INSERT INTO `entries` VALUES ('Counsel','n.','One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one\n   professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court;\n   also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a\n   case; as, the defendant has able counsel.'),('Counseled','imp. & p. p.','of Counsel'),('Counselled','','of Counsel'),('Counseling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counsel'),('Counselling','','of Counsel'),('Counsel','v. t.','To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as\n   a person.'),('Counsel','v. t.','To advise or recommend, as an act or course.'),('Counselable','a.','Willing to receive counsel or follow advice.'),('Counselable','a.','Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise.'),('Counselor','n.','One who counsels; an adviser.'),('Counselor','n.','A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign\n   or chief magistrate. [See under Consilor.]'),('Counselor','n.','One whose profession is to give advice in law, and\n   manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.'),('Counselorship','n.','The function and rank or office of a counselor.'),('Counted','imp. & p. p.','of Count'),('Counting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Count'),('Count','v. t.','To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose\n   of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number;\n   to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.'),('Count','v. t.','To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider\n   or esteem as belonging.'),('Count','v. t.','To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or\n   consider.'),('Count','v. i.','To number or be counted; to possess value or carry\n   weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some\n   party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.'),('Count','v. i.','To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.'),('Count','v. i.','To take account or note; -- with'),('Count','v. i.','To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a\n   count.'),('Count','v. t.','The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number\n   ascertained by counting.'),('Count','v. t.','An object of interest or account; value; estimation.'),('Count','v. t.','A formal statement of the plaintiff\'s case in court; in a\n   more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in\n   a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of\n   action or prosecution.'),('Count','n.','A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an\n   English earl.'),('Countable','a.','Capable of being numbered.'),('Counttenance','n.','Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect;\n   mien.'),('Counttenance','n.','The face; the features.'),('Counttenance','n.','Approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence,\n   favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement.'),('Counttenance','n.','Superficial appearance; show; pretense.'),('Countenanced','imp. & p. p.','of Countenance'),('Countenancing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countenance'),('Countenance','v. t.','To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to\n   abet.'),('Countenance','v. t.','To make a show of; to pretend.'),('Countenancer','n.','One who countenances, favors, or supports.'),('Counter','adv.','A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as,\n   counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.'),('Counter','v. t.','One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a\n   reckoner.'),('Counter','v. t.','A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in\n   reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.'),('Counter','v. t.','Money; coin; -- used in contempt.'),('Counter','v. t.','A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.'),('Counter','v. t.','A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine,\n   printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the\n   revolutions or the pulsations.'),('Counter','v. t.','A table or board on which money is counted and over\n   which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which\n   goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are\n   weighed or measured.'),('Counter','adv.','Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction;\n   contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.'),('Counter','adv.','In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a\n   hound that runs counter.'),('Counter','adv.','At or against the front or face.'),('Counter','a.','Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse;\n   antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter\n   poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.'),('Counter','adv.','The after part of a vessel\'s body, from the water line\n   to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.'),('Counter','adv.','Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under\n   part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as\n   equivalent to counter tenor.'),('Counter','adv.','The breast, or that part of a horse between the\n   shoulders and under the neck.'),('Counter','adv.','The back leather or heel part of a boot.'),('Counter','n.','An encounter.'),('Counter','v. i.','To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.'),('Counteracted','imp. & p. p.','of Counteract'),('Counteracting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counteract'),('Counteract','v. t.','To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or\n   frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the\n   effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.'),('Counteraction','n.','Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.'),('Counteractive','a.','Tending to counteract.'),('Counteractive','n.','One who, or that which, counteracts.'),('Counteractibely','adv.','By counteraction.'),('Counterbalanced','imp. & p. p.','of Counterbalance'),('Counterbalancing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counterbalance'),('Counterbalance','v. t.','To oppose with an equal weight or power; to\n   counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to\n   balance.'),('Counterbalance','n.','A weight, power, or agency, acting against or\n   balancing another'),('Counterbalance','n.','A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or\n   fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite\n   side of the wheel'),('Counterbalance','n.','A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything,\n   as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.'),('Counterbore','n.','A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth\n   of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical\n   screw head.'),('Counterbore','n.','A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges\n   normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a\n   flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.'),('Counterbore','v. t.','To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or\n   drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.'),('Counter brace','','The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a\n   vessel.'),('Counter brace','','A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain\n   of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to\n   receive.'),('Counterbrace','v. t.','To brace in opposite directions; as, to\n   counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the\n   after yards another.'),('Counterbrace','v. t.','To brace in such a way that opposite strains are\n   resisted; to apply counter braces to.'),('Counterbuff','v. t.','To strike or drive back or in an opposite\n   direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.'),('Counterbuff','n.','A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops\n   motion or cause a recoil.'),('Countercast','n.','A trick; a delusive contrivance.'),('Countercaster','n.','A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; --\n   used contemptuously.'),('Counterchanged','imp. & p. p.','of Counterchange'),('Counterchanging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counterchange'),('Counterchange','v. t.','To give and receive; to cause to change places;\n   to exchange.'),('Counterchange','v. t.','To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic\n   counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2.'),('Counterchange','n.','Exchange; reciprocation.'),('Counterchanged','a.','Exchanged.'),('Counterchanged','a.','Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if\n   the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne\n   counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side\n   will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.'),('Countercharge','n.','An opposing charge.'),('Countercharmed','imp. & p. p.','of Countercharm'),('Countercharming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countercharm'),('Countercharm','v. t.','To destroy the effect of a charm upon.'),('Countercharm','n.','That which has the power of destroying the effect of\n   a charm.'),('Counterchecked','imp. & p. p.','of Countercheck'),('Counterchecking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countercheck'),('Countercheck','v. t.','To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a\n   return check.'),('Countercheck','n.','A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a\n   reprover.'),('Countercheck','n.','Any force or device designed to restrain another\n   restraining force; a check upon a check.'),('Counterclaim','n.','A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made\n   on him.'),('Counter-compony','a.','See Compony.'),('Counter-couchant','a.','Lying down, with their heads in opposite\n   directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.'),('Counter-courant','a.','Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals\n   borne in a coast of arms.'),('Countercurrent','a.','Running in an opposite direction.'),('Countercurrent','n.','A current running in an opposite direction to the\n   main current.'),('Counterdrew','imp.','of Counterdraw'),('Counterdrawn','p. p.','of Counterdraw'),('Counterdrawing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counterdraw'),('Counterdraw','v. t.','To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a\n   pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.'),('Counterfaisance','n.','See Counterfesance.'),('Counterfeit','adv.','Representing by imitation or likeness; having a\n   resemblance to something else; portrayed.'),('Counterfeit','adv.','Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a\n   view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as,\n   counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin.'),('Counterfeit','adv.','Assuming the appearance of something; false;\n   spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.'),('Counterfeit','n.','That which resembles or is like another thing; a\n   likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.'),('Counterfeit','n.','That which is made in imitation of something, with a\n   view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note\n   was a counterfeit.'),('Counterfeit','n.','One who pretends to be what he is not; one who\n   personates another; an impostor; a cheat.'),('Counterfeited','imp. & p. p.','of Counterfeit'),('Counterfeiting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counterfeit'),('Counterfeit','v. t.','To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as,\n   to counterfeit the voice of another person.'),('Counterfeit','v. t.','To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the\n   copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to\n   counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.'),('Counterfeit','v. i.','To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to\n   pretend.'),('Counterfeit','v. i.','To make counterfeits.'),('Counterfeiter','n.','One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates;\n   especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.'),('Counterfeiter','n.','One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one\n   who makes false pretenses.'),('Counterfeitly','adv.','By forgery; falsely.'),('Counterfesance','a.','The act of forging; forgery.'),('Counterfleury','a.','Counterflory.'),('Counterflory','a.','Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so\n   divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others;\n   -- said of any ordinary.'),('Counterfoil','n.','That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which\n   was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock,\n   being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the\n   account; -- called also counterstock.'),('Counterfoil','n.','The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in\n   which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding\n   part, which has been issued.'),('Counterforce','n.','An opposing force.'),('Counterfort','n.','A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a\n   revetment wall.'),('Counterfort','n.','A spur or projection of a mountain.'),('Countergage','n.','An adjustable gage, with double points for\n   transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of\n   a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.'),('Counterguard','n.','A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting\n   of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and\n   protecting them from a breaching fire.'),('Counterirritant','n.','Alt. of Counterirritation'),('Counterirritation','n.','See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.'),('Counterirritate','v. t.','To produce counter irritation in; to treat with\n   one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.'),('Counterjumper','n.','A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used\n   contemptuously.'),('Countermen','pl. ','of Counterman'),('Counterman','n.','A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell\n   goods.'),('Countermanded','imp. & p. p.','of Countermand'),('Countermanding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countermand'),('Countermand','v. t.','To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind\n   by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand\n   an order for goods.'),('Countermand','v. t.','To prohibit; to forbid.'),('Countermand','v. t.','To oppose; to revoke the command of.'),('Countermand','n.','A contrary order; revocation of a former order or\n   command.'),('Countermandable','a.','Capable of being countermanded; revocable.'),('Countermarched','imp. & p. p.','of Countermarch'),('Countermarching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countermarch'),('Countermarch','v. i.','To march back, or to march in reversed order.'),('Countermarch','n.','A marching back; retrocession.'),('Countermarch','n.','An evolution by which a body of troops change front\n   or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the\n   front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front\n   one, either with or without changing the right to the left.'),('Countermarch','n.','A change of measures; alteration of conduct.'),('Countermark','n.','A mark or token added to those already existing, in\n   order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark\n   put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may\n   not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an\n   artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths\' Company of London,\n   to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to\n   an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it\n   was taken from an enemy.'),('Countermark','n.','An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that\n   have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.'),('Countermark','v. t.','To apply a countermark to; as, to countermark\n   silverware; to countermark a horse\'s teeth.'),('Countermine','n.','An underground gallery excavated to intercept and\n   destroy the mining of an enemy.'),('Countermine','n.','A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or\n   project is defeated.'),('Countermined','imp. & p. p.','of Countermine'),('Countermining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countermine'),('Countermine','v. t.','To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept\n   with a countermine.'),('Countermine','v. t.','To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.'),('Countermine','v. i.','To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot\n   secretly.'),('Countermove','v. t. & i.','To move in a contrary direction to.'),('Countermove','','Alt. of Countermovement'),('Countermovement','','A movement in opposition to another.'),('Countermure','n.','A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when\n   breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure.'),('Countermured','imp. & p. p.','of Countermure'),('Countermuring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countermure'),('Countermure','v. t.','To fortify with a wall behind another wall.'),('Counternatural','a.','Contrary to nature.'),('Counter-paly','a.','Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each\n   vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or\n   counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be\n   blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.'),('Counterpane','n.','A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven\n   in squares or figures.'),('Counterpane','n.','A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc.,\n   corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart.'),('Counterpart','n.','A part corresponding to another part; anything which\n   answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.'),('Counterpart','n.','One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a\n   duplicate.'),('Counterpart','n.','A person who closely resembles another.'),('Counterpart','n.','A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit\n   perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted\n   to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to\n   complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having\n   qualities lacking in another; an opposite.'),('Counterpassant','a.','Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two\n   animals.'),('Counterplead','v. t.','To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to\n   deny.'),('Counterplotted','imp. & p. p.','of Counterplot'),('Counterplotting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counterplot'),('Counterplot','v. t.','To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt\n   to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.'),('Counterplot','n.','A plot or artifice opposed to another.'),('Counterpoint','n.','An opposite point'),('Counterpoint','n.','The setting of note against note in harmony; the\n   adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody'),('Counterpoint','n.','The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e.,\n   melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.'),('Counterpoint','n.','Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic\n   music. See Polyphony.'),('Counterpoint','n.','A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or\n   broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane.'),('Counterpoised','imp. & p. p.','of Counterpoise'),('Counterpoising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counterpoise'),('Counterpoise','v. t.','To act against with equal weight; to equal in\n   weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.'),('Counterpoise','v. t.','To act against with equal power; to balance.'),('Counterpoise','n.','A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the\n   opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.'),('Counterpoise','n.','An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force\n   sufficient to balance another force.'),('Counterpoise','n.','The relation of two weights or forces which balance\n   each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.'),('Counterpole','n.','The exact opposite.'),('Counterponderate','v. t.','To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to\n   equiponderate.'),('Counterproved','imp. & p. p.','of Counterprove'),('Counterproving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counterprove'),('Counterprove','v. t.','To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse,\n   by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See\n   Counter proof, under Counter.'),('Counter-roll','n.','A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an\n   officer as a check upon another officer\'s roll.'),('Counterrolment','n.','A counter account. See Control.'),('Counter-salient','a.','Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on\n   a coast of arms.'),('Counterscale','n.','Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against\n   another.'),('Counterscarf','n.','The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; --\n   sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet\n   and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.'),('Countersealed','imp. & p. p.','of Counterseal'),('Countersealing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Counterseal'),('Counterseal','v. t.','To seal or ratify with another or others.'),('Countersecure','v. t.','To give additional security to or for.'),('Countershaft','n.','An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives\n   motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.'),('Countersigned','imp. & p. p.','of Countersign'),('Countersigning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countersign'),('Countersign','v. t.','To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or\n   writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or\n   superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.'),('Countersign','a.','The signature of a secretary or other officer to a\n   writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity.'),('Countersign','a.','A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given\n   in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.'),('Countersunk','imp. & p. p.','of Countersink'),('Countersinking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countersink'),('Countersink','v. t.','To chamfer or form a depression around the top of\n   (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw\n   or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink\n   a hole for a screw.'),('Countersink','v. t.','To cause to sink even with or below the surface;\n   as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork.'),('Countersink','n.','An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a\n   cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt.'),('Countersink','n.','A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.'),('Counterstand','n.','Resistance; opposition; a stand against.'),('Counterstep','n.','A contrary method of procedure; opposite course of\n   action.'),('Counterstock','n.','See Counterfoil.'),('Counterstroke','n.','A stroke or blow in return.'),('Countersunk','p. p. & a.','Chamfered at the top; -- said of a hole.'),('Countersunk','p. p. & a.','Sunk into a chamfer; as, a countersunk bolt.'),('Countersunk','p. p. & a.','Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a\n   chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead.'),('Countersway','n.','A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing\n   influence.'),('Counter tenor','','One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor\n   and the treble; high tenor.'),('Counterterm','n.','A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis\n   to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, \"foe\" is the\n   counterterm of \"friend\".'),('Countertime','n.','The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence\n   and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad\n   temper of the horse.'),('Countertime','n.','Resistance; opposition.'),('Countertrippant','a.','Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.'),('Countertripping','a.','Same as Countertrippant.'),('Counterturn','n.','The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to\n   expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties.'),('Countervailed','imp. & p. p.','of Countervail'),('Countervailing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Countervail'),('Countervail','v. t.','To act against with equal force, power, or effect;\n   to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or\n   for; to counterbalance; to compensate.'),('Countervail','n.','Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal\n   weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.'),('Countervallation','n.','See Contravallation.'),('Counterview','n.','An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in\n   which two persons front each other.'),('Counterview','n.','A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate\n   each other by opposition; contrast.'),('Countervote','v. t.','To vote in opposition to; to balance or overcome by\n   voting; to outvote.'),('Counterwait','v. t.','To wait or watch for; to be on guard against.'),('Counterweigh','v. t.','To weigh against; to counterbalance.'),('Counter weight','n.','A counterpoise.'),('Counterwheel','v. t.','To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite\n   direction.'),('Counterwork','v. t.','To work in opposition to; to counteract.'),('Countesses','pl. ','of Countess'),('Countess','n.','The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count\n   in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity\n   in her own right. See the Note under Count.'),('Countinghouse','v.','Alt. of Countingroom'),('Countingroom','v.','The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or\n   manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.'),('Countless','a.','Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable;\n   innumerable.'),('Countor','v. t.','An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted\n   for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause.'),('Countour','n.','Alt. of Countourhouse'),('Countourhouse','n.','A merchant\'s office; a countinghouse.'),('Countre-','','Same as prefix Counter-.'),('Countreplete','v. t.','To counterplead.'),('Countretaille','n.','A counter tally; correspondence (in sound).'),('Countrified','p. a.','Having the appearance and manners of a rustic;\n   rude.'),('Countrify','v. t.','To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear\n   rustic.'),('Countries','pl. ','of Country'),('Country','adv.','A tract of land; a region; the territory of an\n   independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a\n   personal pronoun) the region of one\'s birth, permanent residence, or\n   citizenship.'),('Country','adv.','Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.'),('Country','adv.','The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the\n   populace; the public. Hence: (a) One\'s constituents. (b) The whole body\n   of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the\n   country.'),('Country','adv.','A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.'),('Country','adv.','The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is\n   drawn.'),('Country','adv.','The rock through which a vein runs.'),('Country','a.','Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural;\n   rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as\n   opposed to city.'),('Country','a.','Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not\n   urbane; as, country manners.'),('Country','a.','Pertaining, or peculiar, to one\'s own country.'),('Country-base','n.','Same as Prison base.'),('Country-dance','n.','See Contradance.'),('Countrymen','pl. ','of Countryman'),('Countryman','n.','An inhabitant or native of a region.'),('Countryman','n.','One born in the same country with another; a\n   compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun.'),('Countryman','n.','One who dwells in the country, as distinguished from a\n   townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer.'),('Country seat','','A dwelling in the country, used as a place of\n   retirement from the city.'),('Countryside','n.','A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.'),('Countrywomen','pl. ','of Countrywoman'),('Countrywoman','n.','A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed\n   to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another\n   native or inhabitant.'),('Count-wheel','n.','The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of\n   strokes.'),('Counties','pl. ','of County'),('County','n.','An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.'),('County','n.','A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom,\n   separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the\n   administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire.\n   See Shire.'),('County','n.','A count; an earl or lord.'),('Coup','n.','A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term\n   used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.'),('Coupable','a.','Culpable.'),('Coupe','n.','The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front\n   compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British\n   railways.'),('Coupe','n.','A four-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with\n   an outside seat for the driver; -- so called because giving the\n   appearance of a larger carriage cut off.'),('Couped','a.','Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used\n   especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.'),('Coupee','n.','A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and\n   raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.'),('Coupe-gorge','n.','Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the\n   troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.'),('Couple','a.','That which joins or links two things together; a bond or\n   tie; a coupler.'),('Couple','a.','Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a\n   pair; a brace.'),('Couple','a.','A male and female associated together; esp., a man and\n   woman who are married or betrothed.'),('Couple','a.','See Couple-close.'),('Couple','a.','One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a\n   voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.'),('Couple','a.','Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount\n   but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around\n   parallel axes.'),('Coupled','imp. & p. p.','of Couple'),('Coupling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Couple'),('Couple','v.','To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or\n   fasten together; to join.'),('Couple','v.','To join in wedlock; to marry.'),('Couple','v. i.','To come together as male and female; to copulate.'),('Couple-beggar','n.','One who makes it his business to marry beggars to\n   each other.'),('Couple-closes','pl. ','of Couple-close'),('Couple-close','n.','A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of\n   its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a\n   chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two\n   couple-closes or chevron cottised.'),('Couple-close','n.','A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at\n   their feet, or with a collar beam.'),('Couplement','n.','Union; combination; a coupling; a pair.'),('Coupler','n.','One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or\n   shackle, to connect cars.'),('Couplet','n.','Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines\n   of verse that rhyme with each other.'),('Coupling','n.','The act of bringing or coming together; connection;\n   sexual union.'),('Coupling','n.','A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect\n   adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends\n   of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft\n   coupling, which connects the ends of shafts.'),('Coupon','n.','A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of\n   transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years,\n   designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is\n   due; an interest warrant.'),('Coupon','n.','A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to\n   some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a\n   designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.'),('Coupure','n.','A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by\n   the besieged.'),('Courage','n.','The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.'),('Courage','n.','Heart; inclination; desire; will.'),('Courage','n.','That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger\n   and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart;\n   valor; boldness; resolution.'),('Couage','v. t.','To inspire with courage.'),('Courageous','a.','Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.'),('Courageously','adv.','In a courageous manner.'),('Courageousness','n.','The quality of being courageous; courage.'),('Courant','a.','Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat\n   of arms.'),('Courant','p. pr.','A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance;\n   a coranto.'),('Courant','p. pr.','A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.'),('Couranto','n.','A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.'),('Courap','n.','A skin disease, common in India, in which there is\n   perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and\n   face.'),('Courb','a.','Curved; rounded.'),('Courb','v. i.','To bend; to stop; to bow.'),('Courbaril','n.','See Anime, n.'),('Courche','n.','A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of\n   a cap; a kerchief.'),('Courier','n.','A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or\n   dispatches, usually on public business.'),('Courier','n.','An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make\n   arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.'),('Courlan','n.','A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the\n   rails.'),('Course','n.','The act of moving from one point to another; progress;\n   passage.'),('Course','n.','The ground or path traversed; track; way.'),('Course','n.','Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction\n   or to its goal; line progress or advance.'),('Course','n.','Progress from point to point without change of direction;\n   any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a\n   straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes\n   many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations;\n   also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course\n   of a race.'),('Course','n.','Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly\n   progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the\n   course of an argument.'),('Course','n.','Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of\n   events according to natural laws.'),('Course','n.','Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct;\n   behavior.'),('Course','n.','A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession\n   of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a\n   course of lectures on chemistry.'),('Course','n.','The succession of one to another in office or duty; order;\n   turn.'),('Course','n.','That part of a meal served at one time, with its\n   accompaniments.'),('Course','n.','A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same\n   height throughout the face or faces of a building.'),('Course','n.','The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as,\n   the fore course, main course, etc.'),('Course','n.','The menses.'),('Coursed','imp. & p. p.','of Course'),('Coursing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Course'),('Course','v. t.','To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to\n   pursue.'),('Course','v. t.','To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course\n   greyhounds after deer.'),('Course','v. t.','To run through or over.'),('Course','v. i.','To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport\n   of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.'),('Course','v. i.','To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses\n   through the veins.'),('Coursed','a.','Hunted; as, a coursed hare.'),('Coursed','a.','Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.'),('Courser','n.','One who courses or hunts.'),('Courser','n.','A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a\n   charger.'),('Courser','n.','A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor),\n   remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense,\n   applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.'),('Coursey','n.','A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.'),('Coursing','n.','The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by\n   sight instead of by scent.'),('Court','n.','An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by\n   the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space\n   opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.'),('Court','n.','The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether\n   dignitary; a palace.'),('Court','n.','The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a\n   sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a\n   sovereign in his regal state.'),('Court','n.','Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to\n   hold a court.'),('Court','n.','Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address\n   designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment;\n   flattery.'),('Court','n.','The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.'),('Court','n.','The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at\n   the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an\n   official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial\n   business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.'),('Court','n.','A tribunal established for the administration of justice.'),('Court','n.','The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or\n   jury, or both.'),('Court','n.','The session of a judicial assembly.'),('Court','n.','Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.'),('Court','n.','A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one\n   of the divisions of a tennis court.'),('Courted','imp. & p. p.','of Court'),('Courting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Court'),('Court','v. t.','To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or\n   flattery; to try to ingratiate one\'s self with.'),('Court','v. t.','To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in\n   marriage; to woo.'),('Court','v. t.','To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.'),('Court','v. t.','To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.'),('Court','v. i.','To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.'),('Court-baron','n.','An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a\n   manor, and held by the steward; a baron\'s court; -- now fallen into\n   disuse.'),('Courtbred','a.','Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.'),('Court-craft','n.','The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.'),('Court-cupboard','n.','A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and\n   other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions.'),('Courteous','a.','Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of,\n   courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred;\n   polite; affable; complaisant.'),('Courteously','adv.','In a courteous manner.'),('Courteousness','n.','The quality of being courteous; politeness;\n   courtesy.'),('Courtepy','n.','A short coat of coarse cloth.'),('Courter','n.','One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits\n   in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles.'),('Courtesan','n.','A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute;\n   a harlot.'),('Courtesanship','n.','Harlotry.'),('Courtesies','pl. ','of Courtesy'),('Courtesy','n.','Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.'),('Courtesy','n.','An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or\n   favor performed with politeness.'),('Courtesy','n.','Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a\n   title given one by courtesy.'),('Courtesy','n.','An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women,\n   consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending\n   of the knees.'),('Courtesied','imp. & p. p.','of Courtesy'),('Courtesying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Courtesy'),('Courtesy','v. i.','To make a respectful salutation or movement of\n   respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with\n   bending of the knes.'),('Courtesy','v. t.','To treat with civility.'),('Courtehouse','n.','A house in which established courts are held, or a\n   house appropriated to courts and public meetings.'),('Courtehouse','n.','A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some\n   others of the Southern States.'),('Courtier','n.','One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one\n   who has an appointment at court.'),('Courtier','n.','One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.'),('Courtiery','n.','The manners of a courtier; courtliness.'),('Court-leet','n.','A court of record held once a year, in a particular\n   hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.'),('Courtlike','a.','After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.'),('Courtliness','n.','The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of\n   manners.'),('Courtling','n.','A sycophantic courtier.'),('Courtly','a.','Relating or belonging to a court.'),('Courtly','a.','Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.'),('Courtly','a.','Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party\n   of the court; obsequious.'),('Courtly','adv.','In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully;\n   elegantly.'),('Courts-martial','pl. ','of Court-martial'),('Court-martial','n.','A court consisting of military or naval officers,\n   for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses\n   against military or naval law.'),('Court-martialed','imp. & p. p.','of Court-martial'),('Court-martialing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Court-martial'),('Court-martial','v. t.','To subject to trial by a court-martial.'),('Court-plaster','n.','Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on\n   one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass\n   and glycerin.'),('Courtship','n.','The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a\n   favor.'),('Courtship','n.','The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to\n   marriage.'),('Courtship','n.','Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy.'),('Courtship','n.','Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a\n   court; court-craft; finesse.'),('Court tennis','','See under Tennis.'),('Courtyard','n.','A court or inclosure attached to a house.'),('Couscous','n.','A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa,\n   made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called\n   also lalo.'),('Couscousou','n.','A favorite dish in Barbary. See Couscous.'),('Cousin','n.','One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or\n   sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.'),('Cousin','n.','A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman,\n   particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by\n   the crown, it signifies any earl.'),('Cousin','n.','Allied; akin.'),('Cousinage','n.','Relationship; kinship.'),('Cousin-german','n.','A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.'),('Cousinhood','n.','The state or condition of a cousin; also, the\n   collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.'),('Cousinly','a.','Like or becoming a cousin.'),('Cousinry','n.','A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of\n   persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or\n   persons.'),('Cousinship','n.','The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins;\n   cousinhood.'),('Coussinet','n.','A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the\n   first stone of an arch.'),('Coussinet','n.','That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and\n   quarter round, which forms the volute.'),('Couteau','n.','A knife; a dagger.'),('Couth','imp. & p. p.','Could; was able; knew or known; understood.'),('Couvade','n.','A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a\n   woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.'),('Covariant','n.','A function involving the coefficients and the variables\n   of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed\n   the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal\n   to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like\n   function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.'),('Cove','n.','A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek,\n   or bay; a recess in the shore.'),('Cove','n.','A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in\n   the side of a mountain.'),('Cove','n.','A concave molding.'),('Cove','n.','A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially\n   with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.'),('Coved','imp. & p. p.','of Cove'),('Coving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cove'),('Cove','v. t.','To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make\n   in the form of a cove.'),('Cove','v. t.','To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.'),('Cove','n.','A boy or man of any age or station.'),('Covelline','n.','Alt. of Covellite'),('Covellite','n.','A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a\n   dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.'),('Covenable','a.','Fit; proper; suitable.'),('Covenably','adv.','Fitly; suitably.'),('Covenant','n.','A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or\n   one of the stipulations in such an agreement.'),('Covenant','n.','An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and\n   by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in\n   Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the\n   \"Solemn League and Covenant.\"'),('Covenant','n.','The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures,\n   conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience,\n   repentance, faith, etc.'),('Covenant','n.','A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain\n   its faith, discipline, etc.'),('Covenant','n.','An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing\n   and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract;\n   a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of\n   agreement.'),('Covenant','n.','A form of action for the violation of a promise or\n   contract under seal.'),('Covenanted','imp. & p. p.','of Covenant'),('Covenanting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Covenant'),('Covenant','v. i.','To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to\n   bind one\'s self by contract; to make a stipulation.'),('Covenant','v. t.','To grant or promise by covenant.'),('Covenantee','n.','The person in whose favor a covenant is made.'),('Covenanter','n.','One who makes a covenant.'),('Covenanter','n.','One who subscribed and defended the \"Solemn League and\n   Covenant.\" See Covenant.'),('Covenanting','a.','Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to\n   the Scotch Covenanters.'),('Covenantor','n.','The party who makes a covenant.'),('Covenous','a.','See Covinous, and Covin.'),('Covent','n.','A convent or monastery.'),('Coventry','n.','A town in the county of Warwick, England.'),('Covered','imp. & p. p.','of Cover'),('Covering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cover'),('Cover','v. t.','To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another;\n   as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.'),('Cover','v. t.','To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.'),('Cover','v. t.','To invest (one\'s self with something); to bring upon\n   (one\'s self); as, he covered himself with glory.'),('Cover','v. t.','To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were\n   covered from our sight by the woods.'),('Cover','v. t.','To brood or sit on; to incubate.'),('Cover','v. t.','To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to\n   defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.'),('Cover','v. t.','To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.'),('Cover','v. t.','To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend,\n   include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a\n   mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all\n   possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.'),('Cover','v. t.','To put the usual covering or headdress on.'),('Cover','v. t.','To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers\n   a mare; -- said of the male.'),('Cover','n.','Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or\n   over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.'),('Cover','n.','Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a\n   cloak.'),('Cover','n.','Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of\n   the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.'),('Cover','n.','The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game;\n   covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.'),('Cover','n.','The lap of a slide valve.'),('Cover','n.','A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table\n   furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for\n   fifty guests.'),('Cover','v. i.','To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.'),('Coverchief','n.','A covering for the head.'),('Covercle','n.','A small cover; a lid.'),('Covered','a.','Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.'),('Coverer','n.','One who, or that which, covers.'),('Covering','n.','Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a\n   wrapper, clothing, etc.'),('Coverlet','n.','The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of\n   furniture.'),('Coverlid','n.','A coverlet.'),('Cover-point','n.','The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who\n   supports \"point.\"'),('Coversed sine','','The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle.\n   See Illust. of Functions.'),('Cover-shame','n.','Something used to conceal infamy.'),('Covert','v. t.','Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.'),('Covert','v. t.','Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as,\n   a covert nook.'),('Covert','v. t.','Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert,\n   a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and\n   control of her husband.'),('Covert','a.','A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.'),('Covert','a.','One of the special feathers covering the bases of the\n   quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.'),('Covert baron','','Under the protection of a husband; married.'),('Covertly','adv.','Secretly; in private; insidiously.'),('Covertness','n.','Secrecy; privacy.'),('Coverture','n.','Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.'),('Coverture','n.','The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is\n   considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her\n   husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.'),('Covered','imp. & p. p.','of Covet'),('Coveting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Covet'),('Covet','v. t.','To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; --\n   used in a good sense.'),('Covet','v. t.','To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after\n   (something forbidden).'),('Covet','v. i.','To have or indulge inordinate desire.'),('Covetable','a.','That may be coveted; desirable.'),('Coveter','n.','One who covets.'),('Covetise','v. t.','Avarice.'),('Covetiveness','n.','Acquisitiveness.'),('Covetous','v. t.','Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good\n   sense.'),('Covetous','v. t.','Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and\n   possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.'),('Covetously','adv.','In a covetous manner.'),('Covetousness','n.','Strong desire.'),('Covetousness','n.','A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and\n   possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; --\n   in a bad sense.'),('Covey','n.','A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of\n   young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of\n   game; as, a covey of partridges.'),('Covey','n.','A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.'),('Covey','v. i.','To brood; to incubate.'),('Covey','n.','A pantry.'),('Covin','n.','A collusive agreement between two or more persons to\n   prejudice a third.'),('Covin','n.','Deceit; fraud; artifice.'),('Covinous','a.','Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.'),('Cow','n.','A chimney cap; a cowl'),('Cows','pl. ','of Cow'),('Kine','pl. ','of Cow'),('Cow','n.','The mature female of bovine animals.'),('Cow','n.','The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.'),('Cowed','imp. & p. p.','of Cow'),('Cowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cow'),('Cow','v. t.','To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of;\n   to overawe.'),('Cow','n.','A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a\n   chock.'),('Cowage','n.','See Cowhage.'),('Cowan','n.','One who works as a mason without having served a regular\n   apprenticeship.'),('Coward','a.','Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his\n   legs; -- said of a lion.'),('Coward','a.','Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.'),('Coward','a.','Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of,\n   base fear or timidity.'),('Coward','n.','A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous\n   person; a poltroon.'),('Coward','v. t.','To make timorous; to frighten.'),('Cowardice','n.','Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity;\n   pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.'),('Cowardie','n.','Cowardice.'),('Cowardish','a.','Cowardly.'),('Cowardize','v. t. ','To render cowardly'),('Cowardliness','n.','Cowardice.'),('Cowardly','a.','Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful;\n   pusillanimous; spiritless.'),('Cowardly','a.','Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences;\n   befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.'),('Cowardly','adv.','In the manner of a coward.'),('Cowardship','n.','Cowardice.'),('Cowbane','n.','A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta\n   virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora\n   rigida. See Water hemlock.'),('Cowberries','pl. ','of Cowberry'),('Cowberry','n.','A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid\n   red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called\n   mountain cranberry.'),('Cowbird','n.','The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling.\n   Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the\n   nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with\n   cattle.'),('Cowblakes','n. pl.','Dried cow dung used as fuel.'),('Cowboy','n.','A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an\n   adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western\n   and Southwestern United States.'),('Cowboy','n.','One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested\n   the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and\n   committed depredations on the Americans.'),('Cowcatxjer','n.','A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars,\n   in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off\n   obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot.'),('Cowdie','n.','See Kauri.'),('Cowered','imp. & p. p.','of Cower'),('Cowering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cower'),('Cower','v. i.','To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat;\n   hence, to quail; to sink through fear.'),('Cower','v. t.','To cherish with care.'),('Cowfish','n.','The grampus.'),('Cowfish','n.','A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).'),('Cowfish','n.','A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and\n   allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; --\n   called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.'),('Cowhage','n.','A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having\n   crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers,\n   causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in\n   medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.'),('Cowhearted','a.','Cowardly.'),('Cowherd','n.','One whose occupation is to tend cows.'),('Cowhide','n.','The hide of a cow.'),('Cowhide','n.','Leather made of the hide of a cow.'),('Cowhide','n.','A coarse whip made of untanned leather.'),('Cowhided','imp. & p. p.','of Cowhide'),('Cowhiding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cowhide'),('Cowhide','v. t.','To flog with a cowhide.'),('Cowish','v. t.','Timorous; fearful; cowardly.'),('Cowish','n.','An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible\n   tuberous roots, found in Oregon.'),('Cowitch','n.','See Cowhage.'),('Cowl','n.','A monk\'s hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was\n   also applied to the hood and garment together.'),('Cowl','n.','A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to\n   improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.'),('Cowl','n.','A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.'),('Cowl','n.','A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for\n   conveyance of water.'),('Cowled','a.','Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk.'),('Cowleech','n.','One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.'),('Cowleeching','n.','Healing the distemper of cows.'),('Cowlick','n.','A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the\n   forehead), as if licked by a cow.'),('Cowlike','a.','Resembling a cow.'),('Cowlstaff','n.','A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between\n   two persons.'),('Coworker','n.','One who works with another; a co/perator.'),('Cow parsley','','An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chaerophyllum (C.\n   temulum and C. sylvestre).'),('Cow parsnip','','A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H.