.','A false embryo.'),('Pseudembryo','n.','An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced\n   by budding.'),('Pseudepigraphic','a.','Alt. of Pseudepigraphic'),('Pseudepigraphic','a.','Of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.'),('Pseudepigraphous','a.','Inscribed with a false name.'),('Pseudepigraphy','n.','The ascription of false names of authors to works.'),('Pseudhaemal','a.','Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.'),('Pseudo-','','A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit,\n   pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle;\n   pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy,\n   pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively.'),('Pseudobacteria','n. pl.','Microscopic organic particles, molecular\n   granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and\n   grouping resemble bacteria.'),('Pseudoblepsis','n.','False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of\n   objects.'),('Pseudobranch','n.','Same as Pseudobranchia.'),('Pseudobranchiae','pl. ','of Pseudobranchia'),('Pseudobranchia','n.','A rudimentary branchia, or gill.'),('Pseudo-bulb','n.','An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some\n   epiphytic orchidaceous plants.'),('Pseudocarp','n.','That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not\n   derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.'),('Pseudo-china','n.','The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S.\n   Pseudo-china), found in America.'),('Pseudocoele','n.','Same as Pseudocoelia.'),('Pseudocoelia','n.','The fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. See\n   Ventricle.'),('Pseudo-cone','n.','One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound\n   eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of\n   others.'),('Pseudo-cumene','n.','A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with\n   mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless\n   liquid.'),('Pseudo-dipteral','a.','Falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with\n   the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the\n   space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal\n   to two intercolumns and one column.'),('Pseudo-dipteral','n.','A pseudo-dipteral temple.'),('Pseudodox','a.','Not true in opinion or doctrine; false.'),('Pseudodox','n.','A false opinion or doctrine.'),('Pseudofilari/','pl. ','of Pseudofilaria'),('Pseudofilaria','n.','One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by\n   fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinae.'),('Pseudo-galena','n.','False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).'),('Pseudograph','n.','A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.'),('Pseudography','n.','False writing; forgery.'),('Pseudohalteres','pl. ','of Pseudohalter'),('Pseudohalter','n.','One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects\n   (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of\n   Diptera.'),('Pseudo-heart','n.','Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not\n   of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to\n   the excretory system.'),('Pseudo-hyperthophic','a.','Falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic\n   paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently\n   enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.'),('Pseudologist','n.','One who utters falsehoods; a liar.'),('Pseudology','n.','Falsehood of speech.'),('Pseudo-metallic','a.','Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind\n   of luster, as in minerals.'),('Pseudo-monocotyledonous','a.','Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the\n   live oak and the horse-chestnut.'),('Pseudomorph','n.','An irregular or deceptive form.'),('Pseudomorph','n.','A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of\n   quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal\n   having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.'),('Pseudomorphism','n.','The state of having, or the property of taking, a\n   crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.'),('Pseudomorphous','a.','Not having the true form.'),('Pseudonavicullae','pl. ','of Pseudonavicella'),('Pseudonavicella','n.','Same as Pseudonavicula.'),('Pseudonaviculae','pl. ','of Pseudonavicula'),('Pseudonavicula','n.','One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of\n   Gregarinae and some other Protozoa.'),('Pseudoneuroptera','n. pl.','division of insects (Zool.) reticulated\n   wings, as in the Neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. It\n   includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some\n   zoologists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the\n   Neuroptera.'),('Pseudoneuropterous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pseudoneuroptera.'),('Pseudonym','n.','A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author;\n   a pen name.'),('Pseudonumity','n.','The using of fictitious names, as by authors.'),('Pseudonymous','a.','Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a\n   pseudonymous work.'),('Pseuso-peripteral','a.','Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple\n   having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an\n   ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end.'),('Pseuso-peripteral','n.','A pseudo-peripteral temple.'),('Pseudopod','n.','Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process\n   projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant\n   call.'),('Pseudopod','n.','A rhizopod.'),('Pseudopodial','a.','Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia.\n   See Illust. of Heliozoa.'),('Pseudopodia','pl. ','of Pseudopodium'),('Pseudopodium','n.','Same as Pseudopod.'),('Pseudopupae','pl. ','of Pseudopupa'),('Pseudopupas','pl. ','of Pseudopupa'),('Pseudopupa','n.','A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees\n   and certain other hymenopterous insects.'),('Pseudorhabdite','n.','One of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the\n   integument of certain Turbellaria. They are filled with a soft granular\n   substance.'),('Pseudo-romantic','a.','Falsely romantic.'),('Pseudoscope','n.','An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper\n   relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the\n   stereoscope.'),('Pseudoscopic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a pseudoscope;\n   having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic\n   image.'),('Pseudoscorpiones','n. pl.','An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi\n   terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a\n   caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and\n   Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.'),('Pseudosphere','n.','The surface of constant negative curvature generated\n   by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in\n   non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important\n   property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be\n   displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its\n   elements.'),('Pseudospore','n.','A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.'),('-lae','pl. ','of Pseudostella'),('Pseudostella','n.','Any starlike meteor or phenomenon.'),('Pseudostomata','pl. ','of Pseudostoma'),('Pseudostoma','n.','A group of cells resembling a stoma, but without any\n   true aperture among them.'),('Pseudo-symmetric','a.','Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry.'),('Pseudo-symmetry','n.','A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain\n   crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms\n   of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently\n   hexagonal prisms of aragonite.'),('Pseudotetramera','n. pl.','A division of beetles having the fifth tarsal\n   joint minute and obscure, so that there appear to be but four joints.'),('Pseudotineae','pl. ','of Pseudotinea'),('Pseudotinea','n.','The bee moth, or wax moth (Galleria).'),('Pseudoturbinal','a.','See under Turbinal.'),('Pseudovaries','pl. ','of Pseudovary'),('Pseudovary','n.','The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called\n   also pseudovarium.'),('Pseudova','pl. ','of Pseudovum'),('Pseudovum','n.','An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some\n   insects and other animals, and by the larvae of certain insects. It is\n   capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of\n   Paedogenesis.'),('Pshaw','interj.','Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of\n   contempt, disdain, dislike, etc.'),('Pshaw','v. i.','To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by\n   the exclamation \" Pshaw!\"'),('Psilanthropic','a.','Pertaining to, or embodying, psilanthropy. \"A\n   psilanthropic explanation.\"'),('Psilanthropism','n.','Psilanthropy.'),('Psilanthropist','n.','One who believes that Christ was a mere man.'),('Psilanthropy','n.','The doctrine of the merely human existence of Christ.'),('Psilology','n.','Love of empty of empty talk or noise.'),('Psilomelane','n.','A hydrous oxide of manganese, occurring in smooth,\n   botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray\n   color.'),('Psilopaedes','n. pl.','birds whose young at first have down on the\n   pterylae only; -- called also Gymnopaedes.'),('Psilopaedic','a.','Having down upon the pterylae only; -- said of the\n   young of certain birds.'),('Psilosopher','n.','A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a\n   sham philosopher.'),('Psittaceous','a.','Alt. of Psittacid'),('Psittacid','a.','Of or pertaining to the parrots, or the Psittaci.'),('Psittacid','n.','One of the Psittaci.'),('Psittaci','n. pl.','The order of birds which comprises the parrots.'),('Psitta-co-fulvine','n.','A yellow pigment found in the feathers of\n   certain parrots.'),('Psoas','n.','An internal muscle arising from the lumbar vertebrae and\n   inserted into the femur. In man there are usually two on each side, and\n   the larger one, or great psoas, forms a part of the iliopsoas.'),('Psora','n.','A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.'),('Psoriasis','n.','The state of being affected with psora.'),('Psoriasis','n.','A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery\n   scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin.'),('Psoric','a.','Of or pertaining to psora.'),('Psorosperm','n.','A minute parasite, usually the young of Gregarinae, in\n   the pseudonavicula stage.'),('Psychagogic','a.','Attractive; persuasive.'),('Psychagogue','n.','A necromancer.'),('Psychal','a.','Of or pertaining to the soul; psychical.'),('Psyche','n.','A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros,\n   or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.'),('Psyche','n.','The soul; the vital principle; the mind.'),('Psyche','n.','A cheval glass.'),('Psychian','n.','Any small moth of the genus Psyche and allied genera\n   (family Psychidae). The larvae are called basket worms. See Basket\n   worm, under Basket.'),('Psychiatria','n.','Alt. of Psychiatry'),('Psychiatry','n.','The application of the healing art to mental diseases.'),('Psychiatric','a.','Of or pertaining to psychiatria.'),('Psychic','a.','Alt. of Psychical'),('Psychical','a.','Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living\n   principle in man.'),('Psychical','a.','Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and\n   diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical.'),('Psychics','n.','Psychology.'),('Psychism','n.','The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally\n   diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in\n   their actions being due to the difference of the individual\n   organizations.'),('Psycho-','','A combining form from Gr. psychh` the soul, the mind, the\n   understanding; as, psychology.'),('Psychogenesis','n.','Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to\n   natural selection.'),('Psychography','n.','A description of the phenomena of mind.'),('Psychography','n.','Spirit writing.'),('Psychologic','a.','Alt. of Psychological'),('Psychological','a.','Of or pertaining to psychology. See Note under\n   Psychic.'),('Psychologist','n.','One who is versed in, devoted to, psychology.'),('Psychologue','n.','A psychologist.'),('Psychologies','pl. ','of Psychology'),('Psychology','n.','The science of the human soul; specifically, the\n   systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the\n   human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on\n   the human soul.'),('Psychomachy','n.','A conflict of the soul with the body.'),('Psychomancy','n.','Necromancy.'),('Psychometry','n.','The art of measuring the duration of mental processes,\n   or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.'),('Psycho-motor','a.','Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of\n   the mind or will.'),('Psychopannychism','n.','The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death,\n   and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.'),('Psychopathy','n.','Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2.'),('Psychophysical','a.','Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the\n   action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man.'),('Psychophysics','n.','The science of the connection between nerve action\n   and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the\n   psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine\n   of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.'),('Psychopomp','n.','A leader or guide of souls .'),('Psychosis','n.','Any vital action or activity.'),('Psychosis','n.','A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental\n   disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.'),('Psychozoic','a.','Designating, or applied to the Era of man; as, the\n   psychozoic era.'),('Psychrometer','n.','An instrument for measuring the tension of the\n   aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb\n   hygrometer.'),('Psychrometrical','a.','Of or pertaining to the psychrometer or\n   psychrometry.'),('Psychrometry','n.','Hygrometry.'),('Psyllae','pl. ','of Psylla'),('Psylla','n.','Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family\n   Psyllidae.'),('Ptarmigan','n.','Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous\n   species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the\n   species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in\n   winter.'),('Ptenoglossa','n. pl.','A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth\n   of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs\n   of a feather.'),('Ptenoglossate','a.','Of or pertaining to the Ptenoglossa.'),('Pteranodon','n.','A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute\n   of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of\n   wings of twenty feet or more.'),('Pteranodontia','n. pl.','A group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as\n   in the genus Pteranodon.'),('Pterichthys','n.','A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike\n   appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony\n   plates. See Placodermi.'),('Pteridologist','n.','One who is versed in pteridology.'),('Pteridology','n.','That department of botany which treats of ferns.'),('Pteridomania','n.','A madness, craze, or strong fancy, for ferns.'),('Pteridophyta','n. pl.','A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns,\n   horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the\n   Note under Cryptogamia.'),('Pterobranchia','n. pl.','An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed\n   lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type.\n   Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.'),('Pteroceras','n.','A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer\n   border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.'),('Pterocletes','n. pl.','A division of birds including the sand grouse.\n   They are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true\n   grouse. Called also Pteroclomorphae.'),('Pterodactyl','n.','An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See\n   Illustration in Appendix.'),('Pterodactyli','n. pl.','Same as Pterosauria.'),('Pteroglossal','a.','Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so\n   as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.'),('Pteron','n.','The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the\n   orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the\n   parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.'),('Pteropappi','n. pl.','Same as Odontotormae.'),('Pterophore','n.','Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a\n   plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.'),('Pteropod','n.','One of the Pteropoda.'),('Pteropoda','n. pl.','A class of Mollusca in which the anterior lobes of\n   the foot are developed in the form of broad, thin, winglike organs,\n   with which they swim at near the surface of the sea.'),('Pteropodous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pteropoda.'),('Pterosaur','n.','A pterodactyl.'),('Pterosauria','n. pl.','An extinct order of flying reptiles of the\n   Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and\n   Ornithosauria.'),('Pterosaurian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pterosauria.'),('Pterostigmata','pl. ','of Pterostigma'),('Pterostigma','n.','A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain\n   insects.'),('Pterotic','a.','Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the\n   prootic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic\n   capsule of many fishes.'),('Pterotic','n.','The pterotic bone.'),('Pterygiums','pl. ','of Pterygium'),('Pterygia','pl. ','of Pterygium'),('Pterygium','n.','A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a\n   fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.'),('Pterygoid','a.','Like a bird\'s wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone.'),('Pterygoid','a.','Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid\n   bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone.'),('Pterygoid','n.','A pterygoid bone.'),('Pterygomaxillary','a.','Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or\n   pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.'),('Pterygopalatine','a.','Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and\n   the palatine bones.'),('Pterygopodia','pl. ','of Pterygopodium'),('Pterygopodium','n.','A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male\n   elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.'),('Pterygoquadrate','a.','Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid\n   and quadrate bones or cartilages.'),('Pterylae','pl. ','of Pteryla'),('Pteryla','n.','One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which\n   feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.'),('Pterylography','n.','The study or description of the arrangement of\n   feathers, or of the pterylae, of birds.'),('Pterylosis','n.','The arrangement of feathers in definite areas.'),('Ptilocerque','n.','The pentail.'),('Ptilopaedes','n. pl.','Same as Dasypaedes.'),('Ptilopaedic','a.','Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered\n   with down; dasypaedic; -- said of the young of certain birds.'),('Ptilopteri','n. pl.','An order of birds including only the penguins.'),('Ptilosis','n.','Same as Pterylosis.'),('Ptisan','n.','A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous\n   drink.'),('Ptisan','n.','An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal\n   agent; a tea or tisane.'),('Ptolemaic','a.','Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and\n   astronomer.'),('Ptolemaist','n.','One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.'),('Ptomaine','n.','One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the\n   putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related\n   to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a\n   class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be\n   distinguished from the leucomaines.'),('Ptosis','n.','Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its\n   levator muscle.'),('Ptyalin','n.','An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in\n   human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.'),('Ptyalism','n.','Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva.'),('Ptyalogogue','n.','A ptysmagogue.'),('Ptysmagogue','n.','A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.'),('Ptyxis','n.','The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.'),('Pubble','a.','Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat.'),('Puberal','a.','Of or pertaining to puberty.'),('Puberty','n.','The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting\n   or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be\n   about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.'),('Puberty','n.','The period when a plant first bears flowers.'),('Puberulent','a.','Very minutely downy.'),('Pubes','n.','The hair which appears upon the lower part of the\n   hypogastric region at the age of puberty.'),('Pubes','n.','Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the\n   hypogastric region; the pubic region.'),('Pubes','n.','The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows\n   on plants; pubescence.'),('Pubescence','n.','The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having\n   arrived at puberty.'),('Pubescence','n.','A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some\n   plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.'),('Pubescency','n.','Pubescence.'),('Pubescent','a.','Arrived at puberty.'),('Pubescent','a.','Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain\n   insects, and the leaves of some plants.'),('Pubic','a.','Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes;\n   as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the\n   hypogastric region. See Pubes.'),('Pubic','a.','Of or pertaining to the pubis.'),('Pubis','n.','The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones\n   composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.'),('Public','a.','Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people;\n   relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to\n   private; as, the public treasury.'),('Public','a.','Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common;\n   notorious; as, public report; public scandal.'),('Public','a.','Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public\n   house.'),('Public','n.','The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or\n   community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a\n   particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author\'s public.'),('Public','n.','A public house; an inn.'),('Publican','n.','A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a\n   collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were\n   often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great\n   detestation.'),('Publican','n.','The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to\n   retail beer, spirits, or wine.'),('Publication','n.','The act of publishing or making known; notification to\n   the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing;\n   proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law\n   at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of\n   statutes or edicts.'),('Publication','n.','The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc.,\n   to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.'),('Publication','n.','That which is published or made known; especially, any\n   book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily\n   or monthly publication.'),('Publication','n.','An act done in public.'),('Public-hearted','a.','Public-spirited.'),('Publicist','n.','A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is\n   versed in the science of public right, the principles of government,\n   etc.'),('Publicity','n.','The quality or state of being public, or open to the\n   knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.'),('Publicly','adv.','With exposure to popular view or notice; without\n   concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion\n   publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.'),('Publicly','adv.','In the name of the community.'),('Public-minded','a.','Public-spirited.'),('Publicness','n.','The quality or state of being public, or open to the\n   view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the\n   publicness of a sale.'),('Publicness','n.','The quality or state of belonging to the community; as,\n   the publicness of property.'),('Public-spirited','a.','Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance\n   the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men.'),('Public-spirited','a.','Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a\n   public-spirited project or measure.'),('Published','imp. & p. p.','of Publish'),('Publishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Publish'),('Publish','v. t.','To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people\n   in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or\n   proclaim, as a law or an edict.'),('Publish','v. t.','To make known by posting, or by reading in a church;\n   as, to publish banns of marriage.'),('Publish','v. t.','To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or\n   other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to\n   print, and issue from the press.'),('Publish','v. t.','To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish\n   counterfeit paper.'),('Publishable','a.','Capable of being published; suitable for publication.'),('Publisher','n.','One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or\n   magazine.'),('Publishment','n.','The act or process of making publicly known;\n   publication.'),('Publishment','n.','A public notice of intended marriage, required by the\n   laws of some States.'),('Puccoon','n.','Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is\n   used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of\n   Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.'),('Puce','a.','Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.'),('Pucel','n.','See Pucelle.'),('Pucelage','n.','Virginity.'),('Pucelle','n.','A maid; a virgin.'),('Puceron','n.','Any plant louse, or aphis.'),('Pucherite','n.','Vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown\n   crystals.'),('Puck','n.','A celebrated fairy, \"the merry wanderer of the night;\" --\n   called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc.'),('Puck','n.','The goatsucker.'),('Puckball','n.','A puffball.'),('Puckered','imp. & p. p.','of Pucker'),('Puckering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pucker'),('Pucker','v. t. & i.','To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract\n   into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker\n   up the mouth.'),('Pucker','n.','A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.'),('Pucker','n.','A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother;\n   agitation.'),('Puckerer','n.','One who, or that which, puckers.'),('Puckery','a.','Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery\n   taste.'),('Puckery','a.','Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers\n   or wrinkles.'),('Puckfist','n.','A puffball.'),('Puckish','a.','Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.'),('Pucras','n.','See Koklass.'),('Pud','n.','Same as Pood.'),('Pud','n.','The hand; the first.'),('Puddening','n.','A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a\n   fender, on the bow of a boat.'),('Puddening','n.','A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between\n   spars, or the like.'),('Puddered','imp. & p. p.','of Pudder'),('Puddering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pudder'),('Pudder','v. i.','To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother\n   or fuss; to potter; to meddle.'),('Pudder','v. t.','To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to\n   pudder a man.'),('Pudder','n.','A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle.'),('Pudding','n.','A species of food of a soft or moderately hard\n   consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal,\n   with milk and eggs, etc.'),('Pudding','n.','Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency\n   of, pudding.'),('Pudding','n.','An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat,\n   etc.; a sausage.'),('Pudding','n.','Any food or victuals.'),('Pudding','n.','Same as Puddening.'),('Pudding-headed','a.','Stupid.'),('Puddle','n.','A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a\n   small pool.'),('Puddle','n.','Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked,\n   when wet, to render it impervious to water.'),('Puddled','imp. & p. p.','of Puddle'),('Puddling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Puddle'),('Puddle','v. t.','To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt\n   with (water).'),('Puddle','v. t.','To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when\n   wet, so as to render impervious to water.'),('Puddle','v. t.','To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to\n   apply puddle to.'),('Puddle','v. t.','To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to\n   convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron.'),('Puddle','v. i.','To make a dirty stir.'),('Puddle-ball','n.','The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the\n   puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.'),('Puddle-bar','n.','An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball\n   hammering and rolling.'),('Puddler','n.','One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the\n   process of puddling.'),('Puddling','n.','The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc.,\n   with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the\n   process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled\n   material.'),('Puddling','n.','Puddle. See Puddle, n., 2.'),('Puddling','n.','The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought\n   iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in\n   a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by\n   which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities.'),('Puddly','a.','Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul.'),('Puddock','n.','A small inclosure.'),('Pudency','n.','Modesty; shamefacedness.'),('Pudenda','n. pl.','The external organs of generation.'),('Pudendal','a.','Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum.'),('Pudendum','n.','The external organs of generation, especially of the\n   female; the vulva.'),('Pudgy','a.','Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy\n   little man; a pudgy little hand.'),('Pudic','a.','Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.'),('Pudical','a.','Pudic.'),('Pudicity','n.','Modesty; chastity.'),('Pudu','n.','A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian\n   Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long.'),('Pued','imp. & p. p.','of Pue'),('Puing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pue'),('Pue','v. i.','To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds.'),('Pueblo','n.','A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of\n   Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories\n   high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also\n   applied to any Indian village in the same region.'),('Puefellow','n.','A pewfellow.'),('Puer','n.','The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning.'),('Puerco','n.','A hog.'),('Puerile','a.','Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.'),('Puerilely','adv.','In a puerile manner; childishly.'),('Puerileness','n.','The quality of being puerile; puerility.'),('Puerilities','pl. ','of Puerility'),('Puerility','n.','The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness.'),('Puerility','n.','That which is puerile or childish; especially, an\n   expression which is flat, insipid, or silly.'),('Puerperal','a.','Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.'),('Puerperous','a.','Bearing children.'),('Puet','n.','The pewit.'),('Puff','n.','A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence,\n   any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.'),('Puff','n.','Anything light and filled with air.'),('Puff','n.','A puffball.'),('Puff','n.','a kind of light pastry.'),('Puff','n.','A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with\n   powder.'),('Puff','n.','An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one\n   in a public journal.'),('Puffed','imp. & p. p.','of Puff'),('Puffing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Puff'),('Puff','n.','To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.'),('Puff','n.','To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.'),('Puff','n.','To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent\n   exertion.'),('Puff','n.','To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.'),('Puff','n.','To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence,\n   to assume importance.'),('Puff','v. t.','To drive with a puff, or with puffs.'),('Puff','v. t.','To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.'),('Puff','v. t.','To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with\n   puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.'),('Puff','v. t.','To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like;\n   -- often with up.'),('Puff','v. t.','To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public\n   attention to by praises; to praise unduly.'),('Puff','a.','Puffed up; vain.'),('Puffball','n.','A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and\n   other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; --\n   called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.'),('Puffer','n.','One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant\n   commendation.'),('Puffer','n.','One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at\n   suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.'),('Puffer','n.','Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the\n   species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish,\n   swellfish, and globefish.'),('Puffer','n.','The common, or harbor, porpoise.'),('Puffer','n.','A kier.'),('Puffery','n.','The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant\n   commendation.'),('Puffin','n.','An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks,\n   and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called\n   also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea\n   parrot.'),('Puffin','n.','The puffball.'),('Puffin','n.','A sort of apple.'),('Puffiness','n.','The quality or state of being puffy.'),('Puffing','','a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.'),('Puffingly','adv.','In a puffing manner; with vehement breathing or\n   shortness of breath; with exaggerated praise.'),('Puff-leg','n.','Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of\n   the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.'),('Puff-legged','a.','Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.'),('Puffy','a.','Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft\n   substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.'),('Puffy','a.','Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.'),('Pugged','imp. & p. p.','of Pug'),('Pugging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pug'),('Pug','v. t.','To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.'),('Pug','v. t.','To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread\n   with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening\n   sound. See Pugging, 2.'),('Pug','n.','Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.'),('Pug','n.','A pug mill.'),('Pug','n.','An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.'),('Pug','n.','A name for a monkey.'),('Pug','n.','A name for a fox.'),('Pug','n.','An intimate; a crony; a dear one.'),('Pug','n.','Chaff; the refuse of grain.'),('Pug','n.','A prostitute.'),('Pug','n.','One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head;\n   a pug dog.'),('Pug','n.','Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.'),('Pug-faced','a.','Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.'),('Pugger','v. t.','To pucker.'),('Puggered','a.','Puckered.'),('Pugging','v. t.','The act or process of working and tempering clay to\n   make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery,\n   etc.'),('Pugging','v. t.','Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the\n   boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the\n   United States usually called deafening.'),('Pugging','a.','Thieving.'),('Pugh','interj.','Pshaw! pish! -- a word used in contempt or disdain.'),('Pugil','n.','As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first\n   fingers.'),('Pugilism','n.','The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.'),('Pugilist','n.','One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize\n   fighter; a boxer.'),('Pugilistic','a.','Of or pertaining to pugillism.'),('Pugnacious','a.','Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome;\n   fighting.'),('Pugnacity','n.','Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness.'),('Pug nose','','A short, thick nose; a snubnose.'),('Puh','interj.','The same as Pugh.'),('Puisne','a.','Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent.'),('Puisne','a.','Puny; petty; unskilled.'),('Puisne','a.','Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief\n   justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the\n   puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer.'),('Puisne','n.','One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a\n   judge of inferior rank.'),('Puisny','a.','Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled.'),('Puissance','n.','Power; strength; might; force; potency.'),('Puissant','a.','Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince\n   or empire.'),('Puissantly','adv.','In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great\n   strength.'),('Puissantness','n.','The state or quality of being puissant; puissance;\n   power.'),('Puit','n.','A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.'),('Puked','imp. & p. p.','of Puke'),('Puking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Puke'),('Puke','v. i.','To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.'),('Puke','v. t.','To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.'),('Puke','n.','A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.'),('Puke','a.','Of a color supposed to be between black and russet.'),('Puker','n.','One who pukes, vomits.'),('Puker','n.','That which causes vomiting.'),('Pulas','n.','The East Indian leguminous tree Butea frondosa. See Gum\n   Butea, under Gum.'),('Pulchritude','n.','That quality of appearance which pleases the eye;\n   beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.'),('Pulchritude','n.','Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty.'),('Puled','imp. & p. p.','of Pule'),('Puling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pule'),('Pule','v. i.','To cry like a chicken.'),('Pule','v. i.','To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.'),('Puler','n.','One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.'),('Pulex','n.','A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea.'),('Pulicene','a.','Pertaining to, or abounding in, fleas; pulicose.'),('Pulicose','a.','Alt. of Pulicous'),('Pulicous','a.','Abounding with fleas.'),('Puling','n.','A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.'),('Puling','a.','Whimpering; whining; childish.'),('Pulingly','adv.','With whining or complaint.'),('Pulkha','n.','A Laplander\'s traveling sledge. See Sledge.'),('Pulled','imp. & p. p.','of Pull'),('Pulling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pull'),('Pull','v. t.','To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.'),('Pull','v. t.','To draw apart; to tear; to rend.'),('Pull','v. t.','To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to\n   pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.'),('Pull','v. t.','To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one;\n   as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.'),('Pull','v. t.','To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the\n   favorite was pulled.'),('Pull','v. t.','To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses\n   being worked by pulling a lever.'),('Pull','v. t.','To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n.,\n   8.'),('Pull','v. i.','To exert one\'s self in an act or motion of drawing or\n   hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.'),('Pull','n.','The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move\n   something by drawing toward one.'),('Pull','n.','A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.'),('Pull','n.','A pluck; loss or violence suffered.'),('Pull','n.','A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled;\n   as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.'),('Pull','n.','The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.'),('Pull','n.','The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the\n   mug.'),('Pull','n.','Something in one\'s favor in a comparison or a contest; an\n   advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the\n   pull.'),('Pull','n.','A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side,\n   or an off ball to the side.'),('Pullail','n.','Poultry.'),('Pullback','n.','That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a\n   hindrance.'),('Pullback','n.','The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to\n   hold it party open at a fixed point.'),('Pulled','a.','Plucked; pilled; moulting.'),('Pullen','n.','Poultry.'),('Puller','n.','One who, or that which, pulls.'),('Pullet','n.','A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.'),('Pulleys','pl. ','of Pulley'),('Pulley','v. t.','A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for\n   transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of\n   machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt,\n   cord, rope, or chain.'),('Pulley','b. t.','To raise or lift by means of a pulley.'),('Pullicate','n.','A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.'),('Pullman car','','A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often\n   shortened to Pullman.'),('Pullulate','v. i.','To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.'),('Pullulation','n.','A germinating, or budding.'),('Pulli','pl. ','of Pullus'),('Pullus','n.','A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.'),('Pulmobranchiata','a. & n.','Alt. of Pulmobranchiate'),('Pulmobranchiate','a. & n.','Same as Pulmonibranchiata, -ate.'),('Pulmocutaneous','a.','Of or pertaining to the lungs and the akin; as, the\n   pulmocutaneous arteries of the frog.'),('Pulmogasteropoda','n. pl.','Same as Pulmonata.'),('Pulmograde','a.','Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike\n   movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusae.'),('Pulmometer','n.','A spirometer.'),('Pulmonarian','n.','Any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the\n   spiders and scorpions. Also used adjectively.'),('Pulmonary','a.','Of or pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs;\n   pulmonic.'),('Pulmonary','a.','Lungwort.'),('Pulmonata','n. pl.','An extensive division, or sub-class, of\n   hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into\n   an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden\n   slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis.'),('Pulmonate','a.','Having breathing organs that act as lungs.'),('Pulmonate','a.','Pertaining to the Pulmonata.'),('Pulmonate','n.','One of the Pulmonata.'),('Pulmonated','a.','same as Pulmonate (a).'),('Pulmonibranchiata','n. pl.','Same as Pulmonata.'),('Pulmonibranchiate','a. & n.','Same as Pulmonate.'),('Pulmonic','a.','Relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.'),('Pulmonic','n.','A pulmonic medicine.'),('Pulmonifera','n. pl.','Same as Pulmonata.'),('Pulmoniferous','a.','Having lungs; pulmonate.'),('Pulp','n.','A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft,\n   undissolved animal or vegetable matter.'),('Pulp','n.','A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft,\n   highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity,\n   called the pulp cavity, of teeth.'),('Pulp','n.','The soft, succulent part of fruit; as, the pulp of a grape.'),('Pulp','n.','The exterior part of a coffee berry.'),('Pulp','n.','The material of which paper is made when ground up and\n   suspended in water.'),('Pulped','imp. & p. p.','of Pulp'),('Pulping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pulp'),('Pulp','v. t.','To reduce to pulp.'),('Pulp','v. t.','To deprive of the pulp, or integument.'),('Pulpatoon','n.','A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made\n   from the pulp of fruit.'),('Pulpiness','n.','the quality or state of being pulpy.'),('Pulpit','n.','An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which\n   the clergyman stands while preaching.'),('Pulpit','n.','The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also,\n   preaching.'),('Pulpit','n.','A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.'),('Pulpit','a.','Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit\n   orator; pulpit eloquence.'),('Pulpited','a.','Placed in a pulpit.'),('Pulpiteer','n.','One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in\n   contempt.'),('Pulpiter','n.','A preacher.'),('Pulpitical','a.','Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit.'),('Pulpitish','a.','Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching.'),('Pulpitry','n.','The teaching of the pulpit; preaching.'),('Pulpous','a.','Containing pulp; pulpy.'),('Pulpy','n.','Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as,\n   the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a\n   cherry.'),('Pulque','n.','An intoxicating Mexican drink. See Agave.'),('Pulsated','imp. & p. p.','of Pulsate'),('Pulsating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pulsate'),('Pulsate','v.','To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.'),('Pulsatile','a.','Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or\n   by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.'),('Pulsatile','a.','Pulsating; throbbing, as a tumor.'),('Pulsatilla','n.','A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque\n   flower. This genus is now merged in Anemone. Some species, as Anemone\n   Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used\n   medicinally.'),('Pulsation','n.','A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an\n   artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.'),('Pulsation','n.','A single beat or throb of a series.'),('Pulsation','n.','A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as\n   in the propagation of sounds.'),('Pulsation','n.','Any touching of another\'s body willfully or in anger.\n   This constitutes battery.'),('Pulsative','a.','Beating; throbbing.'),('Pulsator','n.','A beater; a striker.'),('Pulsator','n.','That which beats or throbs in working.'),('Pulsatory','a.','Capable of pulsating; throbbing.'),('Pulse','n.','Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.'),('Pulse','n.','The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels,\n   especially of the arteries.'),('Pulse','n.','Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion,\n   regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound,\n   etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.'),('Pulse','v. i.','To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to\n   pulsate; to throb.'),('Pulse','v. t.','To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.'),('Pulseless','a.','Having no pulsation; lifeless.'),('Pulselessness','n.','The state of being pulseless.'),('Pulsific','a.','Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.'),('Pulsimeter','n.','A sphygmograph.'),('Pulsion','n.','The act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to\n   suction or traction.'),('Pulsive','a.','Tending to compel; compulsory.'),('Pulsometer','n.','A device, with valves, for raising water by steam,\n   partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the\n   steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; -- also\n   called vacuum pump.'),('Pulsometer','n.','A pulsimeter.'),('Pult','v. t.','To put.'),('Pultaceous','a.','Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.'),('Pultesse','n.','Alt. of Pultise'),('Pultise','n.','Poultry.'),('Pulu','n.','A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish\n   brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of\n   free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for\n   stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.'),('Purverable','a.','Capable of being reduced to fine powder.'),('Pulveraceous','a.','Having a finely powdered surface; pulverulent.'),('Pulverate','v. t.','To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize.'),('Pulverine','n.','Ashes of barilla.'),('Pulverizable','a.','Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.'),('Pulverization','n.','The action of reducing to dust or powder.'),('Pulverized','imp. & p. p.','of Pulverize'),('Pulverizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pulverize'),('Pulverize','v. t.','To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating,\n   grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by\n   grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods\n   must be pursued.'),('Pulverize','v. i.','To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust; as, the\n   stone pulverizes easily.'),('Pulverizer','n.','One who, or that which, pulverizes.'),('Pulverous','a.','Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.'),('Pulverulence','n.','The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or\n   powder; dustiness.'),('Pulverulent','a.','Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered\n   with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.'),('Pulvil','n.','A sweet-scented powder; pulvillio.'),('Pulvil','v. t.','To apply pulvil to.'),('Pulvillio','n.','Alt. of Pulvillo'),('Pulvillo','n.','A kind of perfume in the form of a powder, formerly much\n   used, -- often in little bags.'),('Pulvilli','pl. ','of Pulvillus'),('Pulvillus','n.','One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain\n   insects.'),('Pulvinar','n.','A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the\n   human brain.'),('Pulvinate','a.','Alt. of Pulvinated'),('Pulvinated','a.','Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze.'),('Pulvinated','a.','Having the form of a cushion.'),('Pulvinic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the\n   decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.'),('Pulvinuli','pl. ','of Pulvinulus'),('Pulvinulus','n.','Same as Pulvillus.'),('Puma','n.','A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from\n   Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is\n   tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also\n   catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or\n   painter.'),('Pume','n.','A stint.'),('Pumicated','imp. & p. p.','of Pumicate'),('Pumicating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pumicate'),('Pumicate','v. t.','To make smooth with pumice.'),('Pumice','n.','A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray\n   color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a\n   fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement\n   of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp.\n   in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice\n   stone.'),('Pumiced','a.','Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there\n   is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof\n   wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.'),('Pumiceous','a.','Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.'),('Pumice stone','','Same as Pumice.'),('Pumiciform','a.','Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.'),('Pummace','n.','Same as Pomace.'),('Pummel','n. & v. t.','Same as Pommel.'),('Pump','n.','A low shoe with a thin sole.'),('Pump','n.','An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or\n   transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston\n   working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly\n   placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven\n   through them by the action of the piston.'),('Pumped','imp. & p. p.','of Pump'),('pumping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pump'),('Pump','v. t.','To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.'),('Pump','v. t.','To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means\n   of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.'),('Pump','v. t.','Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money,\n   by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in\n   order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.'),('Pump','v. i.','To work, or raise water, a pump.'),('Pumpage','n.','That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.'),('Pumper','n.','One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.'),('Pumpernickel','n.','A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms\n   the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.'),('Pumpet','n.','A pompet.'),('Pumping','','a. & n. from pump.'),('Pumpion','n.','See Pumpkin.'),('Pumpkin','n.','A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its\n   fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.'),('Pumy','a.','Large and rounded.'),('Pun','v. t.','To pound.'),('Pun','n.','A play on words which have the same sound but different\n   meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word\n   present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.'),('Punned','imp. & p. p.','of Pun'),('Punning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pun'),('Pun','v. i.','To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense,\n   especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words;\n   to quibble.'),('Pun','v. t.','To persuade or affect by a pun.'),('Punch','n.','A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or\n   milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; --\n   specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret\n   punch, champagne punch, etc.'),('Punch','n.','The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.'),('Punch','n.','A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.'),('Punch','n.','One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the\n   Suffolk punch.'),('Punch','v. t.','To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end\n   of a stick or the elbow.'),('Punch','n.','A thrust or blow.'),('Punch','n.','A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for\n   different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes\n   in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for\n   cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like;\n   a die.'),('Punch','n.','An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.'),('Punch','n.','A prop, as for the roof of a mine.'),('Punched','imp. & p. p.','of Punch'),('Punching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Punch'),('Punch','n.','To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a\n   blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.'),('Puncheon','n.','A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths,\n   cutlers, etc.'),('Puncheon','n.','A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short\n   post; an intermediate stud.'),('Puncheon','n.','A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a\n   floor made of puncheons.'),('Puncheon','n.','A cask containing, sometimes 84, sometimes 120, gallons.'),('Puncher','n.','One who, or that which, punches.'),('Punchin','n.','See Puncheon.'),('Punchinello','n.','A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a\n   character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked.'),('Punchy','a.','Short and thick, or fat.'),('Punctated','a.','Alt. of Punctated'),('Punctated','a.','Pointed; ending in a point or points.'),('Punctated','a.','Dotted with small spots of color, or with minute\n   depressions or pits.'),('Punctator','n.','One who marks with points. specifically, one who writes\n   Hebrew with points; -- applied to a Masorite.'),('Puncticular','a.','Comprised in, or like, a point; exact.'),('Punctiform','a.','Having the form of a point.'),('Punctilios','pl. ','of Punctilio'),('Punctilio','n.','A nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, or\n   proceeding; particularity or exactness in forms; as, the punctilios of\n   a public ceremony.'),('Punctilious','a.','Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the\n   forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in\n   the smallest particulars.'),('Punction','n.','A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.'),('Punctist','n.','A punctator.'),('Puncto','n.','A nice point of form or ceremony.'),('Puncto','n.','A term applied to the point in fencing.'),('Punctual','a.','Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended.'),('Punctual','a.','Observant of nice points; punctilious; precise.'),('Punctual','a.','Appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular\n   or an appointed time; precise; prompt; as, a punctual man; a punctual\n   payment.'),('Punctualist','n.','One who is very exact in observing forms and\n   ceremonies.'),('Punctuality','n.','The quality or state of being punctual; especially,\n   adherence to the exact time of an engagement; exactness.'),('Punctually','adv.','In a punctual manner; promptly; exactly.'),('Punctualness','n.','Punctuality; exactness.'),('Punctuated','imp. & p. p.','of Punctuate'),('Punctuating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Punctuate'),('Punctuate','v. t.','To mark with points; to separate into sentences,\n   clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in\n   expressing the meaning.'),('Punctuation','n.','The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or\n   discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into\n   sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to\n   elucidate the author\'s meaning.'),('Punctuative','a.','Of or belonging to points of division; relating to\n   punctuation.'),('Punctuator','n.','One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a\n   punctator.'),('Punctuist','n.','A punctator.'),('Punctulate','a.','Alt. of Punctulated'),('Punctulated','a.','Marked with small spots.'),('Punctum','n.','A point.'),('Puncturation','n.','The act or process of puncturing. See Acupuncture.'),('Puncture','n.','The act of puncturing; perforating with something\n   pointed.'),('Puncture','n.','A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or\n   sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin.'),('Punctured','imp. & p. p.','of Puncture'),('Puncturing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Puncture'),('Puncture','v. t.','To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the\n   like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.'),('Punctured','a.','Having the surface covered with minute indentations or\n   dots.'),('Punctured','a.','Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a\n   puncture; as, a punctured wound.'),('Pundit','n.','A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the\n   Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the\n   Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official.'),('Pundle','n.','A short and fat woman; a squab.'),('Punese','n.','A bedbug.'),('Pung','n.','A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude\n   oblong box on runners.'),('Pungence','n.','Pungency.'),('Pungency','n.','The quality or state of being pungent or piercing;\n   keenness; sharpness; piquancy; as, the pungency of ammonia.'),('Pungent','v. t.','Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or\n   feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.'),('Pungent','v. t.','Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe;\n   caustic; stinging.'),('Pungent','v. t.','Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.'),('Pungently','adv.','In a pungent manner; sharply.'),('Pungled','a.','Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which\n   has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat\n   midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium).'),('Pungy','n.','A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.'),('Punic','a.','Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians.'),('Punic','a.','Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless;\n   treacherous; as, Punic faith.'),('Punice','n.','See Punese.'),('Punice','v. t.','To punish.'),('Puniceous','a.','Alt. of Punicial'),('Punicial','a.','Of a bright red or purple color.'),('Puniness','n.','The quality or state of being puny; littleness;\n   pettiness; feebleness.'),('Punished','imp. & p. p.','of Punish'),('Punishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Punish'),('Punish','v. t.','To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or\n   suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the\n   offender\'s amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten;\n   as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for\n   willful disobedience.'),('Punish','v. t.','To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender;\n   to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish\n   murder or treason with death.'),('Punish','v. t.','To injure, as by beating; to pommel.'),('Punishable','a.','Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of\n   being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses.'),('Punisher','n.','One who inflicts punishment.'),('Punishment','n.','The act of punishing.'),('Punishment','n.','Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person\n   because of a crime or offense.'),('Punishment','n.','A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a\n   convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the\n   purposes of reformation and prevention.'),('Punition','n.','Punishment.'),('Punitive','a.','Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or\n   inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.'),('Punitory','a.','Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.'),('Punk','n.','Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder;\n   touchwood.'),('Punk','n.','A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for\n   tinder; agaric.'),('Punk','n.','An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.'),('Punk','n.','A prostitute; a strumpet.'),('Punka','n.','A machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike\n   frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling. It is kept\n   in motion by pulling a cord.'),('Punkin','n.','A pumpkin.'),('Punkling','n.','A young strumpet.'),('Punner','n.','A punster.'),('Punnet','n.','A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.'),('Punnology','n.','The art or practice of punning; paronomasia.'),('Punster','n.','One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a\n   quibbler; a low wit.'),('Punt','v. i.','To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.'),('Punt','n.','Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.'),('Punt','n.','A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use\n   in shallow waters.'),('Punt','v. t.','To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a\n   pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.'),('Punt','v. t.','To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let\n   fall from the hands.'),('Punt','n.','The act of punting the ball.'),('Punter','v. t.','One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the\n   banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.'),('Punter','n.','One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.'),('Puntil','n.','Alt. of Puntel'),('Puntel','n.','See Pontee.'),('Punto','n.','A point or hit.'),('Punty','n.','See Pontee.'),('Puny','superl.','Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and\n   feeble; inferior; petty.'),('Puny','n.','A youth; a novice.'),('Puoy','n.','Same as Poy, n., 3.'),('Pup','n.','A young dog; a puppy.'),('Pup','n.','a young seal.'),('Pupped','imp. & p. p.','of Pup'),('Pupping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pup'),('Pup','v. i.','To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine\n   species.'),('Pup/','pl. ','of Pupa'),('Pupas','pl. ','of Pupa'),('Pupa','n.','Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually\n   immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.'),('Pupa','n.','A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated\n   spiral shell.'),('Pupal','a.','Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.'),('Pupate','v. i.','To become a pupa.'),('Pupation','n.','the act of becoming a pupa.'),('Pupe','n.','A pupa.'),('Pupelo','n.','Cider brandy.'),('Pupigerous','a.','Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous\n   larvae which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.'),('Pupil','n.','The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the\n   eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.'),('Pupil','n.','A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an\n   instructor or tutor.'),('Pupil','n.','A person under a guardian; a ward.'),('Pupil','n.','A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under\n   fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.'),('Pupilage','n.','The state of being a pupil.'),('Pupillarity','n.','The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen\n   in males, and twelve in females.'),('Pupillary','a.','Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.'),('Pupillary','a.','Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye.'),('Pupillometer','n.','An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of\n   the pupil of the eye.'),('Pupipara','n. pl.','A division of Diptera in which the young are born in\n   a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and\n   other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.'),('Pupiparous','a.','Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured\n   larvae, or larval skins, of certain Diptera.'),('Pupiparous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pupipara.'),('Pupivora','n. pl.','A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the\n   ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.'),('Pupivorous','a.','Feeding on the pupae of insects.'),('Puplican','n.','Publican.'),('Puppet','n.','A small image in the human form; a doll.'),('Puppet','n.','A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock\n   drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.'),('Puppet','n.','One controlled in his action by the will of another; a\n   tool; -- so used in contempt.'),('Puppet','n.','The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a\n   lathe.'),('Puppetish','a.','Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the\n   nature of a puppet.'),('Puppetman','n.','A master of a puppet show.'),('Puppetry','n.','Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or\n   puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.'),('Puppies','pl. ','of Puppy'),('Puppy','n.','The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a\n   whelp.'),('Puppy','n.','A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and\n   impertinent person.'),('Puppied','imp. & p. p.','of Puppy'),('Puppying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Puppy'),('Puppy','v. i.','To bring forth whelps; to pup.'),('Puppyhood','n.','The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being\n   young and undisciplined.'),('Puppyish','a.','Like a puppy.'),('Puppyism','n.','Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.'),('Purred','imp. & p. p.','of Pur'),('Purring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pur'),('Pur','v. i.','To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does\n   when pleased.'),('Pur','v. t.','To signify or express by purring.'),('Pur','n.','The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment\n   or pleasure.'),('Purana','n.','One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the\n   Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and\n   renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and\n   heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their\n   descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there\n   are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.'),('Puranic','a.','Pertaining to the Puranas.'),('Purbeck beds','','The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone,\n   belonging to the Oolitic group. See the Chart of Geology.'),('Purbeck stone','','A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.'),('Purblind','a.','Wholly blind.'),('Purblind','a.','Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a\n   purblind eye; a purblind mole.'),('Purcelane','n.','Purslane.'),('Purchasable','a.','Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a\n   consideration; hence, venal; corrupt.'),('Purchased','imp. & p. p.','of Purchase'),('Purchasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purchase'),('Purchase','v. t.','To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain,\n   obtain, or acquire.'),('Purchase','v. t.','To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy\n   for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.'),('Purchase','v. t.','To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or\n   sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.'),('Purchase','v. t.','To expiate by a fine or forfeit.'),('Purchase','v. t.','To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.'),('Purchase','v. t.','To buy for a price.'),('Purchase','v. t.','To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a\n   mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to;\n   as, to purchase a cannon.'),('Purchase','v. i.','To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to\n   exert one\'s self.'),('Purchase','v. i.','To acquire wealth or property.'),('Purchase','v. t.','The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.'),('Purchase','v. t.','The act of seeking and acquiring property.'),('Purchase','v. t.','The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything\n   for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.'),('Purchase','v. t.','That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any\n   manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.'),('Purchase','v. t.','That which is obtained for a price in money or its\n   equivalent.'),('Purchase','v. t.','Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the\n   raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan,\n   and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the\n   advantage is gained.'),('Purchase','v. t.','Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than\n   descent or inheritance, namely, by one\'s own act or agreement.'),('Purchaser','n.','One who purchases; one who acquires property for a\n   consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.'),('Purchaser','n.','One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or\n   agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by\n   descent or inheritance.'),('Purdah','n.','A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and\n   white stripes, used for curtains.'),('Pure','superl.','Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter;\n   free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as,\n   pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.'),('Pure','superl.','Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent;\n   guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.'),('Pure','superl.','Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or\n   pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.'),('Pure','superl.','Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.'),('Pure','superl.','Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some\n   vowels and the unaspirated consonants.'),('Pured','a.','Purified; refined.'),('Puree','n.','A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and\n   rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes;\n   especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.'),('Purely','adv.','In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).'),('Purely','adv.','Nicely; prettily.'),('Pureness','n.','The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).'),('Purfile','n.','A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for\n   women\'s gowns; -- called also bobbinwork.'),('Purfle','v. t.','To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to\n   embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue\n   and white.'),('Purfle','v. t.','To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the\n   like; also, with gold studs or mountings.'),('Purfle','n.','Alt. of Purflew'),('Purflew','n.','A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.'),('Purflew','n.','A border of any heraldic fur.'),('Purfled','a.','Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges.'),('Purfling','n.','Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the\n   inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.'),('Purgament','n.','That which is excreted; excretion.'),('Purgament','n.','A cathartic; a purgative.'),('Purgation','n.','The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or\n   putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is\n   superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.'),('Purgation','n.','The clearing of one\'s self from a crime of which one was\n   publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was\n   prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual\n   court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of\n   the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with\n   him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which\n   was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal.'),('Purgative','a.','Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.'),('Purgative','n.','A purging medicine; a cathartic.'),('Purgatively','adv.','In a purgative manner.'),('Purgatorial','a.','Alt. of Purgatorian'),('Purgatorian','a.','Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.'),('Purgatorian','n.','One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory.'),('Purgatory','a.','Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.'),('Purgatory','n.','A state or place of purification after death; according\n   to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist\n   after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating\n   such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation,\n   or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have\n   been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the\n   souls are believed to be received into heaven.'),('Purged','imp. & p. p.','of Purge'),('Purging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purge'),('Purge','v. t.','To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying\n   off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.'),('Purge','v. t.','To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine,\n   or in a similar manner.'),('Purge','v. t.','To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.'),('Purge','v. t.','To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam\n   pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.'),('Purge','v. t.','To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial\n   defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.'),('Purge','v. t.','To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or\n   misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.'),('Purge','v. t.','To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; --\n   often followed by away.'),('Purge','v. i.','To become pure, as by clarification.'),('Purge','v. i.','To have or produce frequent evacuations from the\n   intestines, as by means of a cathartic.'),('Purge','v. t.','The act of purging.'),('Purge','v. t.','That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates\n   the intestines; a cathartic.'),('Purger','n.','One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a\n   cathartic medicine.'),('Purgery','n.','The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off\n   from the sugar.'),('Purging','a.','That purges; cleansing.'),('Purging','n.','The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially,\n   diarrhea.'),('Puri','n.','See Euxanthin.'),('Purification','n.','The act of purifying; the act or operation of\n   separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious,\n   or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or\n   of metals.'),('Purification','n.','The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by\n   removing any pollution or defilement.'),('Purification','n.','A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the\n   extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.'),('Purificative','a.','Having power to purify; tending to cleanse.'),('Purificator','n.','One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier.'),('Purrificatory','a.','Serving or tending to purify; purificative.'),('Purifier','n.','One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser;\n   a refiner.'),('Puriform','a.','In the form of pus.'),('Purified','imp. & p. p.','of Purify'),('Purifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purify'),('Purify','v. t.','To make pure or clear from material defilement,\n   admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter;\n   as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the\n   air.'),('Purify','v. t.','Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or\n   moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.'),('Purify','v. t.','To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.'),('Purify','v. t.','To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify\n   a language.'),('Purify','v. i.','To grow or become pure or clear.'),('Purim','n.','A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted\n   to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of\n   Haman.'),('Purism','n.','Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice,\n   especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.'),('Purist','n.','One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the\n   choice of language.'),('Purist','n.','One who maintains that the New Testament was written in\n   pure Greek.'),('Puristic','a.','Alt. of Puristical'),('Puristical','a.','Of or pertaining to purists or purism.'),('Puritan','n.','One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two\n   Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler\n   forms of faith and worship than those established by law; --\n   originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the\n   early population of New England.'),('Puritan','n.','One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; --\n   often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict\n   notions.'),('Puritan','a.','Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or\n   characteristic of, the Puritans.'),('Puritanic','a.','Alt. of Puritanical'),('Puritanical','a.','Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their\n   doctrines and practice.'),('Puritanical','a.','Precise in observance of legal or religious\n   requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of\n   reproach or contempt.'),('Puritanically','adv.','In a puritanical manner.'),('Puritanism','n.','The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans.'),('Puritanized','imp. & p. p.','of Puritanize'),('Puritanizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Puritanize'),('Puritanize','v. i.','To agree with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans;\n   to conform to the practice of Puritans.'),('Purity','n.','The condition of being pure.'),('Purity','n.','freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as,\n   the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.'),('Purity','n.','Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.'),('Purity','n.','Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence;\n   chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.'),('Purity','n.','Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.'),('Purity','n.','Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper\n   words or phrases; as, purity of style.'),('Purkinje\'s cells','','Large ganglion cells forming a layer near the\n   surface of the cerebellum.'),('Purl','v. t.','To decorate with fringe or embroidery.'),('Purl','n.','An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of\n   gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.'),('Purl','n.','An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work\n   a ribbed or waved appearance.'),('Purled','imp. & p. p.','of Purl'),('Purling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purl'),('Purl','v. i.','To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among\n   stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound,\n   as water does in running over or through obstructions.'),('Purl','v. & n.','To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to\n   mantle.'),('Purl','n.','A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.'),('Purl','n.','A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid\n   among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.'),('Purl','n.','Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in\n   which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was\n   regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and\n   spices.'),('Purl','n.','A tern.'),('Purlieu','n.','Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having\n   been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it,\n   and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.'),('Purlieu','n.','Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent\n   district; environs; neighborhood.'),('Purlin','n.','Alt. of Purline'),('Purline','n.','In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the\n   principals and supporting the common rafters.'),('Purling','n.','The motion of a small stream running among obstructions;\n   also, the murmur it makes in so doing.'),('Purloined','imp. & p. p.','of Purloin'),('Purloining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purloin'),('Purloin','v. t.','To take or carry away for one\'s self; hence, to steal;\n   to take by theft; to filch.'),('Purloin','v. i.','To practice theft; to steal.'),('Purloiner','n.','One who purloins.'),('Purparty','n.','A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a\n   coparcener.'),('Purples','pl. ','of Purple'),('Purple','n.','A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a\n   combination of the primary colors red and blue.'),('Purple','n.','Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color;\n   especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority;\n   specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the\n   emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.'),('Purple','n.','Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor;\n   loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.'),('Purple','n.','A cardinalate. See Cardinal.'),('Purple','n.','Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with\n   purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the\n   banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.'),('Purple','n.','Any shell of the genus Purpura.'),('Purple','n.','See Purpura.'),('Purple','n.','A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.'),('Purple','a.','Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much\n   esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue\n   color; as, a purple robe.'),('Purple','a.','Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an\n   emblem of imperial authority.'),('Purple','a.','Blood-red; bloody.'),('Purpled','imp. & p. p.','of Purple'),('Purpling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purple'),('Purple','v. t.','To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as,\n   hands purpled with blood.'),('Purpleheart','n.','A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish\n   color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the\n   genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for\n   decorative veneering. See Copaiba.'),('Purplewood','n.','Same as Purpleheart.'),('Purplish','a.','Somewhat purple.'),('Purport','n.','Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.'),('Purport','n.','Disguise; covering.'),('Purported','imp. & p. p.','of Purport'),('Purporting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purport'),('Purport','n.','To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to\n   import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.'),('Purportless','a.','Without purport or meaning.'),('Purpose','n.','That which a person sets before himself as an object to be\n   reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed\n   in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.'),('Purpose','n.','Proposal to another; discourse.'),('Purpose','n.','Instance; example.'),('Purposed','imp. & p. p.','of Purpose'),('Purposing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purpose'),('Purpose','v. t.','To set forth; to bring forward.'),('Purpose','v. t.','To propose, as an aim, to one\'s self; to determine\n   upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design;\n   to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.'),('Purpose','v. i.','To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.'),('Purposedly','adv.','In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design;\n   purposely.'),('Purposeful','a.','Important; material.'),('Purposeless','a.','Having no purpose or result; objectless.'),('Purposely','adv.','With purpose or design; intentionally; with\n   predetermination; designedly.'),('Purposer','n.','One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.'),('Purposer','n.','One who forms a purpose; one who intends.'),('Purposive','a.','Having or indicating purpose or design.'),('Purpre','n. & a.','Purple.'),('Purpresture','n.','Wrongful encroachment upon another\'s property; esp.,\n   any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or\n   public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc.'),('Purprise','n.','A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.'),('Purpura','n.','A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from\n   extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs,\n   and mental dejection; the purples.'),('Purpura','n.','A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and\n   thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.'),('Purpurate','a.','Of or pertaining to purpura.'),('Purpurate','n.','A salt of purpuric acid.'),('Purpure','n.','Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines\n   declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or\n   from sinister chief to dexter base).'),('Purpureal','a.','Of a purple color; purple.'),('Purpureo-','','A combining form signifying of a purple or purple-red\n   color. Specif. (Chem.), used in designating certain brilliant\n   purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the\n   roseocobaltic compounds. See Cobaltic.'),('Purpuric','a.','Of or pertaining to purpura.'),('Purpuric','a.','Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid\n   contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms\n   well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.'),('Purpurin','n.','A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and\n   extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.'),('Purpuriparous','a.','Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored\n   secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.'),('Purpurogenous','a.','Having the power to produce a purple color; as, the\n   purpurogenous membrane, or choroidal epithelium, of the eye. See Visual\n   purple, under Visual.'),('Purr','v. i. & t.','To murmur as a cat. See Pur.'),('Purr','n.','The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur.'),('Purre','n.','The dunlin.'),('Purree','n.','A yellow coloring matter. See Euxanthin.'),('Purrock','n.','See Puddock, and Parrock.'),('Purse','n.','A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw\n   together closely, used to carry money in; by extension, any receptacle\n   for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a\n   portemonnaie.'),('Purse','n.','Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.'),('Purse','n.','A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a\n   present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.'),('Purse','n.','A specific sum of money'),('Purse','n.','In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.'),('Purse','n.','In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.'),('Pursed','imp. & p. p.','of Purse'),('Pursing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purse'),('Purse','v. t.','To put into a purse.'),('Purse','v. t.','To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the\n   mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.'),('Purse','v. i.','To steal purses; to rob.'),('Pursefuls','pl. ','of Purseful'),('Purseful','n.','All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to\n   fill a purse.'),('Purse-proud','a.','Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the\n   possession of riches.'),('Purser','n.','A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the\n   provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called\n   paymaster.'),('Purser','n.','A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep\n   the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets,\n   etc.'),('Purser','n.','Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier.'),('Pursership','n.','The office of purser.'),('Purset','n.','A purse or purse net.'),('Pursiness','n.','State of being pursy.'),('Pursive','a.','Pursy.'),('Pursiveness','n.','Pursiness.'),('Purslain','n.','Same as Purslane.'),('Purslane','n.','An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy,\n   succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads,\n   garnishing, and pickling.'),('Pursuable','a.','Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or\n   prosecuted.'),('Pursual','n.','The act of pursuit.'),('Pursuance','n.','The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or\n   after.'),('Pursuance','n.','The state of being pursuant; consequence.'),('Pursuant','a.','Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything);\n   hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.'),('Pursuant','adv.','Alt. of Pursuantly'),('Pursuantly','adv.','Agreeably; conformably.'),('Pursued','imp. & p. p.','of Pursue'),('Pursuing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pursue'),('Pursue','v. t.','To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or\n   with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.'),('Pursue','v. t.','To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to\n   pursue a remedy at law.'),('Pursue','v. t.','To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to\n   follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the\n   administration pursued a wise course.'),('Pursue','v. t.','To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue.'),('Pursue','v. t.','To follow as an example; to imitate.'),('Pursue','v. t.','To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account.'),('Pursue','v. i.','To go in pursuit; to follow.'),('Pursue','v. i.','To go on; to proceed, especially in argument or\n   discourse; to continue.'),('Pursue','v. i.','To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party;\n   to act as a prosecutor.'),('Pursuer','n.','One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with\n   a view to overtake.'),('Pursuer','n.','A plaintiff; a prosecutor.'),('Pursuit','v. t.','The act of following or going after; esp., a following\n   with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as,\n   the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy.'),('Pursuit','v. t.','A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or\n   obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge;\n   the pursuit of happiness or pleasure.'),('Pursuit','v. t.','Course of business or occupation; continued employment\n   with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.'),('Pursuit','v. t.','Prosecution.'),('Pursuivant','n.','A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but\n   discharging similar duties; -- called also pursuivant at arms; an\n   attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.'),('Pursuivant','n.','The king\'s messenger; a state messenger.'),('Pursuivant','v. t.','To pursue.'),('Pursy','a.','Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with\n   pampering; as, pursy insolence.'),('Purtenance','n.','That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the\n   heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.'),('Purrulence','n.','Alt. of Purulency'),('Purulency','n.','The quality or state of being purulent; the generation\n   of pus; also, the pus itself.'),('Purulent','a.','Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of\n   pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.'),('Purulently','v.','In a purulent manner.'),('Purveance','n.','Alt. of Purveiaunce'),('Purveiaunce','n.','Purveyance.'),('Purveyed','imp. & p. p.','of Purvey'),('Purveying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Purvey'),('Purvey','v. t.','To furnish or provide, as with a convenience,\n   provisions, or the like.'),('Purvey','v. t.','To procure; to get.'),('Purvey','v. i.','To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.'),('Purvey','v. i.','To pander; -- with to.'),('Purveyance','n.','The act or process of providing or procuring;\n   providence; foresight; preparation; management.'),('Purveyance','n.','That which is provided; provisions; food.'),('Purveyance','n.','A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying\n   them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven\n   without the owner\'s consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but\n   has long been abolished.'),('Purveyor','n.','One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make\n   provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.'),('Purveyor','n.','An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision,\n   for the king\'s household.'),('Purveyor','n.','a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.'),('Purview','n.','The body of a statute, or that part which begins with \" Be\n   it enacted, \" as distinguished from the preamble.'),('Purview','n.','The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its\n   intention or provisions.'),('Purview','n.','Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.'),('Pus','a.','The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the\n   process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated\n   cells floating in a clear liquid.'),('Pusane','n.','A piece of armor for the breast; often, an addition to, or\n   reenforcement of. the breastplate; -- called also pesane.'),('Puseyism','n.','The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford,\n   England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which\n   appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated \" Tracts for the Times;\"\n   tractarianism. See Tractarianism.'),('Puseyistic','a.','Alt. of Puseyite'),('Puseyite','a.','Of or pertaining to Puseyism.'),('Puseyite','n.','One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used\n   opprobriously.'),('Push','n.','A pustule; a pimple.'),('Pushed','imp. & p. p.','of Push'),('Pushing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Push'),('Push','v. t.','To press against with force; to drive or impel by\n   pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; --\n   opposed to draw.'),('Push','v. t.','To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.'),('Push','v. t.','To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection\n   too far.'),('Push','v. t.','To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.'),('Push','v. t.','To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.'),('Push','v. i.','To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or\n   with a sword.'),('Push','v. i.','To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic;\n   as, a man must push in order to succeed.'),('Push','v. i.','To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.'),('Push','n.','A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a\n   thing.'),('Push','n.','Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a\n   shove; as, to give the ball the first push.'),('Push','n.','An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time\n   or occasion for action.'),('Push','n.','The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as,\n   he has push, or he has no push.'),('Pusher','n.','One who, or that which, pushes.'),('Pushing','a.','Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving;\n   energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.'),('Pushpin','n.','A child\'s game played with pins.'),('Pusil','a.','Very small; little; petty.'),('Pusillanimity','n.','The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of\n   spirit; cowardliness.'),('Pusillanimous','a.','Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and\n   firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly;\n   -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince.'),('Pusillanimous','a.','Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and\n   want of courage; feeble; as, pusillanimous counsels.'),('Pusillanimously','adv.','With pusillanimity.'),('Pusley','n.','Purslane.'),('Puss','n.','A cat; -- a fondling appellation.'),('Puss','n.','A hare; -- so called by sportsmen.'),('Pussy','n.','A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.'),('Pussy','n.','A catkin of the pussy willow.'),('Pussy','n.','The game of tipcat; -- also called pussy cat.'),('Pussy','a.','See Pursy.'),('Pustulant','v. t.','Producing pustules.'),('Pustulant','n.','A medicine that produces pustules, as croton oil.'),('Pustular','a.','Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences;\n   pustular eruptions.'),('Pustular','a.','Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.'),('Pustulate','v. t.','To form into pustules, or blisters.'),('Pustulate','a.','Alt. of Pustulated'),('Pustulated','a.','Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular;\n   pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.'),('Pustulation','n.','The act of producing pustules; the state of being\n   pustulated.'),('Pustule','n.','A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed\n   base, containing pus.'),('Pustulous','a.','Resembling, or covered with, pustules; pustulate;\n   pustular.'),('Put','n.','A pit.'),('Put','','3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.'),('Put','n.','A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.'),('Put','imp. & p. p.','of Put'),('Putting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Put'),('Put','v. t.','To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; --\n   nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust\n   aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).'),('Put','v. t.','To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set;\n   figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation,\n   condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition;\n   as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to\n   fight.'),('Put','v. t.','To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong\n   construction on an act or expression.'),('Put','v. t.','To lay down; to give up; to surrender.'),('Put','v. t.','To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection;\n   to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express;\n   figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by\n   