# Dictionary

Topic: Noddy
Definition:
NODDY, n. 
1. A simpleton; a fool.
2. A fowl of the genus Sterna, very simple and easily taken.
3. A game at cards.


Topic: Node
Definition:
NODE, n. 
1. Properly, a knot; a knob; hence, 
2. In surgery, a swelling of the periosteum, tendons or bones.
3. In astronomy, the point where the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic.  These points are two, and that where a planet ascends northward above the plane of the ecliptic, is called the ascending node, or dragons head; that where a planet descends to the south, is called the descending node, or dragons tail.
4. In poetry, the knot, intrigue or plot of a piece, or the principal difficulty.
5. In dialing, a point or hole in the gnomon of a dial, by the shadow or light of which, either the hour of the day in dials without furniture, or the parallels of the suns declination and his place in the ecliptic, &c. in dials with furniture, are shown.


Topic: Noise
Definition:
NOISE, n. 
1. Sound of any kind, or proceeding from any cause, as the sound made by the organs of speech, by the wings of an insect, the rushing of the wind, or the roaring of the sea, of cannon or thunder, a low sound, a high sound, &c.; a word of general signification.
2. Outcry; clamor; loud, importunate or continued talk expressive of boasting, complaint or quarreling.  In quarreling, it expresses less than uproar.
What noise have we about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood?
3. Frequent talk; much public conversation.
Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages, and never caught the least infection.
NOISE, v.i. To sound loud.
Harm those terrors did me none, though noising loud.
NOISE, v.t. 
1. To spread by rumor or report.
All these sayings were noised abroad-- Luke 1.
2. To disturb with noise. [Not authorized.]


Topic: Noiseless
Definition:
NOISELESS, a. Making no noise or bustle; silent; as the noiseless foot of time.
So noiseless would I live.


Topic: Noisome
Definition:
NOISOME, a. 
1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as noisome winds; noisome effluvia or miasmata; noisome pestilence.
2. Noxious; injurious.
3. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
Foul breath is noisome.


Topic: Noisy
Definition:
NOISY
1. Making a loud sound.
2. Clamorous; turbulent; as the noisy crowd.
3. Full of noise.
O leave the noisy town.
Nolens volens, [L.] unwilling or willing; whether he will or not.


Topic: Noli-me-tangere
Definition:
NOLI-ME-TANGERE, n. [L. Touch me not.]
1. A plant of the genus Impatiens, called also balsamine; also, a plant of the genus Momordica, or male balsam apple, one species of which is called the wild or spurting cucumber.
2. Among physicians, an ulcer or cancer, a species of herpes.


Topic: Nomad
Definition:
NOMAD, n. [Gr. Living on pasturage, to distribute or divide, to feed. This verb is connected with L. Nemus, a wood, a place over-grown with trees, and also a pasture, the primary sense of which is probably to spring or shoot, for the verb signifies among other things, to leap, to dance, and may be allied to Eng. nimble. Cattle originally subsisted by browsing, as they still do in new settlements.]   One who leads a wandering life, and subsists by tending herds of cattle which graze on herbage of spontaneous growth. Such is the practice at this day in the central and northern parts of Asia, and the Numidians in Africa are supposed to have been so called from this practice.


Topic: Nomadic
Definition:
NOMADIC, a. Pastoral; subsisting by the tending of cattle, and wandering for the sake of pasturage; as the nomadic tribes of Asia.


Topic: Nomadize
Definition:
NOMADIZE, v.i. To wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage; to subsist by the grazing of herds on herbage of natural growth.
The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the rivers Irtish, Oby, Kama and Volga.


Topic: Nomadizing
Definition:
NOMADIZING, ppr. Leading a pastoral life and wandering or removing from place to place for the sake of finding pasture.


Topic: Nomancy
Definition:
NOMANCY, n. [Gr. Name, and divination.] The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.


Topic: Nome
Definition:
NOME, n. 
1. A province or tract of country; an Egyptian government or division.
2. In the ancient Greek music, any melody determined by inviolable rules.
3. In algebra, a quantity with a sign prefixed or added to it, by which it is connected with another quantity, upon which the whole becomes a binomial, trinomial, and the like.
4. [Gr. To eat.] In wurgery, a phagedenic ulcer, or species of herpes.


Topic: Nomenclator
Definition:
NOMENCLATOR
1. A person who calls things or persons by their names.  In Rome, candidates for office were attended each by a nomenclator, who informed the candidate of the names of the persons they met, and whose votes they wished to solicit.
2. In modern usage, a person who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the names of things in any art or science.


Topic: Nomenclature
Definition:
NOMENCLATURE, n. [See Nomenclator.]
1. A list or catalogue of the more usual and important words in a language, with their significations; a vocabulary or dictionary_webster1828.
2. The names of things in any art or science, or the whole vocabulary of names or technical terms which are appropriated to any particular branch of science; as the nomenclature of botany or of chimistry; the new nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.


Topic: Nominal
Definition:
NOMINAL, a. 
1. Titular; existing in name only; as , a nominal distinction or difference is a difference in name and not in reality.
2. Pertaining to a name or names; consisting in names.
NOMINAL, n. The Nominalists were a sect of school philosophers, the disciples of Ocham or Ocdcam, in the 14th century, who maintained that words and not things are the object of dialectics.  They were the founders of the university of Leipsic.


Topic: Nominalist
Definition:
NOMINALIST, n. The Nominalists were a sect of school philosophers, the disciples of Ocham or Ocdcam, in the 14th century, who maintained that words and not things are the object of dialectics.  They were the founders of the university of Leipsic.


Topic: Nominate
Definition:
NOMINATE, v.t. [L. Name. See Name.]
1. To name; to mention by name.
2. To call; to entitle; to denominate.
3. To name or designate by name for an office or place; to appoint; as, to nominate an heir or an executor.
4. Usually, to name for an election, choice or appointment; to proposed by name, or offer the name of a person as a candidate for an office or place.  This is the principal use of the word in the United States; as in a public assembly, where men are to be selected and chosen to office, any member of the assembly or meeting nominates, that is, proposes to the chairman the name of a person whom he desires to have elected.


Topic: Nomination
Definition:
NOMINATION, n. 
1. The act of naming or of nominating; the act of proposing by name for an office.
2. The power of nominating or appointing to office.
The nomination of persons to places being a prerogative of the king--
3. The state of being nominated. AB is in nomination for governor.


Topic: Nominative
Definition:
NOMINATIVE, a. Pertaining to the name which precedes a verb, or to the first case of nouns; as the nominative case or nominative word.


Topic: Nominee
Definition:
NOMINEE, n. 
1. In law, the person who is named to receive a copy-hold estate on surrender of it to the lord; the cestuy que use, sometimes called the surrenderee.
2. A person named or designated by another.
3. A person on whose life depends an annuity.


Topic: Non
Definition:
NON, adv. [L.] Not. This word is used in the English language as a prefix only, for giving a negative sense to words; as in non-residence, non-performance, non-existence, non-payment, non-concurrence, non-admission, non-appearance, non-attendance, non-conformity, non-compliance, non-communion, and the like.


Topic: Non-ability
Definition:
NON-ABILITY, n. A want of ability; in law, an exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.


Topic: Non-complying
Definition:
NON-COMPLYING, a. Neglecting or refusing to comply.
Non compos mentis, or non compose, [L.] not of sound mind; not having the regular use of reason; as a noun, an idiot; a lunatic; one devoid of reason, either by nature or by accident.


Topic: Non-conducting
Definition:
NON-CONDUCTING, a. Not conducting; not transmitting another fluid.  Thus in electricity, wax is a non-conducting substance.


Topic: Non-conduction
Definition:
NON-CONDUCTION, a. Not conducting; not transmitting another fluid.  Thus in electricity, wax is a non-conducting substance.


Topic: Non-conductor
Definition:
NON-CONDUCTOR, n. A substance which does not conduct, that is, transmit another substance or fluid, or which transmits it with difficulty.  Thus wool is a non-conductor of heat; glass and dry wood are non-conductors of the electrical fluid.


Topic: Non-conformist
Definition:
NON-CONFORMIST, n. One who neglects or refuses to conform to the rites and mode of worship of an established church.


Topic: Non-conformity
Definition:
NON-CONFORMITY, n. 
1. Neglect or failure of conformity.
2. The neglect or refusal to unite with an established church in its rites and mode of worship.


Topic: Non-contagiousness
Definition:
NON-CONTAGIOUSNESS, n. The quality or state of being not communicable from a diseased to a healthy body.


Topic: Non-descript
Definition:
NON-DESCRIPT, a. [L. Not, non, and described.] That has not been described.
NON-DESCRIPT, n. Any thing that has not been described.  Thus a plant or animal newly discovered is called a non-descript.


Topic: Non-electric
Definition:
NON-ELECTRIC, a. Conducting the electric fluid.
NON-ELECTRIC, n. A substance that is not an electric, or which transmits the fluid; as metals.


Topic: Non-entity
Definition:
NON-ENTITY, n. 
1. Non-existence; the negation of being.
2. A thing not existing.
There was no such thing as rendering evil for evil, when evil was a non-entity.


Topic: Non-existence
Definition:
NON-EXISTENCE, n. 
1. Absence of existence; the negation of being.
2. A thing that has no existence or being.


Topic: Non-juring
Definition:
NON-JURING, a. [L. Non, not, and to swear.] Not swearing allegiance; an epithet applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to the Hanoverian family and government.


Topic: Non-juror
Definition:
NON-JUROR, n. In Great Britain, one who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the government and crown of England at the revolution, when James II abdicated the throne, and the Hanoverian family was introduced.  The non-jurors were the adherents of James.


Topic: Non-naturals
Definition:
NON-NATURALS, n. In medicine, things which, by the abuse of them, become the causes of disease, as meat, drink, sleep, rest, motion, the passions, retentions, excretions, &c.  
Functions or accidents not strictly belonging to man.


Topic: Non-observance
Definition:
NON-OBSERVANCE, n. Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.
Non obstante, [L. Notwithstanding,] a clause in statutes and letters patent, importing a license form the king to do a thing which at common law might be lawfully done, but being restrained by act of parliament, cannot be done without such license.


Topic: Non-proficient
Definition:
NON-PROFI'CIENT, n. One who has failed to improve or make progress in any study or pursuit.
Non Pros. contraction of nolle prosequi, the plaintiff will not prosecute.  It is used also as a verb.


Topic: Non-rendition
Definition:
NON-RENDI'TION, n. Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due.
The non-payment of a debt, or the non-rendition of a service which is due, is an injury for which the subsequent reparation of the loss sustained- is and atonement.


Topic: Non-residence
Definition:
NON-RES'IDENCE, n. Failure or neglect of residing at the place where one is stationed, or where official duties require one to reside, or on one's own lands.


Topic: Non-resident
Definition:
NON-RES'IDENT, a. Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as a non-resident clergyman or proprietor of lands.
NON-RES'IDENT, n. One who does not reside on one's own lands, or in the place 2where official duties require.  In the United States, lands in one state or township belonging to a person residing in another state or township, are called the lands of non-residents.


Topic: Non-resistance
Definition:
NON-RESIST'ANCE, n. The omission of resistance; passive obedience; submission to authority, power or usurpation without opposition.


Topic: Non-user
Definition:
NON-USER, n.
1. A not using; failure to use; neglect of official duty; default of performing the duties and services required of an officer.
An office may be forfeited by misuser or nonuser.
2. Neglect or omission of use.
A franchise may be lost by misuser or non-user.


Topic: Nonage
Definition:
NONAGE, n. [non, not, and age] Minority; the time of life before a person, according to the laws of his country, becomes of age to manage his own concerns.  Legal maturity of age is different in different countries.  In this country, as in Great Britain, a mans nonage continues till he has completed twenty one years.  Nonage is sometimes the period under 14 years of age, as in case of marriage.


Topic: Nonagesimal
Definition:
NONAGESIMAL, a. [L. Ninetieth.] Noting the 90th degree of the ecliptic; being in the highest point of the ecliptic.


Topic: None
Definition:
NONE, a. 
1. Not one; used of persons or things.
There is none that doeth good; no, not one. Psalm 14. 
2. Not any; not a part; not the least portion.
Six days shall ye gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.  Exodus 16.
3. It was formerly used before nouns; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. This use is obsolete; we now use no; thou shalt have no assurance.  This is none other but the house of God; we now say, no other.
4. It is used as a substitute, the noun being omitted.  He walketh through dry places, seeking rest and finding none; that is, no rest.  Matthew 7.
5. In the following phrase, it is used for nothing, or no concern.  Israel would none of me,  that is, Israel would not listen to me at all; they would have no concern with me; they utterly rejected my counsels.
6. As a substitute, none has a plural signification.
Terms of peace were none vouchsafed.


Topic: Nones
Definition:
NONES, n. 
1. In the Roman calendar, the fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November and December, and the seventh day of March, May July and October.  The nones were nine days from the ides.
2. Prayers, formerly so called.


Topic: Nonesuch
Definition:
NONESUCH, n. 
1. An extraordinary thing; a thing that has not its equal.
2. A plant of the genus Lychnis.


Topic: Nonpareil
Definition:
NONPAREIL, n. nonparel'. 
1. Excellence unequaled.
2. A sort of apple.
3. A sort of printing type very small, and the smallest now used except three.
NONPAREIL, a. nonparel'.  Having no equal; peerless.


Topic: Nonplus
Definition:
NON'PLUS, n. [L. not, and plus, more, further.]  Puzzle; insuperable difficulty; a state in which one is unable to proceed or decide.
NON'PLUS, v.t. To puzzle; to confound; to put to a stand; to stop by embarrassment.
Your situation has nonplussed me.


Topic: Nonsense
Definition:
NON'SENSE, n. 
1. No sense; words or language which have no meaning, or which convey no just ideas; absurdity.
2. Trifles; things of no importance.


Topic: Nonsuit
Definition:
NON'SUIT, n. In law, the default, neglect or non-appearance of the plaintiff in a suit, when called in court, by which the plaintiff signifies his intention to drop the suit.  Hence a nonsuit amounts to a stoppage of the suit.  A nonsuit differs from a retraxit; a nonsuit is the default or neglect of the plaintiff, and after this he may bring another suit for the same cause; but a retraxit is an open positive renunciation of the suit, by which he forever loses his action.  [See the Verb.]
NON'SUIT, v.t. To determine or record that the plaintiff drops his suit, on default of appearance when called in court.  When a plaintiff being called in court, declines to answer, or when he neglects to deliver his declaration, he is supposed to drop his suit; he is therefore nonsuited, that is, his non-appearance is entered on the record, and this entry amounts to a judgment of the court that the plaintiff has dropped the suit.
When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited--
NON'SUIT, a. Nonsuited.
The plaintiff must become nonsuit.


Topic: Nonsuiting
Definition:
NON'SUITING, ppr. Adjudging to have abandoned the suit by non-appearance or other neglect; as a plaintiff.


Topic: Nook
Definition:
NOOK, n. [See Nich.] A corner; a narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; as a hollow nook.


Topic: Noon
Definition:
NOON, n. [ said to be from naw, that is up or ultimate, that limits, also nine.  I has been supposed that the ninth hour, among the Romans, was the time of eating the chief meal; this hour was three o'clock, P.M.  In Danish, none is an afternooning, a collation.]
1. The middle of the day; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock.
2. Dryden used the word for midnight. 'At the noon of night.'
NOON, a. Meridional.
How of the noon bell.


Topic: Noonday
Definition:
NOON'DAY, n. Mid-day; twelve o'clock in the day.
NOON'DAY, a. Pertaining to mid-day; meridional; as the noonday heat.


Topic: Noontide
Definition:
NOON'TIDE, n. [See Tide, which signifies time.]  The time of noon; mid-day.
NOON'TIDE, a. Pertaining to noon; meridional.


Topic: Noose
Definition:
NOOSE, n.  A running knot, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
Where the hangman does dispose to special friend the knot of noose.
NOOSE, v.t. To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to ensnare.


Topic: Nopal
Definition:
NO'PAL, n. A Plant of the genus Cactus, from which the cochineal is collected in Mexico; Indian fig or raquette.  The fruit resembles a fig.


Topic: Nor
Definition:
NOR, connective. [ne and or.] 
1. A word that denies ro renders negative the second or subsequent part of a proposition, or a proposition following another negative proposition; correlative to neither or not.
I neither love no fear thee. 
Fight neither with small nor great.  1 Kings 22.
2. Nor sometimes begins a sentence, but in this case a negative proposition has  preceded it in the foregoing sentence.
3. In some cases, usually in poetry, neither is omitted, and the negation which it would express is included in nor.
Simois nor Xanthus shall be wanting there. That is, neither Simois nor Xanthus.
4. Sometimes in poetry, nor is used for neither, in the first part of the proposition.
I whom nor avarice nor pleasures move.


Topic: Normal
Definition:
NOR'MAL, a. [L. a square, a rule.]
1. According to a square or rule; perpendicular; forming a right angle.
2. According to a rule or principle.
3. Relating to rudiments or elements; teaching rudiments or first principles; as normal schools in France.


Topic: Norman
Definition:
NOR'MAN, n. In seamen's language, a short wooden bar to be thrust into a hole of the windlass, on which to fasten the cable.
NOR'MAN, n. [north-man or nord-man.]  A Norwegian, or a native of Normandy.
NOR'MAN, a. Pertaining to Normandy; as the Norman language.


Topic: Norroy
Definition:
NOR'ROY, n. [north and roy, north king.]  The title of the third of the three kings at arms or provincial heralds.


Topic: North
Definition:
NORTH, n. [I know not the origin of this word, nor its primary sense.  It may have been applied first to the pole star, or to the wind, like Boreas.]  One of the cardinal points, being that point of the horizon which is directly opposite to the sun in the meridian, on the left hand when we stand with the face to the east; or it is that point of intersection of the horizon and meridian which is nearest our pole.
NORTH, a. Being in the north; as the north polar star.


Topic: Northeast
Definition:
NORTHE'AST, n. The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from each.
NORTHE'AST, a. Pertaining to the northeast, or proceeding from that point; as a northeast wind.


Topic: Northerly
Definition:
NORTH'ERLY, a. Being towards the north, or nearer towards the north than to any other cardinal point. [We use this word and northern with considerable latitude.]
NORTH'ERLY, adv.
1. Towards the north; as, to sail northerly.
2. In a northern direction; as a northerly course.
3. Proceeding from a northern point.


Topic: Northern
Definition:
NORTH'ERN, a. 
1. Being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
2. In a direction towards the north, or a point near it; as, to steer a northern course.


Topic: Northing
Definition:
NORTH'ING, n. 
1. The motion or distance of a planet from the equator northward.
As the tides of the sea obey the southing and northing of the sea--
2. Course or distance northward of the equator.


Topic: Northward
Definition:
NORTH'WARD, a. Being towards the north, or nearer to the north than to the east and west points.
NORTH'WARD, adv. Towards the north, or towards a point nearer to the north than the east and west points.


Topic: Northwest
Definition:
NORTHWEST', n. The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each.
NORTHWEST', a. 
1. Pertaining to the point between the north and west; being in the northwest; as the northwest coast.
2. Proceeding from the northwest; as a northwest wind.


Topic: Northwestern
Definition:
NORTHWEST'ERN, a. Pertaining to or being in the northwest, or in a direction to the northwest; as a northwestern course.


Topic: Nose
Definition:
NOSE, n. 
1. The prominent part of the face which is the organ of smell, consisting of two similar cavities called nostrils.  The nose serves also to modulate the voice in speaking, and to discharge the tears which flow through the lachrymal ducts.  Through this organ also the air usually passes in respiration, and it constitutes no small part of the beauty of the face.  In man, the nose is situated near the middle of the face; but in quadrupeds, the nose is at or near the lower extremity of the head.
2. The end of any thing; as the nose of a bellows.
3. Scent; sagacity.
We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.
To lead by the nose, to lead blindly.
To be led by the nose, to follow another obsequiously, or to be led without resistance or enquiring the reason.
To thrust one's nose into the affairs of others, to meddle officiously in other people's matters; to be a busy-body.
To put one's nose out of joint, to alienate the affections from another.
NOSE, v.t.
1. To small; to scent.
2. To face; to oppose to the face.
NOSE, v.i. To look big; to bluster. [Not used.]


Topic: Nosegay
Definition:
NO'SEGAY, n. A bunch of flowers used to regale the sense of smelling.
As on the nosegay in her breast reclined.


Topic: Nosle
Definition:
NOS'LE, n. [from nose.] A little nose; the extremity of a thing; as the nosle of a bellows. [See Nozzle.]


Topic: Nosological
Definition:
NOSOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Nosology.] Pertaining to nosology, or a systematic classification of diseases.


Topic: Nosology
Definition:
NOSOL'OGY, n. [Gr. disease, and discourse.]
1. A treatise on diseases, or a systematic arrangement or classification of diseases with names and definitions, according to the distinctive character of each class, order, genus and species.
2. That branch of medical science which treats of the classification of diseases.


Topic: Nostril
Definition:
NOS'TRIL, n. [Thyrl or thirel is an opening or perforation; thirlian, thyrlian, to bore, to perforate, to thrill, to drill. See Drill.]  An aperture or passage through the nose.  The nostrils are the passages through which air is inhaled and exhaled in respiration.


Topic: Nostrum
Definition:
NOS'TRUM, n. [L. from ours.]  A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor.


Topic: Not
Definition:
NOT, adv. [See Naught.]
1. A word that expreses negation, denial or refusal; as, he will no go; will you remain?  I will not.  In the first member of a sentence, it may be followed by nor or neither; as not for a price nor reward; I was not in sfety, neither had I rest.
2. With the substantive verb in the following phrase, it denies being, or denotes extinction of existence.
Thine eyes are open upon me, and I am not.  Job 7.


Topic: Notable
Definition:
NOT'ABLE, a. [L. known; to know.] 
1. Remarkable; worthy of notice; memorable; observable; distinguished or noted.
They bore two or three charges from the horse with notable courage.
Two young men of notable strength.  2 Maccabees.
2. Active; industrious; careful; as a notable woman.
[In both senses, this word is obsolete in elegant style, or used only in irony.  The second sense is in colloquial use in New England.
3. In Scripture, conspicuous; sightly; as a notable horn.  Daniel 8.
4. Notorious.  Matthew 27.
5. Terrible.  Acts 2.
6. Known or apparent.  Acts 4.
NOT'ABLE, n. 
1. In France, the nobles or persons of rank and distinction were formerly called notables.
2. A thing worthy of observation.


Topic: Notarial
Definition:
NOTA'RIAL, a. [from notary.] 
1. Pertaining to a notary; as a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.
2. Done or taken by a notary.


Topic: Notary
Definition:
NO'TARY, n. [L. known.]
1. Primarily, a person employed to take notes of contracts, trials and proceedings in courts among the Romans.
2. In modern usage, an officer authorized to attest contracts or writings of any kind, to give them the evidence of authenticity.  This officer is often styled notary public.


Topic: Notation
Definition:
NOTA'TION, n. [L. to mark.]
1. The act or practice of recording any thing by marks, figures or characters; particularly in arithmetic and algebra, the expressing of numbers and quantities by figures, signs or characters appropriate for the purpose.
2. Meaning; signification.
Conscience, according to the very notation of the word, imports a double knowledge. [Unusual.]


Topic: Notch
Definition:
NOTCH, n. [G. to crack or flaw.  It seems to be the same word in origin as niche, nick.]
1. A hollow cut in any thing; a nick; an indentation.
And on the stick ten equal notches makes.
2. An opening or narrow passge through a mountain or hill.  We say, the notch of a mountain.
NOTCH, v.t. To cut in small hollows; as, to notch a stick.


Topic: Note
Definition:
NOTE, for ne wote, knew not or could not.
NOTE, n. [L. to know.]
1. A mark or token; something by which a thing may be known; a visible sign.
They who appertain to the visible church have all the notes of external profession.
2. A mark made in a book, indicating something worthy of a particular notice.
3. A short remark; a passage or explanation in the margin of a book.
4. A minute, memorandum or short writing intended to assist the memory.
5. Notice; heed.
Give order to my servants that they take no note at all of our being absent hence.
6. Reputation; consequence; distinction; as men of note. Acts 16. 
7. State of being observed.
Small matters, continually in use and note.  [Little used.]
8. In music, a character which marks a sound, or the sound itself; as a semibreve, a minim, &c. Notes are marks of sounds in relation to elevation or depresion, or to the time of continuing sounds.
9. Tune; voice; harmonious or melocious sounds.
The wakeful bird tunes her nocturnal note.
One common note on either lyre did strike.
10. Abbreviation; symbol.
11. A short letter; a billet.
12. Annotation; commentary; as the notes in Scott's Bible; to write notes on Homer.
13. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt and promising payment; as a promissory note; a bank-note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
14. Notes, plu. a writing; a written discourse; applied equally to minutes or heads of a discourse or argument, or to a discourse fully written.  The advocate often has notes to assist his memory, and clergymen preach with notes or without them.
15. A diplomatic communication in writing; an official paper sent from one minister or envoy to another.
My note of January 10th still remains unanswered.
NOTE, v.t.
1. To observe; to notice with particular care; to heed; to attend to.
No more of that; I have noted it well.
Their manners noted and their states survey'd.
2. To set down in writing.
Note it in a book. Isaiah 30.
3. To charge, as with a crime; with of or for.
They were both noted of incontinency.
NOTE, v.t. To butt; to push with the horns. [Not used.]


Topic: Note-book
Definition:
NO'TE-BOOK, n. 
1. A book in which memorandums are written.
2. A book in which notes of hand are  registered.


Topic: Noted
Definition:
NO'TED, pp. 
1. Set down in writing.
2. Observed; noticed.
3. Remarkable; much known by reputation or reprot; eminent; celebrated; as a noted author; a noted commander; a noted traveler.


Topic: Nothing
Definition:
NOTH'ING, n. [no and thing.] 
1. Not any thing; not any being or existence; a word that denies the existence of any thing; non-entity; opposed to something.  The world was created from nothing.
2. Non-existnce; a state of annihilation.
3. Not any thing; not any particular thing, deed or event.  Nothing was done to redeem our character.  He thought nothing done, while any thing remained to be done.
A determination to choose nothing is a determination not to choose the truth.
4. No other thing.
Nothing but this will entitle you to God's acceptance.
5. No part, portion, quantity or degree.  The troops manifested nothing of irresolution in the attack.
Yet had his aspect nothing of severe.
6. No importance; no value; no use.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of naught.  Isaiah 41. 
7. No possession of estate; a low condition.
A man that from very nothing is grown to an unspeakable estate.
8. A thing of no proportion to something, or of trifling value or advantage.
The charge of making the ground, and otherwise, is great, but nothing to the profit. 
9. A trifle; a thing of no consideration or importance. 
Tis nothing, says the fool; but says the friend, this nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.
To make nothing of, to make no difficulty or to consider as trifling, light or unimportant.
We are industrious to presere our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts.
NOTH'ING, adv. In no degree; not at all.
Adam, with such counsel nothing sway'd--
In the phrase, nothing worth, the words are transposed; the natural order being, worth nothing.


Topic: Notice
Definition:
NO'TICE, n. 
1. Observation by the eye or by the other senses. We take notice of objects passing or standing before us; we take notice of the owrds of a speaker; we take notice of a peculiar taste of food, or of the smeel of an orange, and of our peculiar sensations.  Notice then is the act by which we gain knowledge of something within the reach of the senses, or the effect of an impression on some of the senses.
2. Observation by the mind or intellectual power; as, to take notice of a distinction between truth and veracity.
3. Information; intelligence by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received; as, I received notice by a messenger or by letter.  He gave notice of his arrival.  The bell gives notice of the hour of the day.  The merchant gives notice that a bill of exchange is not accepted.
4. A paper that communicates information.
5. Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
6. Remark; observation.
NO'TICE, v.t. 
1. To observe; to see. We noticed the conduct of the speaker; we notcied no improper conduct.
2. To heed; to regard. His conduct was rude, but I did not notice it.
3. To remark; to mention or make observations on.
This plant deserves to be noticed in this place. 
Another circumstance was noticed in connection with the suggestion last discussed.
4. To treat with attention and civilities; as, to notice strangers.
5. To observe intellectually.


Topic: Notification
Definition:
NOTIFICA'TION, n. [See Notify.]
1. The act of notifying or giving notice; the act of making known, particularly the act of givning official notice or information to the public, or to individuals, corporations, companies or societies, by words, by writing or by other means.
2. Notice given in words or writing, or by signs.
3. The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, citation, &c.


Topic: Notified
Definition:
NO'TIFIED, pp. 
1. Made known; applied to things. This design of the king was notified to the court of Berlin.
2. Informed by words, writing or toher means; applied to persons.  The inhabitants of the city have been notified that a meeting is to be held at the State House.


Topic: Notify
Definition:
NO'TIFY, v.t. [L. known, and to make.]
1. To make known; to declare; to publish.  The laws of God notify to man his will and our duty.
2. To make known by private communication; to give information of.  The allied sovereigns have notified the spanish court of thier purpose of maintaining legitimate government.
3. To give notice to; to inform by words or writing, in person or by message, or by any signs which are understood.  The constable has notified the citizens to meet at the City Hall. The bell notifies us of the time of meeting.
The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives, that he has approved and signed the act.
[Note. This application of notify has been condemned, but it is in constant good use in the United States, and in perfect accordance with the use of certify.]


Topic: Notion
Definition:
NO'TION, n. [L. known; to know.]
1. Conception; mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined.  We may have a just notion of power, or false notions respecting spirit.
Notion and idea are primarily different; idea being the conception of something visible, as the idea of a square or a triangle; and notion the conception of things invisible or intellectual, as the notion we have of spirits.  But from negligence in the use of idea, the two words are constantly confounded.
What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.
Few agree in their notions about these words.
That notion of hunger, bold, sound, color, thought, wish or fear, which is in the mind, is called the idea of hunger, cold, &c.
2. sentiment; opinion; as the extravagant notions they entertain of themselves.
3. Sense; understanding; intellectual power. [Not used.]
4. Inclination; in vulgar use; as, I have a notion to do this or that.


Topic: Notional
Definition:
NO'TIONAL, a. 
1. Imaginary; ideal; existing in idea only; visionary; fantastical.
Notional good, by fancy only made.  A notional and imaginary thing.
2. Dealing in imaginary things; whimsical; fanciful; as a notional man.


Topic: Notionally
Definition:
NO'TIONALLY, adv. In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality.
Two faculties notionally or really distinct.


Topic: Notoriety
Definition:
NOTORI'ETY, n. [See Notorious.]
1. Exposure to public knowledge; the state of being publicly or generally known; as the notoriety of a crime.
2. Public knowledge.
They were not subjects in their own nature so exposed to public notoriety.


Topic: Notorious
Definition:
NOTO'RIOUS, a. [L. known.]
1. Publicly knwon; manifest to the world; evident; usually, knwon to disadvantage; hence almost always used in all ill sense; as a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice; a man notorious for lewdness or gaming.
2. In a good sense.
Your goodness, since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.


Topic: Notwithstanding
Definition:
NOTWITHSTAND'ING, the participle of withstand, with not prefixed, and signifying not opposing; nevertheless.  It retains in all cases its participial signification.  For example, 'I will surely rend the knigdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant; notwithstanding, in thy days I will not do it, for david thy father's sake.' 1 Kings 11.  In this passage there is an ellipsis of that, after notwithstanding.  That refers to the former part of the sentence, I will rend the kingdom from thee; notwithstanding that (declaration or determination,) in thy days I will not do it.  in this and in all cases, notwithstanding, either with or without that or this, constitutes the case absolute or independent.
'It is a rainy day, but notwithstanding that, the troops must be reviewed; ' that is, the rainy day not opposing or preventing.  That, in this case, is a substitute for the whole first clause of the sentence.  It is to that clause what a relative is to an antecedent noun, and which may be used in the place of it; notwithstanding which, that is, the rainy day.
'Christ enjoined on his followers not to publish the cures he wrought; but notwithstanding his injunctions, they proclaimed them.' Here, notwithstanding his injunctions, is the case independent or absolute; the injunctions of Christ not opposing or preventing.
This word answers precisely to the latin non obstante, and both are used with nouns or with substitutes for nouns, for sentences or for clauses of sentences.  So in the Latin phrase, hoc non obstante, hoc may refer to a single word, to a sentence or to a series of sentences.


Topic: Noun
Definition:
NOUN, n. [altered from L. name.]  In grammar, a name; that sound or combination of sounds by which a thing is called, whether material or immaterial. [See Name.] 


Topic: Nourish
Definition:
NOURISH, v.t. [G. to nourish, cannot be the same word unless they have lost a dental, which may perhaps be the fact.]
1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply a living or organized body, animal or vegetable, with matter which increases its bulk or supplies the waste occasioned by any of its functions; to supply with nutriment.
2. To support; to maintain by feeding.  Genesis 47. 
Whilst I in Ireland nourish a mighty band, I will stir up in England some black storm.
3. To supply the means of support and increase; to encourage; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
What madness was ti, with such proofs, to nourish their contentions!
4. To cherish; to comfort. James 5.
5. To educate; to instruct; to promote growth in attainments. 1 Timothy 4.
NOURISH, v.i.
1. To promote growth.
Grains and roots nourish more then leaves. [Elliptical.]
2. To gain nourishment. [Unusual.]


Topic: Nourishing
Definition:
NOURISHING, ppr. 
1. Feeding; supplying with aliment; supporting with food.
2. Promoting growth; nutritious; as a nourishing diet.


Topic: Nourishment
Definition:
NOURISHMENT, n. 
1. That which serves to promote the growth of animals or plants, or to repair the waste of animal bodies; food; sustenance; nutriment.
2. Nutrition; support of animal or vegetable bodies.
3. Instruction, or that which promotes growth in attainments; as nourishment and growth in grace.
So they may learn to seek the nourishment of their souls.


Topic: Novaculite
Definition:
NOVAC'ULITE, n. [L. a razor.]  Razor-stone; Turkey-hone; coticular shist; whet-slate, a variety of argillaceous slate.


Topic: Novatian
Definition:
NOVA'TIAN, n. In church history, one of the sect of Novatus or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.


Topic: Novatianism
Definition:
NOVA'TIANISM, n. The opinions of the Novations.
One Hypolitus, a Roman presbyter, had been seduced into Novatianism.


Topic: Novel
Definition:
NOV'EL, a. 
1. New; of recent origin or intorduction; not ancient; hence, unusual; as a novel heresy; novel opinions.  The proceedings of the court were novel. 
2. In the civil law, the novel consititutions are those which are supplemental to the code, and posterior in time to the other books.  These contained new decrees of successive emperors.
3. In the common law, the assize of novel disseizin is an action in which the demandant recits a complaint of the disseizin in terms of direct averment, whereupon the sheriff is commanded to reseize the land and chattels thereon, and keep the same in custody till the arrival of the justices of assize. 
NOV'EL, n. 
1. A new or supplemental constitution or decree. [See the Adjective.]
2. A fictitious tale or narrative in prose, intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.
The coxcomb's novel and the drunkard's toast.


Topic: Novelist
Definition:
NOV'ELIST, n. 
1. An innovator; an asserter of novelty.
2. A writer of a novel or of novels.
3. A writer of news.


Topic: Novelty
Definition:
NOV'ELTY, n. Newness; recentness of origin or introduction.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.


Topic: November
Definition:
NOVEM'BER, n. [L. from nine; the ninth month, according to the ancient Roman year, beginning in March.]  The eleventh month of the year.


Topic: Novercal
Definition:
NOVER'CAL, a. [L. a step-mother.]  Pertaining to a step-mother; suitable to a step-mother; in the manner of a step-mother.


Topic: Novice
Definition:
NOV'ICE, n. [L. from new.]
1. One who is new in any business; one unacquainted or unskilled; one in the rudiments; a beginner.
I am young, a novice in the trade.
2. One that has entered a religious house but has not taken the vow; a probationer.
3. One newly planted in the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. 1 Timothy 3.


Topic: Novitiate
Definition:
NOVI'TIATE, n. 
1. The state or time or learning rudiments.
2. In religious houses, a year or other time of probation for the trial of a noveice, to determine whether he has the necessary qualities for living up to the rule to which his vow is to bind him.


Topic: Now
Definition:
NOW, adv. 
1. At the present time.
I have a patient now living at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
2. A little while ago; very lately.
They that but now for honor and for plate, made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
3. At one time; at another time.
Now high, now low, now master up, now miss.
4. Now sometimes expresses or implies a connection between the subsequent and preceding proposition; often it introduces an inference or an explanation of what precedes.
Not this man, but barabbas; now Barabbas was a robber. John 18. 
Then said Mich, now I know that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest. Judges 17. 
The other great mischief which befalls men, is by their being misrepresented.  Now by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander--
5. After this; things being so. 
How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor?
6. In supplication, it appears to be somewhat emphatical.
I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart.  2 Kings 20. 
7. Now sometimes refers to a particular time past specified or understood, and may be defined, at that time.  He was now sensible of his mistake.
Now and then, at one time and another, indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals.
They now and then appear in offices of religion.
If there were any such thing as spontaneous generation, a new species would now and then appear.
2. Applied to places which appear at intervals or in succession.
A mead here, ther a heath, and now and then a wood.
Now, now, repeated, is used to excite attention to something immediately to happen.
NOW, n. The present time or moment.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now does ever last.
Now a days, adv. In this age.
What men of spirit now a days, come to give sober judgment a new plays?
[This is a common colloquial phrase, but not elegant in writing, unless of the more familiar kinds.]


Topic: Noway
Definition:
NO'WAY, adv. [no and way.] In no manner or degree. [These can hardly be considered as compound words.]


Topic: Noways
Definition:
NO'WAYS, adv. [no and way.] In no manner or degree. [These can hardly be considered as compound words.]