\n   sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).'),('Cowpea','n.','The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus\n   Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the\n   southern part of the United States.'),('Cowper\'s glands','','Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.'),('Cow-pilot','n.','A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the\n   West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.'),('Cowpock','n.','See Cowpox.'),('Cowpox','n.','A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when\n   communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the\n   smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.'),('Cowquake','n.','A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.'),('Cowrie','n.','Same as Kauri.'),('Cowries','pl. ','of Cowry'),('Cowrie','n.','Alt. of Cowry'),('Cowry','n.','A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.'),('Cowslip','n.','A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow\n   blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the\n   United States.'),('Cowslip','n.','In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha\n   palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a\n   pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See\n   Illust. of Marsh marigold.'),('Cowslipped','a.','Adorned with cowslips.'),('Cow\'s lungwort','','Mullein.'),('Cow tree','','A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of\n   South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid,\n   resembling milk.'),('Cowweed','n.','Same as Cow parsley.'),('Cowwheat','n.','A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found\n   on European wheatfields.'),('Cox','n.','A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.'),('Coxa','n.','The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.'),('Coxalgia','n.','Alt. of Coxalgy'),('Coxalgy','n.','Pain in the hip.'),('Coxcomb','n.','A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock,\n   which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.'),('Coxcomb','n.','The cap itself.'),('Coxcomb','n.','The top of the head, or the head itself'),('Coxcomb','n.','A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of\n   display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a\n   fop.'),('Coxcomb','n.','A name given to several plants of different genera, but\n   particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as\n   Cockscomb.'),('Coxcombical','a.','Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb;\n   foppish; conceited.'),('Coxcombly','a.','like a coxcomb.'),('Coxcombry','n.','The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.'),('Coxcomical','a.','Coxcombical.'),('Coxcomically','adv.','Conceitedly.'),('Coxswain','n.','See Cockswain.'),('Coy','a.','Quiet; still.'),('Coy','a.','Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful;\n   shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication\n   of coquetry.'),('Coy','a.','Soft; gentle; hesitating.'),('Coyed','imp. & p. p.','of Coy'),('Coying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Coy'),('Coy','v. t.','To allure; to entice; to decoy.'),('Coy','v. t.','To caress with the hand; to stroke.'),('Coy','v. i.','To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach\n   or familiarity.'),('Coy','v. i.','To make difficulty; to be unwilling.'),('Coyish','a.','Somewhat coy or reserved.'),('Coyly','adv.','In a coy manner; with reserve.'),('Coyness','n.','The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness\n   to become familiar; reserve.'),('Coyote','n.','A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog,\n   found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie\n   wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill\n   howl.'),('Coypu','n.','A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the\n   beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria.'),('Coystrel','n.','Same as Coistril.'),('Coz','n.','A contraction of cousin.'),('Cozened','imp. & p. p.','of Cozen'),('Cozening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cozen'),('Cozen','v. t.','To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by\n   small arts, or in a pitiful way.'),('Cozen','v. i.','To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.'),('Cozenage','n.','The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.'),('Cozener','n.','One who cheats or defrauds.'),('Cozier','n.','See Cosier.'),('Cozily','adv.','Snugly; comfortably.'),('Coziness','n.','The state or quality of being cozy.'),('Cozy','superl.','Snug; comfortable; easy; contented.'),('Cozy','superl.','Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar.'),('Cozy','a.','A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the\n   contents hot.'),('Crab','n.','One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and\n   usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or\n   carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.'),('Crab','n.','The zodiacal constellation Cancer.'),('Crab','a.','A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.'),('Crab','a.','A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.'),('Crab','a.','A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with\n   derricks, etc.'),('Crab','a.','A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into\n   dock, etc.'),('Crab','a.','A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.'),('Crab','a.','A claw for anchoring a portable machine.'),('Crab','v. t.','To make sour or morose; to embitter.'),('Crab','v. t.','To beat with a crabstick.'),('Crab','v. i.','To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.'),('Crab','a.','Sour; rough; austere.'),('Crabbed','n.','Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or\n   moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition,\n   or manners.'),('Crabbed','n.','Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; --\n   applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.'),('Crabbed','n.','Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed\n   author.'),('Crabbed','n.','Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting.'),('Crabber','n.','One who catches crabs.'),('Crabbing','n.','The act or art of catching crabs.'),('Crabbing','n.','The fighting of hawks with each other.'),('Crabbing','n.','A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.'),('Crabbish','a.','Somewhat sour or cross.'),('Crabby','a.','Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.'),('Crabeater','n.','The cobia.'),('Crabeater','n.','An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States\n   (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).'),('Crabeater','n.','A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied\n   species).'),('Craber','n.','The water rat.'),('Crabfaced','a.','Having a sour, disagreeable countenance.'),('Crabsidle','v. i.','To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular].'),('Crabstick','n.','A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab\n   tree.'),('Crab tree','','See under Crab.'),('Crab-yaws','n.','A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on\n   the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.'),('Crache','v.','To scratch.'),('Cracked','imp. & p. p.','of Crack'),('Cracking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crack'),('Crack','v. t.','To break or burst, with or without entire separation of\n   the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.'),('Crack','v. t.','To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow;\n   hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.'),('Crack','v. t.','To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to\n   crack a whip.'),('Crack','v. t.','To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.'),('Crack','v. t.','To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.'),('Crack','v. i.','To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without\n   quite separating into parts.'),('Crack','v. i.','To be ruined or impaired; to fail.'),('Crack','v. i.','To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.'),('Crack','v. i.','To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with\n   of.'),('Crack','n.','A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible\n   opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in\n   timber, or in a wall, or in glass.'),('Crack','n.','Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.'),('Crack','n.','A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything\n   suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack\n   of thunder; the crack of a whip.'),('Crack','n.','The tone of voice when changed at puberty.'),('Crack','n.','Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he\n   has a crack.'),('Crack','n.','A crazy or crack-brained person.'),('Crack','n.','A boast; boasting.'),('Crack','n.','Breach of chastity.'),('Crack','n.','A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.'),('Crack','n.','A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.'),('Crack','n.','Free conversation; friendly chat.'),('Crack','a.','Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.'),('Crack-brained','a.','Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.'),('Cracked','a.','Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.'),('Cracked','a.','Crack-brained.'),('Cracker','n.','One who, or that which, cracks.'),('Cracker','n.','A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.'),('Cracker','n.','A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed\n   in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp\n   noise; -- often called firecracker.'),('Cracker','n.','A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston\n   cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.'),('Cracker','n.','A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the\n   Southern United States.'),('Cracker','n.','The pintail duck.'),('Cracker','n.','A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.'),('Crackle','v. i.','To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden\n   noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning\n   thorns crackle.'),('Crackle','n.','The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a\n   crackling.'),('Crackle','n.','A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal\n   states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.'),('Crackle','n.','A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine\n   earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be\n   cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as,\n   Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.'),('Crackled','a.','Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some\n   kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.'),('Crackleware','n.','See Crackle, n., 3.'),('Crackling','n.','The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently\n   repeated.'),('Crackling','n.','The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.'),('Crackling','n.','Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.'),('Cracknel','v. t.','A hard brittle cake or biscuit.'),('Cracksmen','pl. ','of Cracksman'),('Cracksman','n.','A burglar.'),('Cracovian','a.','Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.'),('Cracovienne','n.','A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.'),('Cracowes','n. pl.','Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts\n   of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first\n   worn in the fourteenth century.'),('Cradle','n.','A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging\n   on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured\n   or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime;\n   the cradle of liberty.'),('Cradle','n.','Infancy, or very early life.'),('Cradle','n.','An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting\n   grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to\n   receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.'),('Cradle','n.','A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking\n   motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the\n   ground.'),('Cradle','n.','A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or\n   rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy\n   guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in\n   launching a ship.'),('Cradle','n.','A case for a broken or dislocated limb.'),('Cradle','n.','A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the\n   person.'),('Cradle','n.','A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth;\n   -- also called a rocker.'),('Cradle','n.','A suspended scaffold used in shafts.'),('Cradle','n.','The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be\n   covered with plaster.'),('Cradle','n.','The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made\n   fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from\n   the wreck.'),('Cradled','imp. & p. p.','of Cradle'),('Cradling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cradle'),('Cradle','v. t.','To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or\n   quiet, as by rocking.'),('Cradle','v. t.','To nurse or train in infancy.'),('Cradle','v. t.','To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.'),('Cradle','v. t.','To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.'),('Cradle','v. i.','To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.'),('Cradling','n.','The act of using a cradle.'),('Cradling','n.','Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it\n   to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and\n   rehooped.'),('Cradling','n.','The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the\n   laths are nailed.'),('Craft','n.','Strength; might; secret power.'),('Craft','n.','Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment;\n   hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.'),('Craft','n.','Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as,\n   the craft of ironmongers.'),('Craft','n.','Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad\n   purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect\n   purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.'),('Craft','n.','A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a\n   collective sense.'),('Craft','v. t.','To play tricks; to practice artifice.'),('Craftily','adv.','With craft; artfully; cunningly.'),('Craftiness','n.','Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning;\n   artifice; stratagem.'),('Craftless','a.','Without craft or cunning.'),('Craftsmen','pl. ','of Craftsman'),('Craftsman','n.','One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an\n   artificer; a mechanic.'),('Craftsmanship','n.','The work of a craftsman.'),('Craftsmaster','n.','One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior\n   cunning.'),('Crafty','a.','Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill;\n   dexterous.'),('Crafty','a.','Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.'),('Crafty','a.','Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft;\n   cunning; wily.'),('Crag','n.','A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a\n   rock, on a ledge.'),('Crag','n.','A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the\n   Tertiary age.'),('Crag','n.','The neck or throat'),('Crag','n.','The neck piece or scrag of mutton.'),('Cragged','a.','Full of crags, or steep, broken //cks; abounding with\n   prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.'),('Cradgedness','n.','The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.'),('Cragginess','n.','The state of being craggy.'),('Craggy','a.','Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as,\n   the craggy side of a mountain.'),('Cragsmen','pl. ','of Cragsman'),('Cragsman','n.','One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who\n   makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the\n   eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.'),('Craie','n.','See Crare.'),('Craig flounder','','The pole flounder.'),('Crail','n.','A creel or osier basket.'),('Crake','v. t. & i.','To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called\n   crake.'),('Crake','v. t. & i.','To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.'),('Crake','n.','A boast. See Crack, n.'),('Crake','n.','Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so\n   called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.'),('Crakeberry','n.','See Crowberry.'),('Craker','n.','One who boasts; a braggart.'),('Crammed','imp. & p. p.','of Cram'),('Cramming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cram'),('Cram','v. t.','To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in\n   thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to\n   superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with\n   people.'),('Cram','v. t.','To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.'),('Cram','v. t.','To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing\n   or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed\n   by his tutor.'),('Cram','v. i.','To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.'),('Cram','v. i.','To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an\n   examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.'),('Cram','n.','The act of cramming.'),('Cram','n.','Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an\n   examination.'),('Cram','n.','A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent\n   or split of the reed.'),('Crambo','a.','A game in which one person gives a word, to which another\n   finds a rhyme.'),('Crambo','a.','A word rhyming with another word.'),('Crammer','n.','One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for\n   an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.'),('Cramoisie','a.','Alt. of Cramoisy'),('Cramoisy','a.','Crimson.'),('Cramp','n.','That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a\n   hindrance.'),('Cramp','n.','A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold\n   together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.'),('Cramp','n.','A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for\n   compressing the joints of framework, etc.'),('Cramp','n.','A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the\n   upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is\n   stretched to give it the requisite shape.'),('Cramp','n.','A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle\n   or muscles, as of the leg.'),('Cramped','imp. & p. p.','of Cramp'),('Cramping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cramp'),('Cramp','v. t.','To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and\n   contract; to hinder.'),('Cramp','v. t.','To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.'),('Cramp','v. t.','to bind together; to unite.'),('Cramp','v. t.','To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.'),('Cramp','v. t.','To afflict with cramp.'),('Cramp','n.','Knotty; difficult.'),('Crampet','n.','A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.'),('Crampfish','n.','The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives\n   an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.'),('Cramp iron','','See Cramp, n., 2.'),('Crampit','n.','See Crampet.'),('Crampon','n.','An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.'),('Cramponee','a.','Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a\n   cross so furnished.'),('Crampoons','n.','A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double\n   calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.'),('Crampoons','n.','Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to\n   assist in gaining or keeping a foothold.'),('Crampy','','Affected with cramp.'),('Crampy','','Productive of, or abounding in, cramps.'),('Cran','n.','Alt. of Crane'),('Crane','n.','A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a\n   barrel.'),('Cranage','n.','The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading\n   vessels.'),('Cranage','n.','The money or price paid for the use of a crane.'),('Cranberries','pl. ','of Cranberry'),('Cranberry','n.','A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.;\n   also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or\n   Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of\n   Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry\n   or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.'),('Cranch','v. t.','See Craunch.'),('Crane','n.','A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of\n   various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.'),('Crane','n.','A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while\n   holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral\n   distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber\n   or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass,\n   etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the\n   neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick.'),('Crane','n.','An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or\n   back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.'),('Crane','n.','A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.'),('Crane','n.','A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.,\n   -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.'),('Craned','imp. & p. p.','of Crane'),('Craning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crane'),('Crane','v. t.','To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; --\n   with up.'),('Crane','v. t.','To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane\n   the neck disdainfully.'),('Crane','v. i.','to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see\n   better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.'),('Crane\'s-bill','n.','The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the\n   fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.'),('Crane\'s-bill','n.','A pair of long-beaked forceps.'),('Crang','n.','See Krang.'),('Crania','n.','A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its\n   fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.'),('Cranial','a.','Of or pertaining to the cranium.'),('Cranioclasm','n.','The crushing of a child\'s head, as with the\n   cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery.'),('Cranioclast','n.','An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to\n   facilitate delivery in difficult eases.'),('Craniofacial','a.','Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the\n   craniofacial angle.'),('Craniognomy','n.','The science of the form and characteristics of the\n   skull.'),('Craniological','a.','Of or pertaining to craniology.'),('Craniologist','n.','One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.'),('Craniology','n.','The department of science (as of ethnology or\n   archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions,\n   indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.'),('Craniometer','n.','An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.'),('Craniometric','a.','Alt. of Craniometrical'),('Craniometrical','a.','Pertaining to craniometry.'),('Craniometry','n.','The art or act of measuring skulls.'),('Cranioscopist','n.','One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy.'),('Cranioscopy','n.','Scientific examination of the cranium.'),('Craniota','n. pl.','A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including\n   all those that have a skull.'),('Craniotomy','n.','The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to\n   effect delivery.'),('Craniums','pl. ','of Cranium'),('Crania','pl. ','of Cranium'),('Cranium','n.','The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the\n   skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the\n   brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.'),('Crank','n.','A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at\n   right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or\n   received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating\n   motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.'),('Crank','n.','Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.'),('Crank','n.','A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change\n   of the form or meaning of a word.'),('Crank','n.','A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also,\n   a fit of temper or passion.'),('Crank','n.','A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or\n   impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a\n   particular matter.'),('Crank','n.','A sick person; an invalid.'),('Crank','n.','Sick; infirm.'),('Crank','n.','Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too\n   narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry\n   full sail.'),('Crank','n.','Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident;\n   opinionated.'),('Crank','n.','To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind\n   and turn.'),('Crankbird','n.','A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).'),('Cranked','a.','Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked\n   axle.'),('Crankiness','n.','Crankness.'),('Crankle','v. t.','To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.'),('Crankle','v. i.','To bend, turn, or wind.'),('Crankle','n.','A bend or turn; a twist; a crinkle.'),('Crankness','n.','Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other\n   vessel.'),('Crankness','n.','Sprightliness; vigor; health.'),('Cranky','a.','Full of spirit; crank.'),('Cranky','a.','Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions;\n   crotchety.'),('Cranky','a.','Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.'),('Crannied','a.','Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied\n   wall.'),('Crannog','n.','Alt. of Crannoge'),('Crannoge','n.','One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland\n   which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries.\n   They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric\n   strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic\n   times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings,\n   under Lake.'),('Crannies','pl. ','of Cranny'),('Cranny','n.','A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in\n   a wall, or other substance.'),('Cranny','n.','A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.'),('Crannied','imp. & p. p.','of Cranny'),('Crannying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cranny'),('Cranny','v. i.','To crack into, or become full of, crannies.'),('Cranny','v. i.','To haunt, or enter by, crannies.'),('Cranny','a.','Quick; giddy; thoughtless.'),('Crantara','n.','The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the\n   Highlands of Scotland.'),('Crants','n.','A garland carried before the bier of a maiden.'),('Crapaudine','n.','Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a\n   door.'),('Crapaudine','n.','An ulcer on the coronet of a horse.'),('Crape','n.','A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted\n   on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for\n   the dress of some clergymen.'),('Craped','imp. & p. p.','of Crape'),('Craping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crape'),('Crape','n.','To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to\n   crape the hair; to crape silk.'),('Crapefish','n.','Salted codfish hardened by pressure.'),('Crapnel','n.','A hook or drag; a grapnel.'),('Crappie','n.','A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in\n   the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There\n   are several species.'),('Crapple','n.','A claw.'),('Craps','n.','A gambling game with dice.'),('Crapula','n.','Alt. of Crapule'),('Crapule','n.','Same as Crapulence.'),('Crapulence','n.','The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.'),('Crapulent','a.','Alt. of Crapulous'),('Crapulous','a.','Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence\n   in liquor; drunk; given to excesses.'),('Crapy','a.','Resembling crape.'),('Crare','n.','A slow unwieldy trading vessel.'),('Crase','v. t.','To break in pieces; to crack.'),('Crashed','imp. & p. p.','of Crash'),('Crashing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crash'),('Crash','v. t. ','To break in pieces violently; to dash together with\n   noise and violence.'),('Crash','v. i.','To make a loud, clattering sound, as of many things\n   falling and breaking at once; to break in pieces with a harsh noise.'),('Crash','v. i.','To break with violence and noise; as, the chimney in\n   falling crashed through the roof.'),('Crash','n.','A loud, sudden, confused sound, as of many things falling\n   and breaking at once.'),('Crash','n.','Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house\n   or a commercial enterprise.'),('Crash','n.','Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.'),('Crashing','n.','The noise of many things falling and breaking at once.'),('Crasis','n.','A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution;\n   temperament.'),('Crasis','n.','A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial\n   vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong;\n   synaeresis; as, cogo for coago.'),('Craspedota','n. pl.','The hydroid or naked-eyed medusae. See Hydroidea.'),('Craspedote','a.','Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.'),('Crass','a.','Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.'),('Crassament','a.','Alt. of Crassamentum'),('Crassamentum','a.','A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in\n   coagulation of the blood.'),('Crassiment','n.','See Crassament.'),('Crassitude','n.','Grossness; coarseness; thickness; density.'),('Crassness','n.','Grossness.'),('Crastination','n.','Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow.'),('Crataegus','n.','A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn,\n   much used for ornamental purposes.'),('Cratch','n.','A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack.'),('Crate','n.','A large basket or hamper of wickerwork, used for the\n   transportation of china, crockery, and similar wares.'),('Crate','n.','A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with\n   interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.'),('Crated','imp. & p. p.','of Crate'),('Crating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crate'),('Crate','v. t.','To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to\n   crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.'),('Crater','n.','The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which\n   the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which\n   a cone of silica is often built up.'),('Crater','n.','The pit left by the explosion of a mine.'),('Crater','n.','A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also\n   the Cup.'),('Crateriform','a.','Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a\n   corolla.'),('Craterous','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater.'),('Craunched','imp. & p. p.','of Craunch'),('Craunching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Craunch'),('Craunch','v. t. & i.','To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and\n   noise; to crunch.'),('Cravat','n.','A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth,\n   worn by men about the neck.'),('Cravatted','a.','Wearing a cravat.'),('Craved','imp. & p. p.','of Crave'),('Craving','p pr. & vb. n.','of Crave'),('Crave','v. t.','To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with\n   submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.'),('Crave','v. t.','To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to\n   require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.'),('Crave','v. i.','To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a\n   craving appetite.'),('Craven','a.','Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.'),('Craven','n.','A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow.\n   See Recreant, n.'),('Cravened','imp. & p. p.','of Craven'),('Cravening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Craven'),('Craven','v. t.','To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.'),('Craver','n.','One who craves or begs.'),('Craving','n.','Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.'),('Craw','n.','The crop of a bird.'),('Craw','n.','The stomach of an animal.'),('-fishes','pl. ','of Crayfish'),('-fish','pl. ','of Crayfish'),('Crawfish','n.','Alt. of Crayfish'),('Crayfish','n.','Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the\n   lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are\n   esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North\n   American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus.\n   The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The\n   common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.'),('Crawford','n.','A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with\n   yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.'),('Crawled','imp. & p. p.','of Crawl'),('Crawling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crawl'),('Crawl','v. i.','To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a\n   worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.'),('Crawl','v. i.','to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.'),('Crawl','v. i.','To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one\'s self;\n   to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.'),('Crawl','v. i.','To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;\n   as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.'),('Crawl','n.','The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping\n   animal.'),('Crawl','n.','A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast,\n   for holding fish.'),('Crawler','n.','One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.'),('Crawly','a.','Creepy.'),('Cray','n.','Alt. of Crayer'),('Crayer','n.','See Crare.'),('Crayfish','n.','See Crawfish.'),('Crayon','n.','An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of\n   some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.'),('Crayon','n.','A crayon drawing.'),('Crayon','n.','A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.'),('Crayoned','imp. & p. p.','of Crayon'),('Crayoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crayon'),('Crayon','v. t.','To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.'),('Crazed','imp. & p. p.','of Craze'),('Crazing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Craze'),('Craze','v. t.','To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See\n   Crase.'),('Craze','v. t.','To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.'),('Craze','v. t.','To derange the intellect of; to render insane.'),('Craze','v. i.','To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed;\n   to rave; to become insane.'),('Craze','v. i.','To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.'),('Craze','n.','Craziness; insanity.'),('Craze','n.','A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.'),('Craze','n.','A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new\n   amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the\n   aesthetic craze.'),('Crazedness','n.','A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the\n   intellect.'),('Craze-mill','n.','Alt. of Crazing-mill'),('Crazing-mill','n.','A mill for grinding tin ore.'),('Crazily','adv.','In a crazy manner.'),('Craziness','n.','The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the\n   craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.'),('Craziness','n.','The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or\n   weakness of intellect; derangement.'),('Crazy','a.','Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken;\n   falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.'),('Crazy','a.','Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered;\n   demented; deranged.'),('Crazy','a.','Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.'),('Creable','a.','Capable of being created.'),('Creaght','n.','A drove or herd.'),('Creaght','v. i.','To graze.'),('Creaked','imp. & p. p.','of Creak'),('Creaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Creak'),('Creak','v. i.','To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as\n   by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.'),('Creak','v. t.','To produce a creaking sound with.'),('Creak','n.','The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.'),('Creaking','n.','A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making\n   such a sound.'),('Cream','n.','The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the\n   milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the\n   part of milk from which butter is obtained.'),('Cream','n.','The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the\n   surface.'),('Cream','n.','A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from\n   cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.'),('Cream','n.','A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.'),('Cream','n.','The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as,\n   the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or\n   pictures.'),('Creamed','imp. & p. p.','of Cream'),('Creaming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cream'),('Cream','v. t.','To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.'),('Cream','v. t.','To take off the best or choicest part of.'),('Cream','v. t.','To furnish with, or as with, cream.'),('Cream','v. i.','To form or become covered with cream; to become thick\n   like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or\n   formal; to mantle.'),('Creamcake','n.','A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs,\n   etc.'),('Cream-colored','a.','Of the color of cream; light yellow.'),('Creameries','pl. ','of Creamery'),('Creamery','n.','A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk\n   and cream are put up in cans for market.'),('Creamery','n.','A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising\n   cream.'),('Creamery','n.','An establishment where cream is sold.'),('Cream-faced','a.','White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the\n   natural complexion.'),('Cream-fruit','n.','A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome,\n   creamy juice.'),('Creaminess','n.','The quality of being creamy.'),('Cream laid','','See under Laid.'),('Cream-slice','n.','A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in\n   handling cream or ice cream.'),('Cream-white','a.','As white as cream.'),('Creamy','a.','Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature,\n   appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous.'),('Creance','n.','Faith; belief; creed.'),('Creance','n.','A fine, small line, fastened to a hawk\'s leash, when it is\n   first lured.'),('Creance','v. i. & t.','To get on credit; to borrow.'),('Creant','a.','Creative; formative.'),('Crease','n.','See Creese.'),('Crease','n.','A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable\n   substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.'),('Crease','n.','One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler\n   and the striker.'),('Creased','imp. & p. p.','of Crease'),('Creasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crease'),('Crease','v. t.','To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.'),('Creaser','n.','A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines\n   or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.'),('Creaser','n.','A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or\n   for rounding small tubes.'),('Creaser','n.','A tool for making the band impression distinct on the\n   back.'),('Creasing','n.','A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.'),('Creasote','n.','See Creosote.'),('Creasy','a.','Full of creases.'),('Creat','n.','An usher to a riding master.'),('Creatable','a.','That may be created.'),('Create','a.','Created; composed; begotten.'),('Created','imp. & p. p.','of Create'),('Creating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Create'),('Create','v. t.','To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to\n   exist.'),('Create','v. t.','To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of\n   causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or\n   fashion; to renew.'),('Create','v. t.','To invest with a new form, office, or character; to\n   constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.'),('Creatic','a.','Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as,\n   creatic nausea.'),('Creatin','n.','A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found\n   abundantly in muscle tissue.'),('Creatinin','n.','A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related\n   to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by\n   the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in\n   urine.'),('Creation','n.','The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically,\n   the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.'),('Creation','n.','That which is created; that which is produced or caused\n   to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the\n   imagination; nature.'),('Creation','n.','The act of constituting or investing with a new\n   character; appointment; formation.'),('Creational','a.','Of or pertaining to creation.'),('Creationism','n.','The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each\n   human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to\n   traducianism.'),('Creative','a.','Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.'),('Creativeness','n.','The quality of being creative.'),('Cretor','n.','One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically,\n   the Supreme Being.'),('Creatorship','n.','State or condition of a creator.'),('Creatress','n.','She who creates.'),('Creatrix','n.','A creatress.'),('Creatural','a.','Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a\n   creature.'),('Creature','n.','Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially,\n   any being created with life; an animal; a man.'),('Creature','n.','A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a\n   poor creature; a pretty creature.'),('Creature','n.','A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a\n   servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.'),('Creature','n.','A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.'),('Cratureless','a.','Without created beings; alone.'),('Creaturely','a.','Creatural; characteristic of a creature.'),('Creatureship','n.','The condition of being a creature.'),('Creaturize','v. t.','To make like a creature; to degrade'),('Creaze','n.','The tin ore which collects in the central part of the\n   washing pit or buddle.'),('Crebricostate','a.','Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.'),('Crebrisulcate','a.','Marked with closely set transverse furrows.'),('Crebritude','n.','Frequency.'),('Crebrous','a.','Frequent; numerous.'),('Cr/che','n.','A public nursery, where the young children of poor women\n   are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work.'),('Credence','n.','Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from\n   other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.'),('Credence','n.','That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or\n   confidence; as, a letter of credence.'),('Credence','n.','The small table by the side of the altar or communion\n   table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.'),('Credence','n.','A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one\n   intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting\n   chiefly of open shelves for that purpose.'),('Credence','v. t.','To give credence to; to believe.'),('Credenda','pl. ','of Credendum'),('Credendum','n.','A thing to be believed; an article of faith; --\n   distinguished from agendum, a practical duty.'),('Credent','a.','Believing; giving credence; credulous.'),('Credent','a.','Having credit or authority; credible.'),('Credential','a.','Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence;\n   accrediting.'),('Credential','n.','That which gives a title to credit or confidence.'),('Credential','n.','Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to\n   credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given\n   by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is\n   a duly elected delegate.'),('Credibility','n.','The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the\n   credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.'),('Credible','a.','Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief;\n   entitled to confidence; trustworthy.'),('Credibleness','n.','The quality or state of being credible; worthiness of\n   belief; credibility.'),('Credibly','adv.','In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly\n   informed of the event.'),('Credit','n.','Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief;\n   faith; trust; confidence.'),('Credit','n.','Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem;\n   honor; good name; estimation.'),('Credit','n.','A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority\n   derived from character or reputation.'),('Credit','n.','That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or\n   esteem; an honor.'),('Credit','n.','Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or\n   favor of others; interest.'),('Credit','n.','Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for\n   property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile\n   reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals,\n   corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.'),('Credit','n.','The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on\n   trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.'),('Credit','n.','The side of an account on which are entered all items\n   reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the\n   head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the\n   opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one\'s credit, and that to\n   his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.'),('Credited','imp. & p. p.','of Credit'),('Crediting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Credit'),('Credit','v. t.','To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put\n   trust in; to believe.'),('Credit','v. t.','To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise\n   the estimation of.'),('Credit','v. t.','To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give\n   credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as,\n   to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond.'),('Creditable','a.','Worthy of belief.'),('Creditable','a.','Deserving or possessing reputation or esteem;\n   reputable; estimable.'),('Creditable','a.','Bringing credit, reputation, or honor; honorable; as,\n   such conduct is highly creditable to him.'),('Creditableness','n.','The quality of being creditable.'),('Creditably','adv.','In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.'),('Credit foncier','','A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out\n   improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities.'),('Credit mobilier','','A joint stock company, formed for general banking\n   business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on\n   personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate.\n   In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.'),('Creditor','n.','One who credits, believes, or trusts.'),('Creditor','n.','One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to\n   whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor.'),('Creditress','n.','Alt. of Creditrix'),('Creditrix','n.','A female creditor.'),('Credo','n.','The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church.'),('Credulity','n.','Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight\n   evidence.'),('Credulous','a.','Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon;\n   unsuspecting.'),('Credulous','a.','Believed too readily.'),('Credulously','adv.','With credulity.'),('Credulousness','n.','Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity.'),('Creed','v. t.','A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary\n   of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public\n   use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.'),('Creed','v. t.','Any summary of principles or opinions professed or\n   adhered to.'),('Creed','v. t.','To believe; to credit.'),('Creedless','a.','Without a creed.'),('Creek','n.','A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into\n   the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.'),('Creek','n.','A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a\n   brook.'),('Creek','n.','Any turn or winding.'),('Creekfish','n.','The chub sucker.'),('Creeks','n. pl.','A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians,\n   including the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate\n   tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.'),('Creeky','a.','Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by\n   creeks; like a creek; winding.'),('Creel','n.','An osier basket, such as anglers use.'),('Creel','n.','A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off\n   bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.'),('Crept','imp.','of Creep'),('Crope','','of Creep'),('Crept','p. p.','of Creep'),('Creeping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Creep'),('Creep','v. t.','To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the\n   belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees;\n   to crawl.'),('Creep','v. t.','To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from\n   unwillingness, fear, or weakness.'),('Creep','v. t.','To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move\n   imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or\n   one\'s self; as, age creeps upon us.'),('Creep','v. t.','To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the\n   collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the\n   quicksilver on a mirror may creep.'),('Creep','v. t.','To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility;\n   to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.'),('Creep','v. t.','To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some\n   other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its\n   length.'),('Creep','v. t.','To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of\n   the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v.\n   i., 4.'),('Creep','v. i.','To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a\n   submarine cable.'),('Creep','n.','The act or process of creeping.'),('Creep','n.','A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by\n   the creeping of insects.'),('Creep','n.','A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the\n   pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual\n   movement of mining ground.'),('Creeper','n.','One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.'),('Creeper','n.','A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the\n   ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis\n   quinquefolia).'),('Creeper','n.','A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens.\n   The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of\n   which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper\n   and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.'),('Creeper','n.','A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead\n   of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent\n   one from slipping.'),('Creeper','n.','A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one\n   to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.'),('Creeper','n.','A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.'),('Creeper','n.','An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the\n   bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may\n   lie there.'),('Creeper','n.','Any device for causing material to move steadily from one\n   part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an\n   inner spiral in a grain screen.'),('Creeper','n.','Crockets. See Crocket.'),('Creephole','n.','A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to\n   escape notice or danger.'),('Creephole','n.','A subterfuge; an excuse.'),('Creepie','n.','A low stool.'),('Creepiness','n.','An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.'),('Creeping','a.','Crawling, or moving close to the ground.'),('Creeping','a.','Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall,\n   etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.'),('Creepingly','adv.','by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile;\n   insidiously; cunningly.'),('Creeple','n.','A creeping creature; a reptile.'),('Creeple','n.','One who is lame; a cripple.'),('Creepy','a.','Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by\n   insects creeping on the skin.'),('Crees','n. pl.','An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part\n   of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson\'s\n   Bay.'),('Creese','n.','A dagger or short sword used by the Malays, commonly having\n   a serpentine blade.'),('Cremaillere','n.','An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.'),('Cremaster','n.','A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.'),('Cremaster','n.','The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.'),('Cremasteric','a.','Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric\n   artery.'),('Cremate','v. t.','To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire,\n   either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate;\n   as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.'),('Cremation','n.','A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the\n   dead.'),('Cremationist','n.','One who advocates the practice of cremation.'),('Cremator','n.','One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.'),('Crematoriums','pl. ','of Crematory'),('Crematories','pl. ','of Crematory'),('Crematorium','n.','Alt. of Crematory'),('Crematory','n.','A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing\n   such a furnace.'),('Crematory','a.','Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.'),('Cremocarp','n.','The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the\n   like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.'),('Cremona','n.','A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in\n   Italy.'),('Cremor','n.','Cream; a substance resembling cream; yeast; scum.'),('Cremosin','n.','See Crimson.'),('Crems','n.','See Krems.'),('Crenate','a.','Alt. of Crenated'),('Crenated','a.','Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or\n   scallops.'),('Crenation','n.','A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.'),('Crenation','n.','The condition of being crenate.'),('Crenature','n.','A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part\n   that is crenate; -- called also crenelle.'),('Crenature','n.','The state of being crenated or notched.'),('Crenel','n.','See Crenelle.'),('Crenelated','imp. & p. p.','of Crenelate'),('Crenelating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crenelate'),('Crenelate','v. t.','To furnish with crenelles.'),('Crenelate','v. t.','To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf.'),('Crenelation','n.','The act of crenelating, or the state of being\n   crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.'),('Crenelle','n.','Alt. of Crenel'),('Crenel','n.','An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in\n   a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of\n   Battlement.'),('Crenel','n.','Same as Crenature.'),('Crenelled','a.','Same as Crenate.'),('Crengle','n.','Alt. of Crenkle'),('Crenkle','n.','See Cringle.'),('Crenulate','a.','Alt. of Crenulated'),('Crenulated','a.','Minutely crenate.'),('Crenulation','n.','A minute crenation.'),('Crenulation','n.','The state of being minutely scalloped.'),('Creole','n.','One born of European parents in the American colonies of\n   France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a\n   person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of\n   Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of\n   Mexico.'),('Creole','a.','Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.'),('Creolean','a.','Alt. of Creolian'),('Creolian','a.','Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles.'),('Creolian','n. ','A Creole.'),('Creosol','n.','A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid,\n   homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum\n   guaiacum.'),('Creosote','n.','Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning\n   smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown\n   by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and\n   their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar,\n   especially that of beechwood.'),('Creosoted','imp. & p. p.','of Creosote'),('Creosoting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Creosote'),('Creosote','v. t.','To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber,\n   for the prevention of decay.'),('Crepance','n.','Alt. of Crepane'),('Crepane','n.','An injury in a horse\'s leg, caused by the shoe of one hind\n   foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.'),('Crepe','n.','Same as Crape.'),('Crepitant','a.','Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.'),('Crepitated','imp. & p. p.','of Crepitate'),('Crepitating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crepitate'),('Crepitate','v.','To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated\n   explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.'),('Crepitation','n.','The act of crepitating or crackling.'),('Crepitation','n.','A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that\n   produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by\n   pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.'),('Crepitation','n.','A crepitant rale.'),('Crepitus','n.','The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the\n   bowels.'),('Crepitus','n.','Same as Crepitation, 2.'),('Crepon','n.','A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool\n   and silk.'),('Crept','','imp. & p. p. of Creep.'),('Crepuscle','n.','Alt. of Crepuscule'),('Crepuscule','n.','Twilight.'),('Crepuscular','a.','Alt. of Crepusculous'),('Crepusculous','a.','Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence,\n   imperfectly clear or luminous.'),('Crepusculous','a.','Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise;\n   -- said certain birds and insects.'),('Crepusculine','a.','Crepuscular.'),('Crescence','n.','Increase; enlargement.'),('Crescendo','a. & adv.','With a constantly increasing volume of voice;\n   with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction\n   for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the\n   word on the score.'),('Crescendo','n.','A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone\n   with which a passage is performed.'),('Crescendo','n.','A passage to be performed with constantly increasing\n   volume of tone.'),('Crescent','n.','The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or\n   when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly\n   to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.'),('Crescent','n.','Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.'),('Crescent','n.','A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an\n   emblem or badge'),('Crescent','n.','A symbol of Artemis, or Diana.'),('Crescent','n.','The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.'),('Crescent','n.','The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the\n   taking of Constantinople.'),('Crescent','n.','Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first\n   instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the\n   second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim\n   III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be\n   indebted for valuable services.'),('Crescent','n.','The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed\n   upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency\n   to distinguish a second son and his descendants.'),('Crescent','a.','Shaped like a crescent.'),('Crescent','a.','Increasing; growing.'),('Crescent','v. t.','To form into a crescent, or something resembling a\n   crescent.'),('Crescent','v. t.','To adorn with crescents.'),('Crescentic','a.','Crescent-shaped.'),('Crescentwise','adv.','In the form of a crescent; like a crescent.'),('Crescive','a.','Increasing; growing.'),('Cresol','n.','Any one of three metameric substances, CH3.C6H4.OH,\n   homologous with and resembling phenol. They are obtained from coal tar\n   and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids. [Called also\n   cresylic acid.]'),('Cresorcin','n.','Same as Isorcin.'),('Cresses','pl. ','of Cress'),('Cress','n.','A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves\n   have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and\n   antiscorbutic.'),('Cresselle','n.','A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a\n   bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy\n   Week, or the last week of Lent.'),('Cresset','n.','An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible\n   material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on\n   a pole in nocturnal processions.'),('Cresset','n.','A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the\n   inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.'),('Cressy','a.','Abounding in cresses.'),('Crest','n.','A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on\n   an animal\'s head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a\n   serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.'),('Crest','n.','The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a\n   helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of\n   the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.'),('Crest','n.','A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it,\n   or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a\n   relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.'),('Crest','n.','The upper curve of a horse\'s neck.'),('Crest','n.','The ridge or top of a wave.'),('Crest','n.','The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.'),('Crest','n.','The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride;\n   courage.'),('Crest','n.','The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a\n   roof, canopy, etc.'),('Crest','n.','The top line of a slope or embankment.'),('Crested','imp. & p. p.','of Crest'),('Cresting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crest'),('Crest','v. t.','To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a\n   crest for.'),('Crest','v. t.','To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like,\n   waving plumes.'),('Crest','v. i.','To form a crest.'),('Crested','a.','Having a crest.'),('Crested','a.','Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head.'),('Crested','a.','Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an\n   elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.'),('Crestfallen','a.','With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed.'),('Crestfallen','a.','Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging\n   to one side; -- said of a horse.'),('Cresting','n.','An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a\n   roof.'),('Crestless','a.','Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth.'),('Cresylic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.'),('Cretaceous','a.','Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk;\n   chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.'),('Cretaceously','adv.','In a chalky manner; as chalk.'),('Cretan','a.','Pertaining to Crete, or Candia.'),('Cretan','n.','A native or inhabitant of Crete or Candia.'),('Crete','n.','A Cretan'),('Cretian','a. & n.','See Cretan.'),('Cretic','n.','A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two\n   long ones (- / -).'),('Creticism','n.','Falsehood; lying; cretism.'),('Cretin','n.','One afflicted with cretinism.'),('Cretinism','n.','A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied\n   by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in\n   certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.'),('Cretinous','a.','Having the characteristics of a cretin.'),('Cretism','n.','A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.'),('Cretonne','n.','A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.'),('Cretonne','n.','A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.'),('Cretonne','n.','A kind of chintz with a glossy surface.'),('Cretose','a.','Chalky; cretaceous.'),('Creutzer','n.','See Kreutzer.'),('Creux','n.','Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus,\n   engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing\n   out the design.'),('Crevalle','n.','The cavally or jurel.'),('Crevalle','n.','The pompano (Trachynotus Carolinus).'),('Crevasse','n.','A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the\n   clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.'),('Crevasse','n.','A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by\n   the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi.'),('Crevet','n.','A crucible or melting pot; a cruset.'),('Crevice','n.','A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the\n   separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.'),('Crevice','v. t.','To crack; to flaw.'),('Creviced','a.','Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure\n   for storing ears of corn.'),('Crevis','n.','The crawfish.'),('Crew','n.','The Manx shearwater.'),('Crew','n.','A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a\n   throng.'),('Crew','n.','The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the\n   company belonging to a vessel or a boat.'),('Crew','n.','In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a\n   purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter\'s crew; the boatswain\'s\n   crew.'),('Crew','','imp. of Crow'),('Crewel','n.','Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.'),('Crewelwork','n.','Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain\n   material, such as linen.'),('Crewet','n.','See Cruet.'),('Crib','n.','A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.'),('Crib','n.','A stall for oxen or other cattle.'),('Crib','n.','A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.'),('Crib','n.','A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain,\n   salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.'),('Crib','n.','A hovel; a hut; a cottage.'),('Crib','n.','A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for\n   supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.'),('Crib','n.','A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for\n   docks, pier, dams, etc.'),('Crib','n.','A small raft of timber.'),('Crib','n.','A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a\n   translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his\n   lessons.'),('Crib','n.','A miner\'s luncheon.'),('Crib','n.','The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring\n   points in cribbage.'),('Cribbed','imp. & p. p.','of Crib'),('Cribbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crib'),('Crib','v. t.','To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to\n   cramp.'),('Crib','v. t.','To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to\n   appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.'),('Crib','v. i.','To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in\n   narrow accommodations.'),('Crib','v. i.','To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or\n   examination.'),('Crib','v. i.','To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth\n   and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.'),('Cribbage','v. t.','A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in\n   which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great\n   variety of chances.'),('Criber','n.','Alt. of Crib-biter'),('Crib-biter','n.','A horse that has the habit of cribbing.'),('Cribbing','n.','The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close\n   quarters.'),('Cribbing','n.','Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.'),('Cribbing','n.','A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft\n   lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.'),('Cribbing','n.','A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays\n   hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the\n   stomach with a grunting sound.'),('Crib-biting','n.','Same as Cribbing, 4.'),('Cribble','n.','A coarse sieve or screen.'),('Cribble','n.','Coarse flour or meal.'),('Cribbled','imp. & p. p.','of Cribble'),('Cribbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cribble'),('Cribble','v. t.','To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.'),('Cribble','a.','Coarse; as, cribble bread.'),('Cribellum','n.','A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders\n   (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk.'),('Cribrate','a.','Cribriform.'),('Cribration','n.','The act or process of separating the finer parts of\n   drugs from the coarser by sifting.'),('Cribriform','a.','Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced\n   with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform\n   compress.'),('Cribrose','a.','Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.'),('Cric','n.','The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a\n   lamp.'),('Crick','n.','The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.'),('Crick','n.','A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part\n   of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the\n   part.'),('Crick','n.','A small jackscrew.'),('Cricket','n.','An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied\n   genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the\n   basal parts of the veins of the front wings.'),('Cricket','n.','A low stool.'),('Cricket','n.','A game much played in England, and sometimes in America,\n   with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two\n   contesting parties or sides.'),('Cricket','n.','A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof,\n   so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.'),('Cricket','v. i.','To play at cricket.'),('Cricketer','n.','One who plays at cricket.'),('Cricoid','a.','Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the\n   larynx, and the adjoining parts.'),('Cricothyroid','a.','Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid\n   cartilages.'),('Cried','','imp. & p. p. of Cry.'),('Crier','n.','One who cries; one who makes proclamation.'),('Crier','n.','an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a\n   court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a\n   town-crier.'),('Crime','n.','Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of\n   a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.'),('Crime','n.','Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a\n   misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any\n   aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage\n   or great wrong.'),('Crime','n.','Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.'),('Crime','n.','That which occasion crime.'),('Crimeful','a.','Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury.'),('Crimeless','a.','Free from crime; innocent.'),('Criminal','a.','Guilty of crime or sin.'),('Criminal','a.','Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of\n   an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.'),('Criminal','a.','Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal\n   code.'),('Criminal','n.','One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is\n   found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.'),('Criminalist','n.','One versed in criminal law.'),('Criminality','n.','The quality or state of being criminal; that which\n   constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.'),('Criminally','adv.','In violation of law; wickedly.'),('Criminalness','n.','Criminality.'),('Criminated','imp. & p. p.','of Criminate'),('Criminating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Criminate'),('Criminate','v. t. ','To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.'),('Criminate','v. t. ','To involve in a crime or in its consequences; to\n   render liable to a criminal charge.'),('Crimination','n.','The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.'),('Criminative','a.','Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.'),('Criminatory','a.','Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as,\n   a criminatory conscience.'),('Criminology','n.','A treatise on crime or the criminal population.'),('Criminous','a.','Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very\n   wicked; heinous.'),('Crimosin','n.','See Crimson.'),('Crimped','imp. & p. p.','of Crimp'),('Crimping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crimp'),('Crimp','v. t.','To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that\n   the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance\n   to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.'),('Crimp','v. t.','To pinch and hold; to seize.'),('Crimp','v. t.','to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to\n   crimp seamen.'),('Crimp','v. t.','To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the\n   flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp\n   skate, etc.'),('Crimp','a.','Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.'),('Crimp','a.','Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.'),('Crimp','n.','A coal broker.'),('Crimp','n.','One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval\n   service.'),('Crimp','n.','A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants\n   are entrapped and fleeced.'),('Crimp','n.','Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.'),('Crimp','n.','A game at cards.'),('Crimpage','n.','The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp\n   for shipping or enlisting men.'),('Crimper','n.','One who, or that which, crimps'),('Crimper','n.','A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or\n   shoe is stretched to the required shape.'),('Crimper','n.','A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.'),('Crimper','n.','A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.'),('Crimpled','imp. & p. p.','of Crimple'),('Crimpling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crimple'),('Crimple','v. t.','To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to\n   curl.'),('Crimpy','a.','Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool\n   of the Saxony sheep.'),('Crimson','n.','A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in\n   general.'),('Crimson','a.','Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.'),('Crimsoned','imp. & p. p.','of