that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.'),('Put','v. t.','To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.'),('Put','v. t.','To throw or cast with a pushing motion \"overhand,\" the hand\n   being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the\n   shot or weight.'),('Put','v. t.','To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the\n   tramway.'),('Put','v. i.','To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.'),('Put','v. i.','To steer; to direct one\'s course; to go.'),('Put','v. i.','To play a card or a hand in the game called put.'),('Put','n.','The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push;\n   as, the put of a ball.'),('Put','n.','A certain game at cards.'),('Put','n.','A privilege which one party buys of another to \"put\" (deliver)\n   to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and\n   date.'),('Put','n.','A prostitute.'),('Putage','n.','Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.'),('Putamen','n.','The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See\n   Endocarp.'),('Putanism','n.','Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.'),('Putative','a.','Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the\n   putative father of a child.'),('Putchuck','n.','Same as Pachak.'),('Puteal','n.','An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from\n   falling into it; a well curb.'),('Puteli','n.','Same as Patela.'),('Putery','n.','Putage.'),('Putid','a.','Rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless. Jer. Taylor.'),('Putidity','n.','Alt. of Putidness'),('Putidness','n.','The quality or state of being putrid.'),('Putlog','n.','One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks\n   forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the\n   ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall\n   temporarily for the purpose.'),('Put-off','n.','A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.'),('Putour','n.','A keeper of a brothel; a procurer.'),('Putredinous','a.','Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the\n   putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.'),('Putrefaction','n.','The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive\n   decay of albuminous or other matter.'),('Putrefaction','n.','The condition of being putrefied; also, that which\n   putrefied.'),('Putrefactive','a.','Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the\n   putrefactive smell or process.'),('Putrefactive','a.','Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction.'),('Putrefied','imp. & p. p.','of Putrefy'),('Putrefying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Putrefy'),('Putrefy','v. t.','To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to\n   cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.'),('Putrefy','v. t.','To corrupt; to make foul.'),('Putrefy','v. t.','To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy\n   an ulcer or wound.'),('Putrefy','v. i.','To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.'),('Putrescence','n.','The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.'),('Putrescent','a.','Becoming putrid or rotten.'),('Putrescent','a.','Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a\n   putrescent smell.'),('Putrescible','a.','Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as,\n   putrescible substances.'),('Putrescible','n.','A substance, usually nitrogenous, which is liable to\n   undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary\n   temperatures.'),('Putrescin','n.','A nontoxic diamine, C4H12N2, formed in the putrefaction\n   of the flesh of mammals and some other animals.'),('Putrid','a.','Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; --\n   said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.'),('Putrid','a.','Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or\n   vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.'),('Putridity','n.','The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.'),('Putridness','n.','Putridity.'),('Putrifacted','a.','Putrefied.'),('Putrification','n.','Putrefaction.'),('Putrify','v. t. & i.','To putrefy.'),('Putrilage','n.','That which is undergoing putrefaction; the products of\n   putrefaction.'),('Putry','a.','Putrid.'),('Putry','n.','Putage.'),('Putter','n.','One who puts or plates.'),('Putter','n.','Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal\n   mine, and the like.'),('Puttered','imp. & p. p.','of Putter'),('Puttering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Putter'),('Putter','v. i.','To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.'),('Putter-on','n.','An instigator.'),('Puttier','n.','One who putties; a glazier.'),('Putting','n.','The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand\n   raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game.'),('Puttock','n.','The European kite.'),('Puttock','n.','The buzzard.'),('Puttock','n.','The marsh harrier.'),('Puttock','n.','See Futtock.'),('Putty','n.','A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or\n   soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded\n   to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes,\n   stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.'),('Puttied','imp. & p. p.','of Putty'),('Puttying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Putty'),('Putty','v. t.','To cement, or stop, with putty.'),('Putty-faced','a.','White-faced; -- used contemptuously.'),('Puttyroot','n.','An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which\n   flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year\n   a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up\n   later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also\n   Adam-and-Eve.'),('Put-up','a.','Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.'),('Puy','n.','See Poy.'),('Puzzel','n.','A harlot; a drab; a hussy.'),('Puzzle','v.','Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy\n   or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something\n   exhibiting marvelous skill in making.'),('Puzzle','v.','The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a\n   puzzle.'),('Puzzled','imp. & p. p.','of Puzzle'),('Puzzling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Puzzle'),('Puzzle','v. t.','To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand;\n   to nonplus.'),('Puzzle','v. t.','To make intricate; to entangle.'),('Puzzle','v. t.','To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out;\n   as, to puzzle out a mystery.'),('Puzzle','v. i.','To be bewildered, or perplexed.'),('Puzzle','v. i.','To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.'),('Puzzledom','n.','The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively.'),('Puzzle-headed','a.','Having the head full of confused notions.'),('Puzzlement','n.','The state of being puzzled; perplexity.'),('Puzzier','n.','One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes.'),('Puzzlingly','adv.','In a puzzling manner.'),('Puzzolan','n.','Alt. of Puzzolana'),('Puzzolana','n.','See Pozzuolana.'),('Pyaemia','n.','A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into\n   the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local\n   inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple\n   abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly\n   recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.'),('Pyaemic','a.','Of or pertaining to pyaemia; of the nature of pyaemia.'),('Pycnaspidean','a.','Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with\n   small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.'),('Pycnidia','pl. ','of Pycnidium'),('Pycnidium','n.','In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface\n   of the inner walls of which spores are produced.'),('Pycnite','n.','A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.'),('Pycnodont','n.','Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have\n   numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.'),('Pycnodontini','n. pl.','An extinct order of ganoid fishes. They had a\n   compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with\n   enameled rhomboidal scales.'),('Pycnogonid','n.','One of the Pycnogonida.'),('Pycnogonida','n. pl.','A class of marine arthropods in which the body is\n   small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also\n   Pantopoda.'),('Pycnometer','n.','A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for\n   measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.'),('Pycnostyle','a.','See under Intercolumniation.'),('Pycnostyle','n.','A pycnostyle colonnade.'),('Pye','n.','See 2d Pie (b).'),('Pyebald','a.','See Piebald.'),('Pyelitis','n.','Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.'),('Pyemia','n.','See PyAemia.'),('Pyet','n.','A magpie; a piet.'),('Pygal','a.','Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the\n   backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the\n   carapace of chelonians.'),('Pygarg','','Alt. of Pygargus'),('Pygargus','','A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white\n   rump.'),('Pygargus','','The female of the hen harrier.'),('Pygargus','','The sea eagle.'),('Pygidia','pl. ','of Pygidium'),('Pygidium','n.','The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain\n   insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite.'),('Pygmy','a.','Alt. of Pygmean'),('Pygmean','a.','Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf;\n   dwarfish; very small.'),('Pygmies','pl. ','of Pygmy'),('Pygmy','n.','One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the\n   cranes, and were destroyed.'),('Pygmy','n.','Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf.'),('Pygobranchia','n. pl.','A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having\n   the branchiae in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the\n   genus Doris.'),('Pygopod','n.','One of the Pygopodes.'),('Pygopod','n.','Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family\n   Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but\n   lack fore legs.'),('Pygropodes','n. pl.','A division of swimming birds which includes the\n   grebes, divers, auks, etc., in which the legs are placed far back.'),('Pygopodous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pygopodes.'),('Pygostyle','n.','The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the\n   vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is\n   formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebrae, and\n   supports the uropigium.'),('Pyin','n.','An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly\n   a mixture of substances rather than a single body.'),('Pyjama','n.','In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in\n   Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with\n   legs.'),('Pykar','n.','An ancient English fishing boat.'),('Pylae','pl. ','of Pyla'),('Pylas','pl. ','of Pyla'),('Pyla','n.','The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain.'),('Pylagore','n.','a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.'),('Pylangia','pl. ','of Pylangium'),('Pylangium','n.','The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the\n   amphibian heart.'),('Pylon','n.','A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking\n   an ancient Egyptian gateway.'),('Pylon','n.','An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without\n   flanking towers).'),('Pyloric','a.','Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as,\n   the pyloric end of the stomach.'),('Pylori','pl. ','of Pylorus'),('Pylorus','n.','The opening from the stomach into the intestine.'),('Pylorus','n.','A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.'),('Pyne','n. & v.','See Pine.'),('Pynoun','n.','A pennant.'),('Pyocyanin','n.','A blue coloring matter found in the pus from old sores,\n   supposed to be formed through the agency of a species of bacterium\n   (Bacillus pyocyaneus).'),('Pyogenic','a.','Producing or generating pus.'),('Pyoid','a.','Of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus.'),('Pyopneumothorax','n.','Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in\n   the pleural cavity.'),('Pyot','n.','The magpie. See Piet.'),('Pyoxanthose','n.','A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found\n   with pyocyanin in pus.'),('Pyracanth','n.','The evergreen thorn (Crataegus Pyracantha), a shrub\n   native of Europe.'),('Pyral','a.','Of or pertaining to a pyre.'),('Pyralid','n.','Any moth of the family Pyralidae. The species are numerous\n   and mostly small, but some of them are very injurious, as the bee moth,\n   meal moth, hop moth, and clover moth.'),('Pyramid','n.','A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or\n   polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a\n   structure or edifice of this shape.'),('Pyramid','n.','A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as\n   base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases\n   are sides of the base.'),('Pyramid','n.','The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form\n   of a triangle at spot.'),('Pyramidal','a.','Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a\n   pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage.'),('Pyramidal','a.','Same as Tetragonal.'),('Pyramidal','n.','One of the carpal bones. See Cuneiform, n., 2 (b).'),('Pyramidally','adv.','Like a pyramid.'),('Pyramidic','a.','Alt. of Pyramidical'),('Pyramidical','a.','Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a\n   pyramid; pyramidal.'),('Pyramidia','pl. ','of Pyramidion'),('Pyramidion','n.','The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk.'),('Pyramidoid','n.','A solid resembling a pyramid; -- called also pyramoid.'),('Pyramides','pl. ','of Pyramis'),('Pyramis','n.','A pyramid.'),('Pyramoid','n.','See Pyramidoid.'),('Pyrargyrite','n.','Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of\n   antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and\n   is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.'),('Pyre','n.','A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are\n   burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.'),('Pyrenae','pl. ','of Pyrena'),('Pyrena','n.','A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe.'),('Pyrene','n.','One of the less volatile hydrocarbons of coal tar, obtained\n   as a white crystalline substance, C16H10.'),('Pyrene','n.','Same as Pyrena.'),('Pyrenean','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains\n   separating France and Spain.'),('Pyrenean','n.','The Pyrenees.'),('Pyrenoid','n.','A transparent body found in the chromatophores of certain\n   Infusoria.'),('Pyrethrin','n.','A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary\n   camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; -- called\n   also Pyrethrum camphor.'),('Pyrethrine','n.','An alkaloid extracted from the root of the pellitory of\n   Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).'),('Pyretic','a.','Of or pertaining to fever; febrile.'),('Pyretology','n.','A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of\n   fevers.'),('Pyrexiae','pl. ','of Pyrexia'),('Pyrexia','n.','The febrile condition.'),('Pyrexial','a.','Alt. of Pyrexical'),('Pyrexical','a.','Of or pertaining to fever; feverish.'),('Pyrgom','n.','A variety of pyroxene; -- called also fassaite.'),('Pyrheliometer','n.','An instrument for measuring the direct heating\n   effect of the sun\'s rays.'),('Pyridic','a.','Related to, or formed from, pyridin or its homologues; as,\n   the pyridic bases.'),('Pyridine','n.','A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation\n   of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids,\n   as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. It is the nucleus\n   of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable\n   alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaines, may be mentioned.\n   See Lutidine.'),('Pyridyl','n.','A hypothetical radical, C5H4N, regarded as the essential\n   residue of pyridine, and analogous to phenyl.'),('Pyriform','a.','Having the form of a pear; pear-shaped.'),('Pyritaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to pyrites. See Pyritic.'),('Pyrites','pl. ','of Pyrite'),('Pyrite','n.','A common mineral of a pale brass-yellow color and brilliant\n   metallic luster, crystallizing in the isometric system; iron pyrites;\n   iron disulphide.'),('Pyrites','n.','A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides\n   of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish\n   color.'),('Pyritic','a.','Alt. of Pyritical'),('Pyritical','a.','Of or pertaining to pyrites; consisting of, or\n   resembling, pyrites.'),('Pyritiferous','a.','Containing or producing pyrites.'),('Pyritize','v. t.','To convert into pyrites.'),('Pyritohedral','a.','Like pyrites in hemihedral form.'),('Pyritohedron','n.','The pentagonal dodecahedron, a common form of pyrite.'),('Pyritoid','n.','Pyritohedron.'),('Pyritology','n.','The science of blowpipe analysis.'),('Pyritous','a.','Pyritic.'),('Pyro-','','Alt. of Pyr-'),('Pyr-','','Combining forms designating fire or heat; specifically (Chem.),\n   used to imply an actual or theoretical derivative by the action of\n   heat; as in pyrophosphoric, pyrosulphuric, pyrotartaric, pyrotungstic,\n   etc.'),('Pyro','n.','Abbreviation of pyrogallic acid.'),('Pyroacetic','a.','Pertaining to, and designating, a substance (acetone)\n   obtained by the distillation of the acetates. It is now called also\n   pyroacetic ether, and formerly was called pyroacetic spirit.'),('Pyroacid','n.','An acid obtained by sybjecting another acid to the action\n   of heat. Cf. Pyro-.'),('Pyroantimonate','n.','A salt of pyroantimonic acid.'),('Pyroantimonic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of antimony\n   analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.'),('Pyroarsenate','n.','A salt of pyroarsenic acid.'),('Pyroarsenic','a.','Pertaining to or designating, an acid of arsenic\n   analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.'),('Pyroborate','n.','A salt of pyroboric acid.'),('Pyroboric','a.','Pertaining to derived from, or designating, an acid,\n   H2B4O7 (called also tetraboric acid), which is the acid ingredient of\n   ordinary borax, and is obtained by heating boric acid.'),('Pyrocatechin','n.','A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, of the\n   phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first\n   obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol,\n   oxyphenol. etc.'),('Pyrochlore','n.','A niobate of calcium, cerium, and other bases,\n   occurring usually in octahedrons of a yellowish or brownish color and\n   resinous luster; -- so called from its becoming grass-green on being\n   subjected to heat under the blowpipe.'),('Pyrocitric','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids\n   obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively\n   citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.'),('Purocoll','n.','A yellow crystalline substance allied to pyrrol, obtained\n   by the distillation of gelatin.'),('Pyroelectric','a.','Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity;\n   receiving electric polarity when heated.'),('Pyroelectric','n.','A substance which becomes electrically polar when\n   heated, exhibiting opposite charges of statical electricity at two\n   separate parts, especially the two extremities.'),('Pyroelectricity','n.','Electricity developed by means of heat; the\n   science which treats of electricity thus developed.'),('Pyrogallate','n.','A salt of pyrogallic acid; an ether of pyrogallol.'),('Pyrogallic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid\n   called pyrogallol. See Pyrogallol.'),('Pyrogallol','n.','A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the\n   distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance\n   having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a\n   strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the\n   production of certain dyes.'),('Pyrogen','n.','Electricity.'),('Pyrogen','n.','A poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and\n   supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of\n   bacteria.'),('Pyrogenic','a.','Producing heat; -- said of substances, as septic\n   poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.'),('Pyrogenous','a.','Produced by fire; igneous.'),('Pyrognostic','a.','Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of\n   heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the\n   blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena.'),('Pyrognostics','n. pl.','The characters of a mineral observed by the use\n   of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc.'),('Pyrography','n.','A process of printing, ornamenting, or carving, by\n   burning with heated instruments.'),('Pyrolator','n.','A fire worshiper.'),('Pyrolatry','n.','The worship of fire.'),('Pyroligneous','a.','Alt. of Pyrolignic'),('Pyrolignic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, the acid liquid obtained\n   in the distillation of wood, consisting essentially of impure acetic\n   acid.'),('Pyrolignous','a.','Same as Pyroligneous.'),('Pyrolithic','a.','Same as Pyrouric, or Cyanuric.'),('Pyrologist','n.','One who is versed in, or makes a study of, pyrology.'),('Pyrology','n.','That branch of physical science which treats of the\n   properties, phenomena, or effects of heat; also, a treatise on heat.'),('Pyrolusite','n.','Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an iron-black or dark\n   steel-gray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts\n   with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging\n   the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).'),('Pyromagnetic','a.','Acting by the agency of heat and magnetism; as, a\n   pyromagnetic machine for producing electric currents.'),('Pyromalate','n.','A salt of pyromalic acid.'),('Pyromalic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called maleic\n   acid.'),('Pyromancy','n.','Divination by means of fire.'),('Pyromania','n.','An insane disposition to incendiarism.'),('Pyromantic','a.','Of or pertaining to pyromancy.'),('Pyromantic','n.','One who pretends to divine by fire.'),('Pyrometer','n.','An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid\n   bodies by heat.'),('Pyrometer','n.','An instrument for measuring degrees of heat above those\n   indicated by the mercurial thermometer.'),('Pyrometric','a.','Alt. of Pyrometrical'),('Pyrometrical','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained by, the pyrometer; as,\n   pyrometrical instruments; pyrometrical measurements.'),('Pyrometry','n.','The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion\n   of bodies by heat.'),('Pyromorphite','n.','Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring\n   in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so\n   called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.'),('Pyromorphous','a.','Having the property of crystallizing by the agency of\n   fire.'),('Pyromucate','n.','A salt of pyromucic acid.'),('Pyromucic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid\n   obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of mucic\n   acid, or by the oxidation of furfurol.'),('Pyronomics','n.','The science of heat.'),('Pyrope','n.','A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color,\n   frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note\n   under Garnet.'),('Pyrophane','n.','A mineral which is opaque in its natural state, but is\n   said to change its color and become transparent by heat.'),('Pyrophanous','a.','Rendered transparent by heat.'),('Pyrophone','n.','A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by\n   flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different\n   sizes and lengths.'),('Pyrophoric','a.','Alt. of Pyrophorous'),('Pyrophorous','a.','Light-producing; of or pertaining to pyrophorus.'),('Pyrophorus','n.','Any one of several substances or mixtures which\n   phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated\n   mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and\n   finely divided lead.'),('Pyrophosphate','n.','A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.'),('Pyrophosphoric','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, H4P2O7,\n   which is obtained as a white crystalline substance. Its salts are\n   obtained by heating the phosphates.'),('Pyrophyllite','n.','A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and\n   pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.'),('Pyroscope','n.','An instrument for measuring the intensity of heat\n   radiating from a fire, or the cooling influence of bodies. It is a\n   differential thermometer, having one bulb coated with gold or silver\n   leaf.'),('Pyrosis','n.','See Water brash, under Brash.'),('Pyrosmalite','n.','A mineral, usually of a pale brown or of a gray or\n   grayish green color, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron\n   and manganese; -- so called from the odor given off before the\n   blowpipe.'),('Pyrosome','n.','Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The\n   pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet\n   long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent.'),('Pyrosulphate','n.','A salt of pyrosulphuric acid.'),('Pyrosulphuric','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also\n   disulphuric acid) obtained by distillation of certain sulphates, as a\n   colorless, thick, oily liquid, H2S2O7 resembling sulphuric acid. It is\n   used in the solution of indigo, in the manufacture of alizarin, and in\n   dehydration.'),('Pyrotartaric','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a\n   white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid.'),('Pyrotartrate','n.','A salt of pyrotartaric acid.'),('Pyrotechnian','n.','A pyrotechnist.'),('Pyrotechnic','a.','Alt. of Pyrotechnical'),('Pyrotechnical','a.','Of or pertaining to fireworks, or the art of forming\n   them.'),('Pyrotechnician','n.','A pyrotechnist.'),('Pyrotechnics','n.','The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use\n   of fireworks; pyrotechny.'),('Pyrotechnist','n.','One skilled in pyrotechny; one who manufactures\n   fireworks.'),('Pyrotechny','n.','The use and application of fire in science and the\n   arts.'),('Pyrotechny','n.','Same as Pyrotechnics.'),('Pyrothonide','n.','A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion\n   of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly\n   used as a remedial agent.'),('Pyrotic','a.','Caustic. See Caustic.'),('Pyrotic','n.','A caustic medicine.'),('Pyrotritartaric','a.','Designating an acid which is more commonly called\n   uric acid.'),('Pyrotungstic','a.','Polytungstic. See Metatungstic.'),('Pyrouric','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called\n   cyanuric acid. See Cyanuric.'),('Pyrovanadic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of vanadium,\n   analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.'),('Pyroxanthin','n.','A yellow crystalline hydrocardon extracted from crude\n   wood spirit; -- called also eblanin.'),('Pyroxene','n.','A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a\n   prismatic angle of nearly 90¡, and also in massive forms which are\n   often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black,\n   and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as\n   diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all\n   silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron.\n   Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic\n   igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc.'),('Pyroxenic','a.','Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.'),('Pyroxenite','n.','A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.'),('Pyroxylic','a.','Derived from wood by distillation; -- formerly used in\n   designating crude wood spirit.'),('Pyroxylin','n.','A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and\n   properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is\n   soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; -- called also pyroxyle.'),('Pyrrhic','a.','Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance.'),('Pyrrhic','a.','Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing\n   pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse.'),('Pyrrhic','n.','An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of\n   the flute, its time being very quick.'),('Pyrrhic','n.','A foot consisting of two short syllables.'),('Pyrrhicist','n.','One two danced the pyrrhic.'),('Pyrrhonean','a.','Alt. of Pyrrhonic'),('Pyrrhonic','a.','Of or pertaining to pyrrhonism.'),('Pyrrhonism','n.','Skepticism; universal doubt.'),('Pyrrhonist','n.','A follower of Pyrrho; a skeptic.'),('Pyrrhotine','n.','Alt. of Pyrrhotite'),('Pyrrhotite','n.','A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a\n   sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet.\n   Called also magnetic pyrites.'),('Pyrrol','n.','A nitrogenous base found in coal tar, bone oil, and other\n   distillates of organic substances, and also produced synthetically as a\n   colorless liquid, C4H5N, having on odor like that of chloroform. It is\n   the nucleus and origin of a large number of derivatives. So called\n   because it colors a splinter of wood moistened with hydrochloric acid a\n   deep red.'),('Pyrroline','n.','A nitrogenous base, C4H7N, obtained as a colorless\n   liquid by the reduction of pyrrol.'),('Pyrula','n.','A genus of large marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped\n   shell. It includes the fig-shells. See Illust. in Appendix.'),('Pyruric','a.','Same as Pyrouric.'),('Pyrus','n.','A genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for\n   fruit. It includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb, and\n   mountain ash.'),('Pyruvic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also\n   pyroracemic acid) obtained, as a liquid having a pungent odor, by the\n   distillation of racemic acid.'),('Pyruvil','n.','A complex nitrogenous compound obtained by heating\n   together pyruvic acid and urea.'),('Pythagorean','a.','Of or pertaining to Pythagoras (a Greek philosopher,\n   born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy.'),('Pythagorean','n.','A follower of Pythagoras; one of the school of\n   philosophers founded by Pythagoras.'),('Pythagoreanism','n.','The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans.'),('Pythagoric','a.','Alt. of Pythagorical'),('Pythagorical','a.','See Pythagorean, a.'),('Pythagorism','n.','The doctrines taught by Pythagoras.'),('Pythagorized','imp. & p. p.','of Pythagorize'),('Pythagorizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pythagorize'),('Pythagorize','v. i.','To speculate after the manner of Pythagoras.'),('Pythiad','n.','The period intervening between one celebration of the\n   Pythian games and the next.'),('Pythian','a.','Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to\n   the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi.'),('Pythocenic','a.','Producing decomposition, as diseases which are supposed\n   to be accompanied or caused by decomposition.'),('Python','n.','Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and\n   allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the\n   boas. Called also rock snake.'),('Python','n.','A diviner by spirits.'),('Pythoness','n.','The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in\n   Greece.'),('Pythoness','n.','Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a\n   sort of witch.'),('Pythonic','a.','Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.'),('Pythonism','n.','The art of predicting events after the manner of the\n   priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.'),('Pythonist','n.','A conjurer; a diviner.'),('Pythonomorpha','n. pl.','Same as Mosasauria.'),('Pyuria','n.','A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.'),('Pyx','n.','The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is\n   reserved.'),('Pyx','n.','A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for\n   certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of\n   metal before it is sent from the mint.'),('Pyx','n.','The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.'),('Pyx','n.','Same as Pyxis.'),('Pyx','v. t.','To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited\n   in the pyx.'),('Pyxidate','a.','Having a pyxidium.'),('Pyxidia','pl. ','of Pyxidium'),('Pyxidium','n.','A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower\n   half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel\n   and purslane.'),('Pyxidium','n.','The theca of mosses.'),('Pyxle','n.','Same as Pixy.'),('Pyxis','n.','A box; a pyx.'),('Pyxis','n.','A pyxidium.'),('Pyxis','n.','The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2.\n   Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound\n   (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together\n   being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent.\n   See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw\n   being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/)\n   is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter;\n   its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet,\n   from the Ph/nician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian.'),('Qua','conj.','In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.'),('Quab','n.','An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.'),('Quab','v. i.','See Quob, v. i.'),('Qua-bird','n.','The American night heron. See under Night.'),('Quacha','n.','The quagga.'),('Qvacked','imp. & p. p.','of Quack'),('Quacking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quack'),('Quack','v. i.','To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.'),('Quack','v. i.','To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.'),('Quack','v. i.','To act the part of a quack, or pretender.'),('Quack','n.','The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a\n   hoarse, quacking noise.'),('Quack','n.','A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an\n   ignorant practitioner.'),('Quack','n.','Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of\n   any kind not possessed; a charlatan.'),('Quack','a.','Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension;\n   used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a\n   quack doctor.'),('Quackeries','pl. ','of Quackery'),('Quackery','n.','The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false\n   pretensions to any art; empiricism.'),('Quack grass','','See Quitch grass.'),('Quackish','a.','Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.'),('Quackism','n.','Quackery.'),('Quackled','imp. & p. p.','of Quackle'),('Quackling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quackle'),('Quackle','v. i. & t.','To suffocate; to choke.'),('Quacksalver','n.','One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves,\n   or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a\n   mountebank.'),('Quad','a.','Alt. of Quade'),('Quade','a.','Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind.'),('Quad','n.','A quadrat.'),('Quad','n.','A quadrangle; hence, a prison.'),('Quadrae','pl. ','of Quadra'),('Quadra','n.','The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium,\n   water table, or the like.'),('Quadra','n.','A fillet, or listel.'),('Quadrable','a.','That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square;\n   -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly\n   found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.'),('Quadragenarious','a.','Consisting of forty; forty years old.'),('Quadragene','n.','An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty\n   days of ancient canonical penance.'),('Quadragesima','n.','The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.'),('Quadragesimal','a.','Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.'),('Quadragesimals','n. pl.','Offerings formerly made to the mother church of\n   a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.'),('Quadrangle','n.','A plane figure having four angles, and consequently\n   four sides; any figure having four angles.'),('Quadrangle','n.','A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a\n   space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college\n   or public school in England.'),('Quadrangular','a.','Having four angles, and consequently four sides;\n   tetragonal.'),('Quadrantes','pl. ','of Quadrans'),('Quadrans','n.','A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.'),('Quadrans','n.','The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.'),('Quadrant','n.','The fourth part; the quarter.'),('Quadrant','n.','The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a\n   circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center.'),('Quadrant','n.','One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by\n   the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant;\n   the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the\n   third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.'),('Quadrant','n.','An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously\n   constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy,\n   surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of\n   90¡, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights,\n   and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical\n   or horizontal direction.'),('Quadrantal','a.','Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the\n   fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space.'),('Quadrantal','n.','A cubical vessel containing a Roman cubic foot, each\n   side being a Roman square foot; -- used as a measure.'),('Quadrantal','n.','A cube.'),('Quadrat','n.','A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in\n   spacing and in blank lines.'),('Quadrat','n.','An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called\n   also geometrical square, and line of shadows.'),('Quadrate','a.','Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and\n   four right angles; square.'),('Quadrate','a.','Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.'),('Quadrate','a.','Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.'),('Quadrate','a.','Squared; suited; correspondent.'),('Quadrate','a.','A plane surface with four equal sides and four right\n   angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a\n   square.'),('Quadrate','a.','An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are\n   distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See\n   the Note under Aspect, 6.'),('Quadrate','a.','The quadrate bone.'),('Quadrated','imp. & p. p.','of Quadrate'),('Quadrating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quadrate'),('Quadrate','a.','To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed\n   by with.'),('Quadrate','v. t.','To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a\n   gun) for horizontal firing.'),('Quadratic','a.','Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling\n   a quadrate, or square; square.'),('Quadratic','a.','Tetragonal.'),('Quadratic','a.','Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a\n   quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity\n   is a square.'),('Quadratics','n.','That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic\n   equations.'),('Quadratojugal','a.','Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.'),('Quadratojugal','a.','Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone.'),('Quadratojugal','n.','The quadratojugal bone.'),('-trixes','pl. ','of Quadratrix'),('-trices','pl. ','of Quadratrix'),('Quadratrix','n.','A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves;\n   as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.'),('Quadrature','a.','The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the\n   same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a\n   circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure\n   bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two\n   ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.'),('Quadrature','a.','A quadrate; a square.'),('Quadrature','a.','The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a\n   curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of\n   one variable into the differential of that variable.'),('Quadrature','a.','The position of one heavenly body in respect to another\n   when distant from it 90¡, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at\n   an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.'),('Quadrel','n.','A square piece of turf or peat.'),('Quadrel','n.','A square brick, tile, or the like.'),('Quadrennial','a.','Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.'),('Quadrennial','a.','Occurring once in four years, or at the end of every\n   four years; as, quadrennial games.'),('Quadrennially','adv.','Once in four years.'),('Quadrennium','n.','A space or period of four years.'),('Quadri-','','A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold; as,\n   quadricapsular, having four capsules.'),('Quadribasic','a.','Same as Tetrabasic.'),('Quadrible','a.','Quadrable.'),('Quadric','a.','Of or pertaining to the second degree.'),('Quadric','n.','A quantic of the second degree. See Quantic.'),('Quadric','n.','A surface whose equation in three variables is of the\n   second degree. Spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, paraboloids,\n   hyperboloids, also cones and cylinders with circular bases, are\n   quadrics.'),('Quadricapsular','a.','Having four capsules.'),('Quadriceps','n.','The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above\n   into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.'),('Quadricipital','n.','Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.'),('Quadricorn','n.','Any quadricornous animal.'),('Quadricornous','a.','Having four horns, or hornlike organs; as, a\n   quadricornous beetle.'),('Quadricostate','a.','Having four ribs.'),('Quadridentate','a.','Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.'),('Quadriennial','a.','Same as Quadrennial.'),('Quadrifarious','a.','Arranged in four rows or ranks; as, quadrifarious\n   leaves.'),('Quadrifid','a.','Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a\n   quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.'),('Quadrifoil','a.','Alt. of Quadrifoliate'),('Quadrifoliate','a.','Four-leaved; having the leaves in whorls of four.'),('Quadrifurcated','a.','Having four forks, or branches.'),('Quadrigae','pl. ','of Quadriga'),('Quadriga','n.','A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.'),('Quadrigeminal','a.','Alt. of Quadrigeminous'),('Quadrigeminous','a.','Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs\n   of similar parts.'),('Quadrigenarious','a.','Consisting of four hundred.'),('Quadrijugate','a.','Same as Quadrijugous.'),('Quadrijugous','a.','Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as, a\n   quadrijugous leaf.'),('Quadrilateral','a.','Having four sides, and consequently four angles;\n   quadrangular.'),('Quadrilateral','n.','A plane figure having four sides, and consequently\n   four angles; a quadrangular figure; any figure formed by four lines.'),('Quadrilateral','n.','An area defended by four fortresses supporting each\n   other; as, the Venetian quadrilateral, comprising Mantua, Peschiera,\n   Verona, and Legnano.'),('Quadrilateralness','n.','The property of being quadrilateral.'),('Quadriliteral','a.','Consisting of four letters.'),('Quadrille','n.','A dance having five figures, in common time, four\n   couples of dancers being in each set.'),('Quadrille','n.','The appropriate music for a quadrille.'),('Quadrille','n.','A game played by four persons with forty cards, being\n   the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are\n   discarded.'),('Quadrillion','n.','According to the French notation, which is followed\n   also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen\n   ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced\n   by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented\n   by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under\n   Numeration.'),('Quadrilobate','a.','Alt. of Quadrilobed'),('Quadrilobed','a.','Having four lobes; as, a quadrilobate leaf.'),('Quadrilocular','a.','Having four cells, or cavities; as, a quadrilocular\n   heart.'),('Quadrin','n.','A small piece of money, in value about a farthing, or a\n   half cent.'),('Quadrinodal','a.','Possessing four nodes; as, quadrinodal curves.'),('Quadrinomial','n.','A polynomial of four terms connected by the signs\n   plus or minus.'),('Quadrinomical','a.','Quadrinomial.'),('Quadrinominal','a.','Quadrinomial.'),('Quadripartite','a.','Divided into four parts.'),('Quadripartitely','adv.','In four parts.'),('Quadripartition','n.','A division or distribution by four, or into four\n   parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.'),('Quadripennate','a.','Having four wings; -- said of insects.'),('Quadriphyllous','a.','Having four leaves; quadrifoliate.'),('Quadrireme','n.','A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.'),('Quadrisection','n.','A subdivision into four parts.'),('Quadrisulcate','a.','Having four hoofs; as, a quadrisulcate foot; a\n   quadrisulcate animal.'),('Quadrisyllabic','','Alt. of Quadri-syllabical'),('Quadri-syllabical','','Having four syllables; of or pertaining to\n   quadrisyllables; as, a quadrisyllabic word.'),('Quadrisyllable','n.','A word consisting of four syllables.'),('Quadrivalence','n.','The quality or state of being quadrivalent;\n   tetravalence.'),('Quadrivalent','a.','Having a valence of four; capable of combining with,\n   being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; --\n   said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are\n   quadrivalent elements.'),('Quadrivalve','a.','Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a\n   quadrivalve pericarp.'),('Quadrivalve','n.','A door, shutter, or the like, having four folds.'),('Quadrivalvular','a.','Having four valves; quadrivalve.'),('Quadrivial','a.','Having four ways meeting in a point.'),('Quadrivial','n.','One of the four \"liberal arts\" making up the\n   quadrivium.'),('Quadrivium','n.','The four \"liberal arts,\" arithmetic, music, geometry,\n   and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.'),('Quadroon','n.','The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person\n   quarter-blooded.'),('Quadroxide','n.','A tetroxide.'),('Quadrumana','n. pl.','A division of the Primates comprising the apes and\n   monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and\n   the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana\n   were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included\n   man alone.'),('Quadrumane','n.','One of the Quadrumana.'),('Quadrumanous','a.','Having four hands; of or pertaining to the\n   Quadrumana.'),('Quadruped','a.','Having four feet.'),('Quadruped','n.','An animal having four feet, as most mammals and\n   reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.'),('Quadrupedal','a.','Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.'),('Quadruple','a.','Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple\n   alliance.'),('Quadruple','n.','four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount; as, to\n   receive to quadruple of the amount in damages.'),('Quadrupled','imp. & p. p.','of Quadruple'),('Quadrupling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quadruple'),('Quadruple','v. t.','To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double;\n   to double twice.'),('Quadruple','v. i.','To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to\n   become four times as much.'),('Quadruplex','a.','Fourfold; folded or doubled twice.'),('Quadruplicated','imp. & p. p.','of Quadruplicate'),('Quadruplicating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quadruplicate'),('Quadruplicate','v. t.','To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.'),('Quadruplicate','a.','Fourfold; doubled twice; four times repeated; as, a\n   quadruplicate ratio, or a quadruplicate proportion.'),('Quadruplicate','a.','Raised to the fourth power.'),('Quadruplication','n.','The act of making fourfold; a taking four times\n   the simple sum or amount.'),('Quadruply','adv.','To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be,\n   quadruple; as, to be quadruply recompensed.'),('Quaere','v. imperative.','Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify\n   doubt or to suggest investigation.'),('Quaestor','n.','Same as Questor.'),('Quaffed','imp. & p. p.','of Quaff'),('Quaffing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quaff'),('Quaff','v. t.','To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow\n   in large draughts.'),('Quaff','v. i.','To drink largely or luxuriously.'),('Quaffer','n.','One who quaffs, or drinks largely.'),('Quag','n.','A quagmire.'),('Quagga','n.','A South African wild ass (Equus, / Hippotigris, quagga).