# Dictionary

Topic: Glibness
Definition:
GLIB'NESS, n.  Smoothness; slipperiness; as a polished ice-like glibness.
1. Volubility of the tongue.


Topic: Glide
Definition:
GLIDE, v.i.  
1.  To flow gently; to move without noise or violence; as a river.
 By east, among the dusty vallies glide
 The silver streams of Jordan's crystal flood.
2.  To move silently and smoothly; to pass along without apparent effort; as a hawk or an eagle gliding through the air.
3.  To move or pass rapidly and with apparent ease; as, a ship glides through the water.
4.  In a general sense, to move or slip along with ease as on a smooth surface, or to pass along rapidly without apparent effort, and without obstruction.
GLIDE, n.  The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly and without labor or obstruction.


Topic: Glimmer
Definition:
GLIM'MER, v.i.
1. To shoot feeble or scattered rays of light; as the glimmering dawn; a glimmering lamp.
 When rosy morning glimmer'd o'er the dales.
 The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
2.  To shine faintly; to give a feeble light.
 Mild evening glimmered on the lawn.
GLIM'MER, n.  A faint light; feeble scattered rays of light.
1.  In mineralogy, mica, glist, muscovy-glass; a mineral resulting from crystallization, but rarely found in regular crystals. usually it appears in thin, flexible, elastic lamins, which exhibit a high polish and strong luster.  It is an essential ingredient in granite, gneiss, and mica slate.


Topic: Glimmering
Definition:
GLIM'MERING, ppr.  Shining faintly; shooting feeble scattered rays of light.
GLIM'MERING, n.  A faint beaming of light.
1.  A faint view.


Topic: Glimpse
Definition:
GLIMPSE, n.  glims.
1.  A weak faint light.
 Such vast room in Nature,
 Only to shine, yet scarce to contribute
 Each orb a glimpse of light.
2.  A flash of light; as the lightning's glimpse.
3.  Transient luster.
 One glimpse of glory to my issue give.
4.  A short transitory view.  He saw at a glimpse the design of the enemy.
5.  Short fleeting enjoyment; as a glimpse of delight.
6.  Exhibition of a faint resemblance.
GLIMPSE, v.i.  To appear by glimpses.


Topic: Glisten
Definition:
GLIS'TEN, v.i. glis'n. [Heb. to shine; L. glisco; Eng. gloss.]
To shine; to sparkle with light; as the glistening stars.
 The ladies' eyes glistened with pleasure.


Topic: Glister
Definition:
GLIS'TER, v.i. [See Glisten.]   To shine; to be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant.
 All that glistens is not gold.


Topic: Glitter
Definition:
GLIT'TER, v.i.
1.  To shine; to sparkle with light; to gleam; to be splendid; as a glittering sword.
 The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
2.  To be showing, specious or striking, and hence attractive; as the glittering scenes of a court.
GLIT'TER, n.  Brightness; brilliancy; splendor; luster; as the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage; the glitter of dress.


Topic: Globe
Definition:
GLOBE, n.  [L. globus; Eng. clew.  See Clew.]
1.  A round or spherical solid body; a ball; a sphere; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center.
2.  The earth; the terraqueous ball; so called, though not perfectly spherical.
3.  An artificial sphere of metal, paper or other matter, on whose convex surface is drawn a map or representation of the earth or of the heavens. That on which the several oceans, seas, continents, isles and countries of the earth are represented, is called a terrestrial globe.  That which exhibits a delineation of the constellations in the heavens, is called a celestial globe.
4.  A body of soldiers formed into a circle.
GLOBE, v.t.  To gather round or into a circle.


Topic: Globular
Definition:
GLOB'ULAR, a.  [from globe.]  Round; spherical; having the form of a small ball or sphere; as globular atoms.


Topic: Globule
Definition:
GLOB'ULE, n.  [L. globulus, dim. of globus.]
A little globe; a small particle of matter of a spherical form; a word particularly applied to the red particles of blood, which swim in a transparent serum, and may be discovered by the microscope.
 Hail stones have opake globules of snow in their center.


Topic: Glome
Definition:
GLOME, n. [L. glomus; Heb. to wind, convolve, or collect into a mass.]   In botany, a roundish head of flowers.


Topic: Glomerate
Definition:
GLOM'ERATE, v.t.  [L. glomero, from glomus, supra.]
To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads. 


Topic: Glomeration
Definition:
GLOMERA'TION, n.  [L. glomertio.]  The act of gathering, winding or forming into a ball or spherical body.
1.  A body formed into a ball.


Topic: Gloom
Definition:
GLOOM, n.  
1.  Obscurity; partial or total darkness; thick shade; as the gloom of a forest, or the gloom of midnight.
2.  Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow.  We say, the mind is sunk into gloom; a gloom overspreads the mind.
3.  Darkness of prospect or aspect.
4.  Sullenness.
GLOOM, v.i.  To shine obscurely or imperfectly.
1.  To be cloudy, dark or obscure.
2.  To be melancholy or dejected.
GLOOM, v.t.  To obscure; to fill with gloom; to darken; to make dismal.


Topic: Gloomily
Definition:
GLOOM'ILY, adv.  [from gloomy.]  Obscurely; dimly; darkly; dismally.
1.  With melancholy aspect; sullenly; not cheerfully.


Topic: Gloominess
Definition:
GLOOM'INESS, n.  Want of light; obscurity; darkness; dismalness.
1.  Want of cheerfulness; cloudiness of look; heaviness of mind; melancholy; as, to involve the mind in gloominess.


Topic: Gloomy
Definition:
GLOOM'Y, a.  [from gloom.]  Obscure; imperfectly illuminated; or dark; dismal; as the gloomy cells of a convent; the gloomy shades of night.
1.  Wearing the aspect of sorrow; melancholy; clouded; dejected; depressed; heavy of heart; as a gloomy countenance or state of mind; a gloomy temper.
2.  Of a dark complexion.  [Little used.]


Topic: Glorification
Definition:
GLORIFICA'TION, n.  [See Glorify.]  The act of giving glory or of ascribing honors to.
1.  Exaltation to honor and dignity; elevation to glory; as the glorification of Christ after his resurrection.


Topic: Glorify
Definition:
GLO'RIFY, v.t.  [L. gloria and facio, to make.]
1.  To praise; to magnify and honor in worship; to ascribe honor to, in thought or words.  Ps.86.9
 God is glorified, when such his excellency, above all things, is with due admiration acknowledged.
2.  To make glorious; to exalt to glory, or to celestial happiness.
 Whom he justified, them he also glorified. Rom.8.
 The God of our fathers hath glorified his son
 Jesus. Acts.3.  
3.  To praise; to honor; to extol.
 Whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life--him they set up and glorify.
4.  To procure honor or praise to.


Topic: Glorious
Definition:
GLO'RIOUS, a.  [L. gloriosus.  See Glory.]
1.  Illustrious; of exalted excellence and splendor; resplendent in majesty and divine attributes; applied to God. Ex.15.11.
2. Noble; excellent; renowned; celebrated; illustrious; very honorable; applied to men,their achievements, titles, &c.
 Let us remember we are Cato's friends,
 And act like men who claim that glorious title.
3.  Boastful; self-exulting; haughty; ostentatious.


Topic: Gloriously
Definition:
GLO'RIOUSLY, adv.  Splendidly; illustriously; with great renown or dignity.
 Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. Ex.15.


Topic: Glory
Definition:
GLO'RY, n.  [L. gloria; planus; hence, bright, shining.  Glory, then, is brightness, splendor.  The L. floreo, to blossom, to flower, to flourish, is probably of the same family.]
1.  Brightness; luster; splendor.
 The moon, serene in glory, mounts the sky.
 For he received from God the Father honor and glory,when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory. 2 Pet.1.
In this passage of Peter, the latter word glory refers to the visible splendor or bright cloud that overshadowed Christ at his transfiguration.  The former word glory, though the same in the original, is to be understood in a figurative sense.
2.  Splendor; magnificence.
 Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one 
 of these. Matt.vi.
3.  The circle of rays surrounding the head of a figure in painting.
4.  Praise ascribed in adoration; honor.
 Glory to God in the highest. Luke 2.
5. Honor; praise; fame; renown; celebrity. The hero pants for glory in the field.  It was the glory of Howard to relieve the wretched.
6.  The felicity of heaven prepared for the children of God; celestial bliss.
 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,and afterwards receive me to glory.  Ps.73.
7.  In scripture, the divine presence; or the ark, the manifestation of it.
 The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam.4.
8.  The divine perfections or excellence.
 The heavens declare the glory of God. Ps.19.
9.  Honorable representation of God. 1 Cor. 11.8.
    10. Distinguished honor or ornament; that which honors or makes renowned; that of which one may boast.
 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms. Is.13.
    11. Pride; boastfulness; arrogance; as vain glory.
    12. Generous pride.
GLO'RY, v.i.  [L. glorior, from gloria.]  
To exult with joy; to rejoice.
 Glory ye in his holy name. Ps.105. 1 Chron. 16.
1.  To boast; to be proud of.
 No one should glory in his prosperity.


Topic: Glorying
Definition:
GLO'RYING, ppr.  Exulting with joy; boasting.
GLO'RYING, n. The act of exulting; exultation; boasting; display of pride.
 Your glorying is not good.  1 Cor.5.


Topic: Gloss
Definition:
GLOSS, n.  [Gr. the tongue, and a strap.  L. has glossa, a tongue, and interpretation.  In Heb. signifies to shine, but from the sense of smoothness.  L. lustro; Eng. luster.]
1.  Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; as the gloss of silk; cloth is calendared to give it a gloss.
2.  A specious appearance or representation; external show that may mislead opinion.
 It is no part of my secret meaning to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford.
3.  An interpretation artfully specious.
4.  Interpretation; comment; explanation; remark intended to illustrate a subject.
 All this, without a gloss or comment,
 He would unriddle in a moment.
 Explaining the text in short glosses.
5.  A literal translation.
GLOSS, v.t.  To give a superficial luster to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth by the calendar; to gloss mahogany.
1.  To explain; to render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate.
2.  To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious representation.
 You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.
GLOSS, v.i.  To comment; to write or make explanatory remarks.
1.  To make sly remarks.


Topic: Glossary
Definition:
GLOSS'ARY, n.  [Low L. glossarium.]
A dictionary_webster1828 or vocabulary, explaining obscure or antiquated words found in old authors; such as Du Canage's Glossary; Spelman's Glossary.


Topic: Glosser
Definition:
GLOSS'ER, n.  A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator.
1.  A polisher; one who gives a luster.


Topic: Glossology
Definition:
GLOSSOL'OGY, n.  [gloss and Gr. discourse.]
Glosses or commentaries; explanatory notes for illustrating an author.


Topic: Glossy
Definition:
GLOSS'Y, a.  Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth 
surface; highly polished; as glossy silk; a glossy raven; a glossy plum.


Topic: Glottis
Definition:
GLOT'TIS, n.  [Gr. the tongue.]  The narrow opening at the upper part of the aspera arteria or windpipe, which, by its dilatation and contraction, contributes to the modulation of the voice.


Topic: Glove
Definition:
GLOVE, n.  A cover for the hand, or for the hand and arm, with a separate sheath for each finger.  The latter circumstance distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
To throw the glove, with our ancestors, was to challenge to single combat.
GLOVE, v.t.  To cover with a glove.


Topic: Glow
Definition:
GLOW, v.i.
1.  To shine with intense heat; or perhaps more correctly, to shine with a white heat; to exhibit incandescence.  Hence, in a more general sense, to shine with a bright luster.
 Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
2.  To burn with vehement heat.
 The scorching fire that in their entrails glows.
3.  To feel great heat of body; to be hot.
 Did not his temples glow
 In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?
4.  To exhibit a strong bright color; to be red.
 Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.
 Fair ideas flow, 
 Strike in the sketch, or in the picture glow.
5.  To be bright or red with heat or animation, or with blushes; as glowing cheeks.
6.  To feel the heat of passion; to be ardent; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, &c.
We say, the heart glows with love or zeal; the glowing breast.
 When real virtue fires the glowing bard.
 If you have never glowed with gratitude to the author of the christian revelation, you know nothing of christianity.
7.  To burn with intense heat; to rage; as passion.
 With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.
GLOW, v.i.  To heat so as to shine.  [Not used.]
GLOW, n.  Shining heat, or white heat.
1.  Brightness of color; redness; as the glow of health in the cheeks.
 A waving glow his bloomy beds display,
 Blushing in bright diversities of day.
2.  Vehemence of passion.


Topic: Glowing
Definition:
GLOWING, ppr.  Shining with intense heat; white with heat.
1.  Burning with vehement heat.
2.  Exhibiting a bright color; red; as a glowing color; glowing cheeks.
3.  Ardent; vehement; animated; as glowing zeal.
4.  Inflamed; as a glowing breast.


Topic: Glowworm
Definition:
GLOWWORM, n.  The female of the Lampyris noctiluca, an insect of the order of Coleopters.  It is without wings and resembles a caterpillar. It emits a shining green light from the extremity of the abdomen.  The male is winged and flies about in the evening, when it is attracted by the light of the female.


Topic: Gloze
Definition:
GLOZE, v.i.  To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; that is, to smooth, or to talk smoothly.
 So glozed the tempter, and his proem tun'd.
 A false glozing parasite.
GLOZE, n.  Flattery; adulation.
1.  Specious show; gloss.  [Not used.  See Gloss.]


Topic: Glucin
Definition:
GLU'CIN, n.  [Gr.]  A soft white earth or powder obtained from the beryl and emerald; so named from its forming, with acids,salts that are sweet to the taste.
 Glucin is a compound, of which glucinum is the base.


Topic: Glue
Definition:
GLUE, n. glu.  [L. gluten.]
Inspissated animal gluten; a tenacious, viscid matter, which serves as a cement to unite other substances.  It is made of the skins, parings, &c. of animals, as of oxen, calves or sheep, by boiling them to a jelly.
GLUE, v.t.  To join with glue or a viscous substance.  Cabinet makers glue together some parts of furniture.
1.  To unite; to hold together.
[This word is now seldom used in a figurative sense.  The phrases,to glue friends together, vices glue us to low pursuits or pleasures, found in writers of the last century, are not now used, or are deemed inelegant.]


Topic: Glum
Definition:
GLUM, a.  Frowning; sullen.  [Little used.]
GLUM, n.  Sullenness; and, as a verb, to look sullen.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Glume
Definition:
GLUME, n.  [L. gluma, from glubo, to bark or peel.]
In botany, the calyx or corol of corn and grasses, formed of valves embracing the seed, often terminated by the arista or beard; the husk or chaff.


Topic: Glumous
Definition:
GLU'MOUS, a.  A glumous flower is a kind of aggregate flower,having a filiform receptacle, with a common glume at the base.


Topic: Glut
Definition:
GLUT, v.i.  [L. glutio, Low L. gluto, a glutton.]
1.  To swallow, or to swallow greedily; to gorge.
2.  To cloy; to fill beyond sufficiency; to sate; to disgust; as, to glut the appetites.
3.  To feast or delight even to satiety.
 His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
 Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.
4.  To fill or furnish beyond sufficiency; as, to glut the market.
5.  To saturate.
GLUT, n.  That which is swallowed.
1.  Plenty even to loathing.
 He shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut of his delights.
 A glut of study and retirement.
2.  More than enough; superabundance.
3.  Any thing that fills or obstructs the passage.
4.  A wooden wedge.


Topic: Gluteal
Definition:
GLU'TEAL, a.  [Gr. nates.]  The gluteal artery,is a branch of the hypogastric or internal iliac artery, which supplies the gluteal muscles.
The gluteal muscles, are three large muscles on each side, which make up the fleshy part of the buttocks.


Topic: Gluten
Definition:
GLUTEN, n.  [L. See Glue.]  A tough elastic substance, of a grayish color, which becomes brown and brittle by drying; found in the flour of wheat and other grain.  It contributes much to the nutritive quality of flour, and gives tenacity to its paste.  A similar substance is found in the juices of certain plants.
1.  That part of the blood which gives firmness to its texture.


Topic: Glutinous
Definition:
GLU'TINOUS, n.  [L. glutinosus.]  Viscous; viscid; tenacious; having the quality of glue; resembling glue.  Starch is glutinous.
1.  In botany, besmeared with a slippery moisture; as a glutinous leaf.


Topic: Glutton
Definition:
GLUT'TON, n.  glut'n.  [Low L. gluto.]  One who indulges to excess in eating.
1.  One eager of any thing to excess.
 Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.
2.  In zoology, an animal of the genus Ursus, found in the N. of Europe and Siberia.  It grows to the length of three feet,but has short legs and moves slowly.  It is a carnivorous animal, and in order to catch its prey, it climbs a tree and from that darts down upon a deer or other animal.  It is names from its voracious appetite.


Topic: Gluttonize
Definition:
GLUT'TONIZE, v.i.  To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to indulge the appetite to excess; to be luxurious.


Topic: Gluttonous
Definition:
GLUT'TONOUS, a.  Given to excessive eating; indulging the appetite for food to excess; as a gluttonous age.
1.  Consisting in excessive eating; as gluttonous delight.


Topic: Gluttony
Definition:
GLUT'TONY, n.  Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food.
1.  Luxury of the table.
 Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts.
2.  Voracity of appetite.


Topic: Glyph
Definition:
GLYPH, n.  [Gr. to carve.]  In sculpture and architecture, a canal, channel or cavity intended as an ornament.


Topic: Gnash
Definition:
GNASH, v.t. nash.  To strike the teeth together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth in rage.
GNASH, v.i. nash.  To grind the teeth.
 He shall gnash with his teeth and melt away.  Ps.112.
1.  To rage even to collision with the teeth; to growl.
 They gnashed on me with their teeth.  Ps.35.


Topic: Gnashing
Definition:
GNASH'ING, ppr. nash'ing.  Striking the teeth together, as in anger, rage or pain.
GNASH'ING, n.  nash'ing.  A grinding or striking of the teeth in rage or anguish.
 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  Matt.8.


Topic: Gnat
Definition:
GNAT, n. nat.  A small insect, or rather a genus of insects, the Culex, whose long cylindric body is composed of eight rings.  They have six legs and their mouth is formed by a flexible sheath, inclosing bristles pointed like stings.  The sting is a tube containing five or six spicula of exquisite fineness, dentated or edged.  The most troublesome of this genus is the musketoe.
1.  Any thing proverbially small.
 Ye blind guides, who strain at a gnat, and  swallow a camel. Matt.23.


Topic: Gnatworm
Definition:
GNAT'WORM, n.  A small water insect produced by a gnat, and which after its several changes is transformed into a gnat; the larva of a gnat.


Topic: Gnaw
Definition:
GNAW, v.t. naw.  [ Gr. to scrape.]
1.  To bite off by little and little; to bite or scrape off with the fore teeth; to wear away by biting. The rats gnaw a board or plank; a worm gnaws the wood of a tree or the plank of a ship.
2.  To eat by biting off small portions of food with the fore teeth.
3.  To bite in agony or rage.
 They gnawed their tongues for pain. Rev.16.
4.  To waste; to fret; to corrode.
5.  To pick with the teeth.
 His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw.
GNAW, v.i. naw.  To use the teeth in biting.
 I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me.


Topic: Gneiss
Definition:
GNE'ISS, n.  ne'is.  In mineralogy, a species of aggregated rock, composed of quartz, feldspar and mica, of a structure more or less distinctly slaty.  The layers, whether straight or curved, are frequently thick, but often vary considerably in the same specimen.  It passes on one side into granite, from which it differs in its slaty structure, and on the other into mica slate.  It is rich in metalic ores.


Topic: Gnome
Definition:
GNOME, n. nome.  An imaginary being, supposed by the cabalists, to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines,quarries. &c.
1.  A brief reflection or maxim.  [Not used.]


Topic: Gnomiometrical
Definition:
GNOMIOMET'RICAL, a.  [Gr. an index, and to measure.]
The gnomiometrical telescope and microscope is an instrument for measuring the angles of crystals by reflection, and for ascertaining the inclination of strata, and the apparaent magnitude of angles when the eye is not placed at the vertex.


Topic: Gnomology
Definition:
GNOMOL'OGY, n.  [Gr. a maxim or sentence, and discourse.]
A collection of maxims, grave sentences or reflections.  [Little used.]


Topic: Gnomon
Definition:
GNO'MON, n.  no'mon.  [Gr. an index, to know.]
1.  In dialling, the style or pin, which by its shadow shows the hour of the day. It represents the axis of the earth.
2.  In astronomy, a style erected perpendicular to the horizon, in order to find the altitude of the sun.
3.  The gnomon of a globe, is the index of the hour-circle.


Topic: Gnomonics
Definition:
GNOMON'ICS, n.  The art or science of dialling, or of constructing the dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.


Topic: Gnostic
Definition:
GNOS'TIC, n.  nostic. [L. gnosticus; Gr. to know.]
The Gnostics were a sect of philosophers that arose in the first ages of christianity, who pretended they were the only men who had a true knowledge of the christian religion.  They formed for themselves a system of theology, agreeable to the philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato, to which they accommodated their interpretations of scripture.  They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual and material, are derived by successive emanations from the infinite fountain of deity.  These emanations they called oeons.  These doctrines were derived from the oriental philosophy.
GNOS'TIC, a. nostic.  Pertaining to the Gnostics or their doctrines.


Topic: Gnosticism
Definition:
GNOS'TICISM, n.  nos'ticism.  The doctrines, principles or systems of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.


Topic: Gnu
Definition:
GNU, n.  A species of Antelope, in Southern Africa, whose form partakes of that of the horse, the ox, and the deer.


Topic: Go
Definition:
GO, v.i. pret. went; pp. gone.
1.  In a general sense, to move; to pass; to proceed from one place, state or station to another; opposed to resting.  A mill goes by water or by steam; a ship goes at the rate of five knots an hour; a clock goes fast or slow; a horse goes lame; a fowl or a ball goes with velocity through the air.
The mourners go about the streets. Eccles.12.
2.  To walk; to move on the feet or step by step.  The child begins to go alone at a year old.
 You know that love
 Will creep in service where it cannot go.
3.  To walk leisurely; not to run.
 Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.
4.  To travel; to journey by land or water.  I must go to Boston.  He has gone to Philadelphia.  The minister is going to France.
5.  To depart; to move from a place; opposed to come.  The mail goes and comes every day, or twice a week.
 I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice. Ex.8.
6.  To proceed; to pass.
 And so the jest goes round.
7.  To move; to pass in any manner or to any end; as, to go to bed; to go to dinner; to go to war.
8.  To move or pass customarily from place to place, denoting custom or practice.  The child goes to school.  A ship goes regularly to London.  We go to church.
9.  To proceed from one state or opinion to another; to change.  He goes from one opinion to another.  His estate is going to ruin.
    10. To proceed in mental operations; to advance; to penetrate. We can go but a very little way in developing the causes of things.
    11. To proceed or advance in accomplishing an end. This sun will not go far towards full payment of the debt.
    12. To apply; to be applicable. The argument goes to this point only; it goes to prove too much.
    13. To apply one's self.
 Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.
    14. To have recourse to; as, to go to law.
    15. To be about to do; as, I was going to say. I am going to begin harvest. [This use is chiefly confined to the participle.]
    16. To pass; to be accounted in value. All this goes for nothing. This coin goes for a crown.
    17. To circulate; to pass in report. The story goes.
    18. To pass; to be received; to be accounted or understood to be.
 And the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.  1 Sam.17.
    19. To move, or be in motion; as a machine. [See No.1.]
    20. To move as fluid; to flow.
 The god I am, whose yellow water flows
 Around these fields, and fattens as it goes,
 Tiber my name.
    21. To have a tendency.
 Against right reason all your counsels go.
    22. To be in compact or partnership.
 They were to go equal shares in the booty.
    23. To be guided or regulated; to proceed by some principle or rule. We are to go by the rules of law, or according to the precepts of scripture.
 We are to go by another measure.
    24. To be pregnant. The females of different animals go some a longer, some a shorter time.
    25. To pass; to be alienated in payment or exchange. If our exports are of less value than our imports, our money must go to pay the balance.
    26. To be loosed or released; to be freed from restraint. Let me go; let go the hand.
    27. To be expended. His estate goes or has gone for spirituous liquors. [See No. 24.]
    28. To extend; to reach. The line goes from one end to the other. His land goes to the bank of the Hudson.
    29. to extend or lead in any direction. This road goes to Albany.
    30. To proceed; to extend. This argument goes far towards proving the point. It goes a great way towards establishing the innocence of the accused.
    31. To have effect; to extend in effect; to avail; to be of force or value. Money goes farther now than it did during the war.
    32. To extend in meaning or purport.
 His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow. 
[In the three last examples, the sense of go depends on far, farther, further.]
    33. To have a currency or use, as custom, opinion or manners.
 I think, as the world goes,he was a good sort of man enough.
    34. To contribute; to conduce; to concur; to be an ingredient; with to or into. The substances which go into this composition. Many qualifications go to make up the well bred man.
    35. To proceed; to be carried on. The business goes on well.
    36. To proceed to final issue; to terminate; to succeed.
 Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.
    37. To proceed in a train, or in consequences.
 How goes the night, boy?
    38. To fare; to be in a good or ill state. 
 How goes it, comrade?
    39. To have a tendency or effect; to operate.
 These cases go to show that the court will vary the construction of instruments.
To go about, to set one's self to a business; to attempt; to endeavor.
 They never go about to hide or palliate their vices.
1.  In seamen's language, to tack; to turn the head of a ship.
To go abroad, to walk out of a house.
1.  To be uttered, disclosed or published.
To go against, to invade; to march to attack.
1.  To be in opposition; to be disagreeable.
To go aside, to withdraw; to retire into a private situation.
1.  To err; to deviate from the right way.
To go astray, to wander; to break from an inclosure; also, to leave the right course; to depart from law or rule; to sin; to transgress.
To go away, to depart; to go to a distance.
To go between, to interpose; to mediate; to attempt to reconcile or to adjust differences.
To go by, to pass near and beyond.
1.  To pass away unnoticed; to omit.
2.  To fine or get in the conclusion.
 In argument with men, a woman ever
 Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
[A phrase now little used.]
To go down, to descend in any manner.
1.  To fail; to come to nothing.
2.  To be swallowed or received, not rejected.  The doctrine of the divine right of kings will not go down in this period of the world.
To go forth to issue or depart out of a place.
To go forward, to advance.
To go hard with, to be in danger of a fatal issue; to have difficulty to escape.
To go in, to enter.
To go in to, to have sexual commerce with.
To go in and out, to do the business of life.
1.  To go freely; to be at liberty.  John 10.
To go off, to depart to a distance; to leave a place or station.
1.  To die; to decease.
2.  To be discharged, as fire arms; to explode.
To go on, to proceed; to advance forward.
1.  To be put on, as a garment.  The coat will not go on.
To go out, to issue forth; to depart from.
1.  To go on an expedition.
2.  To become extinct, as light or life; to expire.  A candle goes out; fire goes out.
 And life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
3.  To become public.  This story goes out to the world.
To go over, to read; to peruse; to study.
1.  To examine; to view or review; as, to go over an account.
 If we go over the laws of christianity--
2.  To think over; to proceed or pass in mental operation.
3.  To change sides; to pass from one party to another.
4.  To revolt.
5.  To pass from one side to the other, as of a river.
To go through, to pass in a substance; as, to go through water.
1.  To execute; to accomplish; to perform thoroughly; to finish; as, to go through an undertaking.
2.  To suffer; to bear; to undergo; to sustain to the end; as, to go through a long sickness; to go through an operation.
To go through with, to execute effectually.
To go under, to be talked of or known, as by a title or name; as, to go under the name of reformers.go up, to ascend; to rise.
To go upon, to proceed as on a foundation; to take as a principle supposed or settled; as, to go upon a supposition.
To go with, to accompany; to pass with others.
1.  To side with; to be in party or design with.
To go ill with, to have ill fortune; not to prosper.
To go well with, to have good fortune; to prosper.
To go without, to be or remain destitute.
Go to, come, move, begin; a phrase of exhortation; also a phrase of scornful exhortation.


Topic: Goad
Definition:
GOAD,n.  A pointed instrument used to stimulate a beast to move faster.
GOAD, v.t.  To prick; to drive with a goad.
1.  To incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to urge forward, or to rouse by any thing pungent, severe, irritating or inflaming.  He was goaded by sarcastic remarks or by abuse; goaded by desire or other passion.


Topic: Goal
Definition:
GOAL, n.
1.  The point set to bound a race, and to which they run; the mark.
 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal
 With rapid wheels.
2.  Any starting post.
3.  The end or final purpose; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or accomplish.
 Each individual seeks a several goal.


Topic: Goat
Definition:
GOAT, n.  An animal or quadruped of the genus Capra.  The horns are hollow, turned upwards, erect and scabrous.  Goats are nearly of the size of sheep, but stronger, less timid and more agile. They delight to frequent rocks and mountains, and subsist on scanty coarse food.  The milk of the goat is sweet, nourishing and medicinal, and the flesh furnishes provisions to the inhabitants of countries where they abound.


Topic: Goat-sucker
Definition:
GOAT-SUCKER, n.  In ornithology, a fowl of the genus Caprimulgus, so called from the opinion that it would suck goats.  It is called also the fern-owl.  In Bailey, it is called a goat-milker.


Topic: Gobbet
Definition:
GOB'BET, n.  A mouthful; a lump.
GOB'BET, v.t.  To swallow in large masses or mouthfuls.  [A low word.]


Topic: Gobble
Definition:
GOB'BLE, v.t.  To swallow in large pieces; to swallow hastily.
GOB'BLE, v.i.  To make a noise in the throat, as a turkey.


Topic: Gobbler
Definition:
GOB'BLER, n.  One who swallows in haste; a greedy eater; a gormandizer.
1.  A name sometimes given to the turkey cock.


Topic: Goblet
Definition:
GOB'LET, n.  A kind of cup or drinking vessel without a handle.
 We love not loaded boards, and goblets crown'd.


Topic: Goblin
Definition:
GOB'LIN, n.  
1.  An evil spirit; a walking spirit; a frightful phantom.
 To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied.
2.  A fairy; an elf.


Topic: God
Definition:
GOD, n.  
1.  The Supreme Being; Jehovah; the eternal and infinite spirit, the creator,and the sovereign of the universe.
 God is a spirit; and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.  John 4.
2.  A false god; a heathen deity; an idol.
 Fear not the gods of the Amorites. Judges 6.
3.  A prince; a ruler; a magistrate or judge; an angel.  Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.  
Ex. 22.  Ps.97.
[Gods here is a bad translation.]
4.  Any person or thing exalted too much in estimation, or deified and honored as the chief good.
 Whose god is their belly.  Phil.3.
GOD, v.t.  To deify.  [Not used.]


Topic: Godchild
Definition:
GOD'CHILD, n. [god and child.]  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and promises to see educated as a christian.


Topic: Goddaughter
Definition:
GOD'DAUGHTER, n.  [god and daughter.]  A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.  [See Godfather.]


Topic: Goddess
Definition:
GOD'DESS, n.  A female deity; a heathen deity of the female sex.
 When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty.
1.  In the language of love, a woman of superior charms or excellence.


Topic: Godfather
Definition:
GOD'F`ATHER, n.  The man who is sponsor for a child at baptism, who promises to answer for his future conduct and that he shall follow a life of piety, by this means laying himself under an indispensable obligation to instruct the child and watch over his conduct.  This practice is of high antiquity in the christian church, and was probably intended to prevent children from being brought up in idolatry, in case the parents died before the children had arrived to years of discretion.  In the catholic church the number of godfathers and godmothers is reduced to two; in the church of England, to three; but formerly the number was not limited.
GOD'F`ATHER, v.t.  To act as godfather; to take under one's fostering care.


Topic: Godhead
Definition:
GOD'HEAD, n.  god'hed.  
1.  Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; applied to the true God, and to heathen deities.
2.  A deity in person; a god or goddess.


Topic: Godless
Definition:
GOD'LESS, a.  Having no reverence for God; impious; ungodly; irreligious; wicked.
1.  Atheistical; having no belief in the existence of God.


Topic: Godlike
Definition:
GOD'LIKE, a.  Resembling God; divine.
1.  Resembling a deity,or heathen divinity.
2.  Of superior excellence; as godlike virtue; a godlike prince.


Topic: Godliness
Definition:
GOD'LINESS, n.  [from godly.]  Piety; belief in God, and reverence for his character and laws.
1.  A religious life; a careful observance of the laws of God and performance of religious duties, proceeding from love and reverence for the divine character and commands; christian obedience.
 Godliness is profitable unto all things. 1 Tim. 4.
2.  Revelation; the system of christianity.
 Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness; 
 God was manifest in the flesh.  l Tim.3.


Topic: Godly
Definition:
GOD'LY, a.  [god-like]  Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws.
1.  Living in obedience to God's commands, from a principle of love to him and reverence of his character and precepts; religious; righteous; as a godly person.
2.  Pious; conformed to God's law; as a godly life.
GOD'LY, adv. Piously; righteously.
 All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution.  2 Tim.3.


Topic: Godship
Definition:
GOD'SHIP, n.  Deity; divinity; the rank or character of a god.
 O'er hills and dales their godships came.


Topic: Godwit
Definition:
GOD'WIT, n.  A fowl of the grallic order and genus Scolopax.  It has a bill four inches long; the feathers on the head, neck and back are of a light reddish brown; those on the belly white, and the tail is regularly barred with black and white.  This fowl frequents fens and the banks of rivers, and its flesh is esteemed a great delicacy.


Topic: Goer
Definition:
GO'ER, n.  [from go.]  One that goes; a runner or walker; one that has a gait good or bad.
1.  One that transacts business between parties; in an ill sense.
2.  A foot.
3.  A term applied to a horse; as a good goer; a safe goer.  [Unusual in the U. States.]


Topic: Goggle
Definition:
GOG'GLE, v.i.  [L. celo; or from gog.]
To strain or roll the eyes.
 And wink and goggle like an owl.
GOG'GLE, a.  Having full eyes; staring.
GOG'GLE, n.  A strained or affected rolling of the eye.


Topic: Goggles
Definition:
GOG'GLES, n. plu.
1.  In surgery, instruments used to cure squinting, or the distortion of the eyes which occasions it.
2.  Cylindrical tubes, in which are fixed glasses for defending the eyes from cold, dust, &c. and sometimes with colored glasses to abate the intensity of light.
3.  Blinds for horses that are apt to take fright.


Topic: Going
Definition:
GO'ING, ppr.  [from go.]  Moving; walking; traveling; turning; rolling; flying; sailing, &c.
GO'ING, n.  The act of moving in any manner.
1.  The act of walking.
2.  Departure.
3.  Pregnancy.
4.  Procedure; way; course of life; behavior; deportment; used chiefly in the plural.
 His eyes are on the ways of man, and he seeeth all his goings. Job.34.
5.  Procedure; course of providential agency or government.
 They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.  Ps.68.
Going out,
Goings out, In scripture, utmost extremity or limit; the point where an extended body terminates. Num.34.5.9.
1. Departure or journeying. Num.33.


Topic: Goiter
Definition:
GOIT'ER, n.  The bronchocele; a large tumor that forms gradually on the human throat between the trachea and the skin.
 The inhabitants of this part of the Valais are subject to goiters.


Topic: Goitrous
Definition:
GOIT'ROUS, a.  Pertaining to the goiter; partaking of the nature of bronchocele.
1.  Affected with bronchocele.
 Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either goitrous or idiots.


Topic: Gold
Definition:
GOLD, n.  
1.  A precious metal of a bright yellow color, and the most ductile and malleable of all the metals.  It is the heaviest metal except platina; and being a very dense, fixed substance, and not liable to be injured by air, it is well fitted to be used as coin, or a representative of commodities in commerce.  Its ductility and malleability render it the most suitable metal for gilding.  It is often found native in solid masses, as in Hungary and Peru; though generally in combination with silver, copper or iron.
2. Money.
 For me, the gold of France did not seduce--
3.  Something pleasing or valuable; as a heart of gold.
4.  A bright yellow color; as a flower edged with gold.
5.  Riches; wealth.
Gold of pleasure, a plant of the genus Myagrum.
GOLD, a.  Made of gold; consisting of gold; as a gold chain.


Topic: Goldbeater
Definition:
GOLDBEATER, n.  One whose occupation is to beat or foliate gold for gilding.
Goldbeater's skin, the intestinum rectum of an ox, which goldbeaters lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it, whereby the membrane is reduced very thin, and made fit to be applied to cuts and fresh wounds.


Topic: Golden
Definition:
GOLDEN, a.  goldn.  Made of gold; consisting of gold.
1.  Bright; shining; splendid; as the golden sun.
 Reclining soft on many a golden cloud.
2.  Yellow; of a gold color; as a golden harvest; golden fruit.
3.  Excellent; most valuable; as the golden rule.
4.  Happy; pure; as the golden age, the age of simplicity and purity of manners.
5.  Preeminently favorable or auspicious.
 Let not slip the golden opportunity.
Golden number, in chronology, a number showing the year of the moon's cycle.
Golden rule, in arithmetic, the rule of three or rule of proportion.


Topic: Goldenfish
Definition:
GOLDENFISH, n.  A fish of the genus Cyprinus, of the size of a pilchard, so named from its bright color. These fishes are bred by the Chinese, in small ponds, in basons or porcelain vessels, and kept for ornament.


Topic: Goldsmith
Definition:
GOLDSMITH, n. An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments of gold and silver.
1.  A banker; one who manages the pecuniary concerns of others.  [Goldsmiths were formerly bankers in England, but in America the practice does not exist, nor is the word used in this sense.]


Topic: Goldthread
Definition:
GOLDTHREAD, n.  A thread formed of flatted gold laid over a thread of silk, by twisting it with a wheel and iron bobbins.
1.  A plant, the Helleborus trifolius; so called from its fibrous yellow roots.


Topic: Goldwire
Definition:
GOLDWIRE, n.  An ingot of silver, superficially covered with gold and drawn through small round holes.


Topic: Golf
Definition:
GOLF, n.  A game with ball and bat,in which he who drives the ball 
into a hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.


Topic: Gondola
Definition:
GON'DOLA, n.  A flat-bottomed boat, very long and narrow, used at Venice in Italy on the canals.  A gondola of middle size is about thirty feet long and four broad, terminating at each end in a sharp point or peak rising to the highth of a man.  It is usually rowed by two men, called gondoliers, who propel the boat by pushing the oars.  The gondola is also used in other parts of Italy for a passage boat.


Topic: Gone
Definition:
GONE, pp. of go; pronounced nearly gawn.
1. Departed.
 It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from
 Jerusalem to Gath. 1 Kings.2.
2.  Advanced; forward in progress; with far, farther, or further; as a man far gone in intemperance.
3.  Ruined; undone.  Exert yourselves, or we are gone.
4.  Past; as, these happy days are gone; sometimes with by. Those times are gone by.
5.  Lost.
 When her masters saw that the hope of their gains
 were gone---Acts.16.
6.  Departed from life; deceased; dead.


Topic: Gong
Definition:
GONG, n.  A privy or jakes.
1.  An instrument made of brass, of a circular form, which the Asiatics strike with a wooden mallet.


Topic: Goniometer
Definition:
GONIOM'ETER, n.  [Gr. angle, and measure.]  An instrument for measuring solid angles, or the inclination of planes.


Topic: Goniometrical
Definition:
GONIOMET'RICAL, a.  Pertaining to a goniometer.  Goniometrical lines are used for measuring the quantity of angles.


Topic: Good
Definition:
GOOD, a.  
1.  Valid; legally firm; not weak or defective; having strength adequate to its support; as a good title; a good deed; a good claim.
2. Valid; sound; not weak, false or fallacious; as a good argument.
3.  Complete or sufficiently perfect in its kind; having the physical qualities best adapted to its design and use; opposed to bad,imperfect, corrupted, impaired.  We say, good timber, good cloth, a good soil, a good color.
 And God saw every thing that he had made, and
 behold, it was very good. Gen.1.
4.  Having moral qualities best adapted to its design and use, or the qualities which God's law requires; virtuous; pious; religious; applied to persons, and opposed to bad, vitious, wicked, evil.
 Yet peradventure for a good man some would
 even dare to die. Rom.5.
5.  Conformable to the moral law; virtuous; applied to actions.
 In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works.
 Tit.2.
6.  Proper; fit; convenient; seasonable; well adapted to the end. It was a good time to commence operations.  He arrived in good time.
7.  Convenient; useful; expedient; conducive to happiness.
 It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen.2.
8.  Sound; perfect; uncorrupted; undamaged.  This fruit will keep good the whole year.
9.  Suitable to the taste or to health; wholesome; salubrious; palatable; not disagreeable or noxious; as fruit good to eat; a tree good for food.  Gen.2.
    10. Suited to produce a salutary effect; adapted to abate or cure; medicinal; salutary; beneficial; as, fresh vegetables are good for scorbutic diseases.
    11. Suited to strengthen or assist the healthful functions; as, a little wine is good for a weak stomach.
    12. Pleasant to the taste; as a good apple.
 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste. Prov.24.
    13. Full; complete.
 The protestant subjects of the abbey make up a good third of its people.
    14. Useful; valuable; having qualities or a tendency to produce a good effect.
 All quality, that is good for any thing,is originally founded on merit.
    15. Equal; adequate; competent. His security is good for the amount of the debt; applied to persons able to fulfill contracts.
 Antonio is a good man.
    16. Favorable; convenient for any purpose; as a good stand for business; a good station for a camp.
    17. Convenient; suitable; safe; as a good harbor for ships.
    18. Well qualified; able; skillful; or performing duties with skill and fidelity; as a good prince; a good commander; a good officer; a good physician.
    19. Ready; dexterous.
 Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else.
    20. Kind; benevolent; affectionate; as a good father; good will.
    21. Kind; affectionate; faithful; as a good friend.
    22. Promotive of happiness; pleasant; agreeable; cheering; gratifying.
 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.  Ps.133.
    23. Pleasant or prosperous; as, good morrow, Sir; good morning.
    24. Honorable; fair; unblemished; unimpeached; as a man of good fame or report.
 A good name is better than precious ointment.
           Eccles.7.
    25. Cheerful; favorable to happiness. Be of good comfort.
    26. Great or considerable; not small nor very great; as a good while ago; he is a good way off, or at a good distance; he has a good deal of leisure; I had a good share of the trouble. Here we see the primary sense of extending, advancing.
    27. Elegant; polite; as good breeding.
    28. Real; serious; not feigned.
 Love not in good earnest.
    29. Kind; favorable; benevolent; humane.
 The men were very good to us. 1 Sam.25.
    30. Benevolent; merciful; gracious.
 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are
 of a clean heart. Ps.73.
    31. Seasonable; commendable; proper.
 Why trouble ye the woman, for she hath 
 wrought a good work on me. Matt.26.
    32. Pleasant; cheerful; festive.
 We come in a good day.  1 Sam.25.
    33. Companionable; social; merry.
 It is well known, that Sir Roger had been a good fellow in his youth.
    34. Brave; in familiar language. You are a good fellow.
    35. In the phrases, the good man, applied to the master of the house,and good woman, applied to the mistress, good sometimes expresses a moderate degree of respect, and sometimes slight contempt. Among the first settlers of New England, it was used as a title instead of Mr.; as Goodman Jones; Goodman Wells.
   36. The phrase good will is equivalent to benevolence; but it signifies also an earnest desire, a hearty wish, entire willingness or fervent zeal; as, we entered into the service with a good will; he laid on stripes with a good will.
    37. Comely; handsome; well formed; as a good person or shape.
    38. Mild; pleasant; expressing benignity or other estimable qualities; as a good countenance.
    39. Mild; calm; not irritable or fractious; as a good temper.
    40. Kind; friendly; humane; as a good heart or disposition.
Good advice, wise and prudent counsel.
Good heed, great care; due caution.
In good south, in good truth; in reality.
To make good, to perform; to fulfill; as, to make good one's word or promise; that is to make it entire or unbroken.
1.  To confirm or establish; to prove; to verify; as, to make good a charge or accusation.
2.  To supply deficiency; to make up a defect or loss.  I will make good what is wanting.
3.  To indemnify; to give an equivalent for damages. If you suffer loss, I will make it good to you.
4.  To maintain; to carry into effect; as, to make good a retreat.
To stand good, to be firm or valid.  His word or promise stands good.
To think good, to see good, is to be pleased or satisfied; to think to be expedient.
 If ye think good, give me my price. Zech.11.
As good as, equally; no better than; the same as.  We say, one is as good as dead.  Heb.11.
As good as his word, equaling in fulfillment what was promised; performing to the extent.
GOOD, n.  That which contributes to diminish or remove pain, or to increase happiness or prosperity; benefit; advantage; opposed to evil or misery. The medicine will do neither good nor harm. It does my heart good to see you so happy.
 There are many that say, who will show us any good. Ps.4.
1.  Welfare; prosperity; advancement of interest or happiness.  He labored for the good of the state.
 The good of the whole community can be promoted only by advancing the good of each of the members composing it.
2.  Spiritual advantage or improvement; as the good of souls.
3.  Earnest; not jest.
 The good woman never died after this, till she came to die for good and all.
The phrase, for good and all, signifies, finally; to close the whole business; for the last time.
4.  Moral works; actions which are just and in conformity to the moral law or divine precepts.
 Depart from evil, and do good. Ps.34.
5.  Moral qualities; virtue; righteousness.
 I find no good in this man.
6. The best fruits; richness; abundance.
 I will give you the good of the land. Gen.45.
GOOD, v.t.  To manure.  [Not in use.]
GOOD, adv.  As good, as well; with equal advantage.  Had you not as good go with me?  In America we use goods,the Gothic word.  Had you not as goods go?
In replies, good signifies well; right; it is satisfactory; I am satisfied.  I will be with you to morrow; answer, good, very good.  So we use well, from the root of L. valeo, to be strong.


Topic: Good-fellow
Definition:
GOOD-FEL'LOW, n.  A jolly companion.  [This is hardly to be admitted as a compound word.]
GOOD-FEL'LOW, v.t.  To make a jolly companion; to besot.  [Little used.]


Topic: Good-friday
Definition:
GOOD-FRI'DAY, n. A fast of the christian church, in memory of our Savior's sufferings,kept in passion week.


Topic: Goodings
Definition:
GOOD'INGS, n.  In seamen's language, clamps of iron bolted on the stern-post of a ship, whereon to hang the rudder.


Topic: Goodliness
Definition:
GOOD'LINESS, n.  [from goodly.]  Beauty of form; grace; elegance.
 Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes.