Topic: Nowhere
Definition:
NO'WHERE, adv. Not in any place or state.  Happiness is nowhere to be found but in the practice of virtue. 
But it is better to write no and where as separate words.


Topic: Noxious
Definition:
NOXIOUS, a. [L. from hurt.]
1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as noxious air, food, climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as noxious practices or examples; noxious haunts of vice.
2. Guilty; criminal.
Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. [Little used.]
3. Unfavorable; injurious.
Too frequent appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotion.


Topic: Noxiousness
Definition:
NOX'IOUSNESS, n. 
1. Hurtfulness; the quality that injures, impairs or destroys; insalubrity; as the noxiousness of foul air.
2. The quality that corrupts or perverts; as the noxiousness of doctrines.
Noy, noyance, noyer, noyful, noyous, noysance. [See Annoy and Nuisance.]


Topic: Nucleus
Definition:
NU'CLEUS, n. [L. a nut.]
1. Properly, the kernel of a nut; but in usage, any body about which matter is collected.
2. The body of a comet, called also its head, which appears to be surrounded with light.


Topic: Nudity
Definition:
NU'DITY, n. 
1. Nakedness.
2. Nudities, in the plural, naked parts which decency requires to be concealed.
3. In painting and sculpture, the naked parts of the human figure, or parts not covered with drapery.
Nudum Pactum, [L.] in law, an agreement that is void or not valid according to the laws of the land.


Topic: Nugatory
Definition:
NU'GATORY, a. 
1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.
2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.  The laws are sometimes rendered nugatory by inexecution.  Any agreement may be rendered nugatory by something which contravenes its execution.


Topic: Nuisance
Definition:
NU'ISANCE, n. [L. to annoy. Blackstone writes nusance, and it is desirable that his example may be followed.]
1. That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.  A liar is a nusance to society.
2. In law, that which incommodes or annoys; something that produces inconvenience or damage.  Nusances are public or private; public, when they annoy citizens in general, as obstructions of the highway; private, when they affect individuals only, as when one man erects a house so near his neighbor's as to throw the water off the roof upon his neighbor's land or house, or to intercept the light that his neighbor before enjoyed.


Topic: Null
Definition:
NULL, v.t. [L. not any.]  To annul; to deprive of validity; to destroy. [Not much used.] [See Annul.]
NULL, a. Void; of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid.  The contract of a minor is null in law, except for necessaries.
NULL, n. Something that has no force or meaning.  A cipher is called a null. [Not used.]


Topic: Nullify
Definition:
NUL'LIFY, v.t. [L. none, and to make.]  To annul; to make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.


Topic: Numb
Definition:
NUMB, a. 
1. Torpid; destitute of the power of sensation and motion; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.
2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as the numb cold night.  [Not used nor proper.]
NUMB, v.t. To make torpid; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand.
And numbing coldness has embraced the ear.


Topic: Number
Definition:
NUM'BER, n. [Probably the radical sense is to speak, name or tell, as our word tell, in the other dialects, is to number.  Number may be allied to name, as the Spaniards use nombre for name, and the French word written with the same letters, is number.]
1. The designation of a unit reference to other units, or in reckoning, counting, enumerating; as, one is the first number; a simple number.
2. An assemblage of two or more units. Two is a number composed of one and one added.  Five and three added make the number eight.  Number may be applied to any collection or multitude of units or individuals, and therefore is indefinite, unless defined by other words or by figures or signs of definite signification.  Hence,
3. More than one; many.
Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.
4. Multitude.
Number itself importeth not much in armies, where the men are of weak courage.
5. In poetry, measure; the order and quantity of syllables constituting feet, which render verse musical to the ear.  The harmony of verse consists in the proper distribution of the long and short syllables, with suitable pauses.  In oratory, a judicious disposition of words, syllables and cadences constitutes a kind of measure resembling poetic numbers.
6. Poetry; verse.
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
Here the first word numbers may be taken for poetry or verse, and the second for measure.
Yet shoud the Muses bid my numbers roll.
7. In grammar, the difference of termination or form of a word, to express unity or plurality.  The termination which denotes one or an individual, is the singular number; the termination that denotes two or more individuals or units, constitues the plural number.  Hence we say, a noun, an adjective, a pronoun or a verb is in the singular or the plural number.
8. In mathematics, number is variously distinguished.  cardinal numbers are those which express the amount of units; as 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.  Ordinal numbers are those which express order; as first, second, third, fourth, &c.
Determinate number, is that referred to a given unit, as a ternary or three; an indeterminate number, is referred to unity in general, and called quantity.
Homogeneal numbers, are those referred to the same units; those referred to different units are termed heterogeneal.
Whole numbers, are called integers.
A rational number, is one commensurable with unity.  A number incommensurable with unity, is termed irrational or surd.
A prime or primitive number, is divisible only by unity; as three, five, seven, &c.
A perfect number, is that whose aliquot parts added together, make the whole number, as 28, whose aliquot parts, 14. 7. 4. 2. 1. make the number 28.
An imperfect number, is that whose aliquot parts added together, make more or less than the number.  This is abundant or defedtive; abundant, as 12, whose aliquot parts, 6. 4. 3. 2. 1. make 16; or defective, as 16 whose aliquot parts, 8. 4. 2. 1. make 15 only.
A square number, is the product of a number multiplied by itself; as, 16 is the square number of four.
A cubic number, is the product of a square number by its root; as, 27 is the product of the square number 9 by its root 3.
Golden number, the cycle of the moon, or revolution of 19 years, in which time the conjunctions, oppositions and other aspects of the moon are nearly the same as they were on the same days of the month 19 years before.
NUM'BER, v.t. 
1. To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of any sum, collection or multitude.
If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.  Genesis 8.
2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
He was numbered with the transgressors.  Isaiah 53.


Topic: Numbness
Definition:
NUMBNESS, n. Torpor; that state of a living body in which it has not the power of feeling or motion, as when paralytc or chilled by cold.


Topic: Numeral
Definition:
NU'MERAL, a. 
1. Pertaining to number; consisting of number.
The dependence of a long train of numeral progressions.
2. Expressing number; representing number; standing as a substitute for figures; as numeral letters; as X for 10; L for fifty; C for 100; D for 500; M for 1000.
3. Expressing numbers; as numeral characters.  The figures we now use to express numbers are 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 0. They are said to be of Arabian origin; but the Arabians might have received them from India.  This is a controverted question.


Topic: Numerary
Definition:
NU'MERARY, a. Belonging to a certain number.
A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon.


Topic: Numeration
Definition:
NUMERA'TION, n. 
1. The act or art of numbering.
Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign.
2. In arithmetic, notation; the art of expressing in characters any number proposed in words, or of expressing in words any number proposed in characters; the act or art of writing or reading numbers.  Thus we write 1000, for thousand, and 50, we read fifty.


Topic: Numerator
Definition:
NU'MERATOR, n. [L.]
1. One that numbers.
2. In arithmetic, the number in vulgar fractions which shows how many parts of a unit are taken.  Thus when a unit is divided into 9 parts, and we take 5, we express it thus, 5/9, that is, five ninths; 5 being the numerator, and 9 the denominator.


Topic: Numeric
Definition:
NUMER'IC, a. [L., number.]
1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as numerical algebra; numerical characters.
2. Numerical difference, is that by which one individual is distinguished from another.  The same numerical body is identically the same.


Topic: Numerical
Definition:
NUMER'ICAL, a. [L., number.]
1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as numerical algebra; numerical characters.
2. Numerical difference, is that by which one individual is distinguished from another.  The same numerical body is identically the same.


Topic: Numerically
Definition:
NUMER'ICALLY, adv. 
1. In numbers; as parts of a thing numerically expressed.
2. With respect to number or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different.


Topic: Numerous
Definition:
NU'MEROUS, a. [L.]
1. Being many, or consisting of a great number of individuals; as a numerous army; a numerous body; a numerous people.
2. Consisting of poetic numbers; melodious; musical.  In prose, a style becomes numerous by the alternate disposition or intermixture of long and short syllables, or of long and short words; or by a judicious selection and disposition of smooth flowing words, and by closing the periods with important or well sounding words.


Topic: Numerousness
Definition:
NU'MEROUSNESS, n. 
1. The quality of being numerous or many; the quality of consisting of a great number of individuals; as the numerousness of an army or of an assembly.
2. The quality of consisting of poetic numbers; melodiousness; musicalness.


Topic: Numismatic
Definition:
NUMISMAT'IC, a. [L., money, coin; Gr., to suppose, to sanction, law or custom.]  Pertaining money, coin or medals.


Topic: Numismatology
Definition:
NUMISMATOL'OGY, n. [Gr., coin, and discourse.]  The branch of historical science which treats of coins and medals.


Topic: Nummulite
Definition:
NUM'MULITE, n. [L., money.] Fossil remains of a chambered shell of a flattened form, formerly mistaken for money.


Topic: Nun
Definition:
NUN, n. A woman devoted to a religious life, and who lives in a cloister or nunnery, secluded from the world, under a vow of perpetual chastity.
NUN, n. 
1. A web-footed fowl of the size of a duck, with a white head and neck.
2. The blue titmouse.


Topic: Nuncio
Definition:
NUN'CIO, n. [L., a messenger.]
1. An embassador from the pope to some catholic prince or state, or who attends some congress or assembly as the pope's representative.
2. A messsenger; one who brings intelligence.


Topic: Nuncupative
Definition:
NUNCU'PATIVE, a. [L., to declare.]
1. Nominal; existing only in name.
2. Publicly or solemnly declaratory.
3. Verbal, not written.  A nuncupative will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterwards reduced to writing.


Topic: Nuncupatory
Definition:
NUNCU'PATORY, a. [L., to declare.]
1. Nominal; existing only in name.
2. Publicly or solemnly declaratory.
3. Verbal, not written.  A nuncupative will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterwards reduced to writing.


Topic: Nundinal
Definition:
NUN'DINAL, a. [L., a fair or market, every nine days.]
1. Pertaining to a fair or to a market day.
2. A nundinal letter, among the Romans, was one of the eight first letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last dya of the year.  One of these always expressed the market days, which returned every nine days.
NUN'DINAL, n. A nundinal letter.


Topic: Nunnery
Definition:
NUN'NERY, n. A house in which nuns reside; a cloister in which females under a vow of chastity and devoted to religion, reside during life.


Topic: Nuptial
Definition:
NUP'TIAL, a. [L., to marry.]
1. Pertaining to marriage; done at a wedding; as nuptial rites and ceremonies; nuptial torch.
2. Constituting marriage; as the nuptial knot or band.
The Bible has mitigated the horrors of war; it has given effectual obligation to the nuptial vow.


Topic: Nurse
Definition:
NURSE, n.
1. A woman that has the care of infants, or a woman employed to tend the children of others.
2. A woman who suckles infants.
3. A woman that has the care of a sick person.
4. A man who has the care of the sick.
5. A person that breeds, educates or protects; hence, that which breeds, brings up or causes to grow; as Greece, the nurse of the liberal arts.
6. An old woman; in contempt.
7. The state of being nursed; as, to put a child to nurse.
8. In composition, that which supplies food; as a nurse-pond.
NURSE, v.t. 
1. To tend, as infants; as, to nurse a child.
2. To suckle; to nourish at the breast.
3. To attend and take care of in child-bed; as, to nurse a woman in her illness.
4. To tend the sick; applied to males and females.
5. To ffed; to maintain; to bring up. Isaiah 60.
6. To cherish; to foster; to encourage; to promote growth in.  We say, to nurse a feeble animal or plant.
By what hands has vice been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion?
7. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.


Topic: Nursery
Definition:
NURS'ERY, n. 
1. The place or apartment in a house appropriated to the care of children.
2. A place where young trees are propagated for the purpose of being transplanted; a plantation of young trees.
3. The place where any thing is fostered and the growth promoted.
To see fair Padua, nursery of arts.
So we say , a nursery of thieves or of rogues.  Ale houses and dram-shops are the nurseries of intemperance.
Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven.
4. Taht which forms and educates.  Commerce is the nursery of seamen.
5. The act of nursing. [Little used.]
6. That which is the object of a nurse's care.


Topic: Nurture
Definition:
NUR'TURE, n. 
1. That which nourishes; food; diet.
2. That which promotes growth; education; instruction.  Ephesians 6.
NUR'TURE, v.t. 
1. To feed; to nourish.
2. To educate; to bring or train up.
He was nurtured where he was born.


Topic: Nusance
Definition:
NU'SANCE, n. [L. to annoy.  Blackstone writes nusance, and it is desirable that his example may be followed.]
1. That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.  A liar is a nusance to society.
2. In law, that which incommodes or annoys; something that produces inconvenience or damage.  Nusances are public or private; public, when they annoy citizens in general, as obstructions of the highway; private, when they affect individuals only, as when one man erects a house so near his neighbor's as to throw the water off the roof upon his neighbor's land or house, or to intercept the light that his neighbor before enjoyed.


Topic: Nut
Definition:
NUT, n. [It seems to be allied to knot, a bunch or hard lump.]
1. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs, consisting of a hard shell inclosing a kernel.  A nut is properly the pericarp of the fruit.  Various kinds of nuts are distinguished; as walnut, chestnut, hazlenut, butternut.
2. In mechanics, a small cylinder or other body, with teeth or projections corresponding with the teeth or grooves of a wheel.
3. The projection near the eye of an anchor.
NUT, v.t. To gather nuts.


Topic: Nut-hatch
Definition:
NUT'-HATCH, n. The common name of birds of the genus sitta.  The common European nut-hatch is called also nut-jobber and nut-pecker.


Topic: Nutation
Definition:
NUTA'TION, n. [L., a nodding, to nod.]  In astronomy, a kind of tremulous motion of the axis of the earth, by which in its annual revolution it is twice inclined to the ecliptic, and as often returns to its former position.


Topic: Nutmeg
Definition:
NUT'MEG, n. [L. But it may be questionable whether the last syllable in English, meg, is not from L., mace, the bark that envelops the nut.]  The fruit of a tree of the genus Myristica, growing in the isles of the East Indies and South Sea.  The tree gorws to the gighth of thirty feet, producing numerous branches.  The color of the bark of the trunk is a reddish brown; that of the young branches a bright green.  The fruit is of the kind called drupe, that is, a pulpy pericarp without valves, containing a nut or kernel.  The covering of this nut is the mace.  The nutmeg is an aromatic, very grateful to the taste and smell, and much used in cookery.


Topic: Nutrient
Definition:
NU'TRIENT, a. [L.] Nourishing; promoting growth.
NU'TRIENT, n. Any substance which nourishes by promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies.


Topic: Nutriment
Definition:
NU'TRIMENT, n. [L., from to nourish.]
1. That which nourishes; that which promotes the growth or repairs the natural waste of animal bodies, or that which promotes the growth of vegetables; food; aliment.
2. That which promotes enlargement or improvement; as the nutriment of the mind.


Topic: Nutrition
Definition:
NUTRI'TION, n. [L., to nourish.]
1. The act or process of promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies; the act or process of promoting growth in vegetables.
2. That which nourishes; nutriment.
Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
There is no nutrition in ardent spirits.


Topic: Nutritious
Definition:
NUTRI'TIOUS, a. Nourishing; promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies.  Milk is very nutritious.


Topic: Nyctalops
Definition:
NYC'TALOPS, n. [Gr., night and the eye.]
1. One that sees best in the night.
2. One who loses his sight as night comes on, and remains blind till morning.


Topic: Nyctalopy
Definition:
NYC'TALOPY, n. 
1. The faculty of seeing best in darkness, or the disorder from which this faculty proceeds.
2. In present usage, the disorder in which the patient loses his sight as night approaches, and remains blind till morning.


Topic: Nylgau
Definition:
NYL'GAU, n. A quadruped of the genus Bos, a native of the interior of India, of a middle size between the cow and the deer.  Its body, horns and tail are not unlike those of a bull; the head, neck and legs resemble those of the deer.  The color is an ash gray.


Topic: Nymph
Definition:
NYMPH, n. 
1. In mythology, a goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows and waters.  According to the ancients, all the world was full of nymphs, some terrestrial, others celestial; and these had names assigned to them according to their place of residence, or the parts of the world over which they were supposed to preside.
2. In poetry, a lady.
NYMPH, n. Another name of the pupa, chrysalis, or aurelia; the second state of an insect, passing to its perfect form.


Topic: Nympha
Definition:
NYMPH'A, n. Another name of the pupa, chrysalis, or aurelia; the second state of an insect, passing to its perfect form.


Topic: O
Definition:
O is the fifteenth letter, and the fourth vowel in the English Alphabet.  The shape of this letter seems to have been taken from the circular configuration of the lips in uttering the sound.  It corresponds in figure with the Coptic O, and nearly with the Syriac initial and final vau, and the Ethiopic ain.  In words derived from the oriental languages, it often represents the vau of those languages, and sometimes the ain; the original sound of the latter being formed deep in the throat, and with a greater aperture of the mouth.
In English, O has a long sound, as in tone, hone, groan, cloke, roll, droll; a short sound, as in lot plod, rod, song, lodge.  The sound of oo is shortened in words ending in a close articulation, as in book and foot.
The long sound of O, is usually denoted by e, at the end of a word or syllable, as in bone, lonely; or by a servile a, as in moan, foal.  It is generally long before ll, as in roll; but it is short in doll, loll, and in words of more syllables than one, as in folly, volley.
As a numeral, O was sometimes used by the ancients for 11, and with a dash over it for 11,000.
Among the ancients, O was a mark of tripe time, from the notion that the ternary or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure.
O is often used as an exclamation, expressing a wish.
O, were he present.
It sometimes expresses surprise.  Shakespeare uses O for a circle or oval.  
Within this wooden O.


Topic: Oaf
Definition:
OAF, n.  [said to be a corruption of ouph or elf, a fairy or demon, and to denote a foolish child left by fairies in the place of one of better intellects which they steal.]
1.  A changeling; a foolish child left  by fairies in the place of another.
2.  A dolt; an idiot; a blockhead.


Topic: Oak
Definition:
OAK, n.  [It is probably that the first syllable, oak, was originally an adjective expressing some quality, as hard or strong, and by the disuse of tree, oak became the name of the tree.]
A tree of the genus Quercus, or rather the popular name of the genus itself, of which there are several species.  The white oak grows to a great size, and furnishes a most valuable timber; but the live oak of the United States is the most durable timber for ships.  In Hartford still stands the venerable oak, in the hollow stem of which was concealed and preserved the colonial charter of Connecticut, when Sir E. Andros, by authority of a writ of quo warranto from the British crown, attempted to obtain possession of it, in 1687.  As it was then a large tree, it must now be nearly three hundred years old.


Topic: Oak-apple
Definition:
OAK-APPLE,  n.  A kind of spungy excrescence on oak leaves or tender branches, &c. produced in consequence of the puncture of an insect.  It is called also oak leaf gall, or gall-nut.


Topic: Oaken
Definition:
OAKEN, a. o'kn.
1.  Made of oak or consisting of oak; as an oaken plank or bench; an oaken bower.
2.  Composed of branches of oak; as an oaken garland.


Topic: Oakum
Definition:
OAKUM, n.  
The substance of old ropes untwisted and pulled into loose hemp; used for caulking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, &c.  That formed from untarred ropes is called white oakum.


Topic: Oar
Definition:
OAR, n.  An instrument for rowing boats, being a piece of timber round or square at one end, and flat at the other.  The round end is the handle, and the flat end the blade.
To boat the oars, in seamanship, to cease rowing and lay the oars in the boat.
To ship the oars, to place them in the row-locks.
OAR, v.i.  To row.
OAR, v.t.  To impel by rowing.


Topic: Oaten
Definition:
OATEN, a. o'tn. 
1.  Made of oatmeal; as oaten cakes.
2.  Consisting of an oat straw or stem; as an oaten pipe.


Topic: Oath
Definition:
OATH, n.  
A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.  The appeal to God in an oath, implies that the person imprecates his vengeance and renounces his favor if the declaration is false, or if the declaration is a promise, the person invokes the vengeance of God if he should fail to fulfill it.  A false oath is called perjury.


Topic: Ob
Definition:
OB, a Latin preposition, signifies primarily, in front, before, and hence against, towards; as in objicio, to object, that is, to throw against.  It has also the force of in or on; as in obtrude.  In composition, the letter b is often changed into the first letter of the word to which it is prefixed; as in occasion, offer, oppose.


Topic: Obcordate
Definition:
OBCORD'ATE, a.  [L. from ob and cor, the heart.]
In botany, shaped like a heart, with the apex downward; as an obcordate petal or legume.


Topic: Obduction
Definition:
OBDUC'TION, n.  [L. obductio.]  The act of drawing over, as a covering; the act of laying over.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obduracy
Definition:
OB'DURACY, n.  [See Obdurate.]  Invincible hardness of heart; impenitence that cannot be subdued; inflexible persistency in sin; obstinacy in wickedness.
God may by almighty grace hinder the absolute completion of sin in final obduracy.


Topic: Obdurate
Definition:
OB'DURATE, a.  [L. obduro, to harden; ob and duro.]
1.  Hardened in heart; inflexibly hard; persisting obstinately in sin or impenitence.
2.  Hardened against good or favor; stubborn; unyielding; inflexible.
The custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
3.  Harsh; rugged; as an obdurate consonant.  [Little used.]
OB'DURATE, v.t.  To harden.  [Not used.]


Topic: Obdure
Definition:
OBDU'RE, v.t.  [L. obduro.]  
1.  To harden; to render obstinate in sin.  [Little used.]
2.  To render inflexible.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obedience
Definition:
OBE'DIENCE, n.  [L. obedientia.  See Obey.]
Compliance with a command, prohibition or known law and rule of duty prescribed; the performance of what is required or enjoined by authority, or the abstaining from what is prohibited, in compliance with the command or prohibition.  To constitute obedience, the act or forbearance to act must be in submission to authority; the command must be known to the person, and his compliance must be in consequence of it, or it is not obedience.  Obedience is not synonymous with obsequiousness; the latter often implying meanness or servility, and obedience being merely a proper submission to authority.  That which duty requires implies dignity of conduct rather than servility.  Obedience may be voluntary or involuntary.  Voluntary obedience alone can be acceptable to God.
Government must compel the obedience of individuals; otherwise who will seek its protection or fear its vengeance?


Topic: Obedient
Definition:
OBE'DIENT, a.  [L. obediens.]  Submissive to authority; yielding compliance with commands, orders or injunctions; performing what is required, or abstaining from what is forbid.
The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, with due observance, wait the chief's command.


Topic: Obediential
Definition:
OBEDIEN'TIAL, a.  According to the rule of obedience; in compliance with commands; as obediential submission.


Topic: Obediently
Definition:
OBE'DIENTLY, adv.  With obedience; with due submission to commands; with submission or compliance with orders.


Topic: Obeisance
Definition:
OBE'ISANCE, n.  [L. obedio.]
A bow or courtesy; an act of reverence made by an inclination of the body or the knee.  Gen. 37.


Topic: Obelisk
Definition:
OB'ELISK, n.  [L. obeliscus;  Gr. a spit.]
1.  A truncated, quadrangular and slender pyramid intended as an ornament, and often charged with inscriptions or hieroglyphics.  Some ancient obelisks appear to have been erected in honor of distinguished persons or their achievements.  Ptolemy Philadelphus raised one of 88 cubits high in honor of Arsinee.  Augustus erected one in the Campus Martius at Rome, which served to mark the hours on a horizontal dial drawn on the pavement.
2.  In writing and printing; a reference or mark referring the reader to a note in the margin.  It is used also for a mark of censure, or for designating obsolete words, or for other purposes at the pleasure of the writer.


Topic: Obequitate
Definition:
OBEQ'UITATE, v.i.  [L. obequito; ob and equito, to ride; equus, a horse.]  To ride about.  [Not used.]


Topic: Obey
Definition:
OBEY, v.t.  [L. obedio;  Gr.]
1.  To comply with the commands, orders or instructions of a superior, or with the requirements of law, moral, political or municipal; to do that which is commanded or required, or to forbear doing that which is prohibited.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord.  Eph. 6.
Servants, obey in all things your masters.  Col. 3.
He who has learned to obey, will know how to command.
2.  To submit to the government of; to be ruled by.
All Israel obeyed Solomon.  1Chron. 29.  Dan. 7.
3.  To submit to the direction or control of.  Seamen say, the ship will not obey the helm.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.  Rom. 6.  James 3.
4.  To yield to the impulse, power or operation of; as, to obey stimulus.
Relentless time, destroying power, whom stone and brass obey.


Topic: Obfuscation
Definition:
OBFUS'CATION, n.  The act of darkening or rendering obscure; a clouding.
Obfuscations of the cornea.


Topic: Obit
Definition:
OB'IT, n.  [L. obiit, obivit; ob and eo, to go.]  Properly, death; decease; hence, funeral solemnities or anniversary service for the soul of the deceased on the day of his death.


Topic: Obitual
Definition:
OBIT'UAL, a.  [L. obeo, to die; obitus, death.]  Pertaining to obits, or the days when funeral solemnities are celebrated; as obitual days.


Topic: Obituary
Definition:
OBIT'UARY, n.  
1.  A list of the dead, or a register of obitual anniversary days, when service is performed for the dead.
2.  An account of persons deceased; notice of the death of a person, often accompanied with a brief biographical sketch of his character.


Topic: Object
Definition:
OB'JECT, n.  [L. objectum, objectus.  See the Verb.]
1.  That about which any power or faculty is employed, or something apprehended or presented to the mind by sensation or imagination.  Thus that quality of a rose which is perceived by the sense of smell, is an object of perception.  When the object is not in contact with the organ of sense, there must be some medium through which we obtain the perception of it.  The impression which objects make on the senses, must be by the immediate application of them to the organs of sense, or by means of the medium that intervenes between the organs and the objects.
2.  That to which the mind is directed for accomplishment or attainment; end; ultimate purpose.  Happiness is the object of every man's desires; we all strive to attain that object.  Wealth and honor are pursued with eagerness as desirable objects.
3.  Something presented to the senses or the mind, to excite emotion, affection or passion.
This passenger felt some degree of concern at the sight of so moving an object.
In this sense, the word uttered with a particular emphasis, signifies something that may strongly move our pity, abhorrence or disgust.  What an object!
4.  In grammar, that which is produced, influenced or acted on by something else; that which follows a transitive verb.  When we say, 'God created the world,' world denotes the thing produced, and is the object after the verb created.  When we say, 'the light affects the eye,' eye denotes that which is affected or acted on.  When we say, 'instruction directs the mind or opinions,' mind and opinions,' mind and opinions are the objects influenced.


Topic: Object-glass
Definition:
OB'JECT-GLASS, n.  In a telescope or microscope, the glass placed at the end of a tube next the object.


Topic: Objection
Definition:
OBJEC'TION, n.  [L. objectio.]
1.  The act of objecting.
2.  That which is presented in opposition; adverse reason or argument.  The defendant urged several objections to the plaintiff's claims.  The plaintiff has removed or overthrown those objections.
3.  That which may be offered in opposition; reason existing, though not offered, against a measure or an opinion.  We often have objections in our minds which we never offer or present in opposition.
4.  Criminal charge; fault found.


Topic: Objective
Definition:
OBJECT'IVE, a. 
1.  Belonging to the object; contained in the object.
Objective certainty, is when the proposition is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we are certain of the truth of it.  The one is in things, the other in our minds.
2.  In grammar, the objective case is that which follows a transitive verb or a preposition; that case in which the object of the verb is placed, when produced or affected by the act expressed by the verb.  This case in English answers to the oblique cases of the Latin.


Topic: Objectively
Definition:
OBJECT'IVELY, adv.  
1.  In the manner of an object; as a determinate idea objectively in the mind.
2.  In the state of an object.


Topic: Objectiveness
Definition:
OBJECT'IVENESS, n.  The state of being an object.
Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light?


Topic: Objector
Definition:
OBJECT'OR, n.  One that objects; one that offers arguments or reasons in opposition to a proposition or measure.


Topic: Objurgation
Definition:
OBJURGA'TION, n.  [L. objurgatio.]  The act of chiding by way of censure; reproof; reprehension.  [Little used.]


Topic: Oblada
Definition:
OBLA'DA, n.  A fish of the sparus kind, variegated with longitudinal lines, and having a large black spot on each side near the tail.


Topic: Oblate
Definition:
OBLA'TE, a.  [L. oblatur, offero; ob and fero, to bear.]
Flattened or depressed at the poles; as an oblate spheroid, which is the figure of the earth.


Topic: Oblation
Definition:
OBLA'TION, n.  [L. oblatio, from offero; ob and fero, to bear or bring.]
Any thing offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.
Bring no more vain oblations.  Is. 1.


Topic: Obligate
Definition:
OB'LIGATE, v.t.  [L. obligo; ob and ligo, to bind.]
To bind, as one's self, in a moral and legal sense; to impose on, as a duty which the law or good faith may enforce.  A man may obligate himself to pay money, or erect a house, either by bond, by covenant or by a verbal promise.  A man obligates himself only by a positive act of his own.  We never say, a man obligates his heirs or executors.  Until recently, the sense of this word has been restricted to positive and personal acts; and when moral duty or law binds a person to do something, the word oblige has been used.  But this distinction is not now observed.
The millions of mankind, as one vast fraternity, should feel obligated by a sense of duty and the impulse of affection, to realize the equal rights and to subserve the best interests of each other.
That's your true plan, to obligate the present minister of state.


Topic: Obligation
Definition:
OBLIGA'TION, n.  [L. obligatio.]
1.  The binding power of a vow, promise, oath or contract, or of law, civil, political or moral, independent of a promise; that which constitutes legal or moral duty, and which renders a person liable to coercion and punishment for neglecting it.  The laws and commands of God impose on us an obligation to love him supremely, and our neighbor as ourselves.  Every citizen is under an obligation to obey the laws of the state.  Moral obligation binds men without promise or contract.
2.  The binding force of civility, kindness or gratitude, when the performance of a duty cannot be enforced by law.  Favors conferred impose on men an obligation to make suitable returns.
3.  Any act by which a person becomes bound to do something to or for another, or to forbear something.
4.  In law, a bond with a condition annexed and a penalty for non-fulfillment.


Topic: Obligatory
Definition:
OB'LIGATORY, a.  Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; followed by on; to is obsolete.
As long as law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due.


Topic: Oblige
Definition:
OBLI'GE, v.t.  pronounced as written, not oblege.  [L. obligo; ob and ligo, to bind.]
1.  To constrain by necessity; to compel by physical force.  an admiral may be obliged to surrender his ships, or he may be obliged by adverse winds to delay sailing.
2.  To constrain by legal force; to bind in law.  We are obliged to pay toll for supporting roads and bridges.
3.  To bind or constrain by moral force.  We are obliged to believe positive and unsuspected testimony.
4.  To bind in conscience or honor; to constrain by a sense of propriety.  We are often obliged to conform to established customs, rites or ceremonies.  To be obliged to yield to fashion is often the worst species of tyranny.
5.  To do a favor to; to lay under obligation of gratitude; as, to oblige one with a loan of money.
6.  To do a favor to; to please; to gratify.  Oblige us with your company at dinner.
7.  To indebt.
To those hills we are obliged for all our metals.


Topic: Obliging
Definition:
OBLI'GING, ppr.
1.  Binding in law or conscience; compelling; constraining.
2.  Doing a favor to.
No man can long be the enemy of one whom he is in the habit of obliging.
OBLI'GING, a.  Having the disposition to do favors, or actually conferring them; as an obliging man; a man of an obliging disposition; hence, civil; complaisant; kind.
Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger that desires the sight of them.


Topic: Obligingness
Definition:
OBLI'GINGNESS, n.
1.  Obligation.  [Little used.]
2.  Civility; complaisance; disposition to exercise kindness.


Topic: Oblike
Definition:
OBLI'KE, a.  obli'ke.  [L. obliquus;.]
1.  Deviating from a right line; not direct; not perpendicular; not parallel; aslant.
It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion.
An oblique angle is either acute or obtuse; any angle except a right one.
An oblique line is one that, falling on another, makes oblique angles with it.
Oblique planes, in dialing, are those which decline from the zenith, or incline towards the horizon.
Oblique sailing, is when a ship sails upon some rhomb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.
2.  Indirect; by a side glance; as an oblique hint.
3.  In grammar, an oblique case is any case except the nominative.


Topic: Obliquation
Definition:
OBLIQUA'TION, n.  [L. obliquo, from obliquus, oblique.]
1.  Declination from a strait line or course; a turning to one side; as the obliquation of the eyes.
2.  Deviation from moral rectitude.


Topic: Obliquity
Definition:
OBLIQ'UITY, n.  [L. obliquitas.]
1.  Deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; as the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.
2.  Deviation from moral rectitude.
To disobey God or oppose his will in any thing imports a moral obliquity.
3.  Irregularity; deviation from ordinary rules.


Topic: Obliterate
Definition:
OBLIT'ERATE, v.t.  [L. oblitero; ob and litera, letter.]
1.  To efface; to erase or blot out any thing written; or to efface any thing engraved.  A writing may be obliterated by erasure, by blotting, or by the slow operation of time or natural causes.
2.  To efface; to wear out; to destroy by time or other means; as, to obliterate ideas or impressions; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity; to obliterate reproach.
3.  To reduce to a very low or imperceptible state.
The torpor of the vascular system and obliterated pulse.


Topic: Oblivion
Definition:
OBLIV'ION, n.  [L. oblivio.]
1.  Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance.
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
2.  A forgetting of offenses, or remission of punishment.  An act of oblivion is an amnesty, or general pardon of crimes and offenses, granted by a sovereign, by which punishment is remitted.


Topic: Oblivious
Definition:
OBLIV'IOUS, a.  [L. obliviosus.]
1.  Causing forgetfulness.
The oblivious calm of indifference.
Behold the wonders of th' oblivious lake.
2.  Forgetful.


Topic: Oblong
Definition:
OB'LONG, a.  [L. oblongus.]  Longer than broad.
OB'LONG, n.  A figure or solid which is longer than it is broad.


Topic: Obloquy
Definition:
OB'LOQUY, n.  [L. obloquor; ob and loquor, to speak.]
1.  Censorious speech; reproachful language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions.
Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth, be mentioned with obloquy and detraction?
2.  Cause of reproach; disgrace.  [Not used.]


Topic: Obluctation
Definition:
OBLUCTA'TION, n.  [L. obluctor; ob and luctor, to struggle.]
A struggling or striving against; resistance.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obmutescence
Definition:
OBMUTES'CENCE, n.  [L. obmutesco, to be silent.]
1.  Loss of speech; silence,
2.  A keeping silence.


Topic: Obnoxious
Definition:
OBNOX'IOUS, a.  [L. obnoxius; ob and noxius, hurtful, from noceo.]
1.  Subject; answerable.
The writings of lawyers, which are tied and obnoxious to their particular laws.
2.  Liable; subject to cognizance or punishment.
We know ourselves obnoxious to God's severe justice.
3.  Liable; exposed; as friendship obnoxious to jealousies.
4.  Reprehensible; censurable; not approved; as obnoxious authors.
5.  Odious; hateful; offensive; with to; as, the minister was obnoxious to the whigs.
6. Hurtful; noxious.


Topic: Obnoxiously
Definition:
OBNOX'IOUSLY, adv.  
1.  In a state of subjection or liability.
2.  Reprehensibly; odiously; offensively.


Topic: Obnoxiousness
Definition:
OBNOX'IOUSNESS, n.
1.  Subjection or liableness to punishment.
2.  Odiousness; offensiveness.  The obnoxiousness of the law rendered the legislature unpopular.


Topic: Obolus
Definition:
OB'OLUS, n.  [L. from G.]  A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about two cents in value, or a penny farthing sterling.


Topic: Obreption
Definition:
OBREP'TION, n.  [L. obrepo; ob and repo, to creep.]
The act of creeping on with secrecy or by surprise.


Topic: Obreptitious
Definition:
OBREPTI'TIOUS, a.  [supra.]  Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy or by concealment of the truth.


Topic: Obscene
Definition:
OBSCE'NE, a.  [L. obscaenus.]
1.  Offensive to chastity and delicacy; impure; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity and decency forbid; to be exposed; as obscene language; obscene pictures.
2.  Foul; filthy; offensive; disgusting.
A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.
3.  Inauspicious; ill omened.
At the cheerful light, the groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight.


Topic: Obscuration
Definition:
OBSCURA'TION, n.  [L. obscuratio.] 
1.  The act of darkening.
2.  The state of being darkened or obscured; as the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.


Topic: Obscure
Definition:
OBSCU'RE, a.  [L. obscurus.]
1.  Dark; destitute of light.
Whoso curseth his father or mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.  Prov. 20.
2.  Living in darkness; as the obscure bird.
3.  Not easily understood; not obviously intelligible; abstruse; as  an obscure passage in a writing.
4.  Not much known or observed; retired; remote from observation; as an obscure retreat.
5.  Not noted; unknown; unnoticed; humble; mean; as an obscure person; a person of obscure birth.
6.  Not easily legible; as an obscure inscription.
7.  Not clear, full or distinct; imperfect; as an obscure view of remote objects.
OBSCU'RE, v.t.  [L. obscuro.]
1.  To darken; to make dark.  The shadow of the earth obscures the moon, and the body of the moon obscures the sun, in an eclipse.
2.  To cloud; to make partially dark.  Thick clouds obscure the day.
3.  To hide from the view; as, clouds obscure the sun.
4.  To make less visible.
Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love, and I should be obscured.
5.  To make less legible; as, time has obscured the writing.
6.  To make less intelligible.
There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of the learned as this.
7.  To make less glorious, beautiful or illustrious.
- And see'st not sin obscures thy godlike frame?
8.  To conceal; to make unknown.
9.  To tarnish; as, to obscure brightness.