Crimson'),('Crimsoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crimson'),('Crimson','v. t.','To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.'),('Crimson','b. t.','To become crimson; to blush.'),('Crinal','a.','Of or pertaining to the hair.'),('Crinated','a.','Having hair; hairy.'),('Crinatory','a.','Crinitory.'),('Crincum','n.','A twist or bend; a turn; a whimsey.'),('Crincum-crancum','n.','A twist; a whimsey or whim.'),('Crined','a.','Having the hair of a different tincture from the rest of\n   the body; as, a charge crined of a red tincture.'),('Crinel','n.','Alt. of Crinet'),('Crinet','n.','A very fine, hairlike feather.'),('Crnged','imp. & p. p.','of Cringe'),('Cringing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cringe'),('Cringe','v. t.','To draw one\'s self together as in fear or servility; to\n   bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a\n   degrading manner; to fawn.'),('Cringe','v. t.','To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or\n   wrinkle; to distort.'),('Cringe','n.','Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in\n   fear or servility.'),('Cringeling','n.','One who cringes meanly; a fawner.'),('Cringer','n.','One who cringes.'),('Cringingly','adv.','In a cringing manner.'),('Cringle','n.','A withe for fastening a gate.'),('Cringle','n.','An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached\n   to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The\n   cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.'),('Crinicultural','a.','Relating to the growth of hair.'),('Crinigerous','a.','Bearing hair; hairy.'),('Crinital','a.','Same as Crinite, 1.'),('Crinite','a.','Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike\n   tail or train.'),('Crinite','a.','Bearded or tufted with hairs.'),('Crinitory','a.','Of or relating to hair; as, a crinitory covering.'),('Crinkled','imp. & p. p.','of Crinkle'),('Crinkling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crinkle'),('Crinkle','v. t.','To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold\n   into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.'),('Crinkle','v. i.','To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends\n   or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as\n   stiff cloth when moved.'),('Crinkle','n.','A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity.'),('Crinkled','a.','Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy;\n   zigzag.'),('Crinkly','a.','Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.'),('Crinoid','a.','Crinoidal.'),('Crinoid','n.','One of the Crinoidea.'),('Crinoidal','a.','Of pertaining to crinoids; consisting of, or containing,\n   crinoids.'),('Crinoidea','n. pl.','A large class of Echinodermata, including numerous\n   extinct families and genera, but comparatively few living ones. Most of\n   the fossil species, like some that are recent, were attached by a\n   jointed stem. See Blastoidea, Cystoidea, Comatula.'),('Crinoidean','n.','One of the Crinoidea.'),('Crinoline','n.','A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for\n   underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because\n   originally made of hair.'),('Crinoline','n.','A lady\'s skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a\n   hoop skirt.'),('Crinose','a.','Hairy.'),('Crinosity','n.','Hairiness.'),('Crinum','n.','A genus of bulbous plants, of the order Amaryllidace/,\n   cultivated as greenhouse plants on account of their beauty.'),('Criosphinx','n.','A sphinx with the head of a ram.'),('Cripple','n.','One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or\n   never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is\n   partially disabled.'),('Cripple','a.','Lame; halting.'),('Crippled','imp. & p. p.','of Cripple'),('Crippling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cripple'),('Cripple','v. t.','To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg\n   or foot; to lame.'),('Cripple','v. t.','To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for\n   service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be\n   financially crippled.'),('Crippled','a.','Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded.'),('Crippleness','n.','Lameness.'),('Crippler','n.','A wooden tool used in graining leather.'),('Crippling','n.','Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of\n   a building.'),('Cripply','a.','Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition.'),('Crises','pl. ','of Crisis'),('Crisis','n.','The point of time when it is to be decided whether any\n   affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the\n   decisive moment; the turning point.'),('Crisis','n.','That change in a disease which indicates whether the result\n   is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of\n   symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or\n   sweat.'),('Crisp','a.','Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.'),('Crisp','a.','Curled with the ripple of the water.'),('Crisp','a.','Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short,\n   sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.'),('Crisp','a.','Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a\n   fresh, unwilted condition.'),('Crisp','a.','Lively; sparking; effervescing.'),('Crisp','a.','Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.'),('Crisped','imp. & p. p.','of Crisp'),('Crisping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crisp'),('Crisp','a.','To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of\n   cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.'),('Crisp','a.','To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to\n   wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.'),('Crisp','a.','To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.'),('Crisp','v. i.','To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.'),('Crisp','n.','That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or\n   brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork;\n   crackling.'),('Crispate','a.','Alt. of Crispated'),('Crispated','a.','Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or\n   twisted.'),('Crispation','n.','The act or process of curling, or the state of being\n   curled.'),('Crispation','n.','A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of\n   certain muscles, external or internal.'),('Crispature','n.','The state of being crispate.'),('Crisper','n.','One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for\n   making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.'),('Crispin','n.','A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint\n   of the craft.'),('Crispin','n.','A member of a union or association of shoemakers.'),('Crisply','adv.','In a crisp manner.'),('Crispness','n.','The state or quality of being crisp.'),('Crispy','a.','Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as,\n   crispy locks.'),('Crispy','a.','Crisp; brittle; as, a crispy pie crust.'),('Crissal','a.','Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.'),('Crissal','a.','Having highly colored under tail coverts; as, the crissal\n   thrasher.'),('Crisscross','n.','A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is\n   unable to write.'),('Crisscross','n.','A child\'s game played on paper or on a slate,\n   consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.'),('Crisscross','v. t.','To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was\n   crisscrossed with red marks.'),('Crisscross','adv.','In opposite directions; in a way to cross something\n   else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.'),('Crisscross','adv.','With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes;\n   contrarily; as, things go crisscross.'),('Crisscross-row','n.','See Christcross-row.'),('Crissa','pl. ','of Crissum'),('Crissum','n.','That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the\n   cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.'),('Cristate','a.','Crested.'),('Criteria','pl. ','of Criterion'),('Criterions','pl. ','of Criterion'),('Criterion','n.','A standard of judging; any approved or established rule\n   or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in\n   forming a correct judgment respecting them.'),('Crith','n.','The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances;\n   -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a\n   tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or\n   1.38274 grains.'),('Crithomancu','n.','A kind of divination by means of the dough of the\n   cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the\n   victims.'),('Critic','n.','One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or\n   artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines\n   literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a\n   reviewer.'),('Critic','n.','One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who\n   censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a\n   carper.'),('Critic','n.','The art of criticism.'),('Critic','n.','An act of criticism; a critique.'),('Critic','a.','Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical.'),('Critic','v. i.','To criticise; to play the critic.'),('Critical','n.','Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary\n   or artistic productions.'),('Critical','n.','Pertaining to criticism or the critic\'s art; of the\n   nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical\n   dissertation.'),('Critical','n.','Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise\n   careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.'),('Critical','n.','Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious;\n   captious; censorious; exacting.'),('Critical','n.','Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to\n   principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.'),('Critical','n.','Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or\n   specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence,\n   of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical\n   stage of a fever; a critical situation.'),('Critically','adv.','In a critical manner; with nice discernment;\n   accurately; exactly.'),('Critically','adv.','At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation,\n   place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification\n   critically situated.'),('Criticalness','n.','The state or quality of being critical, or of\n   occurring at a critical time.'),('Criticalness','n.','Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.'),('Criticaster','n.','A contemptible or vicious critic.'),('Criticisable','a.','Capable of being criticised.'),('Criticised','imp. & p. p.','of Criticise'),('Criticising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Criticise'),('Criticise','v. t.','To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or\n   artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a\n   picture.'),('Criticise','v. t.','To express one\'s views as to the merit or demerit of;\n   esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct.'),('Criticise','v. i.','To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic\n   judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon.'),('Criticise','v. i.','To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or\n   person; esp., to find fault.'),('Criticiser','n.','One who criticises; a critic.'),('Criticism','n.','The rules and principles which regulate the practice of\n   the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the\n   beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in\n   the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.'),('Criticism','n.','The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or\n   expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a\n   critique; animadversion; censure.'),('Critique','n.','The art of criticism.'),('Critique','n.','A critical examination or estimate of a work of\n   literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and\n   through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant\'s \"Critique of\n   Pure Reason.\"'),('Critique','n.','A critic; one who criticises.'),('Critique','v.','To criticise or pass judgment upon.'),('Crizzel','n.','A kind of roughness on the surface of glass, which clouds\n   its transparency.'),('Croaked','imp. & p. p.','of Croak'),('Croaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Croak'),('Croak','v. i.','To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a\n   raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.'),('Croak','v. i.','To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to\n   utter complaints or forebodings habitually.'),('Croak','v. t.','To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking;\n   to forebode; as, to croak disaster.'),('Croak','n.','The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a\n   like sound.'),('Croaker','n.','One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains\n   unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.'),('Croaker','n.','A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the\n   Atlantic coast.'),('Croaker','n.','An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); --\n   called also drum.'),('Croaker','n.','The surf fish of California.'),('Croat','n.','A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native\n   Slavic race.'),('Croat','n.','An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.'),('Croatian','a.','Of or pertaining to Croatia.'),('Croatian','n.','A Croat.'),('Crocein','n.','A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet\n   dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general\n   they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.'),('Croceous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow.'),('Crocetin','n.','A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which\n   produces a brilliant yellow.'),('Croche','n.','A little bud or knob at the top of a deer\'s antler.'),('Crochet','n.','A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with\n   worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.'),('Crocheted','imp. & p. p.','of Crochet'),('Crocheting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crochet'),('Crochet','v. t. & i.','To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to\n   crochet a shawl.'),('Crociary','n.','One who carries the cross before an archbishop.'),('Crocidolite','n.','A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue\n   color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of\n   iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in\n   which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is\n   the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.'),('Crocin','n.','The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of\n   Gardenia grandiflora.'),('Crocin','n.','A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from\n   the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.'),('Crock','n.','The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on\n   pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter\n   which rubs off from cloth.'),('Crocked','imp. & p. p.','of Crock'),('Crocking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crock'),('Crock','v. t.','To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring\n   matter of badly dyed cloth.'),('Crock','v. i.','To give off crock or smut.'),('Crock','n.','A low stool.'),('Crock','n.','Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an\n   earthen pot or pitcher.'),('Crock','v. t.','To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.'),('Crocker','n.','A potter.'),('Crockery','n.','Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the\n   coarser kinds.'),('Crocket','n.','An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage,\n   projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.'),('Crocket','n.','A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag\'s antler.'),('Crocketed','a.','Ornamented with crockets.'),('Crocketing','n.','Ornamentation with crockets.'),('Crocky','a.','Smutty.'),('Crocodile','n.','A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several\n   species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and\n   inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid\n   in the sand, are hatched by the sun\'s heat. The best known species is\n   that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile\n   (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer\n   jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other\n   related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.'),('Crocodile','n.','A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been\n   first used by a crocodile.'),('Crocodilia','n. pl.','An order of reptiles including the crocodiles,\n   gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.'),('Crocodilian','a.','Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic\n   of the crocodile.'),('Crocodilian','n.','One of the Crocodilia.'),('Crocodility','n.','A caption or sophistical mode of arguing.'),('Crocoisite','n.','Same as Crocoite.'),('Crocoite','n.','Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth\n   red color; -- called also red lead ore.'),('Croconate','n.','A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.'),('Croconic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the\n   color of saffron; as, croconic acid.'),('Croconic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid.'),('Crocose','n.','A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose,\n   obtained from the coloring matter of saffron.'),('Crocus','n.','A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising\n   separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of\n   spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms\n   in the autumn.'),('Crocus','n.','A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a\n   red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or\n   colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing\n   powder.'),('Croesus','n.','A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c.,\n   and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a\n   very rich man; as, he is a veritable Croesus.'),('Croft','n.','A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.'),('Crofter','n.','One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the\n   crofters of Scotland.'),('Crefting','n.','Croftland.'),('Crefting','n.','Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process\n   of bleaching.'),('Croftland','n.','Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are\n   raised.'),('Crois','n.','See Cross, n.'),('Croisade','n.','Alt. of Croisado'),('Croisado','n.','A holy war; a crusade.'),('Croise','n.','A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross.'),('Croise','n.','A crusader.'),('Croissante','a.','Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends\n   of which are so terminated.'),('Croker','n.','A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron.'),('Croma','n.','A quaver.'),('Cromlech','n.','A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large\n   ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found\n   chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a\n   period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these\n   countries.'),('Cromorna','n.','A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone\n   resembling that of the oboe.'),('Crone','n.','An old ewe.'),('Crone','n.','An old woman; -- usually in contempt.'),('Crone','n.','An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old\n   woman.'),('Cronel','n.','The iron head of a tilting spear.'),('Cronet','n.','The coronet of a horse.'),('Cronian','a.','Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea.'),('Cronstedtite','n.','A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron,\n   and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; --\n   so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.'),('Cronies','pl. ','of Crony'),('Crony','n.','A crone.'),('Crony','n.','An intimate companion; a familiar frend'),('Croodle','v. i.','To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to\n   lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw.'),('Croodle','v. i.','To fawn or coax.'),('Croodle','v. i.','To coo.'),('Crook','n.','A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.'),('Crook','n.','Any implement having a bent or crooked end.'),('Crook','n.','The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to\n   hold a runaway sheep.'),('Crook','n.','A bishop\'s staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.'),('Crook','n.','A pothook.'),('Crook','n.','An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.'),('Crook','n.','A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn,\n   etc., to change its pitch or key.'),('Crook','n.','A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of\n   thieves, forgers, etc.'),('Crooked','imp. & p. p.','of Crook'),('Crooking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crook'),('Crook','n.','To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.'),('Crook','n.','To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply;\n   to twist.'),('Crook','v. i.','To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.'),('Crookback','n.','A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back;\n   a hunchback.'),('Crookack','a.','Hunched.'),('Crookbill','n.','A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable\n   for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.'),('Crooked','a.','Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning;\n   bent; twisted; deformed.'),('Crooked','a.','Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted\n   from the right.'),('Crooked','a.','False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.'),('Crookedly','adv.','In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or\n   untoward manner.'),('Crookedness','n.','The condition or quality of being crooked; hence,\n   deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude;\n   perverseness.'),('Crooken','v. t.','To make crooked.'),('Crookes tube','','A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a\n   very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects;\n   -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.'),('Croon','v. i.','To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in\n   pain.'),('Croon','v. i.','To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.'),('Crooned','imp. & p. p.','of Croon'),('Crooning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Croon'),('Croon','v. t.','To sing in a low tone, as if to one\'s self; to hum.'),('Croon','v. t.','To soothe by singing softly.'),('Croon','n.','A low, continued moan; a murmur.'),('Croon','n.','A low singing; a plain, artless melody.'),('Crop','n.','The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as\n   a receptacle for food; the craw.'),('Crop','n.','The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a\n   plant or tree.'),('Crop','n.','That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld,\n   or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season;\n   especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit;\n   harvest.'),('Crop','n.','Grain or other product of the field while standing.'),('Crop','n.','Anything cut off or gathered.'),('Crop','n.','Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting;\n   as, a convict\'s crop.'),('Crop','n.','A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a\n   finial.'),('Crop','n.','Tin ore prepared for smelting.'),('Crop','n.','Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.'),('Crop','n.','A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.'),('Cropped','imp. & p. p.','of Crop'),('Cropping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crop'),('Crop','v. t.','To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to\n   browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.'),('Crop','v. t.','Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.'),('Crop','v. t.','To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.'),('Crop','v. i.','To yield harvest.'),('Crop-ear','n.','A person or animal whose ears are cropped.'),('Crop-eared','a.','Having the ears cropped.'),('Cropful','a.','Having a full crop or belly; satiated.'),('Cropper','n.','One that crops.'),('Cropper','n.','A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.'),('Cropper','n.','A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod\n   iron, or for facing cloth.'),('Cropper','n.','A fall on one\'s head when riding at full speed, as in\n   hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.'),('Cropsick','a.','Sick from excess in eating or drinking.'),('Crop-tailed','a.','Having the tail cropped.'),('Croquet','n.','An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to\n   drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or\n   arches set in the ground according to some pattern.'),('Croquet','n.','The act of croqueting.'),('Croqueted','imp. & p. p.','of Croquet'),('Croqueting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Croquet'),('Croquet','v. t.','In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent\'s\n   ball, after putting one\'s own in contact with it, by striking one\'s own\n   ball with the mallet.'),('Cro-quette','n.','A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other\n   ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried.'),('Crore','n.','Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly\n   $5,000,000).'),('Crosier','n.','The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop,\n   being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.'),('Crosiered','a.','Bearing a crosier.'),('Croslet','n.','See Crosslet.'),('Cross','n.','A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed\n   transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the\n   horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was\n   anciently used in the execution of criminals.'),('Cross','n.','The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in\n   ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of\n   Christ\'s death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a\n   Christian people, and of Christendom.'),('Cross','n.','Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial;\n   disappointment; opposition; misfortune.'),('Cross','n.','A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also,\n   that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money\n   in general.'),('Cross','n.','An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross;\n   a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence,\n   such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus,\n   the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists\n   of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.'),('Cross','n.','A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross,\n   set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing\n   Cross in London.'),('Cross','n.','A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many\n   varieties. See the Illustration, above.'),('Cross','n.','The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by\n   those unable to write.'),('Cross','n.','Church lands.'),('Cross','n.','A line drawn across or through another line.'),('Cross','n.','A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding;\n   or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.'),('Cross','n.','An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the\n   main course.'),('Cross','n.','A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually\n   form\'s right angle.'),('Cross','a.','Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique;\n   intersecting.'),('Cross','a.','Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting;\n   adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.'),('Cross','a.','Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness,\n   fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.'),('Cross','a.','Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation;\n   mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross\n   marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the\n   same relation to each other.'),('Cross','prep.','Athwart; across.'),('Crossed','imp. & p. p.','of Cross'),('Crossing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cross'),('Cross','v. t.','To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to\n   cross the arms.'),('Cross','v. t.','To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross\n   the letter t.'),('Cross','v. t.','To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move\n   over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.'),('Cross','v. t.','To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the\n   same time.'),('Cross','v. t.','To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to\n   clash or interfere with.'),('Cross','v. t.','To interfere and cut off; to debar.'),('Cross','v. t.','To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the\n   reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.'),('Cross','v. t.','To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a\n   line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross\n   out a name.'),('Cross','v. t.','To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or\n   races; to mix the breed of.'),('Cross','v. i.','To lie or be athwart.'),('Cross','v. i.','To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place\n   to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.'),('Cross','v. i.','To be inconsistent.'),('Cross','v. i.','To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.'),('Cross-armed','a.','With arms crossed.'),('Cross-banded','a.','A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is\n   inserted into the surface of any piece of furniture, wainscoting, etc.,\n   so that the grain of it is contrary to the general surface.'),('Crossbar','n.','A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as\n   the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to\n   insure its turning fluke down.'),('Crossbarred','a.','Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars.'),('Crossbarred','a.','Made or patterned in lines crossing each other; as,\n   crossbarred muslin.'),('Crossbeak','n.','Same as Crossbill.'),('Crossbeam','n.','A girder.'),('Crossbeam','n.','A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is\n   fastened when riding at anchor.'),('Cross-bearer','n.','A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or\n   primate on solemn occasions.'),('Crossbill','','A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery\n   suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that\n   suit.'),('Crossbill','n.','A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their\n   mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.'),('Cross-birth','n.','Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the\n   child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm,\n   or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.'),('Crossbite','n.','A deception; a cheat.'),('Crossbite','b. t.','To deceive; to trick; to gull.'),('Crossbones','n. pl.','A representation of two of the leg bones or arm\n   bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and\n   serving as a symbol of death.'),('Crossbow','n.','A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a\n   bow crosswise on a stock.'),('Crossbower','n.','A crossbowman.'),('Crossbowman','n.','One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.'),('Crossbred','a.','Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.'),('Crossbreed','n.','A breed or an animal produced from parents of different\n   breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two\n   parent varieties or stocks.'),('Crossbreed','n.','Anything partaking of the natures of two different\n   things; a hybrid.'),('Cross-bun','n.','A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be\n   eaten on Good Friday.'),('Cross-crosslet','n.','A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as\n   to from three small crosses.'),('Crosscut','v. t.','To cut across or through; to intersect.'),('Crosscut','n.','A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.'),('Crosscut','n.','A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the\n   main workings, as from one gangway to another.'),('Cross-days','n. pl.','The three days preceding the Feast of the\n   Ascension.'),('Crossette','n.','A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a\n   door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.'),('Crossette','n.','The shoulder of a joggled keystone.'),('Cross-examination','n.','The interrogating or questioning of a witness by\n   the party against whom he has been called and examined. See\n   Examination.'),('Cross-examined','imp. & p. p.','of Cross-examine'),('Cross-examining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cross-examine'),('Cross-examine','v. t.','To examine or question, as a witness who has been\n   called and examined by the opposite party.'),('Cross-examiner','n.','One who cross-examines or conducts a\n   crosse-examination.'),('Cross-eye','n.','See Strabismus.'),('Cross-eyed','a.','Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.'),('Crossfish','n.','A starfish.'),('Crossflow','v. i.','To flow across, or in a contrary direction.'),('Cross-garnet','n.','A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other\n   strap horizontal giving it the form of an Egyptian or T cross.'),('Crossgrained','a.','Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or\n   less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or\n   planing.'),('Crossgrained','a.','Perverse; untractable; contrary.'),('Crossnath','v. t.','To shade by means of crosshatching.'),('Crosshatching','n.','In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines\n   that cross one another at an angle.'),('Crosshead','n.','A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or\n   a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid\n   crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from\n   the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod,\n   which is hinged to the crosshead.'),('Crossing','v. t.','The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing\n   of the ocean.'),('Crossing','v. t.','The act of making the sign of the cross.'),('Crossing','v. t.','The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.'),('Crossing','v. t.','Intersection, as of two paths or roads.'),('Crossing','v. t.','A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a\n   paved walk across a street.'),('Crossing','v. t.','Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction.'),('Crossjack','n.','The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the\n   mizzenmast.'),('CRosslegged','a.','Having the legs crossed.'),('Crosslet','n.','A small cross.'),('Crosslet','n.','A crucible.'),('Crosslet','a.','Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are\n   crossed. SeeCross-crosslet.'),('Crossly','adv.','Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully;\n   with ill humor.'),('Crossness','n.','The quality or state of being cross; peevishness;\n   fretfulness; ill humor.'),('Crossopterygian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.'),('Crossopterygian','n.','One of the Crossopterygii.'),('Crossopterygii','n. pl.','An order of ganoid fishes including among\n   living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.'),('Crosspatch','n.','An ill-natured person.'),('Cross-pawl','n.','Same as Cross-spale.'),('Crosspiece','n.','A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed\n   crosswise.'),('Crosspiece','n.','A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two\n   bitts.'),('Cross-purpose','n.','A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is\n   inconsistent or contradictory.'),('Cross-purpose','n.','A conversational game, in which questions and\n   answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.'),('Cross-questioned','imp. & p. p.','of Cross-question'),('Cross-questioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cross-question'),('Cross-question','v. t.','To cross-examine; to subject to close\n   questioning.'),('Cross-reading','n.','The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly\n   across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a\n   ludicrous combination of ideas.'),('Crossroad','n.','A road that crosses another; an obscure road\n   intersecting or avoiding the main road.'),('Crossrow','n.','The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row.'),('Crossrow','n.','A row that crosses others.'),('Crossruff','n.','The play in whist where partners trump each a different\n   suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.'),('Cross-spale','n.','Alt. of Cross-spall'),('Cross-spall','n.','One of the temporary wooden braces, placed\n   horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams\n   are in; a cross-pawl.'),('Cross-springer','n.','One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from\n   the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]'),('Cross-staff','n.','An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the\n   altitudes of celestial bodies.'),('Cross-staff','n.','A surveyor\'s instrument for measuring offsets.'),('Cross-stitch','n.','A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and\n   in pairs, the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other.'),('Cross-stone','n.','See Harmotome, and Staurotide.'),('Cross-tail','n.','A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of\n   a backaction or side-lever engine.'),('Cross-tie','n.','A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and\n   holding them in place.'),('Cross-tining','n.','A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the\n   ridges.'),('Crosstrees','n. pl.','Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are\n   attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large\n   vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the \"top.\"'),('Cross-vaulting','n.','Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more\n   simple vaults.'),('Crossway','n.','See Crossroad.'),('Cross-week','n.','Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.'),('Crosswise','adv.','In the form of a cross; across; transversely.'),('Crosswort','n.','A name given to several inconspicuous plants having\n   leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc.'),('Crotalaria','n.','A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.'),('Crotaline','a.','Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or\n   Rattlesnake family.'),('Crotalo','n.','A Turkish musical instrument.'),('Crotalum','n.','A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.'),('Crotalus','n.','A genus of poisonous serpents, including the\n   rattlesnakes.'),('Crotaphite','n.','The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.'),('Crotaphitic','n.','Pertaining to the temple; temporal.'),('Crotches','pl. ','of Crotch'),('Crotch','n.','The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a\n   fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.'),('Crotch','n.','A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for\n   supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.'),('Crotched','a.','Having a crotch; forked.'),('Crotched','a.','Cross; peevish.'),('Crotchet','n.','A forked support; a crotch.'),('Crotchet','n.','A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of\n   a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a\n   quarter note.'),('Crotchet','n.','An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a\n   point where a traverse is placed.'),('Crotchet','n.','The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or\n   rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line\n   of battle.'),('Crotchet','n.','A bracket. See Bracket.'),('Crotchet','n.','An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in\n   the extraction of a fetus.'),('Crotchet','n.','A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the\n   mind; a conceit.'),('Crotchet','v. i.','To play music in measured time.'),('Crotcheted','a.','Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical\n   notation.'),('Crotchetiness','n.','The state or character of being crotchety, or\n   whimsical.'),('Crotchety','a.','Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety\n   man.'),('Croton','n.','A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical\n   countries.'),('Croton bug','','A small, active, winged species of cockroach (Ectobia\n   Germanica), the water bug. It is common aboard ships, and in houses in\n   cities, esp. in those with hot-water pipes.'),('Crotonic','a.','Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the\n   genus Croton, or from croton oil.'),('Crotonine','n.','A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling\n   it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of\n   the oil.'),('Crotonylene','n.','A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced\n   artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the\n   acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.'),('Crottles','n. pl.','A name given to various lichens gathered for dyeing.'),('Crouched','imp. & p. p.','of Crouch'),('Crouching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crouch'),('Crouch','v. i.','To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground\n   with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.'),('Crouch','v. i.','To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.'),('Crouch','v. t.','To sign with the cross; to bless.'),('Crouch','v. t.','To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.'),('Crouched','a.','Marked with the sign of the cross.'),('Croud','n.','See Crowd, a violin.'),('Crouke','n.','A crock; a jar.'),('Croup','n.','The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds,\n   especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.'),('Croup','n.','An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea,\n   accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult\n   breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development\n   of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup).\n   See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.'),('Croupade','n.','A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward\n   his belly.'),('Croupal','a.','Croupy.'),('Crouper','n.','See Crupper.'),('Croupier','n.','One who presides at a gaming table and collects the\n   stakes.'),('Croupier','n.','One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end\n   of the table as assistant chairman.'),('Croupous','a.','Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended\n   with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in\n   membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis.'),('Croupy','a.','Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup;\n   as, a croupy cough.'),('Crouse','a.','Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent.'),('Croustade','n.','Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces\n   upon.'),('Crout','n.','See Sourkrout.'),('Crouton','n.','Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or\n   oil, to garnish hashes, etc.'),('Crew','imp.','of Crow'),('Crowed','','of Crow'),('Crowed','p. p.','of Crow'),('Crown','','of Crow'),('Crowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crow'),('Crow','v. i.','To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either\n   in joy, gayety, or defiance.'),('Crow','v. i.','To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.'),('Crow','v. i.','To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.'),('Crow','v. i.','A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a\n   strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking\n   note. See Caw.'),('Crow','v. i.','A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron\n   used as a lever; a crowbar.'),('Crow','v. i.','The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.'),('Crow','v. i.','The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.'),('Crowbar','n.','A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.'),('Crowberry','n.','A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit,\n   a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.'),('Crowded','imp. & p. p.','of Crowd'),('Crowding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crowd'),('Crowd','v. t.','To push, to press, to shove.'),('Crowd','v. t.','To press or drive together; to mass together.'),('Crowd','v. t.','To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to\n   encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.'),('Crowd','v. t.','To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to\n   treat discourteously or unreasonably.'),('Crowd','v. i.','To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to\n   throng.'),('Crowd','v. i.','To urge or press forward; to force one\'s self; as, a man\n   crowds into a room.'),('Crowd','v. t.','A number of things collected or closely pressed together;\n   also, a number of things adjacent to each other.'),('Crowd','v. t.','A number of persons congregated or collected into a close\n   body without order; a throng.'),('Crowd','v. t.','The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the\n   rabble; the mob.'),('Crowd','n.','An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of\n   violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.'),('Crowd','v. t.','To play on a crowd; to fiddle.'),('Crowder','n.','One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler.'),('Crowder','n.','One who crowds or pushes.'),('Crowdy','n.','A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the\n   porridge kind.'),('Crowflower','n.','A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis\n   Flos-cuculi.'),('Crowfoot','n.','The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common\n   weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.'),('Crowfoot','n.','A number of small cords rove through a long block, or\n   euphroe, to suspend an awning by.'),('Crowfoot','n.','A caltrop.'),('Crowfoot','n.','A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc.'),('Crowkeeper','n.','A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a\n   scarecrow.'),('Crown','','p. p. of Crow.'),('Crown','n.','A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the\n   head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable\n   distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by,\n   faithful or successful effort; a reward.'),('Crown','n.','A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors,\n   kings, princes, etc.'),('Crown','n.','The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the\n   sovereign; -- with the definite article.'),('Crown','n.','Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.'),('Crown','n.','Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or\n   finish.'),('Crown','n.','Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.'),('Crown','n.','The topmost part of anything; the summit.'),('Crown','n.','The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that\n   part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and\n   back; also, the head or brain.'),('Crown','n.','The part of a hat above the brim.'),('Crown','n.','The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the\n   top or grinding surface of a tooth.'),('Crown','n.','The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about\n   one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.'),('Crown','n.','Same as Corona.'),('Crown','n.','That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the\n   shank.'),('Crown','n.','The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level\n   line.'),('Crown','n.','The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.'),('Crown','n.','The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.'),('Crown','n.','The dome of a furnace.'),('Crown','n.','The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.'),('Crown','n.','A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark\n   of the clerical state; the tonsure.'),('Crown','n.','A size of writing paper. See under Paper.'),('Crown','n.','A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a\n   denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the\n   value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the\n   Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly\n   twenty-seven cents.'),('Crown','n.','An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the\n   paper is stamped with a crown.'),('Crowned','imp. & p. p.','of Crown'),('Crowning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crown'),('Crown','n.','To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest\n   with royal dignity and power.'),('Crown','n.','To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or\n   recompense; to adorn; to dignify.'),('Crown','n.','To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to\n   consummate; to perfect.'),('Crown','n.','To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the\n   middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.'),('Crown','n.','To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis,\n   or the summit of the breach.'),('Crowned','p. p. & a.','Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested,\n   or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded;\n   completed; consummated; perfected.'),('Crowned','p. p. & a.','Great; excessive; supreme.'),('Crowner','n.','One who, or that which, crowns.'),('Crowner','n.','A coroner.'),('Crownet','n.','A coronet.'),('Crownet','n.','The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief\n   end.'),('Crown-imperial','n.','A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of\n   the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent\n   bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.'),('Crownless','a.','Without a crown.'),('Crownlet','n.','A coronet.'),('Crown office','','The criminal branch of the Court of King\'s or Queen\'s\n   Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes\n   cognizance of all criminal cases.'),('Crownpiece','n.','A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a\n   bridle.'),('Crownpiece','n.','A coin [In sense (b) properly crown piece.] See Crown,\n   19.'),('Crown-post','n.','Same as King-post.'),('Crown-saw','n.','A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on\n   the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.'),('Crown side','','See Crown office.'),('Crown wheel','','A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its\n   plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.'),('Crownwork','n.','A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with\n   their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected\n   by wings with the main work or the river bank.'),('Crow-quill','n.','A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such\n   a quill.'),('Crows','n. pl.','A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in\n   Montana; -- also called Upsarokas.'),('Crow\'s-feet','pl. ','of Crow\'s-foot'),('Crow\'s-foot','n.','The wrinkles that appear, as the effect of age or\n   dissipation, under and around the outer corners of the eyes.'),('Crow\'s-foot','n.','A caltrop.'),('Crow\'s-foot','n.','Same as Bird\'s-mouth.'),('Crow-silk','n.','A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of\n   Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).'),('Crow\'s-nest','n.','A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in\n   whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.'),('Crowstep','n.','See Corriestep.'),('Crowstone','n.','The top stone of the gable end of a house.'),('Crowth','n.','An ancient musical instrument. See 4th Crowd.'),('Crowtoe','n.','The Lotus corniculatus.'),('Crowtoe','n.','An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot.'),('Crow-trodden','a.','Marked with crow\'s-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes.'),('Croylstone','n.','Crystallized cawk, in which the crystals are small.'),('Croys','n.','See Cross, n.'),('Croze','n.','A cooper\'s tool for making the grooves for the heads of\n   casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.'),('Crozier','n.','See Crosier.'),('Croziered','a.','Crosiered.'),('Crucial','a.','Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross;\n   cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.'),('Crucial','a.','Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross;\n   decisive; as, a crucial test.'),('Crucian carp','','A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior\n   to the common carp; -- called also German carp.'),('Cruciate','a.','Tormented.'),('Cruciate','a.','Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a\n   cross; cruciform.'),('Cruciate','v. t.','To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.'),('Cruciation','n.','The act of torturing; torture; torment.'),('Crucible','n.','A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory\n   substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and\n   calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals,\n   ores, etc.'),('Crucible','n.','A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the\n   melted metal.'),('Crucible','n.','A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the\n   crucible of affliction.'),('Crucifer','n.','Any plant of the order Cruciferae.'),('Cruciferous','a.','Bearing a cross.'),('Cruciferous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants\n   which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the\n   mustard, radish, turnip, etc.'),('Crucifier','n.','One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another\n   to a painful trial.'),('Crucifixes','pl. ','of Crucifix'),('Crucifix','n.','A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the\n   cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood,\n   ivory, metal, or the like, used by the Roman Catholics in their\n   devotions.'),('Crucifix','n.','The cross or religion of Christ.'),('Crucifixion','n.','The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross,\n   for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a\n   method of capital punishment.'),('Crucifixion','n.','The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross;\n   death upon a cross.'),('Crucifixion','n.','Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.'),('Cruciform','a.','Cross-shaped; (Bot.) having four parts arranged in the\n   form of a cross.'),('Crucified','imp. & p. p.','of Crucify'),('Crucifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crucify'),('Crucify','v. t.','To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the\n   hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.'),('Crucify','v. t.','To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue\n   completely; to mortify.'),('Crucify','v. t.','To vex or torment.'),('Crucigerous','a.','Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross.'),('Crud','n.','See Curd.'),('Cruddle','v. i.','To curdle.'),('Crude','superl.','In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or\n   heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any\n   artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.'),('Crude','superl.','Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.'),('Crude','superl.','Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged\n   or prepared; ill-considered; immature.'),('Crude','superl.','Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to\n   give nourishment.'),('Crude','superl.','Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested\n   knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.'),('Crude','superl.','Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad\n   taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.'),('Crudely','adv.','In a crude, immature manner.'),('Crudeness','n.','A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness;\n   unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as,\n   the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.'),('Crudities','pl. ','of Crudity'),('Crudity','n.','The condition of being crude; rawness.'),('Crudity','n.','That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence,\n   superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.'),('Crudle','v. i.','See Cruddle.'),('Crudy','a.','Coagulated.'),('Crudy','a.','Characterized by crudeness; raw.'),('Cruel','n.','See Crewel.'),('Cruel','a.','Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt,\n   torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity;\n   savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.'),('Cruel','a.','Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.'),('Cruel','a.','Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.'),('Cruelly','adv.','In a cruel manner.'),('Cruelly','adv.','Extremely; very.'),('Cruelness','n.','Cruelty.'),('Cruels','n. pl.','Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.'),('Cruelties','pl. ','of Cruelty'),('Cruelty','n.','The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to\n   give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.'),('Cruelty','n.','A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of\n   willfully causing unnecessary pain.'),('Cruentate','a.','Smeared with blood.'),('Cruentous','a.','Bloody; cruentate.'),('Cruet','n.','A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for\n   holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.'),('Cruet','n.','A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of\n   the altar.'),('Cruise','n.','See Cruse, a small bottle.'),('Cruised','imp. & p. p.','of Cruise'),('Cruising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cruise'),('Cruise','v. i.','To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the\n   potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for\n   pleasure.'),('Cruise','v. i.','To wander hither and thither on land.'),('Cruise','n.','A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel,\n   for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a\n   sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.'),('Cruiser','n.','One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed\n   vessel.'),('Cruive','n.','A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel.'),('Crull','a.','Curly; curled.'),('Cruller','n.','A kind of sweet cake cut in strips and curled or twisted,\n   and fried crisp in boiling fat.'),('Crumb','n.','A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of\n   bread or other food, broken or cut off.'),('Crumb','n.','Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.'),('Crumb','n.','The soft part of bread.'),('Crumbed','imp. & p. p.','of Crumb'),('Crumbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crumb'),('Crumb','v. t.','To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers;\n   as, to crumb bread.'),('Crumbcloth','n.','A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive\n   falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean.'),('Crumbled','imp. & p. p.','of Crumble'),('Crumbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crumble'),('Crumble','v. t.','To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.'),('Crumble','v. i.','To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small\n   fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to\n   perish.'),('Crumbly','a.','EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle.'),('Crumenal','n.','A purse.'),('Crummable','a.','Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.'),('Crummy','a.','Full of crumb or crumbs.'),('Crummy','a.','Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.'),('Crump','a.','Crooked; bent.'),('Crump','a.','Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf.'),('Crumpet','n.','A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy,\n   and cooked on a griddle or spider.'),('Crumpled','imp. & p. p.','of Crumple'),('Crumpling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crumple'),('Crumple','v. t.','To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush\n   together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.'),('Crumple','v. i.','To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being\n   crushed together; as, leaves crumple.'),('Crumpy','a.','Brittle; crisp.'),('Crunched','imp. & p. p.','of Crunch'),('Crunching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crunch'),('Crunch','v. i.','To chew with force and noise; to craunch.'),('Crunch','v. i.','To grind or press with violence and noise.'),('Crunch','v. i.','To emit a grinding or craunching noise.'),('Crunch','v. t.','To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise;\n   to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.'),('Crunk','v. i.','Alt. of Crunkle'),('Crunkle','v. i.','To cry like a crane.'),('Crunodal','a.','Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of\n   curves.'),('Crunode','n.','A point where one branch of a curve crosses another\n   branch. See Double point, under Double, a.'),('Cruor','n.','The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of\n   coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.'),('Cruorin','n.','The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal;\n   haemoglobin.'),('Crup','a.','Short; brittle; as, crup cake.'),('Crup','n.','See Croup, the rump of a horse.'),('Crupper','n.','The buttocks or rump of a horse.'),('Crupper','n.','A leather loop, passing under a horse\'s tail, and buckled\n   to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.'),('Crupper','v. t.','To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to\n   crupper a horse.'),('Crura','n. pl.','See Crus.'),('Crural','a.','Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the\n   parts called crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal;\n   crural ring.'),('Crura','pl. ','of Crus'),('Crus','n.','That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and\n   the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.'),('Crus','n.','Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are\n   supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a\n   pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve\n   fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the\n   forebrain.'),('Crusade','n.','Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by\n   Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the\n   recovery of the Holy Land from the Mohammedans.'),('Crusade','n.','Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a\n   crusade against intemperance.'),('Crusade','n.','A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.'),('Crusaded','imp. & p. p.','of Crusade'),('Crusading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crusade'),('Crusade','v. i.','To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or\n   hot-headed manner.'),('Crusader','n.','One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle\n   Ages.'),('Crusading','a.','Of or pertaining to a crusade; as, a crusading spirit.'),('Crusado','n.','An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents.'),('Cruse','n.','A cup or dish.'),('Cruse','n.','A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc.'),('Cruset','n.','A goldsmith\'s crucible or melting pot.'),('Crushed','imp. & p. p.','of Crush'),('Crushing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crush'),('Crush','v. t.','To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze,\n   so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to\n   force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes.'),('Crush','v. t.','To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to\n   comminute; as, to crush quartz.'),('Crush','v. t.','To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force\n   down, as by an incumbent weight.'),('Crush','v. t.','To oppress or burden grievously.'),('Crush','v. t.','To overcome completely; to subdue totally.'),('Crush','v. i.','To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a\n   smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes\n   easily.'),('Crush','n.','A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction;\n   ruin.'),('Crush','n.','Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced\n   uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.'),('Crusher','n.','One who, or that which, crushes.'),('Crushing','a.','That crushes; overwhelming.'),('Crust','n.','The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard\n   exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.'),('Crust','n.','The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from\n   the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.'),('Crust','n.','The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft\n   contents.'),('Crust','n.','The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; --\n   also called dumpling.'),('Crust','n.','The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally\n   supposed to inclose a molten interior.'),('Crust','n.','The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.'),('Crust','n.','A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus,\n   occurring upon the surface of the body.'),('Crust','n.','An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result\n   of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.'),('Crusted','imp. & p. p.','of Crust'),('Crusting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crust'),('Crust','n.','To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an\n   incrustation; to incrust.'),('Crust','v. i.','To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become\n   incrusted.'),('Crusta','n.','A crust or shell.'),('Crusta','n.','A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for\n   inlaying a vase or other object.'),('Crustacea','n. pl.','One of the classes of the arthropods, including\n   lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which\n   they are covered.'),('Crustacean','a.','Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.'),('Crustacean','n.','An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.'),('Crustaceological','a.','Pertaining to crustaceology.'),('Crustaceologist','n.','One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.'),('Crustaceology','n.','That branch of Zoology which treats of the\n   Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.'),('Crustaceous','a.','Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell;\n   having a crustlike shell.'),('Crustaceous','a.','Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.'),('Crustaceousness','n.','The state or quality of being crustaceous or\n   having a crustlike shell.'),('Crustal','a.','Relating to a crust.'),('Crustalogical','a.','Pertaining to crustalogy.'),('Crustalogist','n.','One versed in crustalogy.'),('Crustalogy','n.','Crustaceology.'),('Crustated','a.','Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.'),('Crustation','n.','An adherent crust; an incrustation.'),('Crusted','a.','Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old,\n   crusted port wine.'),('Crustific','a.','Producing or forming a crust or skin.'),('Crustily','adv.','In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.'),('Crustiness','n.','The state or quality of having crust or being like\n   crust; hardness.'),('Crustiness','n.','The quality of being crusty or surly.'),('Crusty','a.','Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering;\n   as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.'),('Crusty','a.','Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though\n   kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly.'),('Crut','n.','The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.'),('Crutches','pl. ','of Crutch'),('Crutch','n.','A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under\n   the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.'),('Crutch','n.','A form of pommel for a woman\'s saddle, consisting of a\n   forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.'),('Crutch','n.','A knee, or piece of knee timber'),('Crutch','n.','A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.'),('Crutch','v. t.','To support on crutches; to prop up.'),('Crutched','a.','Supported upon crutches.'),('Crutched','a.','Marked with the sign of the cross; crouched.'),('Cruth','n.','See 4th Crowd.'),('Cruxes','pl. ','of Crux'),('Cruces','pl. ','of Crux'),('Crux','n.','Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.'),('Cruzado','n.','A coin. See Crusado.'),('Crwth','n.','See 4th Crowd.'),('Cried','imp. & p. p.','of Cry'),('Crying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cry'),('Cry','v. i.','To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently\n   or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to\n   implore.'),('Cry','v. i.','To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain,\n   grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as\n   a child.'),('Cry','v. i.','To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.'),('Cry','v. t.','To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to\n   declare publicly.'),('Cry','v. t.','To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying\n   or weeping; as, to cry one\'s self to sleep.'),('Cry','v. t.','To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare\n   publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or\n   found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.'),('Cry','v. t.','to publish the banns of, as for marriage.'),('Cries','pl. ','of Cry'),('Cry','v. i.','A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound\n   produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of\n   wolves.'),('Cry','v. i.','Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.'),('Cry','v. i.','Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with\n   tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.'),('Cry','v. i.','Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular\n   acclamation or favor.'),('Cry','v. i.','Importunate supplication.'),('Cry','v. i.','Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers\n   of their wares.'),('Cry','v. i.','Common report; fame.'),('Cry','v. i.','A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and\n   repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.'),('Cry','v. i.','A pack of hounds.'),('Cry','v. i.','A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.'),('Cry','v. i.','The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back\n   and forth.'),('Cryal','n.','The heron'),('Cryer','n.','The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.'),('Crying','a.','Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious;\n   heinous; as, a crying evil.'),('Cryohydrate','n.','A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which\n   crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or\n   below the freezing point of water.'),('Cryolite','n.','A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in\n   white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.'),('Cryophorus','n.','An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water\n   by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs,\n   connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a\n   quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of\n   the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32¡ Fahr.'),('Crypt','n.','A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault\n   under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean\n   chapel or oratory.'),('Crypt','n.','A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as,\n   the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small\n   intestines.'),('Cryptal','a.','Of or pertaining to crypts.'),('Cryptic','a.','Alt. of Cryptical'),('Cryptical','a.','Hidden; secret; occult.'),('Cryptically','adv.','Secretly; occultly.'),('Cryptidine','n.','One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as\n   an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric\n   with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.'),('Cryptobranchiata','n. pl.','A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.'),('Cryptobranchiata','n. pl.','A group of nudibranch mollusks.'),('Cryptobranchiate','a.','Having concealed or rudimentary gills.'),('Cryptocrystalline','a.','Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks\n   and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct\n   particles are visible, even under the microscope.'),('Cryptogam','n.','A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.'),('Cryptogamiae','pl. ','of Cryptogamia'),('Cryptogamia','n.','The series or division of flowerless plants, or those\n   never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of\n   various kinds.'),('Cryptogamian','a.','Alt. of Cryptogamous'),('Cryptogamic','a.','Alt. of Cryptogamous'),('Cryptogamous','a.','Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to\n   plants of that series.'),('Cryptogamist','n.','One skilled in cryptogamic botany.'),('Cryptogram','n.','A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.'),('Cryptograph','n.','Cipher; something written in cipher.'),('Cryptographal','a.','Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical.'),('Cryptographer','n.','One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.'),('Cryptographic','a.','Alt. of Cryptographical'),('Cryptographical','a.','Relating to cryptography; written in secret\n   characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.'),('Cryptographist','n.','Same as Cryptographer.'),('Cryptography','n.','The act or art of writing in secret characters; also,\n   secret characters, or cipher.'),('Cryptology','n.','Secret or enigmatical language.'),('Cryptonym','n.','A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to\n   the initiated.'),('Cryptopine','n.','A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small\n   quantities from opium.'),('Crypturi','n. pl.','An order of flying, drom/ognathous birds, including\n   the tinamous of South America. See Tinamou.'),('Crystal','n.','The regular form which a substance tends to assume in\n   solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is\n   bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of\n   crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.'),('Crystal','n.','The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or\n   nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the\n   like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it.