Topic: Goodly
Definition:
GOOD'LY, adv.  Excellently.
GOOD'LY, a.  Being of a handsome form; beautiful; graceful; as a goodly person; goodly raiment; goodly houses.
1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable; as goodly days.
2. Bulky; swelling; affectedly turgid.


Topic: Goodman
Definition:
GOOD'MAN, n. A familiar appellation of civility; sometimes used ironically.
 With you, goodman boy, if you please.
1.  A rustic term of compliment; as old goodman Dobson.
2.  A familiar appellation of a husband; also,the master of a family.  Prov.7. Matt.24.


Topic: Goodness
Definition:
GOOD'NESS, n.  The state of being good; the physical qualities which constitute value, excellence or perfection; as the goodness of timber; the goodness of a soil.
1.  The moral qualities which constitute christian excellence; moral virtue; religion.
 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. Gal.5.
2.  Kindness; benevolence; benignity of heart; but more generally, acts of kindness; charity; humanity exercised. I shall remember his goodness to me with gratitude.
3.  Kindness; benevolence of nature; mercy.
 The Lord God--abundant in goodness and truth. Ex.34.
4. Kindness; favor shown; acts of benevolence, compassion or mercy.
 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah
 had done to Israel. Ex.18.


Topic: Goods
Definition:
GOODS, n.  plu. Movables; household furniture.
1.  Personal or movable estate; as horses, cattle, utensils, &c.
2.  Wares; merchandize; commodities bought and sold by merchants and traders.


Topic: Goose
Definition:
GOOSE, n.  goos. plu. geese.
1.  A well known aquatic fowl of the genus Anas; but the domestic goose lives chiefly on land, and feeds on grass. The soft feathers are used for beds, and the quills for pens.  The wild goose is migratory.
2.  A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle which resembles the neck of a goose.


Topic: Gooseberry
Definition:
GOOSEBERRY, n.  goos'berry.  [L. grossula.  The English word is undoubtedly corrupted from crossberry, grossberry, or gorseberry; a name taken from the roughness of the shrub.  See Cross and Gross.]
The fruit of a shrub, and the shrub itself, the Ribes grossularia.  The shrub is armed with spines.  Of the fruit there are several varieties.
The American gooseberry belongs to the genus Melastoma, and the West Indian, gooseberry to the genus Cactus.


Topic: Goosegrass
Definition:
GOOSEGR`ASS, n.  goos'grass.  A plant of the genus Galium.  Also, the name of certain plants of the genera Potentilla and Asperugo.


Topic: Gooseneck
Definition:
GOOSENECK, n.  goos'neck.   In a ship, a piece of iron fixed on one end of the tiller, to which the laniard of the whip-staff or wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship; also, an iron hook on the inner end of a boom.


Topic: Goosewing
Definition:
GOOSEWING, n.  goos'wing.  In seamen's language, a sail set on a boom on the lee side of a ship; also, the clues or lower corners of a ship's main-sail or fore-sail, when the middle part is furled.


Topic: Gordian
Definition:
GORD'IAN, a.  Intricate. [See the next word.]
Gordian knot, in antiquity, a knot in the leather or harness of Gordius, a king of Phrygia, so very intricate, that there was no finding where it began or ended. An oracle declared that he who should untie this knot should be master of Asia. Alexander, fearing that his inability to untie it should prove an ill augury, cut it asunder with his sword.  Hence, in modern language, a Gordian knot is an inextricable difficulty; and to cut the Gordian knot, is to remove a difficulty by bold or unusual measures.


Topic: Gore
Definition:
GORE, n.  [Gr. from issuing.]
1.  Blood; but generally, thick or clotted blood; blood that after effusion becomes inspissated.
2.  Dirt; mud.  [Unusual.]
GORE, n.
1.  A wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth sewed into a garment to widen it in any part.
2.  A slip or triangular piece of land.
3.  In heraldry, an abatement denoting a coward.  It consists of two arch lines, meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fess point.
GORE, v.t.
1.  To stab; to pierce; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear.
2.  To pierce with the point of a horn.
 If an ox gore a man or a woman--Ex.21.


Topic: Gorge
Definition:
GORGE, n.  gorj.  [L. gurges.]
1.  The throat; the gullet; the canal of the neck by which food passes to the stomach.
2. In architecture, the narrowest part of the Tuscan and Doric capitals, between the astragal, above the shaft of the column, and the annulets.
3.  In fortification, the entrance of the platform of any work.
4. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
GORGE, v.t. gorj.  To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.  Hence,
1.  To glut; to fill the throat or stomach; to satiate.
 The giant, gorged with flesh---
GORGE, v.i. To feed.


Topic: Gorged
Definition:
GORG'ED, pp.  Swallowed; glutted.
GORG'ED, a. Having a gorge or throat.
1.  In heraldry, bearing a crown or the like about the neck.


Topic: Gorgeous
Definition:
GOR'GEOUS, a. Showy; fine; splendid; glittering with gay colors.
 With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway.
 A gorgeous robe.  Luke 23.


Topic: Gorget
Definition:
GORG'ET, n.  A piece of armor for defending the throat or neck; a kind of breast-plate like a half-moon; also, a small convex ornament worn by officers on the breast.
1.  Formerly, a ruff worn by females.
2.  In surgery, gorget, or gorgeret, is a cutting instrument used in lithotomy; also, a concave or cannulated conductor, called a blunt gorget.


Topic: Gorgon
Definition:
GORG'ON, n.  [Gr.]  A fabled monster of terrific aspect, the sight of which turned the beholder to stone.  The poets represent the Gorgons as three sisters, Stheno, Euryale and Medusa; but authors are not agreed in the description of them.
1.  Any thing very ugly or horrid.
GORG'ON, a.  Like a gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as a gorgon face.


Topic: Gory
Definition:
GO'RY, a.  [from gore.]  Covered with congealed or clotted blood; as gory locks.
1.  Bloody; murderous.


Topic: Goshawk
Definition:
GOS'HAWK, n.  A voracious fowl of the genus Falco, or hawk kind, larger than the common buzzard, but of a more slender shape. The general color of the plumage is a deep brown; the breast and belly white.


Topic: Gospel
Definition:
GOS'PEL, n. [L. evangelium, a good or joyful message.]
The history of the birth, life, actions, death, resurrection, ascension and doctrines of Jesus Christ; or a revelation of the grace of God to fallen man through a mediator, including the character, actions, and doctrines of Christ, with the whole scheme of salvation, as revealed by Christ and his apostles. This gospel is said to have been preached to Abraham, by the promise, 'in thee shall all nations be blessed.'  Ga.3.8.
It is called the gospel of God. Rom.1.1.
It is called the gospel of Christ. Rom.1.16.
It is called the gospel of salvation. Eph. 1.13.
1.  God's word.
2.  Divinity; theology.
3.  Any general doctrine.
GOS'PEL, v.t. To instruct in the gospel; or to fill with sentiments of religion.


Topic: Gospel-gossip
Definition:
GOS'PEL-GOSSIP, n. One who is over zealous in running about among his neighbors to lecture on religious subjects.


Topic: Gospelize
Definition:
GOS'PELIZE, v.t.  To form according to the gospel.
1.  To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages.


Topic: Gospeller
Definition:
GOS'PELLER, n. An evangelist; also, a follower of Wickliffe, the first Englishman who attempted a reformation from popery.  [Not much used.
1.  He who reads the gospel at the altar.


Topic: Gossamer
Definition:
GOS'SAMER, n.  [L. gossipium, cotton.]  A fine filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm clear weather, especially in autumn.  It is seen in stubble fields and on furz or low bushes, and is probably formed by a species of spider.


Topic: Gossip
Definition:
GOS'SIP, n.
1.  A sponsor; one who answers for a child in baptism; a godfather.
2.  A tippling companion.
 And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl.
3.  One who runs from house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.  [This is the sense in which the word is now used.]
4.  A friend or neighbor.
5.  Mere tattle; idle talk.
GOS'SIP, v.i.  To prate; to chat; to talk much.
1.  To be a pot-companion.
2.  To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.


Topic: Gossiping
Definition:
GOS'SIPING, ppr.  Prating; chatting; running from place to place and tattling.
GOS'SIPING, n.  A prating; a running about to collect tales and tattle.


Topic: Gossipred
Definition:
GOS'SIPRED, n. Compaternity; spiritual affinity, for which a juror might be challenged.  [Not used.]


Topic: Goth
Definition:
GOTH, n.  One of an ancient and distinguished tribe or nation, which inhabited Scandinavia, now Sweden and Norway, whose language is now retained in those countries, and a large portion of it is found in English.
1.  One rude or uncivilized; a barbarian.
2.  A rude ignorant person.


Topic: Gothamist
Definition:
GO'THAMIST, n.  A person deficient in wisdom, so called from Gotham in Nottinghamshire, noted for some pleasant blunders.


Topic: Gothic
Definition:
GOTH'IC, a.  Pertaining to the Goths; as Gothic customs; Gothic architecture; Gothic barbarity.
1.  Rude; ancient.
2.  Barbarous.
GOTH'IC, n.  The language of the Goths.


Topic: Gothicism
Definition:
GOTH'ICISM, n.  Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.
1.  A Gothic idiom.
2.  Conformity to the Gothic style of building.


Topic: Gouge
Definition:
GOUGE, n. gouj.  A round hollow chisel, used to cut holes, channels or grooves in wood or stone.
GOUGE, v.t. gouj.  To scoop out with a gouge.
1.  To force out the eye of a person with the thumb or finger; a barbarous practice.


Topic: Gouland
Definition:
GOUL'AND, n.  A plant or flower.
Goulard's Extract, so called from the inventor, a saturated solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a remedy for inflammation.


Topic: Gourd
Definition:
GOURD, n.  A plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucurbita. There are several species, as the bottle-gourd, the shell-gourd or calabash, the warted gourd, &c.  The shell is sometimes used for a piggin or for a bottle.


Topic: Gout
Definition:
GOUT, n.  [L. gutta.]
1.  The arthritis, a painful disease of the small joints, but sometimes affecting the stomach.  It is often periodical or intermitting.
2.  A drop.  [Not used.]
GOUT, n.  goo.  [L. gustus, taste.]  Taste; relish.


Topic: Gouty
Definition:
GOUT'Y, a.  Diseased with the gout, or subject to the gout; as a gouty person; a gouty joint; a gouty constitution.
1.  Pertaining to the gout; as gouty matter.
2.  Swelled; boggy; as gouty land.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Govern
Definition:
GOV'ERN, v.t.  [L. guberno.  The L. guberno seems to be a compound.]
1.  To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority; to keep within the limits prescribed by law or sovereign will.  Thus in free states, men are governed by the constitution and laws; in despotic states, men are governed by the edicts or commands of a monarch.  Every man should govern well his own family.
2.  To regulate; to influence; to direct.  This is the chief point by which he is to govern all his counsels and actions.
3.  To control; to restrain; to keep in due subjection; as, to govern the passions or temper.
4.  To direct; to steer; to regulate the course or motion of a ship. The helm or the helmsman governs the ship.
5.  In grammar, to require to be in a particular case; as, a verb transitive governs a word in the accusative case; or to require a particular case; as, a verb governs the accusative case.
GOV'ERN, v.i.  To exercise authority; to administer the laws.  The chief magistrate should govern with impartiality.
1.  To maintain the superiority; to have the control.


Topic: Governable
Definition:
GOV'ERNABLE, a.  That may be governerned, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient; submissive to law or rule.


Topic: Governance
Definition:
GOV'ERNANCE,n.  Government; exercise of authority; direction; control; management, either of a public officer, or of a private guardian or tutor.


Topic: Governant
Definition:
GOV'ERNANT, n.  A lady who has the care and management of young females; a governess.  [The latter is more generally used.]


Topic: Governess
Definition:
GOV'ERNESS, n.  A female invested with authority to control and direct; a tutoress; an instructress; a woman who has the care of instructing and directing young ladies.


Topic: Governing
Definition:
GOV'ERNING, pr.  Directing; controlling; regulating by laws or edicts; managing; influencing; restraining.
1.  Holding the superiority; prevalent; as a governing wind; a governing party n a state.
2.  Directing; controlling; as a governing motive.


Topic: Government
Definition:
GOV'ERNMENT, n.  Direction; regulation.  These precepts will serve for the government of our conduct.
1.  Control; restraint. Men are apt to neglect the government of their temper and passions.
2.  The exercise of authority; direction and restraint exercised over the actions of men in communities, societies or states; the administration of public affairs, according to established constitution, laws and usages, or by arbitrary edicts.  Prussia rose to importance under the government of Frederick II.
3.  The exercise of authority by a parent or householder.  Children are often ruined by a neglect of government in parents.
 Let family government be like that of our heavenly Father, mild, gentle and affectionate.
4.  The system of polity in a state; that form of fundamental rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed, or by which individual members of a body politic are to regulate their social actions; a constitution, either written or unwritten, by which the rights and duties of citizens and public officers are prescribed and defined; as a monarchial government, or a republican government.
Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without the pretence of miracle or mystery, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.
5.  An empire, kingdom or state; any territory over which the right of sovereignty is extended.
6.  The right of governing or administering the laws.  The king of England vested the government of Ireland in the lord lieutenant.
7.  The persons or council which administer the laws of a kingdom or state; executive power.
8.  Manageableness; compliance; obsequiousness.
9.  Regularity of behavior.  [Not in use.]
    10. Management of the limbs or body. [Not in use.]
    11. In grammar, the influence of a word in regard to construction,as when established usage required that one word should cause another to be in a particular case or mode.


Topic: Governor
Definition:
GOV'ERNOR, n.  He that governs, rules or directs; one invested with supreme authority.  The Creator is the rightful governor of all his creatures.
1. One who is invested with supreme authority to administer or enforce the laws; the supreme executive magistrate of a state, commmunity, corporation or post. Thus, in America, each state has its governor; Canada has its governor.
2.  A tutor; one who has the care of a young man; one who instructs him and forms his manners.
3.  A pilot; one who steers a ship.  James 3.
4.  One possessing delegated authority.  Joseph was governor over the land of Egypt. Obadiah was governor over Ahab's house.  Damascus had a governor under Aretas the king.


Topic: Gown
Definition:
GOWN, n.  
1.  A woman;s upper garment.
2.  A long loose upper garment or robe, worn by professional men, as divines, lawyers, students, &c., who are called men of the gown or gownmen.  It is made of any kind of cloth worn over ordinary clothes,and hangs down to the ankles or nearly so.
4.  The dress of peace, or the civil magistracy; cedant arma togoe.
 He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield.


Topic: Gownman
Definition:
GOWN'MAN, n. One whose professional habit is a gown.
 The gownman learn'ed.
1.  One devoted to the arts of peace.


Topic: Grab
Definition:
GRAB, n.  A vessel used on the Malabar coast,having two or three masts.
GRAB, v.t.  To seize; to gripe suddenly.  [Vulgar.]


Topic: Grabble
Definition:
GRAB'BLE, v.i.  [Eng. scrabble; allied to rub, or L. rapio, or to both.]
1.  To grope; to feel with the hands.
2.  To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl.


Topic: Grace
Definition:
GRACE, n.  [L. gratia, which is formed on the Celtic; Eng. agree, congruous, and ready.  The primary sense of gratus, is free, ready, quick, willing, prompt, from advancing.]
1.  Favor; good will; kindness; disposition to oblige another; as a grant made as an act of grace.
 Or each, or all, may win a lady's grace.
2.  Appropriately, the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all the benefits men receive from him.
 And if by grace,then it is no more of works.  Rom.11.
3.  Favorable influence of God; divine influence or the influence of the spirit, in renewing the heart and restraining from sin.
 My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Cor.12.
4.  The application of Christ's righteousness to the sinner.
 Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.  Rom.5.
5.  A state of reconciliation to God.  Rom.5.2.
6.  Virtuous or religious affection or disposition, as a liberal disposition, faith, meekness, humility, patience, &c. proceeding from divine influence.
7.  Spiritual instruction, improvement and edification. Eph.4.29.
8.  Apostleship, or the qualifications of an apostle. Eph. 3.8.
9.  Eternal life; final salvation. 1 Pet.1.13.
    10. Favor; mercy; pardon.
 Bow and sue for grace
 With suppliant knee.
    11. Favor conferred.
 I should therefore esteem it a great favor and grace.
    12. Privilege.
 To few great Jupiter imparts this grace.
    13. That in manner, deportment or language which renders it appropriate and agreeable; suitableness; elegance with appropriate dignity. We say, a speaker delivers his address with grace; a man performs his part with grace.
 Grace was in all her steps.
 Her purple habit sits with such a grace
 On her smooth shoulders.
    14. Natural or acquired excellence; any endowment that recommends the possessor to others; as the graces of wit and learning.
    15. Beauty; embellishment; in general, whatever adorns and recommends to favor; sometimes, a single beauty.
 I pass their form and every charming grace.
    16. Beauty deified; among pagans, a goddess. The graces were three in number, Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, the constant attendants of Venus.
 The loves delighted, and the graces played.
    17. Virtue physical; as the grace of plants. [Not used.]
    18. The title of a duke or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England, meaning your goodness or clemency. His Grace the Duke of York. Your Grace will please to accept my thanks.
    19. A short prayer before or after meat; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered.
    20. In music, graces signifies turns, trills and shakes introduced for embellishment.
Day in grace, in theology, time of probation, when an offer is made to sinners.
Days in grace, in commerce, the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payor to make payment in.  In Great Britain and the United States the days of grace are three, but in other countries more; the usages of merchants being different.
GRACE, v.t.  To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
 Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
 And hail, ye fair, of every charm possess'd,
 Who grace this rising empire of the west.
1.  To dignify or raise by act of favor; to honor.
 He might at his pleasure grace or disgrace whom
 he would in court.
2.  To favor; to honor.
3.  To supply with heavenly grace.


Topic: Graced
Definition:
GRA'CED, pp.  Adorned; embellished; exalted; dignifies; honored.
1.  Beautiful; graceful.  [Not in use.]
2.  Virtuous; regular; chaste.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Graceful
Definition:
GRA'CEFUL, a.  Beautiful with dignity; elegant; agreeable in appearance,with an expression of dignity or elevation of mind or manner; used particularly of motion, looks and speech; as a graceful walk; a graceful deportment; a graceful speaker; a graceful air.
 High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus
 rode.


Topic: Gracefully
Definition:
GRA'CEFULLY, adv. With a pleasing dignity; elegantly; with a natural ease and propriety; as, to walk or speak gracefully.


Topic: Gracefulness
Definition:
GRA'CEFULNESS, n.  Elegance of manner or deportment; beauty with dignity in manner, motion or countenance.  Gracefulness consists in the natural ease and propriety of an action, accompanied with a countenance expressive of dignity or elevation of mind.  Happy is the man who can add the gracefulness of ease to the dignity of merit.


Topic: Gracious
Definition:
GRA'CIOUS, a.  [L. gratiosus.]
1.  Favorable; kind; friendly; as,the envoy met with a gracious reception.
2.  Favorable; kind; benevolent; merciful; disposed to forgive offenses and impart unmerited blessings.
 Thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious and
 merciful. Neh.9.
3.  Favorable; expressing kindness and favor.
 All bore him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth.  Luke 4.
4.  Proceeding from divine grace; as a person in a gracious state.
   5. Acceptable; favored.
 He made us gracious before the kings of Persia.  [Little used.]  1 Esdras.
6.  Renewed or implanted by grace; as gracious affections.
7.  Virtuous; good.
8.  Excellent; graceful; becoming.


Topic: Graciously
Definition:
GRA'CIOUSLY, adv. Kindly; favorably; in a friendly manner; with kind condescension.
 His testimony he graciously confirmed.
1.  In a pleasing manner.


Topic: Graciousness
Definition:
GRA'CIOUSNESS, n.  Kind condescension.
1.  Possession of graces or good qualities.
2.  Pleasing manner.
3.  Mercifulness.


Topic: Gradation
Definition:
GRADA'TION, n.  [L. gradatio.]
1.  A series of ascending steps or degrees, or a proceeding step by step; hence,progress from one degree or state to another; a regular advance from step to step.  We observe a gradation in the progress of society from a rude to civilized life. Men may arrive by several gradations to the most horrid impiety.
2.  A degree in any order or series; we observe a gradation in the scale of being, from brute to mane, from man to angels.
3.  Order; series; regular process by degrees or steps; as a gradation in argument or description.


Topic: Grade
Definition:
GRADE, n.  [L. gradus, a step. gradior, to step to go, rota.  We observe further that the Latin gradior forms gressus, by a common change of d to s; Heb. to descend.]
1.  A degree or rank in order or dignity, civil,military or ecclesiastical.
 While questions, periods, and grades and privileges are never once formally discussed.
2.  A step or degree in any ascending series; as crimes of every grade.
 When we come to examine the intermediate grades.


Topic: Gradual
Definition:
GRAD'UAL,a.  Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing step by step; passing from one step to another; regular and slow; as a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual increase of light in the morning is favorable to the eyes.
1.  Proceeding by degrees in a descending line or progress; as a gradual decline.


Topic: Gradually
Definition:
GRAD'UALLY, adv.  By degrees; step by step; regularly; slowly.  At evening the light vanishes gradually.
1.  In degree.  [Not used.]
 Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically differ from the fantastic reason of brutes.


Topic: Graduate
Definition:
GRAD'UATE, v.t.  [L. gradus, a degree.]
1.  To honor with a degree or diploma, in a college or university; to confer a degree on; as, to graduate a master of arts.
2.  To mark with degrees, regular intervals, or division; as, to graduate a thermometer.
 3.  To form shades or nice differences.
4.  To raise to a higher place in the scale of metals.
5.  To advance by degrees; to improve.
 Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.
6.  To temper; to prepare.
 Diseases originating in the atmosphere act exclusively on bodies graduated to receive their impressions.
7.  To mark degrees or differences of any kind; as, to graduate punishment.
8.  In chimistry, to bring fluids to a certain degree of consistency.
GRAD'UATE, v.i.  To receive a degree from a college or university.
1.  To pass by degrees; to change gradually.  Sandstone which graduates into gneiss, Carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
GRAD'UATE, n.  One who has received a degree in a college or university, or from some professional incorporated society.


Topic: Graduated
Definition:
GRAD'UATED, pp. Honored with a degree or diploma from some learned society or college.
1.  Marked with degrees or regular intervals; tempered.


Topic: Graduation
Definition:
GRADUA'TION, n.  Regular progression by succession of degrees.
1.  Improvement; exaltation of qualities.
2.  The act of conferring or receiving academical degrees.
3.  The act of marking with degrees.
4.  The process of bringing a liquid to a certain consistence by evaporation.


Topic: Graft
Definition:
GR`AFT, n.  [L. scribo, the sense of which is to scrape or to dig.]
A small shoot or cion of a tree, inserted in another tree as the stock which is to support and nourish it.  These unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
GR`AFT, v.t.  To insert a cion or shoot, or a small cutting of it, into another tree.
1.  To propagate by insertion or inoculation.
2.  To insert in a body to which it did not originally belong.  Rom.11.17.
3.  To impregnate with a foreign branch.
4.  To join one thing to another so as to receive support from it.
 And graft my love immortal on thy fame.
GR`AFT, v.i.  To practice the insertion of foreign cions on a stock.


Topic: Grafting
Definition:
GR`AFTING, ppr. Inserting cions on different stocks.
Note.  The true original orthography of this word is graff; but graft has superseded the original word, as it has in the compound ingraft.


Topic: Grail
Definition:
GRAIL, n.  [L. graduale.]  A book of offices in the Romish church.
GRAIL, n.  Small particles of any kind.


Topic: Grain
Definition:
GRAIN, n.  [L. granum.]
1.  Any small hard mass; as a grain of sand or gravel.  Hence,
2.  A single seed or hard seed of a plant, particularly of those kinds whose seeds are used for food of man or beast.  This is usually inclosed in a proper shell or covered with a husk,and contains the embryo of a new plant.  Hence,
3.  Grain, without a definitive, signifies corn in general, or the fruit of certain plants which constitutes the chief food of man and beast, as wheat, rye, barley, oats and maiz.
4.  A minute particle.
5.  A small weight, or the smallest weight ordinarily used, being the twentieth part of the scruple in apothecaries' weight, and the twenty fourth of a pennyweight troy.
6.  A component part of stones and metals.
7.  The veins or fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; whence, cross-grained, and against the grain.
8.  The body or substance of wood as modified by the fibers.
 Hard box, and linden of a softer grain.
9.  The body or substance of a thing considered with respect to the size, form or direction of the constituent particles; as stones of a fine grain.
 The tooth of a sea-horse,contains a curdled grain.
    10. Any thing proverbially small; a very small particle or portion; as a grain of wit or of common sense.
 Neglect not to make use of any grain of grace.
    11. Dyed or stained substance.
 All in a robe of darkest grain.
    12. The direction of the fibers of wood or other fibrous substance; hence the phrase, against the grain, applied to animals, that is, against their natural tempers.
    13. The heart or temper; as brothers not united in grain.
    14. The form of the surface of any thing with respect to smoothness or roughness; state of the grit of any body composed of grains; as sandstone of a fine grain.
    15. A tine, prong or spike.
A grain of allowance, a small allowance or indulgence; a small portion to be remitted; something above or below just weight.
To dye in grain, is to dye in the raw material, as wool or silk before it is manufactured.
GRAIN, v.i.  To yield fruit.
GRAIN, or GRANE, for groan.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Grainer
Definition:
GRA'INER, n.  A lixivium obtained by infusing pigeon's dung in water; used by tanners to give flexibility to skins.


Topic: Grains
Definition:
GRAINS, n.  [in the plural.]  The husks or remains of malt after brewing, or of any grain after distillation.
Grains of paradise, an Indian spice,the seeds of a species of Amomum.


Topic: Grallic
Definition:
GRAL'LIC, a. [L. gralloe, stilts, crutches.]   Stilted; an epithet given to an order of fowls having long legs, naked above the knees, which fit them for wading in water.


Topic: Gram
Definition:
GRAM, a.  Angry.
GRAM, n. [Gr. the twenty fourth part of an ounce.]
In the new system of French weights, the unity of weights.  It is the weight of a quantity of distilled water equal to a cubic centimeter, or 18 grains French, or du poids de marc, equal to 15.444 grains troy.


Topic: Graminivorous
Definition:
GRAMINIV'OROUS, a.  [L. gramen, grass, and voro, to eat.]
Feeding or subsisting on grass.  The ox and all the bovine genus of quadrupeds are graminivorous animals; so also the horse or equine genus.


Topic: Grammar
Definition:
GRAM'MAR, n.  [L. grammatica; Gr. a letter, to write.]
1. In practice, the art of speaking or writing a language with propriety or correctness, according to established usage.
As a science, grammar treats of the natural connection between ideas and words, and develops the principles which are common to all languages.
2.  A system of general principles and of particular rules for speaking or writing a language; or  digested compilation of customary forms of speech in a nation; also, a book containing such principles and rules.
3.  Propriety of speech. To write grammar, we must write according to the practice of good writers and speakers.
GRAM'MAR, v.i.  To discourse according to the rules of grammar.
GRAM'MAR, a.  Belonging to or contained in grammar; as a grammar rule.


Topic: Grammar-school
Definition:
GRAM'MAR-SCHOOL, n.  A school in which the learned languages are taught.  By learned languages, we usually mean the Latin and Greek; but others may be included.


Topic: Grammarian
Definition:
GRAMMA'RIAN, n.  One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
1.  One who teaches grammar.


Topic: Grammatical
Definition:
GRAMMAT'ICAL, a.  Belonging to grammar; as a grammatical rule.
1.  According to the rules of grammar.  We say, a sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical.


Topic: Grammatically
Definition:
GRAMMAT'ICALLY, adv.  According to the principles and rules of grammar; as, to write or speak grammatically.


Topic: Grampus
Definition:
GRAM'PUS, n.  A fish of the cetaceous order, and genus Delphinus. This fish grows to the length of twenty five feet, and is remarkably thick in proportion to its length.  The nose is flat and turns up at the end.  It has 30 teeth in each jaw.  The spout-hole is on the top of the neck. The color of the back is black; the belly is of a snowy whiteness; and on each shoulder is a large white spot.  This fist is remarkably voracious.


Topic: Granary
Definition:
GRAN'ARY, n.  [L. granarium, from granum, grain.]
A store house or repository of grain after it is thrashed; a corn-house.


Topic: Grand
Definition:
GRAND, a.  [L. grandis.]
1.  Great; but mostly in a figurative sense; illustrious; high in power or dignity; as a grand lord.
2.  Great; splendid; magnificent; as a grand design; a grand parade; a grand view or prospect.
3.  Great; principal; chief; as Satan our grand foe.
4.  Noble; sublime; lofty; conceived or expressed with great dignity; as a grand conception.
In general, we apply the epithet grand to that which is great and elevated, or which elevates and expands our ideas.  The ocean,the sky, a lofty tower are grand objects.  But to constitute a thing grand, it seems necessary that it should be distinguished by some degree of beauty.
5.  Old; more advanced; as in grandfather, grandmother, that is, old-father; and to correspond with this relation, we use grandson, granddaughter, grandchild.


Topic: Grandee
Definition:
GRANDEE', n.  A nobleman; a man of elevated rank or station.  In Spain, a nobleman of the first rank, who has the king's leave to be covered in his presence.


Topic: Grandeur
Definition:
GRAND'EUR, n. In a general sense, greatness; that quality or combination of qualities in an object, which elevates or expands the mind, and excites pleasurable emotions in him who views or contemplates it.  Thus the extent and uniformity of surface in the ocean constitute grandeur; as do the extent, the elevation, and the concave appearance or vault of the sky.  So we speak of the grandeur of a large and well proportioned edifice, of an extensive range of lofty mountains, of a large cataract, of a pyramid. &c.
1.  Splendor of appearance; state; magnificence; as the grandeur of a court, of a procession. &c.
2.  Elevation of thought, sentiment or expression. We speak of the grandeur of conceptions, and of style or diction.
3.  Elevation of mien or air and deportment.


Topic: Grandfather
Definition:
GRAND'F`ATHER, n.  A father's or mother's father; the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.


Topic: Granilite
Definition:
GRAN'ILITE,n.  [See Granit.]  Indeterminate granit; granit that contains more than three constituent parts.


Topic: Granitel
Definition:
GRAN'ITEL, n.  [dim. of granit.]  A binary aggregate of minerals; a granitic compound containing two constituent parts, as quartz and feldspar, or quartz and shorl or hornblend.
Italian workmen give this name to a variety of gray granit consisting of small grains.


Topic: Granitic
Definition:
GRANIT'IC, a. Pertaining to granit; like granit; having the nature of granitic; as granitic texture.
1.  Consisting of granit; as granitic mountains.
Granitic aggregates, in mineralogy, granular compounds of two or more simple minerals, in which only one of the essential ingredients of granit is present; as quartz and hornblend, feldspar and shorl, &c.  Similar compounds occur, in which none of the ingredients of granit are present.


Topic: Granitin
Definition:
GRAN'ITIN, n.  A granitic aggregate of three species of minerals, some of which differ from the species which compose granit; as quartz, feldspar,and jade or shorl.


Topic: Granivorous
Definition:
GRANIV'OROUS, a.  [L. granum, grain, and voro, to eat.]
Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as granivorous birds.
Grannam, for grandam, a grandmother.  [Vulgar.]


Topic: Grant
Definition:
GR`ANT, v.t.
1.  To admit as true what is not proved; to allow; to yield; to concede.  We take that for granted which is supposed to be true.
 Grant that the fates have firmed, by their decree--
2.  To give; to bestow or confer on without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request.
 Thou hast granted me life and favor. Job.10.
 God granted him that which he requested. 1. Chron.4.
3.  To transfer the title of a thing to another, for a good or valuable consideration; to convey by deed or writing.  The legislature have granted all the new land.
 Grant me the place of this threshing floor. 1 Chron.21.
GR`ANT, n.  The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring.
1.  The thing granted or bestowed; a gift; a boon.
2.  In law, a conveyance in writing, of such things as cannot pass or be transferred by word only, as land, rents, reversions, tithes, &c.
 A grant is an executed contract.
3.  Concession; admission of something as true.
4.  The thing conveyed by deed or patent.


Topic: Granular
Definition:
GRAN'ULAR, a.  [from L. granum, grain.]
1.  Consisting of grains; as a granular substance.
2.  Resembling grains; as a stone of granular appearance.


Topic: Granulate
Definition:
GRAN'ULATE, v.t. [L. granum.]
1.  To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder or sugar.
2.  To raise into small asperities; to make rough on the surface.
GRAN'ULATE, v.i.  To collect or be formed into grains; as cane-juice granulates into sugar; melted metals granulate when poured into water.


Topic: Granulation
Definition:
GRANULA'TION, n.  The act of forming into grains; as the granulation of powder and sugar.  In chimistry, the granulation of metallic substances is performed by pouring the melted substances slowly into water, which is, at the same time, agitated with a broom.


Topic: Grape
Definition:
GRAPE, n. [This word is from the root of grab, gripe,and signifies primarily a cluster or bunch.]
1.  Properly, a cluster of the fruit of the vine; but with us, a single berry of the vine; the fruit from which wine is made by expression and fermentation.
2.  In the manege, grapes signifies mangy tumors on the legs of a horse.


Topic: Grapeshot
Definition:
GRA'PESHOT, n.  A cluster of small shot, confined in a canvas bag, forming a kind of cylinder, whose diameter is equal to that of the ball adapted to the cannon.


Topic: Graphite
Definition:
GRAPH'ITE, n.  [Gr. to write.]  Carburet of iron, a substance used for pencils, and very improperly called black-lead.


Topic: Graphometer
Definition:
GRAPHOM'ETER, n. [Gr. to describe, measure.]  A mathematical instrument, called also a semicircle, whose use is to observe any angle whose vertex is at the center of the instrument in any plane, and to find how many degrees it contains.


Topic: Grapling
Definition:
GRAP'LING, n.  
1.  A small anchor fitted with four or five flukes or claws, used to hold boats or small vessels.
2.  A grappling iron, used to seize and hold one ship to another in engagements.  This is called a fire grapling.


Topic: Grasp
Definition:
GR`ASP, v.t. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms.  We say, to grasp with the hand, or with the arms.
1. To catch; to seize; to lay hold of; to take possession of. Kings often grasp more than they can hold.
GR`ASP, v.i.  To catch or seize; to gripe.
1.  To struggle; to strive.  [Not in use.]
2.  To encroach.
To grasp at, to catch at; to try to seize. 
 Alexander grasped at universal empire.
GR`ASP, n.  The gripe or seizure of the hand.  This seems to be its proper sense; but it denotes also a seizure by embrace, or infolding in the arms.
1.  Possession; hold.
2.  Reach of the arms; and figuratively, the power of seizing. Bonaparte seemed to think he had the Russian empire within his grasp.


Topic: Grass
Definition:
GR`ASS, n.  
1.  In common usage, herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts.
2. In botany, a plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, a husky calyx, called glume, and the seed single. This definition includes wheat, rye, oats, barley, &c., and excludes clover and some other plants which are commonly called by the name of grass.  The grasses form a numerous family of plants.
Grass of Parnassus, a plant, the Parnassia.
GR`ASS, v.t.  To cover with grass or with turf.
GR`ASS, v.i.  To breed grass; to be covered with grass.


Topic: Grate
Definition:
GRATE, n.  [L. crates, a grate, a hurdle.]
1.  A work or frame, composed of parallel or cross bars, with interstices; a kind of lattice-work, such as is used in the windows of prisons and cloisters.
2.  An instrument or frame of iron bars for holding coals, used as fuel, in houses, stores, shops, &c.
GRATE, v.t. To furnish with grates; to make fast with cross bars.
GRATE, v.t.  [L. rado.]
1.  To rub, as a body with a rough surface against another body; to rub one thing against another, so as to produce a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth.
2.  To wear away in small particles, by rubbing with any thing rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.
3.  To offend; to fret; to vex; to irritate; to mortify; as, harsh words grate the heart; they are grating to the feeling; harsh sounds grate the ear.
4. To make a harsh sound, by rubbing or the friction of rough bodies.


Topic: Grateful
Definition:
GRA'TEFUL, a.  [from L. gratus.  See Grace.]
1.  Having a due sense of benefits; kindly disposed towards one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay benefits; as a grateful heart.
2.  Agreeable; pleasing; acceptable; gratifying; as a grateful present; a grateful offering.
3.  Pleasing to the taste; delicious; affording pleasure; as food or drink grateful offering.
 Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine,
 And grateful clusters swell with floods of wine.


Topic: Gratefully
Definition:
GRA'TEFULLY, adv.  With a due sense of benefits or favors; in a manner that disposes to kindness, in return for favors. The gift was gratefully received.
1.  In a pleasing manner. Study continually furnishes something new, which may strike the imagination gratefully.


Topic: Gratefulness
Definition:
GRA'TEFULNESS, n.  The quality of being grateful; gratitude.
1.  The quality of being agreeable or pleasant to the mind or to the taste.


Topic: Grater
Definition:
GRA'TER, n.  [See Grate.]  An instrument or utensil with a rough indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of a body; as a grater for nutmegs.


Topic: Gratification
Definition:
GRATIFICA'TION,n.  [L. gratificatio, from gratificor; gratus and facio, to make.]
1.  The act of pleasing, either the mind, the taste or the appetite.  We speak of the gratification of the taste or the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the mind, soul or heart.
2.  That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; delight.  It is not easy to renounce gratifications to which we are accustomed.
3.  Reward; recompense.


Topic: Gratify
Definition:
GRAT'IFY, v.t.  [L. gratificor; gratus, agreeable, and facio, to make.]
1.  To please; to give pleasure to; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, &c.
2.  To delight; to please; to humor; to soothe; to satisfy; to indulge to satisfaction.
 For who would die to gratify a foe?
3.  To requite; to recompense.


Topic: Gratifying
Definition:
GRAT'IFYING, ppr.  Pleasing; indulging to satisfaction.
1.  Giving pleasure; affording satisfaction.


Topic: Grating
Definition:
GRA'TING, ppr.  [See Grate.]  Rubbing; wearing off in particles.
1.  Fretting; irritating; harsh; as grating sounds, or a grating reflection.
GRA'TING


Topic: Gratings
Definition:
GRA'TINGS, n.  [See Grate.]  A partition of bars; an open cover for the hatches of a ship, resembling lattice-work.


Topic: Gratis
Definition:
GRA'TIS, adv. [L.]  For nothing; freely; without recompense; as, to give a thing gratis; to perform service gratis.


Topic: Gratitude
Definition:
GRAT'ITUDE, n.  [L. gratitudo, from gratus, pleasing.  See Grace.]
An emotion of the heart, excited by a favor or benefit received; a sentiment of kindness or good will towards a benefactor; thankfulness.  Gratitude is an agreeable emotion, consisting in or accompanied with good will to a benefactor,and a disposition to make a suitable return of benefits or services, or when no return can be made, with a desire to see the benefactor prosperous and happy.  Gratitude is a virtue of the highest excellence, as it implies a feeling and generous heart, and a proper sense of duty.
 The love of God is the sublimest gratitude.


Topic: Gratuitous
Definition:
GRATU'ITOUS, a. [L. gratuitus, from gratus.]
1.  Free; voluntary; not required by justice; granted without claim or merit.
 We mistake the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our own industry.
2.  Asserted or taken without proof; as a gratuitous argument or affirmation.


Topic: Gratuitously
Definition:
GRATU'ITOUSLY, adv.  Freely; voluntarily; without claim or merit; without an equivalent or compensation; as labor or services gratuitously bestowed.
1.  Without proof; as a principle gratuitously assumed.


Topic: Gratuity
Definition:
GRATU'ITY, n.
1.  A free gift; a present; a donation; that which is given without a compensation or equivalent.
2.  Something given in return for a favor; an acknowledgment.


Topic: Gratulate
Definition:
GRAT'ULATE, v.t. [L. gratulor, from gratus, pleasing, grateful.]
1. To express joy or pleasure to a person, on account of his success, or the reception of some good; to salute with declarations of joy; to congratulate.  [The latter word is more generally used.]
 To gratulate the gentle princes there.
2.  To wish or express joy to.
3.  To declare joy for; to mention with joy.


Topic: Gratulation
Definition:
GRATULA'TION, n. [L. gratulatio.]  An address or expression ofjoy to a person, on account of some good received by him; congratulation.
 I shall turn my wishes into gratulations.


Topic: Grave
Definition:
GRAVE, a final syllable, is a grove.
GRAVE, v.t. pret. graved; pp. graven or graved.  [Gr. to write; originally all writing was graving; Eng. to scrape.]
1.  To carve or cut letters or figures on stone or other hard substance, with a chisel or edged tool; to engrave. [The latter word is now more generally used.]
 Thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Ex.28.
2.  To carve; to form or shape by cutting with a chisel; as, to grave an image.
 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Ex.20.
3.  To clean a ship's bottom by burning off filth, grass or other foreign matter, and paying it over with pitch.
4.  To entomb.  [Unusual.]
GRAVE, v.i.  To carve; to write or delineate on hard substances; to practice engraving.
GRAVE, n.  [L. scrobs.]
1.  The ditch, pit or excavated place in which a dead human body is deposited; a place for the corpse of a human being; a sepulcher.
2.  A tomb.
3.  Any place where the dead are reposited; a place of great slaughter or mortality. Flanders was formerly the grave of English armies.  Russia proved to be the grave of the French army under Bonaparte.  The tropical climates are the grave of American seamen and of British soldiers.
4.  Graves, in the plural, sediment of tallow melted.  [Not in use or local.]


Topic: Grave-stone
Definition:
GRA'VE-STONE,n.  A stone laid over a grave, or erected near it, as a monument to preserve the memory of the dead.


Topic: Gravel
Definition:
GRAV'EL, n.  
1.  Small stones or fragments of stone, or very small pebbles, larger than the particles of sand, but often intermixed with them.
2.  In medicine, small calculous concretions in the kidneys and bladder.
GRAV'EL, v.t.  To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
1.  To stick in the sand.
2.  To puzzle; to stop; to embarrass.
3.  To hurt the foot of a horse, by gravel lodged under the shoe.


Topic: Gravel-walk
Definition:
GRAV'EL-WALK, n.  A walk or alley covered with gravel, which makes a hard and dry bottom; used in gardens and malls.


Topic: Gravelly
Definition:
GRAV'ELLY, a.  [from gravel.]  Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as a gravelly soil or land.


Topic: Gravely
Definition:
GRA'VELY, adv.  [from grave.]  In a grave, solemn manner; soberly; seriously.
 The queen of learning gravely smiles.
1.  Without gaudiness or show; as, to be dressed gravely.


Topic: Graver
Definition:
GRA'VER, n.  [See Grave.]  One who carves or engraves; one whose profession is to cut letters or figures in stone, &c.; a sculptor.
1.  An engraving tool; an instrument for graving on hard substances.


Topic: Graving
Definition:
GRA'VING, ppr.  Engraving; carving; cutting figures on stone, copper or other hard substance.
GRA'VING, n.  Carved work.  2 Chron.2.
1. Impression.


Topic: Gravitate
Definition:
GRAV'ITATE, v.i. [L. gravitas, from gravis, heavy.]
To tend to the center of a body, or the central point of attraction.  Thus a body elevated above the earth tends to fall, that is, it gravitates towards the center of the earth; and the planets are supposed to gravitate towards the sun, or center of the solar system.


Topic: Gravitation
Definition:
GRAVITA'TION, n.  The act of tending to the center.
1.  The force by which bodies are pressed or drawn, or by which they tend towards the center of the earth or other center, or the effect of that force. Thus the falling of a body to the earth is ascribed to gravitation.


Topic: Gravity
Definition:
GRAV'ITY, n. [L. gravitas, from gravis, heavy. See Grave.]
1.  Weight; heaviness.
2.  In philosophy, that force by which bodies tend or are pressed or drawn towards the center of the earth, or towards some other center, or the effect of that force; in which last sense gravity is synonymous with weight.


Topic: Gravy
Definition:
GRA'VY, n. The fat and other liquid matter that drips from flesh in roasting, or when roasted or baked, or a mixture of that juice with flour.


Topic: Gray
Definition:
GRAY, a.  [This is probably the name given to the Greeks, on account of their fair complexion compared with the Asiatics and Africans.  [See Europe.] 'Keto bore to Phorcus the Graiae with fair cheeks, white from their birth, and hence they were called Graiae.'  The Greek word is rendered an old woman, and in this passage of Hesiod, is supposed to mean certain deities. The probability is, that it is applied to an old woman, because she is gray.  But the fable of Hesiod is easily explained by supposing the author to have had in his mind some imperfect account of the origin of the Greeks.]
1. White, with a mixture of black.
 These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks.
2.  White; hoary; as gray hair.  We apply the word to hair that is partially or wholly white.
3.  Dark; of a mixed color; of the color of ashes; as gray eyes; the gray-eyed morn.
4.  Old; mature; as gray experience.
GRAY, n.  A gray color.
1.  A badger.


Topic: Grayling
Definition:
GRA'YLING, n.  A fish of the genus Salmo,called also umber, a voracious fish, about sixteen or eighteen inches in length, of a more elegant figure than the trout; the back and sides of a silvery gray color. It is found in clear rapid streams in the north of Europe, and is excellent food.


Topic: Graywacke
Definition:
GRAYWACKE, n.  A rock somewhat remarkable in its structure and geological relations; a kind of sandstone, composed of grains or fragments of different minerals, chiefly of quartz, feldspar, siliceous slate and argillite.  These fragments are sometimes angular, and sometimes their edges and angles are rounded, thus forming nodules or globular masses. The size is very variable, passing from grains to nodules of a foot in diameter.  The several ingredients are united by an indurated argillaceous substance, or the interstices between the larger fragments are filled by the same materials which compose the larger parts of the rock, but in grains so comminuted as to resemble a homogeneous cement.  The colors are some shade of gray or brown, as bluish gray, reddish brown. &c.


Topic: Graze
Definition:
GRAZE, v.t.  [L. rado, rasi, or rodo, rosi.]
1.  To rub or touch lightly in passing; to brush lightly in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall or the earth.
2.  To feed or supply cattle with grass; to furnish pasture for; as, the farmer grazes large herds of cattle.
3.  To feed on; to eat from the ground, as growing herbage.
 The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
4.  To tend grazing cattle; as, Jacob grazed Laban's sheep.
GRAZE, v.i.  To eat grass; to feed on growing herbage; as, cattle graze on the meadows.
1.  To supply grass; as, the ground will not graze well.
2.  To move on devouring.