Topic: Obscurely
Definition:
OBSCU'RELY, adv.
1.  Darkly; not clearly; imperfectly; as an object obscurely seen; obscurely visible.
2.  Out of sight; in a state not to be noticed; privately; in retirement; not conspicuously.
There live retired, content thyself to be obscurely good.
3.  Not clearly; not plainly to the mind; darkly; as future events obscurely revealed.
4.  Not plainly; indirectly; by hints or allusion.


Topic: Obsecration
Definition:
OBSECRA'TION, n.
1.  Intreaty; supplication.
2.  A figure of rhetoric, in which the orator implores the assistance of God or man.


Topic: Obsequies
Definition:
OB'SEQUIES, n. plu.  [L. obsequium, complaisance, from obsequor, to follow.]
Funeral rites and solemnities; the last duties performed to a deceased person.
[Milton uses the word in the singular, but the common usage is different.]


Topic: Obsequious
Definition:
OBSE'QUIOUS, a.  [from L. obsequium, complaisance, from obsequor, to follow; ob and sequor.]
1.  Promptly obedient or submissive to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of others, properly to the will or command of a superior, but in actual use, it often signifies yielding to the will or desires of such as have no right to control.
His servants weeping, obsequious to his orders, bear him hither.
2.  Servilely or meanly condescending; compliant to excess; as an obsequious flatterer, minion or parasite.
3.  Funereal; pertaining to funeral rites.  [Not used.]


Topic: Obsequiously
Definition:
OBSE'QUIOUSLY, adv. 
1.  With ready obedience; with prompt compliance.
They rise and with respectful awe, at the word given, obsequiously withdraw.
2.  With reverence for the dead.  [Not used.]


Topic: Obsequiousness
Definition:
OBSE'QUIOUSNESS, n.  
1.  Ready obedience; prompt compliance with the orders of a superior.
2.  Servile submission; mean or excessive complaisance.
They apply themselves both to his interest and humor, with all the arts of flattery and obsequiousness.


Topic: Observable
Definition:
OBSERV'ABLE, a. s as z.  [See Observe.]
1.  That may be observed or noticed.
2.  Worthy of observation or of particular notice; remarkable.
I took a just account of every observable circumstance of the earth, stone, metal or other matter.


Topic: Observance
Definition:
OBSERV'ANCE, n. s as z.
1.  The act of observing; the act of keeping or adhering to in practice; performance; as the observance of rules, rites, ceremonies or laws.
Love rigid honesty, and strict observance of impartial laws.
2.  Respect; ceremonial reverence in practice.
To do observance on the morn of May.
3.  Performance of rites, religious ceremonies or external service.
Some represent to themselves the whole of religion as consisting in a few easy observances.
4.  Rule of practice; thing to be observed.
5.  Observation; attention.  [Little used.]
6.  Obedient regard or attention.
Having had experience of his fidelity and observance abroad.  [Not used.]


Topic: Observant
Definition:
OBSERV'ANT, a. s as z.
1.  Taking notice; attentively viewing or noticing; as an observant spectator or traveler.
2.  Obedient; adhering to in practice; with of.  He is very observant of the rules of his order.
We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle.
3.  Carefully attentive; submissive.
OBSERV'ANT, n. s as z.  
1.  A slavish attendant.  [Not in use.]
2.  A diligent observer.


Topic: Observation
Definition:
OBSERVA'TION, n. s as z.  [L. observatio.  See Observe.]
1.  The act of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing or of fixing the mind on any thing.  We apply the word to simple vision, as when one says, a spot on the sun's disk did not fall under his observation; or to the notice or cognizance of the mind, as when one says, the distinction made by the orator escaped his observation.  When however it expresses vision, it often represents a more fixed or particular view than a mere transient sight; as an astronomical observation.
2.  Notion gained by observing; the effect or result of seeing or taking cognizance in the mind, and either retained in the mind or expressed in words; inference or something arising out of the act of seeing or noticing, or that which is produced by thinking and reflecting on a subject; note; remark; animadversion.  We often say, I made the observation in my own mind; but properly an observation is that which is expressed as the result of viewing or of thinking.
In matters of human prudence, we shall find the greatest advantage by making wise observations on our conduct.
3.  Observance; adherence to in practice; performance of what is prescribed.
He freed the christian church from the external observation and obedience of legal precepts not formally moral.
4.  In navigation, the taking of the altitude of the sun or a star in order to find the latitude.


Topic: Observatory
Definition:
OBSERV'ATORY, n s as z.
A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies; as the royal observatory at Greenwich.


Topic: Observe
Definition:
OBSERVE, v.t. obzerv'.  [L. observo; ob and servo, to keep or hold.  The sense is to hold in view, or to keep the eyes on.]
1.  To see or behold with some attention; to notice; as, to observe a halo round the moon; I observed a singular phenomenon; we observe strangers or their dress.  I saw the figure, but observed nothing peculiar in it.
2.  To take notice or cognizance of by the intellect.  We observe nice distinctions in arguments, or a peculiar delicacy of thought.
3.  To utter or express, as a remark, opinion or sentiment; to remark.  He observed that no man appears great to his domestics.
4.  To keep religiously; to celebrate.
A night to be much observed to the Lord.  Ex. 12.
Ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread.  Ex. 12.
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.  Gal. 4.
5.  To keep or adhere to in practice; to comply with; to obey; as, to observe the laws of the state; to observe the rules and regulations of a society.
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.  Matt. 28.
6.  To practice.
In the days of Enoch, the people observed not circumcision or the sabbath.
OBSERVE, v.i. observ'.
1.  To remark.  I have heard the gentleman's arguments, and shall hereafter observe upon them.
2.  To be attentive.


Topic: Observed
Definition:
OBSERV'ED, pp. s as z.  
1.  Noticed by the eye or the mind.
2.  Kept religiously; celebrated; practiced.


Topic: Observer
Definition:
OBSERV'ER, n.  s as z.
1.  One who observes; one that takes notice; particularly, one who looks to with care, attention or vigilance.
Careful observers may foretell the hour, by sure prognostic, when to dread a shower.
Creditors are great observers of set days and times.
2.  A beholder; a looker on; a spectator.
3.  One who keeps any law, custom, regulation or rite; one who adheres to any thing in practice; one who performs; as a great observer of forms; an observer of old customs.
4.  One who fulfills or performs; as, he is a strict observer of his word or promise.
5.  One who keeps religiously; as an observer of the sabbath.


Topic: Observing
Definition:
OBSERV'ING, ppr.  s as z.
1.  Taking notice by the eye or the intellect.
2.  Remarking.
3.  Keeping; adhering to in practice; fulfilling.
4.  a.  Giving particular attention; habitually taking notice; attentive to what passes.  He is an observing man.


Topic: Obsession
Definition:
OBSESS'ION, n.  [L. obsessio.]  The act of besieging; the first attack of Satan antecedent to possession.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obsidian
Definition:
OBSID'IAN, n.  A mineral of two kinds, translucent and transparent.  The translucent has a velvet black color; the transparent is of a dark blue.  These occur massive in porphyry, gneiss or granite, generally invested with a gray opake crust.
The fracture of obsidian is vitreous or pearly; hence the two varieties, vitreous obsidian and pearlstone.


Topic: Obsolescent
Definition:
OBSOLES'CENT, a.  [L. obsolesco, to go out of use.]
Going out of use; passing into desuetude.
All the words compounded of here and a preposition, except hereafter, are obsolete or absolescent.


Topic: Obsolete
Definition:
OBSOLE'TE, a.  [L. obsoletus.]
1.  Gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; applied chiefly to words or writings.
2.  In botany, obscure; not very distinct.


Topic: Obsoleteness
Definition:
OBSOLE'TENESS, n.  
1.  The state of being neglected in use; a state of desuetude.
2.  In botany, indistinctness.


Topic: Obstacle
Definition:
OB'STACLE, n.  [L. obsto, to withstand; ob and sto.]
That which opposes; any thing that stands in the way and hinders progress; hinderance; obstruction, either in a physical or moral sense.  An army may meet with obstacles on its march; bad roads are obstacles to traveling; prejudice is an obstacle to improvement; want of union is often an insuperable obstacle to beneficial measures.


Topic: Obstetric
Definition:
OBSTET'RIC, a.  [L. obstetrix, a midwife; ob and sto, to stand before.]
Pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as the obstetric art.


Topic: Obstetricate
Definition:
OBSTET'RICATE, v.i.  [See Obstetric.]  To perform the office of a midwife.  [Little used.]
OBSTET'RICATE, v.t.  To assist as a midwife.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obstinacy
Definition:
OB'STINACY, n.  [L. obstinatio, from obsto, to stand against, to oppose; ob and sto.]
1.  A fixedness in opinion or resolution that cannot be shaken at all, or not without great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose or system; a fixedness that will not yield to persuasion, arguments or other means.  Obstinacy may not always convey the idea of unreasonable or unjustifiable firmness; as when we say, soldiers fight with obstinacy.  But often, and perhaps usually, the word denotes a fixedness of resolution which is not to be vindicated under the circumstances; stubbornness; pertinacity; persistency.
2.  Fixedness that will not yield to application, or that yields with difficulty; as the obstinacy of a disease or evil.


Topic: Obstinate
Definition:
OB'STINATE, a.  [L. obstinatus.]  
1.  Stubborn; pertinaciously adhering to an opinion or purpose; fixed firmly in resolution; not yielding to reason, arguments or other means.
I have known great cures done by obstinate resolutions of drinking no wine.
No ass so meek, no ass os obstinate.
2.  Not yielding or not easily subdued or removed; as an obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions; an obstinate cough.


Topic: Obstinately
Definition:
OB'STINATELY, adv.  Stubbornly; pertinaciously; with fixedness of purpose not to be shaken, or not without difficulty; as a sinner obstinately bent on his own destruction.
Inflexible to ill and obstinately just.


Topic: Obstipation
Definition:
OBSTIPA'TION, n.  [L. obstipo; ob and stipo, to crowd.]
1.  The act of stopping up; as a passage.
2.  In medicine, costiveness.


Topic: Obstreperous
Definition:
OBSTREP'EROUS, a.  [L. obstreperus, from obstrepo, to roar; ob and strepo.]
Loud; noisy; clamorous; vociferous; making a tumultuous noise.
The players do not only connive at his obstreperous approbation, but repair at their own cost whatever damages he makes.


Topic: Obstruct
Definition:
OBSTRUCT', v.t.  [L. obstruo; ob and struo, to set.]
1.  To block up; to stop up or close; as a way or passage; to fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent passing; as, to obstruct a road, highway or channel; to obstruct the canals or fine vessels of the body.
2.  To stop; to impede; to hinder in passing; as, the bar at the mouth of the river obstructs the entrance of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun.
3.  To retard; to interrupt; to render slow.  Progress is often obstructed by difficulties, though not entirely stopped.


Topic: Obstructed
Definition:
OBSTRUCT'ED, pp.
1.  Blocked up; stopped; as a passage.
2.  Hindered; impeded; as progress.
3.  Retarded; interrupted.


Topic: Obstruction
Definition:
OBSTRUC'TION, n.  [L. obstructio.]
1.  The act of obstructing.
2.  Obstacle; impediment; any thing that stops or closes a way or channel.  Bars of sand at the mouths of rivers are often obstructions to navigation.
3.  That which impedes progress; hinderance.  disunion and party spirit are often obstructions to legislative measures and to public prosperity.
4.  A heap.  [Not proper.]


Topic: Obstructive
Definition:
OBSTRUCT'IVE, a.  
Presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
OBSTRUCT'IVE, n.  Obstacle; impediment.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obstruent
Definition:
OB'STRUENT, a.  [L. obstruens.]  Blocking up; hindering.
OB'STRUENT, n.  Any thing that obstructs the natural passages in the body.


Topic: Obstupefaction
Definition:
OBSTUPEFAC'TION, n.  [L. obstupefacio.]  The act of making stupid or insensible.  [See Stupefaction, which is generally used.]


Topic: Obstupefactive
Definition:
OBSTUPEFAC'TIVE, a.  [L. obstupefacio.]  Stupefying; rendering insensible, torpid or inert.  [Little used.  See  Sti[efactove/]


Topic: Obtain
Definition:
OBTA'IN, v.t.  [L. obtineo; ob and teneo, to hold.]
1.  To get; to gain; to procure; in a general sense, to gain possession of a thing, whether temporary or permanent; to acquiare.  this word usually implies exertion to get possession, and in this it differs from receive, which may or may not imply exertion.  it differs from acquire, as genus from species; acquire being properly applied only to things permanently possessed; but obtain is applied both to things of temporary and of permanent possession.  We obtain loans of money on application; we obtain answers to letters; we obtain spirit from liquors by distillation and salts by evaporation.  We obtain by seeking; we often receive without seeking.  We acquire or obtain a good title to lands by deed, or by a judgment of court; but we do not acquire spirit by distillation; nor do we acquire an answer to a letter or an application.
He shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.  Dan. 11.
In whom we have obtained an inheritance.  Eph. 1.
2.  To keep; to hold.
OBTA'IN, v.i.
1.  To be received in customary or common use; to continue in use; to be established in practice.
The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, obtained in the western parts of the empire.
2.  To be established; to subsist in nature.
The general laws of fluidity, elasticity and gravity, obtain in animal and inanimate tubes.
3.  To prevail; to succeed.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obtend
Definition:
OBTEND', v.t.  [L. obtendo; ob and tendo; literally, to stretch against or before.]
1.  To oppose; to hold out in opposition.
2.  To pretend; to offer as the reason of any thing.  [Not used.  This word is rarely used.]


Topic: Obtenebration
Definition:
OBTENEBRA'TION, n.  [from L. ob and tenebrae, darkness.]
A darkening; act of darkening; darkness.
In every megrim or vertigo there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obtest
Definition:
OBTEST', v.t.  [L. obtestor; ob and testor, to witness.  To beseech; to supplicate.  
Obtest his clemency.
OBTEST', v.i.  To protest.


Topic: Obtrectation
Definition:
OBTRECTA'TION, n.  [L. obtrectatio, from obtrecto; ob and tracto.]
Slander; detraction; calumny.  [Little used.]  


Topic: Obtrude
Definition:
OBTRU'DE, v.t.  [L. obltrudo; ob and trudo, Eng. to thrust.]
1.  To thrust in or on; to throw, crowd or thrust into any place or state by force or imposition, or without solicitation.  Men obtrude their vain speculations upon the world.
A cause of common error is the credulity of men, that is, an easy assent to what is obtruded.
The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or not.
2.  To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge upon against the will.
Why shouldst thou then obtrude this diligence in vain, where no acceptance it can find?
To obtrude one's self, to enter a place where one is not desired; to thrust one's self in uninvited, or against the will of the company.


Topic: Obtruncate
Definition:
OBTRUN'CATE, v.t.  [L. obtrunco; ob and trunco, to cut off.]
To deprive of a limb; to lop.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obtrusion
Definition:
OBTRU'SION, n. s as z.  [L. obtrudo, obtrusus.]
The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.


Topic: Obtrusive
Definition:
OBTRU'SIVE, a.  Disposed to obtrude any thing upon others; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self among others, or to enter uninvited.
Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired, the more desirable.


Topic: Obtund
Definition:
OBTUND', v.t.  [L. obtundo; ob and tundo, to beat.]
To dull; to blunt; to quell; to deaden; to reduce the edge, pungency or violent action of any thing; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.


Topic: Obturation
Definition:
OBTURA'TION, n.  [L. obturatus, from obturo, to stop up.]
The act of stopping by spreading over or covering.


Topic: Obturator
Definition:
OB'TURATOR, n.  In anatomy, the obturators are muscles which rise from the outer and inner side of the pelvis around foramen thyroideum, and are rotators of the thigh.


Topic: Obtusangular
Definition:
OBTUSANG'ULAR, a.  [obtuse and angular.]
Having angles that are obtuse, or larger than right angles.


Topic: Obtuse
Definition:
OBTU'SE, a.  [L. obtusus, from obtundo, to beat against.]
1.  Blunt; not pointed or acute.  Applied to angles, it denotes one that is larger than  a right angle, or more than ninety degrees.
2.  Dull; not having acute sensibility; as obtuse senses.
3.  Not sharp or shrill; dull; obscure; as obtuse sound.


Topic: Obtuseness
Definition:
OBTU'SENESS, n.
1.  Bluntness; as the obtuseness of an edge or a point.
2.  Dullness; want of quick sensibility; as the obtuseness of the senses.
3.  Dullness of sound.


Topic: Obtusion
Definition:
OBTU'SION, n. s as z. 
1.  The act of making blunt.
2.  The state of being dulled or blunted; as the obtusion of the senses.


Topic: Obumbrate
Definition:
OBUM'BRATE, v.t.  [L. obumbro; ob and umbra, a shade.]
To shade; to darken; to cloud.  [Little used.]


Topic: Obvention
Definition:
OBVEN'TION, n.  [L. obvenio, ob and venio, to come.]
Something occasional; that which happens not regularly, but incidentally.  [Not used.]


Topic: Obversant
Definition:
OBVERS'ANT, a.  [L. obversans, obversor; ob and versor, to turn.]
Conversant; familiar.  [Not used.]


Topic: Obviate
Definition:
OB'VIATE, v.t.  [L. obvius; ob and via, way.]
Properly, to meet in the way; to oppose; hence, to prevent by interception, or to remove at the beginning or in the outset; hence in present usage, to remove in general, as difficulties or objections; to clear the way of obstacles in reasoning, deliberating or planning.
To lay down every thing in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions.


Topic: Obvious
Definition:
OB'VIOUS, a.  [L. obvus.  See the Verb.]
1.  Meeting; opposed in front.
I to the evil turn my obvious breast.  [Not now used.]
2.  Open; exposed.  [Little used.]
3.  Plain; evident; easily discovered, seen or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect.  We say, a phenomenon obvious to the sight, or a truth obvious to the mind.


Topic: Obviously
Definition:
OB'VIOUSLY, adv. 
1.  Evidently; plainly; apparently; manifestly.  Men do not always pursue what is obviously their interest.
2.  Naturally.
3.  Easily to be found.


Topic: Occasion
Definition:
OCCA'SION, n. s as z.  [L. occasio, from oceido, to fall; ob and cado.]
1.  Properly, a falling, happening or coming to; an occurrence, casualty, incident; something distinct from the ordinary course or regular orders of things.
2.  Opportunity; convenience; favorable time, season or circumstances.
I'll take th' occasion which he give to bring him to his death.
Use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh.  Gal. 5.
Sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.  
Rom. 7.
3.  Accidental cause; incident, event or fact giving rise to something else.  What was the occasion of this custom?
Her beauty was the occasion of the war.
4.  Incidental need; casual exigency; opportunity accompanied with need or demand.  So we say, we have occasion for all our resources.  We have frequent occasions for assisting each other.
The ancient canons were well fitted for the occasion of the church in its purer ages.
My occasions have found time to use them toward a supply of money.
OCCA'SION, v.t.  
1.  To cause incidentally; to cause; to produce.  The expectation of war occasions a depression in the price of stocks.  Consumptions are often occasioned by colds.  Indigestion occasions pain in the head.  Heat occasions lassitude.
2.  To influence; to cause.
If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make several combinations of simple ideas into distinct modes -


Topic: Occasional
Definition:
OCCA'SIONAL, a. s as z.
1.  Incidental; casual; occurring at times, but not regular or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits.  We make occasional remarks on the events of the age.
2.  Produced by accident; as the occasional origin of a thing.
3.  Produced or made on some special event; as an occasional discourse.


Topic: Occasionally
Definition:
OCCA'SIONALLY, adv.  s as z.  According to incidental exigence; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly.  He was occasionally present at our meetings.  We have occasionally lent our aid.


Topic: Occasioner
Definition:
OCCA'SIONER, n. s as z.  One that causes or produces, either incidentally or otherwise.
He was the occasioner of loss to his neighbor.


Topic: Occasive
Definition:
OCCA'SIVE, a.  Falling; descending; western; pertaining to the setting sun.
Amplitude is ortive or occasive.


Topic: Occident
Definition:
OC'CIDENT, n.  [L. occidens, occido, to fall; ob and cade.]
The west; the western quarter of the hemisphere; so called from the decline or fall of the sun.


Topic: Occidental
Definition:
OCCIDENT'AL, a.  [L. occidentalis.]  Western; opposed to oriental; pertaining to the western quarter of the hemisphere, or to some part of the earth westward of the speaker or spectator; as occidental climates; occidental pearl; occidental gold.


Topic: Occipital
Definition:
OCCIP'ITAL, a.  [from L. occiput, the back part of the heat; ob and caput.]
Pertaining to the back part of the head, or to the occiput.


Topic: Occiput
Definition:
OC'CIPUT, n.  [L. ob and caput, head.]  The hinder part of the head, or that part of the skull which forms the hind part of the head.


Topic: Occision
Definition:
OCCIS'ION, n.  s as z.  [L. occisio, from occido, to kill; ob and caedo.]
A killing; the act of killing.  [Not used.]


Topic: Occlusion
Definition:
OCCLU'SION, n. s as z.  [L. occlusio.]  a shutting up; a closing.
[This is an elegant word, though little used.]


Topic: Occult
Definition:
OCCULT', a.  [L. occultus, occulo; ob and celo, to conceal.]
Hidden from the eye or understanding; invisible; secret; unknown; undiscovered; undetected; as the occult qualities of matter.
The occult sciences are magic, necromancy, &c.
Occult lines, in geometry, are such as are drawn with the compasses or a pencil, and are scarcely visible.


Topic: Occultation
Definition:
OCCULTA'TION, n.  [L. occultatio.]
1.  a hiding; also, the time a star or planet is hid from our sight, when eclipsed by the interposition of the body of a planet.
2.  In astronomy, the hiding of a star or planet from our sight, by passing behind some other of the heavenly bodies.


Topic: Occupancy
Definition:
OC'CUPANCY, n.  [L. occupo, to take or seize; ob and capio, to seize.]
1.  The act of taking possession.
2.  In law, the taking possession of a thing not belonging to any person.  the person who first takes possession of land is said to have or hold it by right of occupancy.
Occupancy gave the original right to the property in the substance of the earth itself.


Topic: Occupant
Definition:
OC'CUPANT, n.
1.  He that occupies or takes possession; he that has possession.
2.  In law, one that first takes possession of that which has no legal owner.  The right of property, either in wild beasts and fowls, or in land belonging to no person, vests in the first occupant.  The property in these cases follows the possession.


Topic: Occupation
Definition:
OCCUPA'TION, n.  [L. occupatio.]  
1.  The act of taking possession.
2.  Possession; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as lands in the occupation of AB.
3.  That which engages the time and attention; employment; business.  He devotes to study all the time that his other occupations will permit.
4.  The principal business of one's life; vocation; calling; trade; the business which a man follows to procure a living or obtain wealth.  Agriculture, manufactures and commerce furnish the most general occupations of life.  Painting, statuary, music, are agreeable occupations.  Men not engaged in some useful occupation commonly fall into vicious courses.


Topic: Occupier
Definition:
OC'CUPIER, n.
1.  One that occupies or takes possession.
2.  One who holds possession.
3.  One who follows an employment.  Ezek. 27.


Topic: Occupy
Definition:
OC'CUPY, v.t.  [L. occupo; ob and capio, to seize or take.]
1.  To take possession.  The person who first occupies land which has no owner, has the right of property.
2.  To keep in possession; to possess; to hold or keep for use.  The tenant occupies a farm under a lease of twenty one years.  A lodger occupies an apartment; a man occupies the chair in which he sits.
3.  To take up; to possess; to cover or fill.  The camp occupies five acres of ground.  Air may be so rarefied as to occupy a vast space.  The writing occupies a sheet of paper, or it occupies five lines only.
4.  To employ; to use.
The archbishop may have occasion to occupy more chaplains than six.
5.  To employ; to busy one's self.  Every man should be occupied, or should occupy himself, in some useful labor.
6.  To follow, as business.
All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.  Ezek. 27.
7.  To use; to expend.
All the gold that was occupied for the work - Ex. 38.  [Not now in use.]
OC'CUPY, v.i.  To follow business; to negotiate.
Occupy till I come.  Luke 19.


Topic: Occur
Definition:
OCCUR', v.i.  [L. occurro; ob and curro, to run.]
1.  Primarily, to meet; to strike against; to clash; and so used by Bentley, but this application is obsolete.
2.  To meet or come to the mind; to be presented to the mind, imagination or memory.  We say, no better plan occurs to me or to my mind; it does not occur to my recollection; the thought did not occur to me.
There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit.
3.  To appear; to meet the eye; to be found here and there.  This word occurs in twenty places in the Scriptures; the other word does not occur in a single place; it does not occur in the sense suggested.
4.  To oppose; to obviate.  [Not used.]


Topic: Occurrence
Definition:
OCCUR'RENCE, n.  
1.  Literally, a coming or happening; hence, any incident or accidental event; that which happens without being designed or expected; any single event.  We speak of an unusual occurrence, or of the ordinary occurrences of life.
2.  Occasional presentation.
Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new.


Topic: Ocean
Definition:
OCEAN, n.  o'shun.  [L. oceanus; Gr.; Heb. to encompass, whence a circle.  This is probably an error.  The word seems to have for its origin greatness or extent.]
1.  The vast body of water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe, called also the sea, or great sea.  It is customary to speak of the ocean as if divided into three parts, the Atlantic ocean, the Pacific ocean, and the Indian ocean; but the ocean is one mass or body, partially separated by the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa on one side, and by America on the other.
2.  An immense expanse; as the boundless ocean of eternity; oceans of duration and space.
OCEAN, a. o'shun.  Pertaining to the main or great sea; as the ocean wave; ocean stream.


Topic: Ocellated
Definition:
O'CELLATED, a.  [L. ocellatus, from ocellus, a little eye.]
1.  Resembling an eye.
2.  Formed with the figues of little eyes.


Topic: Ocher
Definition:
O'CHER, n.  [L. ochra; Gr. from pale.]
A variety of clay deeply colored by the oxyd of iron.  Its most common colors are red, yellow and brown.  It is used as a pigment.


Topic: Ocherous
Definition:
O'CHEROUS, a.  
1.  Consisting of ocher; as ocherous matter.
2.  Resembling ocher; as an ocherous color.


Topic: Ochlocracy
Definition:
OCHLOC'RACY, n.  [Gr. the people or a multitude, and to govern.]
A form of government in which the multitude or common people rule.


Topic: Ocra
Definition:
O'CRA, n.  A viscous vegetable substance in the West Indies, used in soups, &c.
It is obtained by boiling the green pods of the Hibiscus esculentus.  also, the name of the plant itself.


Topic: Octagon
Definition:
OC'TAGON, n.  [Gr. eight and angle.]
1.  In geometry, a figure of eight sides and eight angles.  When the sides and angles are equal, it is a regular octagon which may be inscribed in a circle.
2.  In fortification, a place with eight bastions.


Topic: Octahedron
Definition:
OCTAHE'DRON, n.  [Gr. eight and a base.]
In geometry, a solid contained by eight equal and equilateral triangles.  it is one of the five regular bodies.


Topic: Octant
Definition:
OC'TANT, n.  [L. octans, an eighth part, from octo, eight.]
In astronomy, that aspect of two planets in which they are distant from each other the eighth part of a circle or 45 degrees.


Topic: Octave
Definition:
OC'TAVE, a.  [infra.]  Denoting eight.
OC'TAVE, n.  [L. octavus, eighth.]
1.  The eighth day after a festival.
2.  Eight days together after a festival.
3.  In music, an eighth, or an interval of seven degrees or twelve semitones.  The octave is the most perfect of the chords, consisting of six full tones and two semitones major.  It contains the whole diatonic scale.


Topic: Octavo
Definition:
OCTA'VO, n.  [L. octavus, eighth.]  A book in which a sheet is folded into eight leaves.  The word is used as a noun or an adjective.  We say, an octavo, or an octavo volume.  The true phrase is, a book in octavo.


Topic: Octennial
Definition:
OCTEN'NIAL, a.  [L. octo, eight, and annus, year.]
1.  Happening every eighth year.
2.  Lasting eight years.


Topic: October
Definition:
OCTO'BER, n.  [L. from octo, eighth; the eighth month of the primitive Roman year which began in march.]
The tenth month of the year in our calendar, which follows that of Numa and Julius Caesar.


Topic: Octodecimal
Definition:
OCTODEC'IMAL, a.  [L. octo, eight, and decem, ten.]
In crystallography, designating a crystal whose prisms, or the middle part, has eight faces, and the two summits together ten faces.


Topic: Octofid
Definition:
OC'TOFID, a.  [L. octo, eight, and findo, to cleave.]
In botany, cleft or separated into eight segments; as a calyx.


Topic: Octogenary
Definition:
OC'TOGENARY, a.  [L. octogenarius, from octogeni, eighty.]  Of eighty years of age.
OC'TOGENARY, n.  A person eighty years of age.


Topic: Octostyle
Definition:
OC'TOSTYLE, n.  [Gr. eight, and style.]  In ancient architecture, the face of an edifice adorned with eight columns, or a range of eight columns.


Topic: Ocular
Definition:
OC'ULAR, a.  [L. ocularius, from oculus, eye.]
Depending on the eye; known by the eye; received by actual sight; as ocular proof; ocular demonstration or evidence.


Topic: Oculiform
Definition:
OC'ULIFORM, a.  [L. oculus, eye, and forma, form.]
In the form of an eye; resembling the eye in form; as an oculiform pebble.


Topic: Oculist
Definition:
OC'ULIST, n.  [from L. oculus, the eye.]  One skilled in diseases of the eyes, or one who professes to cure them.
Oculus beli, a semi-pellucid gem, a variety of agate of a grayish white color, variegated with yellow, and with a black central nucleus.  Its variegations resemble the pupil and iris of the eye.
Oculus cati, cat's eye or asteria, a beautiful gem approaching the nature of the opal, having a bright color which seems to be lodged deep in the stone, and which shifts as it is moved in various directions.  It is larger than a pea, and generally of a semi-circular form, naturally smooth.  It is found in the East and West Indies, and in Europe.
Oculus mundi, otherwise called hydrophane and lapis mutabilis, a precious stone of an opake whitish brown color, but becoming transparent by infusion in an aqueous fluid, and resuming its opacity when dry.  It is found in beds over the opals in Hungary, Silesia and Saxony, and over the chalcedonies and agates in Iceland.


Topic: Odd
Definition:
ODD, a.  
1.  Not even; not divisible into equal numbers; as one, three, five, seven, &c.
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
2.  Left or remaining after the union, estimate or use of even numbers; or remaining after round numbers or any number specified; as the odd number; the odd man.
Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed by a deluge.
3.  Singular; extraordinary; differing from what is usual; strange; as an odd phenomenon.
It sometimes implies dislike or contempt; as an odd fellow.
4.  Not noted; unheeded; not taken into the common account.
There are yet missing some few odd lads that you remember not.
5.  Uncommon; particular.
The odd man to perform all three perfectly is Joannes Sturmis.
6.  Uncommon; in appearance improper or not likely to answer the purpose.  This is an odd way of doing things.
Locke's Essay would be an odd book for a man to make himself master of, who would get a reputation by his critical writings.
7.  Separate from that which is regularly occupied; remaining unemployed.  I will take some odd time to do this business.  He may do it at odd times.


Topic: Oddity
Definition:
ODD'ITY, n.
1.  Singularity; strangeness; as the oddity of dress, manners or shape; oddity of appearance.
2.  A singular person; in colloquial language.  This man is an oddity.


Topic: Oddly
Definition:
ODD'LY, adv.
1.  Not evenly.  [Little used.]
2.  Strangely; unusually; irregularly; singularly; uncouthly; as oddly dressed; oddly formed.
A figure oddly turned.
A black substance lying on the ground very oddly shaped.


Topic: Oddness
Definition:
ODD'NESS, n.
1.  The state of being not even.
2.  Singularity; strangeness; particularity; irregularity; uncouthness; as the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event or accident.


Topic: Odds
Definition:
ODDS, n. s as z.  [It is used both in the singular and plural.]
1.  Inequality; excess of either compared with the other; difference in favor of one and against another.
Preeminent by so much odds.
In this example, much marks the singular number, and many cannot be used.
Cromwell, with odds of number and of fate -
All the odds between them has been the different scope given to their understandings to range in.
Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie.
There appeared at least four to one odds against them.
2.  Advantage; superiority.
3.  Quarrel; dispute; debate.
It is odds, more likely than the contrary.  It is odds that he will find a shrewd temptation.
At odds, in dispute; at variance; in controversy or quarrel.
That sets us all at odds.
Or they must always be at odds.


Topic: Ode
Definition:
ODE, n.  [L. ode; Gr.]  A short poem or song; a poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem.  The ode is of the greater or less kind; the less is characterized by sweetness and ease; the greater by sublimity, rapture and quickness of transition.
Pindar has left Olympic odes, Pythian odes, Nemean odes, and Isthmian odes.
The ode consists of unequal verses in stanzas or strophes.


Topic: Odious
Definition:
O'DIOUS, a.  [L. odiosus, from odi, I hated, Eng. hate.]
1.  Hateful; deserving hatred.  It expresses something less than detestable and abominable; as an odious name; odious vice.
All wickedness is odious.
2.  Offensive to the senses; disgusting; as an odious sight; an odious smell.
3.  Causing hate; invidious; as, to utter odious truth.
4.  Exposed to hatred.
He rendered himself odious to the parliament.


Topic: Odiously
Definition:
O'DIOUSLY, adv.
1.  Hatefully; in a manner to deserve or excite hatred.
2.  Invidiously; so as to cause hate.


Topic: Odiousness
Definition:
O'DIOUSNESS, n.
1.  Hatefulness; the quality that deserves or may excite hatred; as the odiousness of sin.
2.  The state of being hated.  [Not usual.]


Topic: Odium
Definition:
O'DIUM, n.  [L.]
1.  Hatred; dislike.  This measure brought a general odium on his government.
2.  The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
She threw the odium of the fact on me.


Topic: Odontalgic
Definition:
ODONTAL'GIC, a.  [Gr. a tooth, and pain.]  Pertaining to the tooth-ache.
ODONTAL'GIC, n.  A remedy for the tooth-ache.


Topic: Odoriferous
Definition:
ODORIF'EROUS, a.  [L.  odoriferus; odor and fero, to bear.]
1.  Giving scent; diffusing fragrance; fragrant; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; as odoriferous spices; odoriferous flowers.
2.  Bearing scent; as odoriferous gales.


Topic: Of
Definition:
OF, prep. ov.  [Gr.]
1.  From or out of; proceeding from, as the cause, source, means, author or agent bestowing.
I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you.  1Cor. 11.
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts.  Josh. 11.
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.  
Lam. 3.
The whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.  Prov. 16.
Go, inquire of the Lord for me.  2Chron. 34.
That holy thing that shall be born of thee.  Luke 1.
Hence of is the sign of the genitive case, the case that denotes production; as the son of man, the son proceeding from man, produced from man. This is the primary sense, although we now say, produced by man. 'Part of these were slain;' that is, a number separate, for part denotes a division; the sense then is, a number from or out of the whole were slain. So also, 'some of these were slain;' that is, some from or out of others. 'I have known him of old, or of a child;' that is, from old times, from a child. 'He is of the race of kings;' that is, descended from kings. 'He is of noble blood or birth, or of ignoble origin.'  'No particle of matter, or no body can move of itself;' that is, by force or strength proceeding from itself, derived from itself.
'The quarrel is not now of fame and tribute, or of wrongs done;' that is, from fame or wrongs, as the cause, and we may render it concerning, about, relating to.
'Of this little he had some to spare;' that is, some from the whole.  It may be rendered out of.
'Of all our heroes thou canst boast alone;' that is, thou alone from the number of heroes.  This may be rendered among.
'The best of men, the most renowned of all;' that is, the best from the number of men, the most renowned from the whole; denoting primarily separation, like part.
'I was well entertained of the English Consul;' that is, entertained from the Consul; my entertainment was from the Consul.  This use is obsolete, and we use by in lieu of it.
'This does of right belong to us;' that is, from right, de jure; our title proceeds from right.
'The chariot was all of cedar;' that is, made from cedar.  So we say, made of gold, made of clay; an application corresponding with our modern use of from; manufactured from wool, or from raw materials.  Hence we say, cloth consisting of wool.  'This is a scheme of his own devising;' that is, from his own devising or device.  'If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth;' that is, as from the ability, as the source of action.
'Of happy, he is become miserable;' that is, from happy; from being happy, he has passed to being miserable.  'Of necessity this must prove ruinous;' that is, from necessity, as the cause or source.  'Of a hundred take fifty;' that is, from a hundred, or out of a hundred, from among a hundred.
Of sometimes implies a part or share.
It is a duty to communicate of those blessings we have received.
From is then the primary sense of this preposition; a sense retained in off, the same word differently written for distinction.  But this sense is appropriately lost in many of its applications; as a man of genius, a man of courage, a man of rare endowments, a fossil of a red color, or of a hexagonal figure.  he lost all hope of relief.  This is an affair of the cabinet.  He is a man of decayed fortune.  What is the price of corn?  We say that of, in these and similar phrases, denotes property or possession, making of the sign of the genitive or possessive case.  These applications, however, all proceeded from the same primary sense.  That which proceeds from or is produced by a person, is naturally the property or possession of that person, as the son of John; and this idea of property in the course of time would pass to things not thus produced, but still bearing a relation to another thing.  Thus we say, the father of a son, as well as the son of a father.  In both senses, other languages also use the same word, as in the French de, de la, and Italian di, dell.  Of then has one primary sense, from, departing, issuing, proceeding from or out of, and a derivative sense denoting possession or property.