\n   The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and\n   beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the\n   body.'),('Quaggy','a.','Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under\n   the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.'),('Quagmire','n.','Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the\n   feet.'),('Quahog','n.','Alt. of Quahaug'),('Quahaug','n.','An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in\n   large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam,\n   and hard clam.'),('Quaigh','n.','Alt. of Quaich'),('Quaich','n.','A small shallow cup or drinking vessel.'),('Qualled','imp. & p. p.','of Quail'),('Qualling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quail'),('Quail','v. i.','To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.'),('Quail','v. i.','To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under\n   trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of\n   resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.'),('Quail','v. t.','To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush;\n   to subdue.'),('Quail','v. i.','To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.'),('Quail','n.','Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several\n   allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail\n   (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble\n   quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus\n   australis).'),('Quail','n.','Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus,\n   Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia\n   quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla\n   Californica).'),('Quail','n.','Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera,\n   native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix\n   varius). See Turnix.'),('Quail','n.','A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to\n   be a very amorous bird.'),('Quaily','n.','The upland plover.'),('Quaint','a.','Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.'),('Quaint','a.','Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned;\n   skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.'),('Quaint','a.','Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique;\n   archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint\n   expression.'),('Quaintise','n.','Craft; subtlety; cunning.'),('Quaintise','n.','Elegance; beauty.'),('Quaintly','adv.','In a quaint manner.'),('Quaintness','n.','The quality of being quaint.'),('Quair','n.','A quire; a book.'),('Quaked','imp. & p. p.','of Quake'),('Quaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quake'),('Quake','v. i.','To be agitated with quick, short motions continually\n   repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.'),('Quake','v. i.','To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being\n   solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as,\n   the earth quakes; the mountains quake.'),('Quake','v. t.','To cause to quake.'),('Quake','n.','A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a\n   shudder; a quivering.'),('Quaker','n.','One who quakes.'),('Quaker','n.','One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of\n   Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call\n   themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision.\n   See Friend, n., 4.'),('Quaker','n.','The nankeen bird.'),('Quaker','n.','The sooty albatross.'),('Quaker','n.','Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so\n   called from the quaking noise made during flight.'),('Quakeress','n.','A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.'),('Quakerish','a.','Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.'),('Quakerism','n.','The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the\n   Quakers.'),('Quakerlike','a.','Like a Quaker.'),('Quakerly','a.','Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish.'),('Quakery','n.','Quakerism.'),('Quaketail','n.','A wagtail.'),('Quakness','n.','The state of being quaky; liability to quake.'),('Quaking','','a. & n. from Quake, v.'),('Quakingly','adv.','In a quaking manner; fearfully.'),('Quaky','a.','Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.'),('Qualifiable','a.','Capable of being qualified; abatable; modifiable.'),('Qualification','n.','The act of qualifying, or the condition of being\n   qualified.'),('Qualification','n.','That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any\n   acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or\n   which enables him to sustian any character with success; an enabling\n   quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession.'),('Qualification','n.','The act of limiting, or the state of being limited;\n   that which qualifies by limiting; modification; restriction; hence,\n   abatement; diminution; as, to use words without any qualification.'),('Qualificative','n.','That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a\n   qualifying term or statement.'),('Qualificator','n.','An officer whose business it is to examine and\n   prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.'),('Qualified','a.','Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.'),('Qualified','a.','Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement.'),('Qualifiedly','adv.','In the way of qualification; with modification or\n   qualification.'),('Qualifiedness','n.','The state of being qualified.'),('Qualifier','n.','One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies,\n   reduces, tempers or restrains.'),('Qualified','imp. & p. p.','of Qualify'),('Qualifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Qualify'),('Qualify','v. t.','To make such as is required; to give added or requisite\n   qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character;\n   to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary\n   for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to\n   supply with legal power or capacity.'),('Qualify','v. t.','To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to\n   regulate.'),('Qualify','v. t.','To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive\n   form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to\n   restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or\n   proposition.'),('Qualify','v. t.','Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to\n   reduce the strength of, as liquors.'),('Qualify','v. t.','To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.'),('Qualify','v. i.','To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office\n   or employment.'),('Qualify','v. i.','To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath,\n   or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.'),('Qualitative','a.','Relating to quality; having the character of quality.'),('Qualitied','a.','Furnished with qualities; endowed.'),('Qualities','pl. ','of Quality'),('Quality','n.','The condition of being of such and such a sort as\n   distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered,\n   as of goods; character; sort; rank.'),('Quality','n.','Special or temporary character; profession; occupation;\n   assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.'),('Quality','n.','That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it\n   is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it;\n   distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power,\n   capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ\n   from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman.'),('Quality','n.','An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.'),('Quality','n.','Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.'),('Qualm','n.','Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.'),('Qualm','n.','A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony.'),('Qualm','n.','Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea.'),('Qualm','n.','A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience;\n   compunction.'),('Qualmish','a.','Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly\n   languor; inclined to vomit.'),('Quamash','n.','See Camass.'),('Quamoclit','n.','Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine\n   (Quamoclit vulgaris, now called Ipomoea Quamoclit). The genus is now\n   merged in Ipomoea.'),('Quandaries','pl. ','of Quandary'),('Quandary','n.','A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.'),('Quandary','v. t.','To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or\n   difficulty.'),('Quandong','n.','The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree\n   (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang.'),('Quandy','n.','The old squaw.'),('Quannet','n.','A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be\n   used like a plane.'),('Quant','n.','A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent\n   it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.'),('Quantic','n.','A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables,\n   in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables,\n   and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the\n   second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further\n   called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain\n   two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary\n   cubic.'),('Quantification','n.','Modification by a reference to quantity; the\n   introduction of the element of quantity.'),('Quantity','v. t.','To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix\n   or express the quantity of; to rate.'),('Quantitative','a.','Relating to quantity.'),('Quantitive','a.','Estimable according to quantity; quantitative.'),('Quantitively','adv.','So as to be measurable by quantity; quantitatively.'),('Quantities','pl. ','of Quantity'),('Quantity','n.','The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the\n   property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease,\n   multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which\n   answers the question \"How much?\"; measure in regard to bulk or amount;\n   determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent;\n   size.'),('Quantity','n.','The extent or extension of a general conception, that is,\n   the number of species or individuals to which it may be applied; also,\n   its content or comprehension, that is, the number of its constituent\n   qualities, attributes, or relations.'),('Quantity','n.','The measure of a syllable; that which determines the time\n   in which it is pronounced; as, the long or short quantity of a vowel or\n   syllable.'),('Quantity','n.','The relative duration of a tone.'),('Quantity','n.','That which can be increased, diminished, or measured;\n   especially (Math.), anything to which mathematical processes are\n   applicable.'),('Quantity','n.','A determinate or estimated amount; a sum or bulk; a\n   certain portion or part; sometimes, a considerable amount; a large\n   portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in\n   large quantities.'),('Quantivalence','n.','Valence.'),('Quantivalent','a.','Of or pertaining to quantivalence.'),('Quanta','pl. ','of Quantum'),('Quantum','n.','Quantity; amount.'),('Quantum','n.','A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or\n   by a boundary.'),('Quap','v. i.','To quaver.'),('Quaquaversal','a.','Turning or dipping in any or every direction.'),('Quaquaversal','a.','Dipping toward all points of the compass round a\n   center, as beds of lava round a crater.'),('Quar','n.','A quarry.'),('Quarantine','n.','A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.'),('Quarantine','n.','Specifically, the term, originally of forty days,\n   during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a\n   malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse\n   with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse;\n   also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed.'),('Quarantine','n.','The period of forty days during which the widow had the\n   privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died\n   seized.'),('Quarantined','imp. & p. p.','of Quarantine'),('Quarantining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quarantine'),('Quarantine','v. t.','To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given\n   place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious\n   disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.'),('Quarl','n.','A medusa, or jellyfish.'),('Quarrel','n.','An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly\n   had a square head.'),('Quarrel','n.','Any small square or quadrangular member'),('Quarrel','n.','A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.'),('Quarrel','n.','A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps,\n   etc., make the form nearly square.'),('Quarrel','n.','A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.'),('Quarrel','n.','A glazier\'s diamond.'),('Quarrel','n.','A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a\n   diamond-shaped end.'),('Quarrel','n.','A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out;\n   a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or\n   conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an\n   altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.'),('Quarrel','n.','Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility;\n   cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.'),('Quarrel','n.','Earnest desire or longing.'),('Quarreled','imp. & p. p.','of Quarrel'),('Quarrelled','','of Quarrel'),('Quarreling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quarrel'),('Quarrelling','','of Quarrel'),('Quarrel','v. i.','To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference;\n   to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.'),('Quarrel','v. i.','To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold;\n   to altercate; to contend; to fight.'),('Quarrel','v. i.','To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one\'s lot.'),('Quarrel','v. t.','To quarrel with.'),('Quarrel','v. t.','To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his\n   estate or rights.'),('Quarrel','n.','One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.'),('Quarrelet','n.','A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2.'),('Quarreling','a.','Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as,\n   quarreling factions; a quarreling mood.'),('Quarrellous','a.','Quarrelsome.'),('Quarrelsome','a.','Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and\n   contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible;\n   choleric.'),('Quarried','a.','Provided with prey.'),('Quarrier','n.','A worker in a stone quarry.'),('Quarry','n.','Same as 1st Quarrel.'),('Quarry','a.','Quadrate; square.'),('Quarries','pl. ','of Quarry'),('Quarry','n.','A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the\n   hounds.'),('Quarry','n.','A heap of game killed.'),('Quarry','n.','The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game;\n   especially, the game hunted with hawks.'),('Quarry','v. i.','To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.'),('Quarry','n.','A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock\n   or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a\n   stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).'),('Quarried','imp. & p. p.','of Quarry'),('Quarrying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quarry'),('Quarry','v. t.','To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.'),('Quarry-faced','a.','Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and\n   not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.'),('Quarrymen','pl. ','of Quarry-man'),('Quarry-man','n.','A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.'),('Quart','n.','The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.'),('Quart','n.','A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure;\n   the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.'),('Quart','n.','A vessel or measure containing a quart.'),('Quart','n.','In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf.\n   Tierce, 4.'),('Quartan','a.','Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth\n   day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.'),('Quartan','n.','An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day,\n   reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between\n   paroxysms is two days.'),('Quartan','n.','A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.'),('Quartane','n.','Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.'),('Quartation','n.','The act, process, or result (in the process of parting)\n   of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce\n   the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals\n   except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting.'),('Quarte','n.','Same as 2d Carte.'),('Quartene','n.','Same as Butylene.'),('Quartenylic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic\n   acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless\n   liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule.\n   Called also isocrotonic acid.'),('Quarter','n.','One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or\n   is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a\n   dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc.'),('Quarter','n.','The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds,\n   according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds.'),('Quarter','n.','The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain;\n   as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal.'),('Quarter','n.','The fourth part of the moon\'s period, or monthly\n   revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full.'),('Quarter','n.','One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one\n   fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg;\n   as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters.'),('Quarter','n.','That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the\n   heel to the vamp.'),('Quarter','n.','That part on either side of a horse\'s hoof between the toe\n   and heel, being the side of the coffin.'),('Quarter','n.','A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.;\n   properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter.'),('Quarter','n.','The encampment on one of the principal passages round a\n   place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.'),('Quarter','n.','The after-part of a vessel\'s side, generally corresponding\n   in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside\n   of the slings.'),('Quarter','n.','One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided\n   into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in\n   the fess point.'),('Quarter','v. t.','A division of a town, city, or county; a particular\n   district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.'),('Quarter','v. t.','A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in\n   the United States more commonly called stud.'),('Quarter','v. t.','The fourth part of the distance from one point of the\n   compass to another, being the fourth part of 11¡ 15\', that is, about 2¡\n   49\'; -- called also quarter point.'),('Quarter','v. t.','Proper station; specific place; assigned position;\n   special location.'),('Quarter','v. t.','A station at which officers and men are posted in\n   battle; -- usually in the plural.'),('Quarter','v. t.','Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter;\n   entertainment; -- usually in the plural.'),('Quarter','v. t.','A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of\n   lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters.'),('Quarter','v. t.','Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act\n   of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one\'s\n   advantage to extremes.'),('Quarter','v. t.','Friendship; amity; concord.'),('Quartered','imp. & p. p.','of Quartter'),('Quartering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quartter'),('Quartter','v. t.','To divide into four equal parts.'),('Quartter','v. t.','To divide; to separate into parts or regions.'),('Quartter','v. t.','To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply\n   with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to;\n   as, to quarter soldiers.'),('Quartter','v. t.','To furnish as a portion; to allot.'),('Quartter','v. t.','To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one\n   escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the\n   right to bear arms.'),('Quarter','v. i.','To lodge; to have a temporary residence.'),('Quarter','v. i.','To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from\n   going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.'),('Quarterage','n.','A quarterly allowance.'),('Quarter-deck','n.','That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast,\n   including the poop deck when there is one.'),('Quarterfoil','n.','An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.'),('Quarterhung','a.','Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore;\n   -- said of a cannon.'),('Quartering','a.','Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not\n   directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.'),('Quartering','a.','At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which\n   are in planes forming a right angle with each other.'),('Quartering','n.','A station.'),('Quartering','n.','Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.'),('Quartering','n.','The division of a shield containing different coats of\n   arms into four or more compartments.'),('Quartering','n.','One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an\n   escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.'),('Quartering','n.','A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See\n   Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.)'),('Quarterly','a.','Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as,\n   quarterly seasons.'),('Quarterly','a.','Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as,\n   quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.'),('Quarterlies','pl. ','of Quarterly'),('Quarterly','n.','A periodical work published once a quarter, or four\n   times in a year.'),('Quarterly','adv.','By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the\n   returns are made quarterly.'),('Quarterly','adv.','In quarters, or quarterings; as, to bear arms\n   quarterly; in four or more parts; -- said of a shield thus divided by\n   lines drawn through it at right angles.'),('Quartermaster','n.','An officer whose duty is to provide quarters,\n   provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for\n   a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.'),('Quartermaster','n.','A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle,\n   signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.'),('Quartern','n.','A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a\n   gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).'),('Quartern','n.','A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called\n   also quartern loaf.'),('Quarteron','n.','A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a\n   hundred.'),('Quarteron','n.','Alt. of Quarteroon'),('Quarteroon','n.','A quadroon.'),('Quarterpace','n.','A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a\n   right angle only. See Halfpace.'),('Quarter round','','An ovolo.'),('Quarterstaves','pl. ','of Quarterstaff'),('Quarterstaff','n.','A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of\n   defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was\n   placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.'),('Quartet','n.','Alt. of Quartette'),('Quartette','n.','A composition in four parts, each performed by a single\n   voice or instrument.'),('Quartette','n.','The set of four person who perform a piece of music in\n   four parts.'),('Quartette','n.','A stanza of four lines.'),('Quartic','a.','Of the fourth degree.'),('Quartic','n.','A quantic of the fourth degree. See Quantic.'),('Quartic','n.','A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree\n   in the variables.'),('Quartile','n.','Same as Quadrate.'),('Quartine','n.','A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from\n   the outside.'),('Quarto','a.','Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a\n   quarto.'),('Quartos','pl. ','of Quarto'),('Quarto','n.','Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of\n   printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or\n   nearly square form, and usually of large size.'),('Quartridge','n.','Quarterage.'),('Quartz','n.','A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in\n   hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but\n   sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also\n   in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of\n   transparency, being sometimes opaque.'),('Quartziferous','a.','Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.'),('Quartzite','n.','Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed\n   sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.'),('Quartzoid','n.','A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two\n   six-sided pyramids, base to base.'),('Quartzose','a.','Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the\n   nature or qualities of quartz.'),('quartzous','a.','Quarzose.'),('Quartzy','a.','Quartzose.'),('Quas','n.','A kind of beer. Same as Quass.'),('Quaschi','n.','Alt. of Quasje'),('Quasje','n.','The brown coati. See Coati.'),('Quash','n.','Same as Squash.'),('Quashed','imp. & p. p.','of Quash'),('Quashing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quash'),('Quash','v. t.','To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an\n   indictment.'),('Quash','v. t.','To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to\n   crush.'),('Quash','v. t.','To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily\n   and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.'),('Quash','v. i.','To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.'),('Quashee','n.','A negro of the West Indies.'),('Quasi','','As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree;\n   having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a\n   prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied\n   contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a\n   contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of\n   the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which\n   resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently\n   historical, seeming to be historical.'),('Quasimodo','n.','The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.'),('Quass','n.','A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or\n   barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.'),('Quassation','n.','The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken.'),('Quassia','n.','The wood of several tropical American trees of the order\n   Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It\n   is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a\n   substitute for hops in making beer.'),('Quassin','n.','The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white\n   crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite.'),('Quat','n.','A pustule.'),('Quat','n.','An annoying, worthless person.'),('Quat','v. t.','To satiate; to satisfy.'),('Quata','n.','The coaita.'),('Quatch','a.','Squat; flat.'),('Quater-cousin','n.','A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.'),('Quaternary','a.','Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.'),('Quaternary','a.','Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary;\n   Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.'),('Quaternary','n.','The number four.'),('Quaternary','n.','The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of\n   Geology.'),('Quaternate','a.','Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary;\n   as, quaternate leaves.'),('Quaternion','n.','The number four.'),('Quaternion','n.','A set of four parts, things, or person; four things\n   taken collectively; a group of four words, phrases, circumstances,\n   facts, or the like.'),('Quaternion','n.','A word of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.'),('Quaternion','n.','The quotient of two vectors, or of two directed right\n   lines in space, considered as depending on four geometrical elements,\n   and as expressible by an algebraic symbol of quadrinomial form.'),('Quaternion','v. t.','To divide into quaternions, files, or companies.'),('Quaternity','n.','The number four.'),('Quaternity','n.','The union of four in one, as of four persons; --\n   analogous to the theological term trinity.'),('Quateron','n.','See 2d Quarteron.'),('Quatorzain','n.','A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet.'),('Quatorze','n.','The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the\n   game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen\n   points.'),('Quatrain','n.','A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.'),('Quatre','n.','A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips'),('Quatrefeuille','n.','Alt. of Quatrefoil'),('Quatrefoil','n.','Same as Quarterfoil.'),('Quatuor','n.','A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental\n   compositions.'),('Quave','n.','See Quaver.'),('Quave','v. i.','To quaver.'),('Quavemire','n.','See Quagmire.'),('Quavered','imp. & p. p.','of Quaver'),('Quavering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quaver'),('Quaver','v. i.','To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.'),('Quaver','v. i.','Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound\n   with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a\n   musical instrument'),('Quaver','v. t.','To utter with quavers.'),('Quaver','n.','A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or\n   of an instrument of music.'),('Quaver','n.','An eighth note. See Eighth.'),('Quaverer','n.','One who quavers; a warbler.'),('Quay','n.','A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side\n   of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in\n   loading and unloading vessels.'),('Quay','v. t.','To furnish with quays.'),('Quayage','n.','Wharfage.'),('Quayd','','p. p. of Quail.'),('Que','n.','A half farthing.'),('Queach','n.','A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.'),('Queach','v. i.','To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.'),('Queachy','a.','Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy\n   ground; shaking; moving.'),('Queachy','a.','Like a queach; thick; bushy.'),('Quean','n.','A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.'),('Quean','n.','A low woman; a wench; a slut.'),('Queasily','adv.','In a queasy manner.'),('Queasiness','n.','The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness;\n   squeamishness.'),('Queasy','a.','Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to\n   vomit; qualmish.'),('Queasy','a.','Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed;\n   unsettled; ticklish.'),('Quebec group','','The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of\n   the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian\n   system. See the Chart of Geology.'),('Quebracho','n.','A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho);\n   also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/a of the\n   lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to\n   distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree\n   (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar\n   properties.'),('Quebrith','n.','Sulphur.'),('Quech','v. i.','Alt. of Queck'),('Queck','v. i.','A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon\'s Essays,\n   and probably meaning, to stir, to move.'),('Queen','n.','The wife of a king.'),('Queen','n.','A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch;\n   as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.'),('Queen','n.','A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her\n   kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities,\n   countries, etc.'),('Queen','n.','The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees,\n   ants, and termites.'),('Queen','n.','The most powerful, and except the king the most important,\n   piece in a set of chessmen.'),('Queen','n.','A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen\n   of spades.'),('Queen','n.','A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in\n   women\'s clothing.'),('Queen','v. i.','To act the part of a queen.'),('Queened','imp. & p. p.','of Queen'),('Queening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Queen'),('Queen','v. i.','To make a queen (or other piece, at the player\'s\n   discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.'),('Queencraft','n.','Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen.'),('Queendom','n.','The dominion, condition, or character of a queen.'),('Queenfish','n.','A California sciaenoid food fish (Seriphys politus). The\n   back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also\n   kingfish.'),('Queenhood','n.','The state, personality, or character of a queen;\n   queenliness.'),('Queening','n.','Any one of several kinds of apples, as summer queening,\n   scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the queening was\n   cultivated in England two hundred years ago.'),('Queenliness','n.','The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a\n   queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.'),('Queenly','a.','Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.'),('Oueen-post','n.','One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other\n   framed truss of similar form. See King-post.'),('Queenship','n.','The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.'),('Queensland nut','','The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia).\n   It is about an inch in diameter, and contains a single round edible\n   seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds. So called from Queensland\n   in Australia.'),('Queen truss','','A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.'),('Queer','a.','At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some\n   odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a\n   queer story or act.'),('Queer','a.','Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer\n   transaction.'),('Queer','n.','Counterfeit money.'),('Queerish','a.','Rather queer; somewhat singular.'),('Queerly','adv.','In a queer or odd manner.'),('Queerness','n.','The quality or state of being queer.'),('Queest','n.','The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat.'),('Quegh','n.','A drinking vessel. See Quaich.'),('Queint','a.','See Quaint.'),('Queint','','imp. & p. p. of Quench.'),('Queintise','n.','See Quaintise.'),('Quelled','imp. & p. p.','of Quell'),('Quelling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quell'),('Quell','v. i.','To die.'),('Quell','v. i.','To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.'),('Quell','v. t.','To take the life of; to kill.'),('Quell','v. t.','To overpower; to subdue; to put down.'),('Quell','v. t.','To quiet; to allay; to pacify; to cause to yield or\n   cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul.'),('Quell','n.','Murder.'),('Queller','n.','A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller.'),('Queller','n.','One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.'),('Quellio','n.','A ruff for the neck.'),('Quelquechose','n.','A trifle; a kickshaw.'),('Queme','v. t. & i.','To please.'),('Quemeful','a.','Kindly; merciful.'),('Quenched','imp. & p. p.','of Quench'),('Quenching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quench'),('Quench','v. t.','To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said\n   of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations\n   and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench\n   thirst, love, hate, etc.'),('Quench','v. t.','To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.'),('Quench','v. i.','To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or\n   cool.'),('Quenchable','a.','Capable of being quenched.'),('Quencher','n.','One who, or that which, quenches.'),('Quenchless','a.','Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as,\n   quenchless fire or fury.'),('Quenelle','n.','A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used\n   as a dish by itself or for garnishing.'),('Quenouille training','','A method of training trees or shrubs in the\n   shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.'),('Quercitannic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in\n   oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.'),('Quercite','n.','A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in\n   acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is\n   regarded as a pentacid alcohol.'),('Quercitin','n.','A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely\n   distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark,\n   horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the\n   decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.'),('Quercitrin','n.','A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak\n   (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a\n   pigment and called quercitron.'),('Quercitron','n.','The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the\n   American black oak, yellow oak, dyer\'s oak, or quercitron oak, a large\n   forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.'),('Quercitron','n.','Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.'),('Quercus','n.','A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.'),('Querele','n.','A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela.'),('Querent','n.','A complainant; a plaintiff.'),('Querent','n.','An inquirer.'),('Quermonious','a.','Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.'),('Querimony','n.','A complaint or complaining.'),('Querist','n.','One who inquires, or asks questions.'),('Querken','v. t.','To stifle or choke.'),('Querl','v. t.','To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a\n   cord, thread, or rope.'),('Querl','n.','A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a\n   blooded horse.'),('Quern','n.','A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was\n   turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and\n   watermills.'),('Querpo','n.','The inner or body garments taken together. See Cuerpo.'),('Querquedule','n.','A teal.'),('Querquedule','n.','The pintail duck.'),('Querry','n.','A groom; an equerry.'),('Querulential','a.','Querulous.'),('Querulous','v.','Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.'),('Querulous','v.','Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to\n   murmur; as, a querulous man or people.'),('Querulous','v.','Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous\n   tone of voice.'),('Queries','pl. ','of Query'),('Query','n.','A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.'),('Query','n.','A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about\n   his sincerity.'),('Query','n.','An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a\n   doubt.'),('Query','v. i.','To ask questions; to make inquiry.'),('Query','v. i.','To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.'),('Queried','imp. & p. p.','of Query'),('Querying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Query'),('Query','v. t.','To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to\n   inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive\n   or the fact.'),('Query','v. t.','To address questions to; to examine by questions.'),('Query','v. t.','To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.'),('Query','v. t.','To write \" query\" (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful\n   spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.'),('Quesal','n.','The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon (Pharomachus\n   mocinno, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and\n   Central America. Called also quetzal, and golden trogon.'),('Quest','n.','The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to\n   find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a\n   lost child, of property, etc.'),('Quest','n.','Request; desire; solicitation.'),('Quest','n.','Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.'),('Quest','n.','Inquest; jury of inquest.'),('Quest','n.','To search for; to examine.'),('Quest','v. i.','To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to\n   beg.'),('Questant','n.','One who undertakes a quest; a seeker.'),('Quester','n.','One who seeks; a seeker.'),('Question','n.','The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine\n   by question and answer.'),('Question','n.','Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as,\n   the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.'),('Question','n.','Examination with reference to a decisive result;\n   investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation;\n   also, examination under torture.'),('Question','n.','That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.'),('Question','n.','Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or\n   debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or\n   doubtful question.'),('Question','n.','Talk; conversation; speech; speech.'),('Questioned','imp. & p. p.','of Question'),('Questioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Question'),('Question','n.','To ask questions; to inquire.'),('Question','n.','To argue; to converse; to dispute.'),('Question','v. t.','To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by\n   interrogatories; as, to question a witness.'),('Question','v. t.','To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.'),('Question','v. t.','To raise a question about; to call in question; to\n   make objection to.'),('Question','v. t.','To talk to; to converse with.'),('Questionability','n.','The state or condition of being questionable.'),('Questionable','a.','Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming\n   to invite, inquiry.'),('Questionable','a.','Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called\n   in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious.'),('Questionableness','n.','The quality or state of being questionable,\n   doubtful, or suspicious.'),('Questionably','adv.','In a questionable manner.'),('Questionary','a.','Inquiring; asking questions; testing.'),('Questionary','n.','One who makes it his business to seek after relics and\n   carry them about for sale.'),('Questioner','n.','One who asks questions; an inquirer.'),('Questionist','n.','A questioner; an inquirer.'),('Questionist','n.','A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time\n   of his examination.'),('Questionless','a.','Unquestioning; incurious.'),('Questionless','adv.','Beyond a question or doubt; doubtless; certainly.'),('Questmen','pl. ','of Questman'),('Questman','n.','One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters,\n   esp. of abuses of weights and measures.'),('Questman','n.','A churchwarden\'s assistant; a sidesman.'),('Questman','n.','A collector of parish rents.'),('Questmonger','n.','One who lays informations, and encourages petty\n   lawsuits.'),('Questor','n.','An officer who had the management of the public treasure;\n   a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state.'),('Questorship','n.','The office, or the term of office, of a questor.'),('Questrist','n.','A seeker; a pursuer.'),('Questuary','a.','Studious of profit.'),('Questuary','n.','One employed to collect profits.'),('Quet','n.','The common guillemot.'),('Queue','n.','A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.'),('Queue','n.','A line of persons waiting anywhere.'),('Queue','v. t.','To fasten, as hair, in a queue.'),('Quey','n.','A heifer.'),('Quib','n.','A quip; a gibe.'),('Quibble','n.','A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or\n   evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.'),('Quibble','n.','A pun; a low conceit.'),('Quibbled','imp. & p. p.','of Quibble'),('Quibbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quibble'),('Quibble','v. i.','To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon\n   words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent\n   question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.'),('Quibble','v. i.','To pun; to practice punning.'),('Quibbler','n.','One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.'),('Quibblingly','adv.','Triflingly; evasively.'),('Quica','n.','A small South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native of\n   Guiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit.'),('Quice','n.','See Queest.'),('Quich','v. i.','To stir.'),('Quick','superl.','Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or\n   inanimate.'),('Quick','superl.','Characterized by life or liveliness; animated;\n   sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.'),('Quick','superl.','Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.'),('Quick','superl.','Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp;\n   unceremonious; as, a quick temper.'),('Quick','superl.','Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.'),('Quick','superl.','Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a\n   quick ear.'),('Quick','superl.','Pregnant; with child.'),('Quick','adv.','In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste;\n   speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.'),('Quick','n.','That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant;\n   especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living\n   hedge.'),('Quick','n.','The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible\n   of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part\n   of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions;\n   as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick,\n   to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.'),('Quick','n.','Quitch grass.'),('Quick','v. t. & i.','To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.'),('Quickbeam','n.','See Quicken tree.'),('quickened','imp. & p. p.','of Quicken'),('Quickening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quicken'),('Quicken','a.','To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as\n   from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to\n   incite.'),('Quicken','a.','To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional\n   energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to\n   accelerate; as, to quicken one\'s steps or thoughts; to quicken one\'s\n   departure or speed.'),('Quicken','a.','To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve)\n   sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more\n   pronounced.'),('Quicken','v. i.','To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or\n   enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in\n   the womb.'),('Quicken','v. i.','To move with rapidity or activity; to become\n   accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.'),('Quickener','n.','One who, or that which, quickens.'),('Quickening','n.','The act or process of making or of becoming quick.'),('Quickening','n.','The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the\n   mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It\n   has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed\n   of independent life.'),('Quickens','n.','Quitch grass.'),('Quicken tree','','The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and\n   quickenbeam. See Rowan tree.'),('Quickhatch','n.','The wolverine.'),('Quicklime','a.','Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when\n   wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.'),('Quickly','adv.','Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay;\n   quick.'),('Quickness','n.','The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.'),('Quickness','n.','Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion;\n   speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.'),('Quickness','n.','Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.'),('Quickness','n.','Sharpness; pungency of taste.'),('Quicksand','n.','Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure;\n   especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water,\n   sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very\n   dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins\n   sinking into it.'),('Quick-scented','a.','Acute of smell.'),('Quickset','n.','A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge;\n   specifically, the hawthorn.'),('Quickset','a.','Made of quickset.'),('Quickset','v. t.','To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as,\n   to quickset a ditch.'),('Quick-sighted','a.','Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to\n   see or to discern.'),('Quicksilver','a.','The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance\n   to liquid silver.'),('Quicksilvered','a.','Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of\n   quicksilver and tinfoil.'),('Quicksilvering','n.','The mercury and foil on the back of a\n   looking-glass.'),('Quickstep','n.','A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of\n   dancing.'),('Quick-witted','a.','Having ready wit'),('Quick-wittedness','n.','Readiness of wit.'),('Quickwork','n.','All the submerged section of a vessel\'s planking.'),('Quickwork','n.','The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.'),('Quickwork','n.','The short planks between the portholes.'),('Quid','n.','A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of\n   tobacco.'),('Quid','v. t.','To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; --\n   said of horses.'),('Quidam','n.','Somebody; one unknown.'),('Quiddany','n.','A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup\n   and marmalade.'),('Quiddative','a.','Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing;\n   quidditative.'),('Quiddit','n.','A subtilty; an equivocation.'),('Quidditative','a.','Quiddative.'),('Quiddities','pl. ','of Quiddity'),('Quiddity','n.','The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a\n   thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?'),('Quiddity','n.','A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.'),('Quiddled','imp. & p. p.','of Quiddle'),('Quiddling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quiddle'),('Quiddle','v. i.','To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to\n   useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.'),('Quiddle','n.','Alt. of Quiddler'),('Quiddler','n.','One who wastes his energy about trifles.'),('Quidnunc','n.','One who is curious to know everything that passes; one\n   who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on.'),('Quiesced','imp. & p. p.','of Quiesce'),('Quiescing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quiesce'),('Quiesce','a. & n.','To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.'),('Quiescence','n.','Alt. of Quiescency'),('Quiescency','n.','The state or quality of being quiescent.'),('Quiescent','a.','Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving;\n   as, a quiescent body or fluid.'),('Quiescent','a.','Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not\n   excited; quiet; dormant; resting.'),('Quiescent','a.','Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in \"day\" and\n   \"say.