Topic: Grazed
Definition:
GRA'ZED, pp.  Touched lightly by a passing body; brushed.
1.  Fed by growing grass; as, cattle are grazed.
2.  Eaten, as growing herbage; as, the fields were grazed.


Topic: Grazing
Definition:
GRA'ZING, ppr.  Touching lightly, as a moving body.
1.  Feeding on growing herbage; as grazing cattle.
2.  Supplying pasture; as a grazing farm.


Topic: Grease
Definition:
GREASE, n.  
1.  Animal fat in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind, as tallow, lard; but particularly the fatty matter of land animals, as distinguished from the oily matter of marine animals.
2.  A swelling and gourdiness of a horse's legs, occasioned by traveling or by standing long in a stable.
GREASE, v.t. greez.  To smear, anoint or daub with grease or fat.
1.  To bribe; to corrupt with presents.  [Not elegant.]


Topic: Greasy
Definition:
GRE'ASY, a.  greez'y.  Oily; fat; unctuous.
1.  Smeared or defiled with grease.
2.  Like grease or oil; smooth; as a fossil that has a greasy feel.
3.  Fat of body; bulky.  [Little used.]
4.  Gross; indelicate; indecent.


Topic: Great
Definition:
GREAT, a.  [L. crassus.]
1.  Large in bulk or dimensions; a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual; as a great body; a great house; a great farm.
2.  Being of extended length or breadth; as a great distance; a great lake.
3.  Large in number; as a great many; a great multitude.
4. Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing; as great fear; great love; great strength; great wealth; great power; great influence; great folly.
5.  Long continued; as a great while.
6.  Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter.
7.  Chief; principal; as the great seal of England.
8.  Chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; illustrious; as the great God; the great Creator.
9.  Vast; extensive; wonderful; admirable.
 Great are thy works. Jehovah.
    10. Possessing large or strong powers of mind; as a great genius.
    11. Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge; as a great philosopher or botanist; a great scholar.
    12. Distinguished by rank, office or power; elevated; eminent; as a great lord; the great men of the nation; the great Mogul; Alexander the great.
    13. Dignified in aspect,mien or manner.
 Amidst the crowd she walks serenely great.
    14. Magnanimous; generous; of elevated sentiments; high-minded. He has a great soul.
    15. Rich; sumptuous; magnificent. He disdained not to appear at great tables. A great feast or entertainment.
    16. Vast; sublime; as a great conception or idea.
    17. Dignified; noble.
 Nothing can be great which is not right.
    18. Swelling; proud; as, he was not disheartened by great looks.
    19. Chief; principal; much traveled; as a great road. The ocean is called the great highway of nations.
    20. Pregnant; teeming; as great with young.
    21. Hard; difficult. It is no great matter to live in peace with meek people.
    22. Familiar; intimate. [Vulgar.]
    23. Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. Jude 6.
    24. Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather; great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely; and great grandson, great great grandson. &c.
    25. Superior; preeminent; as great chamberlain; great marshal.
The sense of great is to be understood by the things it is intended to qualify.  Great pain or wrath is violent pain or wrath; great love is ardent love; great peace is entire peace; a great name is extensive renown; a great evil or sin, is a sin of deep malignity, &c.
GREAT, n.  The whole; the gross; the lump or mass; as, a carpenter contracts to build a ship by the great.
1.  People of rank or distinction.  The poor envy the great, and the great despise the poor.


Topic: Greatly
Definition:
GREATLY, adv. In a great degree; much.
 I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen.3.
1.  Nobly; illustriously.
 By a high fate, thou greatly didst expire.
2.  Magnanimously; generously; bravely.
 He greatly scorned to turn his back on his foe.  He greatly spurned the offered boon.


Topic: Greatness
Definition:
GREATNESS, n.  Largeness of bulk, dimensions, number or quantity; as the greatness of a mountain, of an edifice, of a multitude, or of a sum of money.  With reference to solid bodies, however, we more generally use bulk, size, extent or magnitude than greatness; as the bulk or size of the body; the extent of the ocean; the magnitude of the sun or of the earth.
1.  Large amount; extent; as the greatness of a reward.
2.  High degree; as the greatness of virtue or vice.
3.  High rank or place; elevation; dignity; distinction; eminence; power; command.
4.  Swelling pride; affected state.
 It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships.
5. Magnanimity; elevation of sentiment; nobleness; as greatness of mind.
 Virtue is the only solid basis of greatness.
6. Strength or extent of intellectual faculties; as the greatness of genius.
7.  Large extent or variety; as the greatness of a man's acquisitions.
8.  Grandeur; pomp; magnificence.
 Greatness with Timon dwells in such a draught,
 As brings all Brobdignag before your thought.
9.  Force; intensity; as the greatness of sound, of passion, heat, &c.


Topic: Grebe
Definition:
GREBE, n.  A fowl of the genus Colymbus and order of ansers, of several species; as the tippet-grebe, the horned grebe, the eared grebe or dob-chick.


Topic: Grecian
Definition:
GRE'CIAN, a.  Pertaining to Greece.
GRE'CIAN, n.  A native of Greece. Also, a Jew who understood Greek. Acts.6.
1. One well versed in the Greek language.


Topic: Grecize
Definition:
GRE'CIZE, v.t.  To render Grecian.
1.  To translate into Greek.
GRE'CIZE, v.i.  To speak the Greek language.


Topic: Greece
Definition:
GREECE, n. [L. gressus. It ought to be written grese, but it is entirely obsolete.]    A flight of steps.


Topic: Greedily
Definition:
GREE'DILY, adv.  [See Greedy.]  With a keen appetite for food or drink; voraciously; ravenously; as, to eat or swallow greedily.
1. With keen or ardent desire; eagerly. Jude 11.


Topic: Greediness
Definition:
GREE'DINESS, n.  Keenness of appetite for food or drink; ravenousness; voracity.
 Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness.
1.  Ardent desire.


Topic: Greedy
Definition:
GREE'DY, a.  [L. gradior,and probably signifies reaching forward.]
1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; followed by of; as a lion that is greedy of his prey. Ps.17.
2.  Having a keen desire of any thing; eager to obtain; as greedy of gain.


Topic: Greek
Definition:
GREEK, a.  Pertaining to Greece. [See Gray.]
GREEK, n. A native of Greece.
1. The language of Greece.
Greek-fire, a combustible composition, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur.


Topic: Green
Definition:
GREEN, a.
1.  Properly, growing, flourishing, as plants; hence, of the color of herbage and plants when growing, a color composed of blue and yellow rays, one of blue and yellow rays, one of the original prismatic colors; verdant.
2.  New; fresh; recent; as a green wound.
 The greenest usurpation.
3.  Fresh; flourishing; undecayed; as green old age.
4.  Containing its natural juices; not dry; not seasoned; as green wood; green timber.
5.  Not roasted; half raw.
 We say the meat is green, when half-roasted.
[Rarely, if ever used in America.]
6. Unripe; immature; not arrived to perfection; as green fruit.  Hence,
7. Immature in age; young; as green in age or judgment.
8.  Pale; sickly; wan; of a greenish pale color.
GREEN, n. The color of growing plants; a color composed of blue and yellow rays, which, mixed in different proportions, exhibit a variety of shades; as apple green, meadow green, leek green, &c.
1.  A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
 O'er the smooth enameled green.
2.  Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; usually in the plural.
 The fragrant greens I seek, my brows to bind.
3. The leaves and stems of young plants used in cookery or dressed for food in the spring; in the plural.
GREEN, v.t.  To make green. This is used by Thomson and by Barlow, but is not an elegant word, nor indeed hardly legitimate, in the sense in which these writers use it.  'Spring greens the year.'  'God greens the groves.'  The only legitimate sense of this verb, if used, would be, to dye green, or to change to a green color. A plant growing in a dark room is yellow; let this plant be carried into the open air,and the rays of the sun will green it. This use would correspond with the use of whiten, blacken, redden.


Topic: Green-house
Definition:
GREE'N-HOUSE, n.  A house in which tender plants are sheltered from the weather,and preserved green during the winter or cold weather.


Topic: Green-sickness
Definition:
GREE'N-SICKNESS, n. The chlorosis, a disease of maids, so called from the color it occasions in the face.


Topic: Greenness
Definition:
GREE'NNESS, n.  The quality of being green; viridity; as the greenness of grass or of a meadow.
1. Immaturity; unripeness; in a literal or figurative sense; as the greenness of fruit; the greenness of youth.
2.  Freshness; vigor.
3.  Newness.


Topic: Greenstone
Definition:
GREE'NSTONE, n.  [so called from a tinge of green in the color.]
A rock of the trap formation, consisting of hornblend and feldspar in the state of grains or small crystals.


Topic: Greenwood
Definition:
GREE'NWOOD,n.  Wood when green, as in summer.
GREE'NWOOD, a. Pertaining to a greenwood; as a greenwood shade.


Topic: Greet
Definition:
GREET, v.t.  [L. rudo, to bray, to roar.]
1.  To address with expressions of kind wishes; to salute in kindness and respect.
 My lord, the Mayor if London comes to greet you.
2.  To address at meeting; to address in any manner.
3.  To congratulate.
4.  To pay compliments at a distance; to send kind wishes to.  Col.4.  2 Tim.4.
5.  To meet and address with kindness; or to express kind wishes accompanied with an embrace. 1 Thess.5.
6.  To meet.
GREET, v.i.  To meet and salute.
 There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,
 And sleep in peace.
1.  To weep; written by Spenser greit.


Topic: Greeting
Definition:
GREE'TING, ppr.  Addressing with kind wishes or expressions of joy; complimenting; congratulating; saluting.
GREE'TING, n.  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; compliment addressed from one absent.


Topic: Gregarious
Definition:
GREGA'RIOUS, a.  [L. gregarius, from grex, a herd.]
Having the habit of assembling or living in a flock or herd; not habitually solitary or living alone. Cattle and sheep are gregarious animals. Many species of birds are gregarious. Rapacious animals are generally not gregarious.


Topic: Gregorian
Definition:
GREGO'RIAN, a. Denoting what belongs to Gregory.  The Gregorian calendar, is one which shows the new and full moon, with the time of Easter, and the movable feasts depending thereon, by means of epacts. The Gregorian year, is the present year, as reformed by pope Gregory XIII, in 1582; consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 47 seconds, with an additional day every fourth year.


Topic: Grenade
Definition:
GRENA'DE, n.  In the art of war, a hollow ball or shell of iron or other metal, about two inches and a half in diameter, to be filled with powder which is to be fired by means of a fusee,and thrown by hand among enemies. This, bursting into many pieces, does great injury, and is particularly useful in annoying an enemy in trenches and other lodgments.


Topic: Grenadier
Definition:
GRENADIE'R, n.
1.  A foot soldier, wearing a high cap. Grenadiers are usually tall, active soldiers, distinguished from others chiefly by their dress and arms; a company of them is usually attached to each battalion.
2.  A fowl found in Angola, in Africa.


Topic: Grenatite
Definition:
GREN'ATITE, n.  Staurotide or staurolite, a mineral of a dark reddish brown.  It occurs imbedded in mica slate, and in talc, and is infusible by the blowpipe. It is called also prismatic garnet.


Topic: Gride
Definition:
GRIDE, v.t.  [Eng. to cry.] To grate, or to cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as the griding sword.
 That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride.


Topic: Grief
Definition:
GRIEF ,n.  [L. gravis.]
1.  The pain of mind produced by loss, misfortune, injury or evils of any kind; sorrow; regret.  We experience grief when we lose a friend, when we incur loss, when we consider ourselves injured, and by sympathy, we feel grief at the misfortunes of others.
2.  The pain of mind occasioned by our own misconduct; sorrow or regret that we have done wrong; pain accompanying repentance.  We feel grief when we have offended or injured a friend, and the consciousness of having offended the Supreme Being, fills the penitent heart with the most poignant grief.
3.  Cause of sorrow; that which afflicts.
 Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah. Gen.26.
 A foolish son is a grief to his father. Prov.17.


Topic: Grievance
Definition:
GRIE'VANCE, n.  [from grief.]  That which causes grief or uneasiness; that which burdens, oppresses or injures, implying a sense of wrong done, or a continued injury, and therefore applied only to the effects of human conduct; never to providential evils.  The oppressed subject has the right to petition for a redress of grievances.


Topic: Grieve
Definition:
GRIEVE, v.t.  [L. gravo, from gravis.]
1.  To give pain of mind to; to afflict; to wound the feelings.  Nothing grieves a parent like the conduct of a profligate child.
2.  To afflict; to inflict pain on.
 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the
 children of men.  Lam.3.
3.  To make sorrowful; to excite regret in.
4.  To offend; to displease; to provoke.
 Grieve not the holy Spirit of God. Eph.4.
GRIEVE, v.i. To feel pain of mind or heart; to be in pain on account of an evil; to sorrow; to mourn.  We grieve at the loss of friends or property.  We grieve at the misfortunes of others. We grieve for our own misfortunes, follies and vices, as well as for those of our children.  It is followed by at or for.


Topic: Grievous
Definition:
GRIE'VOUS, a.  [from grieve, or grief.]  Heavy; oppressive; burdensome; as a grievous load of taxes.
1.  Afflictive; painful; hard to be borne.
 Correction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way. Prov.15.
2.  Causing grief or sorrow.
 The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son. Gen.21.
3.  Distressing.
 The famine was very grievous in the land. Gen.12.
4.  Great; atrocious.
 Because their sin is very grievous. Gen.18.
5.  Expressing great uneasiness; as a grievous complaint.
6.  Provoking; offensive; tending to irritate; as grievous words. Prov.15.
7.  Hurtful; destructive; causing mischief; as grievous wolves. Acts.20.


Topic: Grievously
Definition:
GRIE'VOUSLY, adv. With pain; painfully; with great pain or distress; as, to be grievously afflicted.
1.  With discontent, ill will or grief.
2.  Calamitously; miserably; greatly; with great uneasiness, distress or grief.
3. Atrociously; as, to sin or offend grievously.


Topic: Grievousness
Definition:
GRIE'VOUSNESS, n.  Oppressiveness; weight that gives pain or distress; as the grievousness of a burden.
1.  Pain; affliction; calamity; distress; as the grievousness of sickness, war or famine.
2.  Greatness; enormity; atrociousness; as the grievousness of sin or offenses.


Topic: Griffon
Definition:
GRIF'FON, n.  [L. gryps, gryphus.]
In the natural history of the ancients, an imaginary animal said to be generated between the lion and eagle. It is represented with four legs, wings and a beak, the upper part resembling an eagle, and the lower part a lion.  This animal was supposed to watch over mines of gold and hidden treasures, and was consecrated to the sun. The figure of the griffon is seen on ancient medals, and is still borne in coat-armor. It is also an ornament of Greek architecture.


Topic: Grim
Definition:
GRIM, a. [L. fremo; Eng. grumble, rumble.]
1.  Fierce; ferocious; impressing terror; frightful; horrible; as a grim look; a grim face; grim war.
2.  Ugly; ill looking.
3.  Sour; crabbed peevish; surly.


Topic: Grimace
Definition:
GRIMA'CE, n.
1.  A distortion of the countenance, from habit, affectation or insolence.
2.  An air of affection.


Topic: Grime
Definition:
GRIME, n.  Foul matter; dirt; sullying blackness, deeply insinuated.
GRIME, v.t.  To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.


Topic: Grimly
Definition:
GRIM'LY, a.  Having a hideous or stern look.
GRIM'LY, adv.  Fiercely; ferociously; with a look of fury or ferocity.
1.  Sourly; sullenly.


Topic: Grin
Definition:
GRIN, v.i.
1.  To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter or scorn.
 Fools grin on fools.
2.  To fix the teeth, as in anguish.
GRIN, n. The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of 
withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth.
GRIN, n.  A snare or trap.  [Not in use.]
GRIN, v.t.  To express by grinning.
 He grinned horribly a ghastly smile.


Topic: Grind
Definition:
GRIND, v.t. pret. and pp. ground.  [This word, if n is radical, may be allied to rend; if not, it coincides with grate; to make smooth, as mollis in L., allied to molo.]
1.  To break and reduce to fine particles or powder by friction; to comminute by attrition; to triturate.
 Take the millstones and grind meal. Is.16.
We say, to grind meal, but this is an elliptical phrase.  The true phrase is, to grind corn to meal.
2.  To break and reduce to small pieces by the teeth.
3.  To sharpen by rubbing or friction; to wear off the substance of a metallic instrument, and reduce it to a sharp edge by the friction of a stone; as, to grind an ax or scythe.
4.  To make smooth; to polish by friction; as, to grind glass.
5.  To rub one against another.
 Harsh sounds--and the grinding of one stone against another, make a shivering or horror in the body and set the teeth on edge.
6.  To oppress by severe exactions; to afflict cruelly; to harass; as, to grind the faces of the poor Is.3.
7.  To crush in pieces; to ruin.  Matt.21.
8.  To grate; as grinding pains.
GRIND, v.i. To perform the operation of grinding; to move a mill.
1.  To be moved or rubbed together, as in the operation of grinding; as the grinding jaws.
2.  To be ground or pulverized by friction.
 Corn will not grind well before it is dry.
3.  To be polished and made smooth by friction. Glass grinds smooth.
4.  To be sharpened by grinding.  Steel grinds to a fine edge.


Topic: Grinder
Definition:
GRINDER, n. One that grinds, or moves a mill.
1.  The instrument of grinding.
2.  A tooth that grinds or chews food; a double tooth; a jaw-tooth.
3.  The teeth in general.


Topic: Grinding
Definition:
GRINDING, ppr.  Reducing to powder by friction; triturating; levitating; chewing.
1.  Making sharp; making smooth or polishing by friction.


Topic: Grindstone
Definition:
GRIND'STONE, n.  A sandstone used for grinding or sharpening tools.
Stone, used by old writers, is obsolete.


Topic: Grip
Definition:
GRIP, n.  The griffon.  [Not in use.]
GRIP, n.  A grasp; a holding fast.
GRIP, n.  A small ditch or furrow. [Not used in America.]
GRIP, v.t.  To trench; to drain.  [Not used.]


Topic: Gripe
Definition:
GRIPE, v.t.  [L.rapio.]
1.  To seize; to grasp; to catch with the hand, and to clasp closely with the fingers.
2.  To hold fast; to hold with the fingers closely pressed.
3.  To seize and hold fast in the arms; to embrace closely.
4.  To close the fingers; to clutch.
5.  To pinch; to press; to compress.
6.  To give pain to the bowels, as if by pressure or contraction.
7. To pinch; to straiten; to distress; as griping poverty.
GRIPE, v.i. To seize or catch by pinching; to get money by hard bargains or mean exactions; as a griping miser.
1.  To feel the colic.
2.  To lie too close to the wind, as a ship.
GRIPE, n.  Grasp; seizure; fast hold with the hand or paw, or with the arms.
1.  Squeeze; pressure.
2.  Oppression; cruel exactions.
3.  Affliction; pinching distress; as the gripe of poverty.
4.  In seamen's language, the fore-foot or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore-end.
5.  Gripes, in the plural, distress of the bowels; colic.
6.  Gripes, in seamen's language, an assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes and hooks, fastened to ring-bolts in the deck to secure the boats.


Topic: Griping
Definition:
GRIPING, ppr.  Grasping; seizing; holding fast; pinching; oppressing; distressing the bowels.
GRIPING,n.  A pinching or grasp; a distressing pain of the bowels; colic.
1. In seamen's language, the inclination of a ship to run to the windward of her course.


Topic: Grisly
Definition:
GRIS'LY, a.  s as z.  Frightful; horrible; terrible; as grisly locks; a grisly countenance; a grisly face; a grisly specter; a grisly bear.


Topic: Grist
Definition:
GRIST, n.  
1.  Properly, that which is ground; hence, corn ground; but in common usage, it signifies corn for grinding, or that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time or the meal it produces.
 Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store.
2.  Supply; provision.
3.  Profit; gain; [as in Latin emolumentum, from molo, to grind;] in the phrase, it brings grist to the mill.


Topic: Gristle
Definition:
GRIS'TLE, n. gris'l. [L. cartil, in cartilago; cartil for cratil; Gr. strong.]   A cartilage; a smooth, solid, elastic substance in animal bodies,chiefly in those parts where a small easy motion is required, as in the nose, ear, larynx, trachea and sternum. It covers the ends of all bones which are united by movable articulations.


Topic: Gristly
Definition:
GRIST'LY, a. Consisting of gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous; as the gristly rays of fins connected by membranes.


Topic: Grit
Definition:
GRIT, n.
1.  The coarse part of meal.
2.  Oats hulled, or coarsely ground; written also groats.
3.  Sand or gravel; rough hard particles.
4.  Sandstone; stone composed of particles of sand agglutinated.


Topic: Grittiness
Definition:
GRIT'TINESS, n.  The quality of containing grit or consisting of grit,sand or small hard, rough particles of stone.


Topic: Groan
Definition:
GROAN, v.i.  [L. grunnio; Heb. to cry out, to groan; L. rana, a frog.]
1. To breathe with a deep murmuring sound; to utter a mournful voice, as in pain or sorrow.
 For we that are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burdened. 2 Cor.5.
2.  To sigh; to be oppressed or afflicted; or to complain of oppression.  A nation groans under the weight of taxes.
GROAN, n. A deep mournful sound, uttered in pain, sorrow or anguish.
1.  Any low, rumbling sound; as the groans of roaring wind.


Topic: Groaning
Definition:
GROANING, ppr.  Uttering a low mournful sound.
GROANING, n.  The act of groaning; lamentation; complaint; a deep sound uttered in pain or sorrow.
 I have heard the groaning of the children of 
Israel. Ex.6.
1.  In hunting, the cry or noise of the buck.


Topic: Groat
Definition:
GROAT, n.  grawt.
1.  An English money of account, equal to four pence.
2.  A proverbial name for a small sum.


Topic: Groggy
Definition:
GROG'GY, a.  A groggy horse is one that bears wholly on his heels in trotting.
1. In vulgar language, tipsy; intoxicated.


Topic: Groin
Definition:
GROIN, n.
1.  The depressed part of the human body between the belly and the thigh.
2. Among builders, the angular curve made by the intersection of two semi-cylinders or arches.
3.  The snout or nose of a swine.
GROIN, v.i.  To groan.


Topic: Grommet
Definition:
GROM'MET, n. Among seamen, a ring formed of a strand of rope laid in three times round; used to fasten the upper edge of a sail to its stay.


Topic: Groop
Definition:
GROOP, n.  
1.  A cluster, crowd or throng; an assemblage,either of persons or things; a number collected without any regular form or arrangement; as a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
2. In painting and sculpture, an assemblage of two or more figures of men, beasts or other things which have some relation to each other.


Topic: Groove
Definition:
GROOVE, n.  groov.
1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow cut by a tool. Among joiners, a channel in the edge of a molding, style or rail.
2.  Among miners, a shaft or pit sunk into the earth.
GROOVE, v.t.  To cut a channel with an edged tool; to furrow.


Topic: Grope
Definition:
GROPE, v.i.
1.  To feel along; to search or attempt to find in the dark, or as a blind person, by feeling.
 We grope for the wall like the blind. Is.59.
 The dying believer leaves the weeping children of mortality to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life.
2.  To seek blindly in intellectual darkness, without a certain guide or means of knowledge.
GROPE, v.t.  To search by feeling in the dark.  
We groped our way at midnight.
 But Strephon, cautious, never meant
 The bottom of the pan to grope.


Topic: Gross
Definition:
GROSS, a.  [L. crassus.]
1.  Thick; bulky; particularly applied to animals; fat; corpulent; as a gross man; a gross body.
2.  Coarse; rude; rough; not delicate; as gross sculpture.
3.  Coarse, in a figurative sense; rough; mean; particularly, vulgar; obscene; indelicate; as gross language; gross jests.
4.  Thick; large; opposed to fine; as wood or stone of a gross grain.
5.  Impure; unrefined; as gross sensuality.
6.  Great; palpable; as a gross mistake; gross injustice.
7.  Coarse; large; not delicate; as gross features.
8.  Thick; dense; not attenuated; not refined or pure; as a gross medium of sight; gross air; gross elements.
9.  Unseemly; enormous; shameful; great; as gross corruptions; gross vices.
    10. Stupid; dull.
 Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
    11. Whole; entire; as the gross sum, or gross amount, as opposed to a sum consisting of separate or specified parts.
GROSS, n.  The main body; the chief part; the bulk; the mass; as the gross of the people.  [We now use bulk.]
1.  The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as a gross of bottles.  It never has the plural form.  We say, five gross or ten gross.
In the gross, in gross, in the bulk, or the whole undivided; all parts taken together.
By the gross, in a like sense.
Gross weight, is the weight of merchandize or goods, with the dust and dross, the bag, cask, chest, &c., in which they are contained, for which an allowance is to be made of tare and tret. This being deducted, the remainder or real weight is denominated neat or net weight.  Gross weight has lately been abolished in Connecticut by statute, May, 1827.
In English law, a villain in gross, was one who did not belong to the land, but immediately to the person of the lord, and was transferrable by deed, like chattels, from one owner to another.
Advowson in gross, an advowson separated from the property of a manor,and annexed to the person of its owner.
Common in gross, is common annexed to a man's person, and not appurtenant to land.


Topic: Grossbeak
Definition:
GROSSBEAK, n.  A fowl of the genus Loxia, of several species.  The bill is convex above and very thick at the base, from which circumstance it takes its name.


Topic: Grossly
Definition:
GROSSLY, adv.  In bulky or large parts; coarsely. This matter is grossly pulverized.
1.  Greatly; palpably; enormously; as, this affair has been grossly misrepresented.
2.  Greatly; shamefully; as grossly criminal.
3.  Coarsely; without refinement or delicacy; as language grossly vulgar.
4.  Without art or skill.


Topic: Grossness
Definition:
GROSSNESS, n.  Thickness; bulkiness; corpulence; fatness; applied to animal bodies.
1.  Thickness; spissitude; density; as the grossness of vapors.
2.  Coarseness; rudeness; want of refinement or delicacy; vulgarity; as the grossness of language; the grossness of wit.
 Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the ear of delicacy.
3.  Greatness; enormity; as the grossness of vice.


Topic: Grossular
Definition:
GROSS'ULAR, a.  Pertaining to or resembling a gooseberry; as grossular garnet.
GROSS'ULAR, n.  A rare mineral of the garnet kind, so named from its green color.


Topic: Ground
Definition:
GROUND, n.
1.  The surface of land or upper part of the earth, without reference to the materials which compose it.  We apply ground to soil,sand or gravel indifferently, but never apply it to the whole mass of the earth or globe, nor to any portion of it when removed. We never say a shovel full or a load of ground. We say under ground, but not under earth; and we speak of the globe as divided into land and water, not into ground and water.  Yet ground, earth and land are often used synonymously.  We say, the produce or fruits of the ground, of the earth, or of land.  The water overflows the low ground, or the low land.
 There was not a man to till the ground. Gen.2.
 The ground shall give its increase. Zech.8.
 The fire ran along on the ground. Ex.9.
2.  Region; territory; as Egyptian ground; British ground; heavenly ground.
3.  Land; estate; possession.
 Thy next design is on thy neighbor's grounds.
4.  The surface of the earth, or a floor or pavement.
 Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground. 1 Sam.5.
5.  Foundation; that which supports any thing.  This argument stands on defensible ground.  Hence, 
6.  Fundamental cause; primary reason or original principle. He stated the grounds of his complaint.
 Making happiness the ground of his unhappiness.
7.  First principles; as the grounds of religion.
8.  In painting, the surface on which a figure or object is represented; that surface or substance which retains the original color, and to which the other colors are applied to make the representation; as crimson on a white ground.
9.  In manufactures, the principal color, to which others are considered as ornamental.
    10. Grounds, plural, the bottom of liquors; dregs; lees; feces; as coffee grounds; the grounds of strong beer.
    11. The plain song; the tune on which descants are raised.
 On that ground, I'll build a holy descant.
    12. In etching, a gummous composition spread over the surface of the metal to be etched, to prevent the nitric acid from eating, except where the ground is opened with the point of a needle.
    13. Field or place of action. He fought with fury, and would not quit the ground.
    14. In music, the name given to a composition in which the base, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a continually varying melody.
    15. The foil to set a thing off.
    16. Formerly, the pit of a play house.
To gain ground, to advance; to proceed forward in conflict; as, an army in battle gains ground.  Hence, to obtain an advantage; to have some success; as, the army gains ground on the enemy. Hence,
1.  To gain credit; to prevail; to become more general or extensive; as,the opinion gains ground.
To lose ground, to retire; to retreat; to withdraw from the position taken. Hence, to lose advantage. Hence,
1. To lose credit; to decline; to become less in force or extent.
To give ground, to recede; to yield advantage.
get ground, and to gather ground, are seldom used.
GROUND, v.t.  To lay or set on the ground.
1.  To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, cause, reason or principle; as arguments grounded on reason; faith grounded on scriptural evidence.
2. To settle in first principles; to fix firmly.
 Being rooted and grounded in love Eph.3.
GROUND, v.i.  To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded in two fathoms of water.
GROUND, pret. and pp. of grind.


Topic: Groundless
Definition:
GROUND'LESS, a. Wanting ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; as groundless fear.
1.  Not authorized; false; as a groundless report or assertion.


Topic: Groundwork
Definition:
GROUND'WORK, n.  The work which forms the foundation or support of any thing; the basis; the fundamentals.
1.  The ground; that to which the rest are additional.
2.  First principle; original reason.


Topic: Grout
Definition:
GROUT, n.  Coarse meal; pollard.
1.  A kind of wild apple.
2.  A thin coarse mortar.
3.  That which purges off.


Topic: Grove
Definition:
GROVE, n.
1. In gardening, a small wood or cluster of trees with a shaded avenue, or a wood impervious to the rays of the sun.  A grove is either open or close; open, when consisting of large trees whose branches shade the ground below; close, when consisting of trees and underwood, which defend the avenues from the rays of the sun and from violent winds.
2.  A wood of small extent. In America, the word is applied to a wood of natural growth in the field,as well as to planted trees in a garden,but only to a wood of small extent and not to a forest.
3.  Something resembling a wood or trees in a wood.
 Tall groves of masts arose in beauteous pride.


Topic: Grovel
Definition:
GROV'EL, v.i.  grov'l.
1.  To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move with the body prostrate on the earth; to act in a prostrate posture.
 Gaze on and grovel on thy face.
 To creep and grovel on the ground.
2.  To be low or mean; a groveling sense; groveling thoughts.


Topic: Grow
Definition:
GROW, v.i. pret. grew; pp. grown.  [L. cresco.]
1.  To enlarge in bulk or stature, by a natural, imperceptible addition of matter, through ducts and secreting organs, as animal and vegetable bodies; to vegetate as plants, or to be augmented by natural process, as animals.  Thus, a plant grows from a seed to a shrub or tree, and a human being grows from a fetus to a man.
 He causeth the grass to grow for cattle. Ps.104.
2.  To be produced by vegetation; as, wheat grows in most parts of the world; rice grows only in warm climates.
3.  To increase; to be augmented; to wax; as, a body grows larger by inflation or distension; intemperance is a growing evil.
4.  To advance; to improve; to make progress; as, to grow in grace, in knowledge, in piety.  The young man is growing in reputation.
5.  To advance; to extend.  His reputation is growing.
6.  To come by degrees; to become; to reach any state; as, he grows more skillful, or more prudent.  Let not vice grow to a habit, or into a habit.
7.  To come forward; to advance.  [Not much used.] 
 Winter began to grow fast on.
8.  To be changed from one state to another; to become; as, to grow pale; to grow poor; to grow rich.
9.  To proceed, as from a cause or reason.  Lax morals may grow from errors in opinion.
    10. To accrue; to come.
 Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings. Ezra.4.
    11. To swell; to increase; as, the wind grew to a tempest.
To grow out of, to issue from; as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem.
 These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.
To grow up, to arrive at manhood, or to advance to full stature or maturity.
To grow up,
To grow together,  To close and adhere; to become united by growth; as flesh or the bark of a tree severed.
Grow, signifies properly to shoot out, to enlarge; but it is often used to denote a passing from one state to another, and from greater to less.
 Marriages grow less frequent.
[To grow less, is an abuse of this word; the phrase should be to become less.]
GROW, v.t.  To produce; to raise; as, a farmer grows large quantities of wheat. [This is a modern abusive use of grow, but prevalent in Great Britain, and the British use begins to be imitated in America. Until within a few years, we never heard grow used as a transitive verb in New England, and the ear revolts at the practice.]


Topic: Growl
Definition:
GROWL, v.i.  [Gr. a grunting.]  To murmur or snarl, as a dog; to utter an angry, grumbling sound.
GROWL, v.t.  To express by growling.
GROWL, n.  The murmur of a cross dog.


Topic: Grown
Definition:
GROWN, pp. of grow.  Advanced; increased in growth.
1.  Having arrived at full size or stature; as a grown woman.
Grown over, covered by the growth of any thing; overgrown.


Topic: Growth
Definition:
GROWTH, n.  The gradual increase of animal and vegetable bodies; the process of springing from a germ, seed or root,and proceeding to full size, by the addition of matter, through ducts and secretory vessels.  In plants, vegetation.  We speak of slow growth and rapid growth; of early growth; late growth and full growth.
1.  Product; produce; that which has grown; as a fine growth of wood.
2.  Production; any thing produced; as a poem of English growth.
3.  Increase in number, bulk or frequency.
4.  Increase in extent or prevalence; as the growth of trade; the growth of vice.
5.  Advancement; progress; improvement; as growth in grace or piety.


Topic: Grub
Definition:
GRUB, v.i.  To dig; to be occupied in digging.
GRUB, v.t.  To dig; mostly followed by up.  To grub up, is to dig up by the roots with an instrument; to root out by digging, or throwing out the soil; as, to grub up trees, rushes or sedge.
GRUB, n.  [from the Verb.]  A small worm; particularly, a hexapod or six-footed worm, produced from the egg of the beetle, which is transformed into a winged insect.
1.  A short thick man; a dwarf, in contempt.


Topic: Grubbing-hoe
Definition:
GRUB'BING-HOE, n. An instrument for digging up trees, shrubs, &c. by the roots; a mattoc; called also a grub-ax.


Topic: Grubstreet
Definition:
GRUB'STREET, n.  Originally, the name of a street near Moorfields, in London, much inhabited by mean writers; hence applied to mean writings; as a Grubstreet poem.


Topic: Grudge
Definition:
GRUDGE', v.t.  [L. rugio.]
1.  To be discontented at another's enjoyments or advantages; to envy one the possession or happiness which we desire for ourselves.
 'Tis not in thee
 To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train.
 I have often heard the presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments.
It is followed by two objects, but probably by ellipsis; as, grudge us for grudge to us.
2.  To give or take unwillingly.
 Nor grudge my cold embraces in the grave.
 They have grudged those contributions, which have set our country at the head of all the governments of Europe.


Topic: Grudging
Definition:
GRUDG'ING, pp.  Envying; being uneasy at another's possession of something which we have a desire to possess.
GRUDG'ING, n.  Uneasiness at the possession of something by another.
1.  Reluctance; also, a secret wish or desire.
 He had a grudging still to be a knave.
2.  A symptom of disease.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Gruel
Definition:
GRU'EL, n.  A kind of light food made by boiling meal in water.  It is usually made of the meal of oats or maiz.


Topic: Grum
Definition:
GRUM, a.
1.  Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly.
2.  Low; deep in the throat; guttural; rumbling; as a grum voice.


Topic: Grumble
Definition:
GRUM'BLE, v.i.  [Heb. to roar, murmur, thunder.]
1. To murmur with discontent; to utter a low voice by way of complaint.
 L'Avare, not using half his store,
 Still grumbles that he has no more.
2.  To growl; to snarl; as a lion grumbling over his prey.
3.  To rumble; to roar; to make a harsh and heavy sound; as grumbling thunder; a grumbling storm. [In this sense, rumble is generally used.]


Topic: Grumbling
Definition:
GRUM'BLING, ppr.  Murmuring through discontent; rumbling; growling.
GRUM'BLING, n. A murmuring through discontent; a rumbling.


Topic: Grunt
Definition:
GRUNT, v.i. [L. grunnio; Heb. to cry out, to murmur.]
To murmur like a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
GRUNT, n.  A deep guttural sound, as a hog.


Topic: Grunting
Definition:
GRUNT'ING, ppr.  Uttering the murmuring or guttural sound of swine or other animals.
GRUNT'ING, n.  The guttural sound of swine and other animals.


Topic: Gry
Definition:
GRY, n.  A measure containing one tenth of a line.
1.  Any thing very small or of little value.  [Not much used.]


Topic: Gryphite
Definition:
GRYPH'ITE, n.  [L. gryphites; Gr. hooked.]
Crowstone, an oblong fossil shell, narrow at the head, and wider towards the extremity, where it ends in a circular limb; the head or beak is very hooked.


Topic: Guaiacum
Definition:
GUAIACUM, n.  gua'cum.  Lignum vitae, or pock wood; a tree produced in the warm climates of America. The wood is very hard, ponderous and resinous.  The resin of this tree, or gum guaiacum, is of a greenish cast, and much used in medicine as a stimulant.


Topic: Guano
Definition:
GU`ANO, n.  A substance found on many isles in the Pacific, which are frequented by fowls; used as a manure.


Topic: Guara
Definition:
GU`ARA, n.  A bird of Brazil, the Tantalus ruber, about the size of a spoonbill.  When first hatched, it is black; it afterward changes to gray, and then to vivid red.


Topic: Guarantor
Definition:
GUAR'ANTOR, n.  gar'antor.  A warrantor; one who engages to see that the stipulations of another are performed; also,one who engages to secure another in any right or possession.


Topic: Guaranty
Definition:
GUAR'ANTY, v.t. gar'anty. [Eng. to ward; allied to warren, &c.  See Warrant.]
1.  To warrant; to make sure; to undertake or engage that another person shall perform what he has stipulated; to oblige one's self to see that another's engagements are performed; to secure the performance of; as, to guaranty the execution of a treaty.
2.  To undertake to secure to another, at all events, as claims, rights or possessions.  Thus in the treaty of 1778, France guarantied to the United States their liberty, sovereignty and independence,and their possessions; and the United States guarantied to France its possessions in America.
The United States shall guaranty to every state in the Union a republican form of government.
3.  To indemnify; to save harmless.
[Note.  This verb, whether written guaranty or guarantee, forms an awkward participle of the present tense; and we cannot relish either guarantying or guaranteeing.  With the accent on the first syllable, as now pronounced, it seems expedient to drop the y in the participle, and write guaranting.]
GUAR'ANTY, n.
1. An undertaking or engagement by a third person or party, that the stipulations of a treaty shall be observed by the contracting parties or by one of them; an undertaking that the engagement or promise of another shall be performed.
2.  One who binds himself to see the stipulations of another performed; written also guarantee.


Topic: Guard
Definition:
GUARD, v.t. gard.  [L. verus; wahren, to keep, to last, to hold out; bewahren, to keep or preserve; bewahren, to verify, to confirm; Eng. ware, aware;]
1.  To secure against injury, loss or attack; to protect; to defend; to keep in safety.  We guard a city by walls and forts.  A harbor is guarded by ships, booms or batteries. Innocence should be guarded by prudence and piety.  Let observation and experience guard us against temptations to vice.
2.  To secure against objections or the attacks of malevolence.
 Homer has guarded every circumstance with caution.
3. To accompany and protect; to accompany for protection; as, to guard a general on a journey; to guard the baggage of an army.
4.  To adorn with lists, laces or ornaments.
5.  To gird; to fasten by binding.
GUARD, v.i.  To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautions; to be in a state of defense or safety.  Guard against mistakes, or against temptations.
GUARD, n. [Eng. ward.]
1.  Defense; preservation or security against injury, loss or attack.
2.  That which secures against attack or injury; that which defends. Modesty is the guard of innocence.
3.  A man or body of men occupied in preserving a person or place from attack or injury; he or they whose business is to defend, or to prevent attack or surprise.  Kings have their guards to secure their persons.  Joseph was sold to Potiphar, a captain of Pharaoh's guard.
4.  A state of caution or vigilance; or the act of observing what passes in order to prevent surprise or attack; care; attention; watch; heed.  Be on your guard.  Temerity puts a man off his guard.
5.  That which secures against objections or censure; caution of expression.
 They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I.
6.  Part of the hilt of a sword, which protects the hand.
7.  In fencing, a posture of defense.
8.  An ornamental lace,hem or boarder.
Advanced guard,
Van guard, In military affairs, a body of troops, either horse or foot, that march before an army or division, to prevent surprise, or give notice of danger.
Rear guard, a body of troops that march in the rear of an army or division, for its protection.
Life guard, a body of select troops, whose duty is to defend the person of a prince or other officer.


Topic: Guarded
Definition:
GUARD'ED, pp. Defended; protected; accompanied by a guard; provided with means of defense.
1.  Cautions; circumspect.  He was guarded in his expressions.
2.  Framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded.


Topic: Guardian
Definition:
GUARD'IAN, n.
1.  A warden; one who guards, preserves or secures; one to whom any thing is committed for preservation from injury.
2.  In law, one who is chosen or appointed to take charge of the estate and education of an orphan who is a minor, or of any person who is not of sufficient discretion to manage his own concerns.  The person committed to the care of a guardian is called his ward.
Guardian of the spiritualities, the person to whom the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese is entrusted, during the vacancy of the see.
GUARD'IAN, a.  Protection; performing the office of a protector; as a guardian angel; guardian care.


Topic: Guava
Definition:
GU`AVA, n.  An American tree,and its fruit, of the genus Psidium.  It is of two species,or rather varieties, the pyriferum or white guava, and pomiferum or red guava.  The fruit or berry is large and oval-shaped, like a pomegranate, which it resembles in its astringent quality.  The pulp is of an agreeable flavor,and of this fruit is made a delicious jelly.


Topic: Gudgeon
Definition:
GUD'GEON, n.  gud'jin.  A small fish of the genus Cyprinus, a fish easily caught, and hence,
1.  A person easily cheated or ensnared.
2.  A bait; allurement; something to be caught to a man's disadvantage.
3.  An iron pin on which a wheel turns.
Sea-gudgeon, the black goby or rock fish.


Topic: Guerdon
Definition:
GUER'DON, n. ger'don.  A reward; requital; recompense; in a good or bad sense.
GUER'DON, v.t.  To reward.


Topic: Guess
Definition:
GUESS, v.t. ges.  [L. conjicio; Eng. to gush.]
1.  To conjecture; to form an opinion without certain principles or means of knowledge; to judge at random, either of a present unknown fact, or of a future fact.
 First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess.
2.  To judge or form an opinion from some reasons that render a thing probable, but fall short of sufficient evidence.  From slight circumstances or occasional expressions, we guess an author's meaning.
3.  To hit upon by accident.
GUESS, v.i.  To conjecture; to judge at random.  We do not know which road to take, but we must guess at it.
GUESS, n.  Conjecture; judgment without any certain evidence or grounds.
 A poet must confess
 His arts like physic,but a happy guess.


Topic: Guesser
Definition:
GUESS'ER, n.  One who guesses; a conjecturer; one who judges or gives an opinion without certain means of knowing.


Topic: Guest
Definition:
GUEST, n.  gest. [L. visito; Eng. visit.]
1.  A stranger; one who comes from a distance, and takes lodgings at a place, either for a night or for a longer time.
2.  A visitor; a stranger or friend, entertained in the house or at the table of another, whether by invitation or otherwise.
 The wedding was furnished with guests.  Matt.22.


Topic: Guhr
Definition:
GUHR, n.  A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher.


Topic: Guidance
Definition:
GUIDANCE, n.  [See Guide.]  The act of guiding; direction; government; a leading.  Submit to the guidance of age and wisdom.


Topic: Guide
Definition:
GUIDE, v.t. gide.
1.  To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; as, to guide an enemy or a traveler, who is not acquainted with the road or course.
 The meek will he guide in judgment.  Ps.25.
2.  To direct; to order.
 He will guide his affairs with discretion.  Ps.112,
3.  To influence; to give direction to.  Men are guided by their interest, or supposed interest.
4.  To instruct and direct.  Let parents guide their children to virtue, dignity and happiness.
5.  To direct; to regulate and manage; to superintend.
 I will that the younger women marry, bear children, and guide the house. 1 Tim.5.
GUIDE, n.
1. A person who leads or directs another in his way or course; a conductor.  The army followed the guide.  The traveler may be deceived by his guide.
2.  One who directs another in his conduct or course of life.
 He will be our guide, even unto death.  Ps.48.
3.  A director; a regulator; that which leads or conducts.  Experience is one of our best guides.


Topic: Guild
Definition:
GUILD, n.  gild.  In England, a society, fraternity or company, associated for some purpose, particularly for carrying on commerce.  The merchant-guilds of our ancestors, answer to our modern corporations.  They were licensed by the king, and governed by laws and orders of their own.  Hence the name Guild-hall, the great court of judicature in London.


Topic: Guile
Definition:
GUILE, n.  gile.  Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense.
 We may, with more successful hope, resolve
 To wage by force or guile eternal war.
 Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John.1.
GUILE, v.t.  To disguise craftily.


Topic: Guileful
Definition:
GUILEFUL, a.  Cunning; drafty; artful; wily; deceitful; insidious; as a guileful person.
1.  Treacherous; deceitful.
2.  Intended to deceive; as guileful words.


Topic: Guillemot
Definition:
GUIL'LEMOT, n.  A water fowl of the genus Colymbus, and order of ansers.  It is found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America.


Topic: Guillotin
Definition:
GUIL'LOTIN, n.  An engine or machine for beheading persons at a stroke.
GUIL'LOTIN, v.t.  To behead with the guillotin.


Topic: Guilt
Definition:
GUILT, n.  gilt.
1.  Criminality; that state of a moral agent which results from his actual commission of a crime or offense, knowing it to be a crime, or violation of law.  To constitute guilt there must be a moral agent enjoying freedom of will, and capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, and a wilful or intentional violation of a known law, or rule of duty.  The guilt of a person exists, as soon as the crime is committed; but to evince it to others, it must be proved by confession, or conviction in due course of law.  Guilt renders a person a debtor to the law, as it binds him to pay a penalty in money or suffering.  Guilt therefore implies both criminality and liableness to punishment. Guilt may proceed either from a positive act or breach of law, or from voluntary neglect of known duty.
2.  Criminality in a political or civil view; exposure to forfeiture or other penalty.
 A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade.
3.  Crime; offense.