Topic: Offal
Definition:
OF'FAL, n.
1.  Waste meat; the parts of an animal butchered which are unfit for use or rejected.
2.  Carrion; coarse meat.
3.  Refuse; that which is thrown away as of no value, or fit only for beasts.
4.  Any thing of no value; rubbish.


Topic: Offend
Definition:
OFFEND', v.t.  [L. offendo; of and fendo, obs. to strike, hit, meet, or thrust against.  We use the simple verb in fend, to fend off, to fence.]
1.  To attack; to assail.  [Not used.]
2.  To displease; to make angry; to affront.  It expresses rather less than make angry, and without any modifying word, it is nearly synonymous with displease.  We are offended by rudeness, incivility and harsh language.  Children offend their parents by disobedience, and parents offend their children by unreasonable austerity or restraint.
The emperor was grievously offended with them who had kept such negligent watch.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city.  Prov. 18.
3.  To shock; to wound; as, to offend the conscience.
4.  To pain; to annoy; to injure; as, a strong light offends weak eyes.
5.  To transgress; to violate; as, to offend the laws.  But we generally use the intransitive verb in this sense, with against; to offend against the law.
6.  To disturb, annoy, or cause to fall or stumble.
Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.  Ps. 119.
7.  To draw to evil, or hinder in obedience; to cause to sin or neglect duty.
If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out - if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.  Matt. 5.
OFFEND', v.i.
1.  To transgress the moral or divine law; to sin; to commit a crime.
Whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, is guilty of all.  James 2.
In many things we offend all.  James 3.
2.  To cause dislike or anger.
I shall offend, either to detain or to give it.
But this phrase is really elliptical, some person being understood.
3.  To be scandalized; to be stumbled.
If meat make my brother to offend - 1Cor. 8.
1.  To offend against, to act injuriously or unjustly.
Nor yet against Caesar have I offended any thing at all.  Acts 25.
2.  To transgress; to violate; as, to offend against the laws of society, the laws of God, or the rules of civility or propriety.
We have offended against the Lord already.  2Chron. 28.


Topic: Offender
Definition:
OFFEND'ER, n.  One that offends; one that violates any law, divine or human; a criminal; a trespasser; a transgressor; one that does an injury.  The man who robs, steals, or commits an assault, is an offender.


Topic: Offense
Definition:
OFFENSE, n.  offens'.  [L. offensus, offensa.]
1.  Displeasure; anger, or moderate anger.  He gave them just cause of offense.  He took offense.
2.  Scandal; cause of stumbling.  Christ is called a stone of stumbling and rock of offense to both the houses of Israel.  Ps. 8.
3.  Any transgression of law, divine or human; a crime; sin; act of wickedness or omission of duty.
Christ was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification.  Rom. 4.
4.  An injury.
I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offense to their memories.
5.  Attack; assault; as a weapon of offense.
6.  Impediment.  Matt. 16.


Topic: Offensive
Definition:
OFFENS'IVE, a.  
1.  Causing displeasure or some degree of anger; displeasing.  All sin is offensive to God.  Rude behavior is offensive to men.  Good breeding forbids us to use offensive words.
2.  Disgusting; giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; as an offensive taste or smell; an offensive sight.  discordant sounds are offensive to the ears.
3.  Injurious.
It is an excellent opener for the liver, but offensive to the stomach.
4.  Assailant; used in attack; opposed to defensive; as an offensive weapon or engine.
5.  Assailant; invading; making the first attack; opposed to defensive; as an offensive war.
A league offensive and defensive, is one that requires both or all parties to make war together against a nation, and each party to defend the other in case of being attacked.
OFFENS'IVE, n.  The part of attacking; as, to act on the offensive.


Topic: Offensively
Definition:
OFFENS'IVELY, adv.
1.  In a manner to give displeasure; as language offensively harsh or sarcastic.
2.  Injuriously; mischievously.
3.  By way of invasion or first attack.  The enemy was not in a condition to act offensively.
4.  Unpleasantly to the senses.


Topic: Offensiveness
Definition:
OFFENS'IVENESS, n.  
1.  The quality that offends or displeases; as the offensiveness of rude language or behavior.
2.  Injuriousness; mischief.
3.  Cause of disgust; the quality that gives pain to the senses, or unpleasant sensations; as the offensiveness of smell or taste.


Topic: Offer
Definition:
OF'FER, v.t.  [L. offero; ob and fero, to bring.]
1.  Literally, to bring to or before; hence, to present for acceptance or rejection; to exhibit something that may be taken or received or not.  He offered me a sum of money.  He offered me his umbrella to defend me from the rain.
The heathen women under the Mogul, offer themselves to the flames at the death of their husbands.
2.  To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal to.
I offer thee three things.  2Sam. 24.
3.  To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; often with up.
Thou shalt offer every day a bullock as a sin-offering for atonement.  Ex. 29.
The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning.
A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices.  
1Peter 2.
4.  To present in prayer or devotion.
Offer to God thanksgiving.  Ps. 1.
5.  To bid, as a price, reward or wages; as, to offer ten eagles for a ring; to offer a hundred dollars a year for a laborer; to offer a salary.
6.  To present to the view or to the mind; as ideas which sense or reflection offers to the mind.
To offer violence, to assault; to attack or commence attack.
OF'FER, v.i. 
1.  To present itself; to be at hand.
Th' occasion offers and the youth complies.
2.  To present verbally; to declare a willingness.  He offered to accompany his brother.
3.  To make an attempt.
We came close to the shore and offered to land.
Formerly with at.
I will not offer at that I cannot master.  Obs.
OF'FER, n.  
1.  A proposal to be accepted or rejected; presentation to choice.  The prince made liberal offers, but they were rejected.
When offers are disdained, and love deny'd.
2.  First advance.
Force compels this offer.
3.  The act of bidding a price, or the sum bid.  By an offer we manifest a desire to buy.  When the seller declines accepting, he manifests that he thinks the offer not sufficient.
4.  Attempt; endeavor; essay.
It is the power of every one to make some essay, some offer and attempt.  [Nearly obsolete.]


Topic: Offered
Definition:
OF'FERED, pp.  Presented for acceptance or rejection; presented in worship or devotion; immolated; bid; presented to the eye or the mind.


Topic: Offering
Definition:
OF'FERING, ppr.  Presenting; proposing; sacrificing; bidding; presenting to the eye or mind.
OF'FERING, n.  That which is presented in divine service; an animal or a portion of bread or corn, or of gold and silver, or other valuable articles, presented to God as an atonement for sin, or as a return of thanks for his favors, or for other religious purpose; a sacrifice; an oblation.  In the Mosaic economy, there were burnt-offerings, sin-offerings, peace-offerings, trespass-offerings, thank-offerings,  wave-offerings, and wood-offerings.  Pagan nations also present offerings to their deities.  Christ by the offering of himself has superseded the use of all other offerings, having made atonement for all men.
When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed - Is. 53.


Topic: Offertory
Definition:
OF'FERTORY, n.  The act of offering, or the thing offered.  [Little used.]
1.  Offertory was properly an anthem chanted or a voluntary played on the organ during the offering and a part of the mass, in the Catholic church; but since the reformation it denotes certain sentences in the communion-office, read while the alms are collecting.
2.  Anciently, the linen on which the offering was laid.


Topic: Office
Definition:
OF'FICE, n.  [L. officium; ob and facio, to make or do.]
1.  A particular duty, charge or trust conferred by public authority and for a public purpose; an employment undertaken by commission or authority from government or those who administer it.  Thus we speak of the office of secretary of state, of treasurer, of a judge, of a sheriff, of a justice of the peace, &c.  Offices are civil, judicial, ministerial, executive, legislative, political, municipal, diplomatic, military, ecclesiastical, &c.
2.  A duty, charge or trust of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as the office of priest, in the Old Testament; and that of the apostles, in the New Testament.
Insomuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office.  Rom. 11.
3.  Duty or employment of a private nature; as the office of a midwife.  Ex. 1.
4.  That which is performed, intended or assigned to be done by a particular thing, or that which any thing is fitted to perform; answering to duty in intelligent beings.  We enjoy health when the several organs of the body perform their respective offices.
In this experiment, the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
5.  Business; particular employment.
Hesperus, whose office is to bring twilight upon the earth.
6.  Act of good or ill voluntarily tendered; usually in a good sense; as kind offices; offices of pity; pious offices.
7.  Act of worship.
8.  Formulary of devotion.
The Lord's prayer, the ten commandments and the creed, is a very good office for children if they are not fitted for more regular offices.
9.  A house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as the register's office; a lawyer's office.
10.  In architecture, an apartment appropriated for the necessary business or occasions of a palace or nobleman's house.  The word is used also for a building pertaining to a farm.
11.  In the canon law, a benefice which has no jurisdiction annexed to it.
12.  The person or persons entrusted with particular duties of a public nature.
- This office [of quarter-master-general] not to have the disposal of public money, except small occasional sums.
OF'FICE, v.t.  To perform; to do; to discharge.  [Not used.]


Topic: Officer
Definition:
OF'FICER, n.  A person commissioned or authorized to perform any public duty.  Officers are civil, military or ecclesiastical.  There are great officers of state, and subordinate officers.  Military and naval officers of the same grade usually take rank according to the dates of their commissions.  Non-commissioned officers are nominated by their captains, and appointed by the commanding officers of regiments.
OF'FICER, v.t.  To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.
Count Pulaski raised a legionary corps, which he officered principally with foreigners.


Topic: Official
Definition:
OFFI'CIAL, a.  
1.  Pertaining to an office or public trust.  The secretary is engaged in official duties.
2.  Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as an official statement or report.  We have official intelligence of the battle.
3.  Conducive by virtue of appropriate powers.
The stomach and other parts official to nutrition.  [Unusual.]
OFFI'CIAL, n.  An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, &c., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.


Topic: Officially
Definition:
OFFI'CIALLY, adv.  By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested; as accounts or reports officially verified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.


Topic: Officiate
Definition:
OFFI'CIATE, v.t.
1.  To act as an officer in his office; to transact the appropriate business of an office or public trust.  At this court the chief justice officiated.
The bishops and priests officiate at the altar.
2.  To perform the appropriate official duties of another.
OFFI'CIATE, v.t.  To give in consequence of office.
The stars officiate light.  [Improper.]


Topic: Officiating
Definition:
OFFI'CIATING, ppr.  Performing the appropriate duties of an office; performing the office of another.


Topic: Officinal
Definition:
OFFIC'INAL, a.  [L. officina, a shop.]
Used in a shop or belonging to it.  Officinal drugs, medicines and simples are such as are required to be constantly kept in the shops of apothecaries.


Topic: Officious
Definition:
OFFI'CIOUS, a.  [L. officiosus.]  
1.  Kind; obliging; doing kind offices.
Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious.
2.  Excessively forward in kindness; importunately interposing services.
You are too officious in her behalf that scorns your services.
3.  Busy; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern.


Topic: Officiously
Definition:
OFFI'CIOUSLY, adv.
1.  Kindly; with solicitous care.
Let thy goats officiously be nurs'd.
2.  With importunate or excessive forwardness.
Flattering crowds officiously appear, to give themselves, not you, a happy year.
3.  In a busy meddling manner.


Topic: Officiousness
Definition:
OFFI'CIOUSNESS, n.  
1.  Eagerness to serve; usually, an excess of zeal to serve others, or improper forwardness, interposing in affairs without being desired, or with a disposition to meddle with the concerns of others.
2.  Service.  [Little used.]


Topic: Offing
Definition:
OFF'ING, n.  [from off.]  That part of the sea which is at a good distance from the shore, or at a competent distance, where there is deep water and no need of a pilot.  We saw a ship in the offing.


Topic: Offscouring
Definition:
OFF'SCOURING, n.  [off and scour.]  That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.  Lam. 3.  1Cor. 4.


Topic: Offset
Definition:
OFF'SET, n.  [off and set.]
1.  A shoot; a sprout from the roots of a plant.
2.  In surveying, a perpendicular let fall from the stationary lines to the hedge, fence or extremity of an inclosure.
3.  In accounts, a sum, account or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent.
[This is also written set-off.]
OFF'SET, v.t.  To set one account against another; to make the account of one party pay the demand of another.


Topic: Offspring
Definition:
OFF'SPRING, n.  [off and spring.  
1.  A child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.  Act. 17.  Rev. 22.
2.  Propagation; generation.
3.  Production of any kind.


Topic: Oft
Definition:
OFT, adv.  Often; frequently; not rarely.  It was formerly used in prose and may be so used still; but is more generally used in poetry.
Oft she rejects, but never one offends.


Topic: Often
Definition:
OFTEN, adv. of'n. comp. oftener; superl. oftenset.  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
OFTEN, a.  of'n.  Frequent.  [Improper.]


Topic: Ogee
Definition:
OGEE', n.  
1.  In architecture, a molding consisting of two members, the one concave, the other convex, or of a round and a hollow somewhat like an S.
2.  In gunnery, an ornamental molding in the shape of an S, used on guns, mortars and howitzers.


Topic: Ogganition
Definition:
OGGANI'TION, n.  [L. obgannio, ogganio, to growl.]
The murmuring of a dog; a grumbling or snarling.  [Not used.]


Topic: Ogive
Definition:
OGIVE, n. o'jiv.  In architecture, an arch or branch of the Gothic vault, which passing diagonally from one angle to another forms a cross with the other arches.  The middle where the ogives cross each other, is called the key.  The members or moldings of the ogives are called nerves, branches or reins, and the arches which separate the ogives, double arches.


Topic: Ogle
Definition:
O'GLE, v.t.  [L. oculus.  See Eye.]
To view with side glances, as in fondness or with design to attract notice.
And ogling all their audience, then they speak.
O'GLE, n.  A side glance or look.


Topic: Oil
Definition:
OIL, n.  It seems to be named from its inflammability, for aelan, is to kindle, and to oil; hence anaelan, to anneal; aeled, fire.  L. oleum; Gr.]
An unctuous substance expressed or drawn from several animal and vegetable substances.  The distinctive characters of oil are inflammability, fluidity, and insolubility in water.  Oils are fixed or fat, and volatile or essential.  They have a smooth feel, and most of them have little taste or smell.  Animal oil is found in all animal substances.  Vegetable oils are produced by expression, infusion or distillation.
OIL, v.t.  To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.


Topic: Oiliness
Definition:
OIL'INESS, n.  The quality of being oily; unctuousness; greasiness; a quality approaching that of oil.


Topic: Oily
Definition:
OIL'Y, a.  
1.  Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the qualities of oil; as oily matter or substance.
2.  Resembling oil; as an oily appearance.
3.  Fatty; greasy.


Topic: Oint
Definition:
OINT, v.t.  [L. ungo, like joindre from jungo.]
To anoint; to smear with an unctuous substance.
They oint their naked limbs with mother'd oil.


Topic: Ointment
Definition:
OINT'MENT, n.  Unguent; any soft, unctuous substance or compound, used for smearing, particularly the body or a diseased part.


Topic: Oke
Definition:
OKE, n.  An Egyptian and Turkish weight, equal to about two pounds and three quarters, English avoirdupois weight.


Topic: Olate
Definition:
OLATE, v.t. [L. To lay waste, alone.]
1.  To deprive of inhabitants; to make desert.  The earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
2.  To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; to destroy improvements or works of art.  An inundation desolates fields.  Whole countries have been desolated by armies.


Topic: Old
Definition:
OLD, a.
1.  Advanced far in years or life; having lived beyond the middle period, or rather towards the end of life, or towards the end of the ordinary term of living; applied to animals or plants; as an old man; an old age; an old camel or horse; an old tree.  This adjective is placed after the noun that designates the time lived.
Abraham was seventy five years old when he departed from Haran.  Gen. 12.
2.  Having been long made or used; decayed by time; as an old garment; an old house.
3.  Being of long continuance; begun long ago; as an old acquaintance.
4.  Having been long made; not new or fresh; as old wine.
5.  Being of a former year's growth; not of the last crop; as old wheat; old hay.
6.  Ancient; that existed in former ages; as the old inhabitants of Britain; the old Romans.
7.  Of any duration whatever; as a year old; seven years old.  How old art thou?
8.  subsisting before something else.  He built a new house on the site of the old one.  The old law is repealed by the new.
9.  Long practiced.  he is grown old in vice.  He is an old offender.
10.  That has been long cultivated; as old land; an old farm; opposed to new land, land lately cleared and cultivated.
11.  More than enough; great.
If a man were porter of hellgate, he should have old turning the key.
12.  In vulgar language, crafty; cunning.  
Of old, long ago; from ancient times; as in days of old.
We apply old chiefly to things subject to decay.  We never say, the old sun, or an old mountain.


Topic: Old-fashioned
Definition:
OLD-FASH'IONED, a.  formed according to obsolete fashion or custom; as an old-fashioned dress.
Old-fashioned men of wit.


Topic: Old-wife
Definition:
OLD-WIFE, n.  
1.  A contemptuous name for an old prating woman.  1Tim. 4.
2.  A fish of the genus Labrus, and another of the genus Balistes.


Topic: Oldness
Definition:
OLDNESS, n.
1.  Old age; an advanced state of life or existence; as the oldness of a man, of an elephant or a tree.
2.  The state of being old, or of a long continuance; as the oldness of a building or a garment.
3.  Antiquity; as the oldness of monuments.


Topic: Oleander
Definition:
OLEAN'DER, n.  a plant of the genus Nerium the rose-bay or South sea rose; a beautiful shrub with flowers in clusters, of a fine purple color, but of an indifferent smell.  The plant, especially the bark of the roots, is said to be poisonous.


Topic: Olefiant
Definition:
OLEF'IANT, a.  [L. oleo, olfacio.]  Olefiant gas is a compound of one prime of carbon and one of hydrogen, called by Ure carbureted hydrogen, to distinguish it from the gas resulting from one prime of carbon and two of hydrogen, which he calls subcarbureted hydrogen.
Olefiant gas, is so called from its property of forming with chlorin a compound resembling oil.


Topic: Oleic
Definition:
O'LEIC, a.  [from oil.]  The oleic acid is obtained from a soap made by digesting hog's lard in potash lye.


Topic: Oleraceous
Definition:
OLERA'CEOUS, a.  [L. oleracceus, from olus, oleris, pot-herbs.]
Pertaining to pot-herbs; of the nature or qualities of herbs for cookery.


Topic: Olfact
Definition:
OLFACT', v.t.  [L. olfacto, olfacio; oleo, to smell, and facio, to make.]
To smell; used in burlesque, but not otherwise authorized.


Topic: Olfactory
Definition:
OLFACT'ORY, a.  [L. olfacio, supra.]  Pertaining to smelling; having the sense of smelling; as olfactory nerves.


Topic: Oligrachy
Definition:
OL'IGRACHY, n.  [Gr. few, and rule.]
A form of government in which the supreme power is placed in a few hands; a species of aristocracy.


Topic: Olio
Definition:
O'LIO, n.  [L. olla, a pot.]
1.  A mixture; a medley.
2.  A miscellany; a collection of various pieces; applied to musical collections.


Topic: Olitory
Definition:
OL'ITORY, a.  [L. olitor, a gardener, from olus, pot-herbs.]
Belonging to a kitchen garden; as olitory seeds.  It may perhaps be used as a noun.


Topic: Olive
Definition:
OL'IVE, n.  [L. oliva, from olea, an olive tree;  Gr.  See Oil]
A plant or tree of the genus Olea.  The common olive tree grows in warm climates and rises to the height of twenty or thirty feet, having an upright stem with numerous branches.  This tree is much cultivated in the south of Europe for its fruit, from which is expressed the olive oil, and which is used also for pickles.


Topic: Olympean
Definition:
OLYM'PEAN, a.  Pertaining to Olympus; or to Olympis, a town in Greece.
Olympic games, or Olympics, solemn games among the ancient Greeks, dedicated to Olympian Jupiter, and celebrated once in four years at Olympia.  [See Olympiad.]


Topic: Olympiad
Definition:
OLYM'PIAD, n.  [L. Olympias; Gr. from Olympus, a mountain of Macedonia.]
A period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, and constituting an important epoch in history and chronology.  The first Olympiad commenced 775 years before the birth of Christ, and 22 years before the foundation of Rome.  The computation by Olympiads ceased at the three hundred and sixty fourth Olympiad, in the year 440 of the christian era.


Topic: Ombrometer
Definition:
OMBROM'ETER, n.  [Gr. rain, and measure.]
A machine or instrument to measure the quantity of rain that falls.


Topic: Omega
Definition:
OME'GA, n.  [Gr. great O.]  The name of the last letter of the Greek alphabet, as Alpha, A, is the first.  Hence in Scripture, Alpha and Omega denotes the first and last, the beginning and the ending.  Rev.


Topic: Omen
Definition:
O'MEN, n.  [L. omen; Heb. an augur.]
A sign or indication of some future event; a prognostic.  Superstition and ignorance multiply omens; philosophy and truth reject all omens, except such as may be called causes of the events.  Without a miracle, how can one event be the omen of another with which it has no connection?


Topic: Omentum
Definition:
OMENT'UM, n.  [L.]  In anatomy, the caul or epiploon; a membranaceous covering of the bowels, being placed under the peritoneum and immediately above the intestines.


Topic: Ominous
Definition:
OM'INOUS, a.  [L. ominosus.]
1.  Foreboding or presaging evil; indicating a future evil event; inauspicious.
In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous.  
2.  Foreshowing or exhibiting signs of good.
Though he had a good ominous name to have made peace, nothing followed.


Topic: Omission
Definition:
OMIS'SION, n.  [L. omissio, from omitto, omissus.]
1.  Neglect or failure to do something which a person had power to do, or which duty required to be done.  Omission may be innocent or criminal; innocent, when no duty demands performance, but criminal when duty is neglected.
The most natural division of all offenses, is into those of omission and those of commission.
2.  A leaving out; neglect or failure; to insert or mention; as the omission of a word or clause.


Topic: Omit
Definition:
OMIT', v.t.  [L. omitto; ob and mitto, to send.]
1.  To leave, pass by or neglect; to fail or forbear to do or to use; as, to omit an opportunity of writing a letter.  To omit known duty is criminal.
2.  To leave out; not to insert or mention; as, to omit an important word in a deed; to omit invidious comparisons; to omit a passage in reading or transcribing.


Topic: Omnific
Definition:
OMNIF'IC, a.  [L. omnis, all, and facio, to make.]  All-creating.
Thou deep, peace! said then th' omnific word, your discord end.


Topic: Omnipotence
Definition:
OMNIP'OTENCE,'OTENCY, n.  [L. omnipotens; omnis, all, and potens, powerful.]
1.  Almighty power; unlimited or infinite power; a word in strictness applicable only to God.  Hence it is sometimes used for God.  The works of creation demonstrate the omnipotence of God.
Will Omnipotence neglect to save the suffering virtue of the wise and brave?
2.  Unlimited power over particular things; as the omnipotence of love.


Topic: Omnipotent
Definition:
OMNIP'OTENT, a.  [supra.]  
1.  Almighty; possessing unlimited power; all powerful.  The being that can create worlds must be omnipotent.
2.  Having unlimited power of a particular kind; as omnipotent love.


Topic: Omnipresence
Definition:
OMNIPRES'ENCE, n. s as z.  [L. omnis, and presens, present.]
Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity.  Omnipresence is an attribute peculiar to God.


Topic: Omniscient
Definition:
OMNIS'CIENT, a.  Having universal knowledge or knowledge of all things; infinitely knowing; all-seeing; as the omniscient God.


Topic: Omnium
Definition:
OM'NIUM, n.  [L. omnis, all.]  The aggregate of certain portions of different stocks in the public funds; a word in use among dealers in the English stocks.
Omnium denotes all the particulars included in the contract between government and the public for a loan.


Topic: Omnivorous
Definition:
OMNIV'OROUS, a.  [L. omnivorus; omnis, all, and voro, to eat.]
All-devouring; eating every thing indiscriminately.


Topic: Omphacine
Definition:
OM'PHACINE, a.  [Gr. from unripe fruit.]
Pertaining to or expressed from unripe fruit.  Omphacine oil is a viscous brown juice extracted from green olives.  With this the wrestlers in the ancient gymnastic exercises used to anoint their bodies.


Topic: Omphacite
Definition:
OM'PHACITE, n.  A mineral of a pale leek green color, massive or disseminated, and in narrow radiated concretions.


Topic: On
Definition:
ON, pre.  [L. in; Gr.  Hence they denote nearness, closeness or contiguity, and from meeting the Latin in and the English un have their power of negation or opposing.]
1.  Being in contact with the surface or upper part of a thing and supported by it; placed or lying in contact with the surface; as, my book is on the table; the table stands on the floor; the house rests on its foundation; we lie on a bed, or stand on the earth.
2.  Coming or falling to the surface of any thing; as, rain falls on the earth.
Whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken. 
Matt. 21.
3.  Performing or acting by contact with the surface, upper part or outside of anything; as, to play on a harp, a violin, or a drum.
4.  Noting addition; as heaps on heaps; mischief on mischief; loss on loss.
5.  At or near.  When we say, a vessel is on shore, we mean that she is aground; but when we say, a fleet on a ship is on the American coast, or an isle is situated on the coast of England, we mean only that it is near the coast.  So we say, on each side stands an armed man, that is, at or near each side.
So we say, Philadelphia is situated on the Delaware; Middlebury is on the Otter Creek; Guilford stands on the Sound; that is, near the river or Sound, instead of on the bank, side or shore.
6.  It denotes resting for support; as, to depend on, to rely on; hence, the ground of any thing; as, he will covenant on certain considerations or conditions; the considerations being the support of the covenant.
7.  At or in the time of; as, on the sabbath we abstain from labor.  We usually say, at the hour, on or in the day, in or on the week, month or year.
8.  At the time of, with some reference to cause or motive.  On public occasions, the officers appear in full dress or uniform.
9.  It is put before the object of some passion, with the sense of towards or for.  Have pity or compassion on him.
10.  At the peril of, or for the safety of.  Hence, on thy life.
11.  Denoting a pledge or engagement, or put before the thing pledged.  He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honor.
12.  Noting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling or resting on.  On us be all the blame.
His blood be on us, and on our children.  Matt. 27.
13.  In consequence of, or immediately after.  On the ratification of the treaty, the armies were disbanded.
14.  Noting part, distinction or opposition; as on one side and on the other.  On our part, expect punctuality.
On the way, on the road, denote proceeding, traveling, journeying, or making progress.
On the alert, in a state of vigilance or activity.
On high, in an elevated place; sublimely.
On fire, in a state of burning or inflammation, and metaphorically, in a rage or passion.
On a sudden, suddenly.
On the wing, in flight; flying; metaphorically, departing.
On it, on't, is used for of it.  I heard nothing on't.  the gamester has a poor trade on't.  [This use is now vulgar.]
Upon is used in the same sense with on, often with elegance, and frequently without necessity or advantage.
ON, adv.  
1.  Forward, in progression; as, move on; go on.
2.  Forward, in succession.  From father to son, from the son to the grandson, and so on.
3.  In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep on, take your ease; say on; sing on; write on.
4.  Adhering; not off; as in the phrase, 'he is neither on nor off,' that is, he is not steady; he is irresolute.
5.  Attached to the body; as, his clothes are not on.
To put on, to attach to the body, as clothes or arms.
On, when it expresses contact with the surface of a thing, is opposed to under, off, or within, and when it expresses contact with the side of a thing, is opposed to off.
On is sometimes used as an exclamation, or rather as a command to move or proceed, some verb being understood; as, cheerily on, courageous friends; that is, go on, move on.


Topic: Once
Definition:
ONCE, adv. wuns.  [from one.]
1.  One time.
Trees that bear mast are fruitful but once in two years.
2.  One time, though no more.  The mind once tainted with vice is prone to grow worse and worse.
3.  At one former time; formerly.
My soul had once some foolish fondness for thee, but hence 'tis gone.
4.  At the same point of time; not gradually.
At once the winds arise, the thunders roll.
At once, at the same time; as, they all moved at once; hence, when it refers to two or more, the sense is together, as one.
This hath all its force at once, on the first impression.
Once is used as a noun, when preceded by this or that; as this once, that once.
ONCE, n. ons.  A quadruped of the genus Felis, less than the panther, of a whitish gray color.  It is found in Africa and Asia, is easily tamed and is employed like a dog in hunting.


Topic: One
Definition:
ONE, a. wun.  [L. unus; Gr.]
1.  Single in number; individual; as one man; one book.  There is one sun only in our system of planets.
2.  Indefinitely, some or any.  You will one day repent of your folly.  But in this phrase, one day is equivalent to some future time.
3.  It follows any.
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom.  Matt. 13.
4.  Different; diverse; opposed to another.  It is one thing to promise, and another to fulfill.
5.  It is used with another, to denote mutuality or reciprocation.  Be kind and assist one another.
6.  It is used with another, to denote average or mean proportion.  The coins one with another, weigh seven penny weight each.
7.  One of two; opposed to other.
Ask from one side of heaven to the other.  Deut. 4.
8.  Single by union; undivided; the same.
The church is therefore one, though the members may be many.
9.  Single in kind; the same.
One plague was on you all and on your lords.  1Sam. 4.
1.  One day, on a certain or particular day, referring to time past.
One day when Phoebe fair with all her band was following the chase.
2.  Referring to future time; at a future time, indefinitely.  [See One, No. 2.]
At one, in union; in agreement or concord.
The king resolved to keep Ferdinand and Philip at one with themselves.
In one, in union; in one united body.
One, like many other adjectives is used without a noun, and is to be considered as a substitute for some noun understood.  Let the men depart one by one; count them one by one; every one has his peculiar habits; we learn of one another, that is, we learn, one of us learns of another.
In this use, as a substitute, one may be plural; as the great ones of the earth; they came with their little ones.
It also denotes union, a united body.
Ye are all one in Christ Jesus.  Gal 3.
One o'clock, one hour of the clock that is, as signified or represented by the clock.
One is used indefinitely for any person; as, one sees; one knows; after the French manner, on voit.  Our ancestors used man in this manner; man sees; man knows; 'man brohte,' man brought, that is, they brought.
This word we have received from the Latin through the Italian and French.  The same word from our Saxon ancestors we write an.


Topic: Oneirocritic
Definition:
ONEIROCRIT'IC, n.  [Gr. a dream, and discerning.]
An interpreter of dreams; one who judges what is signified by dreams.

ONEIROCRIT'IC, n.  The art of interpreting dreams.
ONEIROCRIT'IC,


Topic: Oneness
Definition:
ONENESS, n.  wun'ness.  [from one.]  Singleness in number; individuality; unity; the quality of being one.
Our God is one, or rather very oneness.


Topic: Onerary
Definition:
ON'ERARY, a.  [L. onerarius, from onus, a load; onero, to load.]
Fitted or intended for the carriage of burdens; comprising a burden.


Topic: Onerous
Definition:
ON'EROUS, a.  [L. onerosus, from onus, a load.
1.  Burdensome; oppressive.
2.  In Scots law, being for the advantage of both parties; as an onerous contract; opposed to gratuitous.


Topic: Onion
Definition:
ONION, n. un'yun.  
A plant of the genus Allium; and particularly, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food.


Topic: Onirocritic
Definition:
ONIROCRIT'IC, a.  Having the power of interpreting dreams or pretending to judge of future events signified by dreams.
My oneirocritical correspondent.


Topic: Only
Definition:
ONLY, a.  
1.  Single; one along; as, John was the only man present.
2.  This and no other.  This is an only child.
3.  This above all others.  He is the only man for music.


Topic: Onomancy
Definition:
ON'OMANCY, n.  [Gr. name, and divination.]  Divination by the letters of a name.
Destinies were superstitiously, by onomancy, deciphered out of names.


Topic: Onset
Definition:
ON'SET, n.  [on and set.]
1.  A rushing or setting upon; a violent attack; assault; a storming; appropriately, the assault of an army or body of troops upon an enemy or a fort.
The shout of battle now began and rushing sound of onset.
2.  An attack of any kind; as the impetuous onset of grief.
ON'SET, v.t.  To assault; to begin.  [Not used.]


Topic: Ontology
Definition:
ONTOL'OGY, n.  [Gr. from and discourse.]
That part of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essence of all beings, their qualities and attributes.


Topic: Onward
Definition:
ON'WARD, adv.  [L. versus.]
1.  Toward the point before or in front; forward; progressively; in advance; as, to move onward.
Not one looks backward, onward still he goes.
2.  In a state of advanced progression.
3.  A little further or forward.
ON'WARD, a.
1.  Advanced or advancing; as an onward course.
2.  Increased; improved.
3.  Conducting; leading forward to perfection.


Topic: Onycha
Definition:
ON'YCHA, n.  [from Gr.]  Supposed to be the odoriferous shell of the onyxfish, or the onyx.  Ex. 30.


Topic: Onyx
Definition:
ON'YX, n.  [Gr. a nail.  L. onyx.]  A semi-pellucid gem with variously colored zones or veins, a variety of chalcedony.


Topic: Oolite
Definition:
O'OLITE, n.  [Gr. an egg, and stone, from its resemblance to the roes of fish.]
Egg-stone, a variety of concreted carbonate of lime; oviform limestone.


Topic: Ooze
Definition:
OOZE, v.i.  ooz.  [The origin of this word is not easily ascertained.  Heb.  See  Issue.]
To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance, or through small openings.  Water oozes from the earth and through a filter.
The latent rill, scaree oozing through the grass.
OOZE, n. 
1.  Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently or easily yield to pressure.
2.  Soft flow; spring.
3.  The liquor of a tan-vat.


Topic: Opacity
Definition:
OPAC'ITY, n.  [L. opacitas.]  
1.  Opakeness; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency.  Opacity may exist in bodies of any color.
2.  Darkness; obscurity.


Topic: Opacous
Definition:
OPA'COUS, a.  [L. opacus.]
1.  Not pervious to the rays of light; not transparent.
2.  Dark; obscure.  [See Opake.]


Topic: Opake
Definition:
OPA'KE, a.  [L. opacus.]  
1. Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent. [This is the word now generally used.]  Chalk is an opake substance.
2.Dark; obscure.


Topic: Opal
Definition:
O'PAL, n.  [L. opalus or opalum.]  A stone of the silicious genus, and of several varieties.  It is one of the most beautiful of this genus, by reason of its changeableness of color by reflection and refraction.  Kirwan distributes opals into four families, opal, semi-opal, pitch stone [pechstein,] and ligniform.  Jameson divides opal into seven kinds.
Opal is a subspecies of indivisible quartz.


Topic: Opalescence
Definition:
OPALES'CENCE, n.  A colored shining luster reflected from a single spot in a mineral.  It is sometimes simple and sometimes stellar.


Topic: Open
Definition:
OPEN, a o'pn.
1.  Unclosed; not shut; as, the gate is open; an open door or window; an open book; open eyes.
2.  Spread; expanded.  He received his son with open arms.
3.  Unsealed; as an open letter.
4.  Not shut or fast; as an open hand.
5.  Not covered; as the open air; an open vessel.
6.  Not covered with trees; clear; as an open country or field.
7.  Not stopped; as an open bottle.
8.  Not fenced or obstructed; as an open road.
9.  Not frosty; warmer than usual; not freezing severely; as an open winter.
An open and warm winter portendeth a hot and dry summer.
Johnson interprets open, in this passage, by not cloudy, not gloomy.  I think the definition wrong.  In America, an open winter is one in which the earth is not bound with frost and covered with snow.
10.  Public; before a court and its suitors.  His testimony was given in open court.
11.  Admitting all persons without restraint; free to all comers.  He keeps open house at the election.
12.  Clear of ice; as, the river or the harbor is open.
13.  Plain; apparent; evident; public; not secret or concealed; as an open declaration; open avowal; open shame; open defiance.  The nations contend to open war or in open arms.
14.  Not wearing disguise; frank; sincere; unreserved; candid; artless.
He was held a man open and of good faith.
His generous, open undesigning heart.
15.  Not clouded; not contracted or frowning; having an air of frankness and sincerity; as an open look.
With aspect open shall erect his head.
16.  Not hidden; exposed to view.
We are to exercise our thoughts and lay open the treasures of divine truth.
17.  Ready to hear or receive what is offered.
His ears are open to their cry.  Ps. 34.
18.  Free to be employed for redress; not restrained or denied; not precluding any person.
The law is open.  Acts 19.
19.  Exposed; not protected; without defense.  The country is open to the invaders.
- Hath left me open to all injuries.
20.  Attentive; employed in inspection.
Thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men - Jer. 32.
21.  Clear; unobstructed; as an open view.
22.  Unsettled; not balanced or closed; as an open account.
Open accounts between merchants.
23.  Not closed; free to be debated; as a question open for discussion.
24.  In music, an open note is that which a string is tuned to produce.
OPEN, v.t. o'pn.
1.  To unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or cover and set open; as, to open a door or gate; to open a desk.
2.  To break the seal of a letter and unfold it.
3.  To separate parts that are close; as, to open the lips; to open the mouth or eyes or eyelids; to open a book.
4.  To remove a covering from; as, to open a pit.
5.  To cut through; to perforate; to lance; as, to open the skin; to open an abscess.
6.  To break; to divide; to split or rend; as, the earth was opened in many places by an earthquake; a rock is opened by blasting.
7.  To clear; to make by removing obstructions; as, to open a road; to open a passage; the heat of spring opens rivers bound with ice.
8.  To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.
9.  To unstop; as, to open a bottle.
10.  To begin; to make the first exhibition.  The attorney general opens the cause on the part of the king or the state.  Homer opens his poem with the utmost simplicity and modesty.
11.  To show; to bring to view or knowledge.
The English did adventure far to open the north parts of America.
12.  To interpret; to explain.
- While he opened to us the Scriptures.  Luke. 24.
13.  To reveal; to disclose.  He opened his mind very freely.
14.  To make liberal; as, to open the heart.
15.  To make the first discharge of artillery; as, to open a heavy fire on the enemy.
16.  To enter on or begin; as to open a negotiation or correspondence; to open a trade with the Indies.
17.  To begin to see by the removal of something intercepted the view; as, we sailed round the point and opened the harbor.
OPEN, v.i.  o'pn.
1.  To unclose itself; to be unclosed; to be parted.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.  Ps. 106.
2.  To begin to appear.  As we sailed round the point, the harbor opened to our view.
3.  To commence; to begin.  sales of stock open at par.
4.  To bark; a term in hunting.