\n   Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.'),('Crystal','n.','A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and\n   manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See\n   Flint glass.'),('Crystal','n.','The glass over the dial of a watch case.'),('Crystal','n.','Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc.'),('Crystal','a.','Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent;\n   lucid; pellucid; crystalline.'),('Crystallin','n.','See Gobulin.'),('Crystalline','a.','Consisting, or made, of crystal.'),('Crystalline','a.','Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.'),('Crystalline','a.','Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only\n   crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.'),('Crystalline','a.','Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.'),('Crystalline','n.','A crystalline substance.'),('Crystalline','n.','See Aniline.'),('Crystallite','n.','A minute mineral form like those common in glassy\n   volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline\n   outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first\n   step in the crystallization process. According to their form\n   crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.'),('Crystallizable','a.','Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed\n   into crystals.'),('Crystallization','n.','The act or process by which a substance in\n   solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes\n   crystallized.'),('Crystallization','n.','The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on\n   precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.'),('Crystallized','imp. & p. p.','of Crystallize'),('Crystallizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Crystallize'),('Crystallize','v. t.','To cause to form crystals, or to assume the\n   crystalline form.'),('Crystallize','v. i.','To be converted into a crystal; to take on a\n   crystalline form, through the action of crystallogenic or cohesive\n   attraction.'),('Crystallogenic','a.','Alt. of Crystallogenical'),('Crystallogenical','a.','Pertaining to the production of crystals;\n   crystal-producing; as, crystallogenic attraction.'),('Crystallogeny','n.','The science which pertains to the production of\n   crystals.'),('Crystallographer','n.','One who describes crystals, or the manner of\n   their formation; one versed in crystallography.'),('Crystallographic','a.','Alt. of Crystallographical'),('Crystallographical','a.','Pertaining to crystallography.'),('Crystallographically','adv.','In the manner of crystallography.'),('Crystallography','n.','The doctrine or science of crystallization,\n   teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their\n   methods of formation.'),('Crystallography','n.','A discourse or treatise on crystallization.'),('Crystalloid','a.','Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.'),('Crystalloid','n.','A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through\n   animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; --\n   opposed to colloid.'),('Crystalloid','n.','One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals,\n   consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; --\n   called also protein crystal.'),('Cristallology','n.','The science of the crystalline structure of\n   inorganic bodies.'),('Crystallomancy','n.','Divination by means of a crystal or other\n   transparent body, especially a beryl.'),('Crystallometry','n.','The art of measuring crystals.'),('Crystallurgy','n.','Crystallization.'),('Ctenocyst','n.','An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory.'),('Ctenoid','a.','Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale'),('Ctenoid','a.','Pertaining to the Ctenoidei.'),('Ctenoid','n.','A ctenoidean.'),('Ctenoidean','a.','Relating to the Ctenoidei.'),('Ctenoidean','n.','One of the Ctenoidei.'),('Ctenoidei','n. pl.','A group of fishes, established by Agassiz,\n   characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the\n   perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.'),('Ctenophora','n. pl.','A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in\n   shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The\n   separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.'),('Ctenophore','n.','One of the Ctenophora.'),('Ctenophoric','a.','Alt. of Ctenophorous'),('Ctenophorous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Ctenophora.'),('Ctenostomata','n. pl.','A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of\n   bristles below the tentacles.'),('Cub','n.','A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.'),('Cub','n.','Jocosely or in contempt, a boy or girl, esp. an awkward, rude,\n   ill-mannered boy.'),('Cubbed','imp. & p. p.','of Cub'),('Cubbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cub'),('Cub','v. t. & i.','To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of\n   persons.'),('Cub','n.','A stall for cattle.'),('Cub','n.','A cupboard.'),('Cub','v. t.','To shut up or confine.'),('Cuban','a.','Of or pertaining to Cuba or its inhabitants.'),('Cuban','n.','A native or an inhabitant of Cuba.'),('Cubation','n.','The act of lying down; a reclining.'),('Cubatory','a.','Lying down; recumbent.'),('Cubature','n.','The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of\n   a body.'),('Cubbridge-head','n.','A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a\n   ship.'),('Cubby','n.','Alt. of Cubbyhole'),('Cubbyhole','n.','A snug or confined place.'),('Cubdrawn','a.','Sucked by cubs.'),('Cube','n.','A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.'),('Cube','n.','The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three\n   times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.'),('Cubed','imp. & p. p.','of Cube'),('Cubing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cube'),('Cube','v. t.','To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.'),('Cubeb','n.','The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba;\n   in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now\n   cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is\n   much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.'),('Cubebic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, cubebs; as, cubebic acid\n   (a soft olive-green resin extracted from cubebs).'),('Cubhood','n.','The state of being a cub.'),('Cubic','a.','Alt. of Cubical'),('Cubical','a.','Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or\n   capable of being contained, in a cube.'),('Cubical','a.','Isometric or monometric; as, cubic cleavage. See\n   Crystallization.'),('Cubic','n.','A curve of the third degree.'),('Cubically','adv.','In a cubical method.'),('Cubicalness','n.','The quality of being cubical.'),('Cubicle','n.','A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from\n   a large dormitory.'),('Cubicular','a.','Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.'),('Cubiform','a.','Of the form of a cube.'),('Cubile','n.','The lowest course of stones in a building.'),('Cubilose','n.','A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the\n   characteristic ingredient of edible bird\'s-nests.'),('Cubit','n.','The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from\n   elbow to wrist.'),('Cubit','n.','A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to\n   the extremity of the middle finger.'),('Cubital','a.','Of or pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital\n   nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.'),('Cubital','a.','Of the length of a cubit.'),('Cubital','n.','A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand.'),('Cubited','a.','Having the measure of a cubit.'),('Cubless','a.','Having no cubs.'),('Cuboid','a.','Cube-shaped, or nearly so; as, the cuboid bone of the foot.'),('Cuboid','n.','The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals,\n   supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes.'),('Cuboidal','a.','Cuboid.'),('Cubo-octahedral','a.','Presenting a combination of a cube and an\n   octahedron.'),('Cubo-octahedron','n.','A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one\n   in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.'),('Cuca','n.','See Coca.'),('Cucking stool','','A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds,\n   and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front\n   of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to\n   be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a\n   tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking\n   stool.'),('Cuckold','n.','A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an\n   adulteress.'),('Cuckold','n.','A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).'),('Cuckold','n.','The cowfish.'),('Cuckolded','imp. & p. p.','of Cuckold'),('Cuckolding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cuckold'),('Cuckold','v. t.','To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his\n   wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.'),('Cuckoldize','v. t.','To cuckold.'),('Cuckoldly','a.','Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited;\n   sneaking.'),('Cuckoldom','n.','The state of a cuckold; cuckolds, collectively.'),('Cuckoldry','n.','The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making\n   cuckolds.'),('Cuckold\'s knot','','A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a\n   spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; --\n   called also cuckold\'s neck.'),('Cuckoo','n.','A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied\n   genera, of many species.'),('Cuckoobud','n.','A species of Ranunculus (R. bulbosus); -- called also\n   butterflower, buttercup, kingcup, goldcup.'),('Cuckooflower','n.','A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady\'s\n   smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis\n   Flos-cuculi).'),('Cuckoopint','n.','A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European\n   wake-robin.'),('Cucquean','n.','A woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.'),('Cucujo','n.','The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies.'),('Cucullate','a.','Alt. of Cucullated'),('Cucullated','a.','Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.'),('Cucullated','a.','Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the\n   leaf of the commonest American blue violet.'),('Cucullated','a.','Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of\n   hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects.'),('Cucullated','a.','Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds,\n   mammals, and reptiles.'),('Cuculoid','a.','Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculidae).'),('Cucumber','n.','A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of\n   the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is\n   eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several\n   other genera. See below.'),('Cucumiform','a.','Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a\n   cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or\n   curved.'),('Cucumis','n.','A genus of plants including the cucumber, melon, and same\n   kinds of gourds.'),('Cucurbit','n.','Alt. of Cucurbite'),('Cucurbite','n.','A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or\n   forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a\n   gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic.'),('Cucurbitaceous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of\n   plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.'),('Cucurbitive','a.','Having the shape of a gourd seed; -- said of certain\n   small worms.'),('Cud','n.','That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by\n   ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second\n   time.'),('Cud','n.','A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.'),('Cud','n.','The first stomach of ruminating beasts.'),('Cudbear','n.','A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with\n   water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from\n   certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea.'),('Cudbear','n.','A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is\n   obtained.'),('Cudden','n.','A clown; a low rustic; a dolt.'),('Cudden','n.','The coalfish. See 3d Cuddy.'),('Cuddled','imp. & p. p.','of Cuddle'),('Cuddling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cuddle'),('Cuddle','v. i.','To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.'),('Cuddle','v. t.','To embrace closely; to fondle.'),('Cuddle','n.','A close embrace.'),('Cuddy','n.','An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.'),('Cuddy','n.','A blockhead; a lout.'),('Cuddy','n.','A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up\n   railroad ties, etc.'),('Cuddy','n.','A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.'),('Cuddy','n.','The coalfish (Pollachius carbonarius).'),('Cudgel','n.','A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff,\n   and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.'),('Cudgeled','imp. & p. p.','of Cudgel'),('Cudgelled','','of Cudgel'),('Cudgeling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cudgel'),('Cudgelling','','of Cudgel'),('Cudgel','v. t.','To beat with a cudgel.'),('Cudgeler','n.','One who beats with a cudgel.'),('Cudweed','n.','A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and\n   leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to\n   many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.;\n   cottonweed.'),('Cue','n.','The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of\n   hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.'),('Cue','n.','The last words of a play actor\'s speech, serving as an\n   intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words\n   which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a\n   catchword.'),('Cue','n.','A hint or intimation.'),('Cue','n.','The part one has to perform in, or as in, a play.'),('Cue','n.','Humor; temper of mind.'),('Cue','n.','A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing\n   billiards.'),('Cue','v. t.','To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.'),('Cue','n.','A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a\n   farthing or half farthing.'),('Cuerpo','n.','The body.'),('Cuffed','imp. & p. p.','of Cuff'),('Cuffing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cuff'),('Cuff','v. t.','To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the\n   hand; to slap.'),('Cuff','v. t.','To buffet.'),('Cuff','v. i.','To fight; to scuffle; to box.'),('Cuff','n.','A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.'),('Cuff','n.','The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned\n   back from the hand.'),('Cuff','n.','Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to\n   the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times,\n   such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper,\n   or the like.'),('Cuffy','n.','A name for a negro.'),('Cufic','a.','Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic\n   language.'),('Cuinage','n.','The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with\n   the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.'),('Cuirasses','pl. ','of Cuirass'),('Cuirass','n.','A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the\n   neck to the girdle'),('Cuirass','n.','The breastplate taken by itself.'),('Cuirass','n.','An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.'),('Cuirassed','a.','Wearing a cuirass.'),('Cuirassed','a.','Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass;\n   -- said of certain fishes.'),('Cuirassier','n.','A soldier armed with a cuirass.'),('Cuish','n.','Defensive armor for the thighs.'),('Cuisine','n.','The kitchen or cooking department.'),('Cuisine','n.','Manner or style of cooking.'),('Culasse','n.','The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.'),('Culdee','n.','One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of\n   Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.'),('Culs-de-sac','pl. ','of Cul-de-sac'),('Cul-de-sac','n.','A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at\n   one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.'),('Cul-de-sac','n.','a position in which an army finds itself with no way of\n   exit but to the front.'),('Cul-de-sac','n.','Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ,\n   open only at one end.'),('Culerage','n.','See Culrage.'),('Culex','n.','A genus of dipterous insects, including the gnat and\n   mosquito.'),('Culiciform','a.','Gnat-shaped.'),('Culinarily','adv.','In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a\n   kitchen or cooking.'),('Culinary','a.','Relating to the kitchen, or to the art of cookery; used\n   in kitchens; as, a culinary vessel; the culinary art.'),('Culled','imp. & p. p.','of Cull'),('Culling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cull'),('Cull','v. t.','To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or\n   collect; as, to cull flowers.'),('Cull','n.','A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.'),('Cullender','n.','A strainer. See Colander.'),('Culler','n.','One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects\n   wares suitable for market.'),('Cullet','v. t.','Broken glass for remelting.'),('Cullet','n.','A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet,\n   3 (b).'),('Cullibility','n.','Gullibility.'),('Cullible','a.','Easily deceived; gullible.'),('Culling','n.','The act of one who culls.'),('Culling','n.','Anything separated or selected from a mass.'),('Cullion','n.','A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.'),('Cullionly','a.','Mean; base.'),('Cullis','n.','A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for\n   invalids; also, a savory jelly.'),('Cullises','pl. ','of Cullis'),('Cullis','n.','A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.'),('Culls','v. t.','Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled\n   out.'),('Culls','v. t.','Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.'),('Cullies','pl. ','of Cully'),('Cully','n.','A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean\n   dupe; a gull.'),('Cully','n.','To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive.'),('Cullyism','n.','The state of being a cully.'),('Culm','n.','The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the\n   bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.'),('Culm','n.','Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially\n   when found in small masses.'),('Culm','n.','The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of\n   fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.'),('Culmen','n.','Top; summit; acme.'),('Culmen','n.','The dorsal ridge of a bird\'s bill.'),('Culmiferous','a.','Having jointed stems or culms.'),('Culmiferous','a.','Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.'),('Culminal','a.','Pertaining to a culmen.'),('Culminant','a.','Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude;\n   hence, predominant.'),('Culminated','imp. & p. p.','of Culminate'),('Culminating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Culminate'),('Culminate','v. i.','To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to\n   the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.'),('Culminate','v. i.','To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power,\n   numbers, etc.'),('Culminate','a.','Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth;\n   -- applied to the growth of corals.'),('Culmination','n.','The attainment of the highest point of altitude\n   reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.'),('Culmination','n.','Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory,\n   power, etc.'),('Culpa','n.','Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit,\n   fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of\n   intellect, dolus to defect of heart.'),('Culpabilities','pl. ','of Culpability'),('Culpability','n.','The state of being culpable.'),('Culpable','a.','Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral;\n   criminal.'),('Culpable','a.','Guilty; as, culpable of a crime.'),('Culpatory','a.','Expressing blame; censuring; reprehensory; inculpating.'),('Culpe','n.','Blameworthiness.'),('Culpon','n.','A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood.'),('Culprit','p. p.','One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a\n   judge.'),('Culprit','p. p.','One quilty of a fault; a criminal.'),('Culrage','n.','Smartweed (Polygonum Hydropiper).'),('Cult','n .','Attentive care; homage; worship.'),('Cult','n .','A system of religious belief and worship.'),('Cultch','n.','Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on\n   oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the\n   oyster.'),('Culter','n.','A colter. See Colter.'),('Cultirostral','a.','Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or\n   like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.'),('Cultirostres','n. pl.','A tribe of wading birds including the stork,\n   heron, crane, etc.'),('Cultivable','a.','Capable of being cultivated or tilled.'),('Cultivatable','a.','Cultivable.'),('Cultivated','imp. & p. p.','of Cultivate'),('Cultivating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cultivate'),('Cultivate','v. t.','To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a\n   view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.'),('Cultivate','v. t.','To direct special attention to; to devote time and\n   thought to; to foster; to cherish.'),('Cultivate','v. t.','To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.'),('Cultivate','v. t.','To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart\n   culture to; to civilize; to refine.'),('Cultivate','v. t.','To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while\n   growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.'),('Cultivation','n.','The art or act of cultivating; improvement for\n   agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production\n   by tillage.'),('Cultivation','n.','Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or\n   for the benefit of others; fostering care.'),('Cultivation','n.','The state of being cultivated; advancement in\n   physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.'),('Cultivator','n.','One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a\n   cultivator of literature.'),('Cultivator','n.','An agricultural implement used in the tillage of\n   growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds;\n   esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by\n   handles.'),('Cultrate','a.','Alt. of Cultrated'),('Cultrated','a.','Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as\n   the beak of certain birds.'),('Cultriform','a.','Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.'),('Cultrivorous','a.','Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to\n   swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have\n   seemed to swallow, knives with impunity.'),('Culturable','a.','Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or\n   becoming cultured.'),('Cultural','a.','Of or pertaining to culture.'),('Culture','n.','The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the\n   earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the\n   soil.'),('Culture','n.','The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training,\n   disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as,\n   the culture of the mind.'),('Culture','n.','The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation;\n   physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental\n   and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.'),('Cultured','imp. & p. p.','of Culture'),('Culturing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Culture'),('Culture','v. t.','To cultivate; to educate.'),('Cultured','a.','Under culture; cultivated.'),('Cultured','a.','Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined;\n   refined; well-educated.'),('Cultureless','a.','Having no culture.'),('Culturist','n.','A cultivator.'),('Culturist','n.','One who is an advocate of culture.'),('Cultuses','pl. ','of Cultus'),('Cultus','n. sing. & pl.','Established or accepted religious rites or\n   usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2.'),('Cultus cod','','See Cod, and Buffalo cod, under Buffalo.'),('Culver','n.','A dove.'),('Culver','n.','A culverin.'),('Culverhouse','n.','A dovecote.'),('Culverin','n.','A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder\n   with serpent-shaped handles.'),('Culverkey','n.','A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree.'),('Culverkey','n.','An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the\n   bluebell squill (Scilla nutans).'),('Culvert','n.','A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road,\n   railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.'),('Culvertail','n.','Dovetail.'),('Culvertailed','a.','United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.'),('Cumacea','n. pl.','An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.'),('Cumbent','a.','Lying down; recumbent.'),('Cumbered','imp. & p. p.','of Cumber'),('Cumbering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cumber'),('Cumber','v. t.','To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load;\n   to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining\n   an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble.'),('Cumber','v.','Trouble; embarrassment; distress.'),('Cumbersome','a.','Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag;\n   embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous.'),('Cumbersome','a.','Not easily managed; as, a cumbersome contrivance or\n   machine.'),('Cumbrance','n.','Encumbrance.'),('Cumbrian','a.','Pertaining to Cumberland, England, or to a system of\n   rocks found there.'),('Cumbrous','a.','Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving\n   to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.'),('Cumbrous','a.','Giving trouble; vexatious.'),('Cumene','n.','A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the\n   distillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.'),('Cumfrey','n.','See Comfrey.'),('Cumic','a.','See Cuming.'),('Cumidine','n.','A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous\n   with aniline.'),('Cumin','n.','A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel\n   (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish,\n   warm taste, with an aromatic flavor, and are used like those of anise\n   and caraway.'),('Cuminic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of\n   caraway; as, cuminic acid.'),('Cuminil','n .','A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of\n   caraway.'),('Cuminol','n.','A liquid, C3H7.C6H4.CHO, obtained from oil of caraway; --\n   called also cuminic aldehyde.'),('Cummin','n.','Same as Cumin.'),('Cumshaw','n.','A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on\n   ships which entered the port of Canton.'),('Cumshaw','v. t.','To give or make a present to.'),('Cumu-cirro-stratus','n.','Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.'),('Cumulated','imp. & p. p.','of Cumulate'),('Cumulating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cumulate'),('Cumulate','v. t.','To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to\n   accumulate.'),('Cumulation','n.','The act of heaping together; a heap. See Accumulation.'),('Cumulatist','n.','One who accumulates; one who collects.'),('Cumulative','a.','Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass;\n   aggregated.'),('Cumulative','a.','Augmenting, gaining, or giving force, by successive\n   additions; as, a cumulative argument, i. e., one whose force increases\n   as the statement proceeds.'),('Cumulative','a.','Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence\n   has been offered; -- said of evidence.'),('Cumulative','a.','Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of\n   a legacy.'),('Cumulose','a.','Full of heaps.'),('Cumulostratus','n.','A form of cloud. See Cloud.'),('Cumuli','pl. ','of Cumulus'),('Cumulus','n.','One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud.'),('Cun','v. t.','To con (a ship).'),('Cun','v. t.','To know. See Con.'),('Cunabula','n. pl.','The earliest abode; original dwelling place;\n   originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.'),('Cunabula','n. pl.','The extant copies of the first or earliest printed\n   books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.'),('Cunctation','n.','Delay; procrastination.'),('Cunctative','a.','Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.'),('Cunctator','n.','One who delays or lingers.'),('Cunctipotent','a.','All-powerful; omnipotent.'),('Cund','v. t.','To con (a ship).'),('Cundurango','n.','The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus\n   Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but\n   erroneously, to be a cure for cancer.'),('Cuneal','','Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped.'),('Cuneate','a.','Alt. of Cuneated'),('Cuneated','a.','Wedge-shaped'),('Cuneated','a.','wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate\n   leaf.'),('Cuneatic','a.','Cuneiform.'),('Cuneiform','a.','Alt. of Cuniform'),('Cuniform','a.','Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied\n   to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and\n   Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.'),('Cuniform','a.','Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped\n   characters, or the inscriptions in them.'),('Cuneiform','n.','Alt. of Cuniform'),('Cuniform','n.','The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and\n   Assyrian inscriptions.'),('Cuniform','n.','One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first,\n   second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external,\n   middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform,\n   respectively.'),('Cuniform','n.','One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the\n   ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.'),('Cunette','n.','A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also\n   cuvette.'),('Cunner','n.','A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus\n   adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait\n   stealer.'),('Cunner','n.','A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.'),('Cunning','a.','Knowing; skillful; dexterous.'),('Cunning','a.','Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity;\n   ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.'),('Cunning','a.','Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.'),('Cunning','a.','Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.'),('Cunning','a.','Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.'),('Cunning','a.','The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a\n   purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.'),('Cunningly','adv.','In a cunning manner; with cunning.'),('Cunningman','n.','A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.'),('Cunningness','n.','Quality of being cunning; craft.'),('Cup','n.','A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a\n   silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or\n   porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in\n   drinking tea, coffee, and the like.'),('Cup','n.','The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.'),('Cup','n.','Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in\n   intoxicating drinks; revelry.'),('Cup','n.','That which is to be received or indured; that which is\n   allotted to one; a portion.'),('Cup','n.','Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a\n   flower.'),('Cup','n.','A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce\n   the vacuum in cupping.'),('Cupped','imp. & p. p.','of Cup'),('Cupping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cup'),('Cup','v. t.','To supply with cups of wine.'),('Cup','v. t.','To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the\n   operation of cupping. See Cupping.'),('Cup','v. t.','To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end\n   of a screw.'),('Cupbearer','n.','One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an\n   entertainment.'),('Cupbearer','n.','One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently\n   charged with the performance of this office for his master.'),('Cupboard','n.','A board or shelf for cups and dishes.'),('Cupboard','n.','A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups,\n   dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.'),('Cupboard','v. t.','To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.'),('Cupel','n.','A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals,\n   commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).'),('Cupelled','imp. & p. p.','of Cupel'),('Cupelling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cupel'),('Cupel','v. t.','To refine by means of a cupel.'),('Cupellation','n.','The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc.,\n   in a cupel.'),('Cupfuls','pl. ','of Cupful'),('Cupful','n.','As much as a cup will hold.'),('Cup-gall','n.','A kind of oak-leaf gall. See Gall.'),('Cupid','n .','The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a\n   naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.'),('Cupidity','n.','A passionate desire; love.'),('Cupidity','n.','Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed\n   of gain; avarice; covetousness'),('Cup-moss','n.','A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.'),('Cupolas','pl. ','of Cupola'),('Cupola','n.','A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so;\n   also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is\n   usually called dome.'),('Cupola','n.','A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.'),('Cupola','n.','A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large\n   quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.'),('Cupola','n.','A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.'),('Cupola','n.','The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.'),('Cupper','n.','One who performs the operation of cupping.'),('Cupping','n.','The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of\n   the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. Also, sometimes,\n   a similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess.'),('Cupreous','a.','Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.'),('Cupric','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing\n   copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is\n   present in its lowest proportion.'),('Cupriferous','a.','Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.'),('Cuprite','n.','The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of\n   copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.'),('Cuproid','n.','A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under\n   twelve equal triangles.'),('Cup-rose','n.','Red poppy. See Cop-rose.'),('Cuprous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing\n   copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is\n   present in its highest proportion.'),('Cuprum','n.','Copper.'),('Cupulate','a.','Having or bearing cupules; cupuliferous.'),('Cupule','n.','A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of\n   the filbert, chestnut, etc.'),('Cupule','n.','A sucker or acetabulum.'),('Cupuliferous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of\n   plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing\n   a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or\n   furnished with, a cupule.'),('Cur','n.','A mongrel or inferior dog.'),('Cur','n.','A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt.'),('Curability','n.','The state of being curable; curableness.'),('Curable','v. t.','Capable of being cured; admitting remedy.'),('Curacao','n.','Alt. of Curacoa'),('Curacoa','n.','A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel,\n   cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaccao.'),('Curacies','pl. ','of Curacy'),('Curacy','n.','The office or employment of a curate.'),('Curare','n.','Alt. of Curari'),('Curari','n.','A black resinoid extract prepared by the South American\n   Indians from the bark of several species of Strychnos (S. toxifera,\n   etc.). It sometimes has little effect when taken internally, but is\n   quickly fatal when introduced into the blood, and used by the Indians\n   as an arrow poison.'),('Curarine','n.','A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and\n   from the Strychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless\n   salts.'),('Curarize','v. t.','To poison with curare.'),('Curassow','n.','A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax,\n   Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidae.'),('Curat','n.','A cuirass or breastplate.'),('Curate','n.','One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman,\n   but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.'),('Curateship','n.','A curacy.'),('Curation','n.','Cure; healing.'),('Curative','v. t.','Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases;\n   tending to cure.'),('Curator','n.','One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as\n   of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.'),('Curator','n.','One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person\n   not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a\n   guardian.'),('Curatorship','n.','The office of a curator.'),('Curatrix','n.','A woman who cures.'),('Curatrix','n.','A woman who is a guardian or custodian.'),('Curbed','imp. & p. p.','of Curb'),('Curbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curb'),('Curb','v. t.','To bend or curve'),('Curb','v. t.','To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend\n   to one\'s will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep\n   in check.'),('Curb','v. t.','To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a\n   curb, as a bank of earth.'),('Curb','v. i.','To bend; to crouch; to cringe.'),('Curb','n.','That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or\n   hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the\n   branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower\n   jaw of the horse.'),('Curb','n.','An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal\n   member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the\n   integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar\n   purpose, as at the eye of a dome.'),('Curb','n.','A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame\n   within a well to prevent the earth caving in.'),('Curb','n.','A curbstone.'),('Curb','n.','A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just\n   behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.'),('Curbless','a.','Having no curb or restraint.'),('Curb roof','','A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side,\n   of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.'),('Curbstone','n.','A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along\n   the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.'),('Curch','n.','See Courche.'),('Curculios','pl. ','of Curculio'),('Curculio','n.','One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many\n   genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and\n   billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum\n   curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.'),('Curculionidous','a.','Pertaining to the Curculionideae, or weevil tribe.'),('Curcuma','n.','A genus of plants of the order Scitamineae, including the\n   turmeric plant (Curcuma longa).'),('Curcumin','n.','The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root,\n   extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a\n   green fluorescence.'),('Curd','n.','The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished\n   from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when\n   made into cheese.'),('Curd','n.','The coagulated part of any liquid.'),('Curd','n.','The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as\n   the broccoli and cauliflower.'),('Curded','imp. & p. p.','of Curd'),('Curding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curd'),('Curd','v. t.','To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to\n   curdle.'),('Curd','v. i.','To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds\n   and whey'),('Curdiness','n.','The state of being curdy.'),('Curdle','v. i.','To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes\n   milk to curdle.'),('Curdle','v. i.','To thicken; to congeal.'),('Curdled','imp. & p. p.','of Curdle'),('Curdling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curdle'),('Curdle','v. t.','To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.'),('Curdle','v. t.','To congeal or thicken.'),('Curdless','a.','Destitute of curd.'),('Curdy','a.','Like curd; full of curd; coagulated.'),('Cure','n.','Care, heed, or attention.'),('Cure','n.','Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest\n   or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a\n   parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain\n   a cure.'),('Cure','n.','Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a\n   method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.'),('Cure','n.','Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to\n   health from disease, or to soundness after injury.'),('Cure','n.','Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a\n   remedy; a restorative.'),('Cured','imp. & p. p.','of Cure'),('Curing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cure'),('Cure','v. t.','To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to\n   make well; -- said of a patient.'),('Cure','v. t.','To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to\n   remove; to heal; -- said of a malady.'),('Cure','v. t.','To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as\n   from a bad habit.'),('Cure','v. t.','To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to\n   preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to\n   cure hay.'),('Cure','v. i.','To pay heed; to care; to give attention.'),('Cure','v. i.','To restore health; to effect a cure.'),('Cure','v. i.','To become healed.'),('Cure','n.','A curate; a pardon.'),('Cureall','n.','A remedy for all diseases, or for all ills; a panacea.'),('Cureless','a.','Incapable of cure; incurable.'),('Curer','n.','One who cures; a healer; a physician.'),('Curer','n.','One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by\n   drying, salting, smoking, etc.'),('Curette','n.','A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for\n   removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear,\n   or womb.'),('Curfew','n.','The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the\n   inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, --\n   instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.'),('Curfew','n.','A utensil for covering the fire.'),('Curle','pl. ','of Curia'),('Curia','n.','One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were\n   divided by Romulus.'),('Curia','n.','The place of assembly of one of these divisions.'),('Curia','n.','The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the\n   senate house.'),('Curia','n.','The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his\n   residence or his household.'),('Curia','n.','Any court of justice.'),('Curia','n.','The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the\n   machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.'),('Curialism','n.','The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the\n   Latin Church.'),('Curialist','n.','One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin\n   Church.'),('Curialistic','a.','Pertaining to a court.'),('Curialistic','a.','Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the\n   Latin Church.'),('Curiality','n.','The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.'),('Curiet','n.','A cuirass.'),('Curing','','p. a. & vb. n. of Cure.'),('Curios','pl. ','of Curio'),('Curio','n.','Any curiosity or article of virtu.'),('Curiologic','a.','Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a\n   thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.'),('Curiosities','pl. ','of Curiosity'),('Curiosity','n.','The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy;\n   exactness; elaboration.'),('Curiosity','n.','Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after\n   knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects\n   of interest; inquisitiveness.'),('Curiosity','n.','That which is curious, or fitted to excite or reward\n   attention.'),('Curiosos','pl. ','of Curioso'),('Curioso','n.','A virtuoso.'),('Curious','a.','Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct;\n   careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.'),('Curious','a.','Exhibiting care or nicety; artfully constructed;\n   elaborate; wrought with elegance or skill.'),('Curious','a.','Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to\n   research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with\n   after or of.'),('Curious','a.','Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise;\n   inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange;\n   rare.'),('Curiously','adv.','In a curious manner.'),('Curiousness','n.','Carefulness; painstaking.'),('Curiousness','n.','The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship;\n   ingenuity of contrivance.'),('Curiousness','n.','Inquisitiveness; curiosity.'),('Curled','imp. & p. p.','of Curl'),('Curling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curl'),('Curl','n.','To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.'),('Curl','n.','To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent\'s body.'),('Curl','n.','To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.'),('Curl','n.','To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.'),('Curl','n.','To shape (the brim) into a curve.'),('Curl','v. i.','To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to\n   grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to\n   have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.'),('Curl','v. i.','To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in\n   curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.'),('Curl','v. i.','To play at the game called curling.'),('Curl','v.','A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or\n   winding form.'),('Curl','v.','An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as\n   wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.'),('Curl','v.','A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first\n   appearance, seem curled and shrunken.'),('Curled','a.','Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple\n   having fibers which take a sinuous course).'),('Curledness','n.','State of being curled; curliness.'),('Curler','n.','One who, or that which, curls.'),('Curler','n.','A player at the game called curling.'),('Curlew','n.','A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its\n   long, slender, curved bill.'),('Curliness','n.','State of being curly.'),('Curling','n.','The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of\n   smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process\n   of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.'),('Curling','n.','A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron\n   are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.'),('Curlingly','adv.','With a curl, or curls.'),('Curly','a.','Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples;\n   crinkled.'),('Curlycue','n.','Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a\n   pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.'),('Curmudgeon','n.','An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a\n   churl.'),('Curmudgeonly','a.','Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a\n   curmudgeonly fellow.'),('Curmurring','n.','Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the\n   rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes.'),('Curr','v. i.','To coo.'),('Currant','n.','A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant,\n   chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.'),('Currant','n.','The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red\n   currant, or of its variety, the white currant.'),('Currant','n.','A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a\n   genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.'),('Currencies','pl. ','of Currency'),('Currency','n.','A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of\n   a stream; as, the currency of time.'),('Currency','n.','The state or quality of being current; general acceptance\n   or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand;\n   circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the\n   currency of bank notes.'),('Currency','n.','That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as\n   having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie\n   currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute\n   for metallic money.'),('Currency','n.','Fluency; readiness of utterance.'),('Currency','n.','Current value; general estimation; the rate at which\n   anything is generally valued.'),('Current','a.','Running or moving rapidly.'),('Current','a.','Now passing, as time; as, the current month.'),('Current','a.','Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand;\n   circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a\n   current coin; a current report; current history.'),('Current','a.','Commonly estimated or acknowledged.'),('Current','a.','Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic;\n   passable.'),('Current','a.','A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of\n   fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the\n   swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which\n   resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.'),('Current','a.','General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and\n   connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion,\n   etc.'),('Currently','adv.','In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is\n   currently believed.'),('Currentness','n.','The quality of being current; currency; circulation;\n   general reception.'),('Currentness','n.','Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.'),('Curricle','n.','A small or short course.'),('Curricle','n.','A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.'),('Curriculums','pl. ','of Curriculum'),('Curricula','pl. ','of Curriculum'),('Curriculum','n.','A race course; a place for running.'),('Curriculum','n.','A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of\n   study, as in a university.'),('Currie','n. & v.','See 2d & 3d Curry.'),('Curried','n.','Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.'),('Curried','n.','Prepared with curry; as, curried rice, fowl, etc.'),('Currier','n.','One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.'),('Currish','a.','Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics,\n   of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also\n   malicious; malignant; brutal.'),('Curried','imp. & p. p.','of Curry'),('Currying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curry'),('Curry','v. t.','To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping,\n   cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.'),('Curry','v. t.','To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like)\n   with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make\n   clean.'),('Curry','v. t.','To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.'),('Curry','n.','A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic,\n   pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.'),('Curry','n.','A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.'),('Curry','v. t.','To flavor or cook with curry.'),('Currycomb','n.','A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or\n   serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.'),('Currycomb','v. t.','To comb with a currycomb.'),('Cursed','imp. & p. p.','of Curse'),('Curst','','of Curse'),('Cursing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curse'),('Curse','v. t.','To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury\n   upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.'),('Curse','v. t.','To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm\n   or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep\n   trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.'),('Curse','v. i.','To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with\n   imprecations; to swear.'),('Curse','v. t.','An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury;\n   malediction.'),('Curse','v. t.','Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in\n   passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.'),('Curse','v. t.','The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which\n   brings evil or severe affliction; torment.'),('Cursed','a.','Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable;\n   abominable.'),('Cursedly','adv.','In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be\n   detested; enormously.'),('Cursedness','n.','The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to\n   execration or to evil.'),('Cursedness','n.','Wickedness; sin; cursing.'),('Cursedness','n.','Shrewishness.'),('Curser','n.','One who curses.'),('Curship','n.','The state of being a cur; one who is currish.'),('Cursitating','a.','Moving about slightly.'),('Cursitor','n.','A courier or runner.'),('Cursitor','n.','An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to\n   make out original writs.'),('Cursive','a.','Running; flowing.'),('Cursive','n.','A character used in cursive writing.'),('Cursive','n.','A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in\n   small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial.'),('Cursor','n.','Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides\n   backward and forward upon another part.'),('Cursorary','a.','Cursory; hasty.'),('Cursores','n. pl.','An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu,\n   and allies; the Ratitaae.'),('Cursores','n. pl.','A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.'),('Cursorial','a.','Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension;\n   as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.'),('Cursorial','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cursores.'),('Cursorily','adv.','In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.'),('Cursoriness','n.','The quality of being cursory; superficial performance;\n   as, cursoriness of view.'),('Cursory','a.','Running about; not stationary.'),('Cursory','a.','Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially\n   performed; slight; superficial; careless.'),('Curst','','imp. & p. p. of Curse.'),('Curst','a.','Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.'),('Curstfully','adv.','Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably.'),('Curstness','n.','Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness;\n   surliness.'),('Curt','a.','Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise;\n   as, curt limits; a curt answer.'),('Curtailed','imp. & p. p.','of Curtail'),('Curtailing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curtail'),('Curtail','v. t.','To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to\n   shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.'),('Curtail','n.','The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of\n   a step, etc.'),('Curtail dog','','A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person\n   not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail\n   cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is\n   necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting.'),('Curtailer','n.','One who curtails.'),('Curtailment','n.','The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.'),('Curtain','n.','A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and\n   admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp.,\n   drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in\n   theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.'),('Curtain','n.','That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two\n   bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.'),('Curtain','n.','That part of a wall of a building which is between two\n   pavilions, towers, etc.'),('Curtain','n.','A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.'),('Curtained','imp. & p. p.','of Curtain'),('Curtaining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curtain'),('Curtain','v. t.','To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.'),('Curtal','a.','Curt; brief; laconic.'),('Curtal','n.','A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short.'),('Curtal ax','','Alt. of Curtelasse'),('Curtle ax','','Alt. of Curtelasse'),('Curtelasse','','A corruption of Cutlass.'),('Curtal friar','','A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.'),('Curtana','n.','The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at\n   their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy;\n   -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.'),('Curtate','a.','Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet\n   from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the\n   distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let\n   fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the\n   ecliptic.'),('Curtation','n.','The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet\n   is less than the true distance.'),('Curtein','n.','Same as Curtana.'),('Curtes','a.','Courteous.'),('Curtesies','pl. ','of Curtesy'),('Curtesy','n.','the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his\n   deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had\n   issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.'),('Curtilage','n.','A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within\n   the fence surrounding a dwelling house.'),('Curtly','adv.','In a curt manner.'),('Curtness','n.','The quality of bing curt.'),('Curtsy','n.','Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.'),('Curule','a.','Of or pertaining to a chariot.'),('Curule','a.','Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman\n   magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the\n   right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.'),('Cururo','n.','A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus.'),('Curval','p. pr.','Alt. of Curvant'),('Curvant','p. pr.','Bowed; bent; curved.'),('Curvate','a.','Alt. of Curvated'),('Curvated','a.','Bent in a regular form; curved.'),('Curvation','n.','The act of bending or crooking.'),('Curvative','a.','Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of\n   leaves.'),('Curvature','n.','The act of curving, or the state of being bent or\n   curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or\n   surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.'),('Curvature','n.','The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve,\n   or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the\n   curve at that point.'),('Curve','a.','Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a\n   curve surface.'),('Curve','a.','A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as,\n   a curve in a railway or canal.'),('Curve','a.','A line described according to some low, and having no finite\n   portion of it a straight line.'),('Curved','imp. & p. p.','of Curve'),('Curving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curve'),('Curve','a.','To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to\n   cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching\n   it.'),('Curve','v. i.','To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the\n   road curves to the right.'),('Curvedness','n.','The state of being curved.'),('Curvet','n.','A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore\n   legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling,\n   raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.'),('Curvet','n.','A prank; a frolic.'),('Curveted','imp. & p. p.','of Curvet'),('-vetted','','of Curvet'),('Curveting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Curvet'),('-vetting','','of Curvet'),('Curvet','n.','To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.'),('Curvet','n.','To leap and frisk; to frolic.'),('Curvet','v. t.','To cause to curvet.'),('Curvicaudate','a.','Having a curved or crooked tail.'),('Curvicostate','a.','Having bent ribs.'),('Curvidentate','a.','Having curved teeth.'),('Curviform','a.','Having a curved form.'),('Curvilinead','n.','An instrument for drawing curved lines.'),('Curvilineal','a.','Alt. of Curvilinear'),('Curvilinear','a.','Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a\n   curvilinear figure.'),('Curvilinearity','n.','The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded\n   by curved lines.'),('Curvilinearly','adv.','In a curvilinear manner.'),('Curvinerved','a.','Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; --\n   called also curvinervate and curve-veined.'),('Curvirostral','a.','Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill.'),('Curvirostres','n. pl.','A group of passerine birds, including the\n   creepers and nuthatches.'),('Curviserial','a.','Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.'),('Curvity','n.','The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form;\n   crookedness.'),('Curvograph','n.','An arcograph.'),('Cushat','n.','The ringdove or wood pigeon.'),('Cushewbird','n.','The galeated curassow. See Curassow.'),('Cushion','n.','A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material,\n   and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.'),('Cushion','n.','Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use'),('Cushion','n.','a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf'),('Cushion','n.','a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam\n   engine to receive the impact of the piston'),('Cushion','n.','the elastic edge of a billiard table.'),('Cushion','n.','A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; --\n   called also cushion dance.'),('Cushioned','imp. & p. p.','of Cushion'),('Cushioning','p. pr. & vb.','of Cushion'),('Cushion','v. t.','To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.'),('Cushion','v. t.','To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.'),('Cushion','v. t.','To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.'),('Cushionet','n.','A little cushion.'),('Cushionless','a.','Hot furnished with a cushion.'),('Cushiony','a.','Like a cushion; soft; pliable.'),('Cushite','n.','A descendant of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah.'),('Cusk','n.','A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the\n   cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called\n   also tusk and torsk.'),('Cuskin','n.','A kind of drinking cup.'),('Cusp','n.','A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from\n   an inner curve of tracery.'),('Cusp','n.','The beginning or first entrance of any house in the\n   calculations of nativities, etc.'),('Cusp','n.','The point or horn of the crescent moon or other\n   crescent-shaped luminary.'),('Cusp','n.','A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of\n   the curve have a common tangent.'),('Cusp','n.','A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.'),('Cusp','n.','A sharp and rigid point.'),('Cusped','imp. & p. p.','of Cusp'),('Cusping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cusp'),('Cusp','v. t.','To furnish with a cusp or cusps.'),('Cuspated','a.','Ending in a point.'),('Cuspid','n.','One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one\n   point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.'),('Cuspidal','a.','Ending in a point.'),('Cuspidate','v. t.','To make pointed or sharp.'),('Cuspidate','a.','Alt. of Cuspidated'),('Cuspidated','a.','Having a sharp end, like the point of a spear;\n   terminating in a hard point; as, a cuspidate leaf.'),('Cuspidor','n.','Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid\n   the common term, a spittoon of any sort.'),('Cuspis','n.','A point; a sharp end.'),('Custard','n.','A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or\n   boiled.'),('Custode','n.','See Custodian.'),('Custodial','a.','Relating to custody or guardianship.'),('Custodian','n.','One who has care or custody, as of some public building;\n   a keeper or superintendent.'),('Custodianship','n.','Office or duty of a custodian.'),('Custodier','n.','A custodian.'),('Custody','n.','A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for\n   keeping, preservation, or security.'),('Custody','n.','Judicial or penal safe-keeping.'),('Custody','n.','State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape;\n   restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.'),('Custom','n.','Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common\n   to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or\n   living.'),('Custom','n.','Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a\n   shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders;\n   business support.'),('Custom','n.','Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and\n   resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and\n   Prescription.'),('Custom','n.','Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.'),('Custom','v. t.','To make familiar; to accustom.'),('Custom','v. t.','To supply with customers.'),('Custom','v. i.','To have a custom.'),('Custom','n.','The customary toll, tax, or tribute.'),('Custom','n.','Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or\n   exported.'),('Custom','v. t.','To pay the customs of.'),('Customable','a.','Customary.'),('Customable','a.','Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.'),('Customableness','n.','Quality of being customable; conformity to custom.'),('Customably','adv.','Usually.'),('Customarily','adv.','In a customary manner; habitually.'),('Customariness','n.','Quality of being customary.'),('Customary','a.','Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by\n   common usage; conventional; habitual.'),('Customary','a.','Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants;\n   customary service or estate.'),('Customary','n.','A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the\n   Customary of the Normans.'),('Customer','n.','One who collect customs; a toll gatherer.'),('Customer','n.','One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a\n   trader; a purchaser; a buyer.'),('Customer','n.','A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the\n   customers of a bank.'),('Customer','n.','A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer\n   customer; an ugly customer.'),('Customer','n.','A lewd woman.'),('Customhouse','n.','The building where customs and duties are paid, and\n   where vessels are entered or cleared.'),('Custodes','pl. ','of Custos'),('Custos','n.','A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.'),('Custrel','n.','An armor-bearer to a knight.'),('Custrel','n.','See Costrel.'),('Custumary','a.','See Customary.'),('Cut','imp. & p. p.','of Cut'),('Cutting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cut'),('Cut','v. t.','To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp\n   instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.'),('Cut','v. t.','To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to\n   hew; to mow or reap.'),('Cut','v. t.','To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to\n   cut the hair; to cut the nails.'),('Cut','v. t.','To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.'),('Cut','v. t.','To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing,\n   etc.; to carve; to hew out.'),('Cut','v. t.','To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to\n   lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.'),('Cut','v. t.','To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right\n   angles.'),('Cut','v. t.','To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in\n   the street; to cut one\'s acquaintance.'),('Cut','v. t.','To absent one\'s self from; as, to cut an appointment, a\n   recitation. etc.'),('Cut','v. i.','To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or\n   gashing; as, a knife cuts well.'),('Cut','v. i.','To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting\n   instrument.'),('Cut','v. i.','To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising,\n   intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.'),('Cut','v. i.','To make a stroke with a whip.'),('Cut','v. i.','To interfere, as a horse.'),('Cut','v. i.','To move or make off quickly.'),('Cut','v. i.','To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the\n   deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.'),('Cut','n.','An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a\n   slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.'),('Cut','n.','A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a\n   stroke or blow with a whip.'),('Cut','n.','That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or\n   criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to\n   recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.'),('Cut','n.','A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a\n   furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.'),('Cut','n.','The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.'),('Cut','n.','A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a\n   cut of timber.'),('Cut','n.','An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an\n   engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.'),('Cut','n.','The act of dividing a pack cards.'),('Cut','n.','The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?'),('Cut','n.','Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style;\n   fashion; as, the cut of a garment.'),('Cut','n.','A common work horse; a gelding.'),('Cut','n.','The failure of a college officer or student to be present at\n   any appointed exercise.'),('Cut','n.','A skein of yarn.'),('Cut','a.','Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.'),('Cut','a.','Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.'),('Cut','a.','Overcome by liquor; tipsy.'),('Cutaneous','a.','Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting,\n   the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous\n   respiration.'),('Cutaway','a.','Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded\n   or cut away.'),('Cutch','n.','See Catechu.'),('Cutch','n.','See Cultch.'),('Cutchery','n.','A hindoo hall of justice.'),('Cute','a.','Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.'),('Cuteness','n.','Acuteness; cunning.'),('Cutgrass','','A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute\n   hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of\n   Leersia.'),('Cuticle','n.','The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.'),('Cuticle','n.','The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found\n   especially in leaves and young stems.'),('Cuticle','n.','A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.'),('Cuticular','a.','Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin;\n   epidermal.'),('Cutin','n.','The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall,\n   makes it waterproof, as in cork.'),('Cutinization','n.','The conversion of cell walls into a material which\n   repels water, as in cork.'),('Cutinize','v. t. & i.','To change into cutin.'),('Cutis','n.','See Dermis.'),('Cutlasses','pl. ','of Cutlass'),('Cutlass','n.','A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See\n   Curtal ax.'),('Cutler','n.','One who makes or deals in cutlery, or knives and other\n   cutting instruments.'),('Cutlery','n.','The business of a cutler.'),('Cutlery','n.','Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.'),('Cutlet','n.','A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for\n   broiling.'),('Cutling','n.','The art of making edged tools or cutlery.'),('Cut-off','n.','That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or\n   road.'),('Cut-off','n.','The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off\n   from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in\n   a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the\n   expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under\n   Expansion.'),('Cut-off','n.','Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain\n   or water in a spout.'),('Cutose','n.','A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent\n   membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential\n   ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.'),('Cut-out','n.','A species of switch for changing the current from one\n   circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.'),('Cut-out','n.','A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.'),('Cutpurse','n.','One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or\n   their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string\n   to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket'),('Cutter','n.','One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one\n   who cuts out garments.'),('Cutter','n.','That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool\n   or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs\n   the stalk, or as a paper cutter.'),('Cutter','n.','A fore tooth; an incisor.'),('Cutter','n.','A boat used by ships of war.'),('Cutter','n.','A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most\n   essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop\n   of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often\n   heavily weighted with lead.'),('Cutter','n.','A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue\n   marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.'),('Cutter','n.','A small, light one-horse sleigh.'),('Cutter','n.','An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the\n   tallies the sums paid.'),('Cutter','n.','A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.'),('Cutter','n.','A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so\n   called from the facility with which it can be cut.'),('Cutthroat','n.','One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.'),('Cutthroat','a.','Murderous; cruel; barbarous.'),('Cutting','n.','The act or process of making an incision, or of severing,\n   felling, shaping, etc.'),('Cutting','n.','Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut\n   off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an\n   independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut\n   through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.;\n   a cut.'),('Cutting','a.','Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.'),('Cutting','a.','Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.'),('Cutting','a.','Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.'),('Cuttingly','adv.','In a cutting manner.'),('Cuttle','n.','A knife.'),('Cuttle','n.','Alt. of Cuttlefish'),('Cuttlefish','n.','A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal\n   shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by\n   means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to\n   dibranchiate cephalopods generally.'),('Cuttlefish','n.','A foul-mouthed fellow.'),('Cuttle bone','','The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various\n   purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.'),('Cuttoo plate','','A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt\n   away from the axle.'),('Cytty','a.','Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.'),('Cutty','n.','A short spoon.'),('Cutty','n.','A short tobacco pipe.'),('Cutty','n.','A light or unchaste woman.'),('Cuttystool','n.','A low stool'),('Cuttystool','n.','A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were\n   made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.'),('Cutwal','n.','The chief police officer of a large city.'),('Cutwater','n.','The fore part of a ship\'s prow, which cuts the water.'),('Cutwater','n.','A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a\n   bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to\n   resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the\n   pier itself.'),('Cutwater','n.','A sea bird of the Atlantic (Rhynchops nigra); -- called\n   also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.'),('Cutwork','n.','An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the\n   earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the\n   like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.'),('Cutworm','n.','A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of\n   cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit\n   trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal\n   themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvae of various\n   species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.'),('Cuvette','n.','A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is\n   carried from the melting pot to the casting table.'),('Cuvette','n.','A cunette.'),('Cuvette','n.','A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent\n   sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of\n   a spectrometer.'),('Cyamelide','n.','A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric\n   modification of isocyanic acid.'),('Cyamellone','n.','A complex derivative of cyanogen, regarded as an acid,\n   and known chiefly in its salts; -- called also hydromellonic acid.'),('Cyanate','n.','A salt of cyanic acid.'),('Cyanaurate','n.','See Aurocyanide.'),('Cyanean','a.','Having an azure color.'),('Cyanic','a.','Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.'),('Cyanic','a.','Of or pertaining to a blue color.'),('Cyanide','n.','A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element\n   or radical.'),('Cyanin','n.','The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also\n   anthokyan and anthocyanin.'),('Cyanine','n.','One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained\n   from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.'),('Cyanite','n.','A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline\n   aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium.'),('Cyanogen','n.','A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a\n   peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds;\n   obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is\n   obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a\n   nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or\n   potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of\n   elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is\n   also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of\n   cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radicals\n   recognized.'),('Cyanometer','n.','An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.'),('Cyanopathy','n.','A disease in which the body is colored blue in its\n   surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes\n   an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.'),('Cyanophyll','n.','A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of\n   the component parts of chlorophyll.'),('Cyanosed','a.','Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis\n   or deficient a/ration of the blood.'),('Cyanosis','n.','A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the\n   blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.'),('Cyanosite','n.','Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.'),('Cyanotic','a.','Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a\n   cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic\n   skin.'),('Cyanotype','n.','A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.'),('Cyanurate','n.','A salt of cyanuric acid.'),('Cyanuret','n.','A cyanide.'),('Cyanuric','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.'),('Cyanuric acid','','an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating\n   uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from\n   isocyanic acid. It is a white crystalline substance, odorless and\n   almost tasteless; -- called also tricarbimide.'),('Cyathiform','a.','In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.'),('Cyatholith','n.','A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute\n   cup widened at the top, and varies in size from / to / of an inch.'),('Cyathophylloid','a.','Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidae.'),('Cyathophylloid','n.','A fossil coral of the family Cyathophyllidae;\n   sometimes extended to fossil corals of other related families belonging\n   to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in\n   paleozoic rocks.'),('Cycad','n.','Any plant of the natural order Cycadaceae, as the sago palm,\n   etc.'),('Cycadaceous','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like\n   the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.'),('Cycas','n.','A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the\n   palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a\n   valuable kind of sago.'),('Cyclamen','n.','A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having\n   depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so\n   reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits\' ears. It is\n   also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.'),('Cyclamin','n.','A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside,\n   extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum.'),('Cyclas','n.','A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the\n   Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.\n   Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.'),('Cycle','n.','An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the\n   celestial spheres.'),('Cycle','n.','An interval of time in which a certain succession of events\n   or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly\n   and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by\n   the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or\n   of the year.'),('Cycle','n.','An age; a long period of time.'),('Cycle','n.','An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.'),('Cycle','n.','The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the\n   hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular\n   theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round\n   Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins.'),('Cycle','n.','One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set\n   of leaves.'),('Cycle','n.','A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede.'),('Cycled','imp. & p. p.','of Cycle'),('Cycling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cycle'),('Cycle','v. i.','To pass through a cycle of changes; to recur in cycles.'),('Cycle','v. i.','To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other form of cycle.'),('Cyclic','a.','Alt. of Cyclical'),('Cyclical','a.','Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles;\n   as, cyclical time.'),('Cyclide','n.','A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special\n   relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the\n   cyclides.'),('Cycling','n.','The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a\n   bicycle or tricycle.'),('Cyclist','n.','A cycler.'),('Cyclo-','','A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel.'),('Cyclobranchiate','a.','Having the gills around the margin of the body, as\n   certain limpets.'),('Cycloganoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei.'),('Cycloganoid','n.','One of the Cycloganoidei.'),('Cycloganoidei','n. pl.','An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid\n   scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example.'),('Cyclograph','n.','See Arcograph.'),('Cycloid','n.','A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when\n   the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same\n   plane.'),('Cycloid','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei.'),('Cycloid','n.','One of the Cycloidei.'),('Cycloidal','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the\n   cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.'),('Cycloidei','n. pl.','An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz,\n   for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as\n   the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.'),('Cycloidian','a. & n.','Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid.'),('Cyclometer','n.','A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel,\n   as of a bicycle.'),('Cyclometry','n.','The art of measuring circles.'),('Cyclone','n.','A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by\n   high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure.\n   This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty\n   miles an hour.'),('Cyclonic','a.','Pertaining to a cyclone.'),('Cyclop','n.','See Note under Cyclops, 1.'),('Cyclopean','a.','Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the\n   Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors;\n   Cyclopean architecture.'),('Cyclopedia','n.','Alt. of Cyclopaedia'),('Cyclopaedia','n.','The circle or compass of the arts and sciences\n   (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle\n   of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order,\n   information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular\n   department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of\n   mechanics. See Encyclopedia.'),('Cyclopedic','a.','Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a\n   cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range,\n   extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.'),('Cyclopedist','n.','A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.'),('Cyclopic','a.','Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.'),('Cyclops','n. sing. & pl.','One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and\n   Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead.\n   They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of\n   Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.'),('Cyclops','n. sing. & pl.','A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in\n   fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.'),('Cyclops','n. sing. & pl.','A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.'),('Cyclorama','n.','A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that\n   the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in\n   nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space\n   between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene\n   represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the\n   completion of them being carried out pictorially.'),('Cycloscope','n.','A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of\n   rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine.'),('Cyclosis','n.','The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules\n   within a living vegetable cell.'),('Cyclostomata','n. pl.','Alt. of Cyclostoma'),('Cyclostoma','n. pl.','A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have\n   circular apertures.'),('Cyclostome','a.','Alt. of Cyclostomous'),('Cyclostomous','a.','Pertaining to the Cyclostomi.'),('Cyclostomi','n. pl.','A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth,\n   without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.'),('Cyclostylar','a.','Relating to a structure composed of a circular range\n   of columns, without a core or building within.'),('Cyclostyle','n.','A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing\n   or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a\n   small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus\n   converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked\n   roller.'),('Cyder','n.','See Cider.'),('Cydonin','n.','A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds\n   of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.'),('Cygnet','n.','A young swan.'),('Cygnus','n.','A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or\n   following, Lyra; the Swan.'),('Cylinder','n.','A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a\n   parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of\n   which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is\n   circular.'),('Cylinder','n.','The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space\n   may be limited or unlimited in length.'),('Cylinder','n.','Any hollow body of cylindrical form'),('Cylinder','n.','The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is\n   moved by the force of steam.'),('Cylinder','n.','The barrel of an air or other pump.'),('Cylinder','n.','The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression\n   or carries the type in a cylinder press.'),('Cylinder','n.','The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a\n   revolver.'),('Cylinder','n.','The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a\n   Jacquard loom.'),('Cylindraceous','a.','Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.'),('Cylindric','a.','Alt. of Cylindrical'),('Cylindrical','a.','Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its\n   convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.'),('Cylindrically','adv.','In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be\n   cylindrical.'),('Cylindricity','n.','The quality or condition of being cylindrical.'),('Cylindriform','a.','Having the form of a cylinder.'),('Cylindroid','n.','A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having\n   the bases or ends elliptical.'),('Cylindroid','n.','A certain surface of the third degree, described by a\n   moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body\n   and also the forces acting on the body.'),('Cylindrometric','a.','Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders.'),('Cyma','n.','A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is\n   wavelike in form.'),('Cyma','n.','A cyme. See Cyme.'),('Cymar','n.','A slight covering; a scarf. See Simar.'),('Cymatium','n.','A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.'),('Cymbal','n.','A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed\n   to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.'),('Cymbal','n.','A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish\n   or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce\n   a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.'),('Cymbal','n.','A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of\n   steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.'),('Cymbalist','n.','A performer upon cymbals.'),('Cymbiform','a.','Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the\n   upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.'),('Cymbium','n.','A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.'),('Cyme','n.','A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or\n   determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the\n   opening of the blossoms.'),('Cymene','n.','A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon,\n   CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of\n   caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and\n   formerly camphogen.'),('Cymenol','n.','See Carvacrol.'),('Cymidine','n.','A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.'),('Cymiferous','a.','Producing cymes.'),('Cymling','n.','Alt. of Cymbling'),('Cymbling','n.','A scalloped or \"pattypan\" variety of summer squash.'),('Cymogene','n.','A highly volatile liquid, condensed by cold and pressure\n   from the first products of the distillation of petroleum; -- used for\n   producing low temperatures.'),('Cymoid','a.','Having the form of a cyme.'),('Cymophane','n.','See Chrysoberyl.'),('Cymophanous','a.','Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.'),('Cymose','a.','Alt. of Cymous'),('Cymous','a.','Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme;\n   bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.'),('Cymric','a.','Welsh.'),('Cymric','n.','The Welsh language.'),('Cymry','n.','A collective term for the Welsh race; -- so called by\n   themselves .'),('Cymule','n.','A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.'),('Cynanche','n.','Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended\n   with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty of breathing and\n   swallowing.'),('Cynanthropy','n.','A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves\n   changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.'),('Cynarctomachy','n.','Bear baiting with a dog.'),('Cynarrhodium','n.','A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup\n   formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.'),('Cynegetics','n.','The art of hunting with dogs.'),('Cynic','a.','Alt. of Cynical'),('Cynical','a.','Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious;\n   currish.'),('Cynical','a.','Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic,\n   year; cynic cycle.'),('Cynical','a.','Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics;\n   having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the\n   doctrines of the cynics.'),('Cynical','a.','Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by\n   moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes\n   which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or\n   self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of\n   integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human\n   nature.'),('Cynic','n.','One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by\n   Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were\n   noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current\n   philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular\n   judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.'),('Cynic','n.','One who holds views resembling those of the Cynics; a\n   snarler; a misanthrope; particularly, a person who believes that human\n   conduct is directed, either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by\n   self-interest or self-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary\n   are superficial and untrustworthy.'),('Cynically','adv.','In a cynical manner.'),('Cynicalness','n.','The quality of being cynical.'),('Cynicism','n.','The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical;\n   the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and\n   contemptuous views and opinions.'),('Cynoidea','n. pl.','A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves,\n   and foxes.'),('Cynorexia','n.','A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.'),('Cynosural','a.','Of or pertaining to a cynosure.'),('Cynosure','n.','The constellation of the Lesser Bear, to which, as\n   containing the polar star, the eyes of mariners and travelers were\n   often directed.'),('Cynosure','n.','That which serves to direct.'),('Cynosure','n.','Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center\n   of attraction.'),('Cyon','n.','See Cion, and Scion.'),('Cyperaceous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of\n   plants of which the sedge is the type.'),('Cyperus','n.','A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and\n   including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the\n   Egyptian papyrus.'),('Cypher','n. & v.','See Cipher.'),('Cyphonautes','n.','The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa.'),('Cyphonism','n.','A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting\n   in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to\n   insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations.'),('Cypraea','n.','A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie.'),('Cypres','n.','A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform\n   as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.'),('Cypresses','pl. ','of Cypress'),('Cypress','n.','A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are\n   mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.'),('Cyprian','a.','Belonging to Cyprus.'),('Cyprian','a.','Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness.'),('Cyprian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient\n   Cyprus; a Cypriot.'),('Cyprian','n.','A lewd woman; a harlot.'),('Cyprine','a.','Of or pertaining to the cypress.'),('Cyprine','a.','Cyprinoid.'),('Cyprinodont','n.','One of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes\n   including the killifishes or minnows. See Minnow.'),('Cyprinoid','a.','Like the carp (Cyprinus).'),('Cyprinoid','n.','One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish,\n   barbel, etc.'),('Cypriot','n.','A native or inhabitant of Cyprus.'),('Cypripedium','n.','A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady\'s\n   slipper.'),('Cyprides','pl. ','of Cypris'),('Cypris','n.','A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging\n   to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.'),('Cyprus','n.','A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding\n   to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common,\n   and used for mourning.'),('Cypruslawn','n.','Same as Cyprus.'),('Cypsela','n.','A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene\n   with the calyx tube adherent.'),('Cypseliform','a.','Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidae.)'),('Cyrenaic','a.','Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern\n   Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of\n   philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene.'),('Cyrenaic','n.','A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of\n   Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n.'),('Cyrenian','a.','Pertaining to Cyrene, in Africa; Cyrenaic.'),('Cyrenian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Cyrene.'),('Cyrenian','n.','One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by\n   Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the\n   same as those of the Epicureans.'),('Cyriologic','a.','Relating to capital letters.'),('Cyrtostyle','n.','A circular projecting portion.'),('Cyst','n.','A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and\n   containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the\n   natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.'),('Cyst','n.','In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.'),('Cyst','n.','One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of\n   the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our\n   shores.'),('Cyst','n.','A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature\n   entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form\n   in Rotifera, etc.'),('Cyst','n.','A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and\n   quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See\n   Encystment.'),('Cysted','a.','Inclosed in a cyst.'),('Cystic','a.','Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic\n   entozoa.'),('Cystic','a.','Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma.'),('Cystic','a.','Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining\n   to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.'),('Cysticerce','n.','Alt. of Cysticercus'),('Cysticercus','n.','The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and\n   neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; --\n   called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).'),('Cysticule','n.','An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.'),('Cystid','n.','One of the Cystidea.'),('Cystidea','n. pl.','An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the\n   Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often\n   unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.'),('Cystidean','n.','One of the Cystidea.'),('Cystine','n.','A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing\n   sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and\n   occasionally found as a sediment in urine.'),('Cystis','n.','A cyst. See Cyst.'),('Cystitis','n.','Inflammation of the bladder.'),('Cystocarp','n.','A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the\n   reproductive spores.'),('Cystocele','n.','Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical\n   hernia.'),('Cystoid','n.','Alt. of Cystoidean'),('Cystoidean','n.','Same as Cystidean.'),('Cystoidea','n.','Same as Cystidea.'),('Cystolith','n.','A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other\n   part of a plant.'),('Cystolith','n.','A urinary calculus.'),('Cystolithic','a.','Relating to stone in the bladder.'),('Cystoplast','n.','A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a\n   red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.'),('Cystose','a.','Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic;\n   bladdery.'),('Cystotome','n.','A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.'),('Cystotomy','n.','The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the\n   operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a\n   calculus.'),('Cytherean','a.','Pertaining to the goddess Venus.'),('Cytoblast','n.','The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a\n   cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.'),('Cytoblastema','n.','See Protoplasm.'),('Cytococci','pl. ','of Cytococcus'),('Cytococcus','n.','The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.'),('Cytode','n.','A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest\n   form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are\n   present.'),('Cytogenesis','n.','Development of cells in animal and vegetable\n   organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development,\n   under Cell.'),('Cytogenic','a.','Alt. of Cytogenetic'),('Cytogenetic','a.','Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.'),('Cytogenous','a.','Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or\n   adenoid, tissue.'),('Cytogeny','n .','Cell production or development; cytogenesis.'),('Cytoid','a.','Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood,\n   chyle, etc.'),('Cytoplasm','n.','The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished\n   from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.'),('Cytula','n.','The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the\n   development of which the child or other organism is formed.'),('Czar','n.','A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.'),('Czarevna','n.','The title of the wife of the czarowitz.'),('Czarina','n.','The title of the empress of Russia.'),('Czarinian','a.','Of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina; czarish.'),('Czarish','a.','Of or pertaining to the czar.'),('Czarowitzes','pl. ','of Czarowitz'),('Czarowitz','n.','The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia.'),('Czech','n.','One of the Czechs.'),('Czech','n.','The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the\n   harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.'),('Czechic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Czechs.'),('Czechs','n. pl.','The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of\n   nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in\n   Bohemia and Moravia.\n   D () The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant.\n   The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it\n   from Ph/nician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is\n   related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter,\n   G. tochter, Gr. qyga`thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation,\n   Ã178, 179, 229.'),('D','','The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in\n   C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A\n   minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.'),('D','','As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial\n   of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or\n   / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.'),('Dab','n.','A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.'),('Dab','n.','A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the\n   European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is\n   Hippoglossoides platessoides.'),('Dabbed','imp. & p. p.','of Dab'),('Dabbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dab'),('Dab','v. i.','To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist\n   substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.'),('Dab','v. i.','To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.'),('Dab','n.','A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden\n   blow or hit; a peck.'),('Dab','n.','A small mass of anything soft or moist.'),('Dabb','n.','A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in\n   Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.'),('Dabber','n.','That with which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used\n   by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates\n   with ink.'),('Dabbled','imp. & p. p.','of Dabble'),('Dabbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dabble'),('Dabble','v. t.','To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to\n   sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.'),('Dabble','v. i.','To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash\n   in mud or water.'),('Dabble','v. i.','To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a\n   small way; to tamper; to meddle.'),('Dabbler','n.','One who dabbles.'),('Dabbler','n.','One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial\n   meddler.'),('Dabblingly','adv.','In a dabbling manner.'),('Dabchick','n.','A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the\n   grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also\n   dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver,\n   hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.'),('Daboia','n.','A large and highly venomous Asiatic viper (Daboia\n   xanthica).'),('Dabster','n.','One who is skilled; a master of his business; a\n   proficient; an adept.'),('Dacapo','','From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with,\n   the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so\n   repeated.'),('Dace','n.','A small European cyprinoid fish (Squalius leuciscus or\n   Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dare.'),('Dachshund','n.','One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs,\n   and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the\n   rough-haired and the smooth-haired.'),('Dacian','a.','Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians.'),('Dacian','n.','A native of ancient Dacia.'),('Dacoit','n.','One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.'),('Dacoity','n.','The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed\n   by dacoits.'),('Dacotahs','n. pl.','Same as Dacotas.'),('Dactyl','n.','A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long\n   followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as,\n   L. tegm/n/, E. mer\\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its\n   arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.'),('Dactyl','n.','A finger or toe; a digit.'),('Dactyl','n.','The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or\n   crustacean.'),('Dactylar','a.','Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.'),('Dactylar','a.','Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an\n   insect crustacean.'),('Dactylet','n.','A dactyl.'),('Dactylic','a.','Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls;\n   as, dactylic verses.'),('Dactylic','n.','A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these\n   lines are dactylics.'),('Dactylic','n.','Dactylic meters.'),('Dactylioglyph','n.','An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.'),('Dactylioglyph','n.','The inscription of the engraver\'s name on a finger\n   ring or gem.'),('Dactylioglyphi','n.','The art or process of gem engraving.'),('Dactyliography','n.','The art of writing or engraving upon gems.'),('Dactyliography','n.','In general, the literature or history of the art.'),('Dactyliology','n.','That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem\n   engraving.'),('Dactyliology','n.','That branch of archaeology which has to do with\n   finger rings.'),('Dactyliomancy','n.','Divination by means of finger rings.'),('Dactylist','n.','A writer of dactylic verse.'),('Dactylitis','n.','An inflammatory affection of the fingers.'),('Dactylology','n.','The art of communicating ideas by certain movements\n   and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by\n   the deaf and dumb.'),('Dactylomancy','n.','Dactyliomancy.'),('Dactylonomy','n.','The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.'),('Dactylopterous','a.','Having the inferior rays of the pectoral fins\n   partially or entirely free, as in the gurnards.'),('Dactylotheca','n.','The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.'),('Dactylozooid','n.','A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an\n   elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See\n   Siphonophora.'),('Dad','n.','Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.'),('Daddled','imp. & p. p.','of Dadle'),('Daddling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dadle'),('Dadle','v. i.','To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old\n   man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.'),('Daddock','n.','The rotten body of a tree.'),('Daddy','n.','Diminutive of Dad.'),('Daddy longlegs','','An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied\n   genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also\n   harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs.'),('Daddy longlegs','','A name applied to many species of dipterous insects\n   of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very\n   long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.'),('Dade','v. t.','To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child\n   while he toddles.'),('Dade','v. i.','To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just\n   learning to walk; to move slowly.'),('Dadoes','pl. ','of Dado'),('Dado','n.','That part of a pedestal included between the base and the\n   cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.'),('Dado','n.','In any wall, that part of the basement included between the\n   base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.'),('Dado','n.','In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an\n   apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.'),('Daedal','a.','Alt. of Daedalian'),('Daedalian','a.','Cunningly or ingeniously formed or working; skillful;\n   artistic; ingenious.'),('Daedalian','a.','Crafty; deceitful.'),('Daedalous','a.','Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of\n   leaves.'),('Daemon','a.','Alt. of Daemonic'),('Daemonic','a.','See Demon, Demonic.'),('Daff','v. t.','To cast aside; to put off; to doff.'),('Daff','n.','A stupid, blockish fellow; a numskull.'),('Daff','v. i.','To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.'),('Daff','v. t.','To daunt.'),('Daffodil','n.','A plant of the genus Asphodelus.'),('Daffodil','n.','A plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Pseudo-narcissus). It\n   has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue.\n   Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly,\n   etc.'),('Daft','a.','Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has\n   gone daft.'),('Daft','a.','Gay; playful; frolicsome.'),('Daftness','n.','The quality of being daft.'),('Dag','n.','A dagger; a poniard.'),('Dag','n.','A large pistol formerly used.'),('Dag','n.','The unbranched antler of a young deer.'),('Dag','n.','A misty shower; dew.'),('Dag','n.','A loose end; a dangling shred.'),('Dag','v. t.','To daggle or bemire.'),('Dag','v. t.','To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment.'),('Dag','v. i.','To be misty; to drizzle.'),('Dagger','n.','A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term:\n   cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.'),('Dagger','n.','A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the\n   second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; --\n   called also obelisk.'),('Dagger','v. t.','To pierce with a dagger; to stab.'),('Dagger','n.','A timber placed diagonally in a ship\'s frame.'),('Dagges','n. pl.','An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments,\n   introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans.'),('Daggled','imp. & p. p.','of Daggle'),('Daggling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Daggle'),('Daggle','v. t.','To trail, so as to wet or befoul; to make wet and limp;\n   to moisten.'),('Daggle','v. i.','To run, go, or trail one\'s self through water, mud, or\n   slush; to draggle.'),('Daggle-tail','a.','Alt. of Daggle-tailed'),('Daggle-tailed','a.','Having the lower ends of garments defiled by\n   trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.'),('Daggle-tail','n.','A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.'),('Daglock','n.','A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.'),('Dagos','pl. ','of Dago'),('Dago','n.','A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension,\n   Portuguese or Italian) descent.'),('Dagoba','n.','A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some\n   Buddhist saint.'),('Dagon','','The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face\n   and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.'),('Dagon','n.','A slip or piece.'),('Dagswain','n.','A coarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of\n   wool.'),('Dag-tailed','a.','Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.'),('Daguerrean','a.','Alt. of Daguerreian'),('Daguerreian','a.','Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the\n   daguerreotype.'),('Daguerreotype','n.','An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver\n   plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by\n   the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure\n   in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.'),('Daguerreotype','n.','The process of taking such pictures.'),('Daguerreotyped','imp. & p. p.','of Daguerreotype'),('Daguerreotyping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Daguerreotype'),('Daguerreotype','v. t.','To produce or represent by the daguerreotype\n   process, as a picture.'),('Daguerreotype','v. t.','To impress with great distinctness; to imprint;\n   to imitate exactly.'),('Daguerreotyper','n.','Alt. of Daguerreotypist'),('Daguerreotypist','n.','One who takes daguerreotypes.'),('Daguerreotypy','n.','The art or process of producing pictures by method\n   of Daguerre.'),('Dahabeah','n.','A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house,\n   having large lateen sails.'),('Dahlias','pl. ','of Dahlia'),('Dahlia','n.','A genus of plants native to Mexico and Central America, of\n   the order Compositae; also, any plant or flower of the genus. The\n   numerous varieties of cultivated dahlias bear conspicuous flowers which\n   differ in color.'),('Dahlin','n.','A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called\n   also inulin. See Inulin.'),('Dailiness','n.','Daily occurence.'),('Daily','a.','Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal;\n   as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.'),('Dailies','pl. ','of Daily'),('Daily','n.','A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the\n   morning dailies.'),('Daily','adv.','Every day; day by day; as, a thing happens daily.'),('Daimios','pl. ','of Daimio'),('Daimio','n.','The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.'),('Daint','n.','Something of exquisite taste; a dainty.'),('Daint','a.','Dainty.'),('Daintified','imp. & p. p.','of Daintify'),('Daintifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Daintify'),('Daintify','v. t.','To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious.'),('Daintily','adv.','In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously;\n   deliciously; prettily.'),('Daintiness','n.','The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness;\n   elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.'),('Daintrel','n.','Adelicacy.'),('Dainties','pl. ','of Dainty'),('Dainty','n.','Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in\n   anything.'),('Dainty','n.','That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.'),('Dainty','n.','A term of fondness.'),('Dainty','superl.','Rare; valuable; costly.'),('Dainty','superl.','Delicious to the palate; toothsome.'),('Dainty','superl.','Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding;\n   well-formed; neat; tender.'),('Dainty','superl.','Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please;\n   fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.'),('Dairies','pl. ','of Dairy'),('Dairy','n.','The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted\n   into butter or cheese.'),('Dairy','n.','That department of farming which is concerned in the\n   production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.'),('Dairy','n.','A dairy farm.'),('Dairying','n.','The business of conducting a dairy.'),('Dairymaid','n.','A female servant whose business is the care of the\n   dairy.'),('Dairymen','pl. ','of Dairyman'),('Dairyman','n.','A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.'),('Dairywomen','pl. ','of Dairywoman'),('Dairywoman','n.','A woman who attends to a dairy.'),('Dais','n.','The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which\n   the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.'),('Dais','n.','A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large\n   room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the\n   chief guests.'),('Dais','n.','A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.'),('Daisied','a.','Full of daisies; adorned with daisies.'),('Daisies','pl. ','of Daisy'),('Daisy','n.','A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family\n   Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which\n   has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.'),('Daisy','n.','The whiteweed (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), the plant\n   commonly called daisy in North America; -- called also oxeye daisy. See\n   Whiteweed.'),('Dak','n.','Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt\n   also dawk, and dauk.'),('Daker','n.','Alt. of Dakir'),('Dakir','n.','A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or\n   twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten\n   skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs.'),('Daker hen','','The corncrake or land rail.'),('Dakoit','n.','Alt. of Dakoity'),('Dakoity','n.','See Dacoit, Dacoity.'),('Dakota group','','A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation\n   in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata\n   were first studied.'),('Dakotas','n. pl','An extensive race or stock of Indians, including many\n   tribes, mostly dwelling west of the Mississippi River; -- also, in\n   part, called Sioux.'),('Dal','n.','Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus.'),('Dale','n.','A low place between hills; a vale or valley.'),('Dale','n.','A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.'),('Dalesmen','pl. ','of Dalesman'),('Dalesman','n.','One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to\n   the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc.'),('Dalf','','imp. of Delve.'),('Dalliance','n.','The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange\n   of caresses; wanton play.'),('Dalliance','n.','Delay or procrastination.'),('Dalliance','n.','Entertaining discourse.'),('Dallier','n.','One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant\n   words.'),('Dallop','n.','A tuft or clump.'),('Dallied','imp. & p. p.','of Dally'),('Dallying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dally'),('Dally','v. i.','To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or\n   in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to\n   trifle.'),('Dally','v. i.','To interchange caresses, especially with one of the\n   opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.'),('Dally','v. t.','To delay unnecessarily; to while away.'),('Dalmania','n.','A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the\n   Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.'),('Dalmanites','n.','Same as Dalmania.'),('Dalmatian','a.','Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.'),('Dalmatica','n.','Alt. of Dalmatic'),('Dalmatic','n.','A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn\n   at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from\n   a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.'),('Dalmatic','n.','A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at\n   their coronation.'),('Dal segno','','A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from\n   thence to the close. See Segno.'),('Daltonian','n.','One afflicted with color blindness.'),('Daltonism','n.','Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors,\n   esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called\n   from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity.'),('Dam','n.','A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds;\n   sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.'),('Dam','n.','A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.'),('Dam','n.','A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of\n   earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water\n   course, to confine and keep back flowing water.'),('Dam','n.','A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the\n   hearth of a blast furnace.'),('Dammed','imp. & p. p.','of Dam'),('Damming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dam'),('Dam','v. t.','To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine\n   by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in\n   or up.'),('Dam','v. t.','To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.'),('Damage','n.','Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an\n   inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.'),('Damage','n.','The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury\n   sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party,\n   for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.'),('Damages','imp. & p. p.','of Damage'),('Damaging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Damage'),('Damage','n.','To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of;\n   to hurt; to injure; to impair.'),('Damage','v. i.','To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in\n   soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.'),('Damageable','a.','Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or\n   susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.'),('Damageable','a.','Hurtful; pernicious.'),('Damage feasant','','Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.'),('Daman','n.','A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species\n   found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa\n   is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony,\n   and Hyrax.'),('Damar','n.','See Dammar.'),('Damascene','a.','Of or relating to Damascus.'),('Damascene','n.','A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.'),('Damascene','v. t.','Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.'),('Damascus','n.','A city of Syria.'),('Damask','n.','Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of\n   flowers and the like.'),('Damask','n.','Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different\n   directions of the thread, without contrast of color.'),('Damask','n.','A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the\n   same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and\n   hangings.'),('Damask','n.','Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or\n   \"water\" of such steel.'),('Damask','n.','A deep pink or rose color.'),('Damask','a.','Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus;\n   resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.'),('Damask','a.','Having the color of the damask rose.'),('Damasked','imp. & p. p.','of Damask'),('Damasking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Damask'),('Damask','v. t.','To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed\n   to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk;\n   (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or\n   \"water,\" as metal. See Damaskeen.'),('Damaskeen','v.','Alt. of Damasken'),('Damasken','v.','To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar\n   marking or \"water\" produced in the process of manufacture, or with\n   designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as\n   silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.'),('Damaskin','n.','A sword of Damask steel.'),('Damasse','a.','Woven like damask.'),('Damasse','n.','A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen.'),('Damassin','n.','A kind of modified damask or brocade.'),('Dambonite','n.','A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an\n   African caoutchouc.'),('Dambose','n.','A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from\n   dambonite.'),('Dame','n.','A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority;\n   especially, a lady.'),('Dame','n.','The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a\n   common school; as, a dame\'s school.'),('Dame','n.','A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.'),('Dame','n.','A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.'),('Damewort','n.','A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable\n   for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called\n   also rocket and dame\'s violet.'),('Damiana','n.','A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.'),('Damianist','n.','A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th\n   century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy\n   Trinity.'),('Dammar','n.','Alt. of Dammara'),('Dammara','n.','An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara\n   resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East\n   Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.'),('Dammara','n.','A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the\n   East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several\n   species.'),('Damned','imp. & p. p.','of Damn'),('Damning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Damn'),('Damn','v. t.','To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to\n   punishment; to sentence; to censure.'),('Damn','v. t.','To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to\n   perdition; to curse.'),('Damn','v. t.','To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as\n   by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.'),('Damn','v. i.','To invoke damnation; to curse.'),('Damnability','n.','The quality of being damnable; damnableness.'),('Damnable','a.','Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one\n   deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.'),('Damnable','a.','Odious; pernicious; detestable.'),('Damnableness','n.','The state or quality of deserving damnation;\n   execrableness.'),('Damnably','adv.','In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or\n   punishment.'),('Damnably','adv.','Odiously; detestably; excessively.'),('Damnation','n.','The state of being damned; condemnation; openly\n   expressed disapprobation.'),('Damnation','n.','Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future\n   state, or the punishment itself.'),('Damnation','n.','A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.'),('Damnatory','a.','Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.'),('Damned','a.','Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned;\n   consigned to perdition.'),('Damned','a.','Hateful; detestable; abominable.'),('Damnific','a.','Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.'),('Damnification','n.','That which causes damage or loss.'),('Damnify','v. t.','To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair.'),('Damning','a.','That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.'),('Damningness','n.','Tendency to bring damnation.'),('damnum','n.','Harm; detriment, either to character or property.'),('Damosel','n.','Alt. of Damoiselle'),('Damosella','n.','Alt. of Damoiselle'),('Damoiselle','n.','See Damsel.'),('Damourite','n.','A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.'),('Damp','n.','Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.'),('Damp','n.','Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.'),('Damp','n.','A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints,\n   etc.'),('Damp','superl.','Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet;\n   moist; humid.'),('Damp','superl.','Dejected; depressed; sunk.'),('Damped','imp. & p. p.','of Damp'),('Damping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Damp'),('Damp','n.','To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet;\n   to dampen; as, to damp cloth.'),('Damp','n.','To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to\n   cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to\n   weaken; to discourage.'),('Dampened','imp. & p. p.','of Dampen'),('Dampening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dampen'),('Dampen','v. t.','To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.'),('Dampen','v. t.','To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.'),('Dampen','v. i.','To become damp; to deaden.'),('Damper','n.','That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable\n   plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to\n   check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a\n   pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism,\n   to check some action at a particular time.'),('Dampish','a.','Moderately damp or moist.'),('Dampne','v. t.','To damn.'),('Dampness','n.','Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.'),('Damp off','','To decay and perish through excessive moisture.'),('Dampy','a.','Somewhat damp.'),('Dampy','a.','Dejected; gloomy; sorrowful.'),('Damsel','n.','A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle\n   extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.'),('Damsel','n.','A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.'),('Damsel','n.','An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the\n   hopper.'),('Damson','n.','A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety\n   of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.'),('Dan','n.','A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.'),('Dan','n.','A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.'),('Danaide','n.','A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and\n   outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached\n   usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.'),('Danaite','n.','A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.'),('Danalite','n.','A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive,\n   of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and\n   glucinum, containing sulphur.'),('Danburite','n.','A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It\n   is near the topaz in form.'),('Danced','imp. & p. p.','of Dance'),('Dancing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dance'),('Dance','v. i.','To move with measured steps, or to a musical\n   accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others,\n   with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of\n   music; to trip or leap rhythmically.'),('Dance','v. i.','To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion;\n   to caper; to frisk; to skip about.'),('Dance','v. t.','To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up\n   and down; to dandle.'),('Dance','v. i.','The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who\n   dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are\n   regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.'),('Dance','v. i.','A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the\n   waltz, the cotillon, etc.'),('Dancer','n.','One who dances or who practices dancing.'),('Danceress','n.','A female dancer.'),('Dancette','a.','Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess\n   dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.'),('Dancing','p. a. & vb. n.','from Dance.'),('Dancy','a.','Same as Dancette.'),('Dandelion','n.','A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T.