Topic: Guiltless
Definition:
GUILT'LESS, a.  Free from guilt, crime or offense; innocent.
 The Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain. Ex.20.
1.  Not produced by the slaughter of animals.
 But from the mountain's grassy side
 A guiltless feast I bring.


Topic: Guilty
Definition:
GUILT'Y, a. gilt'y. Criminal; having knowingly committed a crime or offense, or having violated a law by an overt act or by neglect,and by that act or neglect, being liable to punishment; not innocent.  It may be followed by of; as, to be guilty of theft or arson.
 Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife.
1.  Wicked; corrupt; sinful; as a guilty world.
2.  Conscious.
In Scripture, to be guilty of death, is to have committed a crime which deserves death.  Matt.26.
To be guilty of the body and blood of Christ, is to be chargeable with the crime of crucifying Christ afresh, and offering indignity to his person and righteousness, represented by the symbols of the Lord's supper. 1 Cor.11.


Topic: Guinea
Definition:
GUIN'EA, n.  gin'ny.  Formerly, a gold coin in Great Britain of the value of twenty one shillings sterling, equal to $4.66 2/3rds, American money.


Topic: Guinea-hen
Definition:
GUIN'EA-HEN, n.  The Numida meleagris, a fowl of the gallinaceous order, a native of Africa.  It is larger than the common domestic hen, and has a kind of colored fleshy horn on each side of the head.  Its color is a dark gray, beautifully variegated with small white spots.


Topic: Guinea-pig
Definition:
GUIN'EA-PIG, n. In zoology, a quadruped of the genus Cavia or cavy, found in Brazil.  It is about seven inches in length, and of a white color, variegated with spots of orange and black.


Topic: Guitar
Definition:
GUIT`AR, n. git`ar.  [L. cithara.]  A stringed instrument of music; in England and the United States,used chiefly by ladies, but in Spain and Italy, much used by men.


Topic: Gulaund
Definition:
GU'LAUND, n.  An aquatic fowl of a size between a duck and a goose; the breast and belly white; the head mallard green.  It inhabits Iceland.


Topic: Gulch
Definition:
GULCH, n.  A glutton; a swallowing or devouring.  [Not used.]
GULCH, v.t.  To swallow greedily.  [Not used.]


Topic: Gules
Definition:
GULES,n.  In heraldry, a term denoting red, intended perhaps to represent courage, animation or hardihood.


Topic: Gulf
Definition:
GULF, n.
1.  A recess in the ocean from the general line of the shore into the land, or a tract of water extending from the ocean or a sea into the land, between two points or promontories; a large bay; as the gulf of Mexico; the gulf of Venice; the gulf of Finland.  A gulf and a bay differ only in extent. We apply bay to a large or small recess of the sea, as the bay of Biscay, the bay of Fundy; but gulf is applied only to a large extent of water.
2.  An abyss; a deep place in the earth; as the gulf of Avernus.
3.  A whirlpool; an absorbing eddy.
4.  Any thing insatiable.


Topic: Gull
Definition:
GULL, v.t.  To deceive; to cheat; to mislead by deception; to trick; to defraud.
 The vulgar, gull'd into rebellion, armed.
GULL, n.  A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
1.  One easily cheated.
GULL, n.  A marine fowl of the genus Larus,and order of ansers.  There are several species.


Topic: Gullet
Definition:
GUL'LET, n.  [L. gula.]  The passage in the neck of an animal by which food and liquor are taken into the stomach; the esophagus.
1.  A stream or lake.  [Not used.]


Topic: Gully
Definition:
GUL'LY, n.  A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water.
GUL'LY, v.t.  To wear a hollow channel in the earth.
GUL'LY, v.i.  To run with noise.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Gulosity
Definition:
GULOS'ITY, n.  [L. gulosus, from gula, the gullet.]
Greediness; voracity; excessive appetite for food. [Little used.]


Topic: Gulp
Definition:
GULP, v.t.  To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts.
To gulp up, to throw up from the throat or stomach; to disgorge.
GULP, n.  A swallow, or as much as is swallowed at once.
1.  A disgorging.


Topic: Gum
Definition:
GUM, n.  The hard fleshy substance of the jaws which invests the teeth.
GUM, n.  [L. gummi.]  The mucilage of vegetables; a concrete juice which exudes through the bark of trees, and thickens on the surface.  It is soluble in water, to which it gives a viscous and adhesive quality.  It is insoluble in alcohol, and coagulates in weak acids.  When dry, it is transparent and brittle, not easily pulverized, and of an insipid or slightly saccharine taste.  Gum differs from resin in several particulars, but custom has inaccurately given the name of gum to several resins and gum-resins, as gum-copal. gum-sandarach, gum-ammoniac, and others.  The true gums are gumarabic, gum-senegal, gum-tragacanth,and the gums of the peach, plum and cherry trees, &c.
Gum-elastic, or Elastic-gum, [caoutchouc,] is a singular substance, obtained from a tree in America by incision.  It is a white juice, which, when dry, becomes very tough and elastic, and is used for bottles,surgical instruments, &c.
GUM, v.t.  To smear with gum.
1.  To unite by a viscous substance.


Topic: Gum-resin
Definition:
GUM-RESIN, n.  [See Resin.]  A mixed juice of plants, consisting of resin and an extractive matter, which has been taken for a gummy substance.  The gum-resins do not flow naturally from plants, but are mostly extracted by incision, in the form of white, yellow or red emulsive fluids, which dry and consolidate.  The most important species are olibanum, galbanum, scammony, gamboge, euphorbium, assafetida, aloes,myrrh, and gum-ammoniac.
Gum-resins are natural combinations of gum and resin.
Gum-resins are composed of a gum or extractive matter, and a body intermediate between oil and resin; to which last they owe their peculiar properties.


Topic: Gum-senegal
Definition:
GUM-SEN'EGAL, n.  A gum resembling gum-arabic, brought from the country of the river Senegal in Africa.


Topic: Gumlac
Definition:
GUM'LAC, n.  The produce of an insect which deposits its eggs on the branches of a tree called bihar, in Assam, a country bordering on Tibet, and elsewhere in Asia.  [See Lac.]


Topic: Gummy
Definition:
GUM'MY, a.  Consisting of gum; of the nature of gum; viscous; adhesive.
1. Productive of gum.
2. Covered with gum or viscous matter.


Topic: Gun
Definition:
GUN, n.  An instrument consisting of a barrel or tube of iron or other metal fixed in a stock, from which balls, shot or other deadly weapons are discharged by the explosion of gunpowder.  The larger species of guns are called cannon; and the smaller species are called muskets, carbines, fowling pieces, &c.  But one species of fire-arms, the pistol, is never called a gun.
GUN, v.i.  To shoot.


Topic: Gunner
Definition:
GUN'NER, n. One skilled in the use of guns; a cannoneer; an officer appointed to manage artillery.  The gunner of a ship of war has the charge of the ammunition and artillery, and his duty is to keep the latter in good order, and to teach the men the exercise of the guns.


Topic: Gunnery
Definition:
GUN'NERY, n. The act of charging, directing and firing guns, as cannon, mortars and the like.  Gunnery is founded on the science of projectiles.


Topic: Gunpowder
Definition:
GUN'POWDER, n.  A composition of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, mixed and reduced to a fine powder, then granulated and dried.  It is used in artillery, in shooting game, in blasting rocks, &c.


Topic: Gunroom
Definition:
GUN'ROOM, n.  In ships, an apartment on the after end of the lower gun-deck, occupied by the gunner, or by the lieutenants as a mess-room.


Topic: Gunshot
Definition:
GUN'SHOT, n.  The distance of the point blank range of a cannon-shot.
GUN'SHOT, a.  Made by the shot of a gun; as a gunshot wound.


Topic: Gunstone
Definition:
GUN'STONE, n.  A stone used for the shot of cannon.  Before the invention of iron balls, stones were used for shot.


Topic: Guntackle
Definition:
GUN'TACKLE, n.  The tackle used on board of ships to run the guns out of the ports, and to secure them at sea.  The tackles are pulleys affixed to the sides of a gun-carriage.


Topic: Gurgle
Definition:
GUR'GLE, v.i.  [L. gurges.  See Gargle, which seems to be of the same family, or the same word differently applied.]
To run as liquor with a purling noise; to run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream on a stony bottom.
 Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace.


Topic: Gurhofite
Definition:
GUR'HOFITE, n.  A subvariety of magnesian carbonate of lime, found near Gurhof, in Lower Austria.  It is snow white, and has a dull, slightly conchoidal, or even fracture.


Topic: Gurnard
Definition:
GUR'NARD, n.  A fish of several species of the genus Trigla.  The head is loricated with rough lines, or bony plates, and there are seven rays in the membranes of the gills.


Topic: Gush
Definition:
GUSH, v.i.
1.  To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; as, blood gushes from a vein in venesection.
 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out. Ps.78.
2.  To flow copiously.  Tears gushed from her eyes.
GUSH, v.t.  To emit in copious effusion.
 The gaping wound gushed out a crimson flood. [Unusual.]
GUSH, n.  A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed place; an emission of liquor in a large quantity and with force; the fluid thus emitted.


Topic: Gushing
Definition:
GUSH'ING, ppr.  Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as gushing waters.
1.  Emitting copiously; as gushing eyes.


Topic: Gusset
Definition:
GUS'SET, n.  A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening or enlarging some part.


Topic: Gust
Definition:
GUST, n.  [L. gustus, gusto; Gr. a contracted word, for it has taste.]
1.  Taste; tasting, or the sense of tasting.  More generally, the pleasure of tasting; relish.
2.  Sensual enjoyment.
 Where love is duty on the female side,
 On theirs, mere sensual gust, and sought with surly pride.
3.  Pleasure; amusement; gratification.
 Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust.
4.  Turn of fancy; intellectual taste.
 A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients.  [Taste is now generally used.]
GUST, v.t.  To taste; to have a relish.  [Little used.]
GUST, n.
1.  A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden rushing or driving of the wind, of short duration.
2.  A sudden, violent burst of passion.


Topic: Gusto
Definition:
GUST'O, n.  Relish; that which excites pleasant sensations in the palate or tongue.
1.  Intellectual taste.  [Little used.]


Topic: Gusty
Definition:
GUST'Y, a.  Subject to sudden blasts of wind; stormy; tempestuous.
 Once upon a raw and gusty day,
 The troubled Tyber chafing with his shores--


Topic: Gut
Definition:
GUT, n.  The intestinal canal of an animal; a pipe or tube extending, with many circumvolutions, from the pylorus to the vent. This pipe is composed of three coats,and is attached to the body by a membrane called the mesentery.  This canal is of different sizes in different parts, and takes different names.  The thin and small parts are called the duodenum, the ilium, and the jejunum; the large and thick parts are called the eaecum, the colon, the  rectum.  By this pipe, the undigested and unabsorbed parts of food are conveyed from the stomach and discharged.  This word in the plural is applied to the whole mass formed by its natural convolutions in the abdomen.
2.  The stomach; the receptacle of food.
3.  Gluttony; love of gormandizing.
GUT, v.t.  To take out the bowels; to eviscerate.
1.  To plunder of contents.
Gutta serena, in medicine, amaurosis; blindness occasioned by a diseased retina.


Topic: Gutter
Definition:
GUT'TER, n.  [L. gutta, a drop.]
1.  A channel for water; a hollow piece of timber, or a pipe, for catching and conveying off the water which drops from the eaves of a building.
2.  A channel or passage for water; a hollow in the earth for conveying water; and,in popular usage, a channel worn in the earth by a current of water.
GUT'TER, v.t.  To cut or form into small hollows.
GUT'TER, v.i.  To be hollowed or channeled.
1.  To run or sweat as a candle.


Topic: Guttulous
Definition:
GUT'TULOUS, a.  [from L. guttula, a little drop.]
In the form of a small drop, or of small drops. [Little used.]


Topic: Guttural
Definition:
GUT'TURAL, a.  [L. guttur, the throat.]  Pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; as a guttural letter or sound; a guttural voice.
GUT'TURAL, n. A letter pronounced in the throat; as the GR.x.


Topic: Guy
Definition:
GUY, n. gi.  In marine affairs, a rope used to keep a heavy body steady while hoisting or lowering; also, a tackle to confine a boom forwards,when a vessel is going large, and to prevent the sail from gybing.  Guy is also a large slack rope, extending from the head of the main-mast to that of the fore-mast, to sustain a tackle for loading or unloading.


Topic: Guzzle
Definition:
GUZ'ZLE, v.i.  To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much; to drink frequently.
 Well seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise,
 Who, while she guzzles, chats the Doctor's praise.
GUZ'ZLE. v.t.  To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust.
 --Still guzzling must of wine.
GUZ'ZLE, n.  An insatiable thing or person.


Topic: Gwiniad
Definition:
GWIN'IAD, n.  The whiting, a fish of the salmon or trout kind, found in many lakes in Europe and in Hudson's bay.  It is gregarious, and may be taken in vast numbers at a draught.


Topic: Gybe
Definition:
GYBE, n.  A sneer.  [See Gibe.]
GYBE, v.t.  In seamen's language, to shift a boom-sail from one side of a vessel to the other.


Topic: Gymnasium
Definition:
GYMNASIUM, n.  [Gr. from naked.]
In Greece, a place where athletic exercises were performed.  Hence, a place of exercise; a school.


Topic: Gymnastic
Definition:
GYMNASTIC, a.  [L. gymnasticus; Gr. to exercise, from naked; the ancients being naked in their exercises.]
Pertaining to athletic exercises of the body, intended for health, defense or diversion, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin or the hoop, playing with balls, &c.  The modern gymnastic exercises are intended chiefly for the preservation and promotion of health.
GYMNASTIC, n.  Athletic exercise.


Topic: Gymnic
Definition:
GYM'NIC, a.  [L. gymnicus.]
1.  Pertaining to athletic exercises of the body.
2.  Performing athletic exercises.
GYM'NIC, n. Athletic exercise.


Topic: Gymnosophist
Definition:
GYM'NOSOPHIST, n.  [Gr. naked, and a philosopher.]
A philosopher of India, so called from his going with bare feet, or with little clothing.  The Gymnosophists in India lived in the woods and on mountains, subsisting on wild productions of the earth.  They never drank wine nor married.  Some of them traveled about, and practiced physic.  They believed the immortality and transmigration of the soul. They placed the chief happiness of man in a contempt of the goods of fortune, and of the pleasures of sense.


Topic: Gynander
Definition:
GYNAN'DER, n.  [Gr. a female, and a male.]  In botany, a plant whose stamens are inserted in the pistil.


Topic: Gyration
Definition:
GYRA'TION, n.  [L. gyratio.  See Gyre.]  A turning or whirling round; a circular motion.
GYRE, n.  [L. gyrus.]  A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn.
 Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres.


Topic: Gyrfalcon
Definition:
GYR'FALCON, n.  [L. hierofalco, from Gr. sacred, and falco, and so named from the veneration of the Egyptians for hawks.
A species of Falco, or hawk.


Topic: Gyromancy
Definition:
GYR'OMANCY, n. [Gr. a circuit, and divination.]   A kind of divination performed by walking round in a circle or ring.


Topic: Gyve
Definition:
GYVE, n.  Gyves are fetters or shackles for the legs.
 Gyves and the mill had tamed thee.
GYVE, v.t.  To fetter; to shackle; to chain.


Topic: H
Definition:
H, is the eighth letter of the English Alphabet.  It is properly the representative of the Chaldee, Syriac and Hebrew, which is the eighth letter in those alphabets.  Its form is the same as the Greek H eta.  It is not strictly a vowel, nor an articulation; but the mark of a stronger breathing, than that which precedes the utterance of any other letter.  It is pronounced with an expiration of breath, which, preceding a vowel, is perceptible by the ear at a considerable distance.  Thus, harm and arm, hear and ear, heat and eat, are distinguished at almost any distance at which the voice can be heard.  H is a letter sui generis, but as useful in forming and distinguishing words as any other.
In our mother tongue, the Anglo-Saxon, and other Teutonic dialects, h sometimes represents the L. c, and the Gr.x; as in horn, L. cornu, Gr. to hide; G. haut, Sw. hud, D. huid, Dan.hud, L. cutis; Sax. hlinian, L. clino, Gr. to lean; L. celo, to conceal, Sax. helan. G. hehlen, Dan. haeler.  In Latin h sometimes represents the Greek x; as in halo, Gr. hio.  In the modern European languages, it represents other guttural letters.
In English, h is sometimes mute, as in honor, honest; also when united with g, as in right, fight, brought.  In which, what, who, whom, and some other words in which it follows w, it is pronounced before it, hwich, hwat, &c.  As a numeral in Latin, H denotes 200, and with a dash over it 200,000.  As an abbreviation in Latin, H stands for homo, haeres, hora, &c.


Topic: Ha
Definition:
HA, an exclamation, denoting surprise, joy or grief.  With the first or long sound of a, it is used as a question, and is equivalent to 'What do you say?'  When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, or sometimes it is equivalent to 'Well! it is so.'


Topic: Haak
Definition:
HAAK, n.  A fish.
Habeas Corpus, [L. have the body.]  A writ for delivering a person from false imprisonment, or for removing a person from one court to another, &c.


Topic: Habergeon
Definition:
HAB'ERGEON, n.  A coat of mail or armor to defend the neck and breast.  It was formed of little iron rings united, and descended from the neck to the middle of the body.


Topic: Habiliment
Definition:
HABIL'IMENT, n.  [L. habeo, to have.]  A garment; clothing; usually in the plural, habiliments, denoting garments, clothing or dress in general.


Topic: Habit
Definition:
HAB'IT, n. [L. habitus, from habeo,to have to hold.  See Have.]
1.  Garb; dress; clothes or garments in general.
 The scenes are old, the habits are the same,
 We wore last year.
 There are among the statues, several of Venus,
 in different habits.
2.  A coat worn by ladies over other garments.
3.  State of any thing; implying some continuance or permanence; temperament or particular state of a body, formed by nature or induced by extraneous circumstances; as a costive or lax habit of body; a sanguine habit.
4.  A disposition or condition of the mind or body acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act.  Habit is that which is held or retained, the effect of custom or frequent repetition.  Hence we speak of good habits and bad habits.  
Frequent drinking of spirits leads to a habit of intemperance.  We should endeavor to correct evil habits by a change of practice.  A great point in the education of children, is to prevent the formation of bad habits.
Habit of plants, the general form or appearance, or the conformity of plants of the same kind in structure and growth.
HAB'IT, v.t.  To dress; to clothe; to array.
 They habited themselves like rural deities.
HAB'IT, v.t.  To dwell; to inhabit.


Topic: Habitable
Definition:
HAB'ITABLE, a.  [L. habitabilis, from habito, to dwell.]
That may be inhabited or dwelt in; capable of sustaining human beings; as the habitable world. Some climates are scarcely habitable.


Topic: Habitant
Definition:
HAB'ITANT, n.  [L. habitans.]  An inhabitant; a dweller; a resident; one who has a permanent abode in a place.


Topic: Habitation
Definition:
HABITA'TION, n.  [L. habitatio, from habito, to dwell, from habeo, to hold, or as we say in English, to keep.
1.  Act of inhabiting; state of dwelling.
2.  Place of abode; a settled dwelling; a mansion; a house or other place in which man or any animal dwells.
 The stars may be the habitations of numerous races of beings.
 The Lord blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov.3.


Topic: Habitual
Definition:
HABIT'UAL, a.  Formed or acquired by habit, frequent use or custom.
Art is properly an habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims.
1.  Customary; according to habit; as the habitual practice of sin; the habitual exercise of holy affections.
 It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common blessings.
2.  Formed by repeated impressions; rendered permanent by continued causes; as an habitual color of the skin.


Topic: Habitually
Definition:
HABIT'UALLY, adv.  By habit; customarily; by frequent practice or use; as habitually profane; habitually kind and benevolent.


Topic: Habituate
Definition:
HABIT'UATE, v.t.
1.  To accustom; to make familiar by frequent use or practice.  Men may habituate themselves to the taste of oil or tobacco. They habituate themselves to vice.  Let us habituate ourselves and our children to the exercise of charity.
2.  To settle as an inhabitant in a place.
HABIT'UATE, a.  Inveterate by custom.
1. Formed by habit.


Topic: Habitude
Definition:
HAB'ITUDE, n.  [L. habitudo, from habitus.]
1.  Relation; respect; state with regard to something else.  [Little used.]
2.  Frequent intercourse; familiarity.  [Not usual.]
 To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company.
3.  Customary manner or mode of life; repetition of the same acts; as the habitudes of fowls or insects.
4.  Custom; habit.


Topic: Hack
Definition:
HACK, v.t.
1.  To cut irregularly and into small pieces; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument.
2.  To speak with stops or catches; to speak with hesitation.
  
HACK, n.  A notch; a cut.
HACK, n.  A horse kept for hire; a horse much used in draught, or in hard service; any thing exposed to hire, or used in common.  [from hackney.]
1.  A coach or other carriage kept for hire. [from hackney.]
2. Hesitating or faltering speech.
3.  A rack for feeding cattle. 
HACK, a.  Hired.
HACK, v.i.  To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
1.  To make an effort to raise phlegm.  [See Hawk.]


Topic: Hackle
Definition:
HACK'LE, v.t.  
1.  To comb flax or hemp; to separate the coarse part of these substances from the fine, by drawing them through the teeth of a hatchel.
2.  To tear asunder.
HACK'LE, n.  A hatchel.  The latter word is used in the U. States.
1.  Raw silk; any flimsy substance unspun.
2.  A fly for angling, dressed with feathers or silk.


Topic: Hackly
Definition:
HACK'LY, a.  [from hack.]  Rough; broken as if hacked.
In mineralogy, having fine,short,and sharp points on the surface; as a hackly fracture.


Topic: Hackney
Definition:
HACK'NEY, n.
1.  A pad; a nag; a pony.
2.  A horse kept for hire; a horse much used.
3.  A coach or other carriage kept for hire, and often exposed in the streets of cities. The word is sometimes contracted to hack.
4.  Any thing much used or used in common; a hireling; a prostitute.
HACK'NEY, a.  Let out for hire; devoted to common use; as a hackney-coach.
1.  Prostitute; vicious for hire.
2.  Much used; common; trite; as a hackney author or remark.
HACK'NEY, v.t.  To use much; to practice in one thing; to make 
trite.
1.  To carry in a hackney-coach.


Topic: Hackneyed
Definition:
HACK'NEYED, pp.  Used much or in common.
1.  Practiced; accustomed.
 He is long hackneyed in the ways of men.


Topic: Had
Definition:
HAD, pret. and pp. of have; contracted from Sax.haefd, that is, haved; as, I had; I have had.  In the phrase, 'I had better go,' it is supposed that had is used for would; 'I'd better go.'  The sense of the phrase is, 'it would be better for me to go.'


Topic: Haddock
Definition:
HAD'DOCK, n.  A fish of the genus Gadus or cod, and order of Jugulars. It has a long body, the upper part of a dusky brown color,and the belly of a silvery hue; the lateral line is black. This fish breeds in immense numbers in the northern seas, and constitutes a considerable article of food.


Topic: Hade
Definition:
HADE, n.  Among miners, the steep descent of a shaft; also, the descent of a hill.
In mining, the inclination or deviation from the vertical of a mineral vein.


Topic: Haft
Definition:
H`AFT, n.  [L. capio.]  A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel which is taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used.  It is used chiefly for the part of a sword or dagger by which it is held; the hilt.
H`AFT, v.t. To set in a haft; to furnish with a handle.


Topic: Hag
Definition:
HAG, n.
1.  An ugly old woman; as an old hag of threescore.
2.  A witch; a sorceress; an enchantress.
3.  A fury; a she-monster.
4.  A cartilaginous fish, the Gastrobranchus, which enters other fishes and devours them.  It is about five or six inches long, and resembles a small eel.  It is allied to the lamprey.
5.  Appearances of light and fire on horses' manes or men's hair, were formerly called hags.
HAG, v.t.  To harass; to torment.
1.  To tire; to weary with vexation.


Topic: Hagard
Definition:
HAG'ARD, a.
1.  Literally, having a ragged look, as if hacked or gashed.  Hence, lean; meager; rough; having eyes sunk in their orbits; ugly.
2.  Wild; fierce; intractable; as a hagard hawk.
HAG'ARD, n.
1.  Any thing wild and intractable.
2.  A species of hawk.
3.  A hag.


Topic: Haggess
Definition:
HAG'GESS, n.  [from hack.]  A mess of meat, generally pork, chopped and inclosed in a membrane.
1.  A sheep's head and pluck minced.


Topic: Haggle
Definition:
HAG'GLE, v.t.  To cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough by cutting; to mangle; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.
 Suffolk first died, and York all haggled o'er,
 Comes to him where in gore he lay insteep'd.
HAG'GLE, v.i.  To be difficult in bargaining; to hesitate and cavil.  [See Higgle.]


Topic: Hagiography
Definition:
HAGIOG'RAPHY, n.  [Gr. holy, and a writing.]
Sacred writings. The Jews divide the books of the Scriptures into three parts; the Law, which is contained in the five first books of the Old Testament; the Prophets, or Nevim; and the Cetuvim, or writings, by way of eminence.  The latter class is called by the Greeks Hagiographa, comprehending the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ruth, Esther, Chronicles, Canticles, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes.


Topic: Hail
Definition:
HAIL, n.  Masses of ice or frozen vapor, falling from the clouds in showers or storms.  These masses consist of little spherules united, but not all of the same consistence; some being as hard and solid as perfect ice; others soft, like frozen snow.  Hailstones assume various figures; some are round, others angular, others pyramidical, others flat, and sometimes they are stellated with six radii, like crystals of snow.
HAIL, v.i.  To pour down masses of ice or frozen vapors.
HAIL, v.t.  To pour.
HAIL, a.  [Gr. whole.]  Sound; whole; healthy; not impaired by disease; as a hail body; hail corn.  [In this sense, it is usually written hale.]
HAIL, an exclamation, or rather a verb in the imperative mode, being the adjective hail, used as a verb.  Hail, be well; be in health; health to you; a term of salutation, equivalent to L. salve, salvete.
 Hail, hail, brave friend.
HAIL, n.  A wish of health; a salutation.  This word is sometimes used as a noun; as, the angel hail bestowed.
HAIL, v.t.  [L. calo.  See Call and Heal.]  To call; to call to a person at a distance, to arrest his attention.  It is properly used in any case where the person accosted is distant, but is appropriately used by seamen.  Hoa or hoi, the ship ahoay, is the usual manner of hailing; to which the answer is holloa, or hollo.  Then follow the usual questions, whence came ye? where are you bound? &c.


Topic: Hainous
Definition:
HA'INOUS, a.  Properly, hateful; odious. Hence, great, enormous, aggravated; as a hainous sin or crime.


Topic: Hair
Definition:
HAIR, n.
1.  A small filament issuing from the skin of an animal, and from a bulbous root.  Each filament contains a tube or hollow within, occupied by a pulp or pith, which is intended for its nutrition,and extends only to that part which is in a state of growth.
When hair means a single filament,it has a plural,hairs.
2.  The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming an integument or covering; as the hair of the head.  Hair is the common covering of many beasts.  When the filaments are very fine and short, the collection of them is called fur.  Wool, also, is a kind of hair.  When hair signifies a collection of these animal filaments, it has no plural.
3.  Any thing very small or fine; or a very small distance; the breadth of a hair.  He judges to a hair, that is, very exactly.
4.  A trifling value.  It is not worth a hair.
5.  Course; order; grain; the hair falling in a certain direction.  [Not used.]
 You go against the hair of your profession.
6.  Long, straight and distinct filaments on the surface of plants; a species of down or pubescence.


Topic: Hair-breadth
Definition:
HA'IR-BREADTH, n.  [See Breadth.]  The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance.
 --Seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could
 sling stones to a hair-breadth.  Judges 20.
It is used as an adjective; as a hair-breadth escape.  But in New England, it is generally hair's breadth.


Topic: Haircloth
Definition:
HA'IRCLOTH, n. Stuff or cloth made of hair, or in part with hair.  In military affairs,pieces of this cloth are used for covering the powder in wagons, or on batteries, or for covering charged bombs, &c.


Topic: Hairworm
Definition:
HA'IRWORM, n.  A genus of worms [vermes,] called Gordius; a filiform animal found in fresh water or in the earth.  There are several species.


Topic: Hairy
Definition:
HA'IRY, a.  [from hair.]  Overgrown with hair; covered with hair; abounding with hair.
 Esau, my brother, is a hairy man. Gen.27.
1.  Consisting of hair; as hairy honors.
2.  Resembling hair; of the nature of hair.


Topic: Hake
Definition:
HAKE, n.  A kind of fish, the Gadus merlucius; called by some authors lucius marinus.  It was formerly salted and dried.


Topic: Halberd
Definition:
HAL'BERD, n.  A military weapon, consisting of a pole or shaft of wood, with a head armed with a steel point, with a cross piece of steel, flat and pointed at both ends, or with a cutting edge at one end, and a bent point at the other.  It is carried by sergeants of foot and dragoons.


Topic: Halcyon
Definition:
HAL'CYON, n.  hal'shon.  [L. halcyon; Gr. a king-fisher.]
The name anciently given to the king-fisher, otherwise called alcedo; a bird that was said to lay her eggs in nests, on rocks near the sea, during the calm weather about the winter solstice.  Hence,
HAL'CYON, a.  Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy.  Halcyon days were seven days before and as many after the winter solstice, when the weather was calm.  Hence by halcyon days are now understood days of peace and tranquility.


Topic: Hale
Definition:
HALE, a.  Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as a hale body.
HALE, n.  Welfare.  [Not in use.]
HALE, v.t.  To pull or draw with force; to drag. This is now more generally written and pronounced haul, which see.  It is always to be pronounced haul.


Topic: Half
Definition:
H`ALF, n.  h`af. plu.halves, pron. h`avz.
One equal part of a thing which is divided into two parts, either in fact or in contemplation; a moiety; as half a pound; half a tract of land; half an orange; half the miseries or pleasures of life.  It is applied to quantity, number, length, and every thing susceptible of division. In practice, of is often or usually omitted after half.  We say, half a pound; half a mile; half the number.
 Half the misery of life.  
H`ALF, v.t.  To divide into halves.  [See Halve.]
H`ALF, adv. In part, or in an equal part of degree.
 Half loth, and half consenting.
In composition, half denotes an equal part; or indefinitely, a part, and hence, imperfect.


Topic: Half-blooded
Definition:
H`ALF-BLOODED, a.  Mean; degenerate.  [Little used.]
1.  Proceeding from a male and female, each of full blood, but of different breeds; as a half-blooded sheep.


Topic: Half-heard
Definition:
H`ALF-HEARD, a.  Imperfectly heard; not heard to the end.
 And leave half-heard the melancholy tale.


Topic: Half-moon
Definition:
H`ALF-MOON, n.  The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
1. Any thing in the shape of a half-moon.  In fortification, an outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle, whose gorge is in the form of a crescent or half-moon.


Topic: Half-pay
Definition:
H`ALF-PAY, n.  Half the amount of wages or salary; as, an officer retires on half-pay.
H`ALF-PAY, a.  Receiving or entitled to half-pay; as half-pay officer.


Topic: Half-penny
Definition:
H`ALF-PENNY, n. hap'penny or ha'penny. A copper coin of the value of half a penny; also, the value of half a penny. It is used in the plural.
 He cheats for half-pence.
[This coin is not current in America.]
H`ALF-PENNY, a.  Of the price or value of half a penny; as a half-penny loaf.


Topic: Half-way
Definition:
H`ALF-WAY, adv.  In the middle; at half the distance.
H`ALF-WAY, a.  Equally distant from the extremes; as a half-way house.


Topic: Halfblood
Definition:
H`ALFBLOOD, n.  Relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as a brother or sister of the halfblood.  The word is sometimes used as an adjective.


Topic: Halibut
Definition:
HAL'IBUT, n.  A fish of the genus Pleuronectes, and order of Thoracics. This fish has a compressed body, one side resembling the back, the other the belly; and both eyes on the same side of the head.  It grows to a great size; some to the weight of 300 or 400 pounds.  It forms an article of food, and some parts of the body are fat, tender and delicious.  This fish swims on its side, and hence the name of the genus.


Topic: Hall
Definition:
HALL, n.  [L. aula; Heb. a tent, a palace.]
1.  In architecture, a large room at the entrance of a house or palace. In the houses of ministers of state, magistrates, &c.,it is the place where they give audience and dispatch business.
2.  An edifice in which courts of justice are held; as Westminster Hall, which was originally a royal palace,the kings of England formerly holding their parliaments and courts of judicature in their own dwellings, as is still the practice in Spain.
3.  A manor-house, in which courts were formerly held.
4.  A college, or large edifice belonging to a collegiate institution.
5.  A room for a corporation or public assembly; as a town-hall; Fanueil Hall in Boston, &c.
6.  A collegiate body in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.


Topic: Halleluiah
Definition:
HALLELU'IAH, n.  [Heb. praise ye Jah or Jehovah, to praise,that is, to throw, or raise the voice, to utter a loud sound; L. ululo.]
Praise ye Jehovah; give praise to God; a word used in songs or praise, or a term of rejoicing in solemn ascriptions of thanksgiving to God.  It is used as a noun, or as an exclamation.


Topic: Halloo
Definition:
HAL'LOO, v.i.  To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to by name, or by the word halloo.
 Country folks hallooed and hooted after me.
HAL'LOO, v.t.  To encourage with shouts.
 Old John hallooes his hounds again.
1. To chase with shouts.
2.  To call or shout to.
[This verb is regular, and pronounced with the accent on the first syllable.]


Topic: Hallow
Definition:
HAL'LOW, v.t. [L. calleo, to be able.]
1.  To make holy; to consecrate; to set apart for holy or religious use. Ex.28.29.  1 Kings 8.
2.  To devote to holy or religious exercises; to treat as sacred.
 Hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein.  Jer.17.
3.  To reverence; to honor as sacred.
 Hallowed be thy name.


Topic: Hallowed
Definition:
HAL'LOWED, pp.  Consecrated to a sacred use, or to religious exercises; treated as sacred; reverenced.


Topic: Hallowing
Definition:
HAL'LOWING, ppr.  Setting apart for sacred purposes; consecrating; devoting to religious exercises; reverencing.


Topic: Hallucination
Definition:
HALLUCINA'TION, n.  [L.hallucinatio, from hallucinor, to blunder.]
1.  Error; blunder; mistake.  [Little used.]
2.  In medicine, faulty sense [dysaesthesia,] or erroneous imagination.  Hallucinations of the senses, arise from some defect in the organs of sense, or from some unusual circumstances attending the object, as when it is seen by moonlight; and they are sometimes symptoms of general disease, as in fevers. Maniacal hallucinations arise from some imaginary or mistaken idea.  Similar hallucinations occur in revery.


Topic: Halo
Definition:
HA'LO, n.  A circle appearing round the body of the sun, moon or stars, called also Corona, or crown.  Halos are sometimes white and sometimes colored.  Sometimes one only appears, and sometimes several concentric circles appear at the same time.


Topic: Halt
Definition:
HALT, v.i.
1.  To stop in walking; to hold. In military affairs, the true sense is retained, to stop in a march.  The army halted at noon.
2.  To limp; that is, to stop with lameness.
3.  To hesitate; to stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do.
 How long halt ye between two opinions?  1 Kings 18.
4.  To fail; to falter; as a halting sonnet.
HALT, v.t.  To stop; to cause to cease marching; a military term. The general halted his troops for refreshment.  
HALT, a.  Lame; that is, holding or stopping in walking.
 Bring hither the poor, the maimed,the halt, and the blind. Luke 14.
HALT, n. A stopping; a stop in marching.  
 The troops made a halt at the bridge.
1.  The act of limping.


Topic: Halter
Definition:
HALT'ER, n.  One who halts or limps.
HALT'ER, n.  
1.  A rope or strap and head-stall for leading or confining a horse.
2.  A rope for hanging malefactors.
3.  A strong cord or string.
HALT'ER, v.t.  To put a halter on; as, to halter a horse.
1.  To catch and hold, or to bind with a rope or cord.


Topic: Halves
Definition:
H`ALVES, n. plu. of half.  Two equal parts of a thing.  To cry halves, is to claim an equal share.  To go halves, is to have an equal share.


Topic: Ham
Definition:
HAM, Sax.ham, a house, is our modern word home, G.heim.  It is used in hamlet, and in the names of places, as in Walt-ham, wood-house, walt, a wood, and ham, a house, [not Wal-tham, as it is often pronounced,] Bucking-ham, Notting-ham, Wrent-ham, Dur-ham, &c.
HAM, n.  The inner or hind part of the knee; the inner angle of the joint which unites the thigh and the leg of an animal.  Hence,
1.  The thigh of a beast, particularly of a hog, whether salted and cured or not.  But the word is more generally understood to mean the thigh of a hog salted and dried in smoke.


Topic: Hama
Definition:
A'MA, or HA'MA, n.  
In church affairs, a vessel to contain wine for the eucharist; also, a wine measure, as a cask, a pipe, &c.


Topic: Hamadryad
Definition:
HAM'ADRYAD, n.  [Gr. together, and a tree.]  A wood nymph, feigned to live and die with the tree to which it was attached.


Topic: Hame
Definition:
HAME, n. plu. hames.  A kind or collar for a draught horse, consisting of two bending pieces of wood or bows, and these placed on curving pads or stuffed leather, made to conform to the shape of the neck.


Topic: Hamlet
Definition:
HAM'LET, n.  A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
This word seems originally to have signified the seat of a freeholder, comprehending the mansion house and adjacent buildings.  It now denotes a small collection of houses in the country, in distinction from a city, a large town or township.
 The country wasted and the hamlets burned.


Topic: Hammer
Definition:
HAM'MER, n.  An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like.  It consists of an iron head, fixed crosswise to a handle.  Hammers are of various sizes; a large hammer used by smiths is called a sledge.
HAM'MER, v.t.  To beat with a hammer; as, to hammer iron or steel.
1.  To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
2.  To work in the mind; to contrive by intellectual labor; usually with out; as, to hammer out a scheme.
HAM'MER, v.i.  To work; to be busy; to labor in contrivance.
1.  To be working or in agitation.


Topic: Hammercloth
Definition:
HAM'MERCLOTH, n.  The cloth which covers a coach-box, so called from the old practice of carrying a hammer, nails, &c. in a little pocket hid by this cloth.


Topic: Hammoc
Definition:
HAM'MOC, n.  A kind of hanging bed, suspended between trees or posts, or by hooks.  It consists of a piece of hempen cloth about six feet long and three feet wide, gathered at the ends and suspended by cords.  It forms a bed, or a receptacle for a bed, on board of ships.


Topic: Hamper
Definition:
HAM'PER, n.  [contracted form hanaper, or from hand pannier.]
1.  A large basket for conveying things to market, &c.
2.  Fetters, or some instrument that shackles.
[This signification and that of the verb following indicate that this word is from hanaper, and that the latter is from the sense of interweaving twigs.]
HAM'PER, v.t.  [See the Noun.]  To shackle; to entangle; hence, to impede in motion or progress, or to render progress difficult.
 A lion hampered in a net.
1.  To ensnare; to inveigle; to catch with allurements.
2.  To tangle; to render complicated.
3.  To perplex; to embarrass.
 Hampered by the laws.


Topic: Hamster
Definition:
HAM'STER, n.  A species of rat, the Mus cricetus, or German marmot.  This rat is of the size of the water rat, but is of a browner color,and its belly and legs of a dirty yellow.  It is remarkable for two bags, like those of a baboon, on each side of the jaw, under the skin, in which it conveys grain, peas and acorns to its winter residence.


Topic: Hamstring
Definition:
HAM'STRING, n. The tendons of the ham.
HAM'STRING, v.t. pret. and pp. hamstrung or hamstringed.  
To cut the tendons of the ham, and this to lame or disable.


Topic: Hanaper
Definition:
HAN'APER, n.  The hanaper was used in early days by the kings of England, for holding and carrying with them their money, as they journeyed from place to place.  It was a kind of basket, like the fiscus, and hence came to be considered as the king's treasury.  Hence, the clerk or warden of the hanaper, is an officer who receives the fees due to the king for seals of charters, patents, commissions, and writs.  There is also an officer who is controller of the hanaper. This word therefore answered to the modern exchequer.


Topic: Hances
Definition:
HAN'CES, n. plu. [L. ansa.]  In architecture, the ends of elliptical arches, which are the arches of smaller circles than the scheme or middle part of the arch.
1.  In a ship, falls of the fife-rails placed on balusters on the poop and quarter-deck down to the gangway.


Topic: Hand
Definition:
HAND, n.  [L. hendo, in prehendo.]
1.  In man, the extremity of the arm, consisting of the palm and fingers, connected with the arm at the wrist; the part with which we hold and use any instrument.
2.  In falconry, the foot of a hawk; and in the manege, the fore-foot of a horse.
3.  A measure of four inches; a palm applied chiefly to horses; as a horse 14 hands high.
4.  Side; part; right or left; as on the one hand or the other.  This is admitted on all hands, that is, on all sides, or by all parties.
5.  Act; deed; performance; external action; that is, the effect for the cause,the hand being the instrument of action.
 Thou sawest the contradiction between my heart and hand.
6.  Power of performance; skill.
 A friend of mine has a very fine hand on the violin.
 He had a mind to try his hand at a Spectator.
7.  Power of making or producing.
 An intelligent being coming out of the hands of infinite perfection.
8.  Manner of acting or performance; as, he changed his hand.
9.  Agency; part in performing or executing.  Punish every man who had a hand in the mischief.  We see the hand of God in this event.
    10. Conveyance; agency in transmitting.
    11. Possession; power. The estate is in the hands of the owner. The papers are in my hands.
    12. The cards held at a game; hence, a game.
    13. That which performs the office of the hand or of a finger in pointing; as the hand of a clock; the hour hand, and the minute hand.
    14. A person; an agent; a man employed in agency or service. The mason employs twenty hands.
    15. Form of writing; style of penmanship; as a good hand; a bad hand; a fine hand.
   16. Agency; service; ministry. Ex.4. Lev.8.
    17. In Scripture, the hand of God, is his eternal purpose and executive power. Acts.4.
    18. The providential bounty of God. Ps.104.
    19. The power of God exerted in judgments or mercies, in punishing or defending. Judges. 2. Ps.32.
    20. The spirit of God; divine influence. 1 Kings 18.
    21. The favor of God, or his support. Neh.2. Luke 1.
At hand, near; either present and within reach, or not far distant.
 Your husband is at hand, I hear his trumpet.
1.  Near in time; not distant.
 The day of Christ is at hand. 2 Thess.2.
By hand, with the hands,in distinction from the instrumentality of tools, engines or animals; as, to weed a garden by hand; to lift, draw or carry by hand.
In hand, present payment; in respect to the receiver.
 Receiving in hand one year's tribute.
1.  In a state of execution.  I have a great work in hand.
At my hand, at his hand, &c., denote from the person or being.
 Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? Job.2.
Of hand, in present possession; as,he has a supply of goods on hand.
1.  Under one's care or management.
 Jupiter had a farm on his hands.
Off hand, without delay, hesitation or difficulty; immediately; dexterously; without previous preparation.
Out of hand, ready payment; with regard to the payer.
 Let not the wages of any man tarry with thee; but give it him out of hand.
To his hand, to my hand, &c., in readiness; already prepared; ready to be received.
 The work is made to his hands.
Under his hand, under her hand, &c., with the proper writing or signature of the name.  
 This deed is executed under the hand and seal of the owner.
Hand over head, negligently; rashly; without seeing what one does.  [Little used.]
Hand over hand, by passing the hands alternately one before or above another, as to climb hand over hand; also, rapidly, as to come up with a chase hand over hand; ;used by seamen.
Hand to hand, in close union; close fight.
 But from hand to hand is from one person to another.
Hand in hand, in union; conjointly; unitedly.
To join hand in hand, is to unite efforts and act in concert.
Hand in hand, fit; pat; suitable.
Hand to mouth.  To live from hand to mouth, is to obtain food and other necessaries, as want requires, without making previous provision, or having an abundant previous supply.
To bear in hand, to keep in expectation; to elude.  [Not used.]
To bear a hand, to hasten; a seaman's phrase.
To be hand and glove, to be intimate and familiar, as friends or associates.
To set the hand to, to engage in; to undertake.
 That the Lord thy God may bless thee, in all thou
 settest thine hand to. Dest.23.
To take in hand, to attempt; to undertake.  Luke 1. Also, to seize and deal with.
To have a hand in, to be concerned in; to have a part or concern in doing; to have an agency in.
To put the last hand or finishing hand to, to complete; to perfect; to make the last corrections, or give the final polish.
To change hands, to change sides; to shift.
Hand, in the sense of rate, price, terms, conditions, as used by Bacon, Taylor, &c., is obsolete; as, 'to buy at a dear hand;' 'accept the mystery, but at no hand wrest it by pride or ignorance.'  So in the sense of advantage, gain, superiority, as used by Hayward; and in that of competition, content, as used by Shakespeare.
To get hand, to gain influence, is obsolete.
A heavy hand, severity or oppression.
A light hand, gentleness; moderation.
A strict hand, severe discipline; rigorous government.
Hands off, a vulgar phrase for keep off, forbear.
pour water on the hands, in the phraseology of the Scriptures, is to serve or minister to.  2 Kings 3.
To wash the hands, to profess in innocence.  Matt.27.
To kiss the hand, imports adoration.  Job.31.
To lean on the hand, imports familiarity.  2 Kings.5.
To strike hands, to make a contract, or to become surety for another's debt or good behavior. Prov.17.
Putting the hand under the thigh, was an ancient ceremony used in swearing.
To give the hand, is to make a covenant with one, or to unite with him in design.  2 Kings.10.
The stretching out of the hand, denotes an exertion of power. But,
The stretching out of the hand to God, imports earnest prayer or solemn dedication of one's self to him. Ps.68, and 143.
The lifting of the hand, was used in affirmation and swearing, and in prayer imported a solemn wishing of blessings from God. Gen.14. Lev.19.
To lift the hand against a superior, to rebel. 2 Sam.20.
To put forth the hand against one, to kill him. 1 Sam.24.
To put one's hand to a neighbor's goods, to steal them. Ex.22.
To lay hands on in anger, to assault or seize, or to smite. Ex.24. Is.11.
To lay the hand on the mouth, imports silence. Job.40.
The laying on of hands, was also a ceremony used in consecrating one to office. Num.27. 1 Tim.4.
 It was also used in blessing persons. Mark 10.
Hiding the hand in the bosom, denotes idleness; inactivity; sluggishness. Prov.19.
The clapping of hands, denotes joy and rejoicing.  But in some instances, contempt or derision, or joy at the calamities of others. Ps.47. Ezek.25.
A station at the right hand is honorable, and denotes favor, approbation or honor. A station on the left hand is less honorable. Matt.20.
's standing at the right hand of men, imports his regard for them, and his readiness to defend and assist them. Ps.16.
Satan's standing at the right hand of men, imports his readiness to accuse them, or to hinder or torment them. Zech.3.
Clean hands, denotes innocence and a blameless and holy life. Ps.24.
A slack hand, denotes idleness; carelessness; sloth. Prov.10.
The right hand, denotes power; strength. Ex.15.
HAND, v.t.  To give or transmit with the hand.  
 Hand me a book.
1.  To lead, guide and lift with the hand; to conduct.
2.  To manage; as, I hand my oar.
3.  To seize; to lay hands on.  [Not used.]
4.  In seamanship, to furl; to wrap or roll a sail close to the yard, stay or mast, and fasten it with gaskets.
To hand down, to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor.  Fables are handed down from age to age.