\"'),('Quiescent','n.','A silent letter.'),('Quiescently','adv.','In a quiescent manner.'),('Quiet','a.','In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or\n   agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.'),('Quiet','a.','Free from noise or disturbance; hushed; still.'),('Quiet','a.','Not excited or anxious; calm; peaceful; placid; settled; as,\n   a quiet life; a quiet conscience.'),('Quiet','a.','Not giving offense; not exciting disorder or trouble; not\n   turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented.'),('Quiet','a.','Not showy; not such as to attract attention;\n   undemonstrative; as, a quiet dress; quiet colors; a quiet movement.'),('Quiet','a.','The quality or state of being quiet, or in repose; as an\n   hour or a time of quiet.'),('Quiet','a.','Freedom from disturbance, noise, or alarm; stillness;\n   tranquillity; peace; security.'),('Quieted','imp. & p. p.','of Quiet'),('Quieting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quiet'),('Quiet','v. t.','To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of\n   rest, or of silence.'),('Quiet','v. t.','To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to\n   tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders;\n   to quiet pain or grief.'),('Quiet','v. i.','To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as,\n   be soon quieted down.'),('Quietage','n.','Quietness.'),('Quieter','n.','One who, or that which, quiets.'),('Quietism','n.','Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference;\n   apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.'),('Quietism','n.','The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion\n   consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and\n   anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of\n   God and his attributes.'),('Quietist','n.','One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth\n   century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.'),('Quietistic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.'),('Quietly','adv.','In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state\n   of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.'),('Quietly','adv.','Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance;\n   peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly.'),('Quietly','adv.','Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently;\n   as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.'),('Quietly','adv.','Noiselessly; silently; without remark or violent\n   movement; in a manner to attract little or no observation; as, he\n   quietly left the room.'),('Quietness','n.','The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise,\n   agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity;\n   calmness.'),('Quietsome','a.','Calm; still.'),('Quietude','n.','Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity.'),('Quietus','a.','Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or\n   obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.'),('Quill','n.','One of the large feathers of a bird\'s wing, or one of the\n   rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.'),('Quill','n.','A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point\n   or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of\n   his quill.'),('Quill','n.','A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.'),('Quill','n.','The pen of a squid. See Pen.'),('Quill','n.','The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of\n   certain instruments.'),('Quill','n.','The tube of a musical instrument.'),('Quill','n.','Something having the form of a quill'),('Quill','n.','The fold or plain of a ruff.'),('Quill','n.','A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the\n   thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.'),('Quill','n.','A hollow spindle.'),('Quilled','imp. & p. p.','of Quill'),('Quilling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quill'),('Quill','v. t.','To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings;\n   as, to quill a ruffle.'),('Quill','v. t.','To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.'),('Quillaia bark','','The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria),\n   native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with\n   alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chilians instead of\n   soap. Also called soap bark.'),('Quillback','n.','An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, / Carpiodes,\n   cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and\n   skimback.'),('Quilled','a.','Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills.'),('Quillet','n.','Subtilty; nicety; quibble.'),('Quilling','n.','A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or\n   plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.'),('Quilling','n.','One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.'),('Quillwort','n.','Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous\n   plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising\n   from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated\n   bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in\n   the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the\n   shape of the leaves.'),('Quilt','n.','Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a\n   skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton,\n   etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer\n   bed cover.'),('Quilted','imp. & p. p.','of Quilt'),('Quilting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quilt'),('Quilt','v. t.','To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order\n   to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a\n   garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.'),('Quilt','v. t.','To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.'),('Quilt','v. t.','To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.'),('Quilter','n.','One who, or that which, quilts.'),('Quilting','n.','The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making\n   a quilt.'),('Quilting','n.','A quilting bee. See Bee, 2.'),('Quilting','n.','The material used for making quilts.'),('Quilting','n.','A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.'),('Quin','n.','A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food.'),('Quinaldine','n.','A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor,\n   C9H6N.CH3, first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and\n   aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also\n   methyl quinoline.'),('Quinary','a.','Consisting of five; arranged by fives.'),('Quiname','a.','Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves\n   composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.'),('Quinate','n.','A salt of quinic acid.'),('Quinazol','n.','A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline.'),('Quince','n.','The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the\n   same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in\n   having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but\n   very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.'),('Quince','n.','a quince tree or shrub.'),('Quincewort','n.','The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.'),('Quinch','v. i.','To stir; to wince.'),('Quincuncial','','Having the form of a quincunx.'),('Quincuncial','','Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so\n   imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has\n   one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial aestivation.'),('Quincuncially','adv.','In the manner or order of a quincunx.'),('Quincunx','n.','An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a\n   rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle;\n   especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as\n   to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.'),('Quincunx','n.','The position of planets when distant from each other five\n   signs, or 150¡.'),('Quincunx','n.','A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in\n   aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2.'),('Quindecagon','n.','A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently\n   fifteen sides.'),('Quindecemvirs','pl. ','of Quindecemvir'),('Quindecemviri','pl. ','of Quindecemvir'),('Quindecemvir','n.','One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose\n   chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.'),('Quindecemvirate','n.','The body or office of the quindecemviri.'),('Quindecone','n.','An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C15H26, of the valylene\n   series, produced artificially as an oily liquid.'),('Quindecylic','n.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty\n   acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also\n   pentadecylic acid.'),('Quindem','n.','A fifteenth part.'),('Quindism','n.','A fifteenth.'),('Quinhydrone','n.','A green crystalline substance formed by the union of\n   quinone with hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the\n   oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone.'),('Quinia','n.','Quinine.'),('Quinible','n.','An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such\n   intervals.'),('Quinic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and\n   related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid\n   obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white\n   crystalline substance.'),('Quinicine','n.','An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of\n   heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.'),('Quinidine','n.','An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine,\n   found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a\n   bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as\n   a febrifuge.'),('Quinine','n.','An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of\n   cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline\n   substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of\n   this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a\n   febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.'),('Quininic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid\n   obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.'),('Quininism','n.','Alt. of Quinism'),('Quinism','n.','See Cinchonism.'),('Quinizarin','','A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially. It\n   is isomeric with alizarin.'),('Quinizine','n.','any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of\n   which are used as antipyretics.'),('Quinnat','n.','The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called\n   also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It\n   is of great commercial importance.'),('Quinoa','n.','The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used\n   in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.'),('Quinogen','n.','A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.'),('Quinoidine','n.','A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product\n   in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several\n   alkaloids.'),('Quinoline','n.','A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent\n   colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar,\n   etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain\n   alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the\n   series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type.'),('Quinologist','n.','One who is versed in quinology.'),('Quinology','n.','The science which treats of the cultivation of the\n   cinchona, and of its use in medicine.'),('Quinone','n.','A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone),\n   first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double\n   ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone\n   proper is the type.'),('Quinovic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid\n   obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.'),('Quinovin','n.','An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and\n   other barks. Called also quinova bitter, and quinova.'),('Quinoxaline','n.','Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous bases\n   obtained by the union of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or\n   with certain ketones.'),('Quinoxyl','n.','The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives\n   related to rhodizonic acid.'),('Quinoyl','n.','A radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to\n   phenyl.'),('Quinquagesima','a.','Fiftieth.'),('Quinquangular','a.','Having five angles or corners.'),('Quinquarticular','a.','Relating to the five articles or points; as, the\n   quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists.'),('Quinque-','','A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as,\n   quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed.'),('Quinqueangled','a.','Having five angles; quinquangular.'),('Quinquedentate','a.','Alt. of Quinquedentated'),('Quinquedentated','a.','Five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.'),('Quinquefarious','a.','Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous.'),('Quinquefid','a.','Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into\n   five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.'),('Quinquefoliate','a.','Alt. of Quinquefoliated'),('Quinquefoliated','a.','Having five leaves or leaflets.'),('Quinque foliolate','a.','Having five leaflets.'),('Quinqueliteral','a.','Consisting of five letters.'),('Quinquelobate','a.','Alt. of Quinquelobared'),('Quinquelobared','a.','Cut less than halfway into portions, usually\n   somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.'),('Quinquelobed','a.','Same as Quinquelobate.'),('Quinquelocular','a.','Having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a\n   quinquelocular pericarp.'),('Quinquenerved','a.','Having five nerves; -- said of a leaf with five\n   nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.'),('Quinquennalia','n. pl.','Public games celebrated every five years.'),('Quinquennial','a.','Occurring once in five years, or at the end of every\n   five years; also, lasting five years. A quinquennial event.'),('Quinquennium','n.','Space of five years.'),('Quinquepartite','a.','Consisting of five parts.'),('Quinquepartite','a.','Divided into five parts almost to the base.'),('Quinquereme','n.','A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an\n   Athenian quinquereme.'),('Quinquesyllable','n.','A word of five syllables.'),('Quinquevalve','a.','Alt. of Quinquevalvular'),('Quinquevalvular','a.','Having five valves, as a pericarp.'),('Quinquevirs','pl. ','of Quinquevir'),('Quinqueviri','pl. ','of Quinquevir'),('Quinquevir','n.','One of five commissioners appointed for some special\n   object.'),('Quinquina','n.','Peruvian bark.'),('Quinquivalent','a.','Same as Pentavalent.'),('Quinsy','n.','An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent,\n   especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling,\n   painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever.\n   It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy,\n   and squinzey.'),('Quint','n.','A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.'),('Quint','n.','The interval of a fifth.'),('Quintain','n.','An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.'),('Quintal','n.','A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to\n   the scale used. Cf. Cental.'),('Quintal','n.','A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100\n   kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.'),('Quintan','a.','Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring\n   every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.'),('Quintan','n.','An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day,\n   reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.'),('Quintel','n.','See Quintain.'),('Quintessence','n.','The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a\n   natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.'),('Quintessence','n.','Hence: An extract from anything, containing its\n   rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small\n   quantity; pure or concentrated essence.'),('Quintessence','v. t.','To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce\n   to a quintessence.'),('Quintessential','a.','Of the nature of a quintessence; purest.'),('Quintet','n.','Alt. of Quintette'),('Quintette','n.','A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the\n   set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.'),('Quintic','a.','Of the fifth degree or order.'),('Quintic','n.','A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.'),('Quintile','n.','The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of\n   the zodiac, or 72¡.'),('Quintilllion','n.','According to the French notation, which is used on\n   the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with\n   eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number\n   produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with\n   thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.'),('Quintin','n.','See Quintain.'),('Quintine','n.','The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an\n   innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.'),('Quintole','n.','A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of\n   four of the same species.'),('Quintuple','a.','Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount;\n   fivefold.'),('Quintupled','imp. & p. p.','of Quintuple'),('Quintupling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quintuple'),('Quintuple','v. t.','To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.'),('Quittuple-nerved','a.','Alt. of Quintuple-ribbed'),('Quintuple-ribbed','a.','The same as Quinquenerved.'),('Quinzaine','n.','The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in\n   the reckoning.'),('Quinze','n.','A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen\n   points.'),('Quip','n.','A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a\n   gibe.'),('Quipped','imp. & p. p.','of Quip'),('Quipping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quip'),('Quip','v. t.','To taunt; to treat with quips.'),('Quip','v. i.','To scoff; to use taunts.'),('Quipo','n.','Same as Quipu.'),('Quipus','pl. ','of Quipu'),('Quipu','n.','A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans,\n   etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main\n   cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various\n   colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers.\n   etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords,\n   representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical\n   purposes, and to register important facts and events.'),('Quirboilly','n.','Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required\n   shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly\n   used for armor.'),('Quire','n.','See Choir.'),('Quire','v. i.','To sing in concert.'),('Quire','n.','A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size\n   and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.'),('Quirister','n.','A chorister. See Chorister.'),('Quiritation','n.','A crying for help.'),('Quirite','n.','One of the Quirites.'),('Quirites','n. pl.','Roman citizens.'),('Quirk','n.','A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an\n   artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a\n   pettifogger.'),('Quirk','n.','A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.'),('Quirk','n.','A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.'),('Quirk','n.','An irregular air; as, light quirks of music.'),('Quirk','n.','A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or\n   floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.'),('Quirk','n.','A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width,\n   used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.'),('Quirked','a.','Having, or formed with, a quirk or quirks.'),('Quirkish','a.','Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk.'),('Quirky','a.','Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.'),('Quirl','n. & v.','See Querl.'),('Quirpele','n.','The Indian ferret.'),('Quirt','n.','A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.'),('Quish','n.','See Cuish.'),('Quit','n.','Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native\n   of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.'),('Quit','v.','Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear;\n   absolved; acquitted.'),('Quit','imp. & p. p.','of Quit'),('Quitted','','of Quit'),('Quitting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quit'),('Quit','a.','To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or\n   oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.'),('Quit','a.','To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like;\n   to absolve; to acquit.'),('Quit','a.','To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy,\n   as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.'),('Quit','a.','To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to\n   conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.'),('Quit','a.','To carry through; to go through to the end.'),('Quit','a.','To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart\n   from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to\n   quit jesting.'),('Quit','v. i.','To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.'),('Quitch','n.','Same as Quitch grass.'),('Quitch','n.','Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.'),('Quitch grass','','A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long\n   running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and\n   so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass,\n   quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.'),('Quitclaim','n.','A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of\n   release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim,\n   which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held\n   by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor\n   generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself.'),('Quitclaimed','imp. & p. p.','of Quitclaim'),('Quitclaiming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quitclaim'),('Quitclaim','v. t.','To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a\n   claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and\n   paramount titles.'),('Quite','v. t. & i.','See Quit.'),('Quite','a.','Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the\n   work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite\n   mistaken.'),('Quite','a.','To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably.'),('Quitly','adv.','Quite.'),('Quitrent','n.','A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of\n   which the tenant is quit from other service.'),('Quits','interj.','See the Note under Quit, a.'),('Quittable','a.','Capable of being quitted.'),('Quittal','n.','Return; requital; quittance.'),('Quittance','v. t.','Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.'),('Quittance','v. t.','Recompense; return; repayment.'),('Quittance','v. t.','To repay; to requite.'),('Quitter','n.','One who quits.'),('Quitter','n.','A deliverer.'),('Quittor','n.','A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse\'s\n   foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin\n   bone.'),('Quitture','n.','A discharge; an issue.'),('Quiver','a.','Nimble; active.'),('Quivered','imp. & p. p.','of Quiver'),('Quivering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quiver'),('Quiver','v. i.','To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to\n   tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.'),('Quiver','n.','The act or state of quivering; a tremor.'),('Quiver','n.','A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.'),('Quivered','a.','Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver.'),('Quivered','a.','Sheathed, as in a quiver.'),('Quiveringly','adv.','With quivering motion.'),('Qui vive','','The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like\n   the English challenge: \"Who comes there?\"'),('Quixotic','a.','Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly\n   chivalric; apt to be deluded.'),('Quixotically','adv.','In a quixotic way.'),('Quixotism','n.','That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and\n   absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic\n   ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote\n   in knight-errantry.'),('Quixotry','n.','Quixotism; visionary schemes.'),('Quiz','n.','A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.'),('Quiz','n.','One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.'),('Quiz','n.','An odd or absurd fellow.'),('Quiz','n.','An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a\n   coaching or as an examination.'),('Quizzed','imp. & p. p.','of Quiz'),('Quizzing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quiz'),('Quiz','v. t.','To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended\n   seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.'),('Quiz','v. t.','To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.'),('Quiz','v. t.','To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.'),('Quiz','v. i.','To conduct a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.'),('Quizzer','n.','One who quizzes; a quiz.'),('Quizzical','a.','Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature\n   of a quiz; farcical; sportive.'),('Quizzism','n.','The act or habit of quizzing.'),('Quob','v. i.','To throb; to quiver.'),('Quod','n.','A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison.'),('Quod','v.','Quoth; said. See Quoth.'),('Quoddies','n. pl.','Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head,\n   Maine, or near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Ray.'),('Quodlibet','n.','A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point.'),('Quodlibet','n.','A medley improvised by several performers.'),('Quodlibetarian','n.','One who discusses any subject at pleasure.'),('Quodlibetical','a.','Not restricted to a particular subject; discussed\n   for curiosity or entertainment.'),('Quoif','n. & v. t.','See Coif.'),('Quoifffure','n.','See Coiffure.'),('Quoil','n.','See Coil.'),('Quoin','n.','Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now,\n   commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is\n   marked.'),('Quoin','n.','A wedgelike piece of stone, wood metal, or other material,\n   used for various purposes'),('Quoin','n.','to support and steady a stone.'),('Quoin','n.','To support the breech of a cannon.'),('Quoin','n.','To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.'),('Quoin','n.','To prevent casks from rolling.'),('Quoit','n.','A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a\n   fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same\n   purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.'),('Quoit','n.','A game played with quoits.'),('Quoit','n.','The discus of the ancients. See Discus.'),('Quoit','n.','A cromlech.'),('Quoit','v. i.','To throw quoits; to play at quoits.'),('Quoit','v. t.','To throw; to pitch.'),('Quoke','','imp. of Quake.'),('Quoll','n.','A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size\n   of a cat.'),('Quondam','a.','Having been formerly; former; sometime.'),('Quondam','n.','A person dismissed or ejected from a position.'),('Quook','','imp. of Quake.'),('Quop','v. i.','See Quob.'),('Quorum','n.','Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is\n   competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of\n   the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.'),('Quota','n.','A proportional part or share; the share or proportion\n   assigned to each in a division.'),('Quotable','a.','Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer;\n   a quotable sentence.'),('Quotation','n.','The act of quoting or citing.'),('Quotation','n.','That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or\n   writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.'),('Quotation','n.','The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks,\n   bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.'),('Quotation','n.','Quota; share.'),('Quotation','n.','A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and\n   measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank\n   spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.'),('Quotationist','n.','One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.'),('Quoted','imp. & p. p.','of Quote'),('Quoting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Quote'),('Quote','v. t.','To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat,\n   or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority\n   or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.'),('Quote','v. t.','To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a\n   statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.'),('Quote','v. t.','To name the current price of.'),('Quote','v. t.','To notice; to observe; to examine.'),('Quote','v. t.','To set down, as in writing.'),('Quote','n.','A note upon an author.'),('Quoter','n.','One who quotes the words of another.'),('Quoth','v. t.','Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third\n   persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the\n   word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he.'),('Quotha','interj.','Indeed; forsooth.'),('Quotidian','a.','Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.'),('Quotidian','n.','Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an\n   intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.'),('Quotient','n.','The number resulting from the division of one number by\n   another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater;\n   thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.'),('Quotient','n.','The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See\n   the Note under Multiplication.'),('Quotiety','n.','The relation of an object to number.'),('Quotum','n.','Part or proportion; quota.'),('Quo warranto','','A writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by\n   what warrant a person or a corporation acts, or exercises certain\n   powers.'),('Quran','n.','See Koran.\n   R () R, the eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal\n   consonant. It is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. See Guide\n   to Pronunciation, // 178, 179, and 250-254.'),('Ra','n.','A roe; a deer.'),('Ra-','','A prefix, from the Latin re and ad combined, coming to us\n   through the French and Italian. See Re-, and Ad-.'),('Raash','n.','The electric catfish.'),('Rab','n.','A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.'),('Rabat','n.','A polishing material made of potter\'s clay that has failed\n   in baking.'),('Rabate','v.','To recover to the fist, as a hawk.'),('Rabatine','n.','A collar or cape.'),('Rabato','n.','A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a\n   rebato.'),('Rabbate','v. t.','To abate or diminish.'),('Rabbate','n.','Abatement.'),('Rabbeted','imp. & p. p.','of Rabbet'),('Rabbeting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rabbet'),('Rabbet','v. t.','To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.'),('Rabbet','v. t.','To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet\n   joint.'),('Rabbet','n.','A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the\n   edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another\n   member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the\n   members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of\n   glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate.'),('Rabbet','n.','Same as Rabbet joint, below.'),('Rabbis','pl. ','of Rabbi'),('Rabbies','pl. ','of Rabbi'),('Rabbi','n.','Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor\n   for a teacher or doctor of the law.'),('Rabbin','n.','Same as Rabbi.'),('Rabbinic','a.','Alt. of Rabbinical'),('Rabbinical','a.','Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or\n   pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins.'),('Rabbinic','n.','The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.'),('Rabbinically','adv.','In a rabbinical manner; after the manner of the\n   rabbins.'),('Rabbinism','n.','A rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of\n   the language of the rabbins.'),('Rabbinism','n.','The teachings and traditions of the rabbins.'),('Rabbinist','n.','One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the\n   traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected\n   the traditions.'),('Rabbinite','n.','Same as Rabbinist.'),('Rabbit','n.','Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially\n   the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a\n   pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably\n   prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New\n   Zealand.'),('Rabbiting','n.','The hunting of rabbits.'),('Rabbitry','n.','A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection\n   of hutches for tame rabbits.'),('Rabble','n.','An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or\n   skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.'),('Rabble','v. t.','To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.'),('Rabble','v. i.','To speak in a confused manner.'),('Rabble','v. i.','A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a\n   confused, disorderly throng.'),('Rabble','v. i.','A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a\n   chatter.'),('Rabble','a.','Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble;\n   disorderly; vulgar.'),('Rabbled','imp. & p. p.','of Rabble'),('Rabbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rabble'),('Rabble','v. t.','To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a\n   curate.'),('Rabble','v. t.','To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without\n   intelligence.'),('Rabble','v. t.','To rumple; to crumple.'),('Rabblement','n.','A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble.'),('Rabbler','n.','A scraping tool for smoothing metal.'),('Rabble-rout','n.','A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.'),('Rabdoidal','a.','See Sagittal.'),('Rabdology','n.','The method or art of performing arithmetical operations\n   by means of Napier\'s bones. See Napier\'s bones.'),('Rabdomancy','n.','Divination by means of rods or wands.'),('Rabid','n.','Furious; raging; extremely violent.'),('Rabid','n.','Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively\n   zealous; as, a rabid socialist.'),('Rabid','n.','Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid\n   dog or fox.'),('Rabid','n.','Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus.'),('Rabidity','n.','Rabidness; furiousness.'),('Rabidly','adv.','In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.'),('Rabidness','n.','The quality or state of being rabid.'),('Rabies','n.','Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.'),('Rabinet','n.','A kind of small ordnance formerly in use.'),('Rabious','a.','Fierce.'),('Rabot','n.','A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be\n   polished.'),('Raca','a.','A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior\'s time,\n   meaning \"worthless.\"'),('Racahout','n.','A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a\n   substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.'),('Raccoon','n.','A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor)\n   allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail,\n   banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and\n   white. Called also coon, and mapach.'),('Race','v. t.','To raze.'),('Race','n.','A root.'),('Race','n.','The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe,\n   people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a\n   lineage; a breed.'),('Race','n.','Company; herd; breed.'),('Race','n.','A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated\n   by seed.'),('Race','n.','Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that\n   quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as\n   in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.'),('Race','n.','Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.'),('Race','n.','A progress; a course; a movement or progression.'),('Race','n.','Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.'),('Race','n.','Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a\n   contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating,\n   rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the\n   running of horses; as, he attended the races.'),('Race','n.','Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged;\n   hence, career; course of life.'),('Race','n.','A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage\n   for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced\n   by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of\n   Alderney.'),('Race','n.','The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel\n   in which it flows; a mill race.'),('Race','n.','A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and\n   forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.'),('Raced','imp. & p. p.','of Race'),('Racing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Race'),('Race','v. i.','To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals\n   raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.'),('Race','v. i.','To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw,\n   when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.'),('Race','v. t.','To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as,\n   to race horses.'),('Race','v. t.','To run a race with.'),('Racemate','n.','A salt of racemic acid.'),('Racemation','n.','A cluster or bunch, as of grapes.'),('Racemation','n.','Cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes.'),('Raceme','n.','A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many\n   one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.'),('Racemed','a.','Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.'),('Racemic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds\n   of grapes. It is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is\n   isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. It is a sour white\n   crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory\n   and levorotatory tartaric acids.'),('Racemiferous','a.','Bearing racemes, as the currant.'),('Racemiform','a.','Having the form of a raceme.'),('Racemose','a.','Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as,\n   (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in\n   which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.'),('Racemous','a.','See Racemose.'),('Racemule','n.','A little raceme.'),('Racemulose','a.','Growing in very small racemes.'),('Racer','n.','One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp.,\n   a race horse.'),('Racer','n.','The common American black snake.'),('Racer','n.','One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis\n   of a heavy gun is turned.'),('Rach','n.','Alt. of Rache'),('Rache','n.','A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from\n   the greyhound.'),('Rachialgia','n.','A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott\'s\n   disease; also, formerly, lead colic.'),('Rachidian','a.','Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same\n   as Rhachidian.'),('Rachilla','n.','Same as Rhachilla.'),('Rachiodont','a.','Same as Rhachiodont.'),('Rachises','pl. ','of Rachis'),('Rachides','pl. ','of Rachis'),('Rachis','n.','The spine; the vertebral column.'),('Rachis','n.','Same as Rhachis.'),('Rachitic','a.','Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis;\n   rickety.'),('Rachitis','n.','Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly\n   applied to the rickets. See Rickets.'),('Rachitis','n.','A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds.'),('Rachitome','n.','A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal.'),('Racial','a.','Of or pertaining to a race or family of men; as, the racial\n   complexion.'),('Racily','adv.','In a racy manner.'),('Raciness','n.','The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.'),('Racing','','a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i.'),('Rack','n.','Same as Arrack.'),('Rack','n.','The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.'),('Rack','n.','A wreck; destruction.'),('Rack','n.','Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor\n   in the sky.'),('Rack','v. i.','To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.'),('Racked','imp. & p. p.','of Rack'),('Racking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rack'),('Rack','v.','To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the\n   body; to pace; -- said of a horse.'),('Rack','n.','A fast amble.'),('Rack','v. t.','To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.'),('Rack','a.','An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending,\n   retaining, or displaying, something.'),('Rack','a.','An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which\n   the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were\n   dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from\n   criminals or suspected persons.'),('Rack','a.','An instrument for bending a bow.'),('Rack','a.','A grate on which bacon is laid.'),('Rack','a.','A frame or device of various construction for holding, and\n   preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.'),('Rack','a.','A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or\n   arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.'),('Rack','a.','A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through\n   which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a\n   frame to hold shot.'),('Rack','a.','A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.'),('Rack','a.','A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain\n   on the stalk, or other bulky loads.'),('Rack','a.','A distaff.'),('Rack','a.','A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of\n   a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.'),('Rack','a.','That which is extorted; exaction.'),('Rack','v. t.','To extend by the application of force; to stretch or\n   strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an\n   engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.'),('Rack','v. t.','To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or\n   anguish.'),('Rack','v. t.','To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to\n   harass, or oppress by extortion.'),('Rack','v. t.','To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.'),('Rack','v. t.','To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn,\n   marline, etc.'),('Rackabones','n.','A very lean animal, esp. a horse.'),('Racker','n.','One who racks.'),('Racker','n.','A horse that has a racking gait.'),('Racket','n.','A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together,\n   forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or\n   cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for\n   catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.'),('Racket','n.','A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar\n   long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.'),('Racket','n.','A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and\n   narrow frame of light wood.'),('Racket','n.','A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable\n   him to step on marshy or soft ground.'),('Racket','v. t.','To strike with, or as with, a racket.'),('Racket','n.','Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.'),('Racket','n.','A carouse; any reckless dissipation.'),('Racketed','imp. & p. p.','of Racket'),('Racketing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Racket'),('Racket','v. i.','To make a confused noise or racket.'),('Racket','v. i.','To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.'),('Racket','v. i.','To carouse or engage in dissipation.'),('Racketer','n.','One who makes, or engages in, a racket.'),('Rackett','n.','An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having\n   ventages but not keys.'),('Racket-tail','n.','Any one of several species of humming birds of the\n   genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and\n   racket-shaped.'),('Racket-tailed','a.','Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail\n   feathers.'),('Rackety','a.','Making a tumultuous noise.'),('Racking','n.','Spun yarn used in racking ropes.'),('Rack-rent','n.','A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near\n   it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent.'),('Rack-rent','v. t.','To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.'),('Rack-renter','n.','One who is subjected to paying rack-rent.'),('Rack-renter','n.','One who exacts rack-rent.'),('Racktail','n.','An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let\n   off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.'),('Rackwork','n.','Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.'),('Racle','a.','See Rakel.'),('Racleness','n.','See Rakelness.'),('Raconteur','n.','A relater; a storyteller.'),('Racoonda','n.','The coypu.'),('Racovian','n.','One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.'),('Racquet','n.','See Racket.'),('Racy','superl.','Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct\n   characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.'),('Racy','superl.','Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or\n   distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant;\n   fresh and lively.'),('Rad','','imp. & p. p. of Read, Rede.'),('Radde','','imp. of Read, Rede.'),('Raddle','n.','A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven\n   with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge\n   or fence.'),('Raddle','n.','A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle\n   hedge.'),('Raddle','n.','An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of\n   upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a\n   proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of\n   the loom.'),('Raddle','v. t.','To interweave or twist together.'),('Raddle','n.','A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical\n   processes; ruddle.'),('Raddle','v. t.','To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.'),('Raddock','n.','The ruddock.'),('Rade','n.','A raid.'),('Radeau','n.','A float; a raft.'),('Radial','a.','Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or\n   like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zool.)