Topic: Opened
Definition:
OPENED, pp. o'pned.  Unclosed; unbarred; unsealed; uncovered; revealed; disclosed; made plain; freed from obstruction.


Topic: Opener
Definition:
OPENER, n.  o'pner.
1.  One that opens or removed any fastening or covering.
2.  One that explains; an interpreter.
3.  That which separates; that which rends.
4.  An aperient in medicine.


Topic: Opening
Definition:
OPENING, ppr. o'pning.  Unclosing; unsealing; uncovering; revealing; interpreting.
OPENING, n. o'pning.
1.  A breach; an aperture; a hole or perforation.
2.  A place admitting entrance; as a bay or creek.
3.  Dawn; first appearance or visibleness; beginning of exhibition or discovery.
The opening of your glory was like that of light.


Topic: Openly
Definition:
OPENLY, adv. o'pnly.
1.  Publicly; not in private; without secrecy; as, to avow our sins and follies openly.
How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness and worldly lusts!
2.  Plainly; evidently; without reserve or disguise.


Topic: Openness
Definition:
OPENNESS, n.  o'pnness.
1.  Freedom from covering or obstruction; as the openness of a country.
2.  Plainness; clearness; freedom from obscurity or ambiguity; as, deliver your answers with more openness.
3.  Freedom from disguise; unreservedness; plainness.
4.  Expression of frankness or candor; as openness of countenance.
5.  Unusual mildness; freedom from snow and frost; as the openness of a winter.


Topic: Opera
Definition:
OP'ERA, n.  [L. opera, work, labor.]
A dramatic composition set to music and sung on the stage, accompanied with musical instruments and enriched with magnificent dresses, machines, dancing, &c.


Topic: Operant
Definition:
OP'ERANT, a.  [See Operate.]  Having power to produce an effect.  [Not used.  We now use operative.]


Topic: Operate
Definition:
OP'ERATE, v.i.  [L. operor;  Heb. signifies to be strong, to prevail.]
1.  To act; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical.  External bodies operate on animals by means of perception.  Sound operates upon the auditory nerves through the medium of air.  Medicines operate on the body by increasing or diminishing organic action.
2.  To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.  Motives operate on the mind in determining the judgment.  Examples operate in producing imitation.
The virtues of private persons operate but on a few - 
A plain convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and an ignorant hearer as long as he lives.
3.  In surgery, to perform some manual act in a methodical manner upon a human body, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health; as in amputation, lithotomy and the like.
4.  To act; to have agency; to produce any effect.
OP'ERATE, v.t.  To effect; to produce by agency.
The same cause would operate a diminution of the value of stock -
[This use is not frequent, and can hardly be said to be well authorized.]


Topic: Operation
Definition:
OPERA'TION, n.  [L. operatio.]
1.  The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical or moral.
Speculative painting without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.
The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
So we speak of the operation of motives, reasons or arguments on the mind, the operation of causes, &c.
2.  Action; effect.
Many medicinal drugs of rare operation.
3.  Process; manipulation; series of acts in experiments; as in chimistry or metallurgy.
4.  In surgery, any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, with a view to heal a part diseased, fractured or dislocated, as in amputation, &c.
5.  Action or movements of an army or fleet; as military or naval operations.
6.  Movements of machinery.
7.  Movements of any physical body.


Topic: Operative
Definition:
OP'ERATIVE, a.  
1.  Having the power of acting; exerting force, physical or moral; having or exerting agency; active in the production of effects.
In actions of religion we should be zealous, active and operative, so far as prudence will permit.
It holds in all operative principles, especially in morality.
2.  Efficacious; producing the effect.


Topic: Operator
Definition:
OP'ERATOR, n.
1.  He or that which operates; he or that which produces an effect.
2.  In surgery, the person who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments; as a skillful operator.


Topic: Ophidian
Definition:
OPHID'IAN, a.  [Gr. a serpent.]  Pertaining to serpents; designating an order of vertebral animals destitute of feet or fins.


Topic: Ophidion
Definition:
OPHID'ION, n.  [Gr. a serpent.]  a fish of the anguilliform kind, resembling the common eel, but shorter, more depressed and of a paler color; found in the mediterranean.


Topic: Ophiology
Definition:
OPHIOL'OGY, n.  [Gr. serpent, and discourse.]
That part of natural history which treats of serpents, or which arranges and describes the several kinds.


Topic: Ophiomancy
Definition:
OPHIOM'ANCY, n.  [Gr. a serpent, and divination.]
In antiquity, the art of divining or predicting events by serpents, as by their manner of eating or by their coils.


Topic: Ophite
Definition:
O'PHITE, n.  [Gr. a serpent.]  Pertaining to a serpent.
O'PHITE, a.  [Gr. a serpent, whence a stone spotted like a serpent.]
Green porphyry, or serpentine; a variety of greenstone of a dusky green color of different shades, sprinkled with spots of a lighter green; in other words, containing greenish white crystals of feldspar.


Topic: Ophthalmoscopy
Definition:
OPHTHALMOS'COPY, n.  [Gr. the eye, and to view.]
A branch of physiognomy which deduces the knowledge of a man's temper and manner from the appearance of the eyes.


Topic: Ophthalmy
Definition:
OPH'THALMY, n.  [Gr. from the eye.]
A disease of the eyes; an inflammation of the membranes which invest the eye.
Inflammation of the eye or its appendages.


Topic: Opiate
Definition:
O'PIATE, n.  [from opium.]
1.  Primarily, a medicine of a thicker consistence than syrup, prepared with opium.
A soft electuary.
Electuaries when soft are call opiata.
But in modern usage generally,
2.  Any medicine that has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic.
3.  That which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness.
They chose atheism as an opiate.
O'PIATE, a.
1.  Inducing sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; narcotic.
2.  Causing rest or inaction.


Topic: Opinion
Definition:
OPINION, n.  opin'yon.  [L. opinio, from opinor, to thing,  Gr., L. suppono.]
1.  The judgment which the mind forms of any proposition, statement, theory or event, the truth or falsehood of which is supported by a degree of evidence that renders it probably, but does not produce absolute knowledge or certainty.  It has been a received opinion that all matter is comprised in four elements.  This opinion is proved by many discoveries to be false.  From circumstances we form opinions respecting future events.
Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persuasion than to another, yet not without a mixture of uncertainty or doubting.
2.  The judgment or sentiments which the mind forms of persons or their qualities.  We speak of a good opinion, a favorable opinion, a bad opinion, a private opinion, and public or general opinion, &c.
Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
3.  Settled judgment or persuasion; as religious opinions; political opinion.
4.  Favorable judgment; estimation.
In actions of arms, small matters are of great moment, especially when they serve to raise an opinion of commanders.
However, I have no opinion of these things -


Topic: Opisthodome
Definition:
OPIS'THODOME, n.  [Gr. that is behind, and house.]
In Greece, a part or place in the back part of a house.


Topic: Opium
Definition:
O'PIUM, n.  [L. opium; Gr. from juice.]
Opium is the inspissated juice of the capsules of the papaver somniferum, or somniferous white poppy with which the fields in Asia Minor are sown, as ours are with wheat and rye.  It flows from incisions made in the heads of the plant, and the best flows from the first incision.  It is imported into Europe and America from the Levant and the East Indies.  It is brought in cakes or masses weighing from eight ounces to a pound.  It is heavy, of a dense texture, of a brownish yellow color, not perfectly dry, but easily receiving an impression from the finger; it has a dead and faint smell, and its taste is bitter and acrid.  Opium is of great use as a medicine.


Topic: Opobalsam
Definition:
OPOBAL'SAM, n.  [L. Gr. juice, and balsamum.]
The balm or balsam of Gilead.  It has a yellowish or greenish yellow color, a warm bitterish aromatic taste, and an acidulous fragrant smell.  It is held in esteem as a medicine and as an odoriferous unguent and cosmetic.  The shrub or tree producing this balsam is of the genus Amyris, and grows spontaneously in Arabia Felix.


Topic: Opodeldoc
Definition:
OPODEL'DOC, n.
1.  The name of a plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus; but in modern usage.
2.  A saponaceous camphorated liniment; a solution of soap in ardent spirits, with the addition of camphor and essential oils.


Topic: Opopanax
Definition:
OPO'PANAX, n.  [L.; Gr. juice, and a plant.]
A gum-resin of a tolerably firm texture, brought in loose granules or drops, sometimes in larger masses.  This substance on the outside is of a brownish red color, with specks of white, and within of a dusky yellow or whitish color.  It has a strong smell and an acrid taste.  It is obtained from the roots of an umbelliferous plant of the genus Pastinaca or parsnep, and is brought from Turkey and the East Indies.


Topic: Opossum
Definition:
OPOS'SUM, n.  A quadruped of the genus Didelphis.  It has a prehensile tail, like some of the monkeys, and is distinguished by a pouch or false belly, in which it protects and carries its young.  The name is also given to other species of the genus, some of which want the pouch.


Topic: Oppidan
Definition:
OP'PIDAN, n.  [L. oppidanus, from oppidum a city or town.]
1.  An inhabitant of a town.  [Not used.]
2.  An appellation given to the students of Eton school in England.
OP'PIDAN, a.  Pertaining to a town.  [Not used.]


Topic: Oppignerate
Definition:
OPPIG'NERATE, v.t.  [L.  oppignero; ob and pignero, to pledge, from pignus, pledge.]  To pledge; to pawn.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Oppilation
Definition:
OPPILA'TION, n.  The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstructions, particularly in the lower intestines.


Topic: Opponency
Definition:
OPPO'NENCY, n.  [See Opponent.]  The opening of an academical disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet; an exercise for a degree.  [I believe not used in America.]


Topic: Opponent
Definition:
OPPO'NENT, a.  [L. opponens, oppono; ob and pono, to set, put or lay, that is, to thrust against; Heb. to build, that is, to set, to found, L. fundo.]  That opposes; opposite; adverse.
OPPO'NENT, n.  One that opposes; particularly, one that opposes in controversy, disputation or argument.  It is sometimes applied to the person that begins a dispute by raising objections to a tenet or doctrine, and is correlative to defendant or respondent.  In common usage, however, it is applicable to either party in a controversy, denoting any person who opposes another or his cause.  Opponent may sometimes be used for adversary, and for antagonist, but not with strict propriety, as the word does not necessarily imply enmity nor bodily strife.  Nor is it well used in the sense of rival or competitor.


Topic: Opportune
Definition:
OPPORTU'NE, a.  [L. opportunus; ob and porto, to bear or bring; probably from the root of fero or porto, to bear.  The sense of the verb opporto, would be to bring to or upon.  See Impart, Importune.  In this and all words of like signification, the primary sense is to fall, come or bring to.  See Luck, Fortune, Season.]
Properly, having come or being present at a proper time; hence, seasonable; timely; well timed.  It agrees with seasonable rather than with convenient, though the sense of the latter may be included in it.
Perhaps in view of those bright confines, whence with neighboring arms, and opportune excursion, we may chance re-enter heaven.


Topic: Opportunely
Definition:
OPPORTU'NELY, adv.  Seasonably; at a time favorable for the purpose.  It has been applied to place, as well as to time, but its proper application is to time, and hence it accords with seasonably, rather than with conveniently.


Topic: Opportunity
Definition:
OPPORTU'NITY, n.  [L. opportunitas.]
1.  Fit or convenient time; a time favorable for the purpose; suitable time combined with other favorable circumstances.  Suitableness of time is the predominant signification, but it includes generally circumstances of place and other conveniences adapted to the end desired.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
I had an opportunity to see the cloud descent.
Neglect no opportunity of doing good.
2.  Convenient means.  I had an opportunity of sending the letter, or no opportunity to send it.  Opportunities rarely occur on frequently offer.


Topic: Oppose
Definition:
OPPO'SE, v.t. s as z.  [L. oppono, opposui.  The change of n into s is unusual.  Two different verbs may be used, as in L. fero, tuli.  See Pose.]
1.  To set; against; to put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail, and thus to hinder defeat, destroy or prevent effect; as, to oppose one argument to another.
I may without presumption oppose my single opinion to his.
2.  To act against; to resist, either by physical means, by arguments or other means.  The army opposed the progress of the enemy, but without success.  Several members of the house strenuously opposed the bill, but it passed.
3.  To check; to resist effectually.  The army was not able to oppose the progress of the enemy.
4.  To place in front; to set opposite.
5.  To act against, as a competitor.


Topic: Opposed
Definition:
OPPO'SED, pp.  s as z.
1.  To act adversely; with against; as, a servant opposed against the act.  [Not used.]
2.  To object or act against in controversy.
OPPO'SED, pp.
1.  Set in opposition; resisted.
2.  a.  Being in opposition in principle or in act; adverse.
Certain characters were formerly opposed to it.


Topic: Opposer
Definition:
OPPO'SER, n.
1.  One that opposes; an opponent in party, in principle, in controversy or argument.  We speak of the opposers of public measures; the opposers of ecclesiastical discipline; an opposer of christianity or of orthodoxy.
2.  One who acts in opposition; one who resists; as an opposer of law or of the execution of law.
3.  An antagonist; an adversary; an enemy; a rival.


Topic: Opposite
Definition:
OP'POSITE, a.  [L. oppositus.]
1.  Standing or situated in front; facing; as an edifice opposite to the Exchange.  Brooklyn lies opposite to New York, or on the opposite side of the river.
2.  Adverse; repugnant.
- Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pleasure opposite to that designed in an epic poem.
3.  Contrary; as words of opposite significations; opposite terms.  The medicine had an effect opposite to what was expected.
4.  In botany, growing in pairs, each pair decussated or crossing that above and below it; as opposite leaves or branches.
OP'POSITE, n. 
1.  An opponent; an adversary; an enemy; an antagonist.
2.  That which is opposed or contrary.


Topic: Oppositely
Definition:
OP'POSITELY, adv.
1.  In front; in a situation to face each other.
2.  Adversely; against each other.
Winds from all quarters oppositely blow.


Topic: Oppositifolious
Definition:
OPPOSITIFO'LIOUS, a.  [L. oppositus and folium, a leaf.]
In botany, opposite to the leaf; as an oppositifolious peduncle.


Topic: Opposition
Definition:
OPPOSI'TION, n.  [L. oppositio.]  
1.  Situation so as to front something else; a standing over against; as the opposition of two mountains or buildings.
2.  The act of opposing; attempt to check, restrain or defeat.  he makes opposition to the measure; the bill passed without opposition.  Will any opposition be made to the  suit, to the claim or demand?
3.  Obstacle.  the river meets with no opposition in its course to the ocean.
4.  Resistance; as the opposition of enemies.  Virtue will break through all opposition.
5.  Contrariety; repugnance in principle; as the opposition of the heart to the laws of God.
6.  Contrariety of interests, measures on designs.  The two parties are in opposition to each other.
7.  Contrariety or diversity of meaning; as one term used in opposition to another.
8.  Contradiction; inconsistency.
9.  The collective body of opposers; in England, the party in Parliament which opposed the ministry; in America, the party that opposed the existing administration.
10.  In astronomy, the situation of two heavenly bodies, when distant from each other 180 degrees.


Topic: Oppress
Definition:
OPPRESS', v.t.  [L. appressus, from opprimo; ob and premo, to press.]
1.  To load or burden with unreasonable impositions; to treat with unjust severity, rigor or hardship; as, to oppress a nation with taxes or contributions; to oppress one by compelling him to perform unreasonable service.
2.  To overpower; to overburden; as, to be oppressed with grief.
3.  to sit or lie heavy on; as, excess of good oppresses the stomach.


Topic: Oppression
Definition:
OPPRES'SION, n.
1.  The act of oppressing; the imposition of unreasonable burdens, either in taxes or services; cruelty; severity.
2.  The state of being oppressed or overburdened; misery.
the Lord - saw the oppression of Israel.  2Kings. 8.
3.  Hardship; calamity.
4.  Depression; dullness of spirits; lassitude of body.
5.  A sense of heaviness or weight in the breast, &c.


Topic: Oppressive
Definition:
OPPRESS'IVE, a.
1.  Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe; as oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service.
2.  Tyrannical; as an oppressive government.
3.  Heavy; overpowering; overwhelming; as oppressive grief or woe.


Topic: Oppressor
Definition:
OPPRESS'OR, n.  One that oppresses; one that imposes unjust burdens on others; one that harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
Power when employed to relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor, becomes a great blessing.


Topic: Opprobrious
Definition:
OPPRO'BRIOUS, a.  [See Opprobrium.]
1.  Reproachful and contemptuous; scurrilous; as opprobrious language; opprobrious words or terms.
2.  Blasted with infamy; despised; rendered hateful; as an opprobrious name.


Topic: Oppugn
Definition:
OPPUGN, v.t  oppu'ne.  [L. oppugno; ob and pugno, to fight, from pugnus, the fist.]
To attack; to oppose; to resist.
They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of parliament.
[It is never used in the literal sense, to fight.]


Topic: Optative
Definition:
OP'TATIVE, a.  [L. optativus, from opto, to desire or wish.]
Expressing desire or wish.  The optative mode, in grammar, is that form of the verb in which wish or desire is expressed.
OP'TATIVE, n.  Something to be desired.  [Little used.]


Topic: Optic
Definition:
OP'TIC,'TICAL, a.  [Gr. from to see, the eye.]
1.  Relating or pertaining to vision or sight.
2.  Relating to the science of optics.
Optic angle, is that which the optic axes of the eyes make with one another, as they tend to meet at some distance before the eyes.
Optic axis, is the axis of the eye, or a line going through the middle of the pupil and the center of the eye.


Topic: Optician
Definition:
OPTI'CIAN, n.
1.  A person skilled in the science of optics.
2.  One who makes or sells optic glasses and instruments.


Topic: Optimism
Definition:
OP'TIMISM, n.  [L. optimus, best.]  The opinion or doctrine that every thing in nature is ordered for the best; or the order of things in the universe that is adapted to produce the most good.
The true and amiable philosophy of optimism.
A system of strict optimism may be the real system in both cases.


Topic: Option
Definition:
OP'TION, n.  [L. optio, from opto, to wish or desire.]
1.  The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; as the archbishop's option in collating to a vacant benefice.
There is an option left to the United States of America, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible and miserable, as a nation.
2.  The power of wishing; wish.
3.  Choice; election; preference.  He ought not to complain of his lot; it was his own option.  We leave this to your own option.


Topic: Optional
Definition:
OP'TIONAL, a.
1.  Left to one's wish or choice; depending on choice or preference.  It is optional with you to go or stay.
2.  Leaving something to choice.
Original writs are either optional or peremptory.


Topic: Opulence
Definition:
OP'ULENCE, n.  [L. opulentia, from opes, wealth.]  Wealth; riches; affluence.  [Opulency is little used.]


Topic: Or
Definition:
OR, a termination of Latin nouns, is a contraction of vir, a man, or from the same radix.  The same word vir, is in our mother tongue, wer, and from this we have the English termination er.
It denotes an agent, as in actor, creditor.  We annex it to many words of English origin, as in lessor, as we do er to words of Latin and Greek origin, as in astronomer, laborer.  In general, or is annexed to words of Latin, and er to those of English origin.
OR, conj.  [It seems that or is a mere contraction of other.]
A connective that marks an alternative.  'You may read or may write;' that is, you may do one of the things at your pleasure, but not both.  It corresponds to either.  You may either ride to London, or to Windsor.  It often connects a series of words or propositions,  presenting a choice of either.  He may study law or medicine or divinity, or he may enter into trade.
Or sometimes begins a sentence, but in this case it expresses an alternative with the foregoing sentence.  Matt. 7 and 9.
In poetry, or is sometimes used for either.
For thy vast bounties are so numberless, that them or to conceal or else to tell is equally impossible.
Or is often used to express an alternative of terms, definitions or explanations of the same thing in different words.  Thus we say, a thing is a square, or a figure under four equal sides and angles.
Or ever.  In this phrase, or is supposed to be a corruption of ere.

OR, in heraldry, gold.  [L. aurum.]


Topic: Oral
Definition:
O'RAL, a.  [L. os, oris, the mouth.]  Uttered by the mouth or in words; spoken, not written; as oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.


Topic: Orang-outang
Definition:
ORANG-OU'TANG, n.  The satyr or great ape (Simia satyrus,) an animal with a flat face and deformed resemblance of the human form.  These animals walk erect like man, feed on fruits, sleep on trees, and make a shelter against inclemencies of the weather.  They grow to the height of six feet, are remarkable strong, and wield weapons with the hand.  They are solitary animals, inhabiting the interior of Africa and the isles of Sumatra, Borneo and Java.
The orang-outang is found only in S. Eastern Asia.  The African animal resembling it, is the chimpanzee (Simia troglodytes.)


Topic: Orange
Definition:
OR'ANGE, n.  [L. aurantium; so named from aurum, gold, which the orange resembles in color.]
The fruit of a species of Citrus which grows in warm climates.  The fruit is round and depressed; it has a rough rind, which when ripe is yellow.  This contains a vesicular pulp inclosed in nine cells for seeds.  The tree producing oranges grows to the height of ten or twelve feet and bears the same name.


Topic: Oration
Definition:
ORA'TION, n.  [L. oratio, from oro, to pray, to utter.]
1.  A speech or discourse composed according to the rules of oratory, and spoken in public.  Orations may be reduced to three kinds; demonstrative, deliberative, and judicial.
2.  In modern usage, an oration differs from a sermon, from an argument at the bar, and from a speech before a deliberative assembly.  The word is now applied chiefly to discourses pronounced on special occasions, as a funeral oration, an oration on some anniversary, &c. and to academic declamations.
3.  A harangue; a public speech or address.


Topic: Orator
Definition:
OR'ATOR, n.  [L.]
1.  A public speaker.  In ancient Rome, orators were advocates for clients in the forum and before the senate and people.  They were employed in causes of importance instead of the common patron.
2.  In modern usage, a person who pronounces a discourse publicly on some special occasion, as on the celebration of some memorable event.
3.  An eloquent public speaker; a speaker, by way of eminence.  We say, a man writes and reasons well, but is no orator.  Lord Chatham was an orator.
4.  In France, a speaker in debate in a legislative body.
5.  In chancery, a petitioner.
6.  An officer in the universities in England.


Topic: Oratorio
Definition:
ORATO'RIO, n.  
1.  In Italian music, a sacred drama of dialogues, containing recitatives, duets, trios, ritornellos, choruses, &c.  The subjects are mostly taken from the Scriptures.
2.  A place of worship; a chapel.


Topic: Oratory
Definition:
OR'ATORY, n.  [Low L. oratoria, from orator.]
1.  The art of speaking well, or of speaking according to the rules of rhetoric, in order to persuade.  To constitute oratory, the speaking must be just and pertinent to the subject; it must be methodical, all parts of the discourse being disposed in due order and connection; and it must be embellished with the beauties of language and pronounced with eloquence.  Oratory consists of four parts, invention, disposition, elocution, and pronunciation.
2.  Exercise of eloquence.
3.  Among the Romanists, a close apartment near a bed-chamber, furnished with an altar, a crucifix, &c. for private devotions.
4.  A place allotted for prayer, or a place for public worship.


Topic: Orb
Definition:
ORB, n.  [L. orbis.]
1.  A spherical body; as the celestial orbs.
2.  In astronomy, a hollow globe or sphere.
3.  A wheel; a circular body that revolves or rolls; as the orbs of a chariot.
4.  A circle; a sphere defined by a line; as, he move in a larger orb.
5.  A circle described by any mundane sphere; an orbit.
6.  Period; revolution of time.
7.  The eye.
8.  In tactics, the circular form of a body of troops, or a circular body of troops.
The ancient astronomers conceived the heavens as consisting of several vast azure transparent orbs or spheres inclosing one another, and including the bodies of the planets.
ORB, v.t.  To form into a circle.


Topic: Orbation
Definition:
ORBA'TION,  n.  [L. orbatio, from orbo, to bereave.]
Privation of parents or children, or privation in general.  [Not used.]


Topic: Orbed
Definition:
ORB'ED, a.  
1.  Round; circular; orbicular.
2.  Formed into a circle or round shape.
3.  Rounded or covered on the exterior.
The wheels were orbed with gold.


Topic: Orbit
Definition:
ORB'IT, n.  [L. orbita, a trace or track, from orbis, a wheel.]
1.  In astronomy, the path of a planet or comet; the curve line which a planet describes in its periodical revolution round its central body; as the orbit of Jupiter or Mercury.  The orbit of the earth is nearly one hundred and ninety millions of miles in diameter.  The orbit of the moon is 480,000 miles in diameter.  The orbits of the planets are elliptical.
2.  A small orb.  [Not proper.]
3.  In anatomy, the cavity in which the eye is situated.


Topic: Orchard
Definition:
OR'CHARD, n.  [See Yard.]
An inclosure for fruit trees.  In Great Britain, a department of the garden appropriated to fruit trees of all kinds, but chiefly to apple trees.  In America, any piece of land set with apple trees, is called an orchard; and orchards are usually cultivated land, being either grounds for mowing or tillage.  In some parts of the country, a piece of ground planted with peach trees is called a peach orchard.  But in most cases, I believe the orchard in both countries is distinct from the garden.


Topic: Ordain
Definition:
ORDA'IN, v.t.  [L. ordino, from ordo, order.]
1.  Properly, to set; to establish in a particular office or order; hence, to invest with a ministerial function or sacerdotal power; to introduce and establish or settle in the pastoral office with the customary forms and solemnities; as, to ordain a minister of the gospel.  In America, men are ordained over a particular church and congregation, or as evangelists without the charge of a particular church, or as deacons in the episcopal church.
2.  To appoint; to decree.
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month.  1Kings 12.
As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed.  
Acts 13.
3.  To set; to establish; to institute; to constitute.
Mulmutius ordained our laws.
4.  To set apart for an office; to appoint.
Jesus ordained twelve that they should be with him.  Mark 3.
5.  To appoint; to prepare.
For Tophet is ordained of old.  Is. 30.


Topic: Ordained
Definition:
ORDA'INED, pp.  Appointed; instituted; established; invested with ministerial or pastoral functions; settled.


Topic: Ordeal
Definition:
OR'DEAL, n.  [The last syllable is deal, to divide or distribute.  The sense of the prefix is less obvious.  But the real sense is not obvious.  The practice of ordeal however seems to have had its origin in the belief that the substances used had each its particular presiding deity that had perfect control over it.]
1.  An ancient form of trial to determine guilt or innocence, practiced by the rude nations of Europe, and still practiced in the East Indies.  In England, the ordeal was of two sorts, fire-ordeal and water-ordeal; the former being confined to persons of higher rank, the latter to the common people.  Both might be performed by deputy, but the principal was to answer for the success of the trial.
Fire-ordeal was performed either by taking in the hand a piece of red hot iron, or by walking barefoot and blindfold over nine red hot plowshares laid lengthwise at unequal distances; and if the person escapes unhurt, he was adjudged innocent, otherwise he was condemned as guilty.
Water-ordeal was performed, either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling water, or by casting the person suspected into a river or pond of cold water and if he floated without an effort to swim, it was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was acquitted.
Both in England and Sweden, the clergy presided at this trial.  It was at last condemned as unlawful by the canon law, and in England it was abolished by an order in council of Henry III.
It is probably our proverbial phrase, to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or danger, is derived from the ordeal; as also the trial of witches by water.
2.  Severe trial; accurate scrutiny.


Topic: Order
Definition:
OR'DER, n.  [L. ordo.]
1.  Regular disposition or methodical arrangement of things; a word of extensive application; as the order of troops or parade; the order of books in a library; the order of proceedings in a legislative assembly. Order is the life of business.
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
2.  Proper state; as the muskets are all in good order.  When the bodily organs are in order, a person is in health; when they are out of order, he is indisposed.
3.  Adherence to the point in discussion, according to established rules of debate; as, the member is not in order, that is, he wanders from the question.
4.  Established mode of proceeding.  The motion is not in order.
5.  Regularity; settled mode of operation.
This fact could not occur in the order of nature; it is against the natural order of things.
6.  Mandate; precept; command; authoritative direction.  I have received an order from the commander in chief.  The general gave orders to march.  There is an order of council to issue letters of marque.
7.  Rule; regulation; as the rules and orders of a legislative house.
8.  Regular government or discipline.  It is necessary for society that good order should be observed.  The meeting was turbulent; it was impossible to keep order.
9.  Rank; class; division of men; as the order of nobles; the order of priests; the higher orders of society; men of the lowest order; order of knights; military orders, &c.
10.  A religious fraternity; as the order of Benedictines.
11.  A division of natural objects, generally intermediate between class and genus.  The classes, in the Linnean artificial system, are divided into orders, which include one or more genera.  Linne also arranged vegetables, in his natural system, into groups of genera, called order.  In the natural system of Jussieu, orders are subdivisions of classes.
12.  Measures; care.  Take some order for the safety and support of the soldiers.
Provide me soldiers whilst I take order for my own affairs.
13.  In rhetoric, the placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty of expression, or to the clear illustration of the subject.
14.  The title of certain ancient books containing the divine office and manner of its performance.
15.  In architecture, a system of several members, ornaments and proportions of columns and pilasters; or a regular arrangement of the projecting parts of a building, especially of the columns, so as to form one beautiful whole.  The orders are five, the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite.  The order consists of two principal members, the column, and the entablature, each of which is composed of three principal parts.  Those of the column are the base, the shaft, and the capital; those of the entablature are the architrave, the frize, and the cornice.  The height of the Tuscan column is 14 modules or semidiameters of the shaft at the bottom, and that os the entablature 3 1/2.  The height of the Doric order is 16 modules and that of the entablature 4; that of the Ionic is 18 modules, and that of the entablature 4 1/2, that of the Corinthian order is 20 modules, and that of the entablature 5.  The height of the Composite order agrees with that of the Corinthian.
In orders, set apart for the performance divine service; ordained to the work of the gospel ministry.
In order, for the purpose; to the end; as means to an end.  The best knowledge is that which is of the greatest use in order to our eternal happiness.
General orders, the commands or notices which a military commander in chief issues to the troops under his command.
OR'DER, v.t.
1.  To regulate; to methodize; to systemize; to adjust; to subject to system in management and execution; as, to order domestic affairs with prudence.
2.  To lead; to conduct; to subject to rules or laws.
To him that ordereth his conversation aright, will I show the salvation of God.  Ps. 50.
3.  to direct; to command.  the general ordered his troops to advance.
4.  To manage; to treat.
How shall we order the child?  Judges 13.
5.  To ordain.  [Not used.]
6.  To direct; to dispose in any particular manner.
Order my steps in thy word.  Ps. 119.
OR'DER, v.i.  to give command or direction.


Topic: Ordering
Definition:
OR'DERING, ppr.  Regulating; systemizing; commanding; disposing.
OR'DERING, n.  Disposition; distribution.  2Chron. 24.


Topic: Orderliness
Definition:
OR'DERLINESS, n.  [from orderly.]
1.  Regularity; a state of being methodical.
2.  The state of being orderly.


Topic: Orderly
Definition:
OR'DERLY, a.
1.  Methodical; regular
2.  Observant of order or method.
3.  Well regulated; performed in good order; not tumultuous; as an orderly march.
4.  According to established method.
5.  Not unruly; not inclined to break from inclosures; peaceable.  We say, cattle are orderly.
Orderly book, in military affairs, a book for every company, in which the sergeants write general and regimental orders.
Orderly sergeant, a military officer who attends on a superior officer.
OR'DERLY, adv.  Methodically; according to due order; regularly; according to rule.


Topic: Ordinal
Definition:
OR'DINAL, a.  [L. ordinalis.]  Noting order; as the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, &c.
OR'DINAL, n.  
1.  A number noting order.
2.  A book containing the order of divine service; a ritual.


Topic: Ordinance
Definition:
OR'DINANCE, n.  
1.  A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action.  An ordinance may be a law or statute of sovereign power.  In this sense it is often used in the Scriptures.  Ex. 15.  Num. 10.  Ezra 3.  It may also signify a decree, edict or rescript, and the word has sometimes been applied to the statutes of Parliament, but these are usually called acts or laws.  In the United States, it is never applied to the acts of Congress, or of a state legislature.
2.  Observance commanded.
3.  Appointment.
4.  Established rite or ceremony.  Heb. 9.  In this sense, baptism and the Lord's supper are denominated ordinances.


Topic: Ordinarily
Definition:
OR'DINARILY, adv.  Primarily, according to established rules or settled method; hence, commonly; usually; in most cases as a winter more than ordinarily severe.


Topic: Ordinary
Definition:
OR'DINARY, a.  [L. ordinarius.]
1.  According to established order; methodical; regular; customary; as the ordinary forms of law or justice.
2.  Common; usual.
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing.
3.  Of common rank; not distinguished by superior excellence; as an ordinary reader; men of ordinary judgment.
4.  Plain; not handsome; as an ordinary woman; a person of an ordinary form; an ordinary face.
5.  Inferior; of little merit; as, the book is an ordinary performance.
6.  An ordinary seaman is one not expert or fully skilled.
OR'DINARY, n.  
1.  In the common and canon law, one who has ordinary or immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge.  In England, the bishop of the diocese is commonly the ordinary, and the archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province.  The ordinary of assizes and sessions was formerly a deputy of the bishop, appointed to give malefactors their neck-verses.  The ordinary of Newgate is one who attends on condemned malefactors to prepare them for death.
2.  Settled establishment.
3.  Regular price of a meal.
4.  A place of eating where the prices are settled.
5.  The establishment of persons employed by government to take charge of ships of war laid up in harbors.  Hence a ship in ordinary is one laid up under the direction of the master attendant.
In ordinary, in actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as a physician or chaplain in ordinary.  An embassador in ordinary, is one constantly resident at a foreign court.


Topic: Ordinate
Definition:
OR'DINATE, v.t.  To appoint.  [Not used.]
OR'DINATE, a.  [L. ordinatus.]  Regular; methodical.  An ordinate figure is one whose sides and angles are equal.
OR'DINATE, n.  In geometry and conic sections, a line drawn from any point of the circumference of an ellipsis or other conic section, perpendicularly across the axis to the other side.
An ordinate is a line drawn perpendicular to the axis of a curve and terminating the curvilinear space.
Ordinates of a curve, right lines parallel to one another, terminated by the curve, and bisected by a right line called the diameter.


Topic: Ordination
Definition:
ORDINA'TION, n.  [L. ordinatio.]
1.  The state of being ordained or appointed; established order or tendency consequent on a decree.
Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively.
2.  The act of conferring holy orders or sacerdotal power; called also consecration.
3.  In the presbyterian and congregational churches, the act of settling or establishing a licensed cleryman over a church and congregation with pastoral charge and authority; also, the act of conferring on a clergyman the powers of a settled minister of the gospel, without the charge or oversight of a particular church, but with the general powers of an evangelist, who is authorized to form churches and administer the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper, wherever he may be called to officiate.


Topic: Ordonnance
Definition:
OR'DONNANCE, n.  In painting, the disposition of the parts of a picture, either in regard to the whole piece or to the several parts.


Topic: Ore
Definition:
ORE, n.  [L. as, aris, brass.
1.  The compound of a metal and some other substance, as oxygen, sulphur or carbon, called its mineralizer, by which its properties are disguised or lost.  Metals found free from such combination and exhibiting naturally their appropriate character, are not called ores, but native metals.
2.  Metal; as the liquid ore.


Topic: Organ
Definition:
OR'GAN, n.  [L. organum; Gr.]
1.  A natural instrument of action or operation, or by which some process is carried on.  Thus the arteries and veins of animal bodies are organs of circulation; the lungs are organs of respiration; the nerves are organs of perception and sensation; the muscles are organs of motion; the ears are organs of hearing; the tongue is the organ of speech.
2.  The instrument or means of conveyance or communication.  A secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power.
3.  The largest and most harmonious of wind instruments of music, consisting of pipes which are filled with wind, and stops touched by the fingers.  It is blown by a bellows.


Topic: Organically
Definition:
ORGAN'ICALLY, adv.  
1.  With organs; with organical structure or disposition of parts.  The bodies of animals and plants are organically framed.
2.  By means of organs.


Topic: Organist
Definition:
OR'GANIST, n.  
1.  One who plays on the organ.
2.  One who sung in parts; an old musical use of the word.


Topic: Organization
Definition:
ORGANIZA'TION, n.
1.  The act or process of forming organs or instruments of action.
2.  The act of forming or arranging the parts of a compound or complex body in a suitable manner for use or service; the act of distributing into suitable divisions and appointing the proper officers, as an army or a government.
The first organization of the general government.
3.  Structure; form; suitable disposition of parts which are to act together in a compound body.


Topic: Organize
Definition:
OR'GANIZE, v.t. 
1.  To form with suitable organs; to construct so that one part may cooperate with another.
Those nobler faculties of the soul organized matter could never produce.
2.  To sing in parts; as, to organize the hallelujah.
3.  To distribute into suitable parts and appoint proper officers, that the whole may act as one body; as, to organize an army.  So we say, to organize the house of representatives, which is done by the appointment of officers and verification of the powers of the several members.  So we say, a club, a party or a faction is organized, when it takes a systemized form.
This original and supreme will organizes the government.