Topic: Handcuff
Definition:
HAND'CUFF, n.  A manacle, consisting of iron rings for the wrists, and a connecting chain to confine the hands.
HAND'CUFF, v.t.  To manacle; to confine the hands with handcuffs.


Topic: Handed
Definition:
HAND'ED, pp.  Given or transmitted by the hands; conducted; furled.
HAND'ED, a.  With hands joined.
1.  In composition, as right-handed,most dextrous or strong with the right hand; having the right hand most able and ready.
Left-handed,having the left hand most strong and convenient for principal use.


Topic: Handfast
Definition:
HAND'F`AST, n.  Hold; custody; power of confining or keeping.
HAND'F`AST, a.  Fast by contract; firm.
HAND'F`AST, v.t.  To pledge; to betroth; to bind; to join solemnly by the hand.


Topic: Handful
Definition:
HAND'FUL, n.  As much as the hand will grasp or contain.
1.  As much as the arms will embrace.
2.  A palm; four inches.
3.  A small quantity or number.  A handful of men.
4.  As much as can be done; full employment.
 In America, the phrase is,he has his hands full.


Topic: Handgallop
Definition:
HAND'GALLOP, n.  A slow and easy gallop, in which the hand presses the bridle to hinder increase of speed.


Topic: Handglass
Definition:
HAND'GL`ASS, n. In gardening, a glass used for placing over, protecting and forwarding various plants, in winter.


Topic: Handicraft
Definition:
HAND'ICR`AFT, n. Manual occupation; work performed by the hand.
1.  A man who obtains his living by manual labor; one skilled in some mechanical art.


Topic: Handily
Definition:
HAND'ILY, adv.  [See Handy.]  With dexterity or skill; dexterously; adroitly.
1.  With ease or convenience.


Topic: Handiwork
Definition:
HAND'IWORK, n. [for hand-work.]  Work of the hands; product of manual labor; manufacture.
1.  Work performed by power and wisdom.  Ps.19.


Topic: Handkerchief
Definition:
HAND'KERCHIEF, n.  [hand and kerchief.  See Kerchief.]
1.  A piece of cloth, usually silk or linen, carried about the person for the purpose of cleaning the face or hands, as occasion requires.
2.  A  piece of cloth to be worn about the neck, and sometimes called a neckerchief.


Topic: Handle
Definition:
HAND'LE, v.t. [L. manus.]
1.  To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
 The bodies we daily handle--hinder the approach of the part of our hands that press them.
2.  To manage; to use; to wield.
 That fellow handles a bow like a crow-keeper.
3.  To make familiar by frequent touching.
 The breeders in Flanders--handle their colts six months every year.
4.  To treat; to discourse on; to discuss; to use or manage in writing or speaking.  The author handled the subject with address.  The speaker handled the arguments to the best advantage.
5.  To use; to deal with; to practice.
 They that handle the law knew me not. Jer.2.
6.  To treat; to use well or ill.
 How wert thou handled?
7.  To manage; to practice on; to transact with.
 You shall see how I will handle her.
HAND'LE, n. [L. ansa.]
1.  That part of a vessel or instrument which is held in the hand when used, as the haft of a sword,the bail of a kettle, &c.
2.  That of which use is made; the instrument of effecting a purpose.


Topic: Handsel
Definition:
HAND'SEL, n.
1. The first act of using any thing; the first sale.
2.  An earnest; money for the first sale.  [Little used.]
HAND'SEL, v.t. To use or do any thing the first time.


Topic: Handsome
Definition:
HAND'SOME, a.  
1.  Properly, dexterous; ready; convenient.
 For a thief it is so handsome, as it may seem it was first invented for him.
This sense is either from the original meaning of hand, or from the use of the hand, or rather of the right hand. In this sense the word is still used.  We say of a well fought combat and victory, it is a handsome affair, an affair well performed, done with dexterity or skill.  [See Handy.]
2.  Moderately beautiful, as the person or other thing; well made; having symmetry of parts; well formed.  It expresses less than beautiful or elegant; as a handsome woman or man; she has a handsome person or face.  So we say, a handsome house; a handsome type.
3.  Graceful in manner; marked with propriety and ease; as a handsome address.
4.  Ample; large; as handsome fortune.
5.  Neat; correct; moderately elegant; as a handsome style or composition.
6.  Liberal; generous; as a handsome present.
The applications of this word in popular language are various and somewhat indefinite.  In general, when applied to things, it imports that the form is agreeable to the eye, or to just taste; and when applied to manner, it conveys the idea of suitableness or propriety with grace.

HAND'SOME, as a verb, to render neat or beautiful, is not an authorized word.


Topic: Handsomely
Definition:
HAND'SOMELY, adv.  Dexterously; cleverly; with skill.
1.  Gracefully; with propriety and ease.
2.  Neatly; with due symmetry or proportions; as, a thing is handsomely made or finished.
3.  With a degree of beauty; as a room handsomely furnished or ornamented.
4.  Amply; generously; liberally.  
 She is handsomely endowed.


Topic: Handsomeness
Definition:
HAND'SOMENESS, n. A moderate degree of beauty or elegance; as the handsomeness of the person or of an edifice.
1.  Grace; gracefulness; ease and propriety in manner.


Topic: Handspike
Definition:
HAND'SPIKE, n.  A wooden bar, used with the hand as a lever, for various purposes, as in raising weights, heaving about a windlass, &c.


Topic: Handy
Definition:
HAND'Y, a.
1.  Performed by the hand.
 They came to handy blows.
2.  Dexterous; ready; adroit; skilled to use the hands with ease in performance; applied to persons.  He is handy with the saw or the place.  Each is handy in his way.
3.  Ingenious; performing with skill and readiness.
4.  Ready to the hand; near.  My books are very handy.
5.  Convenient; suited to the use of the hand.
6.  Near; that may be used without difficulty or going to a distance.  We have a spring or pasture that is handy.


Topic: Hang
Definition:
HANG, v.t. pret. and pp. hanged or hung.
1.  To suspend; to fasten to some fixed object above, in such a manner as to swing or move; as, to hang a thief.  Pharaoh hanged the chief baker.  Hence,
2.  To put to death by suspending by the neck.
 Many men would rebel, rather than be ruined; but they would rather not rebel than be hanged.
3.  To place without any solid support or foundation.
 He hangeth the earth upon nothing. Job.36.
4.  To fix in such a manner as to be movable; as, to hang a door or grate on hooks or by butts.
5.  To cover or furnish by any thing suspended or fastened to the walls; as, to hang an apartment with curtains or with pictures.
 Hung by the heavens with black--
 And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils.
To hang out, to suspend in open view; to display; to exhibit to notice; as, to hang out false colors.
1.  To hang abroad; to suspend in the open air.
hang over, to project or cause to project above.
To hang down, to let fall below the proper situation; to bend down; to decline; as, to hand down the head, and elliptically, to hang the head.
To hang up, to suspend; to place on something fixed on high.
1.  To suspend; to keep or suffer to remain undecided; as, to hang up a question in debate.
HANG, v.i.  To be suspended; to be sustained by something above, so as to swing or be movable below.
1.  To dangle; to be loose and flowing below.
2.  To bend forward or downward; to lean or incline.
 His neck obliquely o'er his shoulder hung.
3.  To float; to play.
 And fall those sayings from that gentle tongue,
 Where civil speech and soft persuasion hung.
4.  To be supported by something raised above the ground; as a hanging garden on the top of a house.
5.  To depend; to rest on something for support. This question hangs on a single point.
6.  To rest on by embracing; to cling to; as, to hang on the neck of a person.
 Two infants hanging on her neck.
7.  To hover; to impend; with over.  
 View the dangers that hang over the country.
8.  To be delayed; to linger.
 A noble stroke he lifted high,
 Which hung not.
9.  To incline; to have a steep declivity; as hanging grounds.
    10. To be executed by the halter.
 Sir Balaam hangs.
To hang fire, in the military art, is to be slow in communicating, as fire in the pan of a gun to the charge.
To hang on, to adhere to, often as something troublesome and unwelcome.
 A cheerful temper dissipates the apprehensions which hang on the timorous.
1.  To adhere obstinately; to be importunate.
2.  To rest; to reside; to continue.
3.  To be dependent on.
 How wretched
 Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!
4.  In  seamen's language, to hold fast without belaying; to pull forcibly.
To hang in doubt, to be in suspense, or in a state of uncertainty.
 Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee.  Deut.28.
hang together, to be closely united; to cling.
 In the common cause we are all of a piece; we hang together.
1.  To be just united, so as barely to hold together.
To hang on or upon, to drag; to be incommodiously jointed.
 Life hangs upon me and becomes a burden.
To hang to, to adhere closely; to cling.
HANG, n.  A sharp declivity.


Topic: Hanger
Definition:
HANG'ER, n.  That by which a thing is suspended.
1.  A short broad sword, incurvated towards the point.
2.  One that hangs, or causes to be hanged.


Topic: Hanger-on
Definition:
HANG'ER-ON, n.  One who besets another importunately in soliciting favors.
1. A dependant; one who eats and drinks without payment.


Topic: Hanging
Definition:
HANG'ING, ppr.  Suspending to something above.
1.  Being suspended; dangling; swinging.
2.  Foreboding death by the halter.
 What a hanging face!
3.  Requiring punishment by the halter; as a hanging matter.
HANG'ING, n.  Any kind of drapery hung or fastened to the walls or a room, by way of ornament.
 No purple hangings clothe the palace walls.
1.  Death by the halter; as hard words or hanging.
2.  Display; exhibition.


Topic: Hanging-sleeves
Definition:
HANG'ING-SLEEVES, n.  Strips of the same stuff with the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders.


Topic: Hangnest
Definition:
HANG'NEST, n.  The name of certain species of birds, which build nests suspended from the branches of trees, such as the Baltimore oriole or red-bird; also,the nest so suspended.


Topic: Hank
Definition:
HANK, n.
1.  A skein of thread; as much thread as is tied together; a tie.
2.  In ships. a wooden ring fixed to a stay, to confine the stay-sails; used in the place of a grommet.
3.  A rope or withy for fastening a gate.
HANK, v.t.  To form into hanks.


Topic: Hanker
Definition:
HANK'ER, v.i.
1.  To long for with a keen appetite and uneasiness; in a literal sense; as, to hanker for fruit, or after fruit.
2.  To have a vehement desire of something, accompanied with uneasiness; as, to hanker after the diversions of the town.
 It is usually followed by after.  It is a familiar, but not a low word.


Topic: Hankering
Definition:
HANK'ERING, ppr. Longing for with keen appetite or ardent desire.
HANK'ERING,n.  A keen appetite that causes uneasiness till it is gratified; vehement desire to possess or enjoy.


Topic: Hant
Definition:
HA'NT, a contraction of have not, or has not; as, I ha'nt, he ha'nt, we ha'nt.
Hanse Towns.  Hanse signifies a society; Goth. hansa, a multitude.  The Hanse towns in Germany were certain commercial cities which associated for the protection of commerce as early as the twelfth century. To this confederacy acceded certain commercial cities in Holland, England, France, Spain and Italy, until they amounted to seventy two, and for centuries, this confederacy commanded the respect and defied the power of kings.  This confederacy at present consists of the cities of Lubeck, Hamburg, and Bremen.


Topic: Hap
Definition:
HAP, n. [L. capio.]
1.  That which comes suddenly or unexpectedly; chance; fortune; accident; casual event.  [See Chance and Casual.]
 Whether art it was or heedless hap.
 Curs'd by good haps,and curs'd be they that build
 Their hopes on haps.
2.  Misfortune.  [But this word is obsolete or obsolescent, except in compounds and derivatives.]
HAP, v.i. To happen; to befall; to come by chance.


Topic: Hap-hazard
Definition:
HAP-HAZ'ARD, n.  [This is tautological.  See Hazard.]  
Chance; accident.
 We take our principles at hap-hazard on trust.


Topic: Haply
Definition:
HAP'LY, adv.  By chance; perhaps; it may be.
 Lest haply ye be found to fight against God.  Acts.5.
1.  By accident; casually.


Topic: Happen
Definition:
HAP'PEN, v.i. hap'n.
1.  To come by chance; to come without one's previous expectation; to fall out.
 There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov.12.
2.  To come; to befall.
 They talked together of all those things which had happened.  Luke 24.
3.  To light; to fall or come unexpectedly.
 I have happened on some other accounts relating to mortalities.


Topic: Happily
Definition:
HAP'PILY, adv.  [See Happy.]  By good fortune; fortunately; luckily; with success.
 Preferr'd by conquest, happily o'erthrown.
1.  In a happy state; in a state of felicity.
 He lived happily with his consort.
2.  With address or dexterity; gracefully; in a manner to ensure success.
 Formed by thy converse, happily to steer
 From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
3.  By chance.  [See Haply.]


Topic: Happiness
Definition:
HAP'PINESS, n.  [from happy.]  The agreeable sensations which spring from the enjoyment of good; that state of a being in which his desires are gratified, by the enjoyment of pleasure without pain; felicity; but happiness usually expresses less than felicity, and felicity less than bliss.  Happiness is comparative.  To a person distressed with pain, relief from that pain affords happiness; in other cases we give the name happiness to positive pleasure or an excitement of agreeable sensations.  Happiness therefore admits of indefinite degrees of increase in enjoyment, or gratification of desires.  Perfect happiness, or pleasure unalloyed with pain, is not attainable in this life.
2.  Good luck; good fortune.
3.  Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace.
 For there's a happiness as well as care.


Topic: Happy
Definition:
HAP'PY  a. [from hap.]
1.  Lucky; fortunate; successful.
 Chimists have been more happy in finding experiments, than the causes of them.
So we say, a happy thought; a happy expedient.
2.  Being in the enjoyment of agreeable sensations from the possession of good; enjoying pleasure from the gratification of appetites or desires.  The pleasurable sensations derived from the gratification of sensual appetites render a person temporarily happy; but he only can be esteemed really and permanently happy, who enjoys peace of mind in the favor of God. To be in any degree happy, we must be free from pain both of body and of mind; to be very happy, we must be in the enjoyment of lively sensations of pleasure, either of body or mind.
 Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed.  Gen.30.
 He found himself happiest, in communicating happiness to others.
3.  Prosperous; having secure possession of good.
 Happy is that people whose God is Jehovah. Ps.144.
4.  That supplies pleasure; that furnishes enjoyment; agreeable; applied to things; as a happy condition.
5.  Dexterous; ready; able.
 One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in a rejoinder.
6.  Blessed; enjoying the presence and favor of God, in a future life.
7.  Harmonious; living in concord; enjoying the pleasures of friendship; as a happy family.
8.  Propitious; favorable.


Topic: Har
Definition:
HAR, HARE, HERE, in composition, signify an army, Sax. here, G. heer, D. heir.  So Harold is a general of an army; Herwin, a victorious army. 


Topic: Harangue
Definition:
HARANGUE, n. harang'. har'ang.
1.  A speech addressed to an assembly or an army; a popular oration; a public address.  This word seems to imply loudness or declamation, and is therefore appropriated generally to an address made to a popular assembly or to an army, and not to a sermon, or to an argument at the bar of a court, or to a speech in a deliberative council, unless in contempt.
2.  Declamation; a noisy, pompous or irregular address.
HARANGUE, v.i. harang'.  To make an address or speech to a large assembly; to make a noisy speech. 
HARANGUE, v.t. harang'.  To address by oration; as, the general harangued the troops.


Topic: Harass
Definition:
HAR'ASS, v.t.
1.  To weary; to fatigue to excess; to tire with bodily labor; as, to harass an army by a long march.
2.  To weary with importunity, care, or perplexity; to tease; to perplex.
 Nature oppress'd and harrass'd out with care.
3.  To waste or desolate.
HAR'ASS, n.  Waste; disturbance; devastation.  [Little used.]


Topic: Harbinger
Definition:
H`ARBINGER, n.  [See Harbor.  Harbinger is properly a person who goes to provide harbor or lodgings for those that follow.]
1.  In England, an officer of the king's household who rides a day's journey before the court when traveling, to provide lodgings and other accommodations.
2.  A forerunner; a precursor; that which precedes and gives notice of the expected arrival of something else.


Topic: Harbor
Definition:
H`ARBOR, n.  
1.  A lodging; a place of entertainment and rest.
 For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.
2.  A port or haven for ships; a bay or inlet of the sea, in which ships can moor, and be sheltered from the fury of winds and a heavy sea; any navigable water where ships can ride in safety.
3.  An asylum; a shelter; a place of safety from storms or danger.
H`ARBOR, v.t.  To shelter; to secure; to secrete; as, to harbor a thief.
1.  To entertain; to permit to lodge, rest or reside; as, to harbor malice or revenge.
 Harbor not a thought of revenge.
H`ARBOR, v.i.  To lodge or abide for a time; to receive entertainment.
 This night let's harbor here in York.
1.  To take shelter.


Topic: Harbor-master
Definition:
H`ARBOR-M`ASTER, n.  An officer who has charge of the mooring of ships,and executes the regulations respecting harbors.


Topic: Hard
Definition:
H`ARD, a.
1.  Firm; solid; compact; not easily penetrated, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
2.  Difficult; not easy to the intellect.
 In which are some things hard to be understood. 2 Pet.3.
 The hard causes they brought to Moses. Ex. 18.
3.  Difficult of accomplishment; not easy to be done or executed.  A hard task; a disease hard to cure.
 Is any thing too hard for the Lord? Gen.18.
4.  Full of difficulties or obstacles; not easy to be traveled; as a hard way.
5.  Painful; difficult; distressing.
 Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. Gen.35.
6.  Laborious; fatiguing; attended with difficulty or pain, or both; as hard work or labor; hard duty; hard service.
7.  Oppressive; rigorous; severe; cruel; as hard bondage; a hard master. Ex.1. Is. 14.
8.  Unfeeling; insensible; not easily moved by pity; not susceptible of kindness, mercy or other tender affections; as a hard heart.
9.  Severe; harsh; rough; abusive.
 Have you given him any hard words of late?
    10. Unfavorable; unkind; implying blame of another; as hard thoughts.
    11. Severe; rigorous; oppressive. The enemy was compelled to submit to hard terms. So we say, a hard bargain; hard conditions.
    12. Unreasonable; unjust. It is hard to punish a man for speculative opinions. It is a hard case.
    13. Severe; pinching with cold; rigorous; tempestuous; as a hard winter; hard weather.
    14. Powerful; forcible; urging; pressing close on.
 The stag was too hard for the horse.
 The disputant was too hard for his antagonist.
    15. Austere; rough; acid; sour; as liquors.
 The cider is hard.
    16. Harsh; stiff; forced; constrained; unnatural.
 Others--make the figures harder than the marble itself.
 His diction is hard, his figures too bold.
    17. Not plentiful; not prosperous; pressing; distressing; as hard times, when markets are bad, and money of course scarce.
    18. Avaricious; difficult in making bargains; close. Matt.25.
    19. Rough; of coarse features; as a hard face or countenance.
    20. Austere; severe; rigorous.
    21. Rude; unpolished or unintelligible.
 A people of hard language. Ezek.3.
    22. Coarse; unpalatable or scanty; as hard fare.
H`ARD, adv.  Close; near; as in the phrase,hard by. In this phrase,the word retains its original sense of pressed, or pressing.
[L. pressus.]
1.  With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; laboriously; earnestly; vehemently; importunately; as, to work hard for a living.
 And pray'd so hard for mercy from the prince.
2.  With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
3.  Uneasily; vexatiously.
4.  Closely; so as to raise difficulties.
 The question is hard set.
5.  Fast; nimbly; rapidly; vehemently; as, to run hard, that is, with pressure or urgency.
6.  Violently; with great force; tempestuously; as, the wind blows hard, or it blows hard.
 7.  With violence; with a copious descent of water; as, it rains hard.
8.  With force; as, to press hard.
Hard-a-lee, in seamen's language, an order to put the helm close to the lee side of the ship, to tack or keep her head to the wind; also, that situation of the helm.
Hard-a-weather, an order to put the helm close to the weather or windward side of the ship; also, that position of the helm.
Hard-a-port, an order to put the helm close to the larboard side of a ship.
Hard-a-starboard, an order to put the helm close to the starboard side of a ship.


Topic: Harden
Definition:
H`ARDEN, v.t. h`ardn.  To make hard or more hard; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden iron or steel; to harden clay.
1.  To confirm in effrontery; to make impudent; as, to harden the face.
2.  To make obstinate, unyielding or refractory; as, to harden the neck. Jer.19.
3.  To confirm in wickedness, opposition or enmity; to make obdurate.
 Why then do ye harden your hearts, as Pharaoh and the Egyptians hardened their hearts? 1 Sam.6.
 So God is said to harden the heart, when he withdraws the influences of his spirit from men, and leaves them to pursue their own corrupt inclinations.
4.  To make insensible or unfeeling; as, to harden one against impressions of pity or tenderness.
5.  To make firm; to endure with constancy.
 I would harden myself in sorrow. Job.6.
6. To inure; to render firm or less liable to injury, by exposure or use; as, to harden to a climate or to labor.
H`ARDEN, v.i. h`ardn.  To become hard or more hard; to acquire solidity or more compactness. Mortar hardens by drying.
1.  To become unfeeling.
2.  To become inured.
3.  To indurate, as flesh.


Topic: Hardened
Definition:
H`ARDENED, pp.  Made hard, or more hard or compact; made unfeeling; made obstinate; confirmed in error or vice.


Topic: Hardening
Definition:
H`ARDENING, ppr.  Making hard or more compact; making obdurate or unfeeling; confirming; becoming more hard.
H`ARDENING, n.  The giving a greater degree of hardness to bodies than they had before.


Topic: Hardihood
Definition:
H`ARDIHOOD, n.  [See Hardy and Hood.]  Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; dauntless bravery; intrepidity.
 It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to
iniquity.
Hardihead and hardiment, in the sense of hardihood, are obsolete.


Topic: Hardiness
Definition:
H`ARDINESS, n.
1.  Boldness; firm courage; intrepidity; stoutness; bravery; applied to the mind, it is synonymous with hardihood.
2.  Firmness of body derived from laborious exercises.
3.  Hardship; fatigue.
4.  Excess of confidence; assurance; effrontery.


Topic: Hardly
Definition:
H`ARDLY, adv.  [See Hard.]  With difficulty; with great labor.
 Recovering hardly what he lost before.
1.  Scarcely; barely; almost not.
 Hardly shall you find any one so bad, but he desires the credit of being thought good.
2.  Not quite or wholly.  The object is so distant we can hardly see it. The veal is hardly done.  The writing is hardly completed.
3.  Grudgingly, as an injury.
4.  Severely; unfavorably; as, to think hardly of public measures.
5.  Rigorously; oppressively.  The prisoners were hardly used or treated.
6.  Unwelcomely; harshly.
 Such information comes very hardly and harshly to a grown man.
7.  Coarsely; roughly; not softly.
 Heaven was her canopy, bare earth her bed;
 So hardly lodged.


Topic: Hardness
Definition:
H`ARDNESS, n.  [See Hard.]  Firmness; close union of the component parts; compactness; solidity; the quality of bodies which resists impression; opposed to softness and fluidity.
1.  Difficulty to be understood.
2.  Difficulty to be executed or accomplished; as the hardness of an enterprise.
3.  Scarcity; penury; difficulty of obtaining money; as the hardness of the times.
4.  Obduracy; impenitence; confirmed state of wickedness; as hardness of heart.
5.  Coarseness of features; harshness of look; as hardness of favor.
6.  Severity of cold; rigor; as the hardness of winter.
7.  Cruelty of temper; savageness; harshness.
 The blame
 May hang upon your hardness.
8.  Stiffness; harshness; roughness; as the hardnesses of sculpture.
9.  Closeness; niggardliness; stinginess.
    10. Hardship; severe labor, trials or sufferings.
 Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 2 Tim.2.


Topic: Hardship
Definition:
H`ARDSHIP, n.  Toil; fatigue; severe labor or want; whatever oppresses the body.
1.  Injury; oppression; injustice.


Topic: Hardy
Definition:
H`ARDY, a.
1.  Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid. 
 Who is hardy enough to encounter contempt?
2.  Strong; firm; compact.
 An unwholesome blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric.
3.  Confident; full of assurance; impudent; stubborn to excess.
4.  Inured to fatigue; rendered firm by exercise, as a veteran soldier.


Topic: Hare
Definition:
HARE, n.  A quadruped of the genus Lepus, with long ears, a short tail, soft hair, and a divided upper lip.  It is a timid animal, often hunted for sport or for its flesh, which is excellent food.  It moves by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.
1.  A constellation.
HARE, v.t.  To fright, or to excite, tease and harass, or worry.  [Not used. See Harry.]


Topic: Harem
Definition:
HAR'EM, n.  A seraglio; a place where Eastern princes confine their women, who are prohibited from the society of others.


Topic: Hark
Definition:
H`ARK, v.t.  [contracted from hearken, which see.]
To listen; to lend the ear.
This word is rarely or never used, except in the imperative mode, hark, that is, listen, hear.


Topic: Harlot
Definition:
H`ARLOT, n. 
1.  A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman.
2.  In Scripture, one who forsakes the true God and worships idols. Is.1.
3.  A servant; a rogue; a cheat.
H`ARLOT, a.  Wanton; lewd; low; base.
H`ARLOT, v.i.  To practice lewdness.


Topic: Harm
Definition:
H`ARM, n.
1.  Injury; hurt; damage; detriment.
 Do thyself no harm.  Acts.16.
 He shall make amends for the harm he hath done in the holy thing. Lev.5.
2.  Moral wrong; evil; mischief; wickedness; a popular sense of the word.
H`ARM, v.t.  To hurt; to injure; to damage; to impair soundness of body, either animal or vegetable.


Topic: Harmful
Definition:
H`ARMFUL, a.  Hurtful; injurious; noxious; detrimental; mischievous.
 The earth brought forth fruit and food for man, without any mixture of harmful quality.


Topic: Harmless
Definition:
H`ARMLESS, a. Not hurtful or injurious; innoxious.  Ceremonies are harmless in themselves.
1.  Unhurt; undamaged; uninjured; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
2.  Innocent; not guilty.
 Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. Heb.7.


Topic: Harmlessly
Definition:
H`ARMLESSLY, adv.  Innocently; without fault or crime; as, to pass the time harmlessly in recreations.
1.  Without hurt or damage.
 Bullets fall harmlessly into wood or feathers.


Topic: Harmonical
Definition:
HARMON'ICAL, a.  [See Harmony.]  Relating to harmony or music; as harmonical use.
1.  Concordant;musical; consonant; as harmonic sounds.
 Harmonic twang of leather, horn and brass.
 The basis of an harmonic system.
 The harmonic elements are the three smallest concords.
2.  An epithet applied to the accessary sounds which accompany the predominant and apparently simple tone of any chord or string.
Harmonical mean, in arithmetic and algebra, a term used to express certain relations of numbers and quantities, which are supposed to bear an analogy to musical consonances.
Harmonical proportion, in arithmetic and algebra,is said to obtain between three quantities, or four quantities, in certain cases.
Harmonical series, a series of many numbers in continued harmonical proportion.


Topic: Harmonics
Definition:
HARMON'ICS,n.  Harmonious sounds; consonances.
1.  The doctrine or science of musical sounds.
2.  Derivative sounds, generated with predominant sounds, and produced by subordinate vibrations of a chord or string, when its whole length vibrates.  These shorter vibrations produce more acute sounds,and are called acute harmonics.
3.  Grave harmonics are low sounds which accompany every perfect consonance of two sounds.


Topic: Harmonious
Definition:
HARMO'NIOUS, a.  Adapted to each other; having the parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.
 God hath made the intellectual world harmonious and beautiful without us.
1.  Concordant; consonant; symphonious; musical. Harmonious sounds are such as accord, and are agreeable to the ear.
2.  Agreeing; living in peace and friendship; as a harmonious family or society. 


Topic: Harmoniously
Definition:
HARMO'NIOUSLY, adv.  With just adaptation and proportion of parts to each other.
 Distances, motions, and quantities of matter harmoniously adjusted in this great variety of our system.
1.  With accordance of sound; musically; in concord.
2.  In agreement; in peace and friendship.


Topic: Harmonist
Definition:
H`ARMONIST, n.  A musician; a composer of music.
1. One who brings together corresponding passages, to show their agreement.


Topic: Harmonize
Definition:
H`ARMONIZE, v.i.  To be in concord; to agree in sounds.
1.  To agree; to be in peace and friendship; as individuals or families.
2.  To agree in sense or purport; as, the arguments harmonize; the facts stated by different witnesses harmonize.
H`ARMONIZE, v.t. To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree.
1.  To make musical; to combine according to the laws of counterpoint.


Topic: Harmony
Definition:
H`ARMONY, n.  [L. harmonia; Gr. a setting together, a closure or seam, agreement, concert, to fit or adapt, to square.]
1.  The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or composition of things, intended to form a connected whole; as the harmony of the universe.
 Equality and correspondence are the causes of harmony.
 All discord,harmony not understood.
2.  Just proportion of sound; consonance; musical concord; the accordance of two or more intervals or sounds, or that union of different sounds which pleases the ear; or a succession of such sounds, called chords.
 Ten thousand harps that tuned Angelic harmonies.
3.  Concord; agreement; accordance in facts; as the harmony of the gospels.
4.  Concord or agreement in views, sentiments or manners, interests, &c., good correspondence; peace and friendship.
 The citizens live in harmony.
5.  Natural harmony,in music, consists of the harmonic triad or common chord.  Artificial harmony, is a mixture of concords and discords. Figured harmony, is when one or more of the parts move, during the continuance of a chord,through certain notes which do not form any of the constituent parts of that chord.
6.  Perfect harmony implies the use of untempered concords only.  Tempered harmony is when the notes are varied by temperament.  [See Temperament.]


Topic: Harmotome
Definition:
H`ARMOTOME, n. [Gr. a joint, and to cut.]  In mineralogy, cross-stone, or staurolite, called also pyramidical zeolite.  [See Cross-stone.


Topic: Harness
Definition:
H`ARNESS, n.
1.  Armor; the whole accouterments or equipments of a knight or horseman; originally perhaps defensive armor, but in a more modern and enlarged sense, the furniture of a military man,or offensive, as a casque, cuirass,helmet, girdle, sword,buckler, &c.
2. The furniture of a draught horse, whether for a wagon, coach, gig, chaise, &c., called in some of the American states, tackle or tackling, with which, in its primary sense, it is synonymous.
H`ARNESS, v.t.  To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman.
 Harnessed in rugged steel.
1.  To put on the furniture of a horse for draught.
 Harness the horses.  Jer.46.
2.  To defend; to equip or furnish for defense. 1 Macc.4.


Topic: Harp
Definition:
H`ARP, n.
1.  An instrument of music of the stringed kind, of a triangular figure, held upright and commonly touched with the fingers.
2. A constellation.
H`ARP, v.i.  To play on the harp.
 I heard the voice of harpers,harping with their harps. Rev.14.
1.  To dwell on, in speaking or writing; to continue sounding.
 He seems
 Proud and disdainful,harping on what I am--
 Not what he knew I was.
2.  To touch as a passion; to affect.


Topic: Harping
Definition:
H`ARPING, ppr.  Playing on a harp; dwelling on continually.
H`ARPING, n.  A continual dwelling on.
 Making infinite merriment by harpings upon old themes.
H`ARPING, n. plu. harpings.  In ships, harpings are the fore-parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of the ship,and are fastened to the stem.  Their use is to strengthen the ship, in the place where she sustains the greatest shock in plunging into the sea.
Cat-harpings, are ropes which serve to brace in the shrouds of the lower masts, behind their respective yards.


Topic: Harpoon
Definition:
HARPOON', n. [Gr. to seize with the claws; probably L. rapio, by transposition of letters.]
A harping-iron; a spear or javelin, used to strike whales for killing them.  It consists of a long shank, with a broad flat triangular head, sharpened at both edges for penetrating the whale with facility.  It is generally thrown by hand.
HARPOON', v.t.  To strike, catch or kill with a harpoon.
 The beluga is usually caught in nets, but is sometimes harpooned.


Topic: Harpsichord
Definition:
H`ARPSICHORD, n.  [harp and chord.]  An instrument of music with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys.  The striking of these keys moves certain little jacks, which move a double row of chords or strings, stretched over four bridges on the table of the instrument.


Topic: Harpy
Definition:
H`ARPY, n.  [L. harpyia; Gr. to seize or claw.]
1. In antiquity, the harpies were fabulous winged monsters, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with their feet and fingers armed with sharp claws.  They were three in number, Aello, Ocypete, and Celeno.  They were sent by Juno to plunder the table of Phineus.  They are represented as rapacious and filthy animals.
2.  Any rapacious or ravenous animal; an extortioner; a plunderer.


Topic: Harrier
Definition:
HAR'RIER, n.  [from hare.]  A dog for hunting hares; a kind of hound with an acute sense of smelling.


Topic: Harrow
Definition:
HAR'ROW, n.  An instrument of agriculture, formed of pieces of timber sometimes crossing each other, and set with iron teeth.  It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, and to cover seed when sown.
HAR'ROW, v.t.  To draw a harrow over, for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed sown; as, to harrow land or ground.
1.  To break or tear with a harrow.
 Will he harrow the valleys after thee? Job.39.
2.  To tear; to lacerate; to torment.
 I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
 Would harrow up thy soul--
3.  To pillage; to strip; to lay waste by violence.  [Not used.]
4.  To disturb; to agitate.


Topic: Harry
Definition:
HAR'RY, v.t.
1.  To strip; to pillage.  [See Harrow.]
2.  To harass; to agitate; to tease.
HAR'RY, v.i. To make harassing incursions.


Topic: Harsh
Definition:
H`ARSH, a.
1.  Rough to the touch; rugged; grating; as harsh sand; harsh cloth; opposed to smooth.
2.  Sour; rough to the taste; as harsh fruit.
3.  Rough to the ear; grating; discordant; jarring; as a harsh sound; harsh notes; a harsh voice.
4.  Austere; crabbed; morose; peevish.  Civilization softens the harsh temper or nature of man.
5.  Rough; rude; abusive; as harsh words; a harsh reflection.
6.  Rigorous; severe.
 Though harsh the precept, yet the preacher charm'd.


Topic: Harshly
Definition:
H`ARSHLY, adv.  Roughly; in a harsh manner.
1.  Sourly; austerely.
2.  Severely; morosely; crabbedly; as, to speak or answer harshly.
3.  Roughly; rudely; with violence; as, to treat a person harshly.
4.  Roughly; with a grating sound; unpleasantly.
 It would sound harshly in her ears.


Topic: Harshness
Definition:
H`ARSHNESS, n.  Roughness to the touch; opposed to softness and smoothness.
1.  Sourness; austereness; as the harshness of fruit.
2.  Roughness to the ear; as the harshness of sound or of a voice, or of verse.
 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
 The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
3.  Roughness of temper; moroseness; crabbedness; peevishness.
4.  Roughness in manner or words; severity; as the harshness of reproof.


Topic: Hartshorn
Definition:
H`ARTSHORN, n.  The horn of the hart or male deer.  The scrapings or raspings of this horn are medicinal, and used in decoctions, ptisans, &c.  Hartshorn jelly is nutritive and strengthening.  Hartshorn calcined by a strong and long continued heat,is changed into a white earth, which is employed in medicine as an absorbent.  The salt of hartshorn is powerful sudorific,and hartshorn yields also a pungent volatile spirit.
The jelly of hartshorn is simply gelatine; the earth remaining after calcination, is phosphate of lime; the salt and spirit of hartshorn are muriate of ammonia, with a little animal oil.
Hartshorn plantain, a species of Plantago.


Topic: Haruspice
Definition:
HAR'USPICE,n.  [L. haruspex, from specio, to view.]
In Roman history, a person who pretended to foretell future events by inspecting the entrails of beasts sacrificed, or watching the circumstances attending their slaughter, or their manner of burning and the ascent of the smoke.


Topic: Harvest
Definition:
H`ARVEST, n.  [L. acerbus.]
1.  The season of reaping and gathering in corn or other crops.  It especially refers to the time of collecting corn or grain, which is the chief food of men, as wheat and rye.  In Egypt and Syria, the wheat harvest is in April and May; in the south of Europe and of the United States, in June; in the Northern states of America, in July; and in the north of Europe,in August and September.  In the United States,the harvest of maiz is mostly in October.
2.  The ripe corn or grain collected and secured in barns or stacks. The harvest this year is abundant.
3.  The product of labor; fruit or fruits.
 Let us the harvest of our labor eat.
4.  Fruit or fruits; effects; consequences.
 He that sows iniquity will reap a harvest of woe.
5.  In Scripture, harvest signifies figuratively the proper season for business.
 He that sleepeth in harvest, is a son that causeth shame. Prov.10.
 Also, a people whose sins have ripened them for judgment.  Joel 3.
 Also, the end of the world. Matt.13.
 Also, a seasonable time for instructing men in the gospel.  Matt.9.
H`ARVEST, v.t.  To reap or gather ripe corn and other fruits for the use of man and beast.


Topic: Harvest-home
Definition:
H`ARVEST-HOME, n.  The time of harvest.
1.  The song sung by reapers at the feast made at the gathering of corn, or the feast itself.
2.  The opportunity of gathering treasure.


Topic: Hash
Definition:
HASH, v.t.  [Eng. to hack.  See Hack.]  To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat.
HASH, n.  Minced meat, or a dish of meat and vegetables chopped into small pieces and mixed.


Topic: Hasp
Definition:
H`ASP, n.
1.  A clasp that passes over a staple to be fastened by a padlock.
2.  A spindle to wind thread or silk on.  
H`ASP, v.t. To shut or fasten with a hasp.


Topic: Hassoc
Definition:
HAS'SOC, n.  A thick mat or bass on which persons kneel in church.
 And knees and hassocs are well nigh divorc'd.


Topic: Hast
Definition:
HAST, the second person singular of have, I have, thou hast, contracted from havest.  It is used only in the solemn style.


Topic: Haste
Definition:
HASTE, n.
1.  Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals; never to other bodies.  We never say, a ball flies with haste.
 The king's business required haste. l Sam.21.
2.  Sudden excitement of passion; quickness; precipitance; vehemence.
 I said in my haste, all men are liars. Ps.116.
3.  The state of being urged or pressed by business; as, I am in great haste.
HASTE


Topic: Hastening
Definition:
HASTENING, ppr.  Urging forward; pushing on; proceeding rapidly.
 That state is hastening to ruin, in which no difference is made between good and bad men.


Topic: Hastily
Definition:
HASTILY, adv.  [See Hasty.]  In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
 Half clothed, half naked, hastily retire.
1.  Rashly; precipitately; without due reflection.  
 We hastily engaged in the war.
2.  Passionately; under sudden excitement of passion.


Topic: Hastiness
Definition:
HASTINESS, n.  Haste; speed; quickness or celerity in motion or action, as of animals.
1.  Rashness; heedless eagerness; precipitation.  Our hastiness to engage in the war caused deep regret.
2.  Irritability; susceptibility of anger, warmth or temper.


Topic: Hasty
Definition:
HASTY, a.  Quick; speedy; opposed to slow.
 Be not hasty to go out of his sight. Eccles.8.
1.  Eager precipitate; rash; opposed to deliberate.
 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?
 There is more hope of a fool than of him. Prov.29.
2.  Irritable; easily excited to wrath; passionate.
 He that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.  Prov.14.
3.  Early ripe; forward; as hasty fruit. Is.28.


Topic: Hastypudding
Definition:
HASTYPUDDING, n.  A pudding made of the meal of maiz moistened with water and boiled, or of milk and flour boiled.


Topic: Hat
Definition:
HAT, n.
1.  A covering for the head; a garment made of different materials, and worn by men or women for defending the head from rain or heat, or for ornament. Hats for men are usually made of fur or wool, and formed with a crown and brim. Hats for females are made of straw or grass braid, and various other materials. Of these the ever varying forms admit of no description that can long be correct.
2.  The dignity of a cardinal.


Topic: Hatch
Definition:
HATCH, v.t.
1.  To produce young from eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat. In Egypt, chickens are hatched by artificial heat.
 The partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not. Jer. 17.
2.  To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce in silence; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
HATCH, v.t. To shade by lines in drawing and engraving.
 Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
1.  To steep.
HATCH, v.i.  To produce young; to bring the young to maturity. Eggs will not hatch without a due degree and continuance of heat.
HATCH, n.  A brood; as many chickens as are produced at once, or by one incubation.
1.  The act of exclusion from the egg.
2.  Disclosure; discovery.
HATCH, or HATCHES, n.
1.  Properly, the grate or frame of cross-bars laid over the opening in a ship's deck, now called hatch-bars. The lid or cover of a hatchway is also called hatches.
2.  The opening in a ship's deck, or the passage from one deck to another, the name of the grate itself being used for the opening; but this is more properly called the hatchway.
3.  A half-door, or door with an opening over it.
4.  Floodgates.
5.  In Cornwall, Eng. openings into mines, or in search of them.
6.  To be under the hatches, to be confined, or to be in distress, depression or slavery.


Topic: Hatchel
Definition:
HATCH'EL, n.  An instrument formed with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleaning flax or hemp from the tow, hards or coarse part. The hatchel is a large species of comb.
HATCH'EL, v.t.  To draw flax or hemp through the teeth of a hatchel, for separating the coarse part and broken pieces of the stalk from the fine fibrous parts.
1. To tease or vex, by sarcasms or reproaches; a vulgar use of the word.


Topic: Hatchet
Definition:
HATCH'ET, n.  A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.
To take up the hatchet, a phrase borrowed from the natives of America, is to make war.
To bury the hatchet, is to make peace.


Topic: Hatchetine
Definition:
HATCH'ETINE, n.  A substance of the hardness of soft tallow, of a yellowish white or greenish yellow color,found in South Wales.


Topic: Hatchment
Definition:
HATCH'MENT, n.  [corrupted from achievement.]  An armorial escutcheon on a herse at funerals, or in a church.


Topic: Hatchway
Definition:
HATCH'WAY, n.  In ships, a square or oblong opening in the deck, affording a passage from one deck, affording a passage from one deck to another, or into the hold or lower apartments.


Topic: Hate
Definition:
HATE, v.t. [L. odi, for hodi.]
1.  To dislike greatly; to have a great aversion to.  It expresses less than abhor, detest, and abominate, unless pronounced with a peculiar emphasis.
 How long will fools hate knowledge?  Prov.1.
 Blessed are ye when men shall hate you. Luke 6.
 The Roman tyrant was contented to be hated, if he was but feared.
2.  In Scripture, it signifies to love less.
 If any man come to me, and hate not father and mother, &c.  Luke 14.
 He that spareth the rod, hateth his son.  Prov. 13.
HATE, n.  Great dislike or aversion; hatred.


Topic: Hateful
Definition:
HA'TEFUL, a. Odious; exciting great dislike, aversion or disgust.  All sin is hateful in the sight of God and of good men.
1.  That feels hatred; malignant; malevolent.
 And, worse than death, to view with hateful eyes
 His rival's conquest.


Topic: Hatred
Definition:
HA'TRED, n.  Great dislike or aversion; hate; enmity.  Hatred is an aversion to evil, and may spring from utter disapprobation, as the hatred of vice or meanness; or it may spring from offenses or injuries done by fellow men, or from envy or jealousy, in which case it is usually accompanied with malevolence or malignity. Extreme hatred is abhorrence or detestation.


Topic: Haught
Definition:
HAUGHT, a. haut. [L. altus, that is, haltus, changed to haut.]
High; elevated; hence, proud; insolent.


Topic: Haughtily
Definition:
HAUGHTILY, adv.  hau'tily.  [See Haught and Haughty.]
Proudly; arrogantly; with contempt or disdain; as, to speak or behave haughtily.
 Her heavenly form too haughtily she prized.


Topic: Haughtiness
Definition:
HAUGHTINESS, n. hau'tiness.  The quality of being haughty; pride mingled with some degree of contempt for others; arrogance.
 I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Is.13.


Topic: Haughty
Definition:
HAUGHTY, a.  hau'ty. [from haught.]
1.  Proud and disdainful; having a high opinion of one's self, with some contempt for others; lofty and arrogant; supercilious.
 His wife was a woman of a haughty and imperious nature.
 A haughty spirit goeth before a fall. Prov.16.
2.  Proceeding from excessive pride, or pride mingled with contempt; manifesting pride and disdain; as a haughty air or walk.
3.  Proud and imperious; as a haughty nation.
4.  Lofty; bold; of high hazard; as a haughty enterprise.


Topic: Haul
Definition:
HAUL, v.t.
1.  To pull or draw with force; to drag; as, to haul a heavy body along on the ground; to haul a boat on shore.  Haul is equivalent to drag, and differs sometimes from pull and draw, in expressing more force and labor.  It is much used by seamen; as, to haul down the sails; haul in the boom; haul aft, &c.
2.  To drag; to compel to go.
 Lest he haul thee to the judge.  Luke 12.
When applied to persons, haul implies compulsion or rudeness, or both.
To haul the wind, in seamanship, is to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which the wind blows, by arranging the sails more obliquely, bracing the yards more forward, hauling the sheets more aft, &c.
HAUL, n.  A pulling with force; a violent pull.
1.  A draft of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.