\n   radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery.'),('Radialia','pl. ','of Radiale'),('Radiale','n.','The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with\n   the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.'),('Radiale','n.','Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.'),('Radially','adv.','In a radial manner.'),('Radian','n.','An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the\n   angle measured by such an arc.'),('Radiance','n.','Alt. of Radiancy'),('Radiancy','n.','The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence;\n   vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun.'),('Radiant','a.','Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays;\n   radiating; radiate.'),('Radiant','a.','Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat;\n   issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid\n   light or splendor; as, the radiant sun.'),('Radiant','a.','Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.'),('Radiant','a.','Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun\n   radiant; a crown radiant.'),('Radiant','a.','Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers\n   of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has\n   such marginal flowers.'),('Radiant','n.','The luminous point or object from which light emanates;\n   also, a body radiating light brightly.'),('Radiant','n.','A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed\n   pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.'),('Radiant','n.','The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of\n   shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to\n   radiate.'),('Radiantly','adv.','In a radiant manner; with glittering splendor.'),('Radiary','n.','A radiate.'),('Radiata','n. pl.','An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having\n   all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body,\n   and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or\n   spheromere.'),('Radiated','imp. & p. p.','of Radiate'),('Radiating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Radiate'),('Radiate','v. i.','To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.'),('Radiate','v. i.','To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to\n   issue in rays, as light or heat.'),('Radiate','v. t.','To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or\n   points; as, to radiate heat.'),('Radiate','v. t.','To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or\n   brightness on; to irradiate.'),('Radiate','a.','Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated;\n   as, a radiate crystal.'),('Radiate','a.','Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike\n   the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.'),('Radiate','a.','Belonging to the Radiata.'),('Radiate','n.','One of the Radiata.'),('Radiated','a.','Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as,\n   radiated heat.'),('Radiated','a.','Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts\n   or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a\n   radiated structure; a radiated group of crystals.'),('Radiated','a.','Belonging to the Radiata.'),('Radiately','adv.','In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from\n   a center.'),('Radiate-veined','a.','Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging,\n   from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the\n   grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.'),('Radiatiform','a.','Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but\n   not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower.'),('Radiation','n.','The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated;\n   emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.'),('Radiation','n.','The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface,\n   like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat.'),('Radiative','a.','Capable of radiating; acting by radiation.'),('Radiator','n.','That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or\n   heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat\n   is radiated or diffused; as, a steam radiator.'),('Radical','a.','Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the\n   root.'),('Radical','a.','Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to\n   the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the\n   principles, or the like; original; fundamental; thorough-going;\n   unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party.'),('Radical','a.','Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as,\n   radical tubers or hairs.'),('Radical','a.','Proceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not\n   rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the\n   sidesaddle flower.'),('Radical','a.','Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of\n   derivation; as, a radical verbal form.'),('Radical','a.','Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical\n   quantity; a radical sign. See below.'),('Radical','n.','A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived,\n   uncompounded word; an etymon.'),('Radical','n.','A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.'),('Radical','n.','One who advocates radical changes in government or social\n   institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class\n   inequalities; -- opposed to conservative.'),('Radical','n.','A characteristic, essential, and fundamental constituent\n   of any compound; hence, sometimes, an atom.'),('Radical','n.','Specifically, a group of two or more atoms, not completely\n   saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain\n   properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a\n   single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.'),('Radical','n.','A radical quantity. See under Radical, a.'),('Radical','a.','A radical vessel. See under Radical, a.'),('Radicalism','n.','The quality or state of being radical; specifically,\n   the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform.'),('Radicality','n.','Germinal principle; source; origination.'),('Radicality','n.','Radicalness; relation to a root in essential nature or\n   principle.'),('Radically','adv.','In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root;\n   fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.'),('Radically','adv.','Without derivation; primitively; essentially.'),('Radicalness','n.','Quality or state of being radical.'),('Radicant','a.','Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the\n   stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.'),('Radicate','a.','Radicated.'),('Radicate','v. i.','To take root; to become rooted.'),('Radicated','imp. & p. p.','of Radicate'),('Radicating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Radicate'),('Radicate','v. t.','To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to\n   root.'),('Radicated','a.','Rooted'),('Radicated','a.','Having roots, or possessing a well-developed root.'),('Radicated','a.','Having rootlike organs for attachment.'),('Radication','n.','The process of taking root, or state of being rooted;\n   as, the radication of habits.'),('Radication','n.','The disposition of the roots of a plant.'),('Radicel','n.','A small branch of a root; a rootlet.'),('Radiciflorous','a.','Rhizanthous.'),('Radiciform','a.','Having the nature or appearance of a radix or root.'),('Radicle','n.','The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the\n   cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward;\n   the stem of the embryo; the caulicle.'),('Radicle','n.','A rootlet; a radicel.'),('Radicular','a.','Of or pertaining to roots, or the root of a plant.'),('Radicule','n.','A radicle.'),('Radiculose','a.','Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets.'),('Radii','n.','pl. of Radius.'),('Radio-','','A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to,\n   a radius or ray; specifically (Anat.), with the radius of the forearm;\n   as, radio-ulnar, radio-muscular, radio-carpal.'),('Radio-flagellata','n. pl.','A group of Protozoa having both flagella and\n   pseudopodia.'),('Radiograph','n.','A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive\n   surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque\n   objects traversed by the rays.'),('Radiolaria','n. pl.','Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous\n   skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia\n   project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See\n   Polycystina.'),('Radiolarian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria.'),('Radiolarian','n.','One of the Radiolaria.'),('Radioli','n. pl.','The barbs of the radii of a feather; barbules.'),('Radiolite','n.','A hippurite.'),('Radiometer','n.','A forestaff.'),('Radiometer','n.','An instrument designed for measuring the mechanical\n   effect of radiant energy.'),('Radiomicrometer','n.','A very sensitive modification or application of\n   the thermopile, used for indicating minute changes of radiant heat, or\n   temperature.'),('Radiophone','n.','An apparatus for the production of sound by the action\n   of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the\n   photophone.'),('Radiophony','n.','The art or practice of using the radiophone.'),('Radious','a.','Consisting of rays, as light.'),('Radious','a.','Radiating; radiant.'),('Radish','n.','The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant\n   (Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.'),('Radii','pl. ','of Radius'),('Radiuses','pl. ','of Radius'),('Radius','n.','A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle\n   to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.'),('Radius','n.','The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium,\n   corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of\n   Artiodactyla.'),('Radius','n.','A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as\n   the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.'),('Radius','n.','The barbs of a perfect feather.'),('Radius','n.','Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.'),('Radius','n.','The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.'),('Radius vector','','A straight line (or the length of such line)\n   connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round\n   which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the\n   successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coordinates. See\n   Coordinate, n.'),('Radius vector','n.','An ideal straight line joining the center of an\n   attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a\n   line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its\n   satellite.'),('Radices','pl. ','of Radix'),('Radixes','pl. ','of Radix'),('Radix','n.','A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical;\n   a root; an etymon.'),('Radix','n.','A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the\n   fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or\n   base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal\n   system of numeration.'),('Radix','n.','A finite expression, from which a series is derived.'),('Radix','n.','The root of a plant.'),('Radulae','pl. ','of Radula'),('Radula','n.','The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; --\n   called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.'),('Raduliform','a.','Rasplike; as, raduliform teeth.'),('Raffed','imp. & p. p.','of Raff'),('Raffing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Raff'),('Raff','v. t.','To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a\n   promiscuous sweep.'),('Raff','n.','A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber;\n   refuse.'),('Raff','n.','The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly\n   used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.'),('Raff','n.','A low fellow; a churl.'),('Raffaelesque','a.','Raphaelesque.'),('Raffia','n.','A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from\n   the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.'),('Raffinose','n.','A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance\n   obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet.'),('Raffish','a.','Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff;\n   worthless; low.'),('Raffle','v.','A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares,\n   the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance\n   (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.'),('Raffle','v.','A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all\n   the stakes.'),('Raffled','imp. & p. p.','of Raffle'),('Raffling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Raffle'),('Raffle','v. i.','To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.'),('Raffle','v. t.','To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by\n   off; as, to raffle off a horse.'),('Raffler','n.','One who raffles.'),('Rafflesia','n.','A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living\n   parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The\n   flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species\n   (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet.'),('Raft','','imp. & p. p. of Reave.'),('Raft','n.','A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like,\n   fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the\n   water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.'),('Raft','n.','A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed\n   in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs\n   navigation.'),('Raft','n.','A large collection of people or things taken\n   indiscriminately.'),('Rafted','imp. & p. p.','of Raft'),('Rafting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Raft'),('Raft','v. t.','To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make\n   into a raft; as, to raft timber.'),('Rafte','','imp. of Reave.'),('Rafter','n.','A raftsman.'),('Rafter','n.','Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber.\n   Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping,\n   according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.'),('Rafter','v. t.','To make into rafters, as timber.'),('Rafter','v. t.','To furnish with rafters, as a house.'),('Rafter','v. t.','To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon\n   an unplowed ridge; to ridge.'),('Rafting','n.','The business of making or managing rafts.'),('Raftsmen','pl. ','of Raftsman'),('Raftsman','n.','A man engaged in rafting.'),('Rafty','a.','Damp; musty.'),('Rag','v. t.','To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to\n   banter.'),('Rag','n.','A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred;\n   a tatter; a fragment.'),('Rag','n.','Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.'),('Rag','n.','A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.'),('Rag','n.','A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.'),('Rag','n.','A ragged edge.'),('Rag','n.','A sail, or any piece of canvas.'),('Ragged','imp. & p. p.','of Rag'),('Ragging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rag'),('Rag','v. i.','To become tattered.'),('Rag','v. t.','To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.'),('Rag','v. t.','To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.'),('Ragabash','n.','Alt. of Ragabrash'),('Ragabrash','n.','An idle, ragged person.'),('Ragamuffin','n.','A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean wretch.'),('Ragamuffin','n.','A person who wears ragged clothing.'),('Ragamuffin','n.','The long-tailed titmouse.'),('Rage','n.','Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of\n   desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.'),('Rage','n.','Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering\n   wrath; violent anger; fury.'),('Rage','n.','A violent or raging wind.'),('Rage','n.','The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or\n   prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the\n   rage.'),('Raged','imp. & p. p.','of Rage'),('Raging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rage'),('Rage','n.','To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be\n   violently agitated with passion.'),('Rage','n.','To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or\n   agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.'),('Rage','n.','To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction\n   or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.'),('Rage','n.','To toy or act wantonly; to sport.'),('Rage','v. t.','To enrage.'),('Rageful','a.','Full of rage; expressing rage.'),('Ragery','n.','Wantonness.'),('Ragged','n.','Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken;\n   as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.'),('Ragged','n.','Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough;\n   jagged; as, ragged rocks.'),('Ragged','n.','Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.'),('Ragged','n.','Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.'),('Ragged','n.','Rough; shaggy; rugged.'),('Raggie','a.','Alt. of Raggy'),('Raggy','a.','Ragged; rough.'),('Raghuvansa','n.','A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the\n   Raghu dynasty.'),('Raging','','a. & n. from Rage, v. i.'),('Ragious','a.','Raging; furious; rageful.'),('Raglan','n.','A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord\n   Raglan, an English general.'),('Ragmen','pl. ','of Ragman'),('Ragman','n.','A man who collects, or deals in, rags.'),('Ragman','n.','A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal\n   bull.'),('Ragman\'s roll','','The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish\n   nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A.\n   D. 1296.'),('Ragout','n.','A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned;\n   as, a ragout of mutton.'),('Ragpicker','n.','One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse\n   things in the streets.'),('Raguled','a.','Alt. of Ragguled'),('Ragguled','a.','Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or\n   a bearing having such an edge.'),('Ragweed','n.','A common American composite weed (Ambrosia\n   artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed.'),('Ragwork','n.','A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework\n   of thin and small stones.'),('Ragwort','n.','A name given to several species of the composite genus\n   Senecio.'),('Raia','n.','A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.'),('Raiae','n. pl.','The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the\n   sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii.'),('Raid','n.','A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of\n   mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.'),('Raid','n.','An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests,\n   seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a\n   gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.'),('Raided','imp. & p. p.','of Raid'),('Raiding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Raid'),('Raid','v. t.','To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the\n   border counties.'),('Raider','n.','One who engages in a raid.'),('Rail','n.','An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.'),('Rail','v. i.','To flow forth; to roll out; to course.'),('Rail','n.','A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so,\n   extending from one post or support to another, as in fences,\n   balustrades, staircases, etc.'),('Rail','n.','A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of\n   Style.'),('Rail','n.','A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which\n   the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical\n   strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.'),('Rail','n.','The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.'),('Rail','n.','The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break\n   of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.'),('Railed','imp. & p. p.','of Rail'),('Railing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rail'),('Rail','v. t.','To inclose with rails or a railing.'),('Rail','v. t.','To range in a line.'),('Rail','v.','Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family\n   Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied\n   genera. They are prized as game birds.'),('Rail','v. i.','To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter\n   reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.'),('Rail','v. t.','To rail at.'),('Rail','v. t.','To move or influence by railing.'),('Railer','n.','One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or\n   reproaches with opprobrious language.'),('Railing','a.','Expressing reproach; insulting.'),('Railing','n.','A barrier made of a rail or of rails.'),('Railing','n.','Rails in general; also, material for making rails.'),('Railingly','adv.','With scoffing or insulting language.'),('Raillery','n.','Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language;\n   satirical merriment.'),('Railleur','n.','A banterer; a jester; a mocker.'),('Railroad','n.','Alt. of Railway'),('Railway','n.','A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of\n   iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels\n   of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.'),('Railway','n.','The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings,\n   rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting\n   one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a\n   receiver.'),('Railroading','n.','The construction of a railroad; the business of\n   managing or operating a railroad.'),('Raiment','n.','Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually\n   singular in form, with a collective sense.'),('Raiment','n.','An article of dress.'),('Rain','n. & v.','Reign.'),('Rain','n.','Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water\n   from the clouds in drops.'),('Rained','imp. & p. p.','of Rain'),('Raining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rain'),('Rain','n.','To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly\n   with it for a nominative; as, it rains.'),('Rain','n.','To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained\n   from their eyes.'),('Rain','v. t.','To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the\n   clouds.'),('Rain','v. t.','To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain\n   favors upon a person.'),('Rainbow','n.','A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several\n   colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere\n   opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun\'s rays\n   in drops of falling rain.'),('Rainbowed','a.','Formed with or like a rainbow.'),('Raindeer','n.','See Reindeer.'),('Raindrop','n.','A drop of rain.'),('Rainfall','n.','A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water,\n   that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.'),('Raininess','n.','The state of being rainy.'),('Rainless','a.','Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.'),('Rain-tight','a.','So tight as to exclude rain; as, a rain-tight roof.'),('Rainy','a.','Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a\n   rainy day or season.'),('Raip','n.','A rope; also, a measure equal to a rod.'),('Rais','n.','Same as 2d Reis.'),('Raisable','a.','Capable of being raised.'),('Raised','imp. & p. p.','of Raise'),('Raising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Raise'),('Raise','v. t.','To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher\n   place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or\n   weight.'),('Raise','v. t.','To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate\n   in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of;\n   to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low\n   estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.'),('Raise','v. t.','To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to\n   excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the\n   pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to\n   raise the heat of a furnace.'),('Raise','v. t.','To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to\n   raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.'),('Raise','v. t.','To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or\n   posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.'),('Raise','v. t.','To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a\n   state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.'),('Raise','v. t.','To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult,\n   struggle, or war; to excite.'),('Raise','v. t.','To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit\n   from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.'),('Raise','v. t.','To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to\n   appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the\n   like.'),('Raise','v. t.','To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent\n   parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a\n   heap of stones.'),('Raise','v. t.','To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together\n   or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.'),('Raise','v. t.','To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or\n   propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise\n   cattle.'),('Raise','v. t.','To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come\n   forth, or appear; -- often with up.'),('Raise','v. t.','To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to\n   originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.'),('Raise','v. t.','To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.'),('Raise','v. t.','To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to\n   raise a point of order; to raise an objection.'),('Raise','v. t.','To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make\n   light and spongy, as bread.'),('Raise','v. t.','To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by\n   drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.'),('Raise','v. t.','To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i.\n   e., Let go tacks and sheets.'),('Raise','v. t.','To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to\n   create it.'),('Raised','a.','Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or\n   embossed metal work.'),('Raised','a.','Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread,\n   cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda,\n   etc. See Raise, v. t., 4.'),('Raiser','n.','One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the\n   verb).'),('Raisin','n.','A grape, or a bunch of grapes.'),('Raisin','n.','A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.'),('Raising','n.','The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting,\n   producing, or restoring to life.'),('Raising','n.','Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the\n   frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.'),('Raising','n.','The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it\n   into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or\n   spinning.'),('Raisonne','a.','Arranged systematically, or according to classes or\n   subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.'),('Raivel','n.','A separator.'),('Raj','n.','Reign; rule.'),('Raja','n.','Same as Rajah.'),('Rajah','a.','A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of\n   importance in the agricultural districts.'),('Rajahship','n.','The office or dignity of a rajah.'),('Rajpoot','n.','Alt. of Rajput'),('Rajput','n.','A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a\n   Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in\n   northern central India.'),('Rake','n.','An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a\n   long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other\n   light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and\n   smoothing the earth.'),('Rake','n.','A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting\n   hay or grain; a horserake.'),('Rake','n.','A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically,\n   or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.'),('Raked','imp. & p. p.','of Rake'),('Raking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rake'),('Rake','v. t.','To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up;\n   as, he raked up the fallen leaves.'),('Rake','v. t.','To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to\n   gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together\n   wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble\n   of a town.'),('Rake','v. t.','To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for\n   the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring\n   up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.'),('Rake','v. t.','To search through; to scour; to ransack.'),('Rake','v. t.','To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and\n   lightly, as a rake does.'),('Rake','v. t.','To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in\n   naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so\n   that the balls range the whole length of the deck.'),('Rake','v. i.','To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to\n   scrape; to search minutely.'),('Rake','v. i.','To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.'),('Rake','n.','The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction;\n   as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.'),('Rake','n.','the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any\n   part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.'),('Rake','v. i.','To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast\n   rakes aft.'),('Rake','n.','A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to\n   lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.'),('Rake','v. i.','To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.'),('Rake','v. i.','To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.'),('Rakehell','n.','A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.'),('Rakehell','a.','Alt. of Rakehelly'),('Rakehelly','a.','Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.'),('Rakel','a.','Hasty; reckless; rash.'),('Raker','n.','One who, or that which, rakes'),('Raker','n.','A person who uses a rake.'),('Raker','n.','A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.'),('Raker','n.','A gun so placed as to rake an enemy\'s ship.'),('Raker','n.','See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.'),('Rakery','n.','Debauchery; lewdness.'),('Rakeshame','n.','A vile, dissolute wretch.'),('Rakestale','n.','The handle of a rake.'),('Rake-vein','n.','See Rake, a mineral vein.'),('Raking','n.','The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space\n   with a rake.'),('Raking','n.','A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the\n   quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space\n   with a rake.'),('Rakish','a.','Dissolute; lewd; debauched.'),('Rakish','a.','Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.'),('Rakishly','adv.','In a rakish manner.'),('Rakishness','n.','The quality or state of being rakish.'),('Raku ware','','A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma\n   ware, but having a paler color.'),('Rale','n.','An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying\n   the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.'),('Rallentando','a.','Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a\n   gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.'),('Ralliance','n.','The act of rallying.'),('Rallier','n.','One who rallies.'),('Ralline','a.','Pertaining to the rails.'),('Rallied','imp. & p. p.','of Rally'),('Rallying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rally'),('Rally','v. t.','To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or\n   thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.'),('Rally','v. i.','To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or\n   united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to\n   unite.'),('Rally','v. i.','To collect one\'s vital powers or forces; to regain health\n   or consciousness; to recuperate.'),('Rally','v. i.','To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of\n   the market, stocks, etc.'),('Rallies','pl. ','of Rally'),('Rally','n.','The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that\n   word).'),('Rally','n.','A political mass meeting.'),('Rally','v. t.','To attack with raillery, either in good humor and\n   pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.'),('Rally','v. i.','To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.'),('Rally','n.','Good-humored raillery.'),('Ralph','n.','A name sometimes given to the raven.'),('Ralstonite','n.','A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the\n   Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.'),('Ram','n.','The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of\n   England a ram is called a tup.'),('Ram','n.','Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the\n   21st of March.'),('Ram','n.','The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly,\n   occupy the sign of the same name.'),('Ram','n.','An engine of war used for butting or battering.'),('Ram','n.','In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a\n   framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.'),('Ram','n.','A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war\n   vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a\n   vessel carrying such a beak.'),('Ram','n.','A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.'),('Ram','n.','The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam\n   hammer, stamp mill, or the like.'),('Ram','n.','The plunger of a hydraulic press.'),('Rammed','imp. & p. p.','of Ram'),('Ramming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ram'),('Ram','v. t.','To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or\n   through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive\n   together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy\'s vessel; to ram piles,\n   cartridges, etc.'),('Ram','v. t.','To fill or compact by pounding or driving.'),('Ramadan','n.','The ninth Mohammedan month.'),('Ramadan','n.','The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during\n   daylight through the ninth month.'),('Ramage','n.','Boughs or branches.'),('Ramage','n.','Warbling of birds in trees.'),('Ramage','a.','Wild; untamed.'),('Ramagious','a.','Wild; not tame.'),('Ramal','a.','Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.'),('Ramayana','n.','The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit.\n   The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.'),('Ramberge','n.','Formerly, a kind of large war galley.'),('Rambled','imp. & p. p.','of Ramble'),('Rambling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ramble'),('Ramble','v. i.','To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any\n   determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove;\n   to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.'),('Ramble','v. i.','To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.'),('Ramble','v. i.','To extend or grow at random.'),('Ramble','n.','A going or moving from place to place without any\n   determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for\n   recreation.'),('Ramble','n.','A bed of shale over the seam.'),('Rambler','n.','One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.'),('Rambling','a.','Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow,\n   talk, or building.'),('Ramblingly','adv.','In a rambling manner.'),('Rambooze','n.','A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.'),('Rambutan','n.','A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum,\n   and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape,\n   covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant\n   acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.'),('Rameal','a.','Same as Ramal.'),('Ramean','n.','A Ramist.'),('Ramed','a.','Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of\n   a ship on the stocks.'),('Ramee','n.','See Ramie.'),('Ramekin','n.','See Ramequin.'),('Rament','n.','A scraping; a shaving.'),('Rament','n.','Ramenta.'),('Ramenta','n. pl.','Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young\n   shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of\n   ferns.'),('Ramentaceous','a.','Covered with ramenta.'),('Rameous','a.','Ramal.'),('Ramequin','n.','A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or\n   served on bread.'),('Ramie','n.','The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber,\n   which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass,\n   and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.'),('Ramification','n.','The process of branching, or the development of\n   branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.'),('Ramification','n.','A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main\n   stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.'),('Ramification','n.','A division into principal and subordinate classes,\n   heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the\n   ramifications of a subject or scheme.'),('Ramification','n.','The production of branchlike figures.'),('Ramiflorous','a.','Flowering on the branches.'),('Ramiform','a.','Having the form of a branch.'),('Ramified','imp. & p. p.','of Ramify'),('Ramifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ramify'),('Ramify','v. t.','To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify\n   an art, subject, scheme.'),('Ramify','v. i.','To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as\n   the stem of a plant.'),('Ramify','v. i.','To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.'),('Ramigerous','a.','Bearing branches; branched.'),('Ramiparous','a.','Producing branches; ramigerous.'),('Ramist','n.','A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a\n   celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy\n   at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.'),('Ramline','n.','A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar,\n   or from stem to stern in building a vessel.'),('Rammel','n.','Refuse matter.'),('Rammer','n.','One who, or that which, rams or drives.'),('Rammer','n.','An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer\n   for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity'),('Rammer','n.','A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod'),('Rammer','n.','An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it\n   compact.'),('Rammish','a.','Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.'),('Rammishness','n.','The quality of being rammish.'),('Rammy','a.','Like a ram; rammish.'),('Ramollescence','n.','A softening or mollifying.'),('Ramoon','n.','A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the\n   Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.'),('Ramose','a.','Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral\n   divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches;\n   ramifying; branching; branchy.'),('Ramous','a.','Ramose.'),('Ramped','imp. & p. p.','of Ramp'),('Ramping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ramp'),('Ramp','v. i.','To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to\n   become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.'),('Ramp','v. i.','To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly\n   or with violence.'),('Ramp','v. i.','To climb, as a plant; to creep up.'),('Ramp','n.','A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.'),('Ramp','n.','A highwayman; a robber.'),('Ramp','n.','A romping woman; a prostitute.'),('Ramp','n.','Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one,\n   such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.'),('Ramp','n.','A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap\n   changes its direction.'),('Ramp','n.','An inclined plane serving as a communication between\n   different interior levels.'),('Rampacious','a.','High-spirited; rampageous.'),('Rampage','v.','Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement,\n   passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage.'),('Rampage','v. i.','To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent;\n   to rage.'),('Rampageous','a.','Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.'),('Rampallian','n.','A mean wretch.'),('Rampancy','n.','The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action\n   or development; exuberance; extravagance.'),('Rampant','v.','Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs;\n   hence, raging; furious.'),('Rampant','v.','Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.'),('Rampant','v.','Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said\n   of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right\n   hind leg should be raised higher than the left.'),('Rampantly','adv.','In a rampant manner.'),('Rampart','n.','That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which\n   secures safety; a defense or bulwark.'),('Rampart','n.','A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the\n   parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent\n   fortification.'),('Ramparted','imp. & p. p.','of Rampart'),('Ramparting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rampart'),('Rampart','v. t.','To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or\n   ramparts.'),('Rampe','n.','The cuckoopint.'),('Rampier','n.','See Rampart.'),('Rampion','n.','A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family,\n   with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.'),('Rampire','n.','A rampart.'),('Rampire','v. t.','To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.'),('Rampler','n.','A rambler.'),('Rampler','a.','Roving; rambling.'),('Ramrod','n.','The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading\n   firearm.'),('Ramshackle','a.','Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.'),('Ramshackle','v. t.','To search or ransack; to rummage.'),('Ramson','n.','A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common\n   in European gardens; -- called also buckram.'),('Ramsted','n.','A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who\n   introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted\n   weed.'),('Ramulose','a.','Having many small branches, or ramuli.'),('Ramulous','a.','Ramulose.'),('Ramuli','pl. ','of Ramulus'),('Ramulus','n.','A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and\n   similar organisms.'),('Rami','pl. ','of Ramus'),('Ramus','n.','A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a\n   ramification.'),('Ramuscule','n.','A small ramus, or branch.'),('Ran','','imp. of Run.'),('Ran','n.','Open robbery.'),('Ran','n.','Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.'),('Rana','n.','A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.'),('Ranal','a.','Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.'),('Rance','n.','A prop or shore.'),('Rance','n.','A round between the legs of a chair.'),('Rancescent','a.','Becoming rancid or sour.'),('Ranch','v. t.','To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent\n   straining or contortion.'),('Ranch','n.','A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses,\n   cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.'),('Rancheros','pl. ','of Ranchero'),('Ranchero','n.','A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.'),('Ranchero','n.','The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.'),('Ranchmen','pl. ','of Ranchman'),('Ranchman','n.','An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a\n   herdsman.'),('Ranchos','pl. ','of Rancho'),('Rancho','n.','A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch,\n   where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.'),('Rancho','n.','A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; --\n   distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.'),('Rancid','a.','Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or\n   decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.'),('Rancidity','n.','The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or\n   flavor, as of old oil.'),('Rancidly','adv.','In a rancid manner.'),('Rancidness','n.','The quality of being rancid.'),('Rancor','n.','The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or\n   malice; inveterate hatred.'),('Rancorous','a.','Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply\n   malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.'),('Rancorously','adv.','In a rancorous manner.'),('Rand','n.','A border; edge; margin.'),('Rand','n.','A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg;\n   a sort of steak.'),('Rand','n.','A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of\n   leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.'),('Rand','v. i.','To rant; to storm.'),('Randall grass','','The meadow fescue (Festuca elatior). See under Grass.'),('Randan','n.','The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of\n   the bran.'),('Randan','n.','A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle\n   rower pulling two.'),('Randing','n.','The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.'),('Randing','n.','A kind of basket work used in gabions.'),('Random','n.','Force; violence.'),('Random','n.','A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of\n   direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the\n   phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at\n   hazard.'),('Random','n.','Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the\n   random of a rifle ball.'),('Random','n.','The direction of a rake-vein.'),('Random','a.','Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or\n   without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous\n   calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.'),('Randomly','adv.','In a random manner.'),('Randon','n.','Random.'),('Randon','v. i.','To go or stray at random.'),('Ranedeer','n.','See Reindeer.'),('Ranee','n.','Same as Rani.'),('Ranforce','n.','See Re/nforce.'),('Rang','','imp. of Ring, v. t. & i.'),('Ranged','imp. & p. p.','of Range'),('Ranging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Range'),('Range','n.','To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or\n   lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to\n   range soldiers in line.'),('Range','n.','To place (as a single individual) among others in a line,\n   row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and\n   figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.'),('Range','n.','To separate into parts; to sift.'),('Range','n.','To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to\n   arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and\n   species.'),('Range','n.','To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.'),('Range','n.','To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to\n   range the coast.'),('Range','n.','To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.'),('Range','v. i.','To rove at large; to wander without restraint or\n   direction; to roam.'),('Range','v. i.','To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be\n   capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to\n   horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees\n   Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.'),('Range','v. i.','To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of\n   arrangement or classification; to rank.'),('Range','v. i.','To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction;\n   to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often\n   followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to\n   range along the coast.'),('Range','v. i.','To be native to, or live in, a certain district or\n   region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.'),('Range','v.','A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of\n   buildings; a range of mountains.'),('Range','v.','An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order;\n   a class.'),('Range','v.','The step of a ladder; a rung.'),('Range','v.','A kitchen grate.'),('Range','v.','An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in\n   brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking;\n   also, a kind of cooking stove.'),('Range','v.','A bolting sieve to sift meal.'),('Range','v.','A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a\n   ramble; an expedition.'),('Range','v.','That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion;\n   especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and\n   pasture.'),('Range','v.','Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or\n   extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of\n   one\'s voice, or authority.'),('Range','v.','The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.'),('Range','v.','The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile\n   is carried.'),('Range','v.','Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or\n   projectile.'),('Range','v.','A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is\n   practiced.'),('Range','v.','In the public land system of the United States, a row or\n   line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles\n   apart.'),('Range','v.','See Range of cable, below.'),('Rangement','n.','Arrangement.'),('Ranger','n.','One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for\n   plunder; a roving robber.'),('Ranger','n.','That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.'),('Ranger','n.','A dog that beats the ground in search of game.'),('Ranger','n.','One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short\n   muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.'),('Ranger','n.','The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn\n   officer of a forest, appointed by the king\'s letters patent, whose\n   business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had\n   strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the\n   next court held for the forest, etc.'),('Rangership','n.','The office of the keeper of a forest or park.'),('Rangle','v. i.','To range about in an irregular manner.'),('Rani','n.','A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.'),('Ranine','a.','Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.'),('Ranine','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue;\n   also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied\n   especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.'),('Rank','superl.','Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant;\n   grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.'),('Rank','superl.','Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter;\n   as, rank heresy.'),('Rank','superl.','Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very\n   rich and fertile; as, rank land.'),('Rank','superl.','Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell;\n   rank-smelling rue.'),('Rank','superl.','Strong to the taste.'),('Rank','superl.','Inflamed with venereal appetite.'),('Rank','adv.','Rankly; stoutly; violently.'),('Rank','n. & v.','A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of\n   osiers.'),('Rank','n. & v.','A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to\n   file. See 1st File, 1 (a).'),('Rank','n. & v.','Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or\n   nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.'),('Rank','n. & v.','An aggregate of individuals classed together; a\n   permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of\n   men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent\n   beings.'),('Rank','n. & v.','Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in\n   civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first\n   rank; a lawyer of high rank.'),('Rank','n. & v.','Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social\n   position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.'),('Ranked','imp. & p. p.','of Rank'),('Ranking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rank'),('Rank','v. t.','To place abreast, or in a line.'),('Rank','v. t.','To range in a particular class, order, or division; to\n   class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or\n   order; to classify.'),('Rank','v. t.','To take rank of; to outrank.'),('Rank','v. i.','To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular\n   degree, class, order, or division.'),('Rank','v. i.','To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the\n   orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or\n   consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks\n   high in public estimation.'),('Ranker','n.','One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.'),('Rankled','imp. & p. p.','of Rankle'),('Rankling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rankle'),('Rankle','a.','To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be\n   inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.'),('Rankle','a.','To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore;\n   -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the\n   flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.'),('Rankle','v. t.','To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.'),('Rankly','adv.','With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence,\n   coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.'),('Rankness','n.','The condition or quality of being rank.'),('Rannel','n.','A prostitute.'),('Ranny','n.','The erd shrew.'),('Ransacked','imp. & p. p.','of Ransack'),('Ransacking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ransack'),('Ransack','v. t.','To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of;\n   as, to ransack a house.'),('Ransack','v. t.','To plunder; to pillage completely.'),('Ransack','v. t.','To violate; to ravish; to defiour.'),('Ransack','v. i.','To make a thorough search.'),('Ransack','n.','The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked;\n   pillage.'),('Ransom','n.','The release of a captive, or of captured property, by\n   payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of\n   ransom.'),('Ransom','n.','The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner,\n   or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint,\n   penalty, or forfeit.'),('Ransom','n.','A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the\n   discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal\n   punishment.'),('Ransomed','imp. & p. p.','of Ransom'),('Ransoming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ransom'),('Ransom','n.','To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or\n   forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to\n   rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.'),('Ransom','n.','To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.'),('Ransomable','a.','Such as can be ransomed.'),('Ransomer','n.','One who ransoms or redeems.'),('Ransomless','a.','Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.'),('Ranted','imp. & p. p.','of Rant'),('Ranting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rant'),('Rant','v. i.','To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant\n   language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and\n   bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.'),('Rant','n.','High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of\n   thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of\n   fanatics.'),('Ranter','n.','A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.'),('Ranter','n.','One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called\n   also Seekers. See Seeker.'),('Ranter','n.','One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the\n   Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and\n   zeal; -- so called in contempt.'),('Ranterism','n.','The practice or tenets of the Ranters.'),('Rantingly','adv.','In a ranting manner.'),('Rantipole','n.','A wild, romping young person.'),('Rantipole','a.','Wild; roving; rakish.'),('Rantipole','v. i.','To act like a rantipole.'),('Rantism','n.','Ranterism.'),('Ranty','a.','Wild; noisy; boisterous.'),('Ranula','n.','A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct\n   of the submaxillary gland.'),('Ranunculaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants\n   (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes\n   also the virgin\'s bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue,\n   and peony.'),('Ranunculuses','pl. ','of Ranunculus'),('Ranunculi','pl. ','of Ranunculus'),('Ranunculus','n.','A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including\n   crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R.