Topic: Organized
Definition:
OR'GANIZED, pp.  Formed with organs; constructed organically; systemized; reduced to a form in which all the parts may act together to one end.  Animals and plants are organized bodies.  Minerals are not organized bodies.


Topic: Organizing
Definition:
OR'GANIZING, ppr.  Constructing with suitable organs; reducing to system in order to produce united action to one end.


Topic: Organography
Definition:
ORGANOG'RAPHY, n.  [Gr.]
In botany, a description of the organs of plants, or of the names and kinds of their organs.


Topic: Orgasm
Definition:
OR'GASM, n.  [Gr. to swell; to irritate.]
Immoderate excitement or action; as the orgasm of the blood or spirits.


Topic: Orgeis
Definition:
OR'GEIS, n.  A fish, called also organ-ling; supposed to be from Orkneys, on the coast of which it is taken.


Topic: Orgies
Definition:
OR'GIES, n. plu.  [Gr. to swell; fury; L. orgia.]
Frantic revels at the feast in honor of Bacchus, or the feast itself.  This feast was held in the night; hence nocturnal orgies.


Topic: Orgues
Definition:
OR'GUES, n.
1.  In the military art, long thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron and hung over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.
2.  A machine composed of several musket barrels united, by means of which several explosions are made at once to defend breaches.


Topic: Orient
Definition:
O'RIENT, a.  [L. oriens, from orior, to arise.]
1.  Rising, as the sun.
- Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun.
The orient morn.
2.  Eastern; oriental.
3.  Bright; shining; glittering; as orient pearls.
O'RIENT, n.  The east; the part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning.


Topic: Oriental
Definition:
ORIENT'AL, a.  
1.  Eastern; situated in the east; as oriental seas or countries.
2.  Proceeding from the east; as the oriental radiations of the sun.
ORIENT'AL, n.  A native or inhabitant of some eastern part of the world.  We give the appellation to the inhabitants of Asia from the Hellespont and Mediterranean to Japan.


Topic: Orientalist
Definition:
ORIENT'ALIST,n.
1.  An inhabitant of the eastern parts of the world.
2.  One versed in the eastern languages and literature.


Topic: Orifice
Definition:
OR'IFICE, n.  [L. orificium; os, oris, mouth, and facio, to make.]
The mouth or aperture of a tube, pipe or other cavity; as the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.
The orifice of Etna.


Topic: Origenist
Definition:
OR'IGENIST, n.  A follower of Origen of Alexandria, a celebrated christian father.  The Origenists held that the souls of men have a pre-existent state; that they are holy intelligences, and sin before they are united to the body; that Christ will be crucified hereafter for the salvation of devils, &c.


Topic: Origin
Definition:
OR'IGIN, n.  [L. origo.]
1.  The first existence or beginning of any thing; as the origin of Rome.  In history it is necessary, if practicable, to trace all events to their origin.
2.  Fountain; source; cause; that from which any thing primarily proceeds; that which gives existence or beginning.  The apostasy is believed to have been the origin of moral evil.  The origin of many of our customs is lost in antiquity.  Nations, like individuals, are ambitious to trace their descent from an honorable origin.


Topic: Original
Definition:
ORIG'INAL, n.  
1.  Origin.  [See Origin, with which it accords in signification.]
2.  Fountain; source; cause; that from which any thing primarily proceeds; that which gives existence or beginning.  The apostasy is believed to have been the origin of moral evil.  The origin of many of our customs is lost in antiquity.  Nations, like individuals, are ambitious to trace their descent from an honorable origin.
ORIG'INAL, a.  [L. orginialis.]
1.  First in order; preceding all others; as the original state of man; the original laws of a country; original rights or powers; the original question in debate.
2.  Primitive; pristine; as the original perfection of Adam.
Original sin, as applied to Adam, was his first act of disobedience in eating the forbidden fruit; as applied to his posterity, it is understood to mean either the sin of Adam imputed to his posterity, or that corruption of nature, or total depravity, which has been derived from him in consequence of his apostasy.  On this subject divines are not agreed.
In strictness, original sin is an improper use of words, as sin, ex vi termini, implies volition and the transgression of a known rule of duty by a moral agent.  But this application of the words has been established by long use, and it serves to express ideas which many wise and good men entertain on this subject.
3.  Having the power to originate new thoughts or combinations of thought; as an original genius.


Topic: Originality
Definition:
ORIGINAL'ITY, n.
1.  The quality or state of being original.
2.  The power of originating or producing new thoughts, or uncommon combinations of thought; as originality of genius.


Topic: Originally
Definition:
ORIG'INALLY, adv.  
1.  Primarily; from the beginning or origin.
God is originally holy in himself.
2.  At first; at the origin.
3.  By the first author; as a book originally written by another hand.


Topic: Originary
Definition:
ORIG'INARY, a.
1.  Productive; causing existence.
The production of animals in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth.
2.  Primitive; original.
[This word is little used.]


Topic: Originate
Definition:
ORIG'INATE, v.t.  To cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce what is new.
The change is to be effected without a decomposition of the whole civil and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order out of the elements of society.
That matter which cannot think, will, or originate motion, should communicate thought, volition and motivity, is plainly impossible.
ORIG'INATE, v.i.  To take first existence; to have origin; to be begun.  The scheme originated with the governor and council.  It originated in pure benevolence.


Topic: Origination
Definition:
ORIGINA'TION, n.
1  The act of bringing or coming into existence; first production.
Descartes first introduced the fancy of making a world, and deducing the origination of the universe from mechanical principles.
2.  Mode of production or bringing into being.
This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars.


Topic: Orillon
Definition:
ORIL'LON, n.  In fortification, a rounding of earth, faced with a wall, raised on the shoulder of those bastions that have casemates, to cover the cannon in the retired flank, and prevent their being dismounted.


Topic: Orion
Definition:
ORI'ON, n.  [Gr. unfortunately accented by the poets on the second syllable.]
A constellation in the southern hemisphere, containing seventy eight stars.


Topic: Orison
Definition:
OR'ISON, n.  [L. oratio, from, oro.]
A prayer of supplication.
Lowly they bowed adoring, and began their orisons, each morning duly paid.


Topic: Orlop
Definition:
OR'LOP, n.  
In a ship of war, a platform of planks laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are usually coiled.  It contains also sail-rooms, carpenters' cabins and other apartments.
Also, a tier of beams below the lower deck for a like purpose.


Topic: Ornament
Definition:
OR'NAMENT, n.  [L. ornamentum, from orno, to adorn.  Varro informs us that this was primitively osnamentum; but this is improbable.  See Adorn.]
1.  That which embellishes; something which, added to another thing, renders it more beautiful to the eye.
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets and the ornaments of the legs - Is. 3.
2.  In architecture, ornaments are sculpture or carved work.
3.  Embellishment; decoration; additional beauty.
- The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price.  1Peter 3.
OR'NAMENT, v.t.  To adorn; to deck; to embellish.


Topic: Ornamental
Definition:
ORNAMENT'AL, a.  Serving to decorate; giving additional beauty; embellishing.
Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others about their ankles.


Topic: Orniscopist
Definition:
ORNIS'COPIST, n.  [Gr. a bird, and to view.]
One who views the flight of fowls in order to foretell future events by their manner of flight.  [Little used.]


Topic: Ornithologist
Definition:
ORNITHOL'OGIST, n.  [See Ornithology.]  A person who is skilled in the natural history of fowls, who understands their form, structure, habits and uses; one who describes birds.


Topic: Ornithology
Definition:
ORNITHOL'OGY, n.  [Gr. a fowl, and discourse.]
The science of fowls, which comprises a knowledge of their form, structure, habits and uses.


Topic: Ornithomancy
Definition:
ORNITH'OMANCY, n.  [Gr. a fowl, and divination.]
Augury, a species of divination by means of fowls, their flight, &c.


Topic: Orphan
Definition:
OR'PHAN, n.  [Gr.]
A child who is bereaved of father or mother or of both.
OR'PHAN, a.  Bereaved of parents.


Topic: Orpiment
Definition:
OR'PIMENT, n.  [L. auripigmentum; aurum, gold, and pigmentum.]
Sulphuret of arsenic, found native and then an ore of arsenic, or artificially composed.  The native orpiment appears in yellow, brilliant and seemingly talcky masses of various sizes.  The red orpiment is called realgar.  It is more or less lively and transparent, and often crystallized in bright needles.  In this form it is called ruby of arsenic.


Topic: Orpine
Definition:
OR'PINE, n.  A plant of the genus Sedum, lesser houseleek or live-long.  The bastard orpine is of the genus Andrachine; the lesser orpine of the genus Crassula.


Topic: Orrach
Definition:
OR'RACH, n.  A plant of the genus Atriplex, used as a substitute for spinage.
Wild orach is of the genus Chenopodium.


Topic: Orrery
Definition:
OR'RERY, n.  A machine so constructed as to represent by the movements of its parts, the motions and phases of the planets in their orbits.  This machine was invented by George Graham, but Rowley, a workman, borrowed one from him, and made a copy for the earl of Orrery, after whom it was named by Sir Richard Steele.  similar machines are called also planetariums.


Topic: Orris
Definition:
OR'RIS, n.
1.  The plant iris, of which orris seems to be a corruption; fleur de lis or flag-flower.
2.  A sort of gold or silver lace.


Topic: Orthite
Definition:
OR'THITE, n.  [Gr. straight.]  A mineral occurring in straight layers in felspath rock with albite, &c.  It is of a blackish brown color, resembling gadolinite, but differs from it is fusibility.


Topic: Orthoceratite
Definition:
ORTHOCER'ATITE, n.  [Gr. straight, and a horn.]
The name of certain fossil univalve shells, straight or but slightly curved, arranged by Cuvier in the genus Nantilus.


Topic: Orthodox
Definition:
OR'THODOX, a.  [See Orthodoxy.]
1.  Sound in the christian faith; believing the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures; opposed to heretical; as an orthodox christian.
2.  According with the doctrines of Scripture; as an orthodox creed or faith.


Topic: Orthodoxness
Definition:
OR'THODOXNESS, n.  The state of being sound in the faith, or of according with the doctrines of Scripture.


Topic: Orthodoxy
Definition:
OR'THODOXY, n.  [Gr. right, true, and opinion, from to think.]
1.  Soundness of faith; a belief in the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures.
Basil bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy.
2.  Consonance to genuine scriptural doctrines; as the orthodoxy of a creed.


Topic: Orthodromics
Definition:
ORTHODROM'ICS, n.  The art of sailing in the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe.


Topic: Orthoepist
Definition:
OR'THOEPIST, n.  [See Orthoepy.]  One who pronounces words correctly, or who is well skilled in pronunciation.


Topic: Orthoepy
Definition:
OR'THOEPY, n.  [Gr. right, and word, or to speak.]
The art of uttering words with propriety; a correct pronunciation of words.


Topic: Orthographically
Definition:
ORTHOGRAPH'ICALLY, adv.
1.  According to the rules of proper spelling.
2.  In the manner of orthographic projection.


Topic: Orthography
Definition:
ORTHOG'RAPHY, n.  [Gr. right, and writing.]
1.  The art of writing words with the proper letters, according to common usage.
2.  The part of grammar which treats of the nature and properties of letters, and of the art of writing words correctly.
3.  The practice of spelling or writing words with the proper letters.
4.  In geometry, the art of delineating the fore right plane or side of any object, and of expressing the elevations of each part; so called because it determines things by perpendicular lines falling on the geometrical plane.
5.  In architecture, the elevation of a building, showing all the parts in their true proportion.
6.  In perspective, the fore right side of any plane, that is, the side or plane that lies parallel to a straight line that may be imagined to pass through the outward convex points of the eyes, continued to a convenient length.
7.  In fortification, the profile or representation of a work in all its parts, as they would appear if perpendicularly cut from top to bottom.


Topic: Orthometry
Definition:
ORTHOM'ETRY, n.  [Gr. right, and measure.]
The art or practice of constructing verse correctly; the laws of correct versification.


Topic: Orthopny
Definition:
ORTHOP'NY, n.  [Gr. right, erect, and breath; to breathe.]
1.  A species of asthma in which respiration can be performed on in an erect posture.
2.  Any difficulty of breathing.


Topic: Ortive
Definition:
OR'TIVE, a.  [L. ortivus, from ortus, orior, to rise.]
Rising, or eastern.  The ortive amplitude of a planet is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the point where a star rises, and the east point of the horizon, the point where the horizon and equator intersect.


Topic: Ortolan
Definition:
OR'TOLAN, n.  [L. hortulanus, from hortus, a garden.]
A bird of the genus Emberiza, about the size of the lark, with black wings.  It is found in France and Italy, feeds on panic grass, and is delicious food.


Topic: Oryctognosy
Definition:
ORYCTOG'NOSY, n.  [Gr. fossil, and knowledge.]
That branch of mineralogy which has for its object the classification of minerals, according to well ascertained characters, and under appropriate denominations.
Oryctognosy consists in the description of minerals, the determination of their nomenclature, and the systematic arrangement of their different species.  It coincides nearly with mineralogy, in its modern acceptation.


Topic: Oryctography
Definition:
ORYCTOG'RAPHY, n.  [Gr. fossil, and to describe.]
That part of natural history in which fossils are described.


Topic: Oscillate
Definition:
OS'CILLATE, v.i.  [L. oscillo, from ant. cillo, Gr. to move.]
To swing; to move backward and forward; to vibrate.


Topic: Oscillation
Definition:
OSCILLA'TION, n.  [L. oscillatio.]  Vibration; a moving backward and forward, or swinging like a pendulum.


Topic: Oscitancy
Definition:
OS'CITANCY, n.  [L. oscito, to yawn, from os, the mouth.]
1.  The act of gaping or yawning.
2.  Unusual sleepiness; drowsiness; dullness. 
It might proceed from the oscitancy of transcribers.


Topic: Osculation
Definition:
OSCULA'TION, n.  [L. osculatio, a kissing.]  In geometry, the contract between any given curve and its osculatory circle, that is, a circle of the same curvature with the given curve.


Topic: Osculatory
Definition:
OS'CULATORY, a.  An osculatory circle, in geometry, is a circle having the same curvature with any curve at any given point.
OS'CULATORY, n.  In church history, a tablet or board, with the picture of Christ or the virgin, &c. which is kissed by the priest and then delivered to the people for the same purpose.


Topic: Osmazome
Definition:
OS'MAZOME, n.  [Gr. odor, and juice.]
A substance of an aromatic flavor, obtained from the flesh of the ox.


Topic: Osmium
Definition:
OS'MIUM, n.  [Gr. odor.]  A metal recently discovered, and contained in the ore of platinum.  A native alloy of this metal with iridium is found in grains along the rivers in South America.  Osmium has a dark gray color; it is not volatile when heated in close vessels, but heated in the open air, it absorbs oxygen and forms a volatile oxyd.  It is insoluble in the acids, readily soluble in potassa and very volatile.  It takes its name from the singular smell of its oxyd.


Topic: Osmund
Definition:
OS'MUND, n.  A plant, or a genus of plants, osmunda, moonwort.  The most remarkable species is the osmund royal or flowering fern, growing in marshes, the root of which boiled, is very slimy, and is used in stiffening linen.


Topic: Ospray
Definition:
OS'PRAY, n.  [L. ossifraga; as, a bone, and frango, to break; the bone-breaker.]
The sea-eagle, a fowl of the genus Falco or hawk, of the size of a peacock.  This is our fish hawk.  It feeds on fish which it takes by suddenly darting upon them, when near the surface of the water.


Topic: Osselet
Definition:
OS'SELET, n.  [L. os, osis, a bone.]
A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse's knee, among the small bones.


Topic: Ossific
Definition:
OSSIF'IC, a.  [L. os, a bone, and facio, to make.]
Having power to ossify or change carneous and membranous substances to bone.


Topic: Ossification
Definition:
OSSIFICA'TION, n.  [from ossify.]  
1.  The change or process of changing from flesh or other matter of animal bodies into a bony substance; as the ossification of an artery.
2.  The formation of bones in animals.


Topic: Ossifrage
Definition:
OS'SIFRAGE, n.  [L. ossifraga.  See Ospray.]
The ospray or sea-eagle.  In Leviticus 11:13, it denotes a different fowl.


Topic: Ossify
Definition:
OS'SIFY, v.t.  [L. os, bone, anf facio, to form.]
To form bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, or convert into a substance of the hardness of bones.  This is done by the deposition of calcarious phosphate or carbonate on the part.
OS'SIFY, v.i.  To become bone; to change from soft matter into a substance of bony hardness.


Topic: Ossivorous
Definition:
OSSIV'OROUS, a.  [L. os, bone, and voro, to eat.]
Feeding on bones; eating bones; as ossivorous quadrupeds.


Topic: Ostensible
Definition:
OSTEN'SIBLE, a.  [L. ostendo, to show.]
1.  That may be shown; proper or intended to be shown.
2.  Plausible; colorable.
3.  Appearing; seeming; shown, declared or avowed.  We say, the ostensible reason or motive for a measure may be the real one, or very different from the real one.  This is the common, and I believe the only sense in which the word is used in America.
One of the ostensible grounds on which the proprietors had obtained their charter -


Topic: Ostensibly
Definition:
OSTEN'SIBLY, adv.  In appearance; in a manner that is declared or pretended.
An embargo and non-intercourse which totally defeat the interests they are ostensible destined to promote.


Topic: Ostensive
Definition:
OSTEN'SIVE, a.  [L. ostendo.]  Showing; exhibiting.  Ostensive demonstration, is one which plainly and directly demonstrates the truth of a proposition.


Topic: Ostent
Definition:
OS'TENT, n.  [L. ostentum, from ostendo.]
1.  Appearance; air; manner; mien.  [Little used.]
2.  Show; manifestation; token.  [Little used.]
3.  A prodigy; a portent; any thing ominous.  [Little used.]


Topic: Ostentate
Definition:
OS'TENTATE, v.t.  [L. ostento.]  To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.  [Not used.]


Topic: Ostentation
Definition:
OSTENTA'TION, n.  [L. ostentatio.]
1.  Outward show or appearance.
2.  Ambitious display; vain show; display of any thing dictated by vanity, or intended to invite praise or flattery.  Ostentation of endowments is made by boasting or self-commendation.  Ostentation often appears in works of art and sometimes in acts of charity.
He knew that good and bountiful minds are sometimes inclined to ostentation.
The painter is to make no ostentation of the means by which he strikes the imagination.
3.  A show or spectacle.  [Not used.]


Topic: Ostentatious
Definition:
OSTENTA'TIOUS, a.  
1.  Making a display from vanity; boastful; fond of presenting one's endowments or works to others in an advantageous light.
Your modesty is so far from being ostentatious of the good you do -
2.  Showy; gaudy; intended for vain display; as ostentatious ornaments.


Topic: Osteocope
Definition:
OS'TEOCOPE, n.  [Gr. a bone, and labor, uneasiness.]
Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone.


Topic: Osteology
Definition:
OSTEOL'OGY, n.  [Gr. a bone, and discourse.]
1.  A description of the bones; that part of anatomy which treats of the bones.
2.  The system of animal bones.


Topic: Ostiary
Definition:
OS'TIARY, n.  [L. ostium, mouth.]  The mouth or opening by which a river discharges its waters into the sea, or into a lake.


Topic: Ostracism
Definition:
OSTRACISM, n.  [Gr. from a shell, or potter's ware.]
1.  In Grecian antiquity, banishment by the people of Athens, of a person whose merit and influence gave umbrage to them.  It takes this name from the shell on which the name or the note of acquittal or condemnation was written.  It is however most probable that this shell was a piece of baked earth, rendered by the Latins testa.
2.  Banishment; expulsion; separation.
Sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the esteem and confidence, and honors and emoluments of his country.


Topic: Ostracite
Definition:
OS'TRACITE, n.  [Gr. from a shell.]
An oyster shell in its fossil state, or a stone formed in the shell, the latter being dissolved.  This stone is found in many parts of England, and has been in repute for its efficacy in cases of the gravel.


Topic: Ostracize
Definition:
OS'TRACIZE, v.t.  [See Ostracism.]  To banish by the popular voice, particularly a person eminent for public services, but who has lost his popularity.


Topic: Ostrich
Definition:
OS'TRICH,  n.  [L. struthio-camelus; Gr. a sparrow, and an ostrich.  The meaning of the name is not obvious.  Eng. strut, L. struthio, Gr., L. avis.  The primary sense of struz, struthio, &c. is to reach, stretch, extend or erect; but whether this name was given to the fowl from its stately walk or appearance, or from some part of its plumage, let the reader judge.]
A fowl now considered as constituting a distinct genus, the Struthio.  This is the largest of all fowls, being four feet high from the ground to the top of the back and seven, eight, and it is said even ten to the top of the head, when standing erect.  Its thighs and the sides of the body are naked, and the wings are so short as to be unfit for flying.  The plumage is elegant, and much used in ornamental and showy dress.  The speed of this fowl in running exceeds that of the fleetest horse.


Topic: Otacoustic
Definition:
OTACOUS'TIC, a.  [Gr. ears, and to hear.]  Assisting the sense of hearing; as an otacoustic instrument.
OTACOUS'TIC, n.  An instrument to facilitate hearing.


Topic: Other
Definition:
OTH'ER, a.  [Heb.]
1.  Not the same; different; not this or these.
Then the other company which is left shall escape.  Gen. 32.
Behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.  Ex. 4.
Other lords besides thee have had dominion over us.  Is. 26.
There is one God, and there is none other but he.  Mark 12.
2.  Not this, but the contrary; as, on this side of the river stands Troy, on the other side stands Albany.
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.  Matt. 5.
3.  Noting something besides.  To the knowledge of the Latin and Greek, join as much other learning as you can.
4.  Correlative to each, and applicable to any number of individuals.
They asked each other of their welfare.  Ex. 18.
5.  Opposed to some; as,'some fell among thorns - but other fell into good ground.'  Matt. 13.
6.  The next.
7.  The third part.
Other is used as a substitute for a noun, and in this use has the plural number, and the sign of the possessive case.
- The fool and the brutish person die, and leave their wealth to others.  Ps. 49.
What do ye more than others?  Matt. 5.
We were children of wrath even as others. Eph. 2.
The confusion arises, when the one will put their sickle into the other's harvest.
With the sign of the possessive, other is preceded by the, as in the last example.
Other is sometimes put elliptically for other thing.  From such a man, we can expect no other.
The other day, at a certain time past, not distant but indefinite; not long ago.


Topic: Otherwise
Definition:
OTH'ERWISE, adv.  [other and wise, manner.]  
1.  In a different manner.
Thy father was a worthy prince, and merited, alas! a better fate; but heaven thought otherwise.
2.  By other causes.
Sir John Norris failed in the attempt of Lisborn, and returned with the loss, by sickness and otherwise, of 8000 men.
3.  In other respects.
It is said truly, that the best men otherwise, are not always the best in regard to society.


Topic: Otomo
Definition:
OT'OMO, n.  A fowl of the Lagopus kind, about the size of a tame pigeon, a native of Germany, and highly esteemed for food.


Topic: Ouch
Definition:
OUCH, n. 
1.  A bezil or socket in which a precious stone or seal is set.  Ex. 39.
2.  The blow given by a boar's tusk.


Topic: Ounce
Definition:
OUNCE, n. ouns.  [L. uncia, the twelfth part of any thing; Gr; but the Greek is from Latin.  Inch is from the same root, being the twelfth part of a foot.]
1.  A weight, the twelfth part of a pound troy, and the sixteenth of a pound avoirdupois.  In troy weight, the ounce is 20 pennyweights, each of 24 grains.
2.  An animal of the genus Felis.  [See Once.]


Topic: Our
Definition:
OUR, a.  
1.  Pertaining or belonging to us; as our country; our rights; our troops.
2.  Ours, which is primarily the possessive case of our, is never used as an adjective, but as a substitute for the adjective and the noun to which it belongs.  Your house is on a plain; ours is on a hill.  This is good English, but certainly ours must be the nominative to is, or it has none.
Their organs are better disposed than ours for receiving grateful impressions from sensible objects.
Here ours stands in the place of our organs, and cannot, in conformity with any rule of construction, be in the possessive case.
The same thing was done by them in suing in their courts, which is now done by us in suing in ours.


Topic: Ourself
Definition:
OURSELF', pron. reciprocal.  [our and self.]  This is added after we and us, and sometimes is used without either for myself, in the regal style only, as, we ourself will follow.
- Unless we would denude ourself of all force to defend us.


Topic: Ourselves
Definition:
OURSELVES, plu. of ourself.  We or us, not others; added to we, by way of emphasis or opposition.
We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great deal farther than we usually do.
Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand.


Topic: Ouster
Definition:
OUST'ER, n.  Amotion of possession; disseizin; dispossession; ejection.
Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance or deforcement.
A delivery of lands out of the bands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands; or a judgment given for that purpose.


Topic: Out
Definition:
OUT, adv.  
1.  Without; on the outside; not within; on the exterior or beyond the limits of any inclosed place or given line; opposed to in or within; as, to go out and come in; to rush out.
2.  Abroad; not at home.  The master of the house is out; a colloquial phrase for gone out.
3.  In a state of disclosure or discovery.  The secret is out, that is, has come out, is disclosed.  We shall find out the rogue.
4.  Not concealed.
When these are gone, the woman will be out.
5.  In a state of extinction.  The candle or the fire is out.
6.  In a state of being exhausted.  The wine is out.
7.  In a state of destitution.  We are out of bread corn.
8.  Not in office or employment.  I care not who is in or who is out.  He is out of business.
9.  Abroad or from home, in a party, at church, in a parade, &c.  He was not out today.  The militia companies are out.  The man was out in a frolic last night.
10.  To the end.
Hear me out.
11.  Loudly; without restraint; as, to laugh out.
12.  Not in the hands of the owner.  The land is out upon a lease.
13.  In an error.
As a musician that will always play, and yet is always out at the same note.
14.  At a loss; in a puzzle.
I have forgot my part, and I am out.
15.  Uncovered; with clothes torn; as, to be out at the knees or elbows.
16.  Away, so as to consume; as, to sleep out the best time in the morning.
17.  Deficient; having expended.  He was out of pocket.  He was out fifty pounds.
18.  It is used as an exclamation with the force of command, away; begone; as, out with the dog.
Out upon you, out upon it, expressions of dislike or contempt.
Out is much used as a modifier of verbs; as, to come out, to go out, to lead out, to run out, to leak out, to creep out, to flow out, to pass out, to look out, to burn out, to cut out, to saw out, to grow out, to spin out, to write out, to boil out, to beat out, &c. bearing the sense of issuing, extending, drawing from, separating, bringing to open view, or in short, the passing of a limit that incloses or restrains; or bearing the metaphorical sense of vanishing, coming to an end.
Out of.  In this connection, out may be considered as adverb, and of as a preposition.
1.  Proceeding from; as produce.  Plants grow out of the earth.  He paid me out of his own funds.
Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.  Prov. 4.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.  James 3.
2.  From or proceeding from a place, or the interior of a place; as, to take any thing out of the house.  Mark 13.
3.  Beyond; as out of the power of fortune.
They were astonished out of measure.  Mark 10.
4.  From, noting taking or derivation.
To whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets.  Acts 28.
5.  Not in, noting extraordinary exertion.
Be instant in season, out of season.  2Tim. 4.
6.  Not in, noting exclusion, dismission, departure, absence or dereliction; as out of favor; out of use; out of place; out of fashion.
7.  Not in, noting unfitness or impropriety.  He is witty out of season.  The seed was sown out of season.
8.  Not within, noting extraordinary delay; as, a ship is out of time.
9.  Not within; abroad; as out of the door or house.
10.  From, noting copy from an original; as, to cite or copy out of Horace.
11.  From, noting rescue or liberation; as, to be delivered out of afflictions.
Christianity recovered the law of nature out of all those errors.
12.  Not in, noting deviation, exorbitance or irregularity.  This is out of all method; out of all rule.  He goes out of his way to find cause of censure.  He is out of order.
13.  From, noting dereliction or departure.  He will not be flattered or frightened out of his duty.  He attempted to laugh men out of virtue.
14.  From, noting loss or change of state.  The mouth is out of taste; the instrument is out of tune.
15.  Not according to, noting deviation; as, he acts or speaks out of character.
16.  Beyond; not within the limits of; as, to be out of hearing, out of sight, out of reach.  Time out of mind, is time beyond the reach of memory.
17.  Noting loss or exhaustion, as, to be out of breath.
18.  Noting loss; as out of hope.
19.  By means of.
Out of that will I cause those of Cyprus to mutiny.
20.  In consequence of, noting the motive, source or reason.
What they do not grant out of the generosity of their nature, they may grant out of mere impatience.
So we say, a thing is done out of envy, spite or ambition.
Out of hand, immediately, as that is easily used which is ready in the hand.
Gather we our forces out of hand.
Out of print, denotes that a book is not in market, or to be purchased; the copies printed having been all sold.
OUT, v.t  To eject; to expel; to deprive by expulsion.
The French having been outed of their holds.
In composition, out signifies beyond, more, ejection or extension.
For the participles of the following compounds, see the simple verbs.


Topic: Outact
Definition:
OUTACT', v.t.  To do beyond; to exceed in act.
He has made me heir to treasures, would make me outact a read widow's whining.


Topic: Outbalance
Definition:
OUTBAL'ANCE, v.t.  To out weigh; to exceed in weight or effect.
Let dull Ajax bear away my right, when all his days outbalance this one night.


Topic: Outbid
Definition:
OUTBID', v.t.  To bid more than another; to offer a higher price.
For Indian spices, for Peruvian gold, prevent the greedy and outbid the bold.


Topic: Outbound
Definition:
OUT'BOUND, a.  Destined or proceeding from a country or harbor to a distant country or port; as an outbound ship.
[The usual phrase among seamen is outward bound.]


Topic: Outbrave
Definition:
OUTBRA'VE, v.t.
1.  To bear down by more daring or insolent conduct.
I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, outbrave the heart most daring on the earth, to win thee, lady.
2.  To exceed in splendid appearance.
The towers as well as men outbrave the sky.


Topic: Outcast
Definition:
OUT'CAST, pp. or a.  Cast out; thrown away; rejected as useless.
OUT'CAST, n.  One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home or country.  Is. 16.


Topic: Outcry
Definition:
OUT'CRY, n.
1.  A vehement or loud cry; cry of distress.
2.  Clamor; noisy opposition or detestation.
3.  Sale at public auction.


Topic: Outdo
Definition:
OUTDO, v.t. pret. outdid; pp. outdone.  [See Do.]
To excel; to surpass; to perform beyond another.
An imposture outdoes the original.
I grieve to be outdone by Gay.


Topic: Outer
Definition:
OUT'ER, a.  [comp. of out.]  Being on the outside; external; opposed to inner; as the outer wall; the outer part of a thing; the outer court or gate.


Topic: Outermost
Definition:
OUT'ERMOST, a.  [superl. from outer.]  Being on the extreme external part; remotest from the midst; as the outermost row.


Topic: Outfit
Definition:
OUT'FIT, n.  A fitting out, as of a ship for a voyage; usually in the plural, outfits, the expenses of equipping and furnishing a ship for a voyage.


Topic: Outgo
Definition:
OUTGO', v.t.  [See Go.]
1.  To go beyond; to advance before in going; to go faster.
2.  To surpass; to excel.
3.  To circumvent; to overreach.


Topic: Outgrow
Definition:
OUTGROW, v.t.
1.  To surpass in growth.
2.  To grow too great or too old for any thing.  Children outgrow their garments, and men outgrow their usefulness.


Topic: Outguard
Definition:
OUT'GUARD, n.  A guard at a distance from the main body of an army; or a guard at the farthest distance; any thing for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.


Topic: Outlandish
Definition:
OUTLAND'ISH, a.
1.  Foreign; not native.
Nevertheless, even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
Neh. 13.
2.  Born or produced in the interior country, or among rude people; hence, vulgar; rustic; rude; clownish.  [This is the sense in which the word is among us most generally used.]


Topic: Outlast
Definition:
OUTL'AST, v.t.  To last longer than something else; to exceed in duration.  Candles laid in bran will outlast others of the same stuff.


Topic: Outlaw
Definition:
OUT'LAW, n.  A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.  Formerly any person might kill an outlaw; but it is now held unlawful for any person to put to death an outlaw, except the sheriff, who has a warrant for that purpose.
OUT'LAW, v.t.  To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to proscribe.


Topic: Outlawry
Definition:
OUT'LAWRY, n.  The putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man is deprived of that protection; the punishment of a man who when called into court, contemptuously refuses to appear.


Topic: Outlet
Definition:
OUT'LET, n.  Passage outward; the place or the means by which any thing escapes or is discharged.  A gate is the outlet of a city or fort.  The mouth of a river is its outlet.  Colonies are the outlets of a populous nation.


Topic: Outline
Definition:
OUT'LINE, n.  Contour; the line by which a figure is defined; the exterior line.
OUT'LINE, v.t.  To draw the exterior line; to delineate; to sketch.


Topic: Outlive
Definition:
OUTLIVE, v.t.  outliv'.  
1.  To live beyond; to survive; to live after something has ceased; as, a man may outlive his children; a person may outlive his estate, his fame and his usefulness.
They live too long who happiness outlive.
2.  To live better or to better purpose.


Topic: Outlying
Definition:
OUTLY'ING, a.
1.  Lying or being at a distance from the main body or design.
2.  Being on the exterior or frontier.


Topic: Outmarch
Definition:
OUTM'ARCH, v.t.  To march faster than; to march so as to leave behind.
The horse outmarched the foot.


Topic: Outpost
Definition:
OUT'POST, n.
1.  A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army.
2.  The troops placed at such a station.


Topic: Outpreach
Definition:
OUTPRE'ACH, v.t.  To surpass in preaching; to produce more effect in inculcating lessons or truth.
And for a villain's quick conversion a pill'ry can outpreach a parson.


Topic: Outrage
Definition:
OUT'RAGE, v.t.  [L. ultra, beyond.]
To treat with violence and wrong; to abuse by rude or insolent language; to injure by rough, rude treatment of any kind.
Base and insolent minds outrage men, when they have hopes of doing it without a return.
This interview outrages all decency.
OUT'RAGE, v.i.  To commit exorbitances; to be guilty of violent rudeness.
OUT'RAGE, n.
Injurious violence offered to persons or things; excessive abuse; wanton mischief.  Rude abusive language, scurrility, or opprobrious and contemptuous words, may be an outrage to persons, or to decency and civility.  A violent attack upon person or property is an outrage.
He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country where he went.


Topic: Outrageous
Definition:
OUTRA'GEOUS, a.
1.  Violent; furious; exorbitant; exceeding all bounds of moderation; as outrageous villainies; outrageous talk; outrageous abuse.
2.  Excessive; exceeding reason or decency; as outrageous panegyric.
3.  Enormous; atrocious; as outrageous crimes.
4.  Tumultuous; turbulent.


Topic: Outride
Definition:
OUTRI'DE, v.t.  To pass by riding; to ride faster than.
OUTRI'DE, v.i.  To travel about on horseback, or in a vehicle.


Topic: Outrider
Definition:
OUT'RIDER, n.  
1.  A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.  [Not used.]
2.  One who travels about on horseback.
3.  An attending servant.


Topic: Outrigger
Definition:
OUT'RIGGER, n.  In seamen's language, a strong beam fixed on the side of a ship and projecting from it, in order to secure the masts in the operation of careening, by counteracting the strain it suffers from the effort of the careening tackle; also, a boom occasionally used in the tops to thrust out the breast back-stays to windward, to increase the angle of tension, and give additional security to the topmast.  [See Prow.]


Topic: Outrun
Definition:
OUTRUN', v.t
1.  To exceed in running; to leave behind in running.
2.  To exceed; as, to outrun one's income.


Topic: Outsell
Definition:
OUTSELL', v.t.
1.  To exceed in amount of sales.
2.  To exceed in the prices of things sold.
3.  To gain a higher price.


Topic: Outset
Definition:
OUT'SET, n.  Beginning; first entrance on any business.
Every thing almost depends upon giving a proper direction to this outset of life.


Topic: Outshine
Definition:
OUTSHI'NE, v.t.
1.  To send forth brightness or luster.
2.  To excel in luster or excellence; as Homer outshines all other poets.


Topic: Outside
Definition:
OUTSI'DE, n.
1.  The external part of a thing; the part, end or side which forms the surface or superficies.
2.  Superficial appearance; exterior; as the outside of a man or of manners.
Created beings see nothing but our outside.
3.  Person; external man.
4.  The part or place that lies without or beyond an inclosure.
I threw open the door of my chamber and found the family standing on the outside.
5.  The utmost.


Topic: Outstand
Definition:
OUTSTAND', v.t.  
1.  To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding.  [Little used.]
2.  To stand beyond the proper time.
OUTSTAND', v.i.  To project outwards from the main body.


Topic: Outstanding
Definition:
OUTSTAND'ING, ppr.  
1.  Resisting effectually.  [Little used.]
2.  Projecting outward.
3.  Not collected; unpaid; as outstanding debts.
The whole amount of revenues - as well outstanding as collected.


Topic: Outstare
Definition:
OUTSTA'RE, v.t.  To face down; to browbeat; to outface with effrontery; as we say, to stare out of countenance.


Topic: Outwalk
Definition:
OUTWALK, v.t.  outwauk'.
1.  To walk faster than; to leave behind in walking.
2.  To exceed the walking of a specter.