Topic: Haunch
Definition:
H`AUNCH, n.
1.  The hip; that part of the body of man and of quadrupeds, which lies between the last ribs and the thigh.
2.  The rear; the hind part.  [Not used.]


Topic: Haunt
Definition:
H`AUNT, v.t.
1. To frequent; to resort to much or often, or to be much about; to visit customarily.
 Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves.
2.  To come to frequently; to intrude on; to trouble with frequent visits; to follow importunately.
 You wrong me, Sir, thus still to haunt my house.
 Those cares that haunt the court and town.
3.  It is particularly applied to specters or apparitions, which are represented by fear and credulity as frequenting or inhabiting old, decayed and deserted houses.
 Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
H`AUNT, v.i. To be much about; to visit or be present often.
 I've charged thee not to haunt about my door.
H`AUNT, n.  A place to which one frequently resorts.  Taverns are often the haunts of tipplers.  A den is the haunt of wild beasts.
1.  The habit or custom of resorting to a place.  [Not used.]
2.  Custom; practice.


Topic: Haunted
Definition:
H`AUNTED, pp.  Frequently visited or resorted to, especially by apparitions.
1.  Troubled by frequent visits.


Topic: Hautboy
Definition:
HAUTBOY,n. ho'boy.  A wind instrument, somewhat resembling a flute, but widening towards the bottom, and sounded through a reed.  The treble is two feet long. The tenor goes a fifth lower, when blown open.  It has only eight holes; but the base, which is five feet long, has eleven.


Topic: Hauyne
Definition:
HAUYNE, n.  A mineral, called by Hauy latialite, occurring in grains or small masses, and also in groups of minute, shining crystals.  Its color is blue, of various shades.  It is found imbedded in volcanic rocks, basalt, clinkstone, &c.


Topic: Have
Definition:
HAVE, v.t. hav. pret. and pp. had. Present, I have, thou hast, he has; we, ye, they, have. [L. habeo.]
1.  To possess; to hold in possession or power.
 How many loaves have ye? Matt.15.
 He that gathered much had nothing over. Ex.16.
 I have no Levite to my priest. Judges 17.
 To have and to hold, terms in a deed of conveyance.
2.  To possess, as something that is connected with, or belongs to one.
 Have ye a father?  Have ye another brother? Gen.43, and 44.
 --Sheep that have no shepherd. l Kings 22.
3.  To marry; to take for a wife or husband.
 In the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. Matt.22.
4.  To hold; to regard.  Thus, to have in honor, is to hold in esteem; to esteem; to honor.
 To have in derision or contempt, to hold in derision or contempt; to deride; to despise.
5.  To maintain; to hold in opinion.
 Sometimes they will have them to be the natural heat; sometimes they will have them to be the qualities of the tangible parts.
6.  To be urged by necessity or obligation; to be under necessity, or impelled by duty. 
 I have to visit twenty patients every day. 
 We have to strive against temptations.
 We have to encounter strong prejudices.
 The nation has to pay the interest of an immense debt.
7.  To seize and hold; to catch.  The hound has him.  [The original, but now a vulgar use of the word.]
8.  To contain.  The work has many beauties and many faults.
9.  To gain; to procure; to receive; to obtain; to purchase.   I had this cloth very cheap.  
 He has a guinea a month.  
 He has high wages for his services.
Had rather, denotes wish or preference.
 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness. Ps.84.
 Is not this phrase a corruption of would rather?
To have after, to pursue.  [Not much used, nor elegant.]
To have away, to remove; to take away.
To have at, to encounter; to assail; as, to have at him; to have at you. [Legitimate, but vulgar.]
To enter into competition with; to make trial with.
Dryden uses in a like sense, have with you; but these uses are inelegant.
To have in, to contain.
To have on, to wear; to carry; as raiment or weapons.
 He saw a man who had not on a wedding garment. Matt.22.
To have out, to cause to depart. 2 Sam.13.
To have a care, to take care; to be on the guard, or to guard.
To have pleasure,to enjoy.
To have pain, to suffer.
To have sorrow, to be grieved or afflicted.
 With would and should.
He would have, he desires to have, or he requires.
He should have, he ought to have.
But the various uses of have in such phrases,and its uses as an auxiliary verb, are fully explained in grammars.  As an auxiliary, it assists in forming the perfect tense, as I have formed, thou hast formed, he hath or has formed, we have formed, and the prior-past tense, as I had seen, thou hadst seen, he had seen.
 


Topic: Haven
Definition:
HA'VEN,n. ha'vn.
1.  A harbor; a port; a bay, recess or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river which affords good anchorage and a safe station for ships; any place in which ships can be sheltered by the land from the force of tempests and a violent sea.
2.  A shelter; an asylum; a place of safety.


Topic: Haver
Definition:
HAV'ER, n.  One who has or possesses; a possessor; a holder.  [Little used.]
HAV'ER, n. [L. avena.]  Oats; a word of local use in the north of England; as haverbread, oaten bread.


Topic: Having
Definition:
HAV'ING, ppr.  [from have.]  Possessing; holding in power or possession; containing; gaining; receiving; taking.
HAV'ING, n.  Possession; goods; estate. [Not in use.]
1.  The act or state of possessing.


Topic: Havock
Definition:
HAV'OCK, n.  Waste; devastation; wide and general destruction.
 Ye gods! what havock does ambition make
 Among your works.
 As for Saul, he made havock of the church.  Acts.8.
HAV'OCK, v.t.  To waste; to destroy; to lay waste.
 To waste and havock yonder world.


Topic: Haw
Definition:
HAW, n.
1.  The berry and seed of the hawthorn, that is, hedge-thorn.
2.  A small piece of ground adjoining a house; a small field; properly, an inclosed piece of land, from hedge, like garden, which also signifies an inclosure.
3.  In farriery, an excrescence resembling a gristle, growing under the nether eyelid and eye of a horse.
4.  A dale.
HAW, v.i.  [corrupted from hawk, or hack.]  To stop in speaking with a haw, or to speak with interruption and hesitation; as, to hem and haw.


Topic: Hawhaw
Definition:
HAW'HAW, n.  [duplication of haw, a hedge.]  A fence or bank that interrupts an alley or walk, sunk between slopes and not perceived till approached.


Topic: Hawk
Definition:
HAWK, n.  A genus of fowls, the Falco, of many species, having a crooked beak, furnished with a cere at the base, a cloven tongue, and the head thick set with feathers. Most of the species are rapacious, feeding on birds or other small animals. Hawks were formerly trained for sport or catching small birds.
HAWK, v.i.  To catch or attempt to catch birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
 He that hawks at larks and sparrows.
 A falc'ner Henry is, when Emma hawks.
1.  To fly at; to attack on the wing; with at.
 To hawk at flies.
HAWK, v.i.  To make an effort to force up phlegm with noise; as, to hawk and spit.
To hawk up, transitively; as, to hawk up phlegm.
HAWK, n.  An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise. 
HAWK, v.t. [L. auctio, auction, a sale by outcry.]  To cry; to offer for sale by outcry in the street, or to sell by outcry; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.


Topic: Hawking
Definition:
HAWK'ING, ppr.  Catching wild birds by hawks.
1.  Making an effort to discharge phlegm.
2.  Offering for sale in the street by outcry.
HAWK'ING, n.  The exercise of taking wild fowls by means of hawks.


Topic: Hawkweed
Definition:
HAWK'WEED, n.  The vulgar name of several species of plants,of the genera, Hieracium, Crepis, Hyoseris, and Andryala.


Topic: Hawse
Definition:
HAWSE, n. hawz.  [See Halser.]  The situation of a ship moored with two anchors from the bows, one on the starboard, the other on the larboard bow; as, the ship has a clear hawse, or a foul hawse. A foul hawse is when the cables cross each other or are twisted together.


Topic: Hawthorn
Definition:
HAW'THORN, n.  A shrub or tree which bears the haw, of the genus Crataegus; the white-thorn.  The hawthorn is much used for hedges, and for standards in gardens.  It grows naturally in all parts of Europe.


Topic: Hay
Definition:
HAY, n.  Grass cut and dried for fodder; grass prepared for preservation. 
 Make hay while the sun shines.
 To dance the hay, to dance in a ring.
HAY, v.t.  To dry or cure grass for preservation.
HAY, n.  A hedge.
1.  A net which incloses the haunt of an animal.

HAY, v.t.  To lay snares for rabbits.


Topic: Haybote
Definition:
HA'YBOTE,n.  Hedge-bote. In English law, an allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing hedges or fences.


Topic: Haydenite
Definition:
HA'YDENITE, n.  A mineral discovered by Dr.Hayden, near Baltimore. It occurs in garnet colored crystals.


Topic: Hayward
Definition:
HA'YWARD, n.  [hay and ward, hedgeward.]  A person who keeps the common herd or cattle of a town, and guards hedges or fences.  In New England, the hayward is a town officer whose duty it to impound cattle, and particularly swine which are found running at large in the highways, contrary to law.


Topic: Hazard
Definition:
HAZ'ARD, n.  [L. casus, a fall, and ard, the common termination.]
1.  Chance; accident; casualty; a fortuitous event; that which falls or comes suddenly or unexpectedly, the cause of which is unknown, or whose operation is unforeseen or unexpected.
 I will stand the hazard of the die.
2.  Danger; peril; risk. He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
 Men are led on from one stage of life to another, in a condition of the utmost hazard.
3.  A game at dice.
To run the hazard, to risk; to take the chance; to do or neglect to do something, when the consequences are not foreseen, and not within the powers of calculation.
HAZ'ARD, v.t.  To expose to chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk; as, to hazard life to save a friend; to hazard an estate on the throw of a dice; to hazard salvation for temporal pleasure.
 Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience.
1.  To venture to incur, or bring on; as, to hazard the loss or reputation.
HAZ'ARD, v.i.  To try the chance; to adventure; to run the risk or danger.
 Pause a day or two, before you hazard--


Topic: Hazardous
Definition:
HAZ'ARDOUS, a.  Dangerous; that exposes to peril or danger of loss or evil; as a hazardous attempt or experiment.


Topic: Haze
Definition:
HAZE, n. [The primary sense of this word is probably to mix, or to turn, stir and make thick.]
Fog; a watery vapor in the air, or a dry vapor like smoke, which renders the air thick.


Topic: Hazel
Definition:
HAZEL, n. ha'zl.  A shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild farinaceous taste.
HAZEL, a. ha'zl.  Pertaining to the hazel or like it; of a light brown color, like the hazel-nut.


Topic: He
Definition:
HE, pronoun of the third person; nom. he; poss.his; obj. him. [L. id, for hid; hic.]
1.  A pronoun, a substitute for the third person, masculine gender, representing the man or male person named before.
 Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. Gen.3.
 Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve. Deut.10.
2.  It often has reference to a person that is named in the subsequent part of the sentence.  He is the man.
3. He is often used without reference to any particular person, and may be referred to any person indefinitely  that answers the description.  It is then synonymous with any man.
 He that walketh with wise men, shall be wise. Prov.13.
4.  He, when a substitute for man in its general sense, expressing mankind, is of common gender, representing, like its antecedent, the whole human race.
 My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh. Gen.6.
5.  Man; a male.
 I stand to answer thee, or any he the proudest of thy sort.
In this use of he, in the ludicrous style, the word has no variation of case. In the foregoing sentence, he is in the objective case, or position, and the word is to be considered as a noun.
6.  He is sometimes prefixed to the names of animals to designate the male kind, as a he-goat, a he-bear.  In such cases, he is to be considered as an adjective, or the two words as forming a compound.


Topic: Head
Definition:
HEAD, n. hed.
1.  The uppermost part of the human body, or the foremost part of the body of prone and creeping animals.  This part of the human body contains the organs of hearing, seeing, tasting and smelling; it contains also the brain, which is supposed to be the seat of the intellectual powers, and of sensation. Hence the head is the chief or more important part, and is used for the whole person, in the phrase, let the evil fall on my head.
2.  An animal; an individual; as,the tax was raised by a certain rate per head.  And we use the singular number to express many.  The herd contains twenty head of oxen.
 Thirty thousand head of swine.
3. A chief; a principal person; a leader; a commander; one who has the first rank or place,and to whom others are subordinate; as the head of an army; the head of a sect or party.  Eph.5.
4.  The first place; the place of honor, or of command.  The lord mayor sat at the head of the table. The general marched at the head of his troops.
5.  Countenance; presence; in the phrases, to hide the head, to show the head.
6.  Understanding; faculties of the mind; sometimes in a ludicrous sense; as, a man has a good head, or a strong head. These men laid their heads together to form the scheme.  Never trouble your head about this affair.  So we say, to beat the head; to break the head; that is, to study hard, to exercise the understanding or mental faculties.
7.  Face; front; forepart.
 The ravishers turn head, the fight renews. [Unusual.]
8.  Resistance; successful opposition; in the phrase, to make head against, that is, to advance, or resist with success.
9.  Spontaneous will or resolution; in the phrases, of his own head, on their own head.  But of is more usual than on.
    10. State of a deer's horns by which his age is known. The buck is called, the fifth year, a buck of the first head.
    11. The top of a thing, especially when larger than the rest of the thing; as the head of a spear; the head of a cabbage; the head of a nail; the head of a mast.
    12. The forepart of a thing, as the head of a ship, which includes the bows on both sides; also,the ornamental figure or image erected on or before the stem of a ship.
    13. The blade or cutting part of an ax, distinct from the helve.
    14. That which rises on the top; as the head or yeast of beer.
    15. The upper part of a bed, or bed-stead.
    16. The brain.
 They turn their heads to imitate the sun.
    17. The dress of the head; as a laced head. [Unusual.]
    18. The principal source of a stream; as the head of the Nile.
    19. Altitude of water in ponds, as applicable to the driving of mill-wheels. The mill has a good head of water.
    20. Topic of discourse; chief point or subject; a summary; as the heads of a discourse or treatise.
    21. Crisis; pitch; highth. The disease has grown to such a head as to threaten life.
    22. Influence; force; strength; pitch. The sedition got to such a head as not to be easily quelled.
    23. Body; conflux.
    24. Power; armed force.
 My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
    25. Liberty; freedom from restrain; as, to give a horse the head. Hence,
    26. License; freedom from check, control or restraint.  Children should not have their heads.
 He has too long given his unruly passions the head.
    27. The hair of the head; as a head of hair.
    28. The top of corn or other plant; the part on which the seed grows.
   29. The end, or the boards that form the end; as the head of a cask.
    30. The part most remote from the mouth or opening into the sea; as the head of a bay, gulf or creek.
    31. The maturated part of an ulcer or boil; hence, to come to a head, is to suppurate.
Head and ears, a phrase denoting the whole person, especially when referring to immersion.  He plunged head and ears into the water. He was head and ears in debt, that is, completely overwhelmed.
Head and shoulders, by force; violently; as, to drag one head and shoulders.
 They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders.
Head or tail, or head nor tail, uncertain; not reducible to certainty.
Head, as an adj. or in composition, chief; principal; as a head workman.
By the head, in seamen's language, denotes the state of a ship laden too deeply at the fore-end.
HEAD, v.t. hed.  To lead; to direct; to act as leader to; as, to head an army; to head an expedition; to head a riot.
1.  To behead; to decapitate.  [Unusual.]
2.  To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail.
3.  To lop; as, to head trees.
4.  To go in front of; to get into the front; as, to head a drove of cattle.
5.  To set on the head; as, to head a cask.
6.  To oppose; to veer round and blow in opposition to the course of a ship;as, the wind heads us.
HEAD, v.i. hed.  To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river.
 A broad river that heads in the great Blue Ridge of mountains.


Topic: Head-piece
Definition:
HEAD-PIECE, n. hed'-pece.  Armor for the head; a helmet; a morion.
1.  Understanding; force of mind.  [Not common.]


Topic: Head-rope
Definition:
HEAD-ROPE, n. hed'-rope.  That part of a bolt-rope which terminates any sail on the upper edge, and to which it is sewed.


Topic: Head-sail
Definition:
HEAD-SAIL, n. hed'-sail.  The head-sails of a ship are the sails which are extended on the fore-mast and bowsprit, as the foresail,foretop-sail, jib, &c.


Topic: Headborough
Definition:
HEADBOROUGH, n. hed'burro.  In England, formerly, the chief of a frank-pledge, tithing or decennary, consisting of ten families; called in some counties, borsholder, that is, borough;s elder, and sometimes tithing man.


Topic: Headdress
Definition:
HEAD'DRESS, n. hed'dress.  The dress of the head; the covering or ornaments of a woman's head.
1.  The crest, or tuft of feathers on a fowl's head.


Topic: Headed
Definition:
HEADED, pp. hed'ed.  Led; directed; furnished with a head; having a top.  This is used in composition, as clear-headed, long-headed, thick-headed, &c.


Topic: Header
Definition:
HEADER,n. hed'er.  One who heads nails or pins.
1.  One who leads a mob or party.
2.  The first brick in the angle of a wall.


Topic: Headiness
Definition:
HEADINESS, n. hed'iness.  [See Heady.]  Rashness; precipitation; a disposition to rush forward without due deliberation or prudence.
1.  Stubbornness; obstinacy.


Topic: Headland
Definition:
HEADLAND, n. hed'land.  A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting from the shore into the sea, or other expanse of water.
1.  A ridge or strip of unplowed land at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.


Topic: Headless
Definition:
HEADLESS, a. hed'less.  Having no head; beheaded; as a headless body, neck or carcass.
1.  Destitute of a chief or leader.
2.  Destitute of understanding or prudence; rash; obstinate.


Topic: Headlong
Definition:
HEADLONG, adv. hed'long.  With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong.
1.  Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.
 --He hurries headlong to his fate.
2.  Hastily; without delay or respite.
HEADLONG, a. hed'long.  Steep; precipitous.
1.  Rash; precipitate; as headlong folly.


Topic: Headmold-shot
Definition:
HEADMOLD-SHOT, n.  A disease in children, in which the sutures of the skull, usually the coronal, ride, that is, when their edges shoot over one another, and are so close-locked as to compress the brain; often occasioning convulsions and death.


Topic: Headmost
Definition:
HEADMOST, a. hed'most.  Most advanced; most forward; first in a line or order of progression; as the headmost ship in a fleet.


Topic: Headquarters
Definition:
HEADQUART'ERS, n. plu.  The quarters or place of residence of the commander-in-chief of an army.
1.  The residence of any chief, or place from which orders are issued.


Topic: Headstone
Definition:
HEADSTONE, n.  hed'stone.  The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.
1.  The stone at the head of a grave.


Topic: Headstrong
Definition:
HEADSTRONG, a. hed'strong.  Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; resolute to run his own way; bent on pursuing his own will; not easily restrained.
 Now let the headstrong boy my will control.
1.  Directed by ungovernable will or proceeding from obstinacy; as a headstrong course.


Topic: Headway
Definition:
HEADWAY, n. hed'way.  The motion of an advancing ship.  A ship makes headway, when she advances, as from a state of rest.


Topic: Heady
Definition:
HEADY, a. hed'y.  [See Head.]  Rash; hasty; precipitate; violent; disposed to rush forward in an enterprise without thought or deliberation; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
 All the talent required,is to be heady, to be violent on one side or the other.
1.  Apt to affect the head; inflaming; intoxicating; strong; as spirituous liquors.
 Champagne is a heady wine. 
2.  Violent; ;impetuous; as a heady current. [Not usual.]


Topic: Heal
Definition:
HEAL, v.t.  [L. celo; Heb. to be whole or entire, all.]
1.  To cure of a disease or wound and restore to soundness, or to that state of body in which the natural functions are regularly performed; as, to heal the sick.
 Speak, and my servant shall be healed. Matt.8.
2.  To cure; to remove or subdue; as, to heal a disease.
3.  To cause to cicatrize; as, to heal a sore or wound.
4.  To restore to soundness; as, to heal a wounded limb.
5.  To restore purity to; to remove feculence or foreign matter.
 Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters. 2 Kings.2.
6.  To remove, as differences or dissension; to reconcile, as parties at variance; as, to heal a breach or difference.
7.  In Scripture, to forgive; to cure moral disease and restore soundness.
 I will heal their backsliding. Hos.14.
8.  To purify from corruptions, redress grievances and restore to prosperity. Jer.14.
9.  To cover, as a roof with tiles, slate, lead, &c.
HEAL, v.i.  To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; sometimes with up or over; it will heal up or over.


Topic: Healing
Definition:
HE'ALING, ppr.  Curing; restoring to a sound state.
1.  Tending to cure; mild; mollifying.
HE'ALING, n. The act of curing.
1. The act of covering.


Topic: Health
Definition:
HEALTH, n. helth. [from heal.]  That state of an animal or living body, in which the parts are sound, well organized and disposed, and in which they all perform freely their natural functions. In this state the animal feels no pain.  This word is applied also to plants.
1.  Sound state of the mind; natural vigor of faculties.
2.  Sound state of the mind, in a moral sense; purity; goodness.
 There is no health in us.
3.  Salvation or divine favor, or grace which cheers God's people.  Ps.43,
4.  Wish of health and happiness; used in drinking. Come, love and health to all; an elliptical phrase, for, I wish health to you.


Topic: Healthfulness
Definition:
HEALTH'FULNESS, n.  A state of being well; a state in which the parts of a living body are sound, and regularly perform their functions.
1. Wholesomeness; salubrity; state or qualities that promote health; as the healthfulness of the air, or of climate, or of diet, or of exercises.


Topic: Healthiness
Definition:
HEALTH'INESS, n.  The state of health; soundness; freedom from disease; as the healthiness of an animal or plant.


Topic: Healthy
Definition:
HEALTH'Y, a.  Being in a sound state; enjoying health; hale; sound; as a healthy body or constitution.
1.  Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; as a healthy exercise; a healthy climate; healthy recreations.


Topic: Heap
Definition:
HEAP, n.
1.  A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; as a heap of earth or stones.
 Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
2.  A crowd; a throng; a cluster; applied to living persons. [Inelegant and not in use.]
3.  A mass of ruins.
 Thou hast made of a city a heap.  Is.25.
HEAP, v.t.
1.  To throw or lay in a heap; to pile; as, to heap stones; often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.
2.  To amass; to accumulate; to lay up; to collect in great quantity; with up; as, to heap up treasures.
 Though the wicked heap up silver as the dust--Job.27.
3.  To add something else, in large quantities.
4.  To pile; to add till the mass takes a roundish form, or till it rises above the measure;as, to heap any thing in measuring.


Topic: Hear
Definition:
HEAR, v.t. pret. and pp. heard, but more correctly heared. 
[L. audio; auris.]
1.  To perceive by the ear; to feel an impression of sound by the proper organs; as, to hear sound; to hear a voice; to hear words.
2.  To give audience or allowance to speak.
 He sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.  Acts.24.
3.  To attend; to listen; to obey.
 Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart. Ps.95.
4.  To attend favorably; to regard.
 They think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matt.6.
5.  To grant an answer to prayer.
 I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice. Ps.116.
6.  To attend to the facts, evidence, and arguments in a cause between parties; to try in a court of law or equity. The cause was heard and determined at the last term; or, it was heard at the last term, and will be determined at the next. So 2.Sam.15.
7.  To acknowledge a title; a Latin phrase.
 Hear'st thou submissive, but a lowly birth.
8.  To be a hearer of; to sit under the preaching of; as, what minister do you hear?  [A colloquial use of the word.]
9.  To learn.
 I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. John 8.
    10. To approve and embrace.
 They speak of the world, and the world heareth them. l John 4.
To hear a bird sing, to receive private communication.
HEAR, v.i.  To enjoy the sense or faculty of perceiving sound.  He is deaf, he cannot hear.
1.  To listen; to hearken; to attend. 
 He hears with solicitude.
2.  To be told; to receive by report.
 I hear there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. 1 Cor.11.


Topic: Hearer
Definition:
HE'ARER, n.  One who hears; one who attends to what is orally delivered by another; an auditor; one of an audience.


Topic: Hearing
Definition:
HE'ARING, ppr.  Perceiving by the ear, as sound.
1.  Listening to; attending to; obeying; observing what is commanded.
2.  Attending to witnesses or advocates in a judicial trial; trying.
HE'ARING, n.  The faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
1. Audience; attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard. I waited on the minister, but could not obtain a hearing.
2.  Judicial trial; attention to the facts, testimony and arguments in a cause between parties, with a view to a just decision.
3.  The act of perceiving sounds; sensation or perception of sound.
 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear. Job.42.
 And to the others he said in my hearing. Ezek.9.
4.  Reach of the ear; extent within which sound may be heard. He was not within hearing.


Topic: Hearken
Definition:
HE`ARKEN, v.i. h`arken.
1.  To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered, with eagerness or curiosity.
 The furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl.
2. To attend; to regard; to give heed to what is uttered; to observe or obey.
 Hearken, O Israel, to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you.  Deut.4.
3.  To listen;; to attend; to grant or comply with.
 Hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant. 
l Kings 8.
HE`ARKEN, v.t. h`arken.  To hear by listening.  [Little used.]


Topic: Hearsay
Definition:
HE'ARSAY, n. [hear and say.]  Report; rumor; fame; common talk.  He affirms without any authority except hearsay.  The account we have depends on hearsay.  It is sometimes used as an adjective; as hearsay evidence.


Topic: Hearse
Definition:
HEARSE, n. hers.  [See Herse.]  A temporary monument set over a grave.
1.  The case or place in which a corpse is deposited.
2.  A carriage for conveying the dead to the grave.  [See Herse.]
3.  A hind in the second year of her age.
HEARSE, v.t. hers.  To inclose in a hearse.


Topic: Heart
Definition:
HEART, n. [L. cor, cordis, and allied to Eng.core, or named from motion, pulsation.]
1.  A muscular viscus, which is the primary organ of the blood's motion in an animal body, situated in the thorax. From this organ all the arteries arise, and in it all the veins terminate. By its alternate dilatation and contraction, the blood is received from the veins, and returned through the arteries, by which means the circulation is carried on and life preserved.
2.  The inner part of any thing; the middle part or interior; as the heart of a country, kingdom or empire; the heart of a town; the heart of a tree.
3.  The chief part; the vital part; the vigorous or efficacious part.
4.  The seat of the affections and passions, as of love, joy, grief, enmity, courage, pleasure &c.
The heart is deceitful above all things.  Every imagination of the thoughts of the heart is evil continually.  We read of an honest and good heart, and an evil heart of unbelief, a willing heart, a heavy heart, sorrow of heart, a hard heart, a proud heart, a pure heart.  The heart faints in adversity, or under discouragement, that is, courage fails; the heart is deceived, enlarged, reproved, lifted up, fixed, established, moved, &c.
5.  By a metonymy, heart is used for an affection or passion, and particularly for love.
 The king's heart was towards Absalom. 2 Sam. 14.
6.  The seat of the understanding; as an understanding heart.  We read of men wise in heart, and slow of heart.
7.  The seat of the will; hence, secret purposes, intentions or designs.  There are many devices in a man's heart. The heart of kings is unsearchable.  The Lord tries and searches the heart.  David had it in his heart to build a house of rest for the ark.
 Sometimes heart is used for the will, or determined purpose.
 The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Eccles.8.
8.  Person; character; used with respect to courage or kindess.
 Cheerly, my hearts.
9.  Courage; spirit; as, to take heart; to give heart; to recover heart.
    10. Secret thoughts; recesses of the mind.
 Michal saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. 2 Sam.6.
    11. Disposition of mind.
 He had a heart to do well.
    12. Secret meaning; real intention.
 And then show you the heart of my message.
    13. Conscience, or sense of good or ill.
 Every man's heart and conscience--doth either like or disallow it.
    14. Strength; power of producing; vigor; fertility. Keep the land in heart.
 That the spent earth may gather heart again.
    15. The utmost degree.
 This gay charm--hath beguiled me
 To the very heart of loss.
To get or learn by heart, to commit to memory; to learn so perfectly as to be able to repeat without a copy.
To take to heart, to be much affected; also, to be zealous, ardent or solicitous about a thing; to have concern.
To lay to heart, is used nearly in the sense of the foregoing.
To set the heart on, to fix the desires on; to be very desirous of obtaining or keeping; to be very fond of.
To set the heart at rest, to make one's self quiet; to be tranquil or easy in mind.
To find in the heart, to be willing or disposed.
 I find it in my heart to ask your pardon.
For my heart, for tenderness or affection.
 I could not for my heart refuse his request.
Or, this phrase may signify, for my life; if my life was at stake.
 I could not get him for my heart to do it.
To speak to one's heart,in Scripture, to speak kindly to; to comfort; to encourage.
To have in the heart, to purpose; to have design or intention.
A hard heart, cruelty; want of sensibility.


Topic: Heart-breaking
Definition:
HE`ART-BREAKING, a.  Breaking the heart; overpowering with grief or sorrow.
HE`ART-BREAKING, n.  Overpowering grief; deep affliction.


Topic: Heart-burn
Definition:
HE`ART-BURN, n.  Cardialgy; a disease or affection of the stomach, attended with a sensation of heat and uneasiness, and occasioned by indigestion, surfeit or acidity.


Topic: Heart-burning
Definition:
HE`ART-BURNING, a.  Causing discontent.
HE`ART-BURNING, n.  Heart-burn, which see.
1.  Discontent; secret enmity.


Topic: Heart-pea
Definition:
HE`ART-PEA, n.  A plant, the Cardiospermum, with black seeds, having the figure of a heart of a white color on each.


Topic: Heart-whole
Definition:
HE`ART-WHOLE, a.  [See Whole.]  Not affected with love; not in love, or not deeply affected.
1. Having unbroken spirits, or good courage.


Topic: Hearted
Definition:
HE`ARTED, a.  Taken to heart.  [Not used.]
1.  Composed of hearts.  [Not used.]
2.  Laid up in the heart.
 This word is chiefly used in composition, as hard-hearted, faint-hearted, stout-hearted, &c.


Topic: Hearten
Definition:
HE`ARTEN, v.t. h`artn.  To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate courage.
1.  To restore fertility or strength to; as, to hearten land.  [Little used.]


Topic: Hearth
Definition:
HE`ARTH, n. harth.  A pavement or floor of brick or stone in a chimney, on which a fire is made to warm a room, and from which there is a passage for the smoke to ascend.


Topic: Heartily
Definition:
HE`ARTILY, adv. [from hearty.]  From the heart; with all the heart; with sincerity; really.
 I heartily forgive them.
1.  With zeal; actively; vigorously.  He heartily assisted the prince.
2.  Eagerly; freely; largely; as, to eat heartily.


Topic: Heartless
Definition:
HE`ARTLESS, a.  Without courage; spiritless; faint-hearted.
 Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground.


Topic: Hearty
Definition:
HE`ARTY, a.  Having the heart engaged in any thing; sincere; warm; zealous; as, to be hearty in support of government.
1.  Proceeding from the heart; sincere; warm; as a hearty welcome.
2.  Being full of health; sound; strong; healthy; as a hearty man.
3.  Strong; durable; as hearty timber.  [Not used in America.]
4.  Having a keen appetite; eating much; as a hearty eater.
5.  Strong; nourishing; as hearty food.


Topic: Heat
Definition:
HEAT, n. [L. aestus, for haestus, or caestus.]
1.  Heat, as a cause of sensation, that is, the matter of heat, is considered to be a subtil fluid, contained in a greater or less degree in all bodies.  In modern chimistry, it is called caloric.  It expands all bodies in different proportions, and is the cause of fluidity and evaporation.  A certain degree of it is also essential to animal and vegetable life.  Heat is latent, when so combined with other matter as not to be perceptible.  It is sensible, when it is evolved and perceptible.
2.  Heat, as a sensation, is the effect produced on the sentient organs of animals, by the passage of caloric, disengaged from surrounding bodies, to the organs.  When we touch or approach a hot body, the caloric or heat passes from that body to our organs of feeling, and gives the sensation of heat.  On the contrary, when we touch a cold body, the caloric passes from the hand to that body, and causes a sensation of cold.
Note.  This theory of heat seems not to be fully settled.
3.  Hot air; hot weather; as the heat of the tropical climates.
4.  Any accumulation or concentration of the matter of heat or caloric; as the heat of the body; the heat of a furnace; a red heat; a white heat; a welding heat.
5.  The state of being once heated or hot.
 Give the iron another heat.
6.  A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
 Many causes are required for refreshment between the heats.
7.  A single effort in running; a course at a race.  Hector won at the first heat.
8.  Redness of the face; flush.
9.  Animal excitement; violent action or agitation of the system.  The body is all in a  heat.
    10. Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as the heat of battle.
    11. Violence; ardor; as the heat of party.
    12. Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation; as the heat of passion.
    13. Ardor; fervency; animation in thought or discourse.
 With all the strength and heat of eloquence.
    14. Fermentation.
HEAT, v.t. [L. odi, osus, for hodi, hosus; L aestus, for haestus, heat, tide; Gr. to burn, and the English haste and hoist are probably of the same family.]
1.  To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to be hot; as, to heat an oven or a furnace; to heat iron.
2.  To make feverish; as, to heat the blood.
3.  To warm with passion or desire; to excite; to rouse into action.
 A noble emulation heats your breast.
4.  To agitate the blood and spirits with action; to excite animal action.
HEAT, v.i.  To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or extrication of latent heat.
 Green hay heats in a mow, and green corn in a bin.
1.  To grow warm or hot. The iron or the water heats slowly.
HEAT, for heated, is in popular use and pronounced het; but it is not elegant.


Topic: Heater
Definition:
HE'ATER,n.  He or that which eats.
1.  A triangular mass of iron, which is heated and put into a box-iron to heat it and keep it hot, for ironing or smoothing clothes.  [This utensil is going into disuse.]


Topic: Heath
Definition:
HEATH, n.
1.  A plant of the genus Erica, of many species.  It is a shrub which is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens.  Its leaves are small and continue green all the year.  It is called also ling.
2.  A place overgrown with heath.
3.  A place overgrown with shrubs of any kind.


Topic: Heathen
Definition:
HE'ATHEN, n.  [Gr. from heath, that is, one who lives in the country or woods, as pagan from pagus, a village.]
1.  A pagan; a Gentile; one who worships idols, or is unacquainted with the true God.  In the Scriptures, the word seems to comprehend all nations except the Jews or Israelites, as they were all strangers to the true religion, and all addicted to idolatry.  The word may now be applied perhaps to all nations, except to Christians and Mohammedans.
Heathen, without the plural termination, is used plurally or collectively, for Gentiles or heathen nations.
 Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. Ps.2.
Heathen, however, has a plural, expressing two or more individuals.
 If men have reason to be heathens in Japan--
 The precepts and examples of the ancient heathens.
2.  A rude, illiterate, barbarous person.
HE'ATHEN, a.  Gentile, pagan; as a heathen author.


Topic: Heathenish
Definition:
HE'ATHENISH, a.  Belonging to Gentiles or pagans; as heathenish rites.
1.  Rude; illiterate; wild; uncivilized.
2.  Barbarous; savage; cruel; rapacious.


Topic: Heathenism
Definition:
HE'ATHENISM, n.  Gentilism; paganism; ignorance of the true God; idolatry; the rites or system of religion of a pagan nation.
1.  Rudeness; barbarism; ignorance.


Topic: Heathful
Definition:
HEATH'FUL, a. helth'ful.  Being in a sound state, as a living or organized being; having the parts or organs entire,and their functions in a free, active and undisturbed operation; free from disease.  We speak of a healthful body, a healthful person, a healthful plant.
1.  Serving to promote health; wholesome; salubrious; as a healthful air or climate; a healthful diet.
2.  Indicating health or soundness; as a healthful condition.
3.  Salutary; promoting spiritual health.
4.  Well disposed; favorable.
 A healthful ear to hear.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Heating
Definition:
HE'ATING, ppr.  Making warm or hot; inflaming; rousing the passions; exasperating.
1.  Tending to impart heat to; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as heating medicines or applications.


Topic: Heave
Definition:
HEAVE, v.t. heev. pret. heaved, or hove; pp. heaved, hove, formerly hoven.  [Gr. to breathe.]
1. To lift; to raise; to move upward.
 So stretch'd out huge in length the arch fiend lay,
 Chain'd on the burning lake, nor ever hence
 Had ris'n, or heaved his head.
2.  To cause to swell.
 The glittering finny swarms
 That heave our friths and crowd upon our shores.
3.  To raise or force from the breast; as, to heave a sigh or groan, which is accompanied with a swelling or expansion of the thorax.
4.  To raise; to elevate; with high.
 One heaved on high.
5.  To puff; to elate.
6.  To throw; to cast; to send; as, to heave a stone. This is a common use of the word in popular language, and among seamen; as, to heave the lead.
7.  To raise by turning a windlass; with up; as, to heave up the anchor. Hence,
8.  To turn a windlass or capstern with bars or levers.  Hence the order, to heave away.
To heave ahead, to draw ship forwards.
To heave astern, to cause to recede; to draw back.
To heave down, to throw or lay down on one side; to careen.
To heave out, to throw out. With seamen, to loose or unfurl a sail, particularly the stay-sails.
To heave in stays, in tacking, to bring a ship's head to the wind.
To heave short, to draw so much of a cable into the ship, as that she is almost perpendicularly above the anchor.
To heave a strain, to work at the windlass with unusual exertion.
To heave taught, to turn a capstern, &c. till the rope becomes straight.  [See Taught and Tight.]
To heave to, to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion.
To heave up, to relinquish; [so to throw up;] as, to heave up a design.  [Vulgar.]
HEAVE, v.i.  heev.  To swell, distend or dilate; as, a horse heaves in panting.  Hence,
1.  To pant; to breathe with labor or pain; as, he heaves for breath.
2.  To keck; to make an effort to vomit.
3.  To rise in billows, as the sea; to swell.
4.  To rise; to be lifted; as, a ship heaves.
5.  To rise or swell, as the earth at the breaking up of frost.
To heave in sight, to appear; to make its first appearance; as a ship at sea, or as a distant object approaching or being approached.
We observe that this verb has often the sense of raising or rising in an arch or circular form, as in throwing and in distention, and from this sense is derived its application to the apparent arch over our heads, heaven.
HEAVE, n. heev.  A rising or swell; an exertion or effort upward.
 None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle or swallow them.
1.  A rising swell, or distention, as of the breast.
 These profound heaves.
2.  An effort to vomit.
3.  An effort to rise.


Topic: Heave-offering
Definition:
HE'AVE-OFFERING, n. Among the Jews, an offering consisting of the tenth of the tithes which the Levites received, or of the first of the dough, &c. which was to be heaved or elevated. Num.15. and 18.


Topic: Heaven
Definition:
HEAVEN, n. hev'n.
1.  The region or expanse which surrounds the earth, and which appears above and around us, like an immense arch or vault, in which are seen the sun, moon and stars.
2.  Among christians, the part of space in which the omnipresent Jehovah is supposed to afford more sensible manifestations of his glory.  Hence this is called the habitation of God, and is represented as the residence of angels and blessed spirits. Deut.26.
 The sanctified heart loves heaven for its purity, and God for his goodness.
3.  Among pagans, the residence of the celestial gods.
4.  The sky or air; the region of the atmosphere; or an elevated place; in a very indefinite sense. Thus we speak of a mountain reaching to heaven; the fowls of heaven; the clouds of heaven; hail or rain from heaven. Jer.9.  Job.35.
 Their cities are walled to heaven. Deut.1.
5.  The Hebrews acknowledged three heavens; the air or aerial heavens; the firmament in which the stars are supposed to be placed; and the heaven of heavens, or third heaven, the residence of Jehovah.
6.  Modern philosophers divide the expanse above and around the earth into two parts,the atmosphere or aerial heaven, and the etherial heaven beyond the region of the air, in which there is supposed to be a thin, unresisting medium called ether.
7.  The Supreme Power; the Sovereign of heaven; god; as prophets sent by heaven.
 I have sinned against heaven. Luke 15.
 Shun the impious profaneness which scoffs at the  institution of heaven.
8.  The pagan deities; celestials.
 And show the heavens more just.
9.  Elevation; sublimity.
 O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend
 The brightest heaven of invention.
    10. Supreme felicity; great happiness.


Topic: Heaven-born
Definition:
HEAV'EN-BORN, a.  Born from heaven; native of heaven, or of the celestial regions; as heaven-born sisters.


Topic: Heaven-directed
Definition:
HEAVEN-DIRECT'ED, a.  Pointing to the sky; as a heaven-directed spire.
1.  Taught or directed by the celestial powers; as heaven-directed hands.


Topic: Heavenly
Definition:
HEAV'ENLY, a.  Pertaining to heaven; celestial; as heavenly regions; heavenly bliss.
1.  Resembling heaven; supremely excellent; as a heavenly lyre; a heavenly temper.
 The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
2.  Inhabiting heaven; as a heavenly race; the heavenly throng.


Topic: Heavenly-mindedness
Definition:
HEAVENLY-MINDEDNESS, noun The state of having the affections placed on heavenly things and spiritual objects.


Topic: Heavily
Definition:
HEAV'ILY, adv. hev'ily.  [from heavy.]  With great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
1.  With great weight of grief; grievously; afflictively.  When calamities fall heavily on the christian, he finds consolation in Christ.
2.  Sorrowfully; with grief.
 I came hither to transport the tidings,
 Which I have heavily borne.
3.  With an air of sorrow or dejection.
 Why looks your Grace so heavily to day?
4.  With weight; oppressively.  Taxes sometimes bear heavily on the people.
5.  Slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; as, to move heavily.
 So they drove them heavily. Ex.14.


Topic: Heaviness
Definition:
HEAV'INESS, n. hev'iness.  Weight; ponderousness; gravity; the quality of being heavy; as the heaviness of a body.
1. Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits.
 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop. Prov.12.
 Ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations. 1 Pet.1.
2.  Sluggishness; torpidness; dullness of spirit; languidness; languor; lassitude.
 What means this heaviness that hangs upon me?
3.  Weight; burden; oppression; as, the heaviness of taxes.
4.  That which it requires great strength to move or overcome; that which creates labor and difficulty; as the heaviness of a draught.
5.  Thickness; moistness; deepness; as the heaviness of ground or soil.
6.  Thickness; moistness; as of air.


Topic: Heaving
Definition:
HE'AVING, ppr. Lifting; swelling; throwing; panting; making an effort to vomit.
HE'AVING, n.  A rising or swell; a panting.


Topic: Heavnely
Definition:
HEAV'NELY, adv. In a manner resembling that of heaven.
 Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells.
1.  By the influence or agency of heaven.
 Our heavenly guided soul shall climb.


Topic: Heavy
Definition:
HEAV'Y, a. hev'y. 
1. Weighty; ponderous; having great weight; tending strongly to the center of attraction; contrary to light; applied to material bodies; as a heavy stone; a heavy load.
2.  Sad; sorrowful; dejected; depressed in mind.
 A light wife makes a heavy husband.
 So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart. Prov.25.
3.  Grievous; afflictive; depressing to the spirits; as heavy news; a heavy calamity.
4.  Burdensome; oppressive; as heavy taxes.
 Make thy father's heavy yoke--lighter. 1 Kings.12.
5.  Wanting life and animation; dull.
 My heavy eyes you say confess
 A heart to love and grief inclined.
6.  Drowsy; dull.
 Their eyes were heavy. Matt.26.  Luke.9.
7.  Wanting spirit or animation; destitute of life or rapidity of sentiment; dull; as a heavy writer; a heavy style.
8.  Wanting activity or vivacity; indolent.
 But of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind.
9.  Slow; sluggish.  
 He walks with a heavy gait.
    10. Burdensome; tedious; as heavy hours.
 Time lies heavy on him who has no employment.
    11. Loaded; encumbered; burdened.
 He found his men heavy, and laden with booty.
    12. Lying with weight on the stomach; not easily digested; as, oily food is heavy to the stomach.
    13. Moist; deep; soft; miry; as heavy land; a heavy soil. We apply heavy to soft loamy or clayey land, which makes the draught of a plow or wagon difficult and laborious. So we say, a heavy road.
    14. Difficult; laborious; as a heavy draught.
    15. Weary; supported with pain or difficulty.
 And the hands of Moses were heavy. Ex.17.
    16. Inflicting severe evils,punishments or judgments.
 The hand of the Lord was heavy on them of Ashdod. 
l Sam.5.
    17. Burdensome; occasioning great care.
 This thing is too heavy for thee.  Ex.18.
    18. Dull; not hearing; inattentive.
 Neither his ears heavy, that he cannot hear. Is.59.
    19. Large, as billows; swelling and rolling with great force; as a heavy sea.
   20. Large in amount; as a heavy expense; a heavy debt.
    21. Thick; dense; black; as a heavy cloud.
    22. Violent; tempestuous; as a heavy wind or gale.
    23. Large; abundant; as a heavy fall of snow or rain.
    24. Great; violent; forcible; as a heavy fire of cannon or small arms.
    25. Not raised by leaven or fermentation; not light; clammy; as heavy bread.
    26. Requiring much labor or much expense; as a heavy undertaking.
    27. Loud; as heavy thunder.
Heavy metal, in military affairs, signifies large guns, carrying balls of a large size, or it is applied to large balls themselves.


Topic: Hebetate
Definition:
HEB'ETATE, v.t. [L. hebeto, from hebes, dull, blunt, heavy.]
To dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties.


Topic: Hebraize
Definition:
HE'BRAIZE, v.t.  To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew.
HE'BRAIZE, v.i.  To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrews.


Topic: Hebrew
Definition:
HE'BREW, n. [Heb. Eber, either a proper name, or a name denoting passage, pilgrimage, or coming from beyond the Euphrates.]
One of the descendants of Eber, or Heber; but particularly, a descendant of Jacob, who was a descendant of Eber; an Israelite; a Jew.
1.  The Hebrew language.
HE'BREW, a.  Pertaining to the Hebrews; as the Hebrew language or rites.


Topic: Hecatomb
Definition:
HEC'ATOMB, n. [L. hecatombe; Gr. a hundred, and an ox.]
In antiquity, a sacrifice of a hundred altars, and by a hundred priests.


Topic: Heck
Definition:
HECK, n.  [See Hatch.]  An engine or instrument for catching fish; as a salmon heck.
1.  A rack for holding fodder for cattle.  
2.  A bend in a stream.
3.  A hatch or latch of a door.


Topic: Hectare
Definition:
HEC'TARE, n.  [Gr. a hundred, and L. area.]  A French measure containing a hundred ares, or ten thousand square meters.