\n   officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum)\n   bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.'),('Dander','n.','Dandruff or scurf on the head.'),('Dander','n.','Anger or vexation; rage.'),('Dander','v. i.','To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.'),('Dandi','n.','A boatman; an oarsman.'),('Dandie','n.','One of a breed of small terriers; -- called also Dandie\n   Dinmont.'),('Dandified','a.','Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a\n   dandy; buckish.'),('Dandified','imp. & p. p.','of Dandify'),('Dandifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dandify'),('Dandify','v. t.','To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.'),('Dandiprat','n.','A little fellow; -- in sport or contempt.'),('Dandiprat','n.','A small coin.'),('Dandled','imp. & p. p.','of Dandle'),('Dandling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dandle'),('Dandle','v. t.','To move up and down on one\'s knee or in one\'s arms, in\n   affectionate play, as an infant.'),('Dandle','v. t.','To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy\n   with; to pet.'),('Dandle','v. t.','To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to\n   wheedle.'),('Dandler','n.','One who dandles or fondles.'),('Dandriff','n.','See Dandruff.'),('Dandruff','n.','A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small\n   or particles.'),('Dandies','pl. ','of Dandy'),('Dandy','n.','One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to\n   dress; a fop; a coxcomb.'),('Dandy','n.','A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.'),('Dandy','n.','A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; --\n   called also jigger, and mizzen.'),('Dandy','n.','A dandy roller. See below.'),('Dandy-cock','n. fem.','Alt. of Dandy-hen'),('Dandy-hen','n. fem.','A bantam fowl.'),('Dandyish','a.','Like a dandy.'),('Dandyism','n.','The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.'),('Dandyise','v. t. & i.','To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.'),('Dandyling','n.','A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.'),('Dane','n.','A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark.'),('Danegeld','n.','Alt. of Danegelt'),('Danegelt','n.','An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy\n   off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose\n   them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at\n   first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of\n   land throughout the realm.'),('Danewort','n.','A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus);\n   dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane\'s weed,\n   and Dane\'s-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought\n   against the Danes.]'),('Dang','','imp. of Ding.'),('Dang','v. t.','To dash.'),('Danger','n.','Authority; jurisdiction; control.'),('Danger','n.','Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.'),('Danger','n.','Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk;\n   insecurity.'),('Danger','n.','Difficulty; sparingness.'),('Danger','n.','Coyness; disdainful behavior.'),('Danger','v. t.','To endanger.'),('Dangerful','a.','Full of danger; dangerous.'),('Dangerless','a.','Free from danger.'),('Dangerous','a.','Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous;\n   hazardous; unsafe.'),('Dangerous','a.','Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.'),('Dangerous','a.','In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened\n   with death.'),('Dangerous','a.','Hard to suit; difficult to please.'),('Dangerous','a.','Reserved; not affable.'),('Dangled','imp. & p. p.','of Dangle'),('Dangling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dangle'),('Dangle','v. i.','To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.'),('Dangle','v. t.','To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended\n   loosely; as, to dangle the feet.'),('Dangleberry','n.','A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its\n   shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry.\n   The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to\n   Kentucky, and southward.'),('Dangler','n.','One who dangles about or after others, especially after\n   women; a trifler.'),('Daniel','n.','A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of\n   judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.'),('Danish','a.','Belonging to the Danes, or to their language or country.'),('Danish','n.','The language of the Danes.'),('Danite','n.','A descendant of Dan; an Israelite of the tribe of Dan.'),('Danite','n.','One of a secret association of Mormons, bound by an oath to\n   obey the heads of the church in all things.'),('Dank','a.','Damp; moist; humid; wet.'),('Dank','n.','Moisture; humidity; water.'),('Dank','n.','A small silver coin current in Persia.'),('Dankish','a.','Somewhat dank.'),('Dannebrog','n.','The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures\n   of cross and crown.'),('Danseuse','n.','A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a\n   public exhibition as in a ballet.'),('Dansk','a.','Danish.'),('Dansker','n.','A Dane.'),('Dantean','a.','Relating to, emanating from or resembling, the poet Dante\n   or his writings.'),('Dantesque','a.','Dantelike; Dantean.'),('Danubian','a.','Pertaining to, or bordering on, the river Danube.'),('Dap','v. i.','To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water.'),('Dapatical','a.','Sumptuous in cheer.'),('Daphne','n.','A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with\n   fragrant blossoms.'),('Daphne','n.','A nymph of Diana, fabled to have been changed into a laurel\n   tree.'),('Daphnetin','n.','A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted\n   from daphnin.'),('Daphnia','n.','A genus of the genus Daphnia.'),('Daphnin','n.','A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon\n   (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.'),('Daphnin','n.','A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a\n   glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.'),('Daphnomancy','n.','Divination by means of the laurel.'),('Dapifer','n.','One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some\n   countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the\n   king\'s or a nobleman\'s household.'),('Dapper','a.','Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or\n   appearance; lively.'),('Dapperling','n.','A dwarf; a dandiprat.'),('Dapple','n.','One of the spots on a dappled animal.'),('Dapple','a.','Alt. of Dappled'),('Dappled','a.','Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted;\n   variegated; as, a dapple horse.'),('Dappled','imp. & p. p.','of Dapple'),('Dappling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dapple'),('Dapple','v. t.','To variegate with spots; to spot.'),('Darbies','n. pl.','Manacles; handcuffs.'),('Darby','n.','A plasterer\'s float, having two handles; -- used in\n   smoothing ceilings, etc.'),('Darbyite','n.','One of the Plymouth Brethren, or of a sect among them; --\n   so called from John N. Darby, one of the leaders of the Brethren.'),('Dardanian','a. & n.','Trojan.'),('Durst','imp.','of Dare'),('Dared','','of Dare'),('Dared','p. p.','of Dare'),('Daring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dare'),('Dare','v. i.','To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to\n   be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.'),('Dared','imp. & p. p.','of Dare'),('Daring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dare'),('Dare','v. t.','To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture\n   to do or to undertake.'),('Dare','v. t.','To challenge; to provoke; to defy.'),('Dare','n.','The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.'),('Dare','n.','Defiance; challenge.'),('Dare','v. i.','To lurk; to lie hid.'),('Dare','v. t.','To terrify; to daunt.'),('Dare','n.','A small fish; the dace.'),('Dare-devil','n.','A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as,\n   dare-devil excitement.'),('Dare-deviltries','pl. ','of Dare-deviltry'),('Dare-deviltry','n','Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.'),('Dareful','a.','Full of daring or of defiance; adventurous.'),('Darer','n.','One who dares or defies.'),('Darg','n.','Alt. of Dargue'),('Dargue','n.','A day\'s work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or\n   less than that of a day.'),('Daric','n.','A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little\n   more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer.'),('Daric','n.','A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an\n   archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric.'),('Daric','n.','Any very pure gold coin.'),('Daring','n.','Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring\n   act.'),('Daring','a.','Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.'),('Dark','a.','Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving,\n   reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some\n   deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day;\n   dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.'),('Dark','a.','Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through;\n   obscure; mysterious; hidden.'),('Dark','a.','Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual\n   darkness; unrefined; ignorant.'),('Dark','a.','Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked;\n   atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.'),('Dark','a.','Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.'),('Dark','a.','Deprived of sight; blind.'),('Dark','n.','Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is\n   little or no light.'),('Dark','n.','The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.'),('Dark','n.','A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the\n   like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.'),('Dark','v. t.','To darken to obscure.'),('Darkened','imp. & p. p.','of Darken'),('Darkening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Darken'),('Darken','a.','To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as,\n   a darkened room.'),('Darken','a.','To render dim; to deprive of vision.'),('Darken','a.','To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or\n   intelligible.'),('Darken','a.','To cast a gloom upon.'),('Darken','a.','To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.'),('Darken','v. i.','To grow or darker.'),('Darkener','n.','One who, or that which, darkens.'),('Darkening','n.','Twilight; gloaming.'),('Darkful','a.','Full of darkness.'),('Darkish','a.','Somewhat dark; dusky.'),('Darkle','v. i.','To grow dark; to show indistinctly.'),('Darkling','adv.','In the dark.'),('Darkling','p. pr. & a.','Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.'),('Darkling','p. pr. & a.','Dark; gloomy.'),('Darkly','adv.','With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely;\n   dimly; blindly; uncertainly.'),('Darkly','adv.','With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.'),('Darkness','n.','The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.'),('Darkness','n.','A state of privacy; secrecy.'),('Darkness','n.','A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or\n   religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.'),('Darkness','n.','Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the\n   darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.'),('Darkness','n.','A state of distress or trouble.'),('Darksome','a.','Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.'),('Darky','n.','A negro.'),('Darling','n.','One dearly beloved; a favorite.'),('Darling','a.','Dearly beloved; regarded with especial kindness and\n   tenderness; favorite.'),('Darlingtonia','n.','A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a\n   single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and\n   frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.'),('Darned','imp. & p. p.','of Darn'),('Darning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Darn'),('Darn','v. t.','To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of\n   yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or\n   thread.'),('Darn','n.','A place mended by darning.'),('Darn','v. t.','A colloquial euphemism for Damn.'),('Darnel','n.','Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum\n   (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous.\n   Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its\n   variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for\n   pasture and for making hay.'),('Darner','n.','One who mends by darning.'),('Darnex','n.','Alt. of Darnic'),('Darnic','n.','Same as Dornick.'),('Daroo','n.','The Egyptian sycamore (Ficus Sycamorus). See Sycamore.'),('Darr','n.','The European black tern.'),('Darraign','v. t.','Alt. of Darrain'),('Darrain','v. t.','To make ready to fight; to array.'),('Darrain','v. t.','To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.'),('Darrein','a.','Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.'),('Dart','n.','A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand;\n   a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as\n   an arrow.'),('Dart','n.','Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds\n   like a dart.'),('Dart','n.','A spear set as a prize in running.'),('Dart','n.','A fish; the dace. See Dace.'),('Darted','imp. & p. p.','of Dart'),('Darting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dart'),('Dart','v. t.','To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or\n   other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.'),('Dart','v. t.','To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to\n   shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.'),('Dart','v. i.','To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.'),('Dart','v. i.','To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along;\n   as, the deer darted from the thicket.'),('Dartars','n.','A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.'),('Darter','n.','One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.'),('Darter','n.','The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so\n   called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See\n   Snakebird.'),('Darter','n.','A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes\n   numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid.'),('Dartingly','adv.','Like a dart; rapidly.'),('Dartle','v. t. & i.','To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: --\n   frequentative of dart.'),('Dartoic','a.','Of or pertaining to the dartos.'),('Dartoid','a.','Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.'),('Dartos','n.','A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly\n   beneath the skin of the scrotum.'),('Dartrous','a.','Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease\n   called tetter; herpetic.'),('Darwinian','a.','Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory\n   of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things\n   from certain original forms or elements.'),('Darwinian','n.','An advocate of Darwinism.'),('Darwinianism','n.','Darwinism.'),('Darwinism','n.','The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above.'),('Dase','v. t.','See Daze.'),('Dasewe','v. i.','To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled.'),('Dashed','imp. & p. p.','of Dash'),('Dashing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dash'),('Dash','v. t.','To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike\n   violently or hastily; -- often used with against.'),('Dash','v. t.','To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to\n   crust; to frustrate; to ruin.'),('Dash','v. t.','To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to\n   depress.'),('Dash','v. t.','To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix,\n   reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality;\n   to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to\n   dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.'),('Dash','v. t.','To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute\n   rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review\n   or sermon.'),('Dash','v. t.','To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with\n   out; as, to dash out a word.'),('Dash','v. i.','To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike\n   violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.'),('Dash','n.','Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.'),('Dash','n.','A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes\n   received a dash.'),('Dash','n.','A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial\n   overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of\n   purple.'),('Dash','n.','A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke\n   or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash\n   of rain.'),('Dash','n.','Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.'),('Dash','n.','A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or\n   cut a great dash.'),('Dash','n.','A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a\n   sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in\n   its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or\n   epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead\n   of marks or parenthesis.'),('Dash','n.','The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note\n   over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.'),('Dash','n.','The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a\n   direction to raise the interval a semitone.'),('Dash','n.','A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race\n   course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the\n   race.'),('Dashboard','n.','A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh,\n   or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the\n   heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.'),('Dashboard','n.','The float of a paddle wheel.'),('Dashboard','n.','A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the\n   spray; -- called also sprayboard.'),('Dasher','n.','That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.'),('Dasher','n.','A dashboard or splashboard.'),('Dasher','n.','One who makes an ostentatious parade.'),('Dashing','a.','Bold; spirited; showy.'),('Dashingly','adv.','Conspicuously; showily.'),('Dashism','n.','The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade\n   or show.'),('Dashpot','n.','A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as\n   in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.'),('Dashy','a.','Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable;\n   showy.'),('Dastard','n.','One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a\n   poltroon.'),('Dastard','a.','Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.'),('Dastard','v. t.','To dastardize.'),('Dastardized','imp. & p. p.','of Dastardize'),('Dastardizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dastardize'),('Dastardize','v. t.','To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to\n   dastardize my courage.'),('Dastardliness','n.','The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base\n   fear.'),('Dastardly','a.','Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.'),('Dastardness','n.','Dastardliness.'),('Dastardy','n.','Base timidity; cowardliness.'),('Daswe','v. i.','See Dasewe'),('Dasymeter','n.','An instrument for testing the density of gases,\n   consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases,\n   and then in an atmosphere of known density.'),('Dasypaedal','a.','Dasypaedic.'),('Dasypaedes','n. pl.','Those birds whose young are covered with down when\n   hatched.'),('Dasypaedic','a.','Pertaining to the Dasypaedes; ptilopaedic.'),('Dasyure','n.','A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging\n   to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species.'),('Dasyurine','a.','Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.'),('Data','n. pl.','See Datum.'),('Datable','a.','That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.'),('Dataria','n.','Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate\n   office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro\n   externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from\n   the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and\n   place of granting the gift or favor).'),('Datary','n.','An officer in the pope\'s court, having charge of the\n   Dataria.'),('Datary','n.','The office or employment of a datary.'),('Date','n.','The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.'),('Date','n.','That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which\n   specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or\n   inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter,\n   of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.'),('Date','n.','The point of time at which a transaction or event takes\n   place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as,\n   the date of a battle.'),('Date','n.','Assigned end; conclusion.'),('Date','n.','Given or assigned length of life; dyration.'),('Dated','imp. & p. p.','of Date'),('Dating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Date'),('Date','v. t.','To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an\n   instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a\n   deed, or a charter.'),('Date','v. t.','To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the\n   date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.'),('Date','v. i.','To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; --\n   with from.'),('Dateless','a.','Without date; having no fixed time.'),('Dater','n.','One who dates.'),('Datiscin','n.','A white crystalline glucoside extracted from the bastard\n   hemp (Datisca cannabina).'),('Dative','a.','Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter\n   object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the\n   objective.'),('Dative','a.','In one\'s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and\n   pleasure, as an office.'),('Dative','a.','Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an\n   officer.'),('Dative','a.','Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast\n   upon a party by the law.'),('Dative','n.','The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.'),('Datively','adv.','As a gift.'),('Datolite','n.','A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,,\n   greenish crystals.'),('Data','pl. ','of Datum'),('Datum','n.','Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted;\n   that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly\n   in the plural.'),('Datum','n.','The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in\n   any problem.'),('Datura','n.','A genus of solanaceous plants, with large funnel-shaped\n   flowers and a four-celled, capsular fruit.'),('Daturine','n.','Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.'),('Daubed','imp. & p. p.','of Daub'),('Daubing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Daub'),('Daub','v. t.','To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud,\n   etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.'),('Daub','v. t.','To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.'),('Daub','v. t.','To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to\n   disguise; to conceal.'),('Daub','v. t.','To flatter excessively or glossy.'),('Daub','v. t.','To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.'),('Daub','v. i.','To smear; to play the flatterer.'),('Daub','n.','A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a\n   smear.'),('Daub','n.','A picture coarsely executed.'),('Dauber','n.','One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse,\n   unskillful painter.'),('Dauber','n.','A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking\n   plates; a dabber.'),('Dauber','n.','A low and gross flatterer.'),('Dauber','n.','The mud wasp; the mud dauber.'),('Daubery','n.','Alt. of Daubry'),('Daubry','n.','A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses.'),('Daubing','n.','The act of one who daubs; that which is daubed.'),('Daubing','n.','A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the\n   appearance of stone; rough-cast.'),('Daubing','n.','In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into\n   leather; -- called also dubbing.'),('Daubreelite','n.','A sulphide of chromium observed in some meteoric\n   irons.'),('Dauby','a.','Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.'),('Daughters','pl. ','of Daughter'),('Daughtren','pl. ','of Daughter'),('Daughter','n.','The female offspring of the human species; a female child\n   of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.'),('Daughter','n.','A female descendant; a woman.'),('Daughter','n.','A son\'s wife; a daughter-in-law.'),('Daughter','n.','A term of address indicating parental interest.'),('Daughters-in-law','pl. ','of Daughter-in-law'),('Daughter-in-law','n.','The wife of one\'s son.'),('Daughterliness','n.','The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a\n   daughter.'),('Daughterly','a.','Becoming a daughter; filial.'),('Dauk','v. t.','See Dawk, v. t., to cut or gush.'),('Daun','n.','A variant of Dan, a title of honor.'),('Daunted','imp. & p. p.','of Daunt'),('Daunting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Daunt'),('Daunt','v. t.','To overcome; to conquer.'),('Daunt','v. t.','To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of\n   danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.'),('Daunter','n.','One who daunts.'),('Dauntless','a.','Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless;\n   intrepid.'),('Dauphin','n.','The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and\n   heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been\n   discontinued.'),('Dauphiness','n.','Alt. of Dauphine'),('Dauphine','n.','The title of the wife of the dauphin.'),('Dauw','n.','The striped quagga, or Burchell\'s zebra, of South Africa\n   (Asinus Burchellii); -- called also peechi, or peetsi.'),('Davenport','n.','A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat\n   ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.'),('Davidic','a.','Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of\n   Israel, or to his family.'),('Davit','n.','A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist\n   the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the\n   sides of the ship; -- called also the fish davit.'),('Davit','n.','Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship\'s side\n   of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck,\n   rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits.'),('Davy Jones','','The spirit of the sea; sea devil; -- a term used by\n   sailors.'),('Davy lamp','','See Safety lamp, under Lamp.'),('Davyne','n.','A variety of nephelite from Vesuvius.'),('Davyum','n.','A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a\n   white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.'),('Daw','n.','A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often\n   nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw.'),('Daw','v. i.','To dawn.'),('Daw','v. t.','To rouse.'),('Daw','v. t.','To daunt; to terrify.'),('Dawdled','imp. & p. p.','of Dawdle'),('Dawdling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dawdle'),('Dawdle','v. i.','To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to\n   saunter.'),('Dawdle','v. t.','To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole\n   morning.'),('Dawdle','n.','A dawdler.'),('Dawdler','n.','One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a\n   trifler.'),('Dawe','n.','Day.'),('Dawish','a.','Like a daw.'),('Dawk','n.','See Dak.'),('Dawk','v. t.','To cut or mark with an incision; to gash.'),('Dawk','n.','A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber.'),('Dawned','imp. & p. p.','of Dawn'),('Dawning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dawn'),('Dawn','v. i.','To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to\n   break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.'),('Dawn','v. i.','To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.'),('Dawn','n.','The break of day; the first appearance of light in the\n   morning; show of approaching sunrise.'),('Dawn','n.','First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning;\n   rise.'),('Dawsonite','n.','A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in\n   white, bladed crustals.'),('Day','n.','The time of light, or interval between one night and the next;\n   the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence,\n   the light; sunshine.'),('Day','n.','The period of the earth\'s revolution on its axis. --\n   ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the\n   interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the\n   same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus,\n   if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive\n   transits of the sun\'s center over the same meridian) is called a solar\n   day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day.\n   See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.'),('Day','n.','Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage\n   or law for work.'),('Day','n.','A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to\n   the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.'),('Day','n.','(Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of\n   contest, some anniversary, etc.'),('Dayaks','n. pl.','See Dyaks.'),('Daybook','n.','A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are\n   recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order,\n   and from which they are transferred to the journal.'),('Daybreak','n.','The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.'),('Day-coal','n.','The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or\n   surface.'),('Daydream','n.','A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air;\n   unfounded hope.'),('Daydreamer','n.','One given to daydreams.'),('Dayflower','n.','A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs\n   (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.'),('Dayfly','n.','A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related\n   genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval\n   state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but\n   one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under\n   Ephemeral.'),('Day-labor','n.','Labor hired or performed by the day.'),('Day-laborer','n.','One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm\n   laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade.'),('Daylight','n.','The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the\n   light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial\n   light.'),('Daylight','n.','The eyes.'),('Day lily','','A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true\n   lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common\n   species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange\n   flowers.'),('Day lily','','A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in\n   having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.'),('Daymaid','n.','A dairymaid.'),('Daymare','n.','A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness,\n   attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes\n   nightmare.'),('Day-net','n.','A net for catching small birds.'),('Day-peep','n.','The dawn.'),('Daysman','n.','An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.'),('Dayspring','n.','The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light;\n   the dawn; hence, the beginning.'),('Day-star','n.','The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.'),('Day-star','n.','The sun, as the orb of day.'),('Daytime','n.','The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished\n   from the night.'),('Daywoman','n.','A dairymaid.'),('Dazed','imp. & p. p.','of Daze'),('Dazing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Daze'),('Daze','v. t.','To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold,\n   or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.'),('Daze','n.','The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.'),('Daze','n.','A glittering stone.'),('Dazzled','imp. & p. p.','of Dazzle'),('Dazzling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dazzle'),('Dazzle','v. t.','To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by\n   brilliance of light.'),('Dazzle','v. t.','To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of\n   any kind.'),('Dazzle','v. i.','To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite\n   admiration by brilliancy.'),('Dazzle','v. i.','To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of\n   brightness.'),('Dazzle','n.','A light of dazzling brilliancy.'),('Dazzlement','n.','Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light.'),('Dazzlingly','adv.','In a dazzling manner.'),('De-','','A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline,\n   decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to\n   Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and\n   opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave,\n   despoil, declare, desolate, etc.'),('Deacon','n.','An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform\n   certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the\n   Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest\n   order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In\n   Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders,\n   and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service\n   and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate\n   to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.'),('Deacon','n.','The chairman of an incorporated company.'),('Deacon','v. t.','To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before\n   singing it, -- usually with off.'),('Deaconess','n.','A female deacon'),('Deaconess','n.','One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of\n   deacons.'),('Deaconess','n.','A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.'),('Deaconess','n.','A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the\n   Congregationalists.'),('Deaconhood','n.','The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon;\n   deaconship.'),('Deaconry','n.','See Deaconship.'),('Deaconship','n.','The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.'),('Dead','a.','Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to\n   that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have\n   irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead\n   man.'),('Dead','a.','Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.'),('Dead','a.','Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of\n   life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.'),('Dead','a.','Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm;\n   a dead load or weight.'),('Dead','a.','So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a\n   dead floor.'),('Dead','a.','Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead\n   capital; dead stock in trade.'),('Dead','a.','Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye;\n   dead fire; dead color, etc.'),('Dead','a.','Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead\n   wall.'),('Dead','a.','Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a\n   dead certainty.'),('Dead','a.','Bringing death; deadly.'),('Dead','a.','Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith;\n   dead works.'),('Dead','a.','Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been\n   applied purposely to have this effect.'),('Dead','a.','Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as\n   compared with crimson.'),('Dead','a.','Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power\n   of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk\n   is civilly dead.'),('Dead','a.','Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a\n   lathe, etc. See Spindle.'),('Dead','adv.','To a degree resembling death; to the last degree;\n   completely; wholly.'),('Dead','n.','The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest\n   repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.'),('Dead','n.','One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.'),('Dead','v. t.','To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or\n   vigor.'),('Dead','v. i.','To die; to lose life or force.'),('Dead beat','','See Beat, n., 7.'),('Deadbeat','a.','Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a\n   single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other\n   instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its\n   deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.'),('Deadborn','a.','Stillborn.'),('Deadened','imp. & p. p.','of Deaden'),('Deadening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deaden'),('Deaden','a.','To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or\n   sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden\n   the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.'),('Deaden','a.','To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to\n   deaden a ship\'s headway.'),('Deaden','a.','To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.'),('Deaden','a.','To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to\n   deaden gilding by a coat of size.'),('Deadener','n.','One who, or that which, deadens or checks.'),('Dead-eye','n.','A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or\n   an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; --\n   used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called\n   also deadman\'s eye.'),('Deadhead','n.','One who receives free tickets for theaters, public\n   conveyances, etc.'),('Deadhead','n.','A buoy. See under Dead, a.'),('Dead-hearted','a.','Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.'),('Deadhouse','n.','A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and\n   exposure of dead bodies.'),('Deadish','a.','Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.'),('Deadlatch','n.','A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent\n   that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the\n   outside by the latch key.'),('Deadlight','n.','A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out\n   water in a storm.'),('Deadlihood','n.','State of the dead.'),('Deadliness','n.','The quality of being deadly.'),('Deadlock','n.','A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to\n   throw the bolt forward.'),('Deadlock','n.','A counteraction of things, which produces an entire\n   stoppage; a complete obstruction of action.'),('Deadly','a.','Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive;\n   certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.'),('Deadly','a.','Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately\n   hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.'),('Deadly','a.','Subject to death; mortal.'),('Deadly','adv.','In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.'),('Deadly','adv.','In a manner to occasion death; mortally.'),('Deadly','adv.','In an implacable manner; destructively.'),('Deadly','adv.','Extremely.'),('Deadness','n.','The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit,\n   activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness;\n   indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the\n   deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or\n   cider; deadness to the world, and the like.'),('Dead-pay','n.','Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose\n   names are kept on the rolls.'),('Dead-reckoning','n.','See under Dead, a.'),('Deads','n. pl.','The substances which inclose the ore on every side.'),('Dead-stroke','a.','Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.'),('Deadwood','n.','A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a\n   vessel to give solidity.'),('Deadwood','n.','Dead trees or branches; useless material.'),('Deadworks','n. pl.','The parts of a ship above the water when she is\n   laden.'),('Deaf','a.','Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part;\n   unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.'),('Deaf','a.','Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive;\n   regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation;\n   -- with to; as, deaf to reason.'),('Deaf','a.','Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.'),('Deaf','a.','Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.'),('Deaf','a.','Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.'),('Deaf','v. t.','To deafen.'),('Deafened','imp. & p. p.','of Deafen'),('Deafening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deafen'),('Deafen','v. t.','To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to\n   render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.'),('Deafen','v. t.','To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor,\n   by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.'),('Deafening','n.','The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as\n   a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in\n   this process; pugging.'),('Deafly','adv.','Without sense of sounds; obscurely.'),('Deafly','a.','Lonely; solitary.'),('Deaf-mute','n.','A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through\n   deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the\n   power of speech, or has lost it.'),('Deaf-mutism','n.','The condition of being a deaf-mute.'),('Deafness','n.','Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs\n   which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the\n   sense of hearing.'),('Deafness','n.','Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is\n   addressed to the understanding.'),('Deal','n.','A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity,\n   degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a\n   deal of cold.'),('Deal','n.','The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the\n   portion disturbed.'),('Deal','n.','Distribution; apportionment.'),('Deal','n.','An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of\n   interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political\n   bargains.'),('Deal','n.','The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or\n   plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches\n   in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it\n   is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.'),('Deal','n.','Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.'),('Dealt','imp. & p. p.','of Deal'),('Dealing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deal'),('Deal','n.','To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in\n   portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.'),('Deal','n.','Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the\n   commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.'),('Deal','v. i.','To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards\n   to the players.'),('Deal','v. i.','To do a distributing or retailing business, as\n   distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to\n   trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.'),('Deal','v. i.','To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to\n   manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.'),('Deal','v. i.','To conduct one\'s self; to behave or act in any affair or\n   towards any one; to treat.'),('Deal','v. i.','To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition,\n   check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.'),('Dealbate','v. t.','To whiten.'),('Dealbation','n.','Act of bleaching; a whitening.'),('Dealer','n.','One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with\n   others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a\n   merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail\n   dealer.'),('Dealer','n.','One who distributes cards to the players.'),('Dealfish','n.','A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus\n   arcticus).'),('Dealing','n.','The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of\n   cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse;\n   transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.'),('Dealth','n.','Share dealt.'),('Deambulate','v. i.','To walk abroad.'),('Deambulation','n.','A walking abroad; a promenading.'),('Deambulatory','a.','Going about from place to place; wandering; of or\n   pertaining to a deambulatory.'),('Deambulatory','n.','A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.'),('Dean','n.','A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical\n   and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a\n   bishop.'),('Dean','n.','The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and\n   Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral\n   condition of the college.'),('Dean','n.','The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges\n   or universities.'),('Dean','n.','A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a\n   college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.'),('Dean','n.','The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as,\n   the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.'),('Deaneries','pl. ','of Deanery'),('Deanery','n.','The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under\n   Benefice, n., 3.'),('Deanery','n.','The residence of a dean.'),('Deanery','n.','The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.'),('Deanship','n.','The office of a dean.'),('Dear','superl.','Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.'),('Dear','superl.','Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price;\n   as, a dear year.'),('Dear','superl.','Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.'),('Dear','superl.','Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind;\n   engaging the attention.'),('Dear','superl.','Of agreeable things and interests.'),('Dear','superl.','Of disagreeable things and antipathies.'),('Dear','n.','A dear one; lover; sweetheart.'),('Dear','adv.','Dearly; at a high price.'),('Dear','v. t.','To endear.'),('Dearborn','n.','A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.'),('Dear-bought','a.','Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.'),('Deare','','variant of Dere, v. t. & n.'),('Dearie','n.','Same as Deary.'),('Dearling','n.','A darling.'),('Dear-loved','a.','Greatly beloved.'),('Dearly','adv.','In a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly;\n   as, to love one dearly.'),('Dearly','adv.','At a high rate or price; grievously.'),('Dearly','adv.','Exquisitely.'),('Dearn','a.','Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.'),('Dearn','v. t.','Same as Darn.'),('Dearness','n.','The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of\n   price.'),('Dearness','n.','Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.'),('Dearth','n.','Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack\n   of food on account of failure of crops; famine.'),('Dearticulate','v. t.','To disjoint.'),('Dearworth','a.','Precious.'),('Deary','n.','A dear; a darling.'),('Deas','n.','See Dais.'),('Death','v. i.','The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability\n   of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.'),('Death','v. i.','Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the\n   death of memory.'),('Death','v. i.','Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.'),('Death','v. i.','Cause of loss of life.'),('Death','v. i.','Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally\n   represented as a skeleton with a scythe.'),('Death','v. i.','Danger of death.'),('Death','v. i.','Murder; murderous character.'),('Death','v. i.','Loss of spiritual life.'),('Death','v. i.','Anything so dreadful as to be like death.'),('Deathbed','n.','The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours\n   of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.'),('Deathbird','n.','Tengmalm\'s or Richardson\'s owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); --\n   so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its\n   note presages death.'),('Deathblow','n.','A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills\n   or destroys.'),('Deathful','a.','Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive;\n   bloody.'),('Deathful','a.','Liable to undergo death; mortal.'),('Deathfulness','n.','Appearance of death.'),('Deathless','a.','Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction;\n   immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.'),('Deathlike','a.','Resembling death.'),('Deathlike','a.','Deadly.'),('Deathliness','n.','The quality of being deathly; deadliness.'),('Deathly','a.','Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.'),('Deathly','adv.','Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.'),('Death\'s-head','n.','A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head\n   of the conventional personification of death.'),('Death\'s-herb','n.','The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).'),('Deathsman','n.','An executioner; a headsman or hangman.'),('Deathward','adv.','Toward death.'),('Deathwatch','n.','A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied\n   species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a\n   ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been\n   imagined by superstitious people to presage death.'),('Deathwatch','n.','A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which\n   makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.'),('Deathwatch','n.','The guard set over a criminal before his execution.'),('Deaurate','a.','Gilded.'),('Deaurate','v. t.','To gild.'),('Deauration','n.','Act of gilding.'),('Deave','v. t.','To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen.'),('Debacchate','v. i.','To rave as a bacchanal.'),('Debacchation','n.','Wild raving or debauchery.'),('Debacle','n.','A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of\n   waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and\n   disperses blocks of stone and other debris.'),('Debarred','imp. & p. p.','of Debar'),('Debarring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Debar'),('Debar','v. t.','To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to\n   preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or\n   exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.'),('Debarb','v. t.','To deprive of the beard.'),('Debarked','imp. & p. p.','of Debark'),('Debarking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Debark'),('Debark','v. t. & i.','To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to\n   put ashore.'),('Debarkation','n.','Disembarkation.'),('Debarment','n.','Hindrance from approach; exclusion.'),('Debarrass','v. t.','To disembarrass; to relieve.'),('Debased','imp. & p. p.','of Debase'),('Debasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Debase'),('Debase','a.','To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth,\n   dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate;\n   to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by\n   frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.'),('Debased','a.','Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted;\n   reversed.'),('Debasement','n.','The act of debasing or the state of being debased.'),('Debaser','n.','One who, or that which, debases.'),('Debasingly','adv.','In a manner to debase.'),('Debatable','a.','Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy\n   or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.'),('Debated','imp. & p. p.','of Debate'),('Debating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Debate'),('Debate','v. t.','To engage in combat for; to strive for.'),('Debate','v. t.','To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to\n   maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for\n   and against.'),('Debate','v. i.','To engage in strife or combat; to fight.'),('Debate','v. i.','To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate;\n   to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; --\n   often followed by on or upon.'),('Debate','v. t.','A fight or fighting; contest; strife.'),('Debate','v. t.','Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the\n   purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument;\n   controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.'),('Debate','v. t.','Subject of discussion.'),('Debateful','a.','Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.'),('Debatefully','adv.','With contention.'),('Debatement','n.','Controversy; deliberation; debate.'),('Debater','n.','One who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a\n   controvertist.'),('Debating','n.','The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.'),('Debatingly','adv.','In the manner of a debate.'),('Debauched','imp. & p. p.','of Debauch'),('Debauching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Debauch'),('Debauch','n.','To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in\n   character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as,\n   to debauch one\'s self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch\n   an army.'),('Debauch','n.','Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness;\n   lewdness; debauchery.'),('Debauch','n.','An act or occasion of debauchery.'),('Debauched','a.','Dissolute; dissipated.'),('Debauchedly','adv.','In a profligate manner.'),('Debauchedness','n.','The state of being debauched; intemperance.'),('Debauchee','v. t.','One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian\n   excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.'),('Debaucher','n.','One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a\n   seducer to lewdness.'),('Debaucheries','pl. ','of Debauchery'),('Debauchery','n.','Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or\n   allegiance.'),('Debauchery','n.','Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially,\n   excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual\n   lewdness.'),('Debauchment','n.','The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue\n   or duty.'),('Debauchness','n.','Debauchedness.'),('Debeige','n.','A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods.'),('Debel','v. t.','To conquer.'),('Debellate','v. t.','To subdue; to conquer in war.'),('Debellation','n.','The act of conquering or subduing.'),('De bene esse','','Of well being; of formal sufficiency for the time;\n   conditionally; provisionally.'),('Debenture','n.','A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate\n   signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person;\n   the sum thus due.'),('Debenture','n.','A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of\n   imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.'),('Debentured','a.','Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured\n   goods.'),('Debile','a.','Weak.'),('Debilitant','a.','Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement;\n   as, a debilitant drug.'),('Debilitated','imp. & p. p.','of Debilitate'),('Debilitating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Debilitate'),('Debilitate','v. t.','To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble;\n   as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.'),('Debilitation','n.','The act or process of debilitating, or the condition\n   of one who is debilitated; weakness.'),('Debility','a.','The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.'),('Debit','n.','A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; --\n   mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.'),('Debited','imp. & p. p.','of Debit'),('Debiting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Debit'),('Debit','v. t.','To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative\n   to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.'),('Debit','v. t.','To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to\n   debit the amount of goods sold.'),('Debitor','n.','A debtor.'),('Debituminization','n.','The act of depriving of bitumen.'),('Debituminize','v. t.','To deprive of bitumen.'),('Deblai','n.','The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc.\n   (remblai), is taken.'),('Debonair','a.','Characterized by courteousness, affability, or\n   gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.'),('Debonairity','n.','Debonairness.'),('Debonairly','adv.','Courteously; elegantly.'),('Debonairness','n.','The quality of being debonair; good humor;\n   gentleness; courtesy.'),('Debosh','v. t.','To debauch.'),('Deboshment','n.','Debauchment.'),('Debouched','imp. & p. p.','of Debouch'),('Debouching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Debouch'),('Debouch','v. i.','To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined\n   spot, into open ground; to issue.'),('Debouche','n.','A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods.'),('Debouchure','n.','The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a\n   strait.'),('Debris','n.','Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively;\n   especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at\n   the base.'),('Debris','n.','Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of\n   anything; remains; ruins.'),('Debruised','a.','Surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when\n   a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.'),('Debt','n.','That which is due from one person to another, whether money,\n   goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another,\n   or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.'),('Debt','n.','A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.'),('Debt','n.','An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money\n   alleged to be due.'),('Debted','p. a.','Indebted; obliged to.'),('Debtee','n.','One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to\n   debtor.'),('Debtless','a.','Free from debt.'),('Debtor','n.','One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to\n   creditor.'),('Debulliate','v. i.','To boil over.'),('Debulition','n.','A bubbling or boiling over.'),('Deburse','v. t. & i.','To disburse.'),('Debuscope','n.','A modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect\n   images so as to form beautiful designs.'),('Debut','n.','A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance\n   before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.'),('Debutant','','Alt. of Debutante'),('Debutante','','A person who makes his (or her) first appearance before\n   the public.'),('Deca-','','A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric\n   System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times\n   the principal unit.'),('Decacerata','n. pl.','The division of Cephalopoda which includes the\n   squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; --\n   called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.'),('Decachord','n.','Alt. of Decachordon'),('Decachordon','n.','An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings,\n   resembling the harp.'),('Decachordon','n.','Something consisting of ten parts.'),('Decucuminated','a.','Having the point or top cut off.'),('Decad','n.','A decade.'),('Decadal','a.','Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.'),('Decade','n.','A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a\n   decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the\n   second decade of Livy.'),('Decadence','n.','Alt. of Decadency'),('Decadency','n.','A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. \"The\n   old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.