Topic: Outwall
Definition:
OUT'WALL, n.  
1.  The exterior wall of a building or fortress.
2.  Superficial appearance.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Outward
Definition:
OUT'WARD, a.  [L. versus.]
1.  External; exterior; forming the superficial part; as the outward coat of an onion; an outward garment.
2.  External; visible; opposed to inward; as outward hate.
3.  Extrinsic; adventitious.
And outward honor for an inward toil.
4.  Foreign; not intestine; as an outward war.  [Not now used.  We now say, external or foreign war.]
5.  Tending to the exterior part.
The fire will force its outward way.
6.  In Scripture, civil; public; as opposed to religious.  1Chron. 24.
7.  In theology, carnal; fleshly; corporeal; not spiritual; as the outward man.
OUT'WARD, n.  External form.
OUT'WARD,


Topic: Outwardly
Definition:
OUT'WARDLY, adv.
1.  Externally; opposed to inwardly; as outwardly content, but inwardly uneasy.
2.  In appearance; not sincerely.  Many may inwardly reverence the goodness which they outwardly seem to despise.


Topic: Outwards
Definition:
OUT'WARDS, adv.  
1.  To the outer parts; tending or directed towards the exterior.
The light falling on them [black bodies] is not reflected outwards.
2.  From a port or country; as a ship bound outwards. 


Topic: Outwear
Definition:
OUTWEAR, v.t.
1.  To wear out.  [Not used.]
2.  To pass tediously to the end.
By the stream, if I the night outwear -
3.  To last longer than something else.  [This is the common signification.]


Topic: Outweigh
Definition:
OUTWEIGH, v.t. outwa'y.  [See Weigh.]
1.  To exceed in weight.
2.  To exceed in value, influence or importance.
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs of stupid starers and of loud huzzas.


Topic: Outwit
Definition:
OUTWIT', v.t.  To surpass in design or stratagem; to overreach; to defeat or frustrate by superior ingenuity.


Topic: Oval
Definition:
O'VAL, a.  [L. ovum, an egg.]
1.  Of the shape or figure of an egg; oblong; curvilinear; resembling the longitudinal section of an egg.  It is sometimes synonymous with elliptical; but an ellipsis is equally broad at both ends, and is not strictly egg-shaped.
2.  Pertaining to eggs; done in the egg; as oval conceptions.
O'VAL, n.  A body or figure in the shape of an egg.


Topic: Ovary
Definition:
O'VARY, n.  [L. ovarium, from ovum, an egg.]
The part of a female animal in which the eggs are formed or lodged; or the part in which the fetus is supposed to be formed.


Topic: Ovate-subulate
Definition:
OVATE-SUB'ULATE, a.  Having something of the form of an egg and an awl, but most tending to the latter.


Topic: Ovation
Definition:
OVA'TION, n.  [L. ovatio.]  In Roman antiquity, a lesser triumph allowed to commanders who had conquered without blood, or defeated an inconsiderable enemy.


Topic: Oven
Definition:
OVEN, n. uv'n.
An arch of brick or stone work, for baking bread and other things for food.  Ovens are made in chimneys or set in the open air.


Topic: Over
Definition:
O'VER, prep.  [L. super., Gr.]
1.  Across; from side to side; implying a passing or moving either above the substance or thing, or on the surface of it.  Thus we say, a dog leaps over a stream, or over a table; a boat sails over a lake.
2.  Above in place or position; opposed to below; as the clouds over our heads.  The smoke rises over the city.
The mercy-seat that is over the testimony.  Ex. 30.
3.  Above, denoting superiority in excellence, dignity or value; as the advantages which the christian world has over the heathen.
Young Pallas shone conspicuous o'er the rest.
4.  Above in authority, implying the right or power of superintending or governing; opposed to under.
Thou shalt be over my house.  Gen. 41.
I will make thee ruler over many things.  Matt. 25.
5.  Upon the surface or whole surface; through the whole extent; as, to wander over the earth; to walk over a field, or over a city.
6.  Upon.  Watch over your children.
Dost thou not watch over my sin?  Job. 14.
His tender mercies are over all his works.  Ps. 145.
7.  During the whole time; from beginning to end; as, to keep any thing over night; to keep corn over winter.
8.  Above the top; covering; immersing; as, the water is over the shoes or boots.
Over night.  In this phrase, over sometimes signifies before; as, when preparing for a journey, we provide things necessary over night.  
Over, in poetry, is often contracted into o'er.
O'VER, adv.
1.  From side to side; as a board a foot over; a tree a foot over, a foot in diameter.
2.  On the opposite side.  The boat is safe over.
3.  From one to another by passing; as, to deliver over goods to another.
4.  From one country to another by passing; as, to carry any thing over to France, or to bring any thing over to England.
5.  On the surface.
6.  Above the top.
Good measure, pressed down and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.  Luke 6.
7.  More than the quantity assigned; beyond a limit.
He that gathered much had nothing over.  Ex. 14.
8.  Throughout; from beginning to end; completely; as, to read over a book; to argue a question over again.
Over and over, repeatedly; once and again.
And every night review'd it o'er and o'er.
Over again, once more; with repetition.
O kill not all my kindred o'er again.
Over and above, besides; beyond what is supposed or limited.
He gained, over and above, the good will of the people.
Over against, opposite; in front.
Over against this church stands a large hospital.
Over is used with rolling or turning from side to side; as, to turn over; to roll over.
1.  To give over, to cease from; as, to give over an enterprize.
2.  To consider as in a hopeless state; as, the physicians have given over their patient.
Over, in composition, denotes spreading, covering above; as in overcast, overflow; or across, as to overhear; or above, as to overhang; or turning, changing sides, as in overturn; or more generally beyond, implying excess or superiority, as in overact, overcome.
O'VER, a. 
1.  Past.
The Olympic games were over.
2.  Upper; covering; as over-shoes; over-leather.


Topic: Overact
Definition:
OVERACT', v.t.  To act or perform to excess; as, he overacted his part.
OVERACT', v.i.  To act more than is necessary.


Topic: Overawe
Definition:
OVERAWE, v.t.  overaw'.  To restrain by awe, fear or superior influence.
The kind was present in person to overlook that magistrates and overawe the subjects with the terror of his sword.


Topic: Overbalance
Definition:
OVERBAL'ANCE, v.t.  To weigh down; to exceed in weight, value or importance.  The evils which spring from vice overbalance all its pleasures.
OVERBAL'ANCE, n.  Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent; as an overbalance of exports; an overbalance of probabilities.


Topic: Overbear
Definition:
OVERBEAR, v.t.  [See Bear.]  To bear down; to repress; to subdue.
The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war.
Yet fortune, valor, all is overborne by numbers.
Till overborne with weight the Cyprians fell.


Topic: Overbearing
Definition:
OVERBEARING, ppr.
1.  Bearing down; repressing.
2.  a.  Haughty and dogmatical; disposed or tending to repress or subdue by insolence or effrontery.


Topic: Overblow
Definition:
OVERBLOW, v.i.  
1.  To blow with too much violence; a seaman's phrase.
2.  To blow over, or be past its violence.  [Not used.]
OVERBLOW, v.t.  To blow away; to dissipate by wind.


Topic: Overblown
Definition:
OVERBLOWN, pp.  Blown by and gone; blown away; driven by; past.
And when this cloud of sorrow's overblown.


Topic: Overboard
Definition:
OVERBOARD, adv.  Literally, over the side of a ship; hence, out of a ship or from on board; as, to fall overboard; which of course is to fall into the water.


Topic: Overcast
Definition:
OVERC'AST, v.t. 
1.  To cloud; to darken; to cover with gloom.
The clouds that overcast our morn shall fly.
2.  To cast or compute at too high a rate; to rate too high.
The king in his account of peace and calms did much overcast his fortunes -
3.  To sew over.
OVERC'AST, pp.  Clouded; overspread with clouds or gloom.
The dawn is overcast.
Our days of age are sad and overcast.


Topic: Overcharge
Definition:
OVERCH'ARGE, v.t.
1.  To charge or load to excess; to cloy; to oppress.
The heavy load of abundance with which we overcharge nature -
2.  To crowd too much.
Our language is overcharged with consonants.
3.  To burden.
4.  To fill to excess; to surcharge; as, to overcharge the memory.
5.  To load with too great a charge, as a gun.
6.  To charge too much; to enter in an account more than is just.


Topic: Overcome
Definition:
OVERCOME, v.t.  [See Come.]
1.  To conquer; to vanquish; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle.
2.  To surmount; to get the better of; as, to overcome difficulties or obstacles.
3.  To overflow; to surcharge.  [Not used.]
4.  To come upon; to invade.  [Not used.]
OVERCOME, v.i.  To gain the superiority; to be victorious.  
Romans 3.


Topic: Overdo
Definition:
OVERDO, v.t.  
1.  To do or perform too much.
2.  To harass; to fatigue; to oppress by too much action or labor.
3.  To boil, bake or road too much.
OVERDO, v.i.  To labor too hard; to do too much.


Topic: Overdone
Definition:
OVERDONE, pp.
1.  Overacted; acted to excess.
2.  Wearied or oppressed by too much labor.
3.  Boiled, baked or roasted too much.


Topic: Overfatigue
Definition:
OVERFATIGUE, n.  overfatee'g.  To fatigue to excess.
OVERFATIGUE, v.t.  overfatee'g.  To fatigue to excess.


Topic: Overflow
Definition:
OVERFLOW, v.t.
1.  To spread over, as water; to inundate; to cover with water or other fluid.
2.  To fill beyond the brim.
3.  To deluge; to overwhelm; to cover, as with numbers.
The northern nations overflowed all christendom.
OVERFLOW, v.i.
1.  To run over; to swell and run over the brim or banks.
2.  To be abundant; to abound; to exuberate; as overflowing plenty.


Topic: Overflowing
Definition:
OVERFLOWING, ppr.  Spreading over, as a fluid; inundating; running over the brim or banks.
OVERFLOWING, a.  Abundant; copious; exuberant.
OVERFLOWING, n.  Exuberance; copiousness.


Topic: Overfreight
Definition:
OVERFREIGHT, v.t.  overfra'te.  [See Freight.]
To load too heavily; to fill with too great quantity or numbers; as, to overfreight a boat.


Topic: Overgrow
Definition:
OVERGROW, v.t.
1.  To cover with growth or herbage.
2.  To grow beyond; to rise above.
OVERGROW, v.i.  To grow beyond the fit or natural size; as a hugh overgrown ox.


Topic: Overhang
Definition:
OVERHANG', v.t.
1.  To impend or hang over.
2.  To jut or project over.
OVERHANG', v.i.  To jut over.


Topic: Overhaul
Definition:
OVERHAUL', v.t.  
1.  To spread over.
2.  To turn over for examination; to separate and inspect.
3.  To draw over.
4.  To examine again.
5.  To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.


Topic: Overhear
Definition:
OVERHE'AR, v.t.  To hear by accident; to hear what is not addressed to the hearer, or not intended to be heard by him.


Topic: Overlay
Definition:
OVERLA'Y, v.t.
1.  To lay too much upon; to oppress with incumbent weight; as a country overlaid with inhabitants.
Our sins have overlaid our hopes.
2.  To cover to spread over the surface; as, to overlay capitals of columns with silver; cedar overlaid with gold.
3.  To smother with close covering; as, to overlay an infant.
4.  To overwhelm; to smother.
A heap of ashes that o'er lays your fire.
5.  To cloud; to overcast.
- As when a cloud his beam doth overlay.
6.  To cover; to join two opposite sides by a cover.
And overlay with this portentous bridge the dark abyss.


Topic: Overleap
Definition:
OVERLE'AP, v.t.  To leap over; to pass or move from side to side by leaping; as, to overleap a ditch or a fence.


Topic: Overlether
Definition:
O'VERLETHER, n.  The leather which forms or is intended to form the upper part of a shoe; that which is over the foot.  [With us, this is called upper leather.]


Topic: Overlive
Definition:
OVERLIVE, v.t. overliv'.  To outlive; to live longer than another; to survive.  [We generally use outlive.]
OVERLIVE, v.i.  overliv'.  To live too long.


Topic: Overload
Definition:
OVERLOAD, v.t.  To load with too heavy a burden or cargo; to fill to excess; as, to overload the stomach or a vehicle.


Topic: Overlook
Definition:
OVERLOOK', v.t.
1.  To view from a higher place; applied to persons; as, to stand on a hill and overlook a city.
2.  To stand in a more elevated place, or to rise so high as to afford the means of looking down on; applied to things.  The tower overlooked the town.
3.  To see from behind or over the shoulder of another; to see from a higher position; as, to overlook a paper when one is writing.
4.  To view fully; to peruse.
5.  To inspect; to superintend; to oversee; implying care and watchfulness.
He was present in person to overlook the magistrates.
6.  To review; to examine a second time or with care.
The time and care that are required to overlook, and file and polish well.
7.  To pass by indulgently; to excuse; not to punish or censure; as, to overlook faults.
8.  To neglect; to slight.
They overlook truth in the judgment they pass on adversity and prosperity.


Topic: Overmast
Definition:
OVERM'AST, v.t.  To furnish with a mast or with masts that are too long or too heavy for the weight of keel.


Topic: Overmatch
Definition:
OVERMATCH', v.t.  To be too powerful for; to conquer; to subdue; to oppress by superior force.
OVERMATCH', n.  One superior in power; one able to overcome.


Topic: Overmeasure
Definition:
OVERMEASURE, v.t.  overmezh'ur.  To measure or estimate too largely.
OVERMEASURE, n.  overmezh'ur.  Excess of measure; something that exceeds the measure proposed.


Topic: Overmuch
Definition:
OVERMUCH', a.  Too much; exceeding what is necessary or proper.
OVERMUCH', adv.  In too great a degree.
OVERMUCH', n.  More than sufficient.


Topic: Overpass
Definition:
OVERP'ASS, v.t. 
1.  To cross; to go over.
2.  To overlook; to pass without regard.
3.  To omit, as in reckoning.
4.  To omit; not to receive or include.
  


Topic: Overplus
Definition:
O'VERPLUS, n.  [over and L. plus, more.]
Surplus; that which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed.  Take what is wanted and return the overplus.
It would look like  a fable to report that this gentleman gives away all which is the overplus of a great fortune.


Topic: Overpower
Definition:
OVERPOW'ER, v.t.
1.  To affect with a power or force that cannot be borne; as, the light overpowers the eyes.
2.  To vanquish by force; to subdue; to reduce to silence in action or submission; to defeat.


Topic: Overpress
Definition:
OVERPRESS', v.t.  
1.  To bear upon with irresistible force; to crush; to overwhelm.
2.  To overcome by importunity.


Topic: Overrake
Definition:
OVERRA'KE, v.t.  To break in upon a ship.  When the waves break in upon a ship riding at anchor, it is said, they overrake her, or she is overraked.


Topic: Overreach
Definition:
OVERRE'ACH, v.t.
1.  To reach beyond in any direction; to rise above; to extend beyond.
2.  To deceive by cunning, artifice or sagacity; to cheat.
OVERRE'ACH, v.i.  Applied to horses, to strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the fore foot.
OVERRE'ACH, n.  The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot.


Topic: Override
Definition:
OVERRI'DE, v.t. 
1.  To ride over.  [Not used.]
2.  To ride too much; to ride beyond the strength of the horse.


Topic: Overrule
Definition:
OVERRU'LE, v.t.
1.  To influence or control by predominant power; to subject to superior authority.  The law must overrule all private opinions of right and wrong.
His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.
2.  To govern with high authority.
3.  In law, to supersede or reject; as, the plea was overruled by the court.


Topic: Overruling
Definition:
OVERRU'LING, pp.
1.  Controlling; subjecting to authority.
2.  a.  Exerting superior and controlling power; as an overruling  Providence.


Topic: Overrun
Definition:
OVERRUN', v.t.  
1.  To run or spread over; to grow over; to cover all over.  The sluggard's farm is overrun with weeds.  Some plants unchecked will soon overrun a field.  The Canada thistle is overrunning the northern parts of New England, as it has overrun Normandy.
2.  To march or rove over; to harass by hostile incursions; to ravage.  The south of Europe was formerly overrun by the Goths, Vandals and other barbarians.
3.  To outrun; to run faster than another and leave him behind.
Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.  
2Sam. 18.
4.  To overspread with numbers.  Were it not for the ibis, it has been supposed Egypt would be overrun with crocodiles.
5.  To injure by treading down.
6.  Among printers, to change the disposition of types and carry those of one line into another, either in correction, or in the contraction or extension of columns.
OVERRUN', v.i.  To overflow; to run over.


Topic: Oversee
Definition:
OVERSEE', v.t.
1.  To superintend; to overlook, implying care.
2.  To pass unheeded; to omit; to neglect.  [Not used.]


Topic: Overseer
Definition:
OVERSEE'R, n.  
1.  One who overlooks; a superintendent; a supervisor.
2.  An officer who has the care of the poor or of an idiot, &c.


Topic: Overset
Definition:
OVERSET', v.t
1.  To turn from the proper position or basis; to turn upon the side, or to turn bottom upwards; as, to overset a coach, a ship or a building.
2.  To subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset the constitution of a state; to overset a scheme of policy.
3.  To throw off the proper foundation.
OVERSET', v.i.  To turn or be turned over; to turn or fall off the basis or bottom.  A crank vessel is liable to overset.


Topic: Overshade
Definition:
OVERSHA'DE, v.t.  To cover with shade; to cover with any thing that causes darkness; to render dark or gloomy.


Topic: Overshadow
Definition:
OVERSHAD'OW, v.t
1.  To throw a shadow over; to overshade.
2.  To shelter; to protect; to cover with protecting influence.


Topic: Overshoot
Definition:
OVERSHOOT', v.t. 
1.  To shoot beyond the mark.
2.  To pass swiftly over.
To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
OVERSHOOT', v.i.  To fly beyond the mark.


Topic: Oversight
Definition:
O'VERSIGHT, n.
1.  Superintendence; watchful care.  1Peter 5.
2.  Mistake; an overlooking; omission; error.


Topic: Overslip
Definition:
OVERSLIP', v.t.  To slip or pass without notice; to pass undone, unnoticed or unused; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.


Topic: Overspread
Definition:
OVERSPREAD, v.t.  overspred'.
1.  To spread over; to cover over.  The deluge overspread the earth.
2.  To scatter over.
OVERSPREAD, v.i.  overspred'.  To be spread or scattered over; as, weeds overspread the ground.


Topic: Overstand
Definition:
OVERSTAND', v.t.  To stand too much on price or conditions; to lose a sale by holding the price too high.


Topic: Overstock
Definition:
OVERSTOCK', n.  Superabundance; more than is sufficient.
OVERSTOCK', v.t. 
1.  To fill too full; to crowd; to supply with more than is wanted.  The world may be overstocked with inhabitants.  The market is often overstocked with goods.
2.  To furnish with more cattle than are wanted; as, to overstock a farm.
3.  To supply with more seed than is wanted; as, to overstock land with clover.


Topic: Overstrain
Definition:
OVERSTRA'IN, v.i.  To strain to excess; to make too violent efforts.
OVERSTRA'IN, v.t.  To stretch too far.


Topic: Overt
Definition:
O'VERT, a.  [L.  aperio.]
Open to view; public; apparent; as overt virtues; an overt essay.  But the word is now used chiefly in law.  Thus an overt act of treason is distinguished from secret design or intention not carried into effect, and even from words spoken.  A market overt, is a place where goods are publicly exposed to sale.  A pound over, is one open overhead, as distinguished from a pound covert or close.


Topic: Overtake
Definition:
OVERTA'KE, v.t.
1.  To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress or motion; to catch.
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake.  Ex. 15.
2.  To come upon; to fall on afterwards.  Vengeance shall overtake the wicked.
3.  To take by surprise.
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual, restore such one in the spirit of meekness.  Gal.  6.


Topic: Overthrow
Definition:
OVERTHROW, v.t.  [See Throw.]
1.  To turn upside down.
His wife overthrew the table.
2.  To throw down.
3.  To ruin; to demolish.
When the walls of Thebes he overthrew.
4.  To defeat; to conquer; to vanquish; as, to overthrow an army or an enemy.
5.  To subvert; to destroy; as, to overthrow the constitution or state; to overthrow religion.


Topic: Overthwart
Definition:
OVERTHWART', a.  
1.  Opposite; being over the way or street.
2.  Crossing at right angles.
3.  Cross; perverse; adverse; contradictions.
OVERTHWART', prep.  Across; from side to side.


Topic: Overthwartness
Definition:
OVERTHWART'NESS, n.  
1.  The state of being athwart or lying across.
2.  Perverseness; pervicacity.


Topic: Overtop
Definition:
OVERTOP', v.t.
1.  To rise above the top.
2.  To excel; to surpass.
3.  To obscure; to make of less importance by superior excellence.


Topic: Overture
Definition:
O'VERTURE, n.  
1.  Opening; disclosure; discovery.  [In this literal sense, little used.]
2.  Proposal; something offered for consideration, acceptance or rejection.  The prince made overtures of peace, which were accepted.
3.  The opening piece, prelude or symphony of some public act, ceremony or entertainment.  The overture in theatrical entertainments, is a piece of music usually ending in a fugue.  The overture of a jubilee is a general procession, &c.


Topic: Overturn
Definition:
OVERTURN', v.t.
1.  To overset; to turn or throw from a basis or foundation; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
2.  To subvert; to ruin; to destroy.
3.  To overpower; to conquer.


Topic: Overturning
Definition:
OVERTURN'ING, ppr.  Oversetting; overthrowing; subverting.
OVERTURN'ING, n.  An oversetting; subversion; change; revolution.


Topic: Overween
Definition:
OVERWEE'N,  v.i.  [seen is obsolete, except in composition.  See the word.]
1.  To think too highly; to think arrogantly or conceitedly.
2.  To reach beyond the truth in thought; to think too favorably.


Topic: Overweening
Definition:
OVERWEE'NING, ppr. 
1.  Thinking too highly or conceitedly.
2.  a.  That thinks too highly, particularly of one's self; conceited; vain; as overweening pride; an overweening brain.


Topic: Overwhelm
Definition:
OVERWHELM', v.t.
1.  To overspread or crush beneath something violent and weighty, that covers or encompasses the whole; as, to overwhelm with waves.
2.  To immerse and bear down; in a figurative sense; as, to be overwhelmed with cares, afflictions or business.
3.  To overlook gloomily.
4.  To put over.  [Not used.]


Topic: Overwrought
Definition:
OVERWROUGHT, pp. overraut'.  
1.  Labored to excess.
2.  Worked all over; as overwrought with ornaments.


Topic: Oviduct
Definition:
O'VIDUCT, n.  [L. ovum, an egg, and ductus, a duct.]
In animals, a passage for the egg from the ovary to the womb, or a passage which conveys the egg from the ovary.


Topic: Oviparous
Definition:
OVIP'AROUS, a.  [L. ovum, egg, and pario, to produce.]
Producing eggs, or producing young from eggs.  Fowls and reptiles are oviparous animals.


Topic: Ovolo
Definition:
O'VOLO, n.  In architecture, a round molding, the quarter of a circle; called also the quarter round.


Topic: Owe
Definition:
OWE, v.t. o.  [Gr.,  Eng. own.]
1.  To be indebted; to be obliged or bound to pay.  The merchants owe a large sum to foreigners.
A son owes help and honor to his father.
One was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.  
Matt. 18.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another.  Rom. 13.
2.  To be obliged to ascribe to; to be obliged for; as, that he may owe to me all his deliverance.
3.  To possess; to have; to be the owner of.  [This is the original sense, but now obsolete.  In place of it, we use own, from the participle.  See Own.]
Thou dost here usurp the name thou owest not.
4.  To be due or owing.
O deem thy fall not ow'd to man's decree.
[This passive form is not now used.]
OWE, v.i.  To be bound or obliged.


Topic: Owing
Definition:
OWING, ppr.  [This is used in a passive form, contrary to analogy, for owen or owed.  But the use is inveterately established.]
1.  Due; that moral obligation requires to be paid; as the money owing to a laborer for services, or to another country for goods.
2.  Consequential; ascribable to, as the cause.  Misfortunes are often owing to vices or miscalculations.
3.  Imputable to as an agent.  His recovery from sickness is owing less to his physician, than to the strength of his constitution.


Topic: Owling
Definition:
OWL'ING, n.  The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England, contrary to the statute.
[This explanation of owling favors the derivation of the word from wool.]


Topic: Own
Definition:
OWN, a.  [See Owe and Ought.]
1.  Belonging to; possessed; peculiar; usually expressing property with emphasis, or in express exclusion of others.  It follows my, your, his, their, thy, her.  God created man in his own image.  Adam begat a son in his own likeness.  Let them fall by their own counsel.  He washed us from our sins in his own blood.  
In the phrases, his own nations, his own country, the word own denotes that the person belongs to the nation or country.
2.  Own often follows a verb; as, the book is not my own, that is, my own book.
3.  It is used as a substitute.
That they may dwell in a place of their own.  2Sam. 7.
In this use, a noun cannot follow own.
4.  'He came to his own, and his own received him not,' that is, his own nation or people; own being here used as a substitute, like many other adjectives.
OWN, v.t.  [from the adjective.]
1.  To have the legal or rightful title to; to have the exclusive right of possession and use.  A free holder in the United states owns his farm.  Men often own land or goods which are not in their possession.
2.  To have the legal right to, without the exclusive right to use; as, a man owns the land in front of his farm to the middle of the highway.
3.  To acknowledge to belong to; to avow or admit that the property belongs to.
When you come, find me out and own me for your son.
4.  To avow; to confess, as a fault, crime or other act; that is, to acknowledge that one has done the act; as, to own the faults of youth; to own our guilt.  The man is charged with theft, but he has not owned it.
5.  In general, to acknowledge; to confess; to avow; to admit to be true; not to deny; as, to own our weakness and frailty.
Many own the gospel of salvation more from custom than conviction.


Topic: Owned
Definition:
OWNED, pp.  
1.  The legal title being vested in; as, the property is owned by a company.
2.  Acknowledged; avowed; confessed.


Topic: Owner
Definition:
OWNER, n.  The rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.
The ox knoweth his owner.  Is. 1.
The centurion believed the master and owner of the ship.  Act. 27.


Topic: Ownership
Definition:
OWNERSHIP, n.  Property; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title.  The ownership of the estate is in A; the possession is in B.


Topic: Ox
Definition:
OX, n. plu. oxen. pron. ox'n.
The male of the bovine genus of quadrupeds, castrated and grown to his size or nearly so.  The young male is called in America a steer.  The same animal not castrated is called a bull.  These distinctions are well established with us in regard to domestic animals of this genus.  When we speak of wild animals of this kind, ox is sometimes applied both to the male and female, and in zoology, the same practice exists in regard to the domestic animals.  Sop in common usage, a pair of bulls yoked may be sometimes called oxen.  We never apply the name ox to the cow or female of the domestic kind.  Oxen in the plural may comprehend both the male and female.


Topic: Ox-eye
Definition:
OX'-EYE, n.  [ox and eye.]  A plant of the genus Buphthalmum; another of the genus Anthemis; also, the ox-eye daisy or Chrysanthemum.


Topic: Oxalate
Definition:
OX'ALATE, n.  [See Oxalic.]  In chimistry, a salt formed by a combination of the oxalic acid with a base.


Topic: Oxgang
Definition:
OX'GANG, n.  [ox and gang, going.]  In ancient laws, as much land as an ox can plow in a year; said to be fifteen acres, or as others allege, twenty acres.


Topic: Oxyd
Definition:
OX'YD, n.  [Gr. acid, sharp, vinegar.]  
In chimistry, a substance formed by the combination of a portion of oxygen with some base; or a substance combined with oxygen, without being in the state of an acid.


Topic: Oxydate
Definition:
OX'YDATE, v.t.  To convert into an oxyd, as metals and other substances, by combination with oxygen.  It differs from acidify, to make acid, or to convert into an acid, as in oxydation the acid that enters into combination is not sufficient to form an acid.


Topic: Oxydation
Definition:
OXYDA'TION, n.  The operation or process of converting into an oxyd, as metals or other substances, by combining with them a certain portion of oxygen.


Topic: Oxydizing
Definition:
OX'YDIZING, ppr.  Oxydating.  [Oxydize and its derivatives are now more generally used than oxydate, though there seems to be no ground for the preference.]


Topic: Oxygen
Definition:
OX'YGEN, n.  [Gr. acid, and to generate.]
In chimistry, oxygen or oxygen gas is an element or substance so named from its property of generating acids; it is the respirable part of air, vital air, or the basis of it; it is called the acidifying principle, and the principle or support of combustion.  Modern experiments, however, prove that it is not necessary in all cases to combustion or to acidity.  Oxygen is a permanently elastic fluid, invisible, inodorous, and a little heavier than atmospheric air.  In union with azote or nitrogen, it forms atmospheric air, of which it constitutes about a fifth part.  Water contains about 85% of it, and it exists in most vegetable and animal products, acids, salts and oxyds.  It forms 50% of silex, 47 of alumin, 28 of lime, 40 of magnesia, 17 of potash, and 25 of soda.


Topic: Oxygenate
Definition:
OX'YGENATE, v.t.  To unite or cause to combine with oxygen, without the evolution of heat or light; to acidify by oxygen.


Topic: Oxymoron
Definition:
OXYMO'RON, n.  [Gr. a smart saying which at first view appears foolish.]
A rhetorical figure, in which an epithet of a quite contrary signification is added to a word; as cruel kindness.
Oxyprussic acid, chloroprussic acid.


Topic: Oxyrrhodine
Definition:
OXYR'RHODINE, n.  [compounded of Gr. acid, and rose.]
A mixture of two parts of the oil of roses with one of the vinegar of roses.


Topic: Oyer
Definition:
OY'ER, n. 
1.  In law, a hearing or trial of causes.  A court of oyer and terminer is constituted by a commission to inquire, hear and determine all treasons, felonies and misdemeanors.
2.  The hearing, as of a writ, bond, note or other specialty; as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing.


Topic: Oyes
Definition:
OYES,  This word is used by the sheriff or his substitute in making proclamation in court, requiring silence and attention.  it is thrice repeated, and most absurdly pronounced, O yes.


Topic: Oyster
Definition:
OYS'TER, n.  [L. ostrea; Gr. probably connected in origin with bone, and named from its hardness.]
A bivalvular testaceous animal, found adhering to rocks or other fixed substances in salt water which is shallow, or in the mouths of rivers.  Oysters are deemed nourishing and delicious.


Topic: P
Definition:
P is the sixteenth letter of the English Alphabet, and a labial articulation formed by a close compression of the anterior part of the lips, as in ep. It is convertible into b and f, sometimes into v.
This letter is found int he oriental languages, from which it was received into the Greek and Latin; except however the Arabic, which has not this letter, and the Arabians cannot easily pronounce it. In some words which we have borrowed from the Greek, p is mute, as in psalm, ptisan; but is not silent in English words, unless it may be in receipt, and a few irregular words. P aspirated or followed by h, represents the Greek, which answers to the English f, as in philosophy.
As an abbreviation, P. stands for Publius, pondo, &c. P.A. DIG for patricia dignitas; P.C. for Patres Conscripti; P.F. for Publius Fabius; P.P. for propositum publice; P.R. for populus Romanus; P.R.S. for praetoris sententia; P.R.S.P. for praeses provinciae.
P.M. stands for post meridiem, afternoon.
As a numeral, P, like G, stands for one hundred, and with a dash over it, for four hundred thousand.
Among physicians, P. Stands for pugil, or the eighth part of a handful; P.AE. For partes aequales, equal parts of the ingredients; P.P. for pulvis patrum, or the Jesuits bark in powder; and ppt. For praeparatus, prepared.


Topic: Pabulum
Definition:
PABULUM, n. [L.] 
1. Food; aliment; that which feeds.
2. Fuel; that which supplies the means of combustion.


Topic: Paca
Definition:
PACA, n. A small animal of America, bearing some resemblance to a hare and a pig. It is a species of cavy; called also the spotted cavy.


Topic: Pace
Definition:
PACE, n. [L., to open, Gr., to tread. See Pass.]
1. A step.
2. The space between the two feet in walking, estimated at two feet and a half. But the geometrical pace is five feet, or the whole space passed over by the same foot from one step to another. Sixty thousand such paces make one degree on the equator.
3. Manner of walking; a gait; as a languishing pace; a heavy pace; a quick or slow pace.
4. Step; gradation in business. [Little used.]
5. A mode of stepping among horses, in which the legs on the same side are lifted together. In a general sense, the word may be applied to any other mode of stepping.
6. Degree of celerity. Let him mend his pace.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day--
To keep or hold pace, to keep up; to go or move as fast as something else.
PACE, v.i. 
1. To go; to walk; to move.
2. To go, move or walk slowly.
3. To move by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse.
PACE, v.t. 
1. To measure by steps; as, to pace a piece of ground.
2. To regulate in motion.
If you ca, pace your wisdom in that good path that I would wish it go--


Topic: Paced
Definition:
PACED, a. 
1. Having a particular gait; used chiefly in composition; as slow-paced.
2. In composition, going all lengths; as a thorough-paced intriguer.


Topic: Pachydermatous
Definition:
PACHYDERMATOUS, a. [Gr., thick, skin.] Having a thick skin; an epithet applied to an order of animals, called Pachydermata, embracing all the hoofed quadrupeds which do not ruminate, as the elephant, mastodon or North American mammoth, hippopotamus, sus or hog, rhinoceros, tapir, and horse. The horse constitutes a separate order, Solipeda.


Topic: Pacific
Definition:
PACIFIC, a. [L., to make peace. See Peace.] 
1. Peace-making; conciliatory; suited to make or restore peace; adapted to reconcile differences; mild; appeasing; as, to offer pacific propositions to a belligerent power. The measures proposed are in their nature pacific.
2. Calm; tranquil; as a pacific state of things.
PACIFIC, n. The appellation given to the ocean situated between America on the west, and Asia; so called on account of its exemption from violent tempests.


Topic: Pacification
Definition:
PACIFICATION, n. [L. See Pacify.
1. The act of making peace between nations or parties at variance.
2. The act of appeasing or pacifying wrath.


Topic: Pacify
Definition:
PACIFY, v.t. [L., peace, and to make.]
1. To appease, as wrath or other violent passion or appetite; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay agitation or excitement; as, to pacify a man when angry, or to pacify his wrath or rage; the word being applied both to the person and to the passion. So we say, to pacify hunger, to pacify importunate demands.
2. To restore peace to; to tranquilize; as, to pacify countries in contention.


Topic: Pack
Definition:
PACK, n. [See the Verb.]
1.  A bundle of any thing inclosed in a cover or bound fast with cords; a bale; as a pack of goods or cloth. The soldier bears a pack on his back.
2.  A burden or load; as a pack of sorrows.
3.  A number of cards, or the number used in games; so called from being inclosed together.
4.  A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together, that is, a crowd or assemblage united.
5.  A number of persons united in a bad design or practice; as a pack of thieves or knaves.
6.  A great number crowded together; as a pack of troubles. [Not used.]
7.  A loose or lewd person. [Not used.]
PACK, v.t. [L. pango, pactum, pactus; impingo, compingo.]
1.  To place and press together; to place in close order; as, to pack goods in a box or chest.
2.  To put together and bind fast; as, to pack any thing for carriage with cords or straps.
3.  To put in close order with salt intermixed; as, to pack meat or fish in barrels.
4.  To send in haste.
5.  To put together, as cards, in such a manner as to secure the game; to put together in sorts with a fraudulent design, as cards; hence, to unite persons iniquitously, with a view to some private interest; as, to pack a jury, that is, to select persons for a jury who may favor a party; to pack a parliament; to pack an assembly of bishops.
PACK, v.i.  To be pressed or close; as, the goods pack well.
1.  To close; to shut.
2.  To depart in haste; with off.
 Poor Stella must pack off to town.
3.  To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
 Go, pack with him.


Topic: Package
Definition:
PACK'AGE, n.  A bundle or bale; a quantity pressed or bound together; as a package of cloth.
1.  A charge made for packing goods.


Topic: Packed
Definition:
PACK'ED, pp.  Put together and pressed; tied or bound in a bundle; put down and salted, as meat; sent off; united iniquitously.


Topic: Packet
Definition:
PACK'ET, n.
1.  A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a packet of letters.
2.  A dispatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed by government to convey letters from country to country or from port to port.
3.  A vessel employed in conveying dispatches and passengers from place to place, or to carry passengers and goods coastwise.
PACK'ET, v.i.  To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel.


Topic: Packet-ship
Definition:
PACK'ET-SHIP, n.  A ship that sails regularly between distant countries for the conveyance of dispatches, letters, passengers,&c.


Topic: Packing
Definition:
PACK'ING, ppr. Laying together in close order; binding in a bundle; putting in barrels with salt, &c.; uniting, as men for a fraudulent purpose.
PACK'ING, n.  A trick; collusion.


Topic: Pad
Definition:
PAD, n.
1.  A foot path; a road. [Not now used.]
2.  An easy paced horse.
3.  A robber that infests the road on foot; usually called a foot- pad.
PAD, n.  A soft saddle, cushion or bolster stuffed with straw, hair or other soft substance.
PAD, v.i.  To travel slowly.
1.  To rob on foot.
2.  To beat a way smooth and level.


Topic: Paddle
Definition:
PAD'DLE, v.i. [L. pes,pedis,the foot, and this is allied to Gr., to tread.]
1.  To row; to beat the water, as with oars.
2.  To play in the water with the hands, as children; or with the feet, as fowls or other animals.
3.  To finger.
PAD'DLE, v.t.  To propel by an oar or paddle.
PAD'DLE, n. [In L. batillus is a paddle-staff; in Gr. a pole.]
1.  An oar, but not a large oar. It is now applied to a sort of short oar used in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
2.  The blade or the broad part of an oar or weapon.
 Thou shalt have a paddle on thy weapon.  Deut.23.


Topic: Paddock
Definition:
PAD'DOCK, n.  A toad or frog.
PAD'DOCK, n.
1.  A small inclosure for deer or other animals.
2.  An inclosure for races with hounds, &c.