Topic: Hectogram
Definition:
HEC'TOGRAM, n. [Gr. a hundred; and a gram.]  In the French system of weights and measures, a weight containing a hundred grams; equal to 3 ounces, 2 gros, and 12 grains, French.


Topic: Hectoliter
Definition:
HEC'TOLITER, n. [Gr. a hundred, and a pound.]  A French measure of capacity for liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, or 107 Paris pints.  As a dry measure, it is called a setier, and contains 10 decaliters or bushels [boisseaux.]


Topic: Hectometer
Definition:
HECTOM'ETER, n. [Gr. a hundred, and measure.]  A French measure equal to a hundred meters; the meter being the unit of lineal measure.  It is equivalent nearly to 308 French feet.


Topic: Hector
Definition:
HEC'TOR, n.  [from Hector, the son of Priam, a brave Trojan warrior.]
1.  A bully; a blustering, turbulent, noisy fellow.
2.  One who teases or vexes.
HEC'TOR, v.t.  To threaten; to bully; to treat with insolence.
1.  To tease; to vex; to torment by words.
HEC'TOR, v.i.  To play the bully; to bluster; to be turbulent or insolent.


Topic: Hedenbergite
Definition:
HEDENBERG'ITE, n.  [from Hedenberg, who first analyzed it.]
A mineral, or ore of iron, in masses, composed of shining plates, which break into rhombic fragments; found at Tunaberg, in Sweden.


Topic: Hedge
Definition:
HEDGE, n. hej. [Eng. haw]  Properly, a thicket of thorn-bushes or other shrubs or small trees; but appropriately, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows, to separate the parts of a garden.
Hedge, prefixed to another word, or in composition, denotes something mean, as a hedge-priest, a hedge-press, a hedge-vicar, that is, born in or belonging to the hedges or woods, low, outlandish.  [Not used in American.]
HEDGE, v.t. hej.  To inclose with a hedge; to fence with a thicket of shrubs or small trees; to separate by a hedge; as, to hedge a field or garden.
1.  To obstruct with a hedge, or to obstruct in any manner.
 I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hos.2.
2.  To surround for defense; to fortify.
 England hedged in with the main.
3.  To inclose for preventing escape.
 That is a law to hedge in the cuckow.
Dryden, Swift and Shakespeare have written hedge, for edge, to edge in, but improperly.
HEDGE, v.i. hej.  To hide, as in a hedge; to hide; to skulk.


Topic: Hedge-sparrow
Definition:
HEDGE-SPARROW, n.  A bird of the genus Motacilla, frequenting hedges; distinguished from the sparrow that builds in thatch.


Topic: Hedgehog
Definition:
HEDGEHOG, n.  A quadruped, or genus of quadrupeds, the Erinaceus.  The common hedgehog has round ears, and crested nostrils; his body is about nine inches long, and the upper part is covered with prickles or spines, and the under part with hair.  When attacked, this animal erects his prickles and rolls himself into a round form, which presents the points of the prickles on all sides to an assailant.
1.  A term of reproach.
2.  A plant of the genus Medicago, or snail-trefoil.  The seeds are shaped like a snail, downy, and armed with a few short spines.
3.  The globe-fish, orbis echinatus.
This fish belongs to the genus Diodon. It is covered with long spines, and has the power of inflating its body, whence the name globe-fish.
The Sea-hedgehog, is the Echinus, a genus of Zoophytes, generally of a spheroidal or oval form, and covered with movable spines.


Topic: Heed
Definition:
HEED, v.t.  To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
 With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.
HEED, n. Care; attention.
 With wanton heed and giddy cunning.
1.  Caution; care; watch for danger; notice; circumspection; usually preceded by take.
 Take heed of evil company.  Take heed to your ways.
 Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. 2 Sam.20.
2.  Notice; observation; regard; attention; often preceded by give.
 The preacher gave good heed. Eccles.12.
 Neither give heed to fables. 1 Tim.1.
 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed. Heb.2.
3.  Seriousness; a steady look.
 A heed.
 Was in his countenance.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Heedfully
Definition:
HEE'DFULLY, adv.  Attentively; carefully; cautiously.  Listen heedfully to good advice.
1.  Watchfully.


Topic: Heedfulness
Definition:
HEE'DFULNESS, n.  Attention; caution; vigilance; circumspection; care to guard against danger, or to perform duty.


Topic: Heedless
Definition:
HEE'DLESS, a.  Inattentive; careless; negligent of the means of safety; thoughtless; regardless; unobserving.  We say, heedless children; heedless of danger or surprise.
 The heedless lover does not know,
 Whose eyes they are that wound him so.


Topic: Heel
Definition:
HEEL, n.  [L. calx; Gr. a tumor.]
1.  The hind part of the foot, particularly of man; but it is applied also to the corresponding part of the feet of quadrupeds.
2.  The whole foot.
 The stag recalls his strength, his speed,
 His winged heels--
3.  The hind part of a shoe, either for man or beast.
4.  The part of a stocking intended for the heel.
 To be out at the heels, is to have on stockings that are worn out.
5.  Something shaped like the human heel; a protuberance or knob.
6.  The latter part; as, a bill was introduced into the legislature at the heel of the session.
7.  A spur.
 This horse understands the heel well.
8.  The after end of a ship's keel; the lower end of the stern-post to which it is connected; also,the lower end of a mast.
To be at the heels, to pursue closely; to follow hard; also, to attend closely.
 Hungry want is at my heels.
To show the heels, to flee; to run from.
To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight.
To lay by the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to confine.
To have the heels of, to outrun.
Neck and heels, the whole length of the body.
HEEL, v.i.  To dance.
HEEL, v.t.  To arm a cock.
1.  To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
HEEL v.i.  To incline; to lean; as a ship; as, the ship heels a-port, or a star-board.


Topic: Heft
Definition:
HEFT, n.
1. Heaving; effort.
 He cracks his gorge, his sides.
 With violent hefts.  [Not used.]
2.  Weight; ponderousness.  [This use is common in popular language in America.  And we sometimes hear it used as a verb, as, to heft, to lift for the purpose of feeling or judging of the weight.]
3.  A handle; a haft. [Not used.]


Topic: Hegira
Definition:
HEGI'RA, n.  In chronology, an epoch among the Mohammedans, from which they compute time.  The event which gave rise to it was the flight of Mohammed from Mecca; from which the magistrates, fearing his impostures might raise a sedition, expelled him, July 10, A.D. 622,under the reign of the emperor Heraclius.


Topic: Heigh-ho
Definition:
HEIGH-HO.  hi-ho.  An exclamation expressing some degree of languor or uneasiness.  Dryden has used it for the voice of exultation.


Topic: Heightened
Definition:
HEIGHTENED, pp. hitnd.  Raised higher; elevated; exalted; advanced; improved; aggravated; increased.


Topic: Heightening
Definition:
HEIGHTENING, ppr. hitning.  Raising; elevating; exalting; improving; increasing; aggravating.
HEIGHTENING, n. hitning.  The act of elevating; increase of excellence; improvement.
1.  Aggravation; augmentation.


Topic: Heir
Definition:
HEIR, n. are.  [L. haeres, haeredis.]
1.  The man who succeeds, or is to succeed another in the possession of lands, tenements and hereditaments, by descent; the man on whom the law casts an estate of inheritance by the death of the ancestor or former possessor; or the man in whom the title to an estate of inheritance is vested by the operation of law, on the death of a former owner.
We give the title to a person who is to inherit after the death of an ancestor, and during his life, as well as to the person who has actually come into possession.  A man's children are his heirs.  In most monarchies,the king's eldest son is heir to the throne; and a nobleman's eldest son is heir to his title.
 Lo, one born in my house is my heir. Gen.15.
2.  One who inherits, or takes from an ancestor.  The son is often heir to the disease, or to the miseries of the father.
3.  One who succeeds to the estate of a former possessor. Jer.49. Mic.1.
4.  One who is entitled to possess.  In Scripture, saints are called heirs of the promise, heirs of righteousness, heirs of salvation, &c., by virtue of the death of Christ, or of God's gracious promises.
Heir-presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would be heir, but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by any contingency, as by the birth of a nearer relative.
HEIR, v.t. are.  To inherit; to take possession of an estate of inheritance, after the death of the ancestor.


Topic: Heir-apparent
Definition:
HEIR-APPA'RENT, n.  The man who, during the life of his ancestor, is entitled to succeed to his estate or crown.


Topic: Heir-loom
Definition:
HEIR-LOOM, n.  are-loom.  Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law descends to the heir with the house or freehold; as tables, cupboards, bedsteads, &c.


Topic: Heiress
Definition:
HEIRESS, n. aress. A female heir; a female that inherits, or is entitled to inherit an estate; an inheritrix.


Topic: Heirship
Definition:
HEIRSHIP, n. areship.  The state, character or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.
1.  Heirship movables, in Scotland, the best of certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate.


Topic: Held
Definition:
HELD, pret. and pp. of hold.  A court was held in Westminster hall.  At a council held on the first of January.


Topic: Heliacal
Definition:
HELI'ACAL, a.  [L. heliacus; Gr. the sun.]
Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it.  The heliacal rising of a star, is when, after being in conjunction with it and invisible, it emerges from the light so as to be visible in the morning before sunrising.  On the contrary, the heliacal setting of a star, is when the sun approaches so near as to render it invisible by its superior splendor.


Topic: Heliacally
Definition:
HELI'ACALLY, adv.  A star rises heliacally, when it emerges from the sun's light, so as to be visible.  [See the preceding word.]


Topic: Heling
Definition:
HE'LING, n. [from hele, obs.; L. celo.]  The covering of the roof of a building; written also hilling.  [Not used in the U.States.]


Topic: Heliocentric
Definition:
HELIOCENT'RIC, a. [Gr. the sun, and center.]  
The heliocentric place of a planet, is the place of the ecliptic in which the planet would appear to a spectator at the center of the sun.
The heliocentric latitude of a planet, is the inclination of a line drawn between the center of the sun and the center of a planet to the plane of the ecliptic.
Helioid parabola, in mathematics, the parabolic spiral, a curve which arises from the supposition that the axis of the common Apollonian parabola is bent round into the periphery of a circle, and is a line then passing through the extremities of the ordinates, which now converge towards the center of the said circle.


Topic: Heliolatry
Definition:
HELIOL'ATRY, n.  [Gr. the sun, and service, worship.]
The worship of the sun, a branch of Sabianism.


Topic: Heliometer
Definition:
HELIOM'ETER, n. [Gr. the sun, and to measure.]  An instrument for measuring with exactness the diameter of the heavenly bodies.  It is called also astrometer.


Topic: Helioscope
Definition:
HE'LIOSCOPE, n. [Gr. the sun, and to view.]  A sort of telescope fitted for viewing the sun without pain or injury to the eyes, as when made with colored glasses, or glasses blackened with smoke.


Topic: Heliostate
Definition:
HE'LIOSTATE, n. [Gr. the sun.]  An instrument by which a sunbeam may be steadily directed to one spot.


Topic: Heliotrope
Definition:
HE'LIOTROPE, n. [Gr. the sun, and to turn.]
1.  Among the ancients, an instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and the equinoctial line.
2.  A genus or plants, the turnsole.
3.  A mineral, a subspecies of rhomboidal quartz, of a deep green color, peculiarly pleasant to the eye.  It is usually variegated with blood red or yellowish dots, and is more or less translucent.  Before the blowpipe, it loses its color.  It is generally supposed to be chalcedony, colored by green earth or chlorite.


Topic: Helix
Definition:
HE'LIX, n. [Gr. a winding.]  A spiral line; a winding; or something that is spiral; as a winding staircase in architecture, or a caulicule or little volute under the flowers of the Corinthian capital.  In anatomy, the whole circuit or extent of the auricle, or external border of the ear.
1.  In zoology, the snail-shell.


Topic: Hell
Definition:
HELL, n.  
1.  The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death.  Matt.10. Luke 12.
 Sin is hell begun, as religion is heaven anticipated.
2.  The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the lower regions, or the grave; called in Hebrew, sheol, and by the Greeks, hades. Ps. 16. Jon.2.
3.  The pains of hell, temporal death, or agonies that dying persons feel, or which bring to the brink of the grave.  Ps.18.
4.  The gates of hell, the power and policy of Satan and his instruments. Matt.16.
5.  The infernal powers.
 While Saul and hell cross'd his strong fate in vain.
6.  The place at a running play to which are carried those who are caught.
7.  A place into which a tailor throws his shreds.
8.  A dungeon or prison.


Topic: Hellebore
Definition:
HEL'LEBORE, n. [L. helleborus.]  The name of several plants of different genera, the most important of which are the black hellebore, Christmas rose, or Christmas flower, of the genus Helleborus, and the white hellebore, of the genus Veratrum.  Both are acrid and poisonous,and are used in medicine as evacuants and alternatives.


Topic: Hellenist
Definition:
HEL'LENIST, n. A Grecian Jew; a Jew who used the Greek language.
1.  One skilled in the Greek language.


Topic: Hellenistic
Definition:
HELLENIS'TIC, a.  Pertaining to the Hellenists.  The Hellenistic language was the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in Egypt and other countries, where the Greek language prevailed.


Topic: Hellespont
Definition:
HEL'LESPONT, n.  A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Dardanelles; a part of the passage between the Euxine and the Egean sea.


Topic: Hellish
Definition:
HELL'ISH, a.  Pertaining to hell.
1.  Like hell in qualities; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable.


Topic: Hellishness
Definition:
HELL'ISHNESS, n.  The qualities of hell or of its inhabitants; extreme wickedness,malignity or impiety.


Topic: Helm
Definition:
HELM, a termination, denotes defense; as in Sighelm, victorious defense. [See Helmet.]
HELM, n.
1.  The instrument by which a ship is steered, consisting of a rudder, a tiller, and in large vessels, a wheel.  [See Rudder.]
2.  Station of government; the place of direction or management; as, to be at the helm in the administration.
HELM, v.t.  To steer; to guide; to direct.  [Little used.]
1.  To cover with a helmet.
HELM


Topic: Helminthology
Definition:
HELMINTHOL'OGY, n.  [Gr. a worm, and discourse.]  The science or knowledge of vermes; the description and natural history of vermes.


Topic: Help
Definition:
HELP, v.t. A regular verb; the old past tense and participle holp and holpen being obsolete.
1.  To aid; to assist; to lend strength or means towards effecting a purpose; as, to help a man in his work; to help another in raising a building; to help one to pay his debts; to help the memory or the understanding.
2.  To assist; to succor; to lend means of deliverance; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
3.  To relieve; to cure, or to mitigate pain or disease.
 Help and ease them, but by no means bemoan them.
 The true calamus helps a cough.
Sometimes with of; as, to help one of blindness.
4.  To remedy; to change for the better.
 Cease to lament for what thou cans't not help.
5.  To prevent; to hinder. The evil approached, and who can help it?
6.  To forbear; to avoid.
 I cannot help remarking the resemblance between him and our author--
To help forward, to advance by assistance.
To help on, to forward; to promote by aid.
To help out, to aid in delivering from difficulty, or to aid in completing a design.
 The god of learning and of light,
 Would want a god himself to help him out.
To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over a difficulty.
To help off, to remove by help; as, to help off time. [Unusual.]
To help to, to supply with; to furnish with.
 Whom they would help to a kingdom. 1 Maccabees.
Also, to present to at table; as, to help one to a glass of wine.
HELP, v.i.  To lend aid; to contribute strength or means.
 A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person.
To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.
HELP, n.  Aid; assistance; strength or means furnished towards promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress.
 Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man. Ps.60.
1.  That which gives assistance; he or that which contributes to advance a purpose.
 Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.
 God is a very present help in time of trouble. Ps.46.
2.  Remedy; relief.  The evil is done; there is no help for it.  There is no help for the man; his disease is incurable.
3.  A hired man or woman; a servant.


Topic: Helper
Definition:
HELP'ER, n.  One that helps, aids or assists; an assistant; an auxiliary.
1.  One that furnishes or administers a remedy.
 Compassion--is oftentimes a helper of evils.
2.  One that supplies with any thing wanted; with to.
 A helper to a husband.
3.  A supernumerary servant.


Topic: Helpful
Definition:
HELP'FUL, a.  That gives aid or assistance; that furnishes means of promoting an object; useful.
1.  Wholesome; salutary; as helpful medicines.


Topic: Helpless
Definition:
HELP'LESS, a.  Without help in one's self; destitute of the power or means to succor or relieve one's self.  A person is rendered helpless by weakness, or want of means.  
 An infant is helpless.
1.  Destitute of support or assistance.
 How shall I then your helpless fame defend?
2.  Admitting no help; irremediable.  [Not used.]
3.  Unsupplied; destitute.
 Helpless of all that human wants require. [Not used.]


Topic: Helplessness
Definition:
HELP'LESSNESS, n.  Want of strength or ability; inability; want of means in one's self to obtain relief in trouble, or to accomplish one's purposes or desires.
It is the tendency of sickness to reduce our extravagant self-estimation, by exhibiting our solitary helplessness.


Topic: Helve
Definition:
HELVE, n. helv.  The handle of an ax or hatchet.
HELVE, v.t. helv. To furnish with a helve, as an ax.


Topic: Helvetic
Definition:
HELVET'IC, a.  Designating what pertains to the Helvetii, the inhabitants of the Alps, now Swisserland, or what pertains to the modern states and inhabitants of the Alpine regions; as the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.


Topic: Helvin
Definition:
HEL'VIN, n.  [From Gr. the sun.]  A mineral of a yellowish color, occurring in regular tetrahedrons, with truncated angles.


Topic: Hem
Definition:
HEM, n.
1.  The border of a garment, doubled and sewed to strengthen it and prevent the raveling of the threads.
2.  Edge; border. Matt.9.
3.  A particular sound of the human voice, expressed by the word hem.
HEM, v.t.  To form a hem or border; to fold and sew down the edge of cloth to strengthen it.
1.  To border; to edge.
 All the skirt about
 Was hemm'd with golden fringe.
To hem in, to inclose and confine; to surround; to environ.  The troops were hemmed in by the enemy.  Sometimes perhaps to hem about or round, may be used in a like sense.
HEM, v.i.  To make the sound expressed by the word hem.


Topic: Hematite
Definition:
HEM'ATITE, n. [Gr. from blood.]  The name of two ores of iron, the red hematite,and the brown hematite.  They are both of a fibrous structure, and the fibers, though sometimes nearly parallel,usually diverge, or even radiate from a center.  They rarely occur amorphous, but almost always in concretions, reniform, globular, botryoidal, stalactitic, &c.  The red hematite is a variety of the red oxyd; its streak and powder are always nearly blood red.  The brown hematite is a variety of the brown oxyd or hydrate of iron; its streak and powder are always of a brownish yellow.  The red hematite is also called blood-stone.


Topic: Hemina
Definition:
HEM'INA, n. [L.]  In Roman antiquity, a measure containing half a sextary, and according to Arbuthnot, about half a pint English wine measure.
1. In medicine, a measure equal to about ten ounces.


Topic: Hemiplegy
Definition:
HEM'IPLEGY, n. [Gr. half, and a stroke, to strike.]  A palsy that affects one half of the body; a paralytic affection on one side of the human frame.


Topic: Hemisphere
Definition:
HEM'ISPHERE, n.  [Gr.]  A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.  In astronomy, one half the mundane sphere.  The equator divides the sphere into two equal parts.  That on the north is called the northern hemisphere; the other, the southern.  So the horizon divides the sphere into the upper and lower hemispheres.  Hemisphere is also used for a map or projection of half the terrestrial or celestial sphere, and is then often called planisphere.
1.  A map or projection of half the terrestrial globe.


Topic: Hemisphericical
Definition:
HEMISPHER'IC'ICAL, a.  Containing half a sphere or globe; as a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.


Topic: Hemitrope
Definition:
HEM'ITROPE, a. [Gr. half, and to turn.]  Half-turned; a hemitrope crystal is one in which one segment is turned through half the circumference of a circle.  The word is used also as a noun.


Topic: Hemlock
Definition:
HEM'LOCK, n.
1.  A plant of the genus Conium, whose leaves and root are poisonous. Also, the Cicuta maculata.
2.  A tree of the genus Pinus, an evergreen.
3.  A poison, an infusion or decoction of the poisonous plant.
 Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.


Topic: Hemorrhagy
Definition:
HEMORRHAGY, n. [Gr. blood, and to burst.]  A flux of blood, proceeding from the rupture of a blood-vessel, or some other cause.  The ancients confined the word to a discharge of blood from the nose; but in modern use, it is applied to a flux from the nose, lungs, intestines, &c.


Topic: Hemorrhoidal
Definition:
HEMORRHOID'AL, a.  Pertaining to the hemorrhoids; as the hemorrhoidal vessels.
1.  Consisting in a flux of blood from the vessels of the anus.


Topic: Hemorrhoids
Definition:
HEM'ORRHOIDS, n. [Gr. blood, and a flowing.]  A discharge of blood from the vessels of the anus; the piles; in Scripture, emerods.
The term is also applied to tumors formed by a morbid dilatation of the hemorrhoidal veins.  When they do not discharge blood,they are called blind piles; when they occasionally emit blood, bleeding or open piles.


Topic: Hemp
Definition:
HEMP, n.  [L. cannabis.]
1.  A fibrous plant constituting the genus Cannabis, whose skin or bark is used for cloth and cordage.  Hence canvas,the coarse strong cloth used for sails.
2.  The skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning.  Large quantities of hemp are exported from Russia.


Topic: Hen
Definition:
HEN, n.  The female of any kind of fowl; but it is particularly applied to the female of the domestic fowl of the gallinaceous kind, or as sometimes called, the barn-door fowl.


Topic: Henbane
Definition:
HEN'BANE, n. [hen and bane.]  A plant, the Hyoscyamus, of several species.  The roots, leaves and seeds are poisonous.


Topic: Hence
Definition:
HENCE, adv. hens.
1.  From this place.
 Arise, let us go hence.  John 14.
 I will send thee far hence to the Gentiles. Acts.22.
2.  From this time; in the future; as a week hence; a year hence.
3.  From this cause or reason,noting a consequence, inference or deduction from something just before stated.
 Hence perhaps it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom.
It sometimes denotes an inference or consequence, resulting from something that follows.
 Whence come wars and fightings among you?
 Come they not hence, even from your lusts--James 4.
4.  From this source or original.
 All other faces borrowed hence--
Hence signifies from this, and from before hence is not strictly correct.  But from hence is so well established by custom, that it may not be practicable to correct the use of the phrase.
Hence is used elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone.
 Hence, with your little ones.
Hence, as a verb, to send off, as used by Sidney, is improper.


Topic: Hepar
Definition:
HE'PAR, n. [L. hepar,the liver.]  A combination of sulphur with an alkali was formerly called by chimists hepar sulphuris, liver of sulphur, from its brown red color.  The term has been applied to all combinations of alkali or earth with sulphur or phosphorus.
 The hepars are by modern chimists called sulphurets.


Topic: Hepatite
Definition:
HEP'ATITE, n.  A gem or mineral that takes its name from the liver. Plin. L. 37.11.
Hepatite is a name given to the fetid sulphate of baryte.  It sometimes occurs in globular masses, and is either compact or of a foliated structure.  By friction or the application of heat, it exhales a fetid odor, like that of sulphurated hydrogen.


Topic: Hepatized
Definition:
HEP'ATIZED, pp.  Impregnated or combined with sulphurated hydrogen gas.
 On the right of the river were two wells of hepatized water.


Topic: Hepatoscopy
Definition:
HEPATOS'COPY, n. [Gr. the liver, and to view.]  The art or practice of divination by inspecting the liver of animals.


Topic: Heptacapsular
Definition:
HEPTACAP'SULAR, a.  [Gr. seven, and L. capsula, a cell.]
Having seven cells or cavities for seeds; a term in botany.


Topic: Heptachord
Definition:
HEP'TACHORD, n. [Gr. seven, and chord.]  A system of seven sounds.  In ancient poetry, verses sung or played on seven chords or different notes.  In this sense the word was applied to the lyre, when it had but seven strings.  One of the intervals is also called a heptachord, as containing the same number of degrees between the extremes.


Topic: Heptagon
Definition:
HEP'TAGON, n.  [Gr. seven, and an angle.]
In geometry, a figure consisting of seven sides and as many angles.
In fortification, a place that has seven bastions for defense.


Topic: Heptagonal
Definition:
HEPTAG'ONAL, a.  Having seven angles or sides. Heptagonal numbers, in arithmetic, a sort of polygonal numbers, wherein the difference of the terms of the corresponding arithmetical progression is 5.  One of the properties of these numbers is, that if they are multiplied by 40, and 9 is added to the product, the sum will be a square number.


Topic: Heptahexahedral
Definition:
HEPTAHEXAHE'DRAL, a.  [Gr. seven, and hexahedral.]  Presenting seven ranges of faces one above another, each range containing six faces.


Topic: Heptarchy
Definition:
HEP'TARCHY, n. [Gr. seven and rule.]  A government by seven persons, or the country governed by seven persons.  But the word is usually applied to England, when under the government of seven kings, or divided into seven kingdoms; as the Saxon heptarchy, which comprehended the whole of England, when subject to seven independent princes.  These petty kingdoms were those of Kent, the South Saxons [Sussex,] West Saxons, East Saxons [Essex,] the East Angles, Mercia, and Northumberland.


Topic: Her
Definition:
HER, pronounced hur, an adjective, or pronominal adjective of the third person. [L. suus.]
1.  Belonging to a female; as her face; her head.
2.  It is used before neuter nouns in personification.
 Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Prov.3.
Her is also used as a pronoun or substitute for a female in the objective case, after a verb or preposition.
 She gave also to her husband with her, and he did eat. Gen.3.
Hers is primarily the objective or genitive case, denoting something that belongs to a female.  But it stands as a substitute in the nominative or objective case.
 And what his fortune wanted, hers could mend.
Here hers stands for her fortune, but it must be considered as the nominative to could mend.  I will take back my own book and give you hers.  Here hers is the object after give.


Topic: Herald
Definition:
HER'ALD, n.  
1.  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war,to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army.  Hence, 
2.  A proclaimer; a publisher; as the herald of another's fame.
3.  A forerunner; a precursor; a harbinger.
 It was the lark, the herald of the morn.
4.  An officer in Great Britain, whose business is to marshal, order and conduct royal cavalcades, ceremonies at coronations, royal marriages, installations, creations of dukes and other nobles, embassies, funeral processions, declarations of war, proclamations of peace, &c.; also, to record and blazon the arms of the nobility and gentry, and to regulate abuses therein.
5.  Formerly applied by the French to a minstrel.
HER'ALD, v.t.  To introduce, as by a herald.


Topic: Heraldry
Definition:
HER'ALDRY, n.  The art or office of a herald.  Heraldry is the art, practice or science of recording genealogies,and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial.  It also teaches whatever relates to the marshaling of cavalcades, processions and other public ceremonies.


Topic: Herb
Definition:
HERB, n. erb.  [L. herba.]
1.  A plant or vegetable with a soft or succulent stalk or stem, which dies to the root every year, and is thus distinguished from a tree and a shrub, which have ligneous or hard woody stems.
2.  In the Linnean botany, that part of a vegetable which springs from the root and is terminated by the fructification, including the stem or stalk, the leaves, the fulcra or props,and the hibernacle.
The word herb comprehends all the grasses, and numerous plants used for culinary purposes.


Topic: Herbaceous
Definition:
HERBA'CEOUS, a. [L. herbaceus.]  Pertaining to herbs. Herbaceous plants are such as perish annually down to the root; soft, succulent vegetables.  So, a herbaceous stem is one which is soft, not woody.  Herbaceous, applied to animals by Derham, is not authorized.  [See Herbivorous.]


Topic: Herbage
Definition:
HERB'AGE, n.  Herbs collectively; grass; pasture; green food for beasts.
The influence of true religion is mild, soft and noiseless,and constant, as the descent of the evening dew on the tender herbage.
1.  In law, the liberty or right of pasture in the forest or grounds of another man.


Topic: Herbal
Definition:
HERB'AL, n.  A book that contains the names and descriptions of plants, or the classes, genera, species and qualities of vegetables.
1.  A hortus siccus, or dry garden; a collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved.
HERB'AL, a.  Pertaining to herbs.


Topic: Herbivorous
Definition:
HERBIV'OROUS, a. [L. herba and voro, to eat.]  Eating herbs; subsisting on herbaceous plants; feeding on vegetables.  The ox and the horse are herbivorous animals.


Topic: Herborization
Definition:
HERBORIZA'TION, n.  [from herborize.]
1.  The act of seeking plants in the field; botanical research.
2.  The figure of plants in mineral substances.  [See Arborization.]


Topic: Herborize
Definition:
HERB'ORIZE, v.i.  To search for plants, or to seek new species of plants, with a view to ascertain their characters and to class them.
 He herborized as he traveled, and enriched the Flora Suecica with new discoveries.
HERB'ORIZE, v.t.  To figure; to form the figures of plants in minerals.  [See Arborize.]


Topic: Herborized
Definition:
HERB'ORIZED, pp.  Figured; containing the figure of a plant; as a mineral body.
 Daubenton has shown that herborized stones contain very fine mosses.


Topic: Herculean
Definition:
HERCU'LEAN, a.  [from Hercules.]  Very great, difficult or dangerous; such as it would require the strength or courage of Hercules to encounter or accomplish; as Herculean labor or task.
1.  Having extraordinary strength and size; as Herculean limbs.
2.  Of extraordinary strength, force or power.


Topic: Hercynian
Definition:
HERCYN'IAN, a. [from Hercynia.]  Denoting an extensive forest in Germany, the remains of which are now in Swabia.


Topic: Herd
Definition:
HERD, n.
1.  A collection or assemblage; applied to beasts when feeding or driven together.  We say, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, bucks, harts,and in Scripture, a herd of swine.  But we say, a flock of sheep, goats, or birds.  A number of cattle going to market is called a drove.
2.  A company of men or people, in contempt or detestation; a crowd; a rabble; as a vulgar herd.
HERD, n.  A keeper of cattle; used by Spenser, and still used in Scotland, but in English now seldom or never used, except in composition, as a shepherd, a goatherd, a swineherd.
HERD, v.i.  To unite or associate, as beasts; to feed or run in collections.  Most kinds of beasts manifest a disposition to herd.
1.  To associate; to unite in companies customarily.
2.  To associate; to become one of a number or party.
HERD, v.t.  To form or put into a herd.


Topic: Here
Definition:
HERE, adv.
1.  In this place; in the place where the speaker is present; opposed to there.  Behold, here am I.  Lodge here this night.  Build here seven altars.
2.  In the present life or state.
 Thus shall you be happy here, and more happy hereafter.
3.  It is used in making an offer or attempt.
 Then here's for earnest.
4.  In drinking health.
 Here's to thee, Dick.
It is neither here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that; neither in one place nor in another.
Here and there,in one place and another; in a dispersed manner or condition; thinly; or irregularly.


Topic: Hereafter
Definition:
HERE`AFTER, adv. In time to come; in some future time.
1.  In a future state.
HERE`AFTER,n.  A future state.
 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter.


Topic: Hereditable
Definition:
HERED'ITABLE, a. [from the root of heir; L. haereditas.]
That may be inherited. [Not much used.  See Inheritable.]


Topic: Hereditably
Definition:
HERED'ITABLY, adv.  By inheritance; by right of descent.
 The one-house-owners belong hereditably to no private person.


Topic: Hereditament
Definition:
HEREDIT'AMENT, n.  [L. haeres, haeredium.  See Heir.]
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements,any thing corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal or mixed, that may descend to an heir.
A corporeal hereditament is visible and tangible; an incorporeal hereditament is an ideal right, existing in contemplation of law, issuing out of substantial corporeal property.


Topic: Hereditary
Definition:
HERED'ITARY, a.
1.  That has descended from an ancestor. He is in possession of a large hereditary estate.
2.  That may descend from an ancestor to an heir; descendible to an heir at law.  The crown of Great Britain is hereditary.
3.  That is or may be transmitted from a parent to a child; as hereditary pride; hereditary bravery; hereditary disease.


Topic: Heresiarch
Definition:
HER'ESIARCH, n.  s as z. [Gr. heresy, and chief.]  A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics.


Topic: Heresy
Definition:
HER'ESY, n. [Gr. to take, to hold; L. haeresis.]
1.  A fundamental error in religion, or an error of opinion respecting some fundamental doctrine of religion.  But in countries where there is an established church, an opinion is deemed heresy, when it differs from that of the church. The Scriptures being the standard of faith, any opinion that is repugnant to its doctrines, is heresy; but as men differ in the interpretation of Scripture, an opinion deemed heretical by one body of christians,may be deemed orthodox by another.  In Scripture and primitive usage,heresy meant merely sect, party, or the doctrines of a sect, as we now use denomination or persuasion, implying no reproach.
2.  Heresy, in law, is an offense against christianity, consisting in a denial of some of its essential doctrines, publicly avowed and obstinately maintained.
3.  An untenable or unsound opinion or doctrine in politics.


Topic: Heretic
Definition:
HER'ETIC, n.
1.  A person under any religion, but particularly the christian, who holds and teaches opinions repugnant to the established faith, or that which is made the standard of orthodoxy.  In strictness, among christians, a person who holds and avows religious opinions contrary to the doctrines of Scripture, the only rule of faith and practice.
2.  Any one who maintains erroneous opinions.


Topic: Heretoch
Definition:
HER'ETOCH, n. [L. duco, dux; Eng. to tug.]  Among our Saxon ancestors,the leader or commander of an army, or the commander of the militia in a county or district.  This officer was elected by the people in folkmote.


Topic: Herewith
Definition:
HEREWITH', adv.  With this.
Most of the compounds of here and a preposition, are obsolete or obsolescent, or at least are deemed inelegant.  But hereafter and heretofore are in elegant use.  Herein and hereby are frequently used in the present version of the Scriptures, and ought not perhaps to be discarded. Indeed some of these words seem to be almost indispensable in technical law language.


Topic: Heriot
Definition:
HER'IOT, n.  In English law, a tribute or fine payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner, landholder, or vassal.  Originally this tribute consisted of military furniture, or of horses and arms, as appears by the laws of Canute, C.69.  But as defined by modern writers, a heriot is a customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land; or a render of the best beast or other movables to the lord on the death of the tenant.  Heriots were of two sorts; heriot service, which was due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands; and heriot custom, which depended solely on immemorial usage.


Topic: Herisson
Definition:
HER'ISSON, n.  In fortification, a beam or bar armed with iron spikes pointing outwards, and a turning on a pivot; used to block up a passage.


Topic: Heritable
Definition:
HER'ITABLE, a.  [from the root of heir, L. haeres.]
1.  Capable of inheriting, or taking by descent.
 By the canon law this son shall be legitimate and heritable.
2.  That may be inherited.  [This is the true sense.]
3.  Annexed to estates of inheritance.  In Scot's law, heritable rights are all rights that affect lands or other immovables.


Topic: Heritage
Definition:
HER'ITAGE, n.
1.  Inheritance; an estate that passes from an ancestor to an heir by descent or course of law;  that which is inherited.  In Scot's law, it sometimes signifies immovable estate, in distinction from movable.
2.  In Scripture, the saints or people of God are called his heritage, as being claimed by him, and the objects of his special care. 1 Pet.5.


Topic: Herl
Definition:
HERL, n. The skin of flax; the filaments of flax or hemp.
1.  A filamentous substance.
[In New England, I have heard this word pronounced herl.]


Topic: Hermaphrodite
Definition:
HERMAPH'RODITE, n. [Gr. Mercury, and Venus.]
1.  A human being, having the parts of generation both of male and female. The term is applied also to other animals characterized by a similar formation.
2.  In botany, a flower that contains both the anther and the stigma, or the supposed male and female organs of generation, within the same calyx or on the same receptacle.
3.  A plant that has only hermaphrodite flowers.
HERMAPH'RODITE, a.  Designating both sexes in the same animal, flower or plant.


Topic: Hermeneutics
Definition:
HERMENEU'TICS, n.  The art of finding the meaning of an author's words and phrases, and of explaining it to others.


Topic: Hermetically
Definition:
HERMET'ICALLY, adv.  According to the hermetic art; chimically; closely; accurately; as a vessel hermetically sealed or closed.


Topic: Hermit
Definition:
HER'MIT, n. [Gr. solitary, destitute.]
1.  A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret.  The word is usually applied to a person who lives in solitude, disengaged from the cares and interruptions of society, for the purpose of religious contemplation and devotion.
2.  A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.


Topic: Hermitage
Definition:
HER'MITAGE, n.  The habitation of a hermit; a house or hut with its appendages, in a solidary place, where a hermit dwells.
1.  A cell in a recluse place, but annexed to an abbey.
2.  A kind of wine.


Topic: Hermodactyl
Definition:
HERMODAC'TYL, n. [Gr. Mercury, and a finger; Mercury's finger.]
In the Materia Medic, a root brought from Turkey.  It is in the shape of a heart flatted, of a white color, compact, but easy to be cut or pulverized, of a viscous sweetish taste, with a slight degree of acrimony.  Some suppose it to be the root of the 
Colchicum variegatum; others,the root of the Iris tuberosa. It was anciently in great repute as a cathartic; but that which is now furnished has little or no cathartic quality.


Topic: Hermogenians
Definition:
HERMOGE'NIANS, n.  A sect of ancient heretics, so called from their leader Hermogenes, who lived near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls are formed of corrupt matter.


Topic: Hernia
Definition:
HERN'IA, n.  [L.]  In surgery, a rupture; a descent of the intestines or omentum from their natural place; an unnatural protrusion of the intestines.  Hernia is of various kinds.


Topic: Hero
Definition:
HE'RO, n. [L. heros; Gr. a demigod.]
1.  A man of distinguished valor, intrepidity or enterprise in danger; as a hero in arms.
2.  A great, illustrious or extraordinary person; as a hero in learning.  [Little used.]
3.  In a poem, or romance, the principal personage, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad, Ulysses in the Odyssey, and Aeneas in the Aeneid.
4.  In pagan mythology, a hero was an illustrious person, mortal indeed, but supposed by the populace to partake of immortality, and after his death to be placed among the gods.


Topic: Herodians
Definition:
HERO'DIANS, n.  A sect among the Jews,which took this name from Herod; but authors are not agreed as to their peculiar notions.


Topic: Heroi-comic
Definition:
HEROI-COM'IC, a. [See Hero and Comic.]  Consisting of the heroic and the ludicrous; denoting the high burlesque; as a heroicomic poem.


Topic: Heroic
Definition:
HERO'IC, a.  Pertaining to a hero or heroes; as heroic valor.
1.  Becoming a hero; bold; daring; illustrious; as heroic action; heroic enterprises.
2.  Brave; intrepid; magnanimous; enterprising; illustrious for valor; as Hector, the heroic son of Priam; a heroic race.
3.  Productive of heroes; as a heroic line in pedigree.
4.  Reciting the achievements of heroes; as a heroic poem.
5.  Used in heroic poetry or hexameter; as heroic verse; a heroic foot.
Heroic age, the age when the heroes,or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.


Topic: Heroically
Definition:
HERO'ICALLY, adv. In the manner of a hero; with valor; bravely; courageously; intrepidly. The wall was heroically defended.


Topic: Herpes
Definition:
HER'PES,n. [Gr. to creep.]  Tetters; an eruption on the skin; erysipelas; ringworm, &c.  This disease takes various names according to its form or the part affected.
A term applied to several cutaneous eruptions, from their tendency to spread or creep from one part of the skin to another.
An eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling; including the shingles,ringworm, &c.


Topic: Herpetic
Definition:
HERPET'IC, a.  Pertaining to the herpes or cutaneous eruptions; resembling the herpes, or partaking of its nature; as herpetic eruptions.


Topic: Herpetology
Definition:
HERPETOL'OGY, n. [Gr. a reptile, and discourse.]  A description of reptiles; the natural history of reptiles, including oviparous quadrupeds, as the crocodile, frog and tortoise,and serpents.  The history of the latter is called ophiology.


Topic: Herring
Definition:
HER'RING,n.  A fish of the genus Clupea.  Herrings, when they migrate, move in vast shoals, and it is said that the name is formed from the Teutonic here,heer, an army or multitude.  They come from high northern latitudes in the spring, and visit the shores of Europe and America, where they are taken and salted in great quantities.


Topic: Herring-fishery
Definition:
HERRING-FISHERY, n.  The fishing for herrings, which constitutes an important branch of business with the English,Dutch and Americans.


Topic: Hers
Definition:
HERS, pron. hurz, pron. fem. possessive; as, this house is hers,that is, this is the house of her.  But perhaps it would be more correct to consider hers as a substitute for the noun and adjective, in the nominative case.  Of the two houses,hers is the best, that is, her house is the best.


Topic: Herse
Definition:
HERSE, n. hers.
1.  In fortification, a lattice or portcullis in the form of a harrow, set with iron spikes.  It is hung by a rope fastened to a moulinet, and when a gate is broken, it is let  down to obstruct the passage.  It is called also a sarrasin or cataract, and when it consists of straight stakes without cross-pieces, it is called orgues.
Herse is also a harrow, used for a chevaux de frise, and laid in the way or in breaches, with the points up, to obstruct or incommode the march of an enemy.
1.  A carriage for bearing corpses to the grave. It is a frame only, or a box, as in England, borne on wheels.
2.  A temporary monument set over a grave. [Unusual and not legitimate.]
3.  A funeral eulogy. [Not used.]
HERSE, v.t. hers.  To put on or in a herse.
1.  To carry to the grave.


Topic: Herself
Definition:
HERSELF', pron. [her and self.]  This denotes a female,the subject of discourse before mentioned, and is either in the nominative or objective case.  In the nominative it usually follows she, and is added for the sake of emphasis, or emphatical distinction; as, she herself will bear the blame.
 The daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself. Ex.2.
1.  Having the command of herself; mistress of her rational powers, judgment or temper.  The woman was deranged, but she is now herself again.  She has come to herself.
2.  In her true character; as, the woman acts like herself.


Topic: Hersillon
Definition:
HERS'ILLON, n. [from herse.]  In the military art, a plank or beam, whose sides are set with spikes or nails, to incommode and retard the march of an enemy.


Topic: Hesitancy
Definition:
HES'ITANCY, n. [See Hesitate.]  A doubting; literally, a stopping of the mind; a pausing to consider; dubiousness; suspense.
 The reason of my hesitancy about the air is--


Topic: Hesitate
Definition:
HES'ITATE, v.i.  s as z. [L. haesito, haereo, to hang.]
1.  To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be doubtful as to fact, principle or determination; to be in suspense or uncertainty; as, he hesitated whether to accept the offer or not.  We often hesitate what judgment to form.
It is never transitive, unless by poetic license.
 Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
2.  To stammer; to stop in speaking.


Topic: Hesitation
Definition:
HESITA'TION, n.  A pausing or delay in forming an opinion or commencing action; doubt;suspension of opinion or decision, from uncertainty what is proper to be decided.  When evidence is clear, we may decide without hesitation.
1.  A stopping in speech; intermission between words; stammering.


Topic: Hesperian
Definition:
HESPE'RIAN. [L. hesperius, western, from hesperus, vesper, the evening star, Venus.]
Western; situated at the west.


Topic: Hest
Definition:
HEST, n. Command; precept; injunction; order. [Now obsolete,but it is retained in the compound, behest.]


Topic: Heteroclite
Definition:
HET'EROCLITE,n. [Gr. another, or different, to incline, to lean.]
1.  In grammar, a word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from the ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind.  It is particularly applied to nouns irregular in declension.
2.  Any thing or person deviating from common forms.
HET'EROCLITE


Topic: Heterodox
Definition:
HET'ERODOX, a. [Gr. another, different, and opinion.]
1.  In theology, heretical; contrary to the faith and doctrines of the true church; or more precisely, contrary to the real doctrines of the Scriptures; as a heterodox opinion; opposed to orthodox.
2.  Repugnant to the doctrines or tenets of any established church.
3.  Holding opinions repugnant to the doctrines of the Scriptures, as a heterodox divine; or holding opinions contrary to those of an established church.


Topic: Heterodoxy
Definition:
HET'ERODOXY, n.  Heresy; an opinion or doctrine contrary to the doctrines of the Scriptures, or contrary to those of an established church.


Topic: Heterogeneous
Definition:
HETEROGE'NEOUS, a. [Gr. other, and kind.]  Of a different kind or nature; unlike or dissimilar in kind; opposed to homogeneous.
 The light whose rays are all alike refrangible, I call simple, homogeneal and similar; and that whose rays are some more refrangible than others, I call compound, heterogeneal and dissimilar.
Heterogeneous nouns, are such as are of different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and haec loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural. Hoc coelum, neuter in the singular; hi coeli, masculine in the plural.
Heterogeneous quantities, are those which are of such different kind and consideration, that one of them, taken any number of times, never equals or exceeds the other.
Heterogeneous surds, are such as have different radical signs.


Topic: Heterogeneousness
Definition:
HETEROGE'NEOUSNESS, n.  Difference of nature and quality; dissimilitude or contrariety in kind, nature or qualities.


Topic: Heterophyllous
Definition:
HETEROPH'YLLOUS, a. [Gr. diverse, and leaf.]
Producing a diversity of leaves; as a heterophyllous violet.


Topic: Heteroscian
Definition:
HETEROS'CIAN, n. [Gr. other, and shadow.]
Those inhabitants of the earth are called Heteroscians, whose shadows fall one way only.  Such are those who live between the tropics and the polar circles.  The shadows of those who live north of the tropic of Cancer, fall northward; those of the inhabitants south of the tropic of Capricorn, fall southward; whereas the shadows of those who dwell between the tropics fall sometimes to the north and sometimes to the south.
HETEROS'CIAN, a.  Having the shadow fall one way only.


Topic: Heulandite
Definition:
HEU'LANDITE, a. [from M. Heuland.]  A mineral, occurring massive, frequently globular, or crystallized in the form of a right oblique-angled prism.  It has been ranked among the zeolites,but is now considered as distinct.


Topic: Hew
Definition:
HEW, v.t. pret. hewed; pp. hewed or hewn.
1.  To cut with an ax, or other like instrument, for the purpose of making an even surface or side; as, to hew timber.
2.  To chop; to cut; to hack; as, to hew in pieces.
3.  To cut with a chisel; to make smooth; as, to hew stone.
 4.  To form or shape with an edged instrument; with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. Is.22.
5.  To form laboriously.  
 I now pass my days,not studious nor idle, rather polishing old works than hewing out new ones. [Unusual.]
To hew down, to cut down; to fell by cutting.
To hew off, to cut off; to separate by a cutting instrument.