\"'),('Decadent','a.','Decaying; deteriorating.'),('Decadist','n.','A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a\n   decadist.'),('Decagon','n.','A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure\n   having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and\n   angles equal.'),('Decagonal','a.','Pertaining to a decagon; having ten sides.'),('Decagram','n.','Alt. of Decagramme'),('Decagramme','n.','A weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to\n   about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.'),('Decagynia','n. pl.','A Linnaean order of plants characterized by having\n   ten styles.'),('Decagynian','a.','Alt. of Deccagynous'),('Deccagynous','a.','Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.'),('Decahedral','a.','Having ten sides.'),('Decahedrons','pl. ','of Decahedron'),('Decahedra','pl. ','of Decahedron'),('Decahedron','n.','A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.'),('Decalcification','n.','The removal of calcareous matter.'),('Decalcified','imp. & p. p.','of Decalcify'),('Decalcifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decalcify'),('Decalcify','v. t.','To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify\n   bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.'),('Decalcomania','n.','Alt. of Decalcomanie'),('Decalcomanie','n.','The art or process of transferring pictures and\n   designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them\n   thereto.'),('Decaliter','n.','Alt. of Decalitre'),('Decalitre','n.','A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic\n   volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is,\n   2.642 wine gallons.'),('Decalog','n.','Decalogue.'),('Decalogist','n.','One who explains the decalogue.'),('Decalogue','n.','The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses\n   on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.'),('Decameron','n.','A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related\n   in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian.'),('Decameter','n.','Alt. of Decametre'),('Decametre','n.','A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters,\n   equal to about 393.7 inches.'),('Decamped','imp. & p. p.','of Decamp'),('Decamping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decamp'),('Decamp','v. i.','To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground,\n   usually by night or secretly.'),('Decamp','v. i.','Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally\n   used disparagingly.'),('Decampment','n.','Departure from a camp; a marching off.'),('Decanal','a.','Pertaining to a dean or deanery.'),('Decandria','n. pl.','A Linnaean class of plants characterized by having\n   ten stamens.'),('Decandrian','a.','Alt. of Decandrous'),('Decandrous','a.','Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.'),('Decane','n.','A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series,\n   including several isomeric modifications.'),('Decangular','a.','Having ten angles.'),('Decani','a.','Used of the side of the choir on which the dean\'s stall is\n   placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or\n   decani, side.'),('Decanted','imp. & p. p.','of Decant'),('Decanting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decant'),('Decant','v. t.','To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the\n   sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.'),('Decantate','v. t.','To decant.'),('Decantation','n.','The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its\n   lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.'),('Decanter','n.','A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving\n   decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other\n   liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.'),('Decanter','n.','One who decants liquors.'),('Decaphyllous','a.','Having ten leaves.'),('Decapitated','imp. & p. p.','of Decapitate'),('Decapitating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decapitate'),('Decapitate','v. t.','To cut off the head of; to behead.'),('Decapitate','v. t.','To remove summarily from office.'),('Decapitation','n.','The act of beheading; beheading.'),('Decapod','n.','A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the\n   Decapoda. Also used adjectively.'),('Decapoda','n. pl.','The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps,\n   lobsters, crabs, etc.'),('Decapoda','n. pl.','A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including\n   the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.'),('Deccapodal','a.','Alt. of Deccapodous'),('Deccapodous','a.','Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet;\n   ten-footed.'),('Decarbonate','v. t.','To deprive of carbonic acid.'),('Decarbonization','n.','The action or process of depriving a substance of\n   carbon.'),('Decarbonized','imp. & p. p.','of Decarbonize'),('Decarbonizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decarbonize'),('Decarbonize','v. t.','To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to\n   decarbonize the blood.'),('Decarbonizer','n.','He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.'),('Decarburization','n.','The act, process, or result of decarburizing.'),('Decarburize','v. t.','To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.'),('Decard','v. t.','To discard.'),('Decardinalize','v. t.','To depose from the rank of cardinal.'),('Decastere','n.','A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic\n   meters.'),('Decastich','n.','A poem consisting of ten lines.'),('Decastyle','a.','Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico,\n   temple, etc.'),('Decastyle','n.','A portico having ten pillars or columns in front.'),('Decasyllabic','a.','Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.'),('Decatoic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.'),('Decayed','imp. & p. p.','of Decay'),('Decaying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decay'),('Decay','v. i.','To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect\n   state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste\n   away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated;\n   to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.'),('Decay','v. t.','To cause to decay; to impair.'),('Decay','v. t.','To destroy.'),('Decay','n.','Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity,\n   or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward\n   dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline;\n   deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the\n   decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.'),('Decay','n.','Destruction; death.'),('Decay','n.','Cause of decay.'),('Decayed','a.','Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with\n   decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune\n   or gentleman.'),('Decayer','n.','A causer of decay.'),('Decease','n.','Departure, especially departure from this life; death.'),('Deceased','imp. & p. p.','of Decease'),('Deceasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decease'),('Decease','v. i.','To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.'),('Deceased','a.','Passed away; dead; gone.'),('Decede','n.','To withdraw.'),('Decedent','a.','Removing; departing.'),('Decedent','n.','A deceased person.'),('Deceit','n.','An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error;\n   any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or\n   causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap;\n   deception; a wily device; fraud.'),('Deceit','n.','Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or\n   underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby\n   effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.'),('Deceitful','a.','Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead\n   or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.'),('Deceitfully','adv.','With intent to deceive.'),('Deceitfulness','n.','The disposition to deceive; as, a man\'s\n   deceitfulness may be habitual.'),('Deceitfulness','n.','The quality of being deceitful; as, the\n   deceitfulness of a man\'s practices.'),('Deceitfulness','n.','Tendency to mislead or deceive.'),('Deceitless','a.','Free from deceit.'),('Deceivable','a.','Fitted to deceive; deceitful.'),('Deceivable','a.','Subject to deceit; capable of being misled.'),('Deceivableness','n.','Capability of deceiving.'),('Deceivableness','n.','Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the\n   deceivableness of a child.'),('Deceivably','adv.','In a deceivable manner.'),('Deceived','imp. & p. p.','of Deceive'),('Deceiving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deceive'),('Deceive','v. t.','To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false,\n   or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to\n   disappoint; to delude; to insnare.'),('Deceive','v. t.','To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to\n   while away; to take away as if by deception.'),('Deceive','v. t.','To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.'),('Deceiver','n.','One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an\n   impostor.'),('December','n.','The twelfth and last month of the year, containing\n   thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.'),('December','n.','Fig.: With reference to the end of the year and to the\n   winter season; as, the December of his life.'),('Decemdentate','a.','Having ten points or teeth.'),('Decemfid','a.','Cleft into ten parts.'),('Decemlocular','a.','Having ten cells for seeds.'),('Decempedal','a.','Ten feet in length.'),('Decempedal','a.','Having ten feet; decapodal.'),('Decemvirs','pl. ','of Decemvir'),('Decemviri','pl. ','of Decemvir'),('Decemvir','n.','One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome.'),('Decemvir','n.','A member of any body of ten men in authority.'),('Decemviral','a.','Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.'),('Decemvirate','n.','The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.'),('Decemvirate','n.','A body of ten men in authority.'),('Decemvirship','n.','The office of a decemvir.'),('Decence','n.','Decency.'),('Decencies','pl. ','of Decency'),('Decency','n.','The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or\n   becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social\n   intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming\n   ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum;\n   modesty.'),('Decency','n.','That which is proper or becoming.'),('Decene','n.','One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H20, of the ethylene\n   series.'),('Decennaries','pl. ','of Decennary'),('Decennary','n.','A period of ten years.'),('Decennary','n.','A tithing consisting of ten neighboring families.'),('Decennial','a.','Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as,\n   a decennial period; decennial games.'),('Decennial','n.','A tenth year or tenth anniversary.'),('Decenniums','pl. ','of Decennium'),('Decennia','pl. ','of Decennium'),('Decennium','n.','A period of ten years.'),('Decennoval','a.','Alt. of Decennovary'),('Decennovary','a.','Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years.'),('Decent','a.','Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming;\n   fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.'),('Decent','a.','Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.'),('Decent','a.','Comely; shapely; well-formed.'),('Decent','a.','Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable;\n   fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent\n   fortune; a decent person.'),('Decentralization','n.','The action of decentralizing, or the state of\n   being decentralized.'),('Decentralize','v. t.','To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw\n   from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute\n   (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or\n   the administration of public affairs.'),('Deceptible','a.','Capable of being deceived; deceivable.'),('Deception','n.','The act of deceiving or misleading.'),('Deception','n.','The state of being deceived or misled.'),('Deception','n.','That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false\n   representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.'),('Deceptious','a.','Tending deceive; delusive.'),('Deceptive','a.','Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress\n   with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.'),('Deceptively','adv.','In a manner to deceive.'),('Deceptiveness','n.','The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness\n   to deceive.'),('Deceptivity','n.','Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham.'),('Deceptory','a.','Deceptive.'),('Decern','v. t.','To perceive, discern, or decide.'),('Decern','v. t.','To decree; to adjudge.'),('Decerniture','n.','A decree or sentence of a court.'),('Decerp','v. t.','To pluck off; to crop; to gather.'),('Decerpt','a.','Plucked off or away.'),('Decerptible','a.','That may be plucked off, cropped, or torn away.'),('Decerption','n.','The act of plucking off; a cropping.'),('Decerption','n.','That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a\n   piece.'),('Decertation','n.','Contest for mastery; contention; strife.'),('Decession','n.','Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion.'),('Decharm','v. t.','To free from a charm; to disenchant.'),('Dechristianized','imp. & p. p.','of Dechristianize'),('Dechristianizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dechristianize'),('Dechristianize','v. t.','To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.'),('Decidable','a.','Capable of being decided; determinable.'),('Decided','imp. & p. p.','of Decide'),('Deciding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decide'),('Decide','v. t.','To cut off; to separate.'),('Decide','v. t.','To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy,\n   struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render\n   judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.'),('Decide','v. i.','To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a\n   conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the\n   defendant.'),('Decided','a.','Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable;\n   unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage.'),('Decided','a.','Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose;\n   fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose.'),('Decidedly','adv.','In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly;\n   thoroughly.'),('Decidement','n.','Means of forming a decision.'),('Decidence','n.','A falling off.'),('Decider','n.','One who decides.'),('Decidua','n.','The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops\n   the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.'),('Deciduata','n. pl.','A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off\n   with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species.'),('Deciduate','a.','Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.'),('Deciduity','n.','Deciduousness.'),('Deciduous','a.','Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain\n   season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of\n   evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth,\n   antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons,\n   stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane.'),('Deciduousness','n.','The quality or state of being deciduous.'),('Decigram','n.','Alt. of Decigramme'),('Decigramme','n.','A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram,\n   equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.'),('Decil','n.','Alt. of Decile'),('Decile','n.','An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant\n   from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡.'),('Deciliter','n.','Alt. of Decilitre'),('Decilitre','n.','A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system;\n   one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid\n   ounces.'),('Decillion','n.','According to the English notation, a million involved to\n   the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the\n   French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh\n   power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under\n   Numeration.]'),('Decillionth','a.','Pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity\n   divided by a decillion.'),('Decillionth','n.','The quotient of unity divided by a decillion.'),('Decillionth','n.','One of a decillion equal parts.'),('Decimal','a.','Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by\n   tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times\n   the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.'),('Decimal','n.','A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and\n   almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.'),('Decimalism','n.','The system of a decimal currency, decimal weights,\n   measures, etc.'),('Decimalize','v. t.','To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the\n   currency.'),('Decimally','adv.','By tens; by means of decimals.'),('Decimated','imp. & p. p.','of Decimate'),('Decimating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decimate'),('Decimate','v. t.','To take the tenth part of; to tithe.'),('Decimate','v. t.','To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man\n   of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.'),('Decimate','v. t.','To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an\n   army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.'),('Decimation','n.','A tithing.'),('Decimation','n.','A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for\n   punishment.'),('Decimation','n.','The destruction of any large proportion, as of people\n   by pestilence or war.'),('Decimator','n.','One who decimates.'),('Decime','n.','A French coin, the tenth part of a franc, equal to about\n   two cents.'),('Decimeter','n.','Alt. of Decimetre'),('Decimetre','n.','A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a\n   meter, equal to 3.937 inches.'),('Decimosexto','n.','A book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded\n   into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size\n   of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16¡.'),('Decimosexto','a.','Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto\n   form, book, leaf, size.'),('Decine','n.','One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetylene\n   series; -- called also decenylene.'),('Deciphered','imp. & p. p.','of Decipher'),('Deciphering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decipher'),('Decipher','v. t.','To translate from secret characters or ciphers into\n   intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret\n   characters.'),('Decipher','v. t.','To find out, so as to be able to make known the\n   meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly\n   obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.'),('Decipher','v. t.','To stamp; to detect; to discover.'),('Decipherable','a.','Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not\n   decipherable.'),('Decipherer','n.','One who deciphers.'),('Decipheress','n.','A woman who deciphers.'),('Decipherment','n.','The act of deciphering.'),('Decipiency','n.','State of being deceived; hallucination.'),('Decipium','n.','A supposed rare element, said to be associated with\n   cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently\n   called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.'),('Decision','n.','Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.'),('Decision','n.','The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a\n   controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination,\n   as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.'),('Decision','n.','An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a\n   legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause;\n   as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court.'),('Decision','n.','The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed\n   determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.'),('Decisive','a.','Having the power or quality of deciding a question or\n   controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final;\n   conclusive.'),('Decisive','a.','Marked by promptness and decision.'),('Decisory','a.','Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide.'),('Decistere','n.','The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to\n   3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.'),('Decitizenize','v. t.','To deprive of the rights of citizenship.'),('Decivilize','v. t.','To reduce from civilization to a savage state.'),('Decked','imp. & p. p.','of Deck'),('Decking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deck'),('Deck','v. t.','To cover; to overspread.'),('Deck','v. t.','To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe\n   with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.'),('Deck','v. t.','To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.'),('Deck','v.','The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or\n   compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships\n   have two or three decks.'),('Deck','v.','The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when\n   made nearly flat.'),('Deck','v.','The roof of a passenger car.'),('Deck','v.','A pack or set of playing cards.'),('Deck','v.','A heap or store.'),('Deckel','n.','Same as Deckle.'),('Decker','n.','One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a\n   table decker.'),('Decker','n.','A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in\n   composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.'),('Deckle','n.','A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a\n   hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on,\n   and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the\n   width of the paper.'),('Declaimed','imp. & p. p.','of Declaim'),('Declaiming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Declaim'),('Declaim','v. i.','To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or\n   oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in\n   public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the\n   students declaim twice a week.'),('Declaim','v. i.','To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously,\n   noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite\n   arguments in debate; to rant.'),('Declaim','v. t.','To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set\n   manner.'),('Declaim','v. t.','To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.'),('Declaimant','n.','A declaimer.'),('Declaimer','n.','One who declaims; an haranguer.'),('Declamation','n.','The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery;\n   haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation\n   of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice\n   declamation by students.'),('Declamation','n.','A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.'),('Declamation','n.','Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than\n   sense; as, mere declamation.'),('Declamator','n.','A declaimer.'),('Declamatory','a.','Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a\n   rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.'),('Declamatory','a.','Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously\n   rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a\n   declamatory way or style.'),('Declarable','a.','Capable of being declared.'),('Declarant','n.','One who declares.'),('Declaration','n.','The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit\n   asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject;\n   proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a\n   declaration of war, etc.'),('Declaration','n.','That which is declared or proclaimed; announcement;\n   distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.'),('Declaration','n.','The document or instrument containing such statement\n   or proclamation; as, the Declaration of Independence (now preserved in\n   Washington).'),('Declaration','n.','That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets\n   forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of\n   the plaintiff\'s case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3.'),('Declarative','a.','Making declaration, proclamation, or publication;\n   explanatory; assertive; declaratory.'),('Declaratively','adv.','By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form\n   of a declaration.'),('Declarator','n.','A form of action by which some right or interest is\n   sought to be judicially declared.'),('Declaratorily','adv.','In a declaratory manner.'),('Declaratory','a.','Making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making\n   clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of\n   the will of the legislature.'),('Declared','imp. & p. p.','of Declare'),('Declaring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Declare'),('Declare','v. t.','To make clear; to free from obscurity.'),('Declare','v. t.','To make known by language; to communicate or manifest\n   explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim;\n   to announce.'),('Declare','v. t.','To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set\n   forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.'),('Declare','v. t.','To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the\n   purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.'),('Declare','v. i.','To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal;\n   to proclaim one\'s self; -- often with for or against; as, victory\n   declares against the allies.'),('Declare','v. i.','To state the plaintiff\'s cause of action at law in a\n   legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.'),('Declaredly','adv.','Avowedly; explicitly.'),('Declaredness','n.','The state of being declared.'),('Declarement','n.','Declaration.'),('Declarer','n.','One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits.'),('Declension','n.','The act or the state of declining; declination;\n   descent; slope.'),('Declension','n.','A falling off towards a worse state; a downward\n   tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of\n   science, of a state, etc.'),('Declension','n.','Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a\n   declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.'),('Declension','n.','Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the\n   grammatical cases.'),('Declension','n.','The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases;\n   as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.'),('Declension','n.','Rehearsing a word as declined.'),('Declensional','a.','Belonging to declension.'),('Declinable','a.','Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or\n   inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.'),('Declinal','a.','Declining; sloping.'),('Declinate','a.','Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a\n   curve; declined.'),('Declination','n.','The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as,\n   declination of the head.'),('Declination','n.','The act or state of falling off or declining from\n   excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.'),('Declination','n.','The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion;\n   obliquity; withdrawal.'),('Declination','n.','The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal;\n   refusal; averseness.'),('Declination','n.','The angular distance of any object from the celestial\n   equator, either northward or southward.'),('Declination','n.','The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical\n   plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west,\n   or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or\n   south.'),('Declination','n.','The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline,\n   v. t., 4.'),('Declinator','n.','An instrument for taking the declination or angle which\n   a plane makes with the horizontal plane.'),('Declinator','n.','A dissentient.'),('Declinatory','a.','Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as\n   of submission to a charge or sentence.'),('Declinature','n.','The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature\n   of an office.'),('Declined','imp. & p. p.','of Decline'),('Declining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decline'),('Decline','v. i.','To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward\n   direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,\n   despondency, etc.; to condescend.'),('Decline','v. i.','To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction;\n   to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to\n   fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue\n   declines; religion declines; business declines.'),('Decline','v. i.','To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to\n   withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that\n   declines from sound morals.'),('Decline','v. i.','To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of\n   accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.'),('Decline','v. t.','To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause\n   to bend, or fall.'),('Decline','v. t.','To cause to decrease or diminish.'),('Decline','v. t.','To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to\n   refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to\n   decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation\n   with them.'),('Decline','v. t.','To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of\n   grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.'),('Decline','v. t.','To run through from first to last; to repeat like a\n   schoolboy declining a noun.'),('Decline','v. i.','A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution\n   or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending\n   toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the\n   decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.'),('Decline','v. i.','That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms\n   begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.'),('Decline','v. i.','A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical\n   faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die\n   of a decline.'),('Declined','a.','Declinate.'),('Decliner','n.','He who declines or rejects.'),('Declinometer','n.','An instrument for measuring the declination of the\n   magnetic needle.'),('Declinous','a.','Declinate.'),('Declivitous','a.','Alt. of Declivous'),('Declivous','a.','Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping;\n   downhill.'),('Declivities','pl. ','of Declivity'),('Declivity','n.','Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of\n   surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or\n   ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity,\n   which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.'),('Declivity','n.','A descending surface; a sloping place.'),('Decocted','imp. & p. p.','of Decoct'),('Decocting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decoct'),('Decoct','v. t.','To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling\n   water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an\n   infusion of.'),('Decoct','v. t.','To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation;\n   to digest; to concoct.'),('Decoct','v. t.','To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling.'),('Decoctible','a.','Capable of being boiled or digested.'),('Decoction','n.','The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid\n   to extract its virtues.'),('Decoction','n.','An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.'),('Decocture','n.','A decoction.'),('Decollated','imp. & p. p.','of Decollate'),('Decollating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decollate'),('Decollate','v. t.','To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.'),('Decollated','a.','Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth,\n   as the apex of certain univalve shells.'),('Decollation','n.','The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; --\n   especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.'),('Decollation','n.','A painting representing the beheading of a saint or\n   martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.'),('Decollete','a.','Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the\n   neck, or low-necked, as a dress.'),('Decolling','n.','Beheading.'),('Decolor','v. t.','To deprive of color; to bleach.'),('Decolorant','n.','A substance which removes color, or bleaches.'),('Decolorate','a.','Deprived of color.'),('Decolorate','v. t.','To decolor.'),('Decoloration','n.','The removal or absence of color.'),('Decolorize','v. t.','To deprive of color; to whiten.'),('Decomplex','a.','Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.'),('Decomposable','a.','Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.'),('Decomposed','imp. & p. p.','of Decompose'),('Decomposing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decompose'),('Decompose','v. t.','To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into\n   original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of\n   chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.'),('Decompose','v. i.','To become resolved or returned from existing\n   combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.'),('Decomposed','a.','Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds\n   when the feathers are divergent.'),('Decomposite','a.','Compounded more than once; compounded with things\n   already composite.'),('Decomposite','a.','See Decompound, a., 2.'),('Decomposite','n.','Anything decompounded.'),('Decomposition','n.','The act or process of resolving the constituent\n   parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts;\n   separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution\n   consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a\n   compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.'),('Decomposition','n.','The state of being reduced into original elements.'),('Decomposition','n.','Repeated composition; a combination of compounds.'),('Decompounded','imp. & p. p.','of Decompound'),('Decompounding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decompound'),('Decompound','v. t.','To compound or mix with that is already compound; to\n   compound a second time.'),('Decompound','v. t.','To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.'),('Decompound','a.','Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a\n   second time.'),('Decompound','a.','Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem;\n   decomposite.'),('Decompound','n.','A decomposite.'),('Decompoundable','a.','Capable of being decompounded.'),('Deconcentrate','v. t.','To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.'),('Deconcentration','n.','Act of deconcentrating.'),('Deconcoct','v. t.','To decompose.'),('Deconsecrate','v. t.','To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.'),('Decorament','v. t.','Ornament.'),('Decorated','imp. & p. p.','of Decorate'),('Decorating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decorate'),('Decorate','v. t.','To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or\n   honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the\n   person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to\n   decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.'),('Decoration','n.','The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring;\n   ornamentation.'),('Decoration','n.','That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something\n   added by way of embellishment; ornament.'),('Decoration','n.','Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the\n   person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood,\n   bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art,\n   etc.'),('Decorative','a.','Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning.'),('Decorator','n.','One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically,\n   an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their\n   interior decoration.'),('Decore','v. t.','To decorate; to beautify.'),('Decorement','n.','Ornament.'),('Decorous','a.','Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and\n   occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as,\n   a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.'),('Decorticated','imp. & p. p.','of Decorticate'),('Decorticating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decorticate'),('Decorticate','v. t.','To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating;\n   to husk; to peel; to hull.'),('Decortication','n.','The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or\n   outer coat.'),('Decorticator','n.','A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain,\n   etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit\n   trees.'),('Decorum','n.','Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from\n   suitableness of speech and behavior to one\'s own character, or to the\n   place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is\n   seemly or suitable.'),('Decoyed','imp. & p. p.','of Decoy'),('Decoying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decoy'),('Decoy','v. t.','To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or\n   snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops\n   into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.'),('Decoy','n.','Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives\n   and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.'),('Decoy','n.','A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice\n   other fowl into a net or within shot.'),('Decoy','n.','A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in\n   order to take or shoot them.'),('Decoy','n.','A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed\n   to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under\n   circumstances that will lead to his detection.'),('Decoy-duck','n.','A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a\n   person employed to lure others into danger.'),('Decoyer','n.','One who decoys another.'),('Decoy-men','pl. ','of Decoy-man'),('Decoy-man','n.','A man employed in decoying wild fowl.'),('Decreased','imp. & p. p.','of Decrease'),('Decreasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decrease'),('Decrease','n.','To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished\n   gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength,\n   quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to\n   December.'),('Decrease','v. t.','To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as,\n   extravagance decreases one\'s means.'),('Decrease','v.','A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a\n   decrease of revenue or of strength.'),('Decrease','v.','The wane of the moon.'),('Decreaseless','a.','Suffering no decrease.'),('Decreasing','a.','Becoming less and less; diminishing.'),('Decreation','n.','Destruction; -- opposed to creation.'),('Decree','n.','An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be\n   done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power,\n   deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative\n   ru// decision.'),('Decree','n.','A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court\n   of equity or admiralty.'),('Decree','n.','A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case\n   submitted to him.'),('Decree','n.','An edict or law made by a council for regulating any\n   business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical\n   councils.'),('Decreed','imp. & p. p.','of Decree'),('Decreeing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decree'),('Decree','v. t.','To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to\n   constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to\n   order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.'),('Decree','v. t.','To ordain by fate.'),('Decree','v. i.','To make decrees; -- used absolutely.'),('Decreeable','a.','Capable of being decreed.'),('Decreer','n.','One who decrees.'),('Decreet','n.','The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an\n   inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.'),('Decrement','n.','The state of becoming gradually less; decrease;\n   diminution; waste; loss.'),('Decrement','n.','The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; --\n   opposed to increment.'),('Decrement','n.','A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the\n   layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by\n   which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.'),('Decrement','n.','The quantity by which a variable is diminished.'),('Decrepit','a.','Broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the\n   infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.'),('Decrepitated','imp. & p. p.','of Decrepitate'),('Decrepitating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decrepitate'),('Decrepitate','v. t.','To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling\n   noise; as, to decrepitate salt.'),('Decrepitate','v. i.','To crackle, as salt in roasting.'),('Decrepitation','n.','The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as\n   salt makes when roasting.'),('Decrepitness','n.','Decrepitude.'),('Decrepitude','n.','The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities\n   of age; infirm old age.'),('Decrescendo','a. & adv.','With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction\n   to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or\n   Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.'),('Decrescent','a.','Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a\n   decrescent moon.'),('Decrescent','n.','A crescent with the horns directed towards the\n   sinister.'),('Decretal','a.','Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a\n   decretal epistle.'),('Decretal','a.','An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of\n   the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The\n   decretals form the second part of the canon law.'),('Decretal','a.','The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions\n   made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.'),('Decrete','n.','A decree.'),('Decretion','n.','A decrease.'),('Decretist','n.','One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the\n   decretals.'),('Decretive','n.','Having the force of a decree; determining.'),('Decretorial','a.','Decretory; authoritative.'),('Decretorily','adv.','In a decretory or definitive manner; by decree.'),('Decretory','a.','Established by a decree; definitive; settled.'),('Decretory','a.','Serving to determine; critical.'),('Decrew','v. i.','To decrease.'),('Decrial','n.','A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by\n   censure.'),('Decrier','n.','One who decries.'),('Decrown','v. t.','To deprive of a crown; to discrown.'),('Decrustation','n.','The removal of a crust.'),('Decried','imp. & p. p.','of Decry'),('Decrying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decry'),('Decry','v. t.','To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to\n   clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.'),('Decubation','n.','Act of lying down; decumbence.'),('Decubitus','n.','An attitude assumed in lying down; as, the dorsal\n   decubitus.'),('Decuman','a.','Large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow,\n   supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [R.] Also used\n   substantively.'),('Decumbence','n.','Alt. of Decumbency'),('Decumbency','n.','The act or posture of lying down.'),('Decumbent','a.','Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.'),('Decumbent','a.','Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and\n   tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.'),('Decumbently','adv.','In a decumbent posture.'),('Decumbiture','n.','Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one\'s\n   bed from sickness.'),('Decumbiture','n.','Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one\'s\n   sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.'),('Decuple','a.','Tenfold.'),('Decuple','n.','A number ten times repeated.'),('Decupled','imp. & p. p.','of Decuple'),('Decupling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decuple'),('Decuple','v. t.','To make tenfold; to multiply by ten.'),('Decurion','n.','A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who\n   commanded a division of ten soldiers.'),('Decurionate','n.','The office of a decurion.'),('Decurrence','n.','The act of running down; a lapse.'),('Decurrent','a.','Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends\n   downward and forms a wing along the stem.'),('Decursion','n.','A flowing; also, a hostile incursion.'),('Decursive','a.','Running down; decurrent.'),('Decursively','adv.','In a decursive manner.'),('Decurt','v. t.','To cut short; to curtail.'),('Decurtation','n.','Act of cutting short.'),('Decuries','pl. ','of Decury'),('Decury','n.','A set or squad of ten men under a decurion.'),('Decussated','imp. & p. p.','of Decussate'),('Decussating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Decussate'),('Decussate','v. t.','To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the\n   form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays\n   of light, nerves, etc.'),('Decussate','a.','Alt. of Decussated'),('Decussated','a.','Crossed; intersected.'),('Decussated','a.','Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to\n   the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.'),('Decussated','a.','Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses,\n   placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period.'),('Decussately','adv.','In a decussate manner.'),('Decussation','n.','Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being\n   thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation\n   of lines, nerves, etc.'),('Decussative','a.','Intersecting at acute angles.'),('Decussatively','adv.','Crosswise; in the form of an X.'),('Decyl','n.','A hydrocarbon radical, C10H21, never existing alone, but\n   regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of\n   the paraffin series.'),('Decylic','a.','Allied to, or containing, the radical decyl.'),('Dedalian','a.','See Daedalian.'),('Dedalous','a.','See Daedalous.'),('Dedans','n.','A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.'),('Dede','a.','Dead.'),('Dedecorate','v. t.','To bring to shame; to disgrace.'),('Dedecoration','n.','Disgrace; dishonor.'),('Dedecorous','a.','Disgraceful; unbecoming.'),('Dedentition','n.','The shedding of teeth.'),('Dedicate','p. a.','Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.'),('Dedicated','imp. & p. p.','of Dedicate'),('Dedicating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dedicate'),('Dedicate','v. t.','To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for\n   sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels,\n   treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use.'),('Dedicate','v. t.','To devote, set apart, or give up, as one\'s self, to a\n   duty or service.'),('Dedicate','v. t.','To inscribe or address, as to a patron.'),('Dedicatee','n.','One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to\n   dedicator.'),('Dedication','n.','The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine\n   Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn\n   appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon\'s temple.'),('Dedication','n.','A devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose;\n   as, a dedication of lands to public use.'),('Dedication','n.','An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book,\n   testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special\n   protection and favor.'),('Dedicator','n.','One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a\n   book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.'),('Dedicatorial','a.','Dedicatory.'),('Dedicatory','a.','Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental.'),('Dedicatory','n.','Dedication.'),('Dedimus','n.','A writ to commission private persons to do some act in\n   place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.'),('Dedition','n.','The act of yielding; surrender.'),('Dedolent','a.','Feeling no compunction; apathetic.'),('Deduced','imp. & p. p.','of Deduce'),('Deducing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deduce'),('Deduce','v. t.','To lead forth.'),('Deduce','v. t.','To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a\n   part from the whole.'),('Deduce','v. t.','To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to\n   obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth\n   or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from\n   or out of.'),('Deducement','n.','Inference; deduction; thing deduced.'),('Deducibility','n.','Deducibleness.'),('Deducible','a.','Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by\n   reasoning, as a result or consequence.'),('Deducible','a.','Capable of being brought down.'),('Deducibleness','n.','The quality of being deducible; deducibility.'),('Deducibly','adv.','By deduction.'),('Deducive','a.','That deduces; inferential.'),('Deducted','imp. & p. p.','of Deduct'),('Deducting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deduct'),('Deduct','v. t.','To lead forth or out.'),('Deduct','v. t.','To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering,\n   estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.'),('Deduct','v. t.','To reduce; to diminish.'),('Deductible','a.','Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn.'),('Deductible','a.','Deducible; consequential.'),('Deduction','n.','Act or process of deducing or inferring.'),('Deduction','n.','Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the\n   deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.'),('Deduction','n.','That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a\n   process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.'),('Deduction','n.','That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement;\n   as, a deduction from the yearly rent.'),('Deductive','a.','Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced\n   from premises; deducible.'),('Deductively','adv.','By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence.'),('Deductor','n.','The pilot whale or blackfish.'),('Deduit','n.','Delight; pleasure.'),('Deduplication','n.','The division of that which is morphologically one\n   organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a\n   pair or cluster.'),('Deed','a.','Dead.'),('Deed','v. t.','That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an\n   act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application,\n   including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.'),('Deed','v. t.','Illustrious act; achievement; exploit.'),('Deed','v. t.','Power of action; agency; efficiency.'),('Deed','v. t.','Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.'),('Deed','v. t.','A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment,\n   duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or\n   contract.'),('Deed','v. t.','Performance; -- followed by of.'),('Deed','v. t.','To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his\n   estate to his eldest son.'),('Deedful','a.','Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring.'),('Deedless','a.','Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or\n   exploits; inactive.'),('Deed poll','','A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and\n   distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or\n   paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being\n   indented.'),('Deedy','a.','Industrious; active.'),('Deemed','imp. & p. p.','of Deem'),('Deeming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deem'),('Deem','v.','To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.'),('Deem','v.','To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in\n   opinion; to regard.'),('Deem','v. i.','To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to\n   suppose.'),('Deem','v. i.','To pass judgment.'),('Deem','n.','Opinion; judgment.'),('Deemster','n.','A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies\n   without process.'),('Deep','superl.','Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular\n   dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from\n   high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain\n   depth; as, a deep sea.'),('Deep','superl.','Extending far back from the front or outer part; of\n   great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer\n   part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten\n   seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep.'),('Deep','superl.','Low in situation; lying far below the general surface;\n   as, a deep valley.'),('Deep','superl.','Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to\n   shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure;\n   as, a deep subject or plot.'),('Deep','superl.','Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not\n   superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.'),('Deep','superl.','Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy;\n   heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror.'),('Deep','superl.','Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as,\n   deep blue or crimson.'),('Deep','superl.','Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave;\n   heavy.'),('Deep','superl.','Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads.'),('Deep','adv.','To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.'),('Deep','n.','That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or\n   ocean; an abyss; a great depth.'),('Deep','n.','That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or\n   incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.'),('Deepened','imp. & p. p.','of Deepen'),('Deepening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deepen'),('Deepen','v. t.','To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to\n   sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.'),('Deepen','v. t.','To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event\n   deepened the prevailing gloom.'),('Deepen','v. t.','To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in\n   degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.'),('Deepen','v. t.','To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the\n   tones of an organ.'),('Deepen','v. i.','To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of\n   the lead; the plot deepens.'),('Deep-fet','a.','Deeply fetched or drawn.'),('Deep-laid','a.','Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as,\n   deep-laid plans.'),('Deeply','adv.','At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to\n   sink deeply.'),('Deeply','adv.','Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high\n   degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.'),('Deeply','adv.','Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.'),('Deeply','adv.','Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned\n   instrument.'),('Deeply','adv.','With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply\n   laid plot or intrigue.'),('Deep-mouthed','a.','Having a loud and sonorous voice.'),('Deepness','n.','The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious,\n   secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.'),('Deepness','n.','Craft; insidiousness.'),('Deep-read','a.','Profoundly book- learned.'),('Deep-sea','a.','Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a\n   deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth);\n   deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.'),('Deep-waisted','a.','Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and\n   forecastle are much elevated above the deck.'),('Deer','n. sing. & pl.','Any animal; especially, a wild animal.'),('Deer','n. sing. & pl.','A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species,\n   and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some\n   species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are\n   shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called\n   venison.'),('Deerberry','n.','A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum);\n   also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw\n   huckleberry.'),('Deergrass','n.','An American genus (Rhexia) of perennial herbs, with\n   opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four\n   petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order Melastomaceae\n   inhabiting a temperate clime.'),('Deerhound','n.','One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting\n   deer; a staghound.'),('Deerlet','n.','A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.'),('Deer-neck','n.','A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.'),('Deerskin','n.','The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.'),('Deerstalker','n.','One who practices deerstalking.'),('Deerstalking','n.','The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them\n   unawares.'),('Deer\'s-tongue','n.','A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves\n   give out a fragrance compared to vanilla.'),('Dees','n. pl.','Dice.'),('Dees','n.','A dais.'),('Deesis','n.','An invocation of, or address to, the Supreme Being.'),('Deess','n.','A goddess.'),('Deev','n.','See Dev.'),('Defaced','imp. & p. p.','of Deface'),('Defacing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deface'),('Deface','v. t.','To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to\n   disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating\n   important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface\n   an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to\n   deface a record.'),('Deface','v. t.','To destroy; to make null.'),('Defacement','n.','The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced;\n   injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.'),('Defacement','n.','That which mars or disfigures.'),('Defacer','n.','One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures.'),('De facto','','Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, --\n   distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.'),('Defail','v. t.','To cause to fail.'),('Defailance','n.','Failure; miscarriage.'),('Defailure','n.','Failure.'),('Defalcated','imp. & p. p.','of Defalcate'),('Defalcating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defalcate'),('Defalcate','v. t.','To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used\n   chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.'),('Defalcate','v. i.','To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in\n   trust.'),('Defalcation','n.','A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit.\n   Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set-\n   off.'),('Defalcation','n.','That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.'),('Defalcation','n.','An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent\n   having it in trust; an embezzlement.'),('Defalcator','n.','A defaulter or embezzler.'),('Defalk','v. t.','To lop off; to abate.'),('Defamation','n.','Act of injuring another\'s reputation by any slanderous\n   communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the\n   good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.'),('Defamatory','a.','Containing defamation; injurious to reputation;\n   calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.'),('Defamed','imp. & p. p.','of Defame'),('Defaming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defame'),('Defame','v. t.','To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to\n   disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by\n   slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.'),('Defame','v. t.','To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.'),('Defame','v. t.','To charge; to accuse.'),('Defame','n.','Dishonor.'),('Defamer','n.','One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.'),('Defamingly','adv.','In a defamatory manner.'),('Defamous','a.','Defamatory.'),('Defatigable','a.','Capable of being wearied or tired out.'),('Defatigate','v. t.','To weary or tire out; to fatigue.'),('Defatigation','n.','Weariness; fatigue.'),('Default','n.','A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be\n   done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has\n   happened through the governor\'s default.'),('Default','n.','Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or\n   wisdom.'),('Default','n.','A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to\n   secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day\n   assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make\n   answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc.'),('Defaulted','imp. & p. p.','of Default'),('Defaulting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Default'),('Default','v. i.','To fail in duty; to offend.'),('Default','v. i.','To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.'),('Default','v. i.','To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by\n   default.'),('Default','v. t.','To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of;\n   to omit; as, to default a dividend.'),('Default','v. t.','To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to\n   be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to\n   appear; to enter a default against.'),('Default','v. t.','To leave out of account; to omit.'),('Defaulter','n.','One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court\n   when court when called.'),('Defaulter','n.','One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent;\n   particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to\n   his care; a peculator; a defalcator.'),('Defeasance','n.','A defeat; an overthrow.'),('Defeasance','n.','A rendering null or void.'),('Defeasance','n.','A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed,\n   the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at\n   the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing\n   conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be\n   defeated.'),('Defeasanced','a.','Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or\n   forfeited.'),('Defeasible','a.','Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a\n   defeasible title.'),('Defeated','imp. & p. p.','of Defeat'),('Defeating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defeat'),('Defeat','v. t.','To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.'),('Defeat','v. t.','To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as\n   hope; to deprive, as of an estate.'),('Defeat','v. t.','To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse,\n   or ruin by victory; to overthrow.'),('Defeat','v. t.','To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.'),('Defeat','v.','An undoing or annulling; destruction.'),('Defeat','v.','Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of\n   success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.'),('Defeat','v.','An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle;\n   repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.'),('Defeature','n.','Overthrow; defeat.'),('Defeature','n.','Disfigurement; deformity.'),('Defeatured','p. p.','Changed in features; deformed.'),('Defecate','a.','Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees,\n   etc.; refined; purified.'),('Defecated','imp. & p. p.','of Defecate'),('Defecating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defecate'),('Defecate','v. t.','To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to\n   clarify; to purify; to refine.'),('Defecate','v. t.','To free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear;\n   to purify, as from that which materializes.'),('Defecate','v. i.','To become clear, pure, or free.'),('Defecate','v. i.','To void excrement.'),('Defecation','n.','The act of separating from impurities, as lees or\n   dregs; purification.'),('Defecation','n.','The act or process of voiding excrement.'),('Defecator','n.','That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for\n   removing the feculencies of juices and sirups.'),('Defect','n.','Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or\n   perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.'),('Defect','n.','Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral;\n   blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a\n   defect of memory or judgment.'),('Defect','v. i.','To fail; to become deficient.'),('Defect','v. t.','To injure; to damage.'),('Defectibility','n.','Deficiency; imperfection.'),('Defectible','a.','Liable to defect; imperfect.'),('Defection','n.','Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is\n   bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself;\n   desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.'),('Defectionist','n.','One who advocates or encourages defection.'),('Defectious','a.','Having defects; imperfect.'),('Defective','a.','Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part;\n   deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral\n   qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or\n   account; a defective character; defective rules.'),('Defective','a.','Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or\n   conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.'),('Defectuosity','n.','Great imperfection.'),('Defectuous','a.','Full of defects; imperfect.'),('Defedation','n.','The act of making foul; pollution.'),('Defence','n. & v. t.','See Defense.'),('Defended','imp. & p. p.','of Defend'),('Defending','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defend'),('Defend','v. t.','To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.'),('Defend','v. t.','To prohibit; to forbid.'),('Defend','v. t.','To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure\n   against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to\n   guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to\n   defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to\n   defend one\'s self from, or against, one\'s enemies.'),('Defend','v. t.','To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the\n   suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to\n   contest, as a suit.'),('Defendable','a.','Capable of being defended; defensible.'),('Defendant','a.','Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.'),('Defendant','a.','Making defense.'),('Defendant','n.','One who defends; a defender.'),('Defendant','n.','A person required to make answer in an action or suit;\n   -- opposed to plaintiff.'),('Defendee','n.','One who is defended.'),('Defender','n.','One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects,\n   or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.'),('Defendress','n.','A female defender.'),('Defensative','n.','That which serves to protect or defend.'),('Defense','n.','Alt. of Defence'),('Defence','n.','The act of defending, or the state of being defended;\n   protection, as from violence or danger.'),('Defence','n.','That which defends or protects; anything employed to\n   oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a\n   guard; a protection.'),('Defence','n.','Protecting plea; vindication; justification.'),('Defence','n.','The defendant\'s answer or plea; an opposing or denial of\n   the truth or validity of the plaintiff\'s or prosecutor\'s case; the\n   method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself\n   against the plaintiff\'s action.'),('Defence','n.','Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy;\n   practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.'),('Defence','n.','Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.'),('Defense','v. t.','To furnish with defenses; to fortify.'),('Defenseless','a.','Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack;\n   unable to oppose; unprotected.'),('Defenser','n.','Defender.'),('Defensibility','n.','Capability of being defended.'),('Defensible','a.','Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a\n   defensible cause.'),('Defensible','a.','Capable of offering defense.'),('Defensibleness','n.','Capability of being defended; defensibility.'),('Defensive','a.','Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense;\n   opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor.'),('Defensive','a.','Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed\n   to offensive; as, defensive war.'),('Defensive','a.','In a state or posture of defense.'),('Defensive','n.','That which defends; a safeguard.'),('Defensively','adv.','On the defensive.'),('Defensor','n.','A defender.'),('Defensor','n.','A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or\n   protector.'),('Defensor','n.','The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the\n   temporal affairs of a church.'),('Defensory','a.','Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory\n   preparations.'),('Deferred','imp. & p. p.','of Defer'),('Deferring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defer'),('Defer','v. t.','To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the\n   execution of; to delay; to withhold.'),('Defer','v. i.','To put off; to delay to act; to wait.'),('Defer','v. t.','To render or offer.'),('Defer','v. t.','To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to\n   refer; -- with to.'),('Defer','v. i.','To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to\n   the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.'),('Deference','n.','A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the\n   wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect;\n   complaisance.'),('Deferent','a.','Serving to carry; bearing.'),('Deferent','n.','That which carries or conveys.'),('Deferent','n.','An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose\n   periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body\'s\n   epicycle was supposed to be carried round.'),('Deferential','a.','Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.'),('Deferentially','adv.','With deference.'),('Deferment','n.','The act of delaying; postponement.'),('Deferrer','n.','One who defers or puts off.'),('Defervescence','n.','Alt. of Defervescency'),('Defervescency','n.','A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of\n   heat; lukewarmness.'),('Defervescency','n.','The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage\n   of defervescence in pneumonia.'),('Defeudalize','v. t.','To deprive of the feudal character or form.'),('Defiance','n.','The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking\n   to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.'),('Defiance','n.','A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition\n   to resist; contempt of opposition.'),('Defiance','n.','A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.'),('Defiant','a.','Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or\n   act.'),('Defiatory','a.','Bidding or manifesting defiance.'),('Defibrinate','v. t.','To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by\n   stirring with twigs.'),('Defibrination','n.','The act or process of depriving of fibrin.'),('Defibrinize','v. t.','To defibrinate.'),('Deficience','n.','Same as Deficiency.'),('Deficiencies','pl. ','of Deficiency'),('Deficiency','n.','The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want;\n   failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.'),('Deficient','a.','Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a\n   requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect;\n   incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient\n   strength; deficient in judgment.'),('Deficit','n.','Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack;\n   as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.'),('Defier','n.','One who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the\n   laws.'),('Defiguration','n.','Disfiguration; mutilation.'),('Defigure','v. t.','To delineate.'),('Defiladed','imp. & p. p.','of Defilade'),('Defilading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defilade'),('Defilade','v. t.','To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior\n   works commanded from some higher point.'),('Defilading','n.','The art or act of determining the directions and\n   heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the\n   interior from exposure to an enemy\'s fire from any point within range,\n   or from any works which may be erected.'),('Defiled','imp. & p. p.','of Defile'),('Defiling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defile'),('Defile','v. i.','To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.'),('Defile','v. t.','Same as Defilade.'),('Defile','n.','Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only\n   in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills,\n   rocks, etc.'),('Defile','n.','The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the\n   exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.'),('Defile','v. t.','To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to\n   befoul; to pollute.'),('Defile','v. t.','To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.'),('Defile','v. t.','To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.'),('Defile','v. t.','To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.'),('Defile','v. t.','To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.'),('Defilement','n.','The protection of the interior walls of a fortification\n   from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on\n   the exposed side.'),('Defilement','n.','The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether\n   physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.'),('Defiler','n.','One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which\n   pollutes.'),('Defiliation','n.','Abstraction of a child from its parents.'),('Definable','a.','Capable of being defined, limited, or explained;\n   determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable\n   limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.'),('Defined','imp. & p. p.','of Define'),('Defining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Define'),('Define','v. t.','To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.'),('Define','v. t.','To determine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to\n   mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.'),('Define','v. t.','To determine with precision; to mark out with\n   distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power\n   of an optical instrument.'),('Define','v. t.','To determine the precise signification of; to fix the\n   meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or\n   interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term.'),('Define','v. i.','To determine; to decide.'),('Definement','n.','The act of defining; definition; description.'),('Definer','n.','One who defines or explains.'),('Definite','a.','Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or\n   greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure;\n   a definite period or interval.'),('Definite','a.','Having certain limits in signification; determinate;\n   certain; precise; fixed; exact; clear; as, a definite word, term, or\n   expression.'),('Definite','a.','Determined; resolved.'),('Definite','a.','Serving to define or restrict; limiting; determining; as,\n   the definite article.'),('Definite','n.','A thing defined or determined.'),('Definitely','adv.','In a definite manner; with precision; precisely;\n   determinately.'),('Definiteness','n.','The state of being definite; determinateness;\n   precision; certainty.'),('Definition','n.','The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a\n   telescope accurate in definition.'),('Definition','n.','Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a\n   description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning\n   of a word or term; as, the definition of \"circle;\" the definition of\n   \"wit;\" an exact definition; a loose definition.'),('Definition','n.','Description; sort.'),('Definition','n.','An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up\n   the logical essence.'),('Definition','n.','Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an\n   optical instrument; precision in detail.'),('Definitional','a.','Relating to definition; of the nature of a\n   definition; employed in defining.'),('Definitive','a.','Determinate; positive; final; conclusive;\n   unconditional; express.'),('Definitive','a.','Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word.'),('Definitive','a.','Determined; resolved.'),('Definitive','n.','A word used to define or limit the extent of the\n   signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some\n   pronouns.'),('Definitively','adv.','In a definitive manner.'),('Definitiveness','n.','The quality of being definitive.'),('Definitude','n.','Definiteness.'),('Defix','v. t.','To fix; to fasten; to establish.'),('Deflagrability','n.','The state or quality of being deflagrable.'),('Deflagrable','a.','Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as\n   niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when\n   heated, as salt.'),('Deflagrated','imp. & p. p.','of Deflagrate'),('Deflagrating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deflagrate'),('Deflagrate','v. i.','To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as\n   niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as\n   salt.'),('Deflagrate','v. t.','To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling\n   combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize\n   suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.'),('Deflagration','n.','A burning up; conflagration.'),('Deflagration','n.','The act or process of deflagrating.'),('Deflagrator','n.','A form of the voltaic battery having large plates,\n   used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.'),('Deflate','v. t.','To reduce from an inflated condition.'),('Deflected','imp. & p. p.','of Deflect'),('Deflecting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deflect'),('Deflect','v. t.','To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are\n   often deflected.'),('Deflect','v. i.','To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal\n   line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.'),('Deflectable','a.','Capable of being deflected.'),('Deflected','a.','Turned aside; deviating from a direct line or course.'),('Deflected','a.','Bent downward; deflexed.'),('Deflection','n.','The act of turning aside, or state of being turned\n   aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp.\n   downward; deviation.'),('Deflection','n.','The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course.'),('Deflection','n.','A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of\n   an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.'),('Deflection','n.','The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its\n   own weight or by reason of a load.'),('Deflectionization','n.','The act of freeing from inflections.'),('Deflectionize','v. t.','To free from inflections.'),('Deflective','a.','Causing deflection.'),('Deflector','n.','That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a\n   cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help\n   combustion).'),('Deflexed','a.','Bent abruptly downward.'),('Deflexion','n.','See Deflection.'),('Deflexure','n.','A bending or turning aside; deflection.'),('Deflorate','a.','Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.'),('Defloration','n.','The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a\n   virgin.'),('Defloration','n.','That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part;\n   careful culling or selection.'),('Defloured','imp. & p. p.','of Deflour'),('Deflouring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deflour'),('Deflour','v. t.','To deprive of flowers.'),('Deflour','v. t.','To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of\n   the choicest ornament.'),('Deflour','v. t.','To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to\n   ravish; also, to seduce.'),('Deflourer','n.','One who deflours; a ravisher.'),('Deflow','v. i.','To flow down.'),('Deflower','v. t.','Same as Deflour.'),('Deflowerer','n.','See Deflourer.'),('Defluous','a.','Flowing down; falling off.'),('Deflux','n.','Downward flow.'),('Defluxion','n.','A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as\n   from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with\n   inflammation.'),('Defly','adv.','Deftly.'),('Defoedation','n.','Defedation.'),('Defoliate','a.','Alt. of Defoliated'),('Defoliated','a.','Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.'),('Defoliation','n.','The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or\n   stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.'),('Deforced','imp. & p. p.','of Deforce'),('Deforcing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deforce'),('Deforce','v.','To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully\n   the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.'),('Deforce','v.','To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as\n   an officer in the execution of his duty.'),('Deforcement','n.','A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful\n   withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.'),('Deforcement','n.','Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.'),('Deforceor','n.','Same as Deforciant.'),('Deforciant','n.','One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of\n   an estate.'),('Deforciant','n.','One against whom a fictitious action of fine was\n   brought.'),('Deforciation','n.','Same as Deforcement, n.'),('Deforest','v. t.','To clear of forests; to disforest.'),('Deformed','imp. & p. p.','of Deform'),('Deforming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deform'),('Deform','v. t.','To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to\n   disfigure.'),('Deform','v. t.','To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace,\n   or perfection; to dishonor.'),('Deform','a.','Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid.'),('Deformation','n.','The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.'),('Deformation','n.','Transformation; change of shape.'),('Deformed','a.','Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity;\n   misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.'),('Deformer','n.','One who deforms.'),('Deformities','pl. ','of Deformity'),('Deformity','a.','The state of being deformed; want of proper form or\n   symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of\n   shape or features; ugliness.'),('Deformity','a.','Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety;\n   irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established\n   laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character.'),('Deforser','n.','A deforciant.'),('Defoul','v. t.','To tread down.'),('Defoul','v. t.','To make foul; to defile.'),('Defrauded','imp. & p. p.','of Defraud'),('Defrauding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defraud'),('Defraud','v. t.','To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a\n   deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by\n   embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a\n   creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.'),('Defraudation','n.','The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.'),('Defrauder','n.','One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.'),('Defraudment','n.','Privation by fraud; defrauding.'),('Defrayed','imp. & p. p.','of Defray'),('Defraying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defray'),('Defray','v. t.','To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide\n   for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.'),('Defray','v. t.','To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as,\n   to defray wrath.'),('Defrayal','n.','The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of\n   necessary costs.'),('Defrayer','n.','One who pays off expenses.'),('Defrayment','n.','Payment of charges.'),('Deft','a.','Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.'),('Deftly','adv.','Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly.'),('Deftness','n.','The quality of being deft.'),('Defunct','a.','Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.'),('Defunct','n.','A dead person; one deceased.'),('Defunction','n.','Death.'),('Defunctive','a.','Funereal.'),('Defuse','v. t.','To disorder; to make shapeless.'),('Defied','imp. & p. p.','of Defy'),('Defying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Defy'),('Defy','v. t.','To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or\n   obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.'),('Defy','v. t.','To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to\n   challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with\n   contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to\n   defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.'),('Defy','n.','A challenge.'),('Degarnished','imp. & p. p.','of Degarnish'),('Degarnishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Degarnish'),('Degarnish','v. t.','To strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture,\n   ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.'),('Degarnish','v. t.','To deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for\n   defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort.'),('Degarnishment','n.','The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or\n   a garrison.'),('Degender','v. i.','Alt. of Degener'),('Degener','v. i.','To degenerate.'),('Degeneracy','a.','The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.'),('Degeneracy','a.','The state of having become degenerate; decline in good\n   qualities; deterioration; meanness.'),('Degenerate','a.','Having become worse than one\'s kind, or one\'s former\n   state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated;\n   degraded; unworthy; base; low.'),('Degenerated','imp. & p. p.','of Degenerate'),('Degenerating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Degenerate'),('Degenerate','v. i.','To be or grow worse than one\'s kind, or than one was\n   originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more\n   vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.'),('Degenerate','v. i.','To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy\n   structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.'),('Degenerately','adv.','In a degenerate manner; unworthily.'),('Degenerateness','n.','Degeneracy.'),('Degeneration','n.','The act or state of growing worse, or the state of\n   having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy;\n   deterioration.'),('Degeneration','n.','That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its\n   vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a\n   lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the\n   liver.'),('Degeneration','n.','A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any\n   class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs;\n   hereditary degradation of type.'),('Degeneration','n.','The thing degenerated.'),('Degenerationist','n.','A believer in the theory of degeneration, or\n   hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that\n   savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.'),('Degenerative','a.','Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to\n   degenerate.'),('Degenerous','a.','Degenerate; base.'),('Degenerously','adv.','Basely.'),('Deglazing','n.','The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass\n   by acid or by mechanical means.'),('Degloried','a.','Deprived of glory; dishonored.'),('Deglutinated','imp. & p. p.','of Deglutinate'),('Deglutinating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deglutinate'),('Deglutinate','v. t.','To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which\n   unties; to unglue.'),('Deglutination','n.','The act of ungluing.'),('Deglutition','n.','The act or process of swallowing food; the power of\n   swallowing.'),('Deglutitious','a.','Pertaining to deglutition.'),('Deglutitory','a.','Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition.'),('Degradation','n.','The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation,\n   or of abasing; a lowering from one\'s standing or rank in office or\n   society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a\n   general, or a bishop.'),('Degradation','n.','The state of being reduced in rank, character, or\n   reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy;\n   disgrace; abasement; debasement.'),('Degradation','n.','Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or\n   value; degeneration; deterioration.'),('Degradation','n.','A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and\n   banks, by the action of water, frost etc.'),('Degradation','n.','The state or condition of a species or group which\n   exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.'),('Degradation','n.','Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ,\n   or of the body as a whole.'),('Degraded','imp. & p. p.','of Degrade'),('Degrading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Degrade'),('Degrade','v. t.','To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to\n   lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as,\n   to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.'),('Degrade','v. t.','To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to\n   lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual\n   character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace;\n   as, vice degrades a man.'),('Degrade','v. t.','To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and\n   mountains; to wear down.'),('Degrade','v. i.','To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of\n   structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or\n   that genus or group of genera.'),('Degraded','a.','Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased;\n   sunken; low; base.'),('Degraded','a.','Having the typical characters or organs in a partially\n   developed condition, or lacking certain parts.'),('Degraded','a.','Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose\n   extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center;\n   -- termed also on degrees.'),('Degradement','n.','Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.'),('Degradingly','adv.','In a degrading manner.'),('Degravation','a.','The act of making heavy.'),('Degree','n.','A step, stair, or staircase.'),('Degree','n.','One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in\n   quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression;\n   grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow\n   degrees; degree of comparison.'),('Degree','n.','The point or step of progression to which a person has\n   arrived; rank or station in life; position.'),('Degree','n.','Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ\n   in kind as well as in degree.'),('Degree','n.','Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college\n   or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of\n   bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.'),('Degree','n.','A certain distance or remove in the line of descent,\n   determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of\n   relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.'),('Degree','n.','Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is\n   one degree, 222,140 two degrees.'),('Degree','n.','State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly,\n   the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its\n   literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree\n   of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by\n   the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any\n   term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of\n   the fourth degree.'),('Degree','n.','A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part\n   is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The\n   degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.'),('Degree','n.','A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or\n   other instrument, as on a thermometer.'),('Degree','n.','A line or space of the staff.'),('Degu','n.','A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the\n   family Octodontidae.'),('Degust','v. t.','To taste.'),('Degustation','n.','Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the\n   taste organs.'),('Dehisce','v. i.','To gape; to open by dehiscence.'),('Dehiscence','n.','The act of gaping.'),('Dehiscence','n.','A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of\n   attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or\n   the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also,\n   the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the\n   expulsion of their contents.'),('Dehiscent','a.','Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite\n   way, as the capsule of a plant.'),('Dehonestate','v. t.','To disparage.'),('Dehonestation','n.','A dishonoring; disgracing.'),('Dehorned','imp. & p. p.','of Dehorn'),('Dehorning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dehorn'),('Dehorn','v. t.','To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns\n   of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.'),('Dehors','prep.','Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement,\n   record, will, or other instrument.'),('Dehors','n.','All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the\n   main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.'),('Dehorted','imp. & p. p.','of Dehort'),('Dehorting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dehort'),('Dehort','v. t.','To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.'),('Dehortation','n.','Dissuasion; advice against something.'),('Dehortative','a.','Dissuasive.'),('Dehortatory','a.','Fitted or designed to dehort or dissuade.'),('Dehorter','n.','A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.'),('Dehumanize','v. t.','To divest of human qualities, such as pity,\n   tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.'),('Dehusk','v. t.','To remove the husk from.'),('Dehydrate','v. t.','To deprive of water; to render free from water; as,\n   to dehydrate alcohol.'),('Dehydration','n.','The act or process of freeing from water; also, the\n   condition of a body from which the water has been removed.'),('Dehydrogenate','v. t.','To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.'),('Dehydrogenation','n.','The act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also,\n   the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.'),('Deicide','n.','The act of killing a being of a divine nature;\n   particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.'),('Deicide','n.','One concerned in putting Christ to death.'),('Deictic','a.','Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and\n   opposed to elenchtic or refutative.'),('Deictically','adv.','In a manner to show or point out; directly;\n   absolutely; definitely.'),('Deific','a.','Alt. of Deifical'),('Deifical','a.','Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making.'),('Deification','n.','The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors;\n   apotheosis; excessive praise.'),('Deified','a.','Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme\n   regard; godlike.'),('Deifier','n.','One who deifies.'),('Deiform','a.','Godlike, or of a godlike form.'),('Deiform','a.','Conformable to the will of God.'),('Deiformity','n.','Likeness to deity.'),('Deified','imp. & p. p.','of Deify'),('Deifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deify'),('Deify','v. t.','To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to\n   enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was\n   deified.'),('Deify','v. t.','To praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of\n   supreme regard; as, to deify money.'),('Deify','v. t.','To render godlike.'),('Deigned','imp. & p. p.','of Deign'),('Deigning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deign'),('Deign','v. t.','To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to\n   disdain.'),('Deign','v. t.','To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to\n   vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.'),('Deign','v. i.','To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - -\n   followed by an infinitive.'),('Deignous','a.','Haughty; disdainful.'),('Deil','n.','Devil; -- spelt also deel.'),('Deinoceras','n.','See Dinoceras.'),('Deinornis','n.','See Dinornis.'),('Deinosaur','n.','See Dinosaur.'),('Deinotherium','n.','See Dinotherium.'),('Deintegrate','v. t.','To disintegrate.'),('Deinteous','a.','Alt. of Deintevous'),('Deintevous','a.','Rare; excellent; costly.'),('Deiparous','a.','Bearing or bringing forth a god; -- said of the Virgin\n   Mary.'),('Deipnosophist','n.','One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who\n   cultivated learned conversation at meals.'),('Deis','n.','See Dais.'),('Deism','n.','The doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of\n   those who acknowledge the existence of one God, but deny revelation.'),('Deist','n.','One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies\n   revealed religion; a freethinker.'),('Deistic','a.','Alt. of Deistical'),('Deistical','a.','Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as,\n   a deistic writer; a deistical book.'),('Deistically','adv.','After the manner of deists.'),('Deisticalness','n.','State of being deistical.'),('Deitate','a.','Deified.'),('Deities','pl. ','of Deity'),('Deity','n.','The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a\n   god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in\n   his works.'),('Deity','n.','A god or goddess; a heathen god.'),('Dejected','imp. & p. p.','of Deject'),('Dejecting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deject'),('Deject','v. t.','To cast down.'),('Deject','v. t.','To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage;\n   to dishearten.'),('Deject','a.','Dejected.'),('Dejecta','n. pl.','Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.'),('Dejected','a.','Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected\n   look or countenance.'),('Dejecter','n.','One who casts down, or dejects.'),('Dejection','n.','A casting down; depression.'),('Dejection','n.','The act of humbling or abasing one\'s self.'),('Dejection','n.','Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune;\n   mental depression; melancholy.'),('Dejection','n.','A low condition; weakness; inability.'),('Dejection','n.','The discharge of excrement.'),('Dejection','n.','Faeces; excrement.'),('Dejectly','adv.','Dejectedly.'),('Dejectory','a.','Having power, or tending, to cast down.'),('Dejectory','a.','Promoting evacuations by stool.'),('Dejecture','n.','That which is voided; excrements.'),('Dejerate','v. i.','To swear solemnly; to take an oath.'),('Dejeration','n.','The act of swearing solemnly.'),('Dejeune','n.','A dejeuner.'),('Dejeuner','n.','A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.'),('De jure','','By right; of right; by law; -- often opposed to de facto.'),('Deka-','','A prefix signifying ten. See Deca-.'),('Dekagram','n.','Same as Decagram.'),('Dekaliter','n.','Same as Decaliter.'),('Dekameter','n.','Same as Decameter.'),('Dekastere','n.','Same as Decastere.'),('Dekle','n.','See Deckle.'),('Del','n.','Share; portion; part.'),('Delaceration','n.','A tearing in pieces.'),('Delacrymation','n.','An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the\n   eyes; wateriness of the eyes.'),('Delactation','n.','The act of weaning.'),('Delaine','n.','A kind of fabric for women\'s dresses.'),('Delamination','n.','Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of\n   the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are\n   differentiated.'),('Delapsation','n.','See Delapsion.'),('Delapsed','imp. & p. p.','of Delapse'),('Delapsing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delapse'),('Delapse','v. i.','To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.'),('Delapsion','n.','A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.'),('Delassation','n.','Fatigue.'),('Delated','imp. & p. p.','of Delate'),('Delating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delate'),('Delate','v.','To carry; to convey.'),('Delate','v.','To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.'),('Delate','v.','To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against;\n   to accuse; to denounce.'),('Delate','v.','To carry on; to conduct.'),('Delate','v. i.','To dilate.'),('Delation','n.','Conveyance.'),('Delation','n.','Accusation by an informer.'),('Delator','n.','An accuser; an informer.'),('Delaware','n.','An American grape, with compact bunches of small,\n   amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.'),('Delawares','n. pl.','A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of\n   the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.'),('Delays','pl. ','of Delay'),('Delay','v.','A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering\n   inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.'),('Delayed','imp. & p. p.','of Delay'),('Delaying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delay'),('Delay','n.','To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time\n   of or before.'),('Delay','n.','To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard\n   the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy\n   fall of snow.'),('Delay','n.','To allay; to temper.'),('Delay','v. i.','To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.'),('Delayer','n.','One who delays; one who lingers.'),('Delayingly','adv.','By delays.'),('Delayment','n.','Hindrance.'),('Del credere','','An agreement by which an agent or factor, in\n   consideration of an additional premium or commission (called a del\n   credere commission), engages, when he sells goods on credit, to insure,\n   warrant, or guarantee to his principal the solvency of the purchaser,\n   the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not\n   punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due.'),('Dele','imperative sing.','Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel\n   something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar\n   form of d, thus: /.'),('Deled','imp. & p. p.','of Dele'),('Deleing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Dele'),('Dele','v. t.','To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.'),('Dele','v. t.','To deal; to divide; to distribute.'),('Deleble','a.','Capable of being blotted out or erased.'),('Delectable','a.','Highly pleasing; delightful.'),('Delectate','v. t.','To delight; to charm.'),('Delectation','n.','Great pleasure; delight.'),('Delectus','n.','A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin\n   or Greek.'),('Delegacy','a.','The act of delegating, or state of being delegated;\n   deputed power.'),('Delegacy','a.','A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.'),('Delegate','n.','Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one\n   deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a\n   commissioner; a vicar.'),('Delegate','n.','One elected by the people of a territory to represent\n   them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of\n   voting.'),('Delegate','n.','One sent by any constituency to act as its representative\n   in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating\n   officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.'),('Delegate','a.','Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a\n   delegate judge.'),('Delegated','imp. & p. p.','of Delegate'),('Delegating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delegate'),('Delegate','v. t.','To send as one\'s representative; to empower as an\n   ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to\n   depute; to authorize.'),('Delegate','v. t.','To intrust to the care or management of another; to\n   transfer; to assign; to commit.'),('Delegation','n.','The act of delegating, or investing with authority to\n   act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.'),('Delegation','n.','One or more persons appointed or chosen, and\n   commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress,\n   etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from\n   Massachusetts; a deputation.'),('Delegation','n.','A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated\n   from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his\n   stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.'),('Delegatory','a.','Holding a delegated position.'),('Delenda','n. pl.','Things to be erased or blotted out.'),('Delenifical','a.','Assuaging pain.'),('Deleted','imp. & p. p.','of Delete'),('Deleting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delete'),('Delete','v. t.','To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.'),('Deleterious','a.','Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a\n   deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example.'),('Deletery','a.','Destructive; poisonous.'),('Deletery','n.','That which destroys.'),('Deletion','n.','Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.'),('Deletitious','a.','Of such a nature that anything may be erased from it;\n   -- said of paper.'),('Deletive','a.','Adapted to destroy or obliterate.'),('Deletory','n.','That which blots out.'),('Delf','n.','A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch.'),('Delf','n.','Same as Delftware.'),('Delft','n.','Same as Delftware.'),('Delftware','n.','Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:'),('Delftware','n.','Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed\n   earthenware made for table use, and the like.'),('Delibate','v. t.','To taste; to take a sip of; to dabble in.'),('Delibation','n.','Act of tasting; a slight trial.'),('Deliber','v. t. & i.','To deliberate.'),('Deliberate','a.','Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or\n   decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step;\n   circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a\n   deliberate judge or counselor.'),('Deliberate','a.','Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully\n   considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate\n   measure or result.'),('Deliberate','a.','Not hasty or sudden; slow.'),('Deliberated','imp. & p. p.','of Deliberate'),('Deliberating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deliberate'),('Deliberate','v. t.','To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for\n   and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to\n   deliberate a question.'),('Deliberate','v. i.','To take counsel with one\'s self; to weigh the\n   arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to\n   consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about,\n   concerning.'),('Deliberately','adv.','With careful consideration, or deliberation;\n   circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose\n   deliberately formed.'),('Deliberateness','n.','The quality of being deliberate; calm\n   consideration; circumspection.'),('Deliberation','n.','The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining\n   the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration;\n   mature reflection.'),('Deliberation','n.','Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for\n   and against a measure; as, the deliberations of a legislative body or\n   council.'),('Deliberative','a.','Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by\n   deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a\n   deliberative body.'),('Deliberative','n.','A discourse in which a question is discussed, or\n   weighed and examined.'),('Deliberative','n.','A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and\n   convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.'),('Deliberatively','adv.','In a deliberative manner; circumspectly;\n   considerately.'),('Deliberator','n.','One who deliberates.'),('Delibrated','imp. & p. p.','of Delibrate'),('Delibrating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delibrate'),('Delibrate','v. t.','To strip off the bark; to peel.'),('Delibration','n.','The act of stripping off the bark.'),('Delicacies','pl. ','of Delicacy'),('Delicacy','a.','The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness\n   to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the\n   like.'),('Delicacy','a.','Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution;\n   softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or\n   weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand\n   or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.'),('Delicacy','a.','Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or\n   tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an\n   exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy\n   in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest\n   action.'),('Delicacy','a.','Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence;\n   luxurious or voluptuous treatment.'),('Delicacy','a.','Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical\n   niceness; fastidious accuracy.'),('Delicacy','a.','The state of being affected by slight causes;\n   sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist\'s balance.'),('Delicacy','a.','That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or\n   pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of\n   taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.'),('Delicacy','a.','Pleasure; gratification; delight.'),('Delicate','a.','Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.'),('Delicate','a.','Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence,\n   adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as,\n   a delicate dish; delicate flavor.'),('Delicate','a.','Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, \"a delicate\n   creature.\"'),('Delicate','a.','Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread,\n   or the like; as, delicate cotton.'),('Delicate','a.','Slight or smooth; light and yielding; -- said of texture;\n   as, delicate lace or silk.'),('Delicate','a.','Soft and fair; -- said of the skin or a surface; as, a\n   delicate cheek; a delicate complexion.'),('Delicate','a.','Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as, a\n   delicate blue.'),('Delicate','a.','Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend;\n   considerate; -- said of manners, conduct, or feelings; as, delicate\n   behavior; delicate attentions; delicate thoughtfulness.'),('Delicate','a.','Tender; not able to endure hardship; feeble; frail;\n   effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate\n   child; delicate health.'),('Delicate','a.','Requiring careful handling; not to be rudely or hastily\n   dealt with; nice; critical; as, a delicate subject or question.'),('Delicate','a.','Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.'),('Delicate','a.','Nicely discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical;\n   sensitive; exquisite; as, a delicate taste; a delicate ear for music.'),('Delicate','a.','Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes; as, a\n   delicate thermometer.'),('Delicate','n.','A choice dainty; a delicacy.'),('Delicate','n.','A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.'),('Delicately','adv.','In a delicate manner.'),('Delicateness','n.','The quality of being delicate.'),('Delices','n. pl.','Delicacies; delights.'),('Deliciate','v. t.','To delight one\'s self; to indulge in feasting; to\n   revel.'),('Delicious','a.','Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or\n   grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.'),('Delicious','a.','Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious;\n   effeminate.'),('Deliciously','adv.','Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be\n   deliciously entertained.'),('Deliciousness','n.','The quality of being delicious; as, the\n   deliciousness of a repast.'),('Deliciousness','n.','Luxury.'),('Delict','n.','An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an\n   offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.'),('Deligate','v. t.','To bind up; to bandage.'),('Deligation','n.','A binding up; a bandaging.'),('Delight','v. t.','A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought\n   state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction;\n   joy.'),('Delight','v. t.','That which gives great pleasure or delight.'),('Delight','v. t.','Licentious pleasure; lust.'),('Delighted','imp. & p. p.','of Delight'),('Delighting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delight'),('Delight','v. t.','To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to\n   please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony\n   delights the ear.'),('Delight','v. i.','To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be\n   greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.'),('Delightable','a.','Capable of delighting; delightful.'),('Delighted','a.','Endowed with delight.'),('Delightedly','adv.','With delight; gladly.'),('Delighter','n.','One who gives or takes delight.'),('Delightful','a.','Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and\n   satisfaction.'),('Delighting','a.','Giving delight; gladdening.'),('Delightless','a.','Void of delight.'),('Delightous','a.','Delightful.'),('Delightsome','a.','Very pleasing; delightful.'),('Delilah','n.','The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.);\n   hence, a harlot; a temptress.'),('Delimit','v. t.','To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.'),('Delimitation','n.','The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries;\n   limitation.'),('Deline','v. t.','To delineate.'),('Deline','v. t.','To mark out.'),('Delineable','a.','Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated.'),('Delineament','/.','Delineation; sketch.'),('Delineate','a.','Delineated; portrayed.'),('Delineated','imp. & p. p.','of Delineate'),('Delineating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delineate'),('Delineate','v. t.','To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of;\n   to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray;\n   to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with\n   the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and\n   minuteness. See Delineation.'),('Delineate','v. t.','To portray to the mind or understanding by words; to\n   set forth; to describe.'),('Delineation','n.','The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as\n   by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the\n   delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving,\n   representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation\n   by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as\n   distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates\n   them excessively.'),('Delineation','n.','A delineated picture; representation; sketch;\n   description in words.'),('Delineator','n.','One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.'),('Delineator','n.','A perambulator which records distances and delineates a\n   profile, as of a road.'),('Delineatory','a.','That delineates; descriptive; drawing the outline;\n   delineating.'),('Delineature','n.','Delineation.'),('Delinition','n.','A smearing.'),('Delinquencies','pl. ','of Delinquency'),('Delinquency','n.','Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an\n   offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.'),('Delinquent','n.','Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.'),('Delinquent','n.','One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an\n   offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a\n   culprit.'),('Delinquently','adv.','So as to fail in duty.'),('Deliquate','v. i.','To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.'),('Deliquate','v. t.','To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to\n   waste.'),('Deliquation','n.','A melting.'),('Deliquesced','imp. & p. p.','of Deliquesce'),('Deliquescing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deliquesce'),('Deliquesce','v. i.','To dissolve gradually and become liquid by\n   attracting and absorbing moisture from the air, as certain salts,\n   acids, and alkalies.'),('Deliquescence','n.','The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by\n   which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.'),('Deliquescent','a.','Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air;\n   capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid;\n   as, deliquescent salts.'),('Deliquescent','a.','Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in\n   most deciduous trees.'),('Deliquiate','v. i.','To melt and become liquid by absorbing water from\n   the air; to deliquesce.'),('Deliquiation','n.','The act of deliquiating.'),('Deliquium','n.','A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist\n   place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.'),('Deliquium','n.','A sinking away; a swooning.'),('Deliquium','n.','A melting or maudlin mood.'),('Deliracy','n.','Delirium.'),('Delirament','n.','A wandering of the mind; a crazy fancy.'),('Delirancy','n.','Delirium.'),('Delirant','a.','Delirious.'),('Delirate','v. t. & i.','To madden; to rave.'),('Deliration','n.','Aberration of mind; delirium.'),('Deliriant','n.','A poison which occasions a persistent delirium, or\n   mental aberration (as belladonna).'),('Delirifacient','a.','Producing, or tending to produce, delirium.'),('Delirifacient','n.','Any substance which tends to cause delirium.'),('Delirious','a.','Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed;\n   insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.'),('Delirium','n.','A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions\n   are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or\n   wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other\n   disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.'),('Delirium','n.','Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.'),('Delit','n.','Delight.'),('Delitable','a.','Delightful; delectable.'),('Delitescence','n.','Concealment; seclusion; retirement.'),('Delitescence','n.','The sudden disappearance of inflammation.'),('Delitescency','n.','Concealment; seclusion.'),('Delitescent','a.','Lying hid; concealed.'),('Delitigate','v. i.','To chide; to rail heartily.'),('Delitigation','n.','Chiding; brawl.'),('Delivered','imp. & p. p.','of Deliver'),('Delivering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deliver'),('Deliver','v. t.','To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to\n   release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to\n   rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to\n   deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.'),('Deliver','v. t.','To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of;\n   to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; --\n   often with up or over, to or into.'),('Deliver','v. t.','To make over to the knowledge of another; to\n   communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.'),('Deliver','v. t.','To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as,\n   to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.'),('Deliver','v. t.','To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a\n   child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.'),('Deliver','v. t.','To discover; to show.'),('Deliver','v. t.','To deliberate.'),('Deliver','v. t.','To admit; to allow to pass.'),('Deliver','v. t.','Free; nimble; sprightly; active.'),('Deliverable','a.','Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary\n   to be delivered.'),('Deliverance','n.','The act of delivering or freeing from restraint,\n   captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a\n   captive.'),('Deliverance','n.','Act of bringing forth children.'),('Deliverance','n.','Act of speaking; utterance.'),('Deliverance','n.','The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint.'),('Deliverance','n.','Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion\n   or decision expressed publicly.'),('Deliverance','n.','Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or\n   intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the\n   deliverance of consciousness.'),('Deliverer','n.','One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.'),('Deliverer','n.','One who relates or communicates.'),('Deliveress','n.','A female deliverer.'),('Deliverly','adv.','Actively; quickly; nimbly.'),('Deliverness','n.','Nimbleness; agility.'),('Deliveries','pl. ','of Delivery'),('Delivery','n.','The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release;\n   liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.'),('Delivery','n.','The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of\n   the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a\n   fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.'),('Delivery','n.','The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a\n   good delivery; a clear delivery.'),('Delivery','n.','The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or\n   extraction of a fetus and its membranes.'),('Delivery','n.','The act of exerting one\'s strength or limbs.'),('Delivery','n.','The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher\n   has a swift delivery.'),('Dell','n.','A small, retired valley; a ravine.'),('Dell','n.','A young woman; a wench.'),('Della Crusca','','A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy\n   in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for\n   conserving the purity of the Italian language.'),('Dellacruscan','a.','Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in\n   Florence.'),('Deloo','n.','The duykerbok.'),('Deloul','n.','A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling;\n   the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik.'),('Delph','n.','Delftware.'),('Delph','n.','The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.'),('Delphian','a.','Delphic.'),('Delphic','a.','Of or relating to Delphi, or to the famous oracle of that\n   place.'),('Delphic','a.','Ambiguous; mysterious.'),('Delphin','a.','Alt. of Delphine'),('Delphine','a.','Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin\n   classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of\n   Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).'),('Delphin','n.','A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and\n   the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.'),('Delphine','a.','Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.'),('Delphinic','n.','Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic.'),('Delphinic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, the larkspur;\n   specifically, relating to the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria).'),('Delphinine','n.','A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre\n   (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.'),('Delphinoid','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.'),('Delphinoidea','n. pl.','The division of Cetacea which comprises the\n   dolphins, porpoises, and related forms.'),('Delphinus','n.','A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin,\n   1.'),('Delphinus','n.','The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east\n   of Aquila.'),('Deltas','pl. ','of Delta'),('Delta','n.','A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially\n   when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a\n   river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.'),('Deltafication','n.','The formation of a delta or of deltas.'),('Deltaic','a.','Relating to, or like, a delta.'),('Delthyris','n.','A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod\n   shells of the genus Spirifer.'),('Deltic','a.','Deltaic.'),('Deltidium','n.','The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod\n   shells.'),('Deltohedron','n.','A solid bounded by twelve quadrilateral faces. It is a\n   hemihedral form of the isometric system, allied to the tetrahedron.'),('Deltoid','a.','Shaped like the Greek / (delta); delta-shaped; triangular.'),('Deludable','a.','Capable of being deluded; liable to be imposed on;\n   gullible.'),('Deluded','imp. & p. p.','of Delude'),('Deluding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delude'),('Delude','v. t.','To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or\n   judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.'),('Delude','v. t.','To frustrate or disappoint.'),('Deluder','n.','One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.'),('Deluge','n.','A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an\n   inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the\n   days of Noah (Gen. vii.).'),('Deluge','n.','Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great\n   destruction.'),('Deluged','imp. & p. p.','of Deluge'),('Deluging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Deluge'),('Deluge','v. t.','To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.'),('Deluge','v. t.','To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread;\n   to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged\n   the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.'),('Delundung','n.','An East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis),\n   resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely\n   spotted.'),('Delusion','n.','The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind.'),('Delusion','n.','The state of being deluded or misled.'),('Delusion','n.','That which is falsely or delusively believed or\n   propagated; false belief; error in belief.'),('Delusional','a.','Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional\n   monomania.'),('Delusive','a.','Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind;\n   deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream.'),('Delusory','a.','Delusive; fallacious.'),('Delved','imp. & p. p.','of Delve'),('Delving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Delve'),('Delve','v. t.','To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.'),('Delve','v. t.','To dig into; to penetrate; to trace out; to fathom.'),('Delve','v. i.','To dig or labor with a spade, or as with a spade; to\n   labor as a drudge.'),('Delve','v. t.','A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.'),('Delver','n.','One who digs, as with a spade.'),('Demagnetize','v. t.','To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize.'),('Demagnetize','v. t.','To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize.'),('Demagog','n.','Demagogue.'),('Demagogic','a.','Alt. of Demagogical'),('Demagogical','a.','Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.'),('Demagogism','n.','The practices of a demagogue.'),('Demagogue','n.','A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the\n   multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious\n   mob orator or political leader.'),('Demagogy','n.','Demagogism.'),('Demain','n.','Rule; management.'),('Demain','n.','See Demesne.'),('Demanded','imp. & p. p.','of Demand'),('Demanding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Demand'),('Demand','v. t.','To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek\n   from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for\n   urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.'),('Demand','v. t.','To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in\n   a peremptory manner; to question.'),('Demand','v. t.','To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need\n   of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.'),('Demand','v. t.','To call into court; to summon.'),('Demand','v. i.','To make a demand; to inquire.'),('Demand','v. t.','The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a\n   peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due;\n   requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.'),('Demand','v. t.','Earnest inquiry; question; query.'),('Demand','v. t.','A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to\n   possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person\'s company is\n   in great demand.'),('Demand','v. t.','That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing\n   claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.'),('Demand','v. t.','The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.'),('Demand','v. t.','The right or title in virtue of which anything may be\n   claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.'),('Demand','v. t.','A thing or amount claimed to be due.'),('Demandable','a.','That may be demanded or claimed.'),('Demandant','n.','One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any\n   plaintiff.'),('Demander','n.','One who demands.'),('Demandress','n.','A woman who demands.'),('Demantoid','n.','A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in\n   the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster,\n   whence the name.'),('Demarcate','v. t.','To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate;\n   to discriminate.'),('Demarcation','n.','The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a\n   limit; separation; distinction.'),('Demarch','n.','March; walk; gait.'),('Demarch','n.','A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece.'),('Demarkation','n.','Same as Demarcation.'),('Dematerialize','v. t.','To deprive of material or physical qualities or\n   characteristics.'),('Deme','n.','A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece),\n   corresponding to a township.'),('Deme','n.','An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.'),('Demeaned','imp. & p. p.','of Demean'),('Demeaning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Demean'),('Demean','v. t.','To manage; to conduct; to treat.'),('Demean','v. t.','To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the\n   reflexive pronoun.'),('Demean','v. t.','To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the\n   reflexive pronoun.'),('Demean','v. t.','Management; treatment.'),('Demean','v. t.','Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.'),('Demean','n.','Demesne.'),('Demean','n.','Resources; means.'),('Demeanance','n.','Demeanor.'),('Demeanor','v. t.','Management; treatment; conduct.'),('Demeanor','v. t.','Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.'),('Demeanure','n.','Behavior.'),('Demency','n.','Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.'),('Dement','v. t.','To deprive of reason; to make mad.'),('Dement','a.','Demented; dementate.'),('Dementate','v. t.','Deprived of reason.'),('Dementate','v. t.','To deprive of reason; to dement.'),('Dementation','n.','The act of depriving of reason; madness.'),('Demented','a.','Insane; mad; of unsound mind.'),('Dementia','n.','Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in\n   weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility;\n   idiocy.'),('Demephitized','imp. & p. p.','of Demephitize'),('Demephitizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Demephitize'),('Demephitize','v. t.','To purify from mephitic or foul air.'),('Demerge','v. t.','To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse.'),('Demerit','n.','That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill;\n   desert.'),('Demerit','n.','That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice;\n   misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.'),('Demerit','n.','The state of one who deserves ill.'),('Demerit','n.','To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.'),('Demerit','n.','To depreciate or cry down.'),('Demerit','v. i.','To deserve praise or blame.'),('Demerse','v. t.','To immerse.'),('Demersed','a.','Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.'),('Demersion','n.','The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning.'),('Demersion','n.','The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in\n   water.'),('Demesmerize','v. t.','To relieve from mesmeric influence. See Mesmerize.'),('Demesne','n.','A lord\'s chief manor place, with that part of the lands\n   belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house,\n   and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor\'s own use.'),('Demesnial','a.','Of or pertaining to a demesne; of the nature of a\n   demesne.'),('Demi-','','A prefix, signifying half.'),('Demi','n.','See Demy, n.'),('Demibastion','n.','A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting\n   of one face and one flank.'),('Demibrigade','n.','A half brigade.'),('Demicadence','n.','An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant\n   instead of on the key note.'),('Demicannon','n.','A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from\n   thirty to thirty-six pounds.'),('Demicircle','n.','An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc.\n   It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass.'),('Demiculverin','n.','A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from\n   nine to thirteen pounds.'),('Demideify','v. t.','To deify in part.'),('Demidevil','n.','A half devil.'),('Demigod','n.','A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the\n   offspring of a deity and a mortal.'),('Demigoddess','n.','A female demigod.'),('Demigorge','n.','Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from\n   the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.'),('Demigrate','v. i.','To emigrate.'),