\n   aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various\n   colors.'),('Ranz des vaches','','The name for numerous simple, but very irregular,\n   melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the\n   Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.'),('Rap','n.','A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.'),('Rapped','imp. & p. p.','of Rap'),('Rapping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rap'),('Rap','v. i.','To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on\n   the door.'),('Rap','v. t.','To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.'),('Rap','v. t.','To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the\n   pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.'),('Rap','n.','A quick, smart blow; a knock.'),('Rapped','imp. & p. p.','of Rap'),('Rapt','','of Rap'),('Rapping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rap'),('Rap','v.','To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.'),('Rap','v.','To hasten.'),('Rap','v.','To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport\n   out of one\'s self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into\n   admiration.'),('Rap','v.','To exchange; to truck.'),('Rap','n.','A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a\n   half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any\n   coin of trifling value.'),('Rapaces','n. pl.','Same as Accipitres.'),('Rapacious','a.','Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by\n   violence; seizing by force.'),('Rapacious','a.','Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals\n   seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious\n   bird.'),('Rapacious','a.','Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy;\n   ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.'),('Rapacity','n.','The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness;\n   ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.'),('Rapacity','n.','The act or practice of extorting or exacting by\n   oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.'),('Raparee','n.','See Rapparee.'),('Rape','n.','Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.'),('Rape','n.','The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which\n   the must has been expressed in wine making.'),('Rape','n.','A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and\n   perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.'),('Rape','n.','The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent\n   seizure; robbery.'),('Rape','n.','Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age\n   of consent, under Consent, n.'),('Rape','n.','That which is snatched away.'),('Rape','n.','Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.'),('Rape','v. t.','To commit rape upon; to ravish.'),('Rape','v. i.','To rob; to pillage.'),('Rape','n.','One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England,\n   intermediate between a hundred and a shire.'),('Rape','n.','A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the\n   turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the\n   production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage\n   birds.'),('Rapeful','a.','Violent.'),('Rapeful','a.','Given to the commission of rape.'),('Rapfully','adv.','Violently.'),('Raphaelesque','a.','Like Raphael\'s works; in Raphael\'s manner of\n   painting.'),('Raphaelism','n.','The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the\n   Italian painter.'),('Raphaelite','n.','One who advocates or adopts the principles of\n   Raphaelism.'),('Raphany','n.','A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not\n   uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be\n   caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus\n   raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a\n   form of ergotism.'),('Raphe','n.','A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the\n   median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.'),('Raphe','n.','Same as Rhaphe.'),('Raphides','n. pl.','See Rhaphides.'),('Rapid','a.','Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid\n   stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.'),('Rapid','a.','Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in\n   quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence;\n   rapid succession.'),('Rapid','a.','Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.'),('Rapid','a.','The part of a river where the current moves with great\n   swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the\n   plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.'),('Rapidity','n.','The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity;\n   velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity\n   of growth or improvement.'),('Rapidly','adv.','In a rapid manner.'),('Rapidness','n.','Quality of being rapid; rapidity.'),('Rapier','n.','A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade,\n   used only for thrusting.'),('Rapiered','a.','Wearing a rapier.'),('Rapilli','n. pl.','Lapilli.'),('Rapine','n.','The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of\n   things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.'),('Rapine','n.','Ravishment; rape.'),('Rapine','v. t.','To plunder.'),('Rapinous','a.','Given to rapine.'),('Rappage','n.','The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern.'),('Rapparee','n.','A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; --\n   so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.'),('Rapped','','imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.'),('Rapped','','imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.'),('Rappee','v.','A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker\n   kinds of tobacco leaves.'),('Rappel','n.','The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.'),('Rapper','n.','One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the\n   knocker of a door.'),('Rapper','n.','A forcible oath or lie.'),('Rapport','n.','Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.'),('Rapscallion','n.','A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow.'),('Rapt','','imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.'),('Rapt','a.','Snatched away; hurried away or along.'),('Rapt','a.','Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.'),('Rapt','a.','Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.'),('Rapt','a.','An ecstasy; a trance.'),('Rapt','a.','Rapidity.'),('Rapt','v. t.','To transport or ravish.'),('Rapt','v. t.','To carry away by force.'),('Rapter','n.','A raptor.'),('Raptor','n.','A ravisher; a plunderer.'),('Raptores','n. pl.','Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.'),('Raptorial','a.','Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of\n   certain birds.'),('Raptorial','a.','Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws,\n   etc., of insects, birds, and other animals.'),('Raptorial','a.','Of or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust. (f) of\n   Aves.'),('Raptorious','a.','Raptorial.'),('Rapture','n.','A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with\n   violence.'),('Rapture','n.','The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from\n   one\'s self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion;\n   extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.'),('Rapture','n.','A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.'),('Raptured','imp. & p. p.','of Rapture'),('Rapturing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rapture'),('Rapture','v. t.','To transport with excitement; to enrapture.'),('Rapturist','n.','An enthusiast.'),('Rapturize','v. t. & i.','To put, or be put, in a state of rapture.'),('Rapturous','a.','Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing,\n   or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight;\n   rapturous applause.'),('Rapturously','adv.','In a rapturous manner.'),('Rare','a.','Early.'),('Rare','superl.','Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked;\n   underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.'),('Rare','superl.','Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as,\n   a rare event.'),('Rare','superl.','Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to\n   a degree seldom found.'),('Rare','superl.','Thinly scattered; dispersed.'),('Rare','superl.','Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose\n   texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high\n   elevations.'),('Rarebit','n.','A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under\n   Rabbit.'),('Raree-show','n.','A show carried about in a box; a peep show.'),('Rarefaction','n.','The act or process of rarefying; the state of being\n   rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.'),('Rarefiable','a.','Capable of being rarefied.'),('Rarefied','imp. & p. p.','of Rarefy'),('Rarefying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rarefy'),('Rarefy','v. t.','To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or\n   enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to\n   condense.'),('Rarefy','v. i.','To become less dense; to become thin and porous.'),('Rarely','adv.','In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things\n   rarely seen.'),('Rarely','adv.','Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2.'),('Rareness','n.','The state or quality of being rare.'),('Rareripe','a.','Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual\n   season.'),('Rareripe','n.','An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone\n   peach.'),('Rarification','n.','See Rarefaction.'),('Rarities','pl. ','of Rarity'),('Rarity','n.','The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as,\n   the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.'),('Rarity','n.','That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for\n   its scarcity.'),('Ras','n.','See 2d Reis.'),('Rasante','a.','Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification\n   in which the command of the works over each other, and over the\n   country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually\n   sweep or graze the ground before them.'),('Rascal','v.','One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or\n   creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean,\n   ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.'),('Rascal','v.','A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue;\n   a scoundrel; a trickster.'),('Rascal','a.','Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low;\n   mean; base.'),('Rascaldom','n.','State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals;\n   rascals, collectively.'),('Rascaless','n.','A female rascal.'),('Rascalities','pl. ','of Rascality'),('Rascality','n.','The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal;\n   mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.'),('Rascality','n.','The poorer and lower classes of people.'),('Rascallion','n.','A low, mean wretch.'),('Rascally','a.','Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; --\n   often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.'),('Rased','imp. & p. p.','of Rase'),('Rasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rase'),('Rase','v. t.','To rub along the surface of; to graze.'),('Rase','v. t.','To rub or scratch out; to erase.'),('Rase','v. t.','To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to\n   raze.'),('Rase','v. i.','To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer\n   overthrow.'),('Rase','n.','A scratching out, or erasure.'),('Rase','n.','A slight wound; a scratch.'),('Rase','n.','A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made\n   even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off,\n   all that was above it.'),('Rash','v. t.','To pull off or pluck violently.'),('Rash','v. t.','To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.'),('Rash','n.','A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or\n   no elevation.'),('Rash','n.','An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.'),('Rash','superl.','Sudden in action; quick; hasty.'),('Rash','superl.','Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.'),('Rash','superl.','Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate;\n   resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation\n   and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman\n   or commander.'),('Rash','superl.','Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little\n   reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.'),('Rash','superl.','So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.'),('Rash','v. t.','To prepare with haste.'),('Rasher','n.','A thin slice of bacon.'),('Rasher','n.','A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).'),('Rashful','a.','Rash; hasty; precipitate.'),('Rashling','n.','A rash person.'),('Rashly','adv.','In a rash manner; with precipitation.'),('Rashness','n.','The quality or state of being rash.'),('Raskolnik','n.','One of the separatists or dissenters from the\n   established or Greek church in Russia.'),('Rasores','v. t.','An order of birds; the Gallinae.'),('Rasorial','a.','Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds,\n   as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like.'),('Rasour','n.','Razor.'),('Rasped','imp. & p. p.','of Rasp'),('Rasping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rasp'),('Rasp','v. t.','To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough\n   file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.'),('Rasp','v. t.','Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by\n   coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear;\n   his insults rasped my temper.'),('Rasp','v.','A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct\n   points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines\n   raised by a chisel, as on the true file.'),('Rasp','v.','The raspberry.'),('Raspatorium','n.','See Raspatory.'),('Raspatory','v.','A surgeon\'s rasp.'),('Raspberry','n.','The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other\n   similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.'),('Raspberry','n.','The shrub bearing this fruit.'),('Rasper','n.','One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.'),('Raspis','n.','The raspberry.'),('Raspy','a.','Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.'),('Rasse','n.','A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet\n   but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a\n   perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the\n   Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.'),('Rasure','v.','The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure;\n   obliteration.'),('Rasure','v.','A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or\n   print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.'),('Rat','n.','One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and\n   allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships,\n   especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M.\n   rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into\n   America from the Old World.'),('Rat','n.','A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used\n   by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.'),('Rat','n.','One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades,\n   one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.'),('Ratted','imp. & p. p.','of Rat'),('Ratting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rat'),('Rat','v. i.','In English politics, to desert one\'s party from interested\n   motives; to forsake one\'s associates for one\'s own advantage; in the\n   trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those\n   established by a trades union.'),('Rat','v. i.','To catch or kill rats.'),('Rata','n.','A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its\n   hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.'),('Ratability','n.','The quality or state of being ratable.'),('Ratable','a.','Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value.'),('Ratable','a.','Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable\n   estate.'),('Ratable','a.','Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.'),('Ratafia','n.','A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries,\n   apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; --\n   a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc.'),('Ratan','n.','See Rattan.'),('Ratany','n.','Same as Rhatany.'),('Rataplan','n.','The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping\n   horse.'),('Ratch','n.','Same as Rotche.'),('Ratch','n.','A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click\n   works.'),('Ratchel','n.','Gravelly stone.'),('Ratchet','n.','A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a\n   ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.'),('Ratchet','n.','A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and\n   pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.'),('Rate','v. t. & i.','To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure\n   violently.'),('Rate','n.','Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.'),('Rate','n.','That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree;\n   standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of\n   interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.'),('Rate','n.','Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost;\n   charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.'),('Rate','n.','A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public\n   use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax;\n   as, parish rates; town rates.'),('Rate','n.','Order; arrangement.'),('Rate','n.','Ratification; approval.'),('Rate','n.','The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily\n   rate; hourly rate; etc.'),('Rate','n.','The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined\n   according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate,\n   etc.'),('Rate','n.','The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance,\n   determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.'),('Rated','imp. & p. p.','of Rate'),('Rating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rate'),('Rate','v. t.','To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price\n   or degree.'),('Rate','v. t.','To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.'),('Rate','v. t.','To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount,\n   value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a\n   pension.'),('Rate','v. t.','To ratify.'),('Rate','v. i.','To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the\n   ship rates as a ship of the line.'),('Rate','v. i.','To make an estimate.'),('Rateable','a.','See Ratable.'),('Ratel','n.','Any carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels\n   and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.'),('Ratepayer','n.','One who pays rates or taxes.'),('Rater','n.','One who rates or estimates.'),('Rater','n.','One who rates or scolds.'),('Ratfish','n.','Same as Rat-tail.'),('Rath','n.','A hill or mound.'),('Rath','n.','A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.'),('Rath','a.','Alt. of Rathe'),('Rathe','a.','Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.'),('Rath','adv.','Alt. of Rathe'),('Rathe','adv.','Early; soon; betimes.'),('Rather','a.','Prior; earlier; former.'),('Rather','a.','Earlier; sooner; before.'),('Rather','a.','More readily or willingly; preferably.'),('Rather','a.','On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or\n   suggested; instead.'),('Rather','a.','Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or\n   as more likely than, the other; somewhat.'),('Rather','a.','More properly; more correctly speaking.'),('Rather','a.','In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the\n   house is rather damp.'),('Rathripe','a.','Rareripe, or early ripe.'),('Rathripe','n.','A rareripe.'),('Ratification','n.','The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified;\n   confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.'),('Ratifier','n.','One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer.'),('Ratified','imp. & p. p.','of Ratify'),('Ratifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ratify'),('Ratify','n.','To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to\n   establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something\n   done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or\n   contract; to ratify a nomination.'),('Ratihabition','n.','Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or\n   contract.'),('Ratio','n.','The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another\n   of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of\n   the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by / or\n   /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the\n   dividend; as, a:b = b/a.'),('Ratio','n.','Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate;\n   proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.'),('Ratiocinate','v. i.','To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or\n   argument.'),('Ratiocination','n.','The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions\n   from premises; deductive reasoning.'),('Ratiocinative','a.','Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination;\n   consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the\n   deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a\n   ratiocinative process.'),('Ratiocinatory','a.','Ratiocinative.'),('Ration','n.','A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier\n   in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.'),('Ration','n.','Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an\n   allowance; an allotment.'),('Ration','v. t.','To supply with rations, as a regiment.'),('Rational','a.','Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.'),('Rational','a.','Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with\n   reason or understanding; reasoning.'),('Rational','a.','Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous,\n   extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as,\n   rational conduct; a rational man.'),('Rational','a.','Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions\n   of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.'),('Rational','n.','A rational being.'),('Rationale','a.','An explanation or exposition of the principles of some\n   opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the\n   principles themselves.'),('Rationalism','n.','The doctrine or system of those who deduce their\n   religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from,\n   or opposed to, revelation.'),('Rationalism','n.','The system that makes rational power the ultimate test\n   of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.'),('Rationalist','n.','One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system;\n   also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.'),('Rationalistic','a.','Alt. of Rationalistical'),('Rationalistical','a.','Belonging to, or in accordance with, the\n   principles of rationalism.'),('-ties','pl. ','of Rationality'),('Rationality','n.','The quality or state of being rational; agreement with\n   reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.'),('Rationalization','n.','The act or process of rationalizing.'),('Rationalize','v. t.','To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.'),('Rationalize','v. t.','To interpret in the manner of a rationalist.'),('Rationalize','v. t.','To form a rational conception of.'),('Rationalize','v. t.','To render rational; to free from radical signs or\n   quantities.'),('Rationalize','v. i.','To use, and rely on, reason in forming a theory,\n   belief, etc., especially in matters of religion: to accord with the\n   principles of rationalism.'),('Rationally','adv.','In a rational manner.'),('Rationalness','n.','The quality or state of being rational; rationality.'),('Ratitae','n. pl.','An order of birds in which the wings are small,\n   rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The\n   ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples.'),('Ratitate','a.','Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.'),('Ratite','a.','Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.'),('Ratite','n.','One of the Ratitae.'),('Ratlines','n. pl.','Alt. of Ratlins'),('Ratlins','n. pl.','The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and\n   forming the steps of a rope ladder.'),('Raton','n.','A small rat.'),('Ratoon','n.','Same as Rattoon, n.'),('Ratoon','n.','A rattan cane.'),('Ratoon','v. i.','Same as Rattoon, v. i.'),('Ratsbane','n.','Rat poison; white arsenic.'),('Ratsbaned','a.','Poisoned by ratsbane.'),('Rat-tail','a.','Like a rat\'s tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is\n   round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.'),('Rat-tail','n.','An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of\n   the shank of a horse.'),('Rat-tail','n.','The California chimaera. See Chimaera.'),('Rat-tail','n.','Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.'),('Rat-tailed','a.','Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.'),('Rattan','n.','One of the long slender flexible stems of several species\n   of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are\n   African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for\n   walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and\n   cordage, and many other purposes.'),('Ratteen','n.','A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.'),('Ratten','v. t.','To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one\'s\n   employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of\n   annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.'),('Ratter','n.','One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.'),('Ratter','n.','Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch\n   rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.'),('Rattinet','n.','A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.'),('Ratting','n.','The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i.,\n   1.'),('Ratting','v. i.','The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a\n   pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.'),('Rattled','imp. & p. p.','of Rattle'),('Rattling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rattle'),('Rattle','v. i.','To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious\n   noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken\n   together; to clatter.'),('Rattle','v. i.','To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering;\n   as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.'),('Rattle','v. i.','To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and\n   idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.'),('Rattle','v. t.','To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to\n   rattle a chain.'),('Rattle','v. t.','To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.'),('Rattle','v. t.','Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one\'s\n   judgment; to rattle a player in a game.'),('Rattle','v. t.','To scold; to rail at.'),('Rattle','n.','A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the\n   rattle of a drum.'),('Rattle','n.','Noisy, rapid talk.'),('Rattle','n.','An instrument with which a rattling sound is made;\n   especially, a child\'s toy that rattles when shaken.'),('Rattle','n.','A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.'),('Rattle','n.','A scolding; a sharp rebuke.'),('Rattle','n.','Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to\n   produce a rattling sound.'),('Rattle','n.','The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing\n   through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly\n   observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death\n   rattle. See R/le.'),('Rattlebox','n.','A toy that makes a rattling sound; a rattle.'),('Rattlebox','n.','An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of\n   which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod.'),('Rattlebox','n.','Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered\n   herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.'),('Rattle-brained','a.','Giddy; rattle-headed.'),('Rattlehead','n.','An empty, noisy talker.'),('Rattle-headed','a.','Noisy; giddy; unsteady.'),('Rattlemouse','n.','A bat.'),('Rattlepate','n.','A rattlehead.'),('Rattle-pated','a.','Rattle-headed.'),('Rattler','n.','One who, or that which, rattles.'),('Rattlesnake','n.','Any one of several species of venomous American snakes\n   belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have\n   a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make\n   a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the\n   Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake\n   of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.'),('Rattletrap','n.','Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly.'),('Rattleweed','n.','Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.'),('Rattlewings','n.','The golden-eye.'),('Rattlewort','n.','Same as Rattlebox.'),('Rattlings','n. pl.','Ratlines.'),('Rattoon','n.','One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second\n   year\'s growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.'),('Rattooned','imp. & p. p.','of Rattoon'),('Rattooning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rattoon'),('Rattoon','v. i.','To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane\n   from the root of the previous year\'s planting.'),('Raucid','a.','Hoarse; raucous.'),('Raucity','n.','Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the\n   raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.'),('Raucous','a.','Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.'),('Raught','','imp. & p. p. of Reach.'),('Raught','','imp. & p. p. of Reck.'),('Raunch','v. t.','See Ranch.'),('Raunsoun','n.','Ransom.'),('Ravage','n.','Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction;\n   devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of\n   fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.'),('Ravaged','imp. & p. p.','of Ravage'),('Ravaging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ravage'),('Ravage','n.','To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit\n   havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.'),('Ravager','n.','One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.'),('Rave','','imp. of Rive.'),('Rave','n.','One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or\n   a sleigh.'),('Raved','imp. & p. p.','of Rave'),('Raving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rave'),('Rave','v. i.','To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk\n   or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.'),('Rave','v. i.','To rush wildly or furiously.'),('Rave','v. i.','To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion\n   or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her\n   beauty.'),('Rave','v. t.','To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave\n   nonsense.'),('Ravehook','n.','A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing\n   seams for the reception of oakum.'),('Raveled','imp. & p. p.','of Ravel'),('Ravelled','','of Ravel'),('Raveling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ravel'),('Ravelling','','of Ravel'),('Ravel','v. t.','To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to\n   untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a\n   twist; to ravel out a stocking.'),('Ravel','v. t.','To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.'),('Ravel','v. t.','To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them\n   fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to\n   involve.'),('Ravel','v. i.','To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be\n   relieved of intricacy.'),('Ravel','v. i.','To fall into perplexity and confusion.'),('Ravel','v. i.','To make investigation or search, as by picking out the\n   threads of a woven pattern.'),('Raveler','n.','One who ravels.'),('Ravelin','n.','A detached work with two embankments which make a salient\n   angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the\n   place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.'),('Raveling','n.','The act of untwisting or of disentangling.'),('Raveling','n.','That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a\n   texture.'),('Raven','n.','A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the\n   crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia,\n   and America, and is noted for its sagacity.'),('Raven','a.','Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven\n   darkness.'),('Raven','n.','Rapine; rapacity.'),('Raven','n.','Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.'),('Ravened','imp. & p. p.','of Raven'),('Ravening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Raven'),('Raven','v. t.','To obtain or seize by violence.'),('Raven','v. t.','To devour with great eagerness.'),('Raven','v. i.','To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.'),('Ravenala','n.','A genus of plants related to the banana.'),('Ravener','n.','One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.'),('Ravener','n.','A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture.'),('Ravening','n.','Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.'),('Ravening','a.','Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.'),('Ravenous','a.','Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious;\n   hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.'),('Ravenous','a.','Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite\n   or desire.'),('Raven\'s-duck','n.','A fine quality of sailcloth.'),('Raver','n.','One who raves.'),('Ravin','a.','Ravenous.'),('Ravin','n.','Alt. of Ravine'),('Ravine','n.','Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.'),('Ravin','v. t. & i.','Alt. of Ravine'),('Ravine','v. t. & i.','See Raven, v. t. & i.'),('Ravine','n.','A torrent of water.'),('Ravine','n.','A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or\n   torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.'),('Raving','a.','Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic.'),('Ravished','imp. & p. p.','of Ravish'),('Ravishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ravish'),('Ravish','v. t.','To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.'),('Ravish','v. t.','To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.'),('Ravish','v. t.','To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and\n   against her consent; to rape.'),('Ravisher','n.','One who ravishes (in any sense).'),('Ravishing','a.','Rapturous; transporting.'),('Ravishingly','adv.','In a ravishing manner.'),('Ravishment','n.','The act of carrying away by force or against consent;\n   abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward\n   from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.'),('Ravishment','n.','The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of\n   delight; ecstasy.'),('Ravishment','n.','The act of ravishing a woman; rape.'),('Ravissant','a.','In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on\n   prey.'),('Raw','superl.','Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the\n   action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed\n   by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.'),('Raw','superl.','Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe;\n   unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a\n   raw recruit.'),('Raw','superl.','Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched\n   by art; unwrought.'),('Raw','superl.','Not distilled; as, raw water'),('Raw','superl.','Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton'),('Raw','superl.','Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits'),('Raw','superl.','Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow'),('Raw','superl.','Not tanned; as, raw hides'),('Raw','superl.','Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge\n   of a piece of metal or of cloth.'),('Raw','superl.','Not covered; bare.'),('Raw','superl.','Bald.'),('Raw','superl.','Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.'),('Raw','superl.','Sore, as if by being galled.'),('Raw','superl.','Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.'),('Raw','n.','A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch\n   one on the raw.'),('Rawbone','a.','Rawboned.'),('Rawboned','a.','Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt.'),('Rawhead','n.','A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and\n   bloodybones.'),('Rawhide','n.','A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or\n   raw) hide twisted.'),('Rawish','a.','Somewhat raw.'),('Rawly','adv.','In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience.'),('Rawly','adv.','Without proper preparation or provision.'),('Rawness','n.','The quality or state of being raw.'),('Ray','v. t.','To array.'),('Ray','v. t.','To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.'),('Ray','n.','Array; order; arrangement; dress.'),('Ray','n.','One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common\n   point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.'),('Ray','n.','A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of\n   a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of\n   an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.'),('Ray','n.','One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the\n   fins of fishes.'),('Ray','n.','One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the\n   arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.'),('Ray','n.','A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or\n   reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated\n   continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.'),('Ray','n.','One of the component elements of the total radiation from a\n   body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray;\n   the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.'),('Ray','n.','Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision,\n   that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object\n   seen.'),('Ray','n.','One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point,\n   and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See\n   Half-ray.'),('Rayed','imp. & p. p.','of Ray'),('Raying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ray'),('Ray','n.','To mark with long lines; to streak.'),('Ray','n.','To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray\n   smiles.'),('Ray','v. i.','To shine, as with rays.'),('Ray','n.','Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae,\n   including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.'),('Ray','n.','In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed\n   species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.'),('Rayah','n.','A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.'),('Ray grass','','A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); -- called\n   also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass.'),('Rayless','a.','Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind;\n   as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.'),('Rayon','n.','Ray; beam.'),('Rayonnant','a.','Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.'),('Raze','n.','A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as\n   race, a root.'),('Razed','imp. & p. p.','of Raze'),('Razing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Raze'),('Raze','v. t.','To erase; to efface; to obliterate.'),('Raze','v. t.','To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the\n   ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.'),('Razed','a.','Slashed or striped in patterns.'),('Razee','v. t.','An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus\n   reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a\n   frigate.'),('Razeed','imp. & p. p.','of Razee'),('Razeeing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Razee'),('Razee','v. t.','To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an\n   inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by\n   cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.'),('Razor','v. t.','A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the\n   hair from the face or the head.'),('Razor','v. t.','A tusk of a wild boar.'),('Razorable','a.','Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved.'),('Razorback','n.','The rorqual.'),('Razor-backed','a.','Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a\n   razor-backed hog, perch, etc.'),('Razorbill','n.','A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas.\n   See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.'),('Razorbill','n.','See Cutwater, 3.'),('Razure','n.','The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being\n   effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.'),('Razure','n.','An erasure; a change made by erasing.'),('Razzia','n.','A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.'),('Re-','','A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to\n   lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out\n   against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again;\n   rejoin, to join again; reiterate; reassure. Combinations containing the\n   prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious\n   signification.'),('Re','','A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the\n   diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any\n   diatonic scale.'),('Reabsorb','v. t.','To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has\n   been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to\n   reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.'),('Reabsorption','n.','The act or process of reabsorbing.'),('Reaccess','n.','A second access or approach; a return.'),('Reaccuse','v. t.','To accuse again.'),('Reach','v. i.','To retch.'),('Reach','n.','An effort to vomit.'),('Reached','imp. & p. p.','of Reach'),('Raught','','of Reach'),('Reaching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Reach'),('Reach','v. t.','To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a\n   limb, a member, something held, or the like.'),('Reach','v. t.','Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially\n   the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as,\n   to reach one a book.'),('Reach','v. t.','To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to\n   extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch,\n   strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or\n   with a spear.'),('Reach','v. t.','To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an\n   object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.'),('Reach','v. t.','Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to\n   penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.'),('Reach','v. t.','To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by\n   virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.'),('Reach','v. t.','To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.'),('Reach','v. t.','To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to\n   gain; to be advanced to.'),('Reach','v. t.','To understand; to comprehend.'),('Reach','v. t.','To overreach; to deceive.'),('Reach','v. i.','To stretch out the hand.'),('Reach','v. i.','To strain after something; to make efforts.'),('Reach','v. i.','To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence,\n   etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.'),('Reach','v. i.','To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to\n   another, or with the wind nearly abeam.'),('Reach','n.','The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of\n   reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or\n   thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon\n   shot.'),('Reach','n.','The power of stretching out or extending action, influence,\n   or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or\n   capacity.'),('Reach','n.','Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence;\n   result; scope.'),('Reach','n.','An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight\n   portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level\n   stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up\n   into the land.'),('Reach','n.','An artifice to obtain an advantage.'),('Reach','n.','The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the\n   forward bolster of a wagon.'),('Reachable','a.','Being within reach.'),('Reacher','n.','One who reaches.'),('Reacher','n.','An exaggeration.'),('Reachless','a.','Being beyond reach; lofty.'),('React','v. t.','To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to\n   react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.'),('React','v. i.','To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action\n   of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body\n   that impels it from its natural state.'),('React','v. i.','To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a\n   reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.'),('Reaction','n.','Any action in resisting other action or force; counter\n   tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.'),('Reaction','n.','The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon\n   each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of\n   energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change\n   in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or\n   the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction,\n   Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.'),('Reaction','n.','An action induced by vital resistance to some other\n   action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on\n   overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction\n   succeeding depression or shock.'),('Reaction','n.','The force which a body subjected to the action of a force\n   from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite\n   direction.'),('Reaction','n.','Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform,\n   or great progress in any direction.'),('Reactionary','a.','Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary\n   movements.'),('Reactionaries','pl. ','of Reactionary'),('Reactionary','n.','One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political\n   progress or revolution.'),('Reactionist','n.','A reactionary.'),('Reactive','a.','Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature\n   of reaction.'),('Read','n.','Rennet. See 3d Reed.'),('Read','imp. & p. p.','of Read'),('Reading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Read'),('Read','v. t.','To advise; to counsel.'),('Read','v. t.','To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.'),('Read','v. t.','To tell; to declare; to recite.'),('Read','v. t.','To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or\n   recite to one\'s self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of\n   language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to\n   peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to\n   read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a\n   book.'),('Read','v. t.','Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.'),('Read','v. t.','To discover or understand by characters, marks, features,\n   etc.; to learn by observation.'),('Read','v. t.','To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as,\n   to read theology or law.'),('Read','v. i.','To give advice or counsel.'),('Read','v. i.','To tell; to declare.'),('Read','v. i.','To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over\n   and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.'),('Read','v. i.','To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.'),('Read','v. i.','To learn by reading.'),('Read','v. i.','To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or\n   consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in\n   the early manuscripts.'),('Read','v. i.','To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence\n   reads queerly.'),('Read','v. t.','Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See\n   Rede.'),('Read','v.','Reading.'),('Read','','imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.'),('Read','a.','Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.'),('Readability','n.','The state of being readable; readableness.'),('Readable','a.','Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read;\n   worth reading; interesting.'),('Readdress','v. t.','To address a second time; -- often used reflexively.'),('Readept','v. t.','To regain; to recover.'),('Readeption','n.','A regaining; recovery of something lost.'),('Reader','n.','One who reads.'),('Reader','n.','One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a\n   church.'),('Reader','n.','One who reads lectures on scientific subjects.'),('Reader','n.','A proof reader.'),('Reader','n.','One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and\n   advises regarding their merit.'),('Reader','n.','One who reads much; one who is studious.'),('Reader','n.','A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in\n   reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.'),('Readership','n.','The office of reader.'),('Readily','adv.','In a ready manner; quickly; promptly.'),('Readily','adv.','Without delay or objection; without reluctance;\n   willingly; cheerfully.'),('Readiness','n.','The state or quality of being ready; preparation;\n   promptness; aptitude; willingness.'),('Reading','n.','The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or\n   written matter to be read.'),('Reading','n.','Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of\n   extensive reading.'),('Reading','n.','A lecture or prelection; public recital.'),('Reading','n.','The way in which anything reads; force of a word or\n   passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.'),('Reading','n.','Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of\n   rendering.'),('Reading','n.','An observation read from the scale of a graduated\n   instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.'),('Reading','a.','Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.'),('Reading','a.','Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.'),('Readjourn','v. t.','To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.'),('Readjournment','n.','The act of readjourning; a second or repeated\n   adjournment.'),('Readjust','v. t.','To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order\n   or relation; to rearrange.'),('Readjuster','n.','One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the\n   States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and\n   sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent\n   of the State\'s creditors.'),('Readjustment','n.','A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.'),('Readmission','n.','The act of admitting again, or the state of being\n   readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted\n   receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.'),('Readmit','v. t.','To admit again; to give entrance or access to again.'),('Readmittance','n.','Allowance to enter again; a second admission.'),('Readopt','v. t.','To adopt again.'),('Readorn','v. t.','To adorn again or anew.'),('Readvance','v. i.','To advance again.'),('Readvertency','n.','The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing.'),('Ready','superl.','Prepared for what one is about to do or experience;\n   equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event;\n   prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to\n   march; ready for the journey.'),('Ready','superl.','Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay\n   for lack of being prepared or furnished.'),('Ready','superl.','Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant;\n   willing; free; inclined; disposed.'),('Ready','superl.','Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception\n   of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension;\n   ready wit; a ready writer or workman.'),('Ready','superl.','Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune;\n   convenient; near; easy.'),('Ready','superl.','On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a\n   following infinitive.'),('Ready','superl.','A word of command, or a position, in the manual of\n   arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute\n   promptly the next command, which is, aim.'),('Ready','adv.','In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to\n   need no delay.'),('Ready','n.','Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well\n   supplied with the ready.'),('Ready','v. t.','To dispose in order.'),('Ready-made','a.','Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need;\n   not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.'),('Ready-witted','a.','Having ready wit.'),('Reaffirm','v. t.','To affirm again.'),('Reaffirmance','n.','Alt. of Reaffirmation'),('Reaffirmation','n.','A second affirmation.'),('Reafforest','v. t.','To convert again into a forest, as a region of\n   country.'),('Reafforestation','n.','The act or process of converting again into a\n   forest.'),('Reagent','n.','A substance capable of producing with another a reaction,\n   especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a\n   test.'),('Reaggravation','n.','The last monitory, published after three admonitions\n   and before the last excommunication.'),('Reagree','v. i.','To agree again.'),('Reak','n.','A rush.'),('Reak','n.','A prank.'),('Real','n.','A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of\n   account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.'),('Real','a.','Royal; regal; kingly.'),('Real','a.','Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as,\n   a description of real life.'),('Real','a.','True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious;\n   often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine;\n   real ginger.'),('Real','a.','Relating to things, not to persons.'),('Real','a.','Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or\n   meaning; not imaginary.'),('Real','a.','Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to\n   lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or\n   movable property.'),('Real','n.','A realist.'),('Realgar','n.','Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red\n   orpiment. It is also an artificial product.'),('Realism','n.','As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and\n   species are real things or entities, existing independently of our\n   conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem\n   (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).'),('Realism','n.','As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense\n   perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and\n   our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.'),('Realism','n.','Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without\n   idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the\n   actual fact.'),('Realist','n.','One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that\n   generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things,\n   represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the\n   nominalists.'),('Realist','n.','An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See\n   Realism, 2.'),('Realistic','a.','Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the\n   realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.'),('Realistically','adv.','In a realistic manner.'),('Realities','pl. ','of Reality'),('Reality','n.','The state or quality of being real; actual being or\n   existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.'),('Reality','n.','That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not\n   imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence,\n   and is not merely an idea.'),('Reality','n.','Loyalty; devotion.'),('Reality','n.','See 2d Realty, 2.'),('Realizable','a.','Capable of being realized.'),('Realization','n.','The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.'),('Realized','imp. & p. p.','of Realize'),('Realizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Realize'),('Realize','v. t.','To make real; to convert from the imaginary or\n   fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to\n   effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.'),('Realize','v. t.','To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as\n   actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one\'s own in apprehension\n   or experience.'),('Realize','v. t.','To convert into real property; to make real estate of;\n   as, to realize his fortune.'),('Realize','v. t.','To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the\n   result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large\n   profits from a speculation.'),('Realize','v. t.','To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.'),('Realize','v. i.','To convert any kind of property into money, especially\n   property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds,\n   etc.'),('Realizer','n.','One who realizes.'),('Realizing','a.','Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a\n   reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred.'),('Reallege','v. t.','To allege again.'),('Realliance','n.','A renewed alliance.'),('Re-ally','v. t.','To bring together again; to compose or form anew.'),('Really','adv.','Royally.'),('Really','adv.','In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.'),('Realm','n.','A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the\n   dominion of a king; a kingdom.'),('Realm','n.','Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain;\n   department; division; as, the realm of fancy.'),('Realmless','a.','Destitute of a realm.'),('Realness','n.','The quality or condition of being real; reality.'),('Realty','n.','Royalty.'),('Realty','n.','Loyalty; faithfulness.'),('Realty','n.','Reality.'),('Realty','n.','Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real\n   property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in\n   legal language for reality.'),('Realty','n.','Real estate; a piece of real property.'),('Ream','n.','Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.'),('Ream','v. i.','To cream; to mantle.'),('Ream','v. t.','To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or\n   filaments.'),('Ream','n.','A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting\n   of twenty quires or 480 sheets.'),('Reamed','imp. & p. p.','of Ream'),('Reaming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ream'),('Ream','v. t.','To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in\n   modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.'),('Reame','n.','Realm.'),('Reamer','n.','One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument\n   with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for\n   enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.'),('Reamputation','n.','The second of two amputations performed upon the same\n   member.'),('Reanimate','v. t.','To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to\n   infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to\n   reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate\n   disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.'),('Reanimation','n.','The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of\n   being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.'),('Reannex','v. t.','To annex again or anew; to reunite.'),('Reannexation','n.','Act of reannexing.'),('Reanswer','v. t. & i.','To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to\n   make amends for.'),('Reaped','imp. & p. p.','of Reap'),('Reaping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Reap'),('Reap','v. t.','To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as\n   grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.'),('Reap','v. t.','To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest,\n   or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as,\n   to reap a benefit from exertions.'),('Reap','v. t.','To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.'),('Reap','v. t.','To deprive of the beard; to shave.'),('Reap','v. i.','To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a\n   harvest.'),('Reap','v.','A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper\n   as it is cut.'),('Reaper','n.','One who reaps.'),('Reaper','n.','A reaping machine.'),('Reapparel','v. t.','To clothe again.'),('Reappear','v. i.','To appear again.'),('Reappearance','n.','A second or new appearance; the act or state of\n   appearing again.'),('Reapplication','n.','The act of reapplying, or the state of being\n   reapplied.'),('Reapply','v. t. & i.','To apply again.'),('Reappoint','v. t.','To appoint again.'),('Reappointment','n.','The act of reappointing, or the state of being\n   reappointed.'),('Reapportion','v. t.','To apportion again.'),('Reapportionment','n.','A second or a new apportionment.'),('Reapproach','v. i. & t.','To approach again or anew.'),('Rear','adv.','Early; soon.'),('Rear','n.','The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in\n   order; -- opposed to front.'),('Rear','n.','Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last,\n   or is stationed behind the rest.'),('Rear','a.','Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear\n   rank of a company.'),('Rear','v. t.','To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.'),('Reared','imp. & p. p.','of Rear'),('Rearing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rear'),('Rear','v. t.','To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect,\n   etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.'),('Rear','v. t.','To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear\n   defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.'),('Rear','v. t.','To lift and take up.'),('Rear','v. t.','To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to\n   instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.'),('Rear','v. t.','To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.'),('Rear','v. t.','To rouse; to stir up.'),('Rear','v. i.','To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.'),('Reardorse','n.','Alt. of Reardoss'),('Reardoss','n.','A reredos.'),('Rearer','n.','One who, or that which, rears.'),('Reargue','v. t.','To argue anew or again.'),('Reargument','n.','An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.'),('Rear-horse','n.','A mantis.'),('Rearly','adv.','Early.'),('Rearmost','a.','Farthest in the rear; last.'),('Rearmouse','n.','Alt. of Reremouse'),('Reremouse','n.','The leather-winged bat (Vespertilio murinus).'),('Rearrange','v. t.','To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.'),('Rearrangement','n.','The act of rearranging, or the state of being\n   rearranged.'),('Rearward','n.','The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also\n   used figuratively.'),('Rearward','a. & adv.','At or toward the rear.'),('Reascend','v. i.','To rise, mount, or climb again.'),('Reascend','v. t.','To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again.'),('Reascension','n.','The act of reascending; a remounting.'),('Reascent','n.','A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity.'),('Reason','n.','A thought or a consideration offered in support of a\n   determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an\n   action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the\n   efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an\n   action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion\n   or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of\n   argument.'),('Reason','n.','The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is\n   distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher\n   as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense,\n   imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires.\n   Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional\n   faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of\n   first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called\n   the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.'),('Reason','n.','Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or\n   that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly\n   exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from\n   true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common\n   sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.'),('Reason','n.','Ratio; proportion.'),('Reasoned','imp. & p. p.','of Reason'),('Reasoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Reason'),('Reason','n.','To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from\n   premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to\n   ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.'),('Reason','n.','Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction,\n   in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth\n   propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.'),('Reason','n.','To converse; to compare opinions.'),('Reason','v. t.','To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to\n   examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned\n   the matter with my friend.'),('Reason','v. t.','To support with reasons, as a request.'),('Reason','v. t.','To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one\n   into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.'),('Reason','v. t.','To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with\n   down; as, to reason down a passion.'),('Reason','v. t.','To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by\n   reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes\n   of the librations of the moon.'),('Reasonable','n.','Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason;\n   rational; as, a reasonable being.'),('Reasonable','n.','Governed by reason; being under the influence of\n   reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the\n   dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the\n   measure must satisfy all reasonable men.'),('Reasonable','n.','Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper;\n   as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.'),('Reasonable','adv.','Reasonably; tolerably.'),('Reasonableness','n.','Quality of being reasonable.'),('Reasonably','adv.','In a reasonable manner.'),('Reasonably','adv.','Moderately; tolerably.'),('Reasoner','n.','One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close\n   reasoner; a logical reasoner.'),('Reasoning','n.','The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons;\n   manner of presenting one\'s reasons.'),('Reasoning','n.','That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons\n   when arranged and developed; course of argument.'),('Reasonist','n.','A rationalist.'),('Reasonless','a.','Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind.'),('Reasonless','a.','Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason;\n   unreasonable.'),('Reassemblage','n.','Assemblage a second time or again.'),('Reassemble','v. t. & i.','To assemble again.'),('Reassert','v. t.','To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission\n   to do so.'),('Reassertion','n.','A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.'),('Reassessment','n.','A renewed or second assessment.'),('Reassign','v. t.','To assign back or again; to transfer back what has\n   been assigned.'),('Reassignment','n.','The act of reassigning.'),('Reassimilate','v. t. & i.','To assimilate again.'),('Reassociate','v. t. & i.','To associate again; to bring again into close\n   relations.'),('Reassume','v. t.','To assume again or anew; to resume.'),('Reassurance','n.','Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated.'),('Reassurance','n.','Same as Reinsurance.'),('Reassure','v. t.','To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from\n   fear or terror.'),('Reassure','v. t.','To reinsure.'),('Reassurer','n.','One who reassures.'),('Reasty','a.','Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat.'),('Reata','n.','A lariat.'),('Reattach','v. t.','To attach again.'),('Reattachment','n.','The act of reattaching; a second attachment.'),('Reattain','v. t.','To attain again.'),('Reattainment','n.','The act of reattaining.'),('Reattempt','v. t.','To attempt again.'),('Reaume','n.','Realm.'),('Reaumur','a.','Of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur;\n   conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer\n   he invented.'),('Reaumur','n.','A Reaumur thermometer or scale.'),('Reaved','imp. & p. p.','of Reave'),('Reft','','of Reave'),('Raft','','of Reave'),('Reaving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Reave'),('Reave','v. i.','To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away;\n   to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]'),('Reaver','n.','One who reaves.'),('Reawake','v. i.','To awake again.'),('Rebanish','v. t.','To banish again.'),('Rebaptism','n.','A second baptism.'),('Rebaptization','n.','A second baptism.'),('Rebaptize','v. t.','To baptize again or a second time.'),('Rebaptizer','n.','One who rebaptizes.'),('Rebarbarize','v. t.','To reduce again to barbarism.'),('Rebate','v. t.','To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt;\n   to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.'),('Rebate','v. t.','To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest\n   due, or customs duties.'),('Rebate','v. i.','To abate; to withdraw.'),('Rebate','n.','Diminution.'),('Rebate','n.','Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for\n   immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.'),('Rebate','n.','A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the\n   corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.'),('Rebate','n.','A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to\n   beat out mortar.'),('Rebate','n.','An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used\n   for dressing and polishing wood.'),('Rebate','n.','A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.'),('Rebate','v. t.','To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.'),('Rebatement','n.','Same as 3d Rebate.'),('Rebato','n.','Same as Rabato.'),('Rebec','n.','An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the\n   violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow.'),('Rebec','n.','A contemptuous term applied to an old woman.'),('Rebel','v. i.','Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt;\n   rebellious; as, rebel troops.'),('Rebel','n.','One who rebels.'),('Rebelled','imp. & p. p.','of Rebel'),('Rebelling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rebel'),('Rebel','v. i.','To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the\n   ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.'),('Rebel','v. i.','To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or\n   insubordinate attitude; to revolt.'),('Rebeldom','n.','A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered\n   collectively; also, conduct or quality characteristic of rebels.'),('Rebeller','n.','One who rebels; a rebel.'),('Rebellion','v. i.','The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of\n   the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and\n   resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by\n   aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the\n   purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by\n   force; revolt; insurrection.'),('Rebellion','v. i.','Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.'),('Rebellious','a.','Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature\n   of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by\n   force.'),('Rebellow','v. i.','To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow.'),('Rebiting','n.','The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched\n   plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.'),('Rebloom','v. i.','To bloom again.'),('Reblossom','v. i.','To blossom again.'),('Reboant','a.','Rebellowing; resounding loudly.'),('Reboation','n.','Repetition of a bellow.'),('Reboil','v. t. & i.','To boil, or to cause to boil, again.'),('Reboil','v. t. & i.','Fig.: To make or to become hot.'),('Reborn','p. p.','Born again.'),('Rebound','v. i.','To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or\n   reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a\n   rebounding echo.'),('Rebound','v. i.','To give back an echo.'),('Rebound','v. i.','To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.'),('Rebound','v. t.','To send back; to reverberate.'),('Rebound','n.','The act of rebounding; resilience.'),('Rebrace','v. t.','To brace again.'),('Rebreathe','v. t.','To breathe again.'),('Rebucous','a.','Rebuking.'),('Rebuff','n.','Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden\n   resistance.'),('Rebuff','n.','Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal;\n   repellence; rejection of solicitation.'),('Rebuffed','imp. & p. p.','of Rebuff'),('Rebuffing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rebuff'),('Rebuff','v. t.','To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check;\n   to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.'),('Rebuild','v. t.','To build again, as something which has been demolished;\n   to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.'),('Rebuilder','n.','One who rebuilds.'),('Rebukable','a.','Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible.'),('Rebuked','imp. & p. p.','of Rebuke'),('Rebuking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rebuke'),('Rebuke','v. t.','To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to\n   restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and\n   summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.'),('Rebuke','n.','A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also,\n   chastisement; punishment.'),('Rebuke','n.','Check; rebuff.'),('Rebukeful','a.','Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke.'),('Rebuker','n.','One who rebukes.'),('Rebukingly','adv.','By way of rebuke.'),('Rebullition','n.','The act of boiling up or effervescing.'),('Rebury','v. t.','To bury again.'),('Rebuses','pl. ','of Rebus'),('Rebus','n.','A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of\n   objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which\n   they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures;\n   hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.'),('Rebus','n.','A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the\n   person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.'),('Rebus','v. t.','To mark or indicate by a rebus.'),('Rebutted','imp. & p. p.','of Rebut'),('Rebutting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Rebut'),('Rebut','v. t.','To drive or beat back; to repulse.'),('Rebut','v. t.','To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or\n   countervailing proof.'),('Rebut','v. i.','To retire; to recoil.'),('Rebut','v. i.','To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff\'s\n   surrejoinder.'),('Rebuttable','a.','Capable of being rebutted.'),('Rebuttal','n.','The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to\n   destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same\n   suit.'),('Rebutter','n.','The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a\n   plaintiff\'s surrejoinder.'),('Recadency','n.','A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.'),('Recalcitrant','a.','Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing\n   repugnance or opposition; refractory.'),('Recalcitrate','v. t.','To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff.'),('Recalcitrate','v. i.','To kick back; to kick against anything; hence, to\n   express repugnance or opposition.'),('Recalcitration','n.','A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance;\n   refractoriness.'),('Recall','v. t.','To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops;\n   to recall an ambassador.'),('Recall','v. t.','To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back;\n   to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.'),('Recall','v. t.','To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect;\n   to remember; as, to recall bygone days.'),('Recall','n.','A calling back; a revocation.'),('Recall','n.','A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers\n   are recalled from duty, labor, etc.'),('Recallable','a.','Capable of being recalled.'),('Recallment','n.','Recall.'),('Recanted','imp. & p. p.','of Recant'),('Recanting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Recant'),('Recant','v. t.','To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions\n   formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take\n   back openly; to retract; to recall.'),('Recant','v. i.','To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what\n   has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will\n   recant.'),('Recantation','n.','The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a\n   former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.'),('Recanter','n.','One who recants.'),('Recapacitate','v. t.','To qualify again; to confer capacity on again.'),('Recapitulate','v. t.','To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse,\n   argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points,\n   or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.'),('Recapitulate','v. i.','To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what\n   has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.'),('Recapitulation','n.','The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise\n   statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or\n   statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.'),('Recapitulator','n.','One who recapitulates.'),('Recapitulatory','a.','Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing\n   recapitulation.'),('Recapper','n.','A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer\n   to a cartridge shell in reloading it.'),('Recaption','n.','The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after\n   arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one\'s own goods, chattels, wife, or\n   children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and\n   who wrongfully detains them.'),('Recaptor','n.','One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been\n   previously taken.'),('Recapture','n.','The act of retaking or recovering by capture;\n   especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.'),('Recapture','n.','That which is captured back; a prize retaken.'),('Recapture','v. t.','To capture again; to retake.'),('Recarbonize','v. t.','To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in\n   converting it into steel.'),('Recarnify','v. t.','To convert again into flesh.'),('Recarriage','n.','Act of carrying back.'),('Recarry','v. t.','To carry back.'),('Recast','v. t.','To throw again.'),('Recast','v. t.','To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or\n   shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a\n   play.'),('Recast','v. t.','To compute, or cast up, a second time.'),('Recche','v. i.','To reck.'),('Reccheles','a.','Reckless.'),('Receded','imp. & p. p.','of Recede'),('Receding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Recede'),('Recede','v. i.','To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.'),('Recede','v. i.','To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to\n   relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a\n   demand or proposition.'),('Recede','v. i.','To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former\n   possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.'),('Receipt','n.','The act of receiving; reception.'),('Receipt','n.','Reception, as an act of hospitality.'),('Receipt','n.','Capability of receiving; capacity.'),('Receipt','n.','Place of receiving.'),('Receipt','n.','Hence, a recess; a retired place.'),('Receipt','n.','A formulary according to the directions of which things\n   are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge\n   cake.'),('Receipt','n.','A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods\n   delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.'),('Receipt','n.','That which is received; that which comes in, in\n   distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like;\n   -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand\n   dollars.'),('Receipted','imp. & p. p.','of Receipt'),('Receipting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Receipt'),('Receipt','v. t.','To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered\n   by a sheriff.'),('Receipt','v. t.','To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to\n   receipt a bill.'),('Receipt','v. i.','To give a receipt, as for money paid.'),('Receiptment','n.','The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after\n   the commission of a felony.'),('Receiptor','n.','One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts\n   for property which has been taken by the sheriff.'),('Receit','n.','Receipt.'),('Receivability','n.','The quality of being receivable; receivableness.'),('Receivable','a.','Capable of being received.'),('Received','imp. & p. p.','of Receive'),('Receiving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Receive'),('Receive','v. t.','To take, as something that is offered, given,\n   committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money\n   offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a\n   letter.'),('Receive','v. t.','Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind\n   by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion,\n   etc.; to embrace.'),('Receive','v. t.','To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give\n   credence or acceptance to.'),('Receive','v. t.','To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into\n   one\'s house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger,\n   visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.'),('Receive','v. t.','To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have\n   capacity for; to be able to take in.'),('Receive','v. t.','To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected\n   to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to\n   receive damage.'),('Receive','v. t.','To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.'),('Receive','v. t.','To bat back (the ball) when served.'),('Receive','v. i.','To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls;\n   as, she receives on Tuesdays.'),('Receive','v. i.','To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is\n   your turn to receive.'),('Receivedness','n.','The state or quality of being received, accepted, or\n   current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.'),('Receiver','n.','One who takes or receives in any manner.'),('Receiver','n.','A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive,\n   and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of\n   litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the\n   estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to\n   winding up its affairs, in certain cases.'),('Receiver','n.','One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing\n   them to be stolen.'),('Receiver','n.','A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the\n   like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.'),('Receiver','n.','A vessel for receiving and containing gases.'),('Receiver','n.','The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the\n   objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf.\n   Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.'),('Receiver','n.','A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the\n   high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a\n   compound engine.'),('Receiver','n.','A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant\n   boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.'),('Receiver','n.','That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar\n   system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed\n   to transmitter.'),('Receivership','n.','The state or office of a receiver.'),('Recelebrate','v. t.','To celebrate again, or anew.'),('Recency','n.','The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state;\n   late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a\n   transaction, of a wound, etc.'),('Recense','v. t.','To review; to revise.'),('Recension','n.','The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination;\n   enumeration.'),('Recension','n.','Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient\n   author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.'),('Recension','n.','The result of such a work; a text established by\n   critical revision; an edited version.'),('Recensionist','n.','One who makes recensions; specifically, a critical\n   editor.'),('Recent','a.','Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not\n   of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known,\n   familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent\n   news.'),('Recent','a.','Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as,\n   recent shells.'),('Recenter','v. t.','To center again; to restore to the center.'),('Recently','adv.','Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices\n   recently received.'),('Recentness','n.','Quality or state of being recent.'),('Receptacle','n.','That which serves, or is used, for receiving and\n   containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a\n   repository.'),('Receptacle','n.','The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of\n   the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of\n   Flower, and Ovary.'),('Receptacle','n.','The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common\n   support to a head of flowers.'),('Receptacle','n.','An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or\n   other matters.'),('Receptacle','n.','A special branch which bears the fructification in many\n   cryptogamous plants.'),('Receptacular','a.','Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as,\n   the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.'),('Receptacula','pl. ','of Receptaculum'),('Receptaculum','n.','A receptacle; as, the receptaculum of the chyle.'),('Receptary','a.','Generally or popularly admitted or received.'),('Receptary','n.','That which is received.'),('Receptibility','n.','The quality or state of being receptible;\n   receivableness.'),('Receptibility','n.','A receptible thing.'),('Receptible','a.','Such as may be received; receivable.'),('Reception','n.','The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the\n   reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the\n   reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.'),('Reception','n.','The state of being received.'),('Reception','n.','The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving\n   visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving\n   guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.'),('Reception','n.','Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.'),('Reception','n.','A retaking; a recovery.'),('Receptive','a.','Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to\n   take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a\n   receptive mind.'),('Receptiveness','n.','The quality of being receptive.'),('Receptivity','n.','The state or quality of being receptive.'),('Receptivity','n.','The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as\n   those of the external senses.'),('Receptory','n.','Receptacle.'),('Recess','n.','A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the\n   recess of the tides.'),('Recess','n.','The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.'),('Recess','n.','Remission or suspension of business or procedure;\n   intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.'),('Recess','n.','Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an\n   alcove, niche, etc.'),('Recess','n.','A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.'),('Recess','n.','Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses\n   of science.'),('Recess','n.','A sinus.'),('Recessed','imp. & p. p.','of Recess'),('Recessing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Recess'),('Recess','v. t.','To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.'),('Recess','n.','A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.'),('Recessed','a.','Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.'),('Recessed','a.','Withdrawn; secluded.'),('Recession','n.','The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a\n   claim, or a demand.'),('Recession','n.','The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession;\n   as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.'),('Recessional','a.','Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.'),('Recessive','a.','Going back; receding.'),('Rechabite','n.','One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab,\n   all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating\n   drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in\n   modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from\n   alcoholic liquors.'),('Rechange','v. t. & i.','To change again, or change back.'),('Recharge','v. t. & i.','To charge or accuse in return.'),('Recharge','v. t. & i.','To attack again; to attack anew.'),('Recharter','n.','A second charter; a renewal of a charter.'),('Recharter','v. t.','To charter again or anew; to grant a second or\n   another charter to.'),('Rechase','v. t.','To chase again; to chase or drive back.'),('Recheat','n.','A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when\n   they have lost track of the game.'),('Recheat','v. i.','To blow the recheat.'),('Recherche','a.','Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality,\n   elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.'),('Rechless','a.','Reckless.'),('Rechoose','v. t.','To choose again.'),('Recidivate','v. i.','To backslide; to fall again.'),('Recidivation','n.','A falling back; a backsliding.'),('Recidivous','a.','Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former\n   condition or habit.'),('Recipes','pl. ','of Recipe'),('Recipe','n.','A formulary or prescription for making some combination,\n   mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a\n   prescription for medicine.'),('Recipiangle','n.','An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together\n   at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for\n   measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.'),('Recipience','n.','Alt. of Recipiency'),('Recipiency','n.','The quality or state of being recipient; a receiving;\n   reception; receptiveness.'),('Recipient','n.','A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to\n   whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated;\n   specifically, the receiver of a still.'),('Recipient','a.','Receiving; receptive.'),('Reciprocal','a.','Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.'),('Reciprocal','a.','Done by each to the other; interchanging or\n   interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as,\n   reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.'),('Reciprocal','a.','Mutually interchangeable.'),('Reciprocal','a.','Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but\n   sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.'),('Reciprocal','a.','Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation;\n   often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given\n   quantities. See the Phrases below.'),('Reciprocal','n.','That which is reciprocal to another thing.'),('Reciprocal','n.','The quotient arising from dividing unity by any\n   quantity; thus, / is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a +b) is the reciprocal of\n   a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the\n   denominator divided by the numerator.'),('Reciprocality','n.','The quality or condition of being reciprocal;\n   reciprocalness.'),('Reciprocally','adv.','In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the\n   other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.'),('Reciprocally','adv.','In the manner of reciprocals.'),('Reciprocalness','n.','The quality or condition of being reciprocal;\n   mutual return; alternateness.'),('Reciprocated','imp. & p. p.','of Reciprocate'),('Reciprocating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Reciprocate'),('Reciprocate','v. i.','To move forward and backward alternately; to recur\n   in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.'),('Reciprocate','v. t.','To give and return mutually; to make return for; to\n   give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate\n   favors.'),('Reciprocation','n.','The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a\n   mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses.'),('Reciprocation','n.','Alternate recurrence or action; as, the\n   reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides.'),('Reciprocity','n.','Mutual action and reaction.'),('Reciprocity','n.','Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights;\n   reciprocation.'),('Reciprocornous','a.','Having horns turning backward and then forward,\n   like those of a ram.'),('Reciprocous','a.','Reciprocal.'),('Reciprok','a.','Reciprocal.'),('Reciproque','a. & n.','Reciprocal.'),('Recision','n.','The act of cutting off.'),('Recital','n.','The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of\n   another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.'),('Recital','n.','A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of\n   anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.'),('Recital','n.','That which is recited; a story; a narration.'),('Recital','n.','A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; --\n   distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or\n   violin recital.'),('Recital','n.','The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of\n   fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which\n   the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading\n   introductory to some positive allegation.'),('Recitation','n.','The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or\n   sentences.'),('Recitation','n.','The delivery before an audience of something committed\n   to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which\n   is so delivered.'),('Recitation','n.','The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their\n   instructor.'),('Recitative','n.','A species of musical recitation in which the words are\n   delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a\n   piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.'),('Recitative','a.','Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical\n   recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.'),('Recitativo','n.','Recitative.'),('Recited','imp. & p. p.','of Recite'),('Reciting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Recite'),('Recite','v. t.','To repeat, as something already prepared, written down,\n   committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed\n   document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of\n   an author, or of a deed or covenant.'),('Recite','v. t.','To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to\n   narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a\n   voyage.'),('Recite','v. t.','To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.'),('Recite','v. t.','To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.'),('Recite','v. i.','To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an\n   audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a\n   lesson learned.'),('Recite','n.','A recital.'),('Reciter','n.','One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.'),('Recked','imp. & p. p.','of Reck'),('Roughte','','of Reck'),('Recking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Reck'),('Reck','v. t.','To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.'),('Reck','v. t.','To concern; -- used impersonally.'),('Reck','v. i.','To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often\n   followed by of.'),('Reckless','a.','Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.'),('Reckless','a.','Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless.'),('Reckling','a.','Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child.'),('Reckling','n.','A weak child or animal.'),('Reckoned','imp. & p. p.','of Reckon'),('Reckoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Reckon'),('Reckon','v. t.','To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to\n   calculate.');