Topic: Hexachord
Definition:
HEX'ACHORD, n. [Gr. six and a chord.]  In ancient music, an imperfect chord called a sixth.  Also, an instrument of six chords, or system of six sounds.


Topic: Hexagon
Definition:
HEX'AGON, n. [Gr. six and an angle.]  In geometry, a figure of six sides and six angles.  If the sides and angles are equal,it is a regular hexagon.  The cells of honeycomb are hexagons, and it is remarkable that bees instinctively form their cells of this figure which fills any given space without any interstice or loss or room.


Topic: Hexameter
Definition:
HEXAM'ETER, n. [Gr. six, and measure.]  In ancient poetry, a verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees,the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee.  In this species of verse are composed the Illiad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil.

HEXAM'ETER, a. Having six metrical feet.


Topic: Hexaped
Definition:
HEX'APED, a. [Gr. six; L. pes, pedis, the foot.]
Having six feet.
HEX'APED, n.  An animal having six feet. [Ray, and Johnson after him write this hexapod; but it is better to pursue uniformity, as in quadruped, centiped.]
1. A fathom.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Hexaplar
Definition:
HEX'APLAR, a. [Gr. six, and to unfold.]  Sextuple; containing six columns; from Hexapla, the work of Origen, or an edition of the Bible, containing the original Hebrew, and several Greek versions.


Topic: Heyday
Definition:
HEYDAY, exclam.  An expression of frolick and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
HEYDAY, n.  A frolick; wildness.


Topic: Hiatus
Definition:
HIA'TUS, n. [L. from hio, to open or gape.]
1.  An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm.
2.  The opening of the mouth in reading or speaking, when a word ends with a vowel,and the following word begins with a vowel.
3.  A defect; a chasm in a manuscript,where some part is lost or effaced.


Topic: Hibernacle
Definition:
HI'BERNACLE, n. [L. hibernacula, winter-quarters.]
1. In botany, the winter-quarters of a plant, that is, a bulb or a bud, in which the embryo of a future plant is inclosed by a scaly covering and protected from injuries during winter.
2.  The winter-lodge of a wild animal.


Topic: Hibernate
Definition:
HI'BERNATE, v.i. [L. hiberno.]  To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters or in seclusion, as birds or beasts.


Topic: Hibernation
Definition:
HIBERNA'TION, n.  The passing of winter in a close lodge, as beasts and fowls that retire in cold weather.


Topic: Hiberno-celtic
Definition:
HIBERNO-CELTIC, n.  The native language of the Irish; the Gaelic.
Hiccius Doccius.  A cant word for a juggler.


Topic: Hickup
Definition:
HICK'UP, n. [The English is a compound of hic and cough; and hic may be allied to hitch, to catch. The word is generally pronounced hick-up.]
A spasmodic affection of the stomach, esophagus,and muscles subservient to deglutition.
Convulsive catch of the respiratory muscles, with sonorous inspiration; repeated at short intervals.


Topic: Hide
Definition:
HIDE, v.t. pret. hid; pp. hid, hidden. 
1.  To conceal; to withhold or withdraw from sight; to place in any state or position in which the view is intercepted from the object.  The intervention of the moon between the earth and the sun hides the latter from our sight.  The people in Turkey hide their grain in the earth.  No human being can hide his crimes or his neglect of duty from his Maker.
2.  To conceal from knowledge; to keep secret.
 Depart to the mountains; hide yourselves there three days. Josh.2.
 Tell me now what thou hast done--hide it not from me. Josh.7.
3.  In Scripture, not to confess or disclose; or to excuse and extenuate.
 I acknowledged my sin to thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. Ps.32.
4.  To protect; to keep in safety.
 In the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion. Ps.27.
To hide the face from, to overlook; to pardon.
 Hide thy face from my sins. Ps.51.
To hide the face, to withdraw spiritual presence, support and consolation.
 Thou didst hide thy face,and I was troubled. Ps.30.
To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection.
 The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself. Prov.22.
HIDE, v.i.  To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight.
 Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide.
Hide and seek, a play of boys, in which some hide themselves and another seeks them.
HIDE, n. In the ancient laws of England, a certain portion of land, the quantity of which however is not well ascertained. Some authors consider it as the quantity that could be tilled with one plow; others, as much as would maintain a family.  Some suppose it to be 60, some 80,and others 100 acres.
HIDE, n. [L. cutis; Gr. either a peel, from stripping, separating, or a cover.]
1. The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; more generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, &c.
2.  The human skin; in contempt.


Topic: Hidebound
Definition:
HI'DEBOUND, a.  A horse is hidebound, when his skin sticks so closely to his ribs and back, as not to be easily loosened or raised.
Trees are said to be hidebound,when the bark is so close or firm that it impedes the growth.
1. Harsh; untractable.  [Not used.]
2. Niggardly; penurious.  [Not used.]


Topic: Hideous
Definition:
HID'EOUS, a.
1.  Frightful to the sight; dreadful; shocking to the eye; applied to deformity; as a hideous monster; a hideous spectacle; hideous looks.
2.  Shocking to the ear; exciting terror; as a hideous noise.
3.  Detestable.


Topic: Hiding
Definition:
HI'DING, ppr.  Concealing; covering or withdrawing from view; keeping close or secret.
HI'DING, n.  Concealment.  Hab.3.
1.  Withdrawment; a withholding; as the hidings of God's face.


Topic: Hie
Definition:
HIE, v.i.
1.  To hasten; to move or run with haste; to go in haste; a word chiefly used in poetry.
 The youth, returning to his mistress, hies.
2.  With the reciprocal pronoun; as, hie thee home.
HIE, n.  Haste; diligence.


Topic: Hierarch
Definition:
HI'ERARCH, n. [Gr. sacred, and a ruler or prince.]
The chief of a sacred order; particularly, the chief of an order of angels.


Topic: Hierarchy
Definition:
HI'ERARCHY, n.  An order or rank of angels or celestial beings; or a subordination of holy beings.  Some of the Rabbins reckon four, and others ten hierarchies,or orders of angels.
1.  Constitution and government of the christian church, or ecclesiastical polity, comprehending different orders of clergy; as the hierarchy of England.


Topic: Hieroglyphical
Definition:
HIEROGLYPH'ICAL, a.  Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures or figures, as hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk.


Topic: Hieroglyphically
Definition:
HIEROGLYPH'ICALLY, adv.  Emblematically; by characters or pictures expressive of facts or moral qualities.  The Mexicans wrote history hieroglyphically.


Topic: Hierogrammatic
Definition:
HIEROGRAMMAT'IC, a. [Gr. sacred, and letter.]  Denoting a kind of writing in sacred or sacerdotal characters, used only by the priests in Egypt.


Topic: Hieromancy
Definition:
HIEROM'ANCY, n. [Gr. sacred, and divination.]  Divination by observing the various things offered in sacrifice.


Topic: Hieromnemon
Definition:
HIEROM'NEMON, n. [Gr. sacred, and preserving memory.]
In ancient Greece, a magistrate who presided over the sacred rites and solemnities, &c.


Topic: Hierophant
Definition:
HI'EROPHANT, n. [Gr. sacred,and to show.]  A priest; one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion.


Topic: Higgle
Definition:
HIG'GLE, v.i. [L. cocio.]
1.  To carry provisions about and offer them for sale.
2.  To chaffer; to be difficult in making a bargain.
 It argues an ignorant mind, where we have wronged to higgle and dodge in the amends.


Topic: High
Definition:
HIGH, a.  hi.
1.  Extending a great distance above the surface of the earth; elevated; lofty; of great altitude; as a high mountain; a high tower.
2.  Rising, or having risen, or being far above the earth; elevated; lofty; as a high flight; the clouds are high in the atmosphere.
3.  Elevated above the horizon; as, how high is the sun?  It is an hour high.
4.  Raised above any object.
 High o'er their heads a moldering rock is placed.
5.  Exalted in nature or dignity.
 The highest faculty of the soul.
6.  Elevated in rank, condition or office. We speak of high and low; of a high office; high rank; high station; a high court.
7.  Possessing or governed by honorable pride; noble; exalted; magnanimous; dignified; as a man of a high mind.
8.  Exalted in excellence or extent.
 Solomon lived at ease, nor aimed beyond
 Higher design than to enjoy his state.
9.  Difficult; abstruse.
 They meet to hear, and answer such high things.
    10. Boastful; ostentatious.
 His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.
    11. Arrogant; proud; lofty; loud.
 The governor made himself merry with his high and threatening language.
    12. Loud; boisterous; threatening or angry. The parties had very high words.
    13. Violent; severe; oppressive.
 When there appeareth on either side a high hand, violent persecution. &c.
    14. Public; powerful; triumphant; glorious; or under divine protection.
 The children of Israel went out of Egypt with a high hand. Ex.14.
    15. Noble; illustrious; honorable; as a man of high birth.
    16. Expressive of pride and haughtiness; as high looks. Is.10.
    17. Powerful; mighty.
 Strong is thy hand, high is thy right hand. Ps.89.
    18. Possessed of supreme power, dominion or excellence.
 Thou, Lord, art high above all the earth. Ps.97.
    19. Great; important; solemn; held in veneration.
 For that sabbath-day was a high day. John 19.
    20. Violent; rushing with velocity; tempestuous; as a high wind.
    21. Tumultuous; turbulent; inflamed; violent; as high passions.
    22. Full; complete. It is high time to retire.
 It is high time to awake from sleep.  Rom.13.
   23. Raised; accompanied by, or proceeding from great excitement of the feelings; as high pleasure of body or mind.
    24. Rich; luxurious; well seasoned; as high fare; high living; high sauces.
    25. Strong; vivid; deep; as a high color.
    26. Dear; of a great price, or greater price than usual; as, to purchase at a high rate; goods are high.
    27. Remote from the equator north or south; as a high latitude.
    28. Remote in past time; early in former time; as high antiquity.
    29. Extreme; intense; as a high heat.
    30. Loud; as a high sound. but more generally,
    31. In music, acute; sharp; as a high note; a high voice; opposed to low or grave.
    32. Much raised; as high relief [alto relievo.]
    33. Far advanced in art or science; as high attainments.
    34. Great; capital; committed against the king, sovereign or state; as high treason, distinguished from petty treason, which is committed against a master or other superior.
    35. Great; exalted; as a high opinion of one's integrity.
High church and low church, in Great Britain, a distinction introduced after the revolution.  The high church were supposed to favor the papists, or at least to support the high claims to prerogative, which were maintained by the Stuarts.  The low church entertained more moderate notions, manifested great enmity to popery, and were inclined to circumscribe the royal prerogatives.  This distinction is now less marked, but not wholly obliterated.
High day, high noon, the time when the sun is in the meridian.
High Dutch, is the German language, as distinguished from Low Dutch or Belgic, or the cultivated German, as opposed to the vulgar dialects.
HIGH, n.  An elevated place; superior region; as on high; from on high.
 On high, aloud.
1.  Aloft.


Topic: High-built
Definition:
HIGH-BUILT, a.  Of lofty structure.
1.  Covered with lofty buildings.
 The high-built elephant his castle rears.


Topic: High-colored
Definition:
HIGH-COLORED, a. Having a strong, deep or glaring color.
1.  Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; as a high-colored description.


Topic: High-flown
Definition:
HIGH-FLOWN, a.  Elevated; swelled; proud; as high-flown hopes.
1.  Turgid; swelled; extravagant; as a high-flown hyperbole.


Topic: High-flying
Definition:
HIGH-FLYING, a.  Extravagant in claims or opinions; as high-flying, arbitrary kings.
Highgate Resin.  [See Fossil Copal.]


Topic: High-minded
Definition:
HIGH-MINDED, a.  Proud; arrogant.
 Be not high-minded, but fear. Rom.11.
1.  Having honorable pride; magnanimous; opposed to mean.


Topic: High-operation
Definition:
HIGH-OPERATION, n.  In surgery, a method of extracting the stone from the human bladder, by cutting the upper part of it.


Topic: High-place
Definition:
HIGH-PLACE, n.  In Scripture, an eminence or mound on which sacrifices were offered.  Before the temple was built in Jerusalem, sacrifices were offered to Jehovah by his worshipers, on high places; but afterwards such mounds were devoted to idolatrous sacrifices.


Topic: High-spirited
Definition:
HIGH-SPIRITED, a.  Full of spirit or natural fire; easily irritated; irascible.
1.  Full of spirit; bold; daring.


Topic: High-wrought
Definition:
HIGH-WROUGHT, a.  Wrought with exquisite art or skill; accurately finished.
1.  Inflamed to a high degree; as high-wrought passion.


Topic: Highland
Definition:
HIGHLAND, n. Elevated land; a mountainous region.
Highlands of Scotland, mountainous regions inhabited by the descendants of the ancient Celts, who retain their primitive language.
Highlands on the Hudson, sixty miles from New York. These afford most sublime and romantic scenery, and here is West Point, a fortified post during the revolution, and now the seat of one of the best military schools of the age.


Topic: Highly
Definition:
HIGHLY, adv. hi'ly. With elevation in place.
1. In a great degree.  
 We are highly favored.
 Exercise is highly requisite to health.
2.  Proudly; arrogantly; ambitiously.
3.  With elevation of mind or opinion; with great estimation; as, to think highly of one's performances.


Topic: Highness
Definition:
HIGHNESS, n.  hi'ness.  Elevation above the surface; loftiness; altitude; highth.
1.  Dignity; elevation in rank, character or power.
2.  Excellence; value.
3.  Violence; as the highness of wind.
4.  Great amount; as the highness of price.
5.  Acuteness; as the highness of a note or voice.
6.  Intenseness, as of heat.
7.  A title of honor given to princes or other men of rank.


Topic: Hight
Definition:
HIGHT , n. hite, or hith.
1.  Elevation above the ground; any indefinite distance above the earth.  The eagle flies at a great hight, or highth.
2.  The altitude of an object; the distance which any thing rises above its foot, basis or foundation; as the hight, or highth of a tower or steeple.
3.  Elevation of a star or other celestial luminary above the horizon.
4.  Degree of latitude either north or south.  In this application, the distance from the equator is considered as elevation.  Latitudes are higher as they approach the pole.
 Guinea lieth to the north sea, in the same height as Peru to the south.
5.  Distance of one thing above another.
6.  An eminence; a summit; an elevated part of any thing.
7.  A hill or mountain; any elevated ground; as the hights of Dorchester.
8.  Elevation of rank; station of dignity or office.
 By him that raised me to this careful height.
9.  Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts.
    10. Elevation in fame or reputation.
    11. Utmost degree in extent or violence; as the highth or hight of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly, of happiness, of good breeding. So we say, the hight of a tempest.
    12. Utmost exertion.
 I shall now put you to the height of your breeding.
    13. Advance; degree; progress towards perfection or elevation; speaking comparatively.
 Social duties are carried to a greater height--by the principles of our religion.


Topic: Highway
Definition:
HIGHWA'Y, n.  A public road; a way open to all passengers; so called, either because it is a great or public road, or because the earth was raised to form a dry path. Highways open a communication from one city or town to another.
1.  Course; road; train of action.


Topic: Highwayman
Definition:
HIGHWA'YMAN, n.  One who robs on the public road, or lurks in the highway for the purpose of robbing.


Topic: Hilarity
Definition:
HILAR'ITY, n. [L. hilaritas; Gr. joyful, merry.]
Mirth; merriment; gayety.  Hilarity differs from joy; the latter, excited by good news or prosperity, is an affection of the mind; the former, by social pleasure, drinking, &c., which rouse the animal spirits.


Topic: Hild
Definition:
HILD, G. and D. held, Dan.heldt, a hero, is retained in names, as Hildebert, a bright hero; Mathild, Matilda, a heroic lady.


Topic: Hill
Definition:
HILL, n.  [L. collis.]
1.  A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence.  A  hill is less than a mountain, but of no definite magnitude, and is sometimes applied to a mountain.  Jerusalem is seated on two hills.  Rome stood on seven hills.
2.  A cluster of plants, and the earth raised about them; as a hill of maiz or potatoes.
HILL, v.t.  To raise earth about plants; to raise a little mass of earth.  Farmers in New England hill their maiz in July.
Hilling is generally the third hoeing.
1.  To cover.  [L. celo.]


Topic: Hilum
Definition:
HI'LUM, n.  The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar of the umbilical chord,by which the seed adheres to the pericarp.


Topic: Him
Definition:
HIM, pron.  The objective case of he, L. eum, anciently em or im.
 Him that is weak in the faith receive. Rom.14.
Him and his were formerly used for nouns of the neuter gender,but the practice is obsolete.


Topic: Himself
Definition:
HIMSELF', pron. In the nominative or objective case. [him and self.]
1.  He; but himself is more emphatical, or more expressive of distinct personality than he.
 With shame remembers, while himself was one
 Of the same herd, himself the same had done.
2.  When himself is added to he, or to a noun, it expresses discrimination of person with particular emphasis.
 But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges 3.
 But God himself is with us for our captain. 2 Chron.13.
3.  When used as the reciprocal pronoun, it is not usually emphatical.
 David hid himself in the field. 1 Sam.20.
4.  It was formerly used as a substitute for neuter nouns; as high as heaven himself. [This use is now improper.]
5.  It is sometimes separated from he; as, he could not go himself, for he himself could not go.
6.  Himself is used to express the proper character, or natural temper and disposition of a person, after or in opposition to wandering of mind, irregularity, or devious conduct from derangement, passion or extraneous influence.  We say, a man has come to himself, after delirious or extravagant behavior.  Let the man alone; let him act himself.
By himself, alone; unaccompanied; sequestered.  
 He sits or studies by himself.
 Ahab went one way by himself,and Obadiah went another way by himself. 1 Kings 18.


Topic: Hin
Definition:
HIN, n. [Heb.]  A Hebrew measure of capacity containing the sixth part of an ephah, or about five quarts English measure.


Topic: Hind
Definition:
HIND, n.  The female of the red deer or stag.
HIND, n.  A domestic; a servant.
1.  A peasant; a rustic; or a husbandman's servant.
HIND, a.  Backward; pertaining to the part which follows; in opposition to the fore part; as the hind legs of a quadruped; the hind toes; the hind shoes of a horse; the hind part of an animal.


Topic: Hinder
Definition:
HINDER, a. comp. of hind.  That is in a position contrary to that of the head or fore part; designating the part which follows; as the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder part of a ship, or the stern.  Acts 27.


Topic: Hinderance
Definition:
HIN'DERANCE, n.  The act of impeding or restraining motion.
1.  Impediment; that which stops progression or advance; obstruction.
 He must remove all these hinderances out of the way.


Topic: Hindmost
Definition:
HINDMOST, a.  The last; that is in the rear of all others.
 He met thee in the way, and smote the hindmost of thee. Deut.25.


Topic: Hinge
Definition:
HINGE, n. hinj. [This word appears to be connected with hang,and with angle,the verb.]
 1.  The hook or joint on which a door or gate turns.
 The gate self-opened wide
 On golden hinges turning.
2.  That on which any thing depends or turns; a governing principle, rule or point.  This argument was the hinge on which the question turned. 
3.  A cardinal point; as east, west, north or south. [Little used.]
To be off the hinges, is to be in a state of disorder or irregularity.
HINGE, v.t.  To furnish with hinges.
1.  To bend.  [Little used.]
HINGE, v.i.  To stand, depend or turn, as on a hinge.  The question hinges on this single point.


Topic: Hint
Definition:
HINT, v.t.  To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to allude to; to suggest by a slight intimation.
  Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
HINT, v.i.  To hint at, is to allude to; to mention slightly.
HINT, n.  A distant allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a word or two intended to give notice, or remind one of something without a full declaration or explanation.
1.  Suggestion.


Topic: Hip
Definition:
HIP, n.  The projecting part of an animal formed by the osilium or haunch bone; the haunch, or the flesh that covers the bone and the adjacent parts; the joint of the thigh.
To have on the hip, to have the advantage over one; a low phrase borrowed probably from wrestlers.
Hip and thigh, complete overthrow or defeat. Judges 15.
HIP, v.t.  To sprain or dislocate the hip.
HIP


Topic: Hippelaph
Definition:
HIP'PELAPH, n. An animal of the deer kind, in Norway, about the size of the elk, and partaking of the nature of the horse and the stag.


Topic: Hippocentaur
Definition:
HIPPOCEN'TAUR, n. [Gr. a horse, to spur, and a bull.]
In ancient fable, a supposed monster, half man and half horse. The hippocentaur differed from the centaur in this, that the latter rode on an ox, and the former on a horse, as the name imports.


Topic: Hippocras
Definition:
HIP'POCRAS, n.  A medicinal drink, composed of wine with an infusion of spices and other ingredients; used as a cordial.  That directed by the late London Dispensary, is to be made of cloves, ginger, cinnamon and nutmegs, beat and infused in canary with sugar; to the infusion, milk, a lemon, and some slips of rosemary are to be added, and the whole strained through flannel.
Hippocrates'sleeve, a kind of bag, made by uniting the opposite angles of a square piece of flannel, used for straining syrups and decoctions.
Hippocratic face, [L. facies hippocratica,] pale, sunken, and contracted features, considered as a fatal symptom in diseases.


Topic: Hippodrome
Definition:
HIP'PODROME, n. [Gr. a horse, and a course, to run.]  Anciently, a circus, or place in which horse races and chariot races were performed, and horses exercised.


Topic: Hippogriff
Definition:
HIP'POGRIFF, n. [Gr. a horse,and a griffon.]  A fabulous animal or monster, half horse and half griffon; a winged horse, imagined by Ariosto.


Topic: Hippomane
Definition:
HIP'POMANE, n. [Gr. a horse, and madness.]
1.  A sort of poisonous substance, used anciently as a philter or love-charm.
2.  In botany, the manchineel-tree, which abounds with a milky juice which is acrid, caustic and poisonous.


Topic: Hippopotamus
Definition:
HIPPOPOT'AMUS, n.  [Gr. a horse, and a river.]  The river-horse, an animal that inhabits the Nile and other rivers in Africa.  This animal resembles a hog rather than a horse, and was named perhaps from his neighing voice.  He has been found of the length of 17 feet.  He delights in the water, but feeds on herbage on land.


Topic: Hire
Definition:
HIRE, v.t.  
1.  To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire a horse for a day; to hire money at legal interest.
2.  To engage in service for a stipulated reward; to contract with for a compensation; as, to hire a servant for a year; to hire laborers by the day or month.
3.  To bribe; to engage in immoral or illegal service for a reward.
To hire out one's self, to let; to engage one's service to another for a reward.
 They have hired out themselves for bread. 1 Sam.2.
To hire, or to hire out, to let; to lease; to grant the temporary use of a thing for a compensation.  He has hired out his house or his farm.
HIRE, n. 
1.  The price, reward or compensation paid or contracted to be given for the temporary use of any thing.
2.  Wages; the reward or recompense paid for personal service.
 The laborer is worthy of his hire.  Luke 10.


Topic: Hired
Definition:
HI'RED, pp.  Procured or taken for use, at a stipulated or reasonable price; as a hired farm.
1.  Employed in service for a compensation; as a hired man; a hired servant.


Topic: Hireling
Definition:
HI'RELING, n.  One who is hired, or who serves for wages.
1.  A mercenary; a prostitute.
HI'RELING, a.  Serving for wages; venal; mercenary; employed for money or other compensation.
 A tedious crew
 Of hireling mourners.


Topic: Hirer
Definition:
HI'RER, n.  One that hires; one that procures the use of any thing for a compensation; one who employs persons for wages, or contracts with persons for service.


Topic: Hirsute
Definition:
HIRSU'TE, a. [L. hirsutus.]
1.  Hairy; rough with hair; shaggy; set with bristles.
2.  In botany, it is nearly synonymous with hispid, but it denotes having more hairs or bristles, and less stiff.


Topic: His
Definition:
HIS, pron. possessive of he,and pronounced hiz.
1. Of him.  Thus in Alfred's Orosius, 'Sume for his ege ne dorstan.' Some for fear of his durst not; literally, for his awe, for awe of him. Lib.3.8.  In this instance, his does not express what belongs to the antecedent of his, [Philip,] but the fear which others entertained of him.
2.  The present use of his is as a pronominal adjective, in any case indifferently, corresponding to the L. suus.  Thus, tell John his papers are ready.  I will deliver his papers to his messenger.  He may take his son's books.  When the noun is omitted, his stands as its substitute, either in the nominative or objective case.  Tell John this book is his.  He may take mine and I will take his.
3.  His was formerly used for its, but improperly, and the use has ceased.
4.  It was formerly used as the sign of the possessive.  The man his ground, for the man's ground.  This use has also ceased.
5.  His is still used as a substitute for a noun, preceded by of; as all ye saints of his; he ministers of his.
Hisself is no longer used.


Topic: Hispid
Definition:
HIS'PID, a. [L. hispidus.]  Rough.
1. In botany, having strong hairs or bristles; beset with stiff bristles.


Topic: Hiss
Definition:
HISS, v.i.  
1.  To make a sound by driving the breath between the tongue and the upper teeth; to give a strong aspiration, resembling the noise made by a serpent and some other animals, or that of water thrown on hot iron.  Hissing is an expression of contempt.
 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee. Ezek. 27.
2.  To express contempt or disapprobation by hissing.
3.  To whiz, as an arrow or other thing in rapid flight.
HISS, v.t.  To condemn by hissing; to explode.  The spectators hissed him off the stage.
1.  To procure hisses or disgrace.
 --That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker.
HISS, n.  The sound made by propelling the breath between the tongue and upper teeth; the noise of a serpent, a goose, &c.
 He hiss for hiss returned.
1.  An expression of contempt or disapprobation, used in places of public exhibition.


Topic: Hissing
Definition:
HISS'ING, ppr.  Making the noise of serpents.
HISS'ING, n.  A hissing sound; an expression of scorn or contempt.
1.  The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.
 I will make this city desolate,and a hissing. Jer.19.


Topic: Historian
Definition:
HISTO'RIAN, n. [L. historicus.]  A writer or compiler of history; one who collects and relates facts and events in writing, particularly respecting nations.
 Hume is called an elegant historian.


Topic: Historically
Definition:
HISTOR'ICALLY, adv.  In the manner of history; by way of narration.
 The Gospels declare historically something which our Lord Jesus Christ did, spoke or suffered.


Topic: Historiographer
Definition:
HISTORIOG'RAPHER, n. [Gr. history, and to write.]  A  historian; a writer of history; particularly, a professed historian; an officer employed to write the history of a prince or state; as the historiographer of his Britannic majesty.


Topic: History
Definition:
HIS'TORY, n. [L. historia; Gr. knowing, learned, and to inquire, to explore, to learn by inspection or inquiry.]
1.  An account of facts, particularly of facts respecting nations or states; a narration of events in the order in which they happened,with their causes and effects.  History differs from annals.  Annals relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order, without any observations of the annalist.  History regards less strictly the arrangement of events under each year, and admits the observations of the writer.  This distinction however is not always regarded with strictness.
History is of different kinds, or treats of different subjects; as a history of government or political history; history of the christian church, or ecclesiastical history; history of war and conquests, or military history; history of law; history of commerce; history of the crusades, &c.  In these and similar examples, history is written narrative or relation.  What is the history of nations, but a narrative of the follies, crimes and miseries of man?
1.  Narration; verbal relation of facts or events; story.  We listen with pleasure to the soldier or the seaman, giving a history of his adventures.
 What histories of toil could I declare?
2.  Knowledge of facts and events.
 History--is necessary to divines.
3.  Description; an account of things that exist; as natural history, which comprehends a description of the works of nature, particularly of animals, plants and minerals; a history of animals, or zoology; a history of plants.
4.  An account of the origin, life and actions of an individual person.  We say, we have a concise history of the prisoner in the testimony offered to the court.
A formal written account of an individual's life, is called biography.


Topic: History-piece
Definition:
HIS'TORY-PIECE, n. A representative of any remarkable event in painting, which exhibits the actors, their actions, and the attending events to the eye, by figures drawn to the life. This species of painting is called historical painting.


Topic: Hit
Definition:
HIT, v.t. pret. and pp. hit.
1.  To strike or touch, either with or without force.  We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head; a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall.
2.  To strike or touch, either with or without force.  We hit a thing with the finger, or with the head; a cannon ball hits a mast, or a wall.
 The archers hit him. 1 Sam.31.
3.  To reach; to attain to.
 Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right--
4.  To suit; to be conformable.
 --Melancholy,
 Whose saintly visage is too bright
 To hit the sense of human sight.
5.  To strike; to touch properly; to offer the right bait.
 There you hit him--that argument never fails with him.
To hit off, to strike out; to determine luckily.
1.  To represent or describe exactly.
To hit out, to perform by good luck.  [Little used.]
HIT, v.i.  To strike; to meet or come in contact; to clash; followed by against or on.
 If bodies be mere extension, how can they move and hit one against another.
 Corpuscles meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them.
1.  To meet or fall on by good luck; to succeed by accident; not to miss.
 And oft it hits
 Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
2.  To strike or reach the intended point; to succeed.
 And millions miss for one that hits.
To hit on or upon, to light on; to come to or fall on by chance; to meet or find, as by accident.
 None of them hit upon the art.
HIT, n.  A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke or blow that touches any thing.
 So he the famed Cilician fencer prais'd,
 And at each hit with wonder seems amaz'd.
1.  A chance; a casual event; as a lucky hit.
2.  A lucky chance; a fortunate event.
3.  A term in back-gammon.  Three hits are equal to a gammon.
HIT, v.i.
1.  To move by jerks, or with stops; as, in colloquial language, to hitch along.
 Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
 Slides in a verse, or hitches in a rhyme.
2.  To become entangled; to be caught or hooked.
3.  To hit the legs together in going, as horses.  [Not used in the U. States.]
4.  To hop; to spring on one leg.  [Local.]
5.  To move or walk.


Topic: Hitch
Definition:
HITCH, v.t.  To hook; to catch by a hook; as, to hitch a bridle.
1.  To fasten by hitching; as, to hitch a horse by a bridle, or to hitch him to a post.
HITCH, n.  A catch; any thing that holds, as a hook; an impediment.
1.  The act of catching, as on a hook, &c.
2.  In seamen's language, a knot or noose in a rope for fastening it to a ring or other object; as a clove hitch; a timber hitch, &c.
3.  A stop or sudden halt in walking or moving.


Topic: Hither
Definition:
HITH'ER, adv.
1.  To this place; used with verbs signifying motion; as, to come hither; to proceed hither; to bring hither.
2.  Hither and thither, to this place and that.
3.  To this point; to this argument or topic; to this end.  [Little used and not to be encouraged.]
 Hither we refer whatever belongs to the highest perfection of man.
HITH'ER, a.  Nearest; towards the person speaking; as on the hither side of a hill; the hither end of the building.


Topic: Hitherto
Definition:
HITH'ERTO, adv.  To this time; yet.
 The Lord hath blessed me hitherto. Josh.17.
1.  In any time, or every time till now; in time preceding the present.
2.  To this place; to a prescribed limit.
 Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job.38.


Topic: Hive
Definition:
HIVE, n.
1.  A box, chest or kind of basket for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honey-bees.  It is made of boards, straw or other materials.
2.  A swarm of bees; or the bees inhabiting a hive.
3.  A company or society together, or closely connected. [Unusual.]
HIVE, v.t.  To collect into a hive; to cause, to enter a hive; as, to hive bees.
1.  To contain; to receive, as a habitation, or place of deposit.
 Where all delicious sweets are hived.
HIVE, v.i.  To take shelter or lodging together; to reside in a collective body.


Topic: Ho
Definition:
HO, exclam.  A word used by teamsters, to stop their teams.  It has been used as a noun, for stop, moderation, bounds.
 There is no ho with them.word is pronounced also who, or hwo.
HO


Topic: Hoa
Definition:
HOA, exclam. [L. eho.]  A call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
 What noise there, ho?
 Hoa, who's within?


Topic: Hoar
Definition:
HOAR, a.
1.  White; as hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
2.  Gray; white with age; hoary; as a matron grave and hoar.
HOAR, n.  Hoariness; antiquity.
HOAR, v.i.  To become moldy or musty.  [Little used.]


Topic: Hoard
Definition:
HOARD, n.  A store, stock or large quantity of any thing accumulated or laid up; a hidden stock; a treasure; as a hoard of provisions for winter; a hoard of money.
HOARD, v.t.  To collect and lay up a large quantity of any thing; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly; as, to hoard grain or provisions; to hoard silver and gold.
It is sometimes followed by up, but without use; as, to hoard up provisions.
HOARD, v.i.  To collect and form a hoard; to lay up store.
 Nor cared to hoard for those whom he did breed.


Topic: Hoarding
Definition:
HOARDING, ppr.  Laying up in store.
1.  Instinctively collecting and laying up provisions for winter; as, the squirrel is a hoarding animal.


Topic: Hoariness
Definition:
HOARINESS, n.  [from hoary.]  The state of being white, whitish or gray; as the hoariness of the hair or head of old men.


Topic: Hoarse
Definition:
HOARSE, a. hors.
1.  Having a harsh, rough, grating voice, as when affected with a cold.
2.  Rough; grating; discordant; as the voice, or as any sound.  We say, the hoarse raven; the hoarse resounding shore.


Topic: Hoary
Definition:
HOARY, n.  [See Hoar.]  White or whitish; as the hoary willows.
1.  White or gray with age; as hoary hairs; a hoary head.
 Reverence the hoary head.
2.  Moldy; mossy, or covered with a white pubescence.


Topic: Hoax
Definition:
HOAX, n.  Something done for deception or mockery; a trick played off in sport.
HOAX, v.t.  To deceive; to play a trick upon for sport, or without malice. [A colloquial word, but not elegant.]


Topic: Hobble
Definition:
HOB'BLE, v.i.
1.  To walk lamely, bearing chiefly on one leg; to limp; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
 The friar was hobbling the same way too.
2.  To walk awkwardly, as when the feet are encumbered with a clog, or with fetters.
3.  To move roughly or irregularly, as verse.
 While you Pindaric truths rehearse,
 She hobbles in alternate verse.
HOB'BLE, v.t.  To perplex.  [Not in use.]
HOB'BLE, n.  An unequal halting gait; an encumbered awkward step.
 He has a hobble in his gait.
1.  Difficulty; perplexity.


Topic: Hobbler
Definition:
HOB'BLER, n.  One that hobbles.
HOB'BLER, n. [from hobby.]  One who by his tenure was to maintain a hobby for military service; or one who served as a soldier on a hobby with light armor.


Topic: Hobby
Definition:
HOB'BY, n.  A kind of hawk; a hawk of the lure.
HOB'BY, n.
1.  A strong active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; a nag; a pacing horse; a garran.
2.  A stick, or figure of a horse, on which boys ride.
3.  Any favorite object; that which a person pursues with zeal or delight.
4.  A stupid fellow.


Topic: Hobbyhorse
Definition:
HOB'BYHORSE, n. [tautological.]  A hobby; a wooden horse on which boys ride.
1.  A character in the old May games.
2.  A stupid or foolish person.
3.  The favorite object of pursuit.


Topic: Hobit
Definition:
HO'BIT, n.  A small mortar, or short gun for throwing bombs.  [See Howitzer, the common orthography.]


Topic: Hobnail
Definition:
HOB'NAIL, n.  A nail with a thick strong head, for shoeing horses.
1.  A clownish person; in contempt.


Topic: Hobnob
Definition:
HOB'NOB, adv.  Take, or not take; a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking.
Hobson's choice, a vulgar proverbial expression, denoting without an alternative.  It is said to have had its origin in the name of a person who let horses and coaches, and obliged every customer to take in his turn that horse which stood next the stable door.


Topic: Hod
Definition:
HOD, n.  A kind of tray for carrying mortar and brick,used in bricklaying.  It is fitted with a handle and borne on the shoulder.


Topic: Hoe
Definition:
HOE, n. ho.  A farmer's instrument for cutting up weeds and loosening the earth in fields and gardens.  It is in shape something like an adz, being a plate of iron, with an eye for a handle, which is set at an acute angle with the plate.
HOE, v.t.  To cut,dig, scrape or clean with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; to hoe the beds.
1.  To clear from weeds; as, to hoe maiz; to hoe cabbages.
HOE, v.i.  To use a hoe.


Topic: Hog
Definition:
HOG, n.
1.  A swine; a general name of that species of animal.
2.  In England, a castrated sheep of a year old.
3.  A bullock of a year old.
4.  A brutal fellow; one who is mean and filthy.
5.  Among seamen, a sort of scrubbing-broom for scraping a ship's bottom under water.
HOG, v.t.  To scrape a ship's bottom under water.
1.  To carry on the back.  [Local.]
2.  To cut the hair short, like the bristles of a hog. [Local.]
HOG, v.i.  To bend, so as to resemble in some degree a hog's back; as, a ship hogs in lanching.


Topic: Hogget
Definition:
HOG'GET, n.  A sheep two years old.
1.  A colt of a year old, called also hog-colt. [Local.]
2.  A young boar of the second year.


Topic: Hoggishness
Definition:
HOG'GISHNESS, n.  Brutishness; voracious greediness in eating; beastly filthiness; mean selfishness.


Topic: Hogshead
Definition:
HOGS'HEAD, n.  [the English orthography is grossly corrupt.]
1.  A measure of capacity, containing 63 gallons.
2.  In America,this name is often given to a butt, a cask containing from 110 to 120 gallons; as a hogshead of spirit or molasses.
3.  A large cask, of indefinite contents.


Topic: Hogwash
Definition:
HOG'WASH, n. [hog and wash.]  Swill; the refuse matters of a kitchen or brewery, or like matter for swine.


Topic: Hoiden
Definition:
HOI'DEN, n.  A rude, bold girl; a romp.
1.  A rude, bold man. [Not used in the United States.]
HOI'DEN, a.  Rude; bold; inelegant; rustic.
HOI'DEN, v.i.  To romp rudely or indecently.


Topic: Hoist
Definition:
HOIST, v.t. [originally hoise; but corrupted, perhaps beyond remedy.]
1.  To raise; to lift.
 We'll quickly hoist duke Humphrey from his seat.
In popular language, it is a word of general application.  But the word has two appropriate uses, one by seamen, and the other by milkmaids, viz.
2.  To raise, to lift or bear upwards by means of tackle; and to draw up or raise, as a sail along the masts or stays, or as a flag, though by a single block only.  Hoist the main-sail.  Hoist the flag.
3.  To lift and move the leg backwards; a word of command used by milkmaids to cows, when they wish them to lift and set back the right leg.
HOIST, n.  In marine language, the perpendicular highth of a flag or ensign, as opposed to the fly, or breadth from the staff to the outer edge.


Topic: Hokeday
Definition:
HO'KEDAY, n.  High day; a day of feasting and mirth, formerly held in England the second Tuesday after Easter, to commemorate the destruction of the Danes in the time of Ethelred.


Topic: Hold
Definition:
HOLD, v.t. pret.held; pp. held.  Holden is obsolete in elegant writing.  [Gr. to hold or restrain; Heb. to hold or contain.]
1.  To stop; to confine; to restrain from escape; to keep fast; to retain.  It rarely or never signifies the first act of seizing or falling on, but the act of retaining a thing when seized or confined.  To grasp, is to seize, or to keep fast in the hand; hold coincides with grasp in the latter sense, but not in the former.  We hold a horse by means of a bridle.  An anchor holds a ship in her station.
2.  To embrace and confine, with bearing or lifting.  We hold an orange in the hand, or a child in the arms.
3.  To connect; to keep from separation.
 The loops held one curtain to another. Ex.36.
4.  To maintain, as an opinion. He holds the doctrine of justification by free grace.
5.  To consider; to regard; to think; to judge, that is, to have in the mind.
 I hold him but a fool.
 The Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain. Ex.20.
6.  To contain, or to have capacity to receive and contain.  Here is an empty basket that holds two bushels. This empty cask holds thirty gallons.  The church holds two thousand people.
7.  To retain within itself; to keep from running or flowing out.  A vessel with holes in its bottom will not hold fluids.
 They have hewed them out broken cisterns that can hold no water.  Jer.2.
8.  To defend; to keep possession; to maintain.
 We mean to hold what anciently we claim
 Of empire.
9.  To have; as, to hold a place, office or title.
    10. To have or possess by title; as,he held his lands of the king. The estate is held by copy of court-roll.
    11. To refrain; to stop; to restrain; to withhold. Hold your laughter. Hold your tongue.
 Death! what do'st? O, hold thy blow.
    12. To keep; as, hold your peace.
    13. To fix; to confine; to compel to observe or fulfill; as, to hold one to his promise.
    14. To confine; to restrain from motion.
 The Most High--held still the flood till they had passed. 2 Esdras.
    15. To confine; to bind; in a legal or moral sense. He is held to perform his covenants.
    16. To maintain; to retain; to continue.
 But still he held his purpose to depart.
    17. To keep in continuance or practice.
 And Night and Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy.
    18. To continue; to keep; to prosecute or carry on.
 Seed-time and harvest,heat and hoary-frost,
 Shall hold their course.
    19. To have in session; as, to hold a court or parliament; to hold a council.
   20. To celebrate; to solemnize; as, to hold a feast.
    21. To maintain; to sustain; to have in use or exercise; as, to hold an argument or debate.
    22. To sustain; to support.
 Thy right hand shall hold me. Ps.139.
    23. To carry; to wield.
 They all hold swords, being expert in war.  Cant.3.
    24. To maintain; to observe in practice.
 Ye hold the traditions of men. Mark 7.
    25. To last; to endure. The provisions will hold us, till we arrive in port. So we say, the provisions will last us; but the phrase is elliptical for will hold or last for us, the verb being intransitive.
To hold forth, to offer; to exhibit; to propose.
Observe the connection of ideas in the propositions which books hold forth and pretend to teach.
1.  To reach forth; to put forward to view.
To hold in, to restrain; to curb; to govern by the bridle.
1.  To restrain in general; to check; to repress.
To hold off, to keep at a distance.
To hold on, to continue or proceed in; as, to hold on a course.
To hold out, to extend; to stretch forth.
 The king held out to Esther the golden scepter.Esther 5.
1.  To propose; to offer.
 Fortune holds out these to you as rewards.
2.  To continue to do or suffer.
 He cannot long hold out these pangs. [Not used.]
To hold up, to raise; as, hold up your head.
1.  To sustain; to support.
 He holds himself up in virtue.
2.  To retain; to withhold.
3.  To offer; to exhibit.  He held up to view the prospect of gain.
4.  To sustain; to keep from falling.
To hold one's own, to keep good one's present condition; not to fall off, or to lose ground. In seamen's language, a ship holds her own, when she sails as fast as another ship, or keeps her course.
To hold, is used by the Irish, for to lay, as a bet, to wager.  I hold a crown, or a dollar; but this is a vulgar use of the word.
HOLD, v.i.  To be true; not to fail; to stand, as a fact or truth. This is a sound argument in many cases, but does not hold in the case under consideration.
 The rule holds in lands as well as in other things.
In this application, we often say, to hold true, to hold good. The argument holds good in both cases. This holds true in most cases.
1.  To continue unbroken or unsubdued.
 Our force by land hath nobly held.  [Little used.]
2.  To last; to endure.
 We now say, to hold out.
3.  To continue.
 While our obedience holds.
4.  To be fast; to be firm; not to give way, or part. The rope is strong; I believe it will hold. The anchor holds well.
5.  To refrain.
 His dauntless heart would fain have held
 From weeping.
6.  To stick or adhere. The plaster will not hold.
To hold forth, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach; to proclaim.
To hold in, to restrain one's self.  He was tempted to laugh; he could hardly hold in.
1.  To continue in good luck. [Unusual.]
To hold off, to keep at a distance; to avoid connection.
To hold of, to be dependent on; to derive title from.
 My crown is absolute and holds of none.
To hold on, to continue; not to be interrupted.
 The trade held on many years.
1.  To keep fast hold; to cling to.
2.  To proceed in a course.  Job 17.
To hold out, to last; to endure; to continue.  
A consumptive constitution may hold out a few years.  He will accomplish the work, if his strength holds out.
1.  Not to yield; not to surrender; not to be subdued. 
 The garrison still held out.
To hold to, to cling or cleave to; to adhere.
 Else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Matt.6.
To hold under, or from, to have title from; as petty barons holding under the greater barons.
To hold with, to adhere to; to side with; to stand up for.hold plow, to direct or steer a plow by the hands, in tillage.
To hold together, to be joined; not to separate; to remain in union.
To hold up, to support one's self; as, to hold up under misfortunes.
1.  To cease raining; to cease, as falling weather; used impersonally.  It holds up; it will hold up.
2.  To continue the same speed; to run or move fast.
 But we now say, to keep up.
To hold a wager, to lay, to stake or to hazard a wager.
Hold, used imperatively, signifies stop; cease; forbear; be still.
HOLD, n.  A grasp with the hand; an embrace with the arms; any act or exertion of the strength or limbs which keeps a thing fast and prevents escape.  Keep your hold; never quit your hold.
It is much used after the verbs to take, and to lay; to take hold, or to lay hold, is to seize.  It is used in a literal sense; as to take hold with the hands, with the arms, or with the teeth; or in a figurative sense.
 Sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestine. Ex.15.
 Take fast hold of instruction. Prov.4.
 My soul took hold on thee.
1.  Something which may be seized for support; that which supports.
 If a man be upon a high place, without a good hold, he is ready to fall.
2.  Power of keeping.
 On your vigor now,
 My hold of this new kingdom all depends.
3.  Power of seizing.
 The law hath yet another hold on you.
4.  A prison; a place of confinement.
 They laid hands on them, and put them in hold till the next day.  Acts.4.
5.  Custody; safe keeping.
 King Richard, he is in the mighty hold
 Of Bolingbroke.
6.  Power or influence operating on the mind; advantage that may be employed in directing or persuading another, or in governing his conduct.
 Fear--by which God and his laws take the surest hold of us.
 --Gives fortune no more hold of him than is necessary.
7.  Lurking place; a place of security; as the  hold of a wild beast.
8.  A fortified place; a fort; a castle; often called a strong hold. Jer.51.
9.  The whole interior cavity of a ship, between the floor and the lower deck. In a vessel of one deck, the whole interior space from the keel or floor to the deck.  That part of the hold which lies abaft the main-mast is called the after-hold; that part immediately before the main-mast, the main-hold; that part about the fore-hatchway, the fore-hold.
    10. In music, a mark directing the performer to rest on the note over which it is placed. It is called also a pause.