Topic: Padlock
Definition:
PAD'LOCK, n.  A lock to be hung on a staple and held by a link.
PAD'LOCK, v.t.  To fasten with a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine.


Topic: Pagan
Definition:
PA'GAN, n. [L. paganus, a peasant or countryman, from pagus, a village.]  A heathen; a Gentile; an idolater; one who worships false gods.  This word was originally applied to the inhabitants of the country, who on the first propagation of the christian religion adhered to the worship of false gods, or refused to receive christianity, after it had been received by the inhabitants of the cities.  In like manner, heather signifies an inhabitant of the heath or woods, and caffer, in Arabic, signifies the inhabitant of a hut or cottage, and one that does not receive the religion of Mohammed.  Pagan is used to distinguish one from a Christian and a Mohammedan.
PA'GAN, a.  Heathen; heathenish; Gentile; noting a person who worships false gods.
1.  Pertaining to the worship of false gods.


Topic: Paganism
Definition:
PA'GANISM, n.  Heathenism; the worship of false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans.
 Men instructed from their infancy in the principles and duties of christianity, never sink to the degradation of paganism.


Topic: Paganize
Definition:
PA'GANIZE, v.t.  To render heathenish; to convert to heathenism.
PA'GANIZE, v.i.  To behave like pagans.


Topic: Paganizing
Definition:
PA'GANIZING, ppr.  Rendering heathenish; behaving like pagans; adopting heathen principles and practice.


Topic: Page
Definition:
PAGE, n. [Gr. a boy.]
1.  A boy attending on a great person, rather for formality or show, than for servitude.
 He had two pages of honor, on either hand one.
2.  A boy or man that attends on a legislative body.  In Massachusetts,the page is a boy that conveys papers from the members of the house of representatives to the speaker, and from the speaker or clerk to the members.
PAGE, n. [L. pagina.]  One side of a leaf of a book.
1.  A book or writing or writings; as the page of history.
2.  Pages, in the plural, signifies also books or writings; as the sacred pages.
PAGE, v.t.  To mark or number the pates of a book or manuscript.
1.  To attend, as a page.


Topic: Pageant
Definition:
PAGEANT, n. pa'jent. [L. pegma; Gr. something showy carried in triumph.]
1.  A statue in show, or a triumphal car, chariot, arch or other pompous thing, decorated with flags, &c. and carried in public shows and processions.
2. A show; a spectacle of entertainment; something intended for pomp.
 I'll play my part in fortune's pageant.
3. Any thing showy, without stability or duration.
 Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
 The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day.


Topic: Pagodite
Definition:
PA'GODITE, n.  A name given to the mineral of which the Chinese make their pagodas. It is called also lardite, koreite, and agalmatolite.


Topic: Pain
Definition:
PAIN, n. [L. paena; Gr. penalty, and pain, labor.]
1. An uneasy sensation in animal bodies, of any degree from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from pressure, tension or spasm, separation of parts by violence, or any derangement of functions.  Thus violent pressure or stretching of a limb gives pain; inflammation produces pain; wounds, bruises and incisions give pain.
2.  Labor; work; toil; laborious effort. In this sense, the plural only is used; as, to take pains; to be at the pains.
 High without taking pains to rise.
 The same with pains we gain, but lose with ease.
3.  Labor; toilsome effort; task; in the singular. [Not now used.]
4. Uneasiness of mind; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude for the future; grief, sorrow for the past.  We suffer pain when we fear or expect evil; we feel pain at the loss of friends or property.
5.  The throws or distress of travail or childbirth.
 She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 1 Sam.4.
6.  Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime.
 None shall presume to fly under pain of death.
 Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.
PAIN, v.t.
1. To make uneasy or to disquiet; to cause uneasy sensations in the body, of any degree of intensity; to make simply uneasy, or to distress, to torment. The pressure of fetters may pain a limb; the rack pains the body.
2.  To afflict; to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress.  We are pained at the death of a friend; grief pains the heart; we are often pained with fear or solicitude.
 I am pained at my very heart. Jer.4.
3.  Reciprocally, to pain one's self, to labor; to make toilsome efforts. [Little used.]


Topic: Painful
Definition:
PA'INFUL, a.  Giving pain, uneasiness or distress to the body; as a painful operation in surgery.
1.  Giving pain to the mind; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
 Evils have been more painful to us in the prospect, than in the actual pressure.
2.  Full of pain; producing misery or affliction.
3.  Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service.  The army had a painful march.
4.  Laborious; exercising labor; undergoing toil; industrious.
 Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.


Topic: Painfully
Definition:
PA'INFULLY, adv.  With suffering of body; with affliction, uneasiness or distress of mind.
1.  Laboriously; with toil; with laborious effort or diligence.


Topic: Painfulness
Definition:
PA'INFULNESS, n.  Uneasiness or distress of body.
1.  Affliction; sorrow; grief; disquietude or distress of mind.
2.  Laborious effort or diligence; toil.


Topic: Paint
Definition:
PA'INT, v.t. [L. pingo,pictus.]
1.  To form a figure or likeness in colors; as, to paint a hero or a landscape.
2.  To cover or besmear with color or colors, either with or without figures; as, to paint a cloth; to paint a house.
3.  To represent by colors or images; to exhibit in form.
 When folly romantic, we must paint it.
4.  To represent or exhibit to the mind; to present in form or likeness to the intellectual view; to describe.
 Disloyal!
 --The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
5. To color; to diversify with colors.
6.  To lay on artificial color for ornament.
 Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings.9.


Topic: Painted
Definition:
PA'INTED, pp. Colored; rubbed over with paint; as a painted house or cloth.
1.  Represented in form by colors.
2.  Described.


Topic: Painter
Definition:
PA'INTER, n.  One whose occupation is to paint; one skilled in representing things in colors.
PA'INTER, n.  A rope used to fasten a boat to a ship or other object.


Topic: Painting
Definition:
PA'INTING, ppr.  Representing in colors; laying on colors.

PA'INTING, n.  The art of forming figures or resembling objects in colors on canvas or other material, or the art of representing to the eye by means of figures and colors, any object of sight, and sometimes the emotions of the mind.
1.  A picture; a likeness or resemblance in colors.
2.  Colors laid on.


Topic: Pair
Definition:
PAIR, n. [L. par; Heb. to join, couple or associate.]
1.  Two things of a kind, similar in form, applied to the same purpose,and suited to each other or used together; as a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes; a pair of oxen or horses.
2. Two of a sort; a couple; a brace; as a pair of nerves; a pair of doves. Luke 2.
PAIR, v.i.  To be joined in pairs; to couple, as, birds pair in summer.
1.  To suit; to fit; as a counterpart.
 Ethelinda,
 My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
PAIR, v.t.  To unite in couples; as minds paired in heaven.
1.  To unite as correspondent, or rather to contrast.
 Glossy jet is paired with shining white.
PAIR, v.t.  To impair.  [See Impair.]


Topic: Palace
Definition:
PAL'ACE, n. [L. palatium.]
1.  A magnificent house in which an emperor, a king or other distinguished person resides; as an imperial palace; a royal palace; a pontifical palace; a ducal palace.
2.  A splendid place of residence; as the sun's bright palace.


Topic: Palace-court
Definition:
PAL'ACE-COURT, n.  The domestic court of the kings of Great Britain, which administers justice between the king's domestic servants.  It is held once a week before the steward of the household and knight marshal; its jurisdiction extending twelve miles in circuit from his majesty's palace.


Topic: Palatal
Definition:
PAL'ATAL, a.  Pertaining to the palate; uttered by the aid of the palate.
PAL'ATAL, n.  A letter pronounced by the aid of the palate, or an articulation of the root of the tongue with the roof of the mouth; as g hard and k, in eg, ek.


Topic: Palate
Definition:
PAL'ATE, n. [L. palatum, properly the arch or cope of heaven.]
1. The roof or upper part of the mouth. The glands in this part of the mouth secrete a mucous fluid, which lubricates the mouth and throat, and facilitates deglutition.
2.  Taste.
 Hard task to hit the palates of such guests.
[This signification of the word originated in the opinion that the palate is the instrument of taste.  This is a mistake. In itself it has no power of taste.]
3.  Mental relish; intellectual taste.
 Men of nice palates could not relish Aristotle, as dressed up by the schoolmen.
PAL'ATE, v.t.  To perceive by the taste. [Not used.]


Topic: Palatial
Definition:
PALA'TIAL, a. [from palate.]  Pertaining to the palate; as the palatial retraction of the tongue.
PALA'TIAL, a. [from L. palatium, palace.]  Pertaining to a palace; becoming a palace; magnificent. 


Topic: Palatinate
Definition:
PALAT'INATE, n. [L. palatinus. See Palatine.]
The province or seignory of a palatine; as the Palatinate of the Rhine in Germany, called the upper and lower Palatinate.


Topic: Palatine
Definition:
PAL'ATINE, a. [L. palatinus, from palatium, palace.] Pertaining to a palace; an epithet applied originally to persons holding an office or employment in the king;s palace; hence it imports possessing royal privileges; as a count palatine.
In England, formerly, were three counties palatine, Chester, Durham and Lancaster; the two former by prescription, the latter by grant of Edward III.  They were so called, because the proprietors, the earl of Chester,the bishop of Durham and the duke of Lancaster, possessed royal rights, as fully as the king in his palace. Of these, the county of Durham is the only one now remaining in the hands of a subject.
PAL'ATINE, n.  One invested with royal privileges and rights.  A palatine or count palatine, on the continent of Europe, is one delegated by a prince to hold courts of justice in a province, or one who has a palace and a court of justice in his own house. In Poland, a palatine may be regarded as the governor of a province.


Topic: Palaver
Definition:
PAL`AVER, n.
1.  Idle talk.
2.  Flattery; adulation. [This is used with us in the vulgar dialect.]
3.  Talk; conversation; conference; a sense used in Africa, as appears by the relations of missionaries.
PAL`AVER, v.t.  To flatter. [In vulgar use.]


Topic: Pale
Definition:
PALE, a. [L. palleo,pallidus.]
1. White or whitish; wan; deficient in color; not ruddy or fresh of color; as a pale face or skin; pale cheeks. We say also, a pale red, a pale blue,that is, a whitish red or blue.  Pale is not precisely synonymous with white, as it usually denotes what we call wan, a darkish dun white.
2.  Not bright; not shining; of a faint luster; dim; as the pale light of the moon.
 The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;
 It looks a little paler.
PALE, v.t.  To make pale.
PALE, n. [L. palus; coinciding with Eng. pole, as well as pale.  It has the elements of L. pala,a spade or shovel.]
1.  A narrow board pointed or sharpened at one end, used in fencing or inclosing.  This is with us more generally called a picket.
2.  A pointed stake; hence to empale,which see.
3.  An inclosure; properly,that which incloses, like fence, limit; hence,the space inclosed. He was born within the pale of the church; within the pale of christianity.
4.  District; limited territory.
5.  In heraldry, an ordinary, consisting of two perpendicular lines drawn from the top to the base of the escutcheon, and containing the third middle part of the field.
PALE, v.t.  To inclose with pales or stakes.
1.  To inclose; to encompass.


Topic: Paleaceous
Definition:
PALEA'CEOUS, a. [L. palea, straw, chaff.]
1.  Chaffy; resembling chaff, or consisting of it; as a paleaceous pappus.
2.  Chaffy; furnished with chaff; as a paleaceous receptacle.


Topic: Paleness
Definition:
PA'LENESS, n.  Wanness; defect of color; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness of look.
 The blood the virgin's cheek forsook,
 A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look.
1.  Want of color or luster; as the paleness of a flower.


Topic: Paleography
Definition:
PALEOG'RAPHY, n. [Gr. ancient, and writing.]
1.  The art of explaining ancient writings.  More correctly,
2.  An ancient manner of writing; as Punic paleography.


Topic: Paleology
Definition:
PALEOL'OGY, n. [Gr. ancient, and discourse.]  A discourse or treatise on antiquities, or the knowledge of ancient things.


Topic: Palfrey
Definition:
PAL'FREY, n. [Low L. paraveredi, [plu of veredus,] horses of a large size, used for carrying the baggage of an army.]
1.  A horse used by noblemen and others for state, distinguished from a war horse.
2.  A small horse fit for ladies.


Topic: Palification
Definition:
PALIFICA'TION, n. [from L. palus,a stake or post.]  The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground for making it firm.


Topic: Palindrome
Definition:
PAL'INDROME, n. [Gr. again.]  A word, verse or sentence that is the same when read backwards or forwards; as madam, or 'Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.'


Topic: Palisade
Definition:
PALISA'DE, n.  A fence or fortification consisting of a row of stakes or posts sharpened and set firmly in the ground.  In fortification, the posts are set two or three inches apart, parallel to the parapet in the covered way, to prevent a surprise. 
Palisades serve also to fortify the avenues of open forts, gorges, half-moons, the bottom of ditches, &c.
PALISA'DE, v.t.  To surround, inclose or fortify with stakes or posts.


Topic: Pall
Definition:
PALL, n. [L. pallium.]
1.  A cloke; a mantle of state.
2.  The mantle of an archbishop.
3.  The cloth thrown over a dead body at funerals.
PALL, n.  In heraldry, a figure like the Greek.
PALL, v.t.  To cloke; to cover or invest.
PALL, v.i. [Gr. old.]
1.  To become vapid; to lose strength, life, spirit or taste; to become insipid; as, the liquor palls.
 Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
 Fades in the eye and palls upon the sense.
PALL, v.t.  To make vapid or insipid.
 Reason and reflection--blunt the edge of the keenest desires, and pall all his enjoyments.
1.  To make spiritless; to dispirit; to depress.
 The more we raise our love,
 The more we pall and cool and kill his ardor.
2.  To weaken; to impair; as, to pall fortune.
3.  To cloy; as the palled appetite.


Topic: Palladium
Definition:
PALLA'DIUM, n. [Gr. from Pallas,the goddess.]
1.  Primarily, a statue of the goddess Pallas, which represented her as sitting with a pike in her right hand, and in her left a distaff and spindle. On the preservation of this statue depended the safety of Troy.  Hence,
2.  Something that affords effectual defense, protection and safety; as when we say, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights.
3.  A metal found in very small grains, of a steel gray color and fibrous structure, in auriferous and platiniferous sand.  It is infusible by ordinary heat, and when native, is alloyed with a litter platina and iridium.


Topic: Pallet
Definition:
PAL'LET, n. [L. pala.]
1.  Among painters, a little oval table or board, or piece of ivroy, on which the painter places the colors to be used.  On the middle the colors are mixed to obtain the tints required.
2.  Among potters, crucible makers, &c. a wooden instrument for forming, heating and rounding their works.  It is oval, round, &c.
3.  In gilding, an instrument made of a squirrel's tail, to take up the gold leaves from the pillow, and to apply and extend them.
4. In heraldry, a small pale.  [See Pale.]
5.  A small part belonging to the balance of a watch; the nut of a watch.  It is sometimes written pallat.
6.  A measure formerly used by surgeons, containing three ounces.
PAL'LET, n. [L. palea, straw.]  A small bed.


Topic: Palliate
Definition:
PAL'LIATE, v.t. [Low L. pallio, from pallium, a cloke or robe.]
1.  To clothe.
2.  To cover with excuse; to conceal the enormity of offenses by excuses and apologies; hence, to extenuate; to lessen; to soften by favorable representations; as, to palliate faults, offenses, crimes or vices.
3.  To reduce in violence; to mitigate; to lessen or abate; as, to palliate a disease.
PAL'LIATE, a.  Eased; mitigated. [Not used.]


Topic: Palliating
Definition:
PAL'LIATING, ppr.  Concealing the enormity or most censurable part of conduct; extenuating; softening.


Topic: Palliation
Definition:
PALLIA'TION, n.  The act of palliating; concealment of the most flagrant circumstances of an offense; extenuation by favorable representation; as the palliation of faults, offenses, vices or crimes.
1.  Mitigation; alleviation; abatement; as of a disease.


Topic: Palliative
Definition:
PAL'LIATIVE, a.  Extenuating; serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation.
1.  Mitigating; alleviating; as pain or disease.
PAL'LIATIVE, n.  That which extenuates.
1.  That which mitigates, alleviates or abates the violence of pain, disease or other evil.


Topic: Pallid
Definition:
PAL'LID, a. [L. pallidus, from palleo, to become pale.  See Pale.]
Pale; wan; deficient in color; not high colored; as a pallid countenance; pallid blue.


Topic: Pallmall
Definition:
PALL'MALL, n. [L. pila, a ball, and malleus, mallet.]  A play in which a ball is driven through an iron ring by a mallet; also, the mallet.


Topic: Palm
Definition:
PALM, n. p`am.. [L. palma.]
1.  The inner part of the hand.
2.  A hand or hand's breadth; a lineal measure of three inches.
3.  The broad triangular part of an anchor at the end of the arms.
4.  The name of many species of plants, but particularly of the date-tree or great palm, a native of Asia and Africa.
The palms constitute a natural order of monocotyledonous plants,with a simple cylindric stem, terminating in a crown of leaves or fronds, within which rises a tuft of flowers and fruits; all natives of warm climates. They vary in size from 2 to more than 100 feet in highth.
5.  Branches of the palm being worn in token of victory, hence the word signifies superiority, victory, triumph.  The palm was adopted as an emblem of victory, it is said, because the tree is so elastic as when pressed, to rise and recover its correct position.
 Namur subdued is England's palm alone.
6.  Among seamen, an instrument used in sewing canvas instead of a thimble.
PALM, v.t. p`am.  To conceal in the palm of the hand.
 They palmed the trick that lost the game.
1.  To impose by fraud.
 For you may palm upon us new for old.
2.  To handle.
3.  To stroke with the hand.


Topic: Palm-sunday
Definition:
PALM-SUNDAY, n. p`am-sunday. The Sunday next before Easter; so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.


Topic: Palm-tree
Definition:
PALM-TREE, n. p`am-tree.  The date tree, or Phoenix Lactylifera, a native of Asia and Africa, which grows to the highth of 60 and even of 100 feet, with an upright stem, crowned with a cluster of leaves or branches eight or nine feet long, extending all around like an umbrella.  The fruit is in shape somewhat like an acorn.  This tree transplanted will grow in Europe, but the fruit never ripens.
This name is applied to other species of palms.


Topic: Palmated
Definition:
PAL'MATED, a. [L. palmatus, from palma, palm.]
1.  Having the shape of a hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread; as palmated leaves or stones.
2.  Entirely webbed; as the palmated feet of aquatic fowls.


Topic: Palmer
Definition:
PALMER, n. p`amer. One that returned from the Holy Land bearing branches of palm; a pilgrim or crusader.


Topic: Palmer-worm
Definition:
PALMER-WORM, n. p`amer-worm.  A worm covered with hair; supposed to be so called because he wanders over all plants.  Joel 1.


Topic: Palmiped
Definition:
PAL'MIPED, a. [L. palma and pes, foot.]  Web-footed; having the toes connected by a membrane; as a water fowl.
PAL'MIPED, n. A fowl that has webbed feet, or the toes connected by a membrane.


Topic: Palmister
Definition:
PAL'MISTER, n. [L. palma.]  One who deals in palmistry, or pretends to tell fortunes by the palm of the hand.


Topic: Palmistry
Definition:
PAL'MISTRY, n. [L. palma, palm.]  The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; a trick of imposture, much practiced by gypsies.
1.  Addison used it humorously for the action of the hand.


Topic: Palpable
Definition:
PAL'PABLE, a. [L. palpor, to feel.]
1.  Perceptible by the touch; that may be felt; as a palpable substance; palpable darkness.
2.  Gross; coarse; easily perceived and detected; as a palpable absurdity.
3.  Plain; obvious; easily perceptible; as palpable phenomena; palpable proof.


Topic: Palpably
Definition:
PAL'PABLY, adv. In such a manner as to be perceived by the touch.
1. Grossly; plainly; obviously.
 Clodius was acquitted by a corrupt jury that had palpably taken shares of money.


Topic: Palpation
Definition:
PALPA'TION, n. [L. palpatio, from palpo, to feel, to stroke, from the root of feel, and Gr. to shake.  Probably the primary sense is to beat or strike gently, or to touch, or to spring, to leap.]
The act of feeling.


Topic: Palpitate
Definition:
PAL'PITATE, v.i. [L. palpito, from palpo.  Palpito illustrates the primary sense of palpo.]  To beat gently; to beat, as the heart; to flutter, that is, to move with little throws; as we say, to go pit a pat; applied particularly to a preternatural or excited movement of the heart.


Topic: Palpitation
Definition:
PALPITA'TION, n. [L. palpitatio.]  A beating of the heart; particularly, a preternatural beating or pulsation excited by violent action of the body, by fear, fright or disease.
1  A violent, irregular motion of the heart.


Topic: Palsgrave
Definition:
PALS'GRAVE, n. pawlzgrave. [L. palatium, palace, and graf, an earl.]   A count or earl who has the superintendence of the king's palace.


Topic: Palsy
Definition:
PAL'SY, n. s as z. [supposed to be contracted from Gr. relaxation; to loosen or relax.]  The loss or defect of the power of voluntary muscular motion in the whole body, or in a particular part; paralysis.  When one side only of the body is affected, it is called hemiplegy.  When the lower part of the body is paralytic, it is called paraplegy.  Palsy may be a loss of the power of motion without a loss of sensation, or a loss of sensation without loss of motion, or a loss of both.


Topic: Palter
Definition:
PAL'TER, v.i. [Eng. fail.]  To shift; to dodge; to play tricks.  Rather, to fail; to come short; to balk.
 Romans,that have spoke the word
 And will not palter.
PAL'TER, v.t.  To squander.  [Not used.]


Topic: Paltry
Definition:
PAL'TRY, a. [Gr. vile, and to fail.]  Ragged; mean; vile; worthless; despicable; as a paltry boy; a paltry slave; a paltry trifle.


Topic: Paly
Definition:
PA'LY, a. [from pale.]  Pale; wanting color; used only in poetry.
1. In heraldry, divided by pales into four equal parts.


Topic: Pamper
Definition:
PAM'PER, v.t. [L. bibo.]
1.  To feed to the full; to glut; to saginate; to feed luxuriously; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.
 We are proud of a body fattening for worms and pampered for corruption and the grave.
2.  To gratify to the full; to furnish with that which delights; as, to pamper the imagination.


Topic: Pamphlet
Definition:
PAM'PHLET, n.  A small book consisting of a sheet of paper, or of sheets stitched together but not bound.
PAM'PHLET, v.t.  To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.


Topic: Pan
Definition:
PAN, n.
1. A vessel broad and somewhat hollow or depressed in the middle, or with a raised border; used for setting milk and other domestic purposes.
2.  The part of a gun-lock or other fire-arms which holds the priming that communicates with the charge.
3. Something hollow; as the brain pan.
4.  Among farmers, the hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil; called the hard pan.
5.  The top of the head.
PAN, v.t.  To join; to close together. [Local.]


Topic: Panacea
Definition:
PANACE'A, n. [L. from Gr. all, and to cure.]
1.  A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine.
2.  An herb.


Topic: Pancake
Definition:
PAN'CAKE, n.  A thin cake fried in a pan.
 Some folks think it will never be good times, till houses are tiled with pancakes.


Topic: Pancreas
Definition:
PAN'CREAS, n. [Gr. all, and flesh.]  A gland of the body situated between the bottom of the stomach and the vertebers of the loins, reaching from the liver to the spleen, and attached to the peritonaeum. It is two fingers in breadth, and six in length, soft and supple.  It secretes a kind of saliva and pours it into the duodenum.


Topic: Pandect
Definition:
PAN'DECT, n. [L. pandectoe, from Gr. all, and to contain,to take.]
1.  A treatise which contains the whole of any science.
2.  Pandects, in the plural,the digest or collection of civil or Roman law, made by order of the emperor Justinian, and containing 534 decisions or judgments of lawyers, to which the emperor gave the force and authority of law. This compilation consists of fifty books, forming the first part of the civil law.


Topic: Pander
Definition:
PAN'DER, n. [L. mango.]  A pimp, a procurer; a male bawd; a mean profligate wretch who caters for the lust of others.
PAN'DER, v.t.  To pimp; to procure lewd women for others.
PAN'DER, v.i. To act as agent for the lusts of others.
1.  To be subservient to lust or passion.


Topic: Pandiculation
Definition:
PANDICULA'TION, n. [L. pandiculor,to yawn, to stretch.]  
A yawning; a stretching; the tension of the solids that accompanies yawning, or that restlessness and stretching that accompanies the cold fit of an intermittent.


Topic: Panegyric
Definition:
PANEGYR'IC, n. [L. panegyricus, from Gr. a public meeting or celebration, all, and an assembly.]
1.  An oration or eulogy in praise of some distinguished person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium.
2.  An encomium; praise bestowed on some eminent person, action or virtue.
PANEGYR'IC, a.  Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic.


Topic: Panegyrize
Definition:
PAN'EGYRIZE, v.t.  To praise highly; to write or pronounce an eulogy on.
PAN'EGYRIZE, v.i.  To bestow praises.


Topic: Panel
Definition:
PAN'EL, n.
1.  A square piece of board, or other piece somewhat similar inserted between other pieces; as the panel of a door.
2.  A piece of parchment or schedule, containing the names of persons summoned by the sheriff. Hence more generally,
3.  The whole jury.
PAN'EL, v.t.  To form with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.


Topic: Pang
Definition:
PANG, n.  Extreme pain; anguish; agony of body; particularly, a sudden paroxysm of extreme pain, as in spasm, or childbirth. Is.21.
 I saw the hoary traitor,
 Grin in the pangs of death, and bit the ground.
PANG, v.t.  To torture; to give extreme pain to.


Topic: Panic
Definition:
PAN'IC, n.  A sudden fright; particularly, a sudden fright without real cause, or terror inspired by a trifling cause or misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
PAN'IC, a.  Extreme or sudden; applied to fright; as panic fear.
PAN'IC, n. [L. panicum.]  A plant and its grain, of the genus Panicum.  The grain or seed is like millet,and it is cultivated in some parts of Europe for bread.


Topic: Panicle
Definition:
PAN'ICLE, n. [L. panicula, down upon reeds, cat's tail, allied to L. pannus, cloth.]  In botany, a species of inflorescence, in which the flowers or fruits are scattered on peduncles variously subdivided, as in oats and some of the grasses.  The panicle is of various kinds, as the dense or close, the spiked,the squeezed, the spreading, the diffused, the divaricating.


Topic: Pannage
Definition:
PAN'NAGE, n. [from L. panis.]  The food of swine in the woods; as beach nuts, acorns, &c. called also pawns; also, the money taken by agistors for the mast of the king's forest.


Topic: Pannier
Definition:
PANNIER, n. pan'yer. [L. panis, bread.]  A wicker basket; primarily, a bread-basket, but used for carrying fruit or other things on a horse.


Topic: Panoply
Definition:
PAN'OPLY, n. [Gr. all,and arms.]  Complete armor or defense.
 We had need to take the christian panoply, to put on the whole armor of God.


Topic: Panorama
Definition:
PANOR`AMA, n. [Gr. all, and view, to see.]  Complete or entire view; a circular painting having apparently no beginning or end, from the center of which the spectator may have a complete view of the objects presented.


Topic: Pant
Definition:
P`ANT, v.i.
1.  To palpitate; to beat with preternatural violence or rapidity, as the heart in terror, or after hard labor, or in anxious desire or suspense.
 Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake.
2.  To have the breast heaving, as in short respiration or want of breath.
 Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
3.  To play with intermission or declining strength.
 The whispering breeze
 Pants on the leaves and dies upon the trees.
4.  To long; to desire ardently.
 Who pants for glory, finds but short repose.
 As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Ps.42.
P`ANT, n.  Palpitation of the heart.


Topic: Pantaloon
Definition:
PANTALOON', n.
1.  A garment for males in which breeches and stockings are in a piece; a species of close long trowsers extending to the heels.
2.  A character in the Italian comedy,and a buffoon in pantomimes; so called from his close dress.


Topic: Pantheism
Definition:
PAN'THEISM, n. [Gr. all, and God, whence theism.]  The doctrine that the universe is God, or the system of theology in which it is maintained that the universe is the supreme God.


Topic: Pantheist
Definition:
PANTHE'IST, n.  One that believes the universe to be God; a name given to the followers of Spinosa.
 The earliest Grecian pantheist of whom we read is Orpheus.


Topic: Pantheon
Definition:
PANTHE'ON, n. [Gr. all, and God.]  A temple or magnificent edifice at Rome, dedicated to all the gods.  It is now converted into a church.  It was built or embellished by Agrippa, son-in-law to Augustus, is of a round or cylindrical form, with a spherical dome, and 144 feet in diameter.


Topic: Panther
Definition:
PAN'THER, n. [L. from Gr.]  A fierce, ferocious quadruped of the genus Felis, of the size of a large dog, with short hair, of a yellow color, diversified with roundish black spots.  This animal is carnivorous, and will climb trees in pursuit of small animals.  It is a native of Africa.  The name is also applied to other species of the genus.


Topic: Panting
Definition:
P`ANTING, ppr.  [See Pant.]  Palpitating; breathing with a rapid succession of inspirations and expirations; longing.
P`ANTING, n.  Palpitation; rapid breathing; longing.


Topic: Pantograph
Definition:
PAN'TOGRAPH, n. [Gr. all, and to describe.]  A mathematical instrument so formed as to copy any sort of drawing or design.


Topic: Pantometer
Definition:
PANTOM'ETER, n. [Gr. all, and to measure.]  An instrument for measuring all sorts of elevations, angles and distances.


Topic: Pantomime
Definition:
PAN'TOMIME, n. [L. pantomimus; Gr. all, and a mimic.]
1.  One that imitates all sorts of actions and characters without speaking; one that expresses his meaning by mute action.  The pantomimes of antiquity used to express in gestures and action, whatever the chorus sung, changing their countenance and behavior as the subject of the song varied.
2.  A scene or representation in dumb show.
3.  A species of musical entertainment.
PAN'TOMIME, a.  Representing only in mute action.


Topic: Pap
Definition:
PAP, n. [L. papilla.]  A nipple of the breast; a teat.
PAP, n. [Low L. papa.]
1.  A soft food for infants, made with bread boiled or softened with water.
2.  The pulp of fruit.
PAP, v.t.  To feed with pap.


Topic: Papal
Definition:
PA'PAL, a.  Belonging to the pope or pontiff of Rome; popish; as papal authority; the papal chair.
1.  Proceeding from the pope; as a papal license or indulgence; a papal edict.
2. Annexed to the bishopric of Rome.


Topic: Papaverous
Definition:
PAPAV'EROUS, a. [L. papavereus, from papaver,a poppy.]
Resembling the poppy; of the nature or qualities of poppies.


Topic: Papaw
Definition:
PAPAW', n.  The carica papaya, a tree growing in warm climates to the highth of eighteen or twenty feet, with a soft herbaceous stem, naked nearly to the top, where the leaves issue on every side on long foot-stalks.  Between the leaves grow the flower and the fruit, which is of the size of a melon.  The juice is acrid and milky, but the fruit when boiled is eaten with meat, like other vegetables.
1.  The papaw of North America belongs to the genus Annona or custard apple.


Topic: Paper
Definition:
PA'PER, n. [L. papyrus, the name of an Egyptian plant, from which was made a kind of paper.]
1.  A substance formed into thin sheets on which letters and figures are written or printed. Paper is made of different materials; but among us it is usually made of linen or cotton rags.  A fine paper is made of silk, particularly for bank-notes,which require to be very thin.
2.  A piece of paper.
3.  A single sheet printed or written; as a daily paper; a weekly paper; a periodical paper; referring to essays, journals,newspapers, &c.
4.  Any written instrument, whether note, receipt, bill, invoice, bond, memorial, deed, and the like.  The papers lie on the speaker's table.
 They brought a paper to me to be signed.
5.  A promissory note or notes or a bill of exchange; as negotiable paper.
6.  Hangings printed or stamped; paper for covering the walls of rooms.
PA'PER, a.  Made of paper; consisting of paper.
1.  Thin; slight; as a paper wall.
PA'PER, v.t.  To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.
1.  To register. [Not used.]
2.  To fold or inclose in paper.


Topic: Paper-credit
Definition:
PAPER-CRED'IT, n.  Evidences of debt; promissory notes, &c. passing current in commercial transactions.
1.  Notes or bills emitted by public authority, promising the payment of money.  The revolution in N. America was carried on by means of paper-credit.


Topic: Paper-money
Definition:
PAPER-MONEY, n.  Notes or bills issued by authority, and promising the payment of money, circulated as the representative of coin.  We apply the word to notes or bills issued by a state or by a banking corporation; rarely or never to private notes or bills of exchange, though the latter may be included.


Topic: Papilio
Definition:
PAPIL'IO, n. [L.]  A butterfly.  In zoology a genus of insects of numerous species.  These insects are produced from the caterpillar.  The chrysalis is the tomb of the caterpillar and the cradle of the butterfly.


Topic: Papilionaceous
Definition:
PAPILIONA'CEOUS, a.  Resembling the butterfly; a term in botany, used to describe the corols of plants which have the shape of a butterfly,such as that of the pea.  The papilionaceous plants are of the leguminous kind.
The papilionaceous corol is usually four-petaled, having an upper spreading petal, called the banner, two side petals called wings, and a lower petal called the keel.


Topic: Papillose
Definition:
PAP'ILLOSE, a.  Nipply; covered with fleshy dots or points; verrucose; warty; as a papillose leaf.
Covered with soft tubercles, as the ice-plant.


Topic: Pappous
Definition:
PAP'POUS, a. [from L. pappus.]  Downy; furnished with a pappus, as the seeds of certain plants, such as thistles, dandelions, &c.


Topic: Pappus
Definition:
PAP'PUS, n. [L. from Gr. an old man or grandfather,hence a substance resembling gray hairs.]  The soft downy substance that grows on the seeds of certain plants, as on those of the thistle.


Topic: Par
Definition:
P`AR, n. [L. par, equal, paro.]
1.  State of equality; equal value; equivalence without discount or premium.  Bills of exchange are at par, above par, or below par.  Bills are at par, when they are sold at their nominal amount for coin or its equivalent.
2.  Equality in condition.


Topic: Parable
Definition:
PAR'ABLE, n. [L. parabilis.]  Easily procured. [Not used.]
PAR'ABLE, n. [L. parabola; Gr. to throw forward or against, to compare to or against; as in confero, collatum, to set together, or one thing with another.]  A fable or allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction; such as the parable of the trees choosing a king, Judges 9.; the parable of the poor man and his lamb. 2 Sam. 12.; the parable of the ten virgins, Matt.25.
PAR'ABLE, v.t.  To represent by fiction or fable.


Topic: Parabola
Definition:
PARAB'OLA, n. [L. See Parable.]  A conic section arising from cutting a cone by a plane parallel to one of its sides, or parallel to a plane that touches one of its sides.


Topic: Parabolism
Definition:
PARAB'OLISM, n. [from parabola.]  In algebra, the division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved or multiplied in the first term.


Topic: Paraboloid
Definition:
PARAB'OLOID, n. [Gr. form.] In geometry, a paraboliform curve whose ordinates are supposed to be in the subtriplicate, subquadruplicate, &c., ratio of their respective abscissae. Another species is when the parameter multiplied into the square of the abscissae, is equal to the cube of the ordinate. The curve is then called a semi-cubical paraboloid.
A parabolic conoid.  [See conoid.]


Topic: Paracelsian
Definition:
PARACEL'SIAN,n.  A physician who follows the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of celebrity, who lived at the close of the fifteenth century.
PARACEL'SIAN, a.  Denoting the medical practice of Paracelsus.


Topic: Parachronism
Definition:
PARACH'RONISM, n. [Gr. beyond, and time.]  An error in chronology; a mistake in regard to the true date of an event.


Topic: Paraclete
Definition:
PAR'ACLETE, n. [Gr. to call.]  Properly, an advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the consoler, comforter or intercessor,a term applied to the Holy Spirit.


Topic: Parade
Definition:
PARA'DE,n. [L. paro.]
1.  In military affairs, the place where troops assemble for exercise, mounting guard or other purpose.
2.  Show; ostentation; display.
 Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade.
3.  Pompous procession.
 The rites performed, the parson paid,
 In state return'd the grand parade.
4.  Military order; array; as warlike parade.
5.  State of preparation or defense.
6.  The action of parrying a thrust.
PARA'DE, v.t.  To assemble and array or marshal in military order.  The general gave orders to parade the troops.  The troops were paraded at the usual hour.
1.  To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.
PARA'DE, v.i.  To assemble and be marshaled in military order.
1.  To go about in military procession.
2.  To walk about for show.


Topic: Paradigm
Definition:
PARADIGM, n. par'adim. [Gr. example,  to show.]  An example; a model.  In grammar, an example of a verb conjugated in the several modes, tenses and persons.


Topic: Paradise
Definition:
PAR'ADISE, n.  [Gr.]  The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed immediately after their creation.
1.  A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight.
 The earth
 Shall all be paradise--
2.  Heaven, the blissful seat of sanctified souls after death.
 This day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke 23.
3.  Primarily, in Persia, a pleasure-garden with parks and other appendages.


Topic: Paradisea
Definition:
PARADIS'EA, n.  Bird of Paradise, a genus of fowls, natives of the isles in the East Indies and of New Guinea.


Topic: Paradox
Definition:
PAR'ADOX, n.  [Gr. beyond, and opinion; to or suppose.] 
A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion, or seemingly absurd,yet true in fact.
 A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable.


Topic: Paradoxical
Definition:
PARADOX'ICAL, a. Having the nature of a paradox.
1.  Inclined to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions; applied to persons.


Topic: Paragoge
Definition:
PARAGOGE, n. par'agojy. [Gr. a drawing out.]  The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word; as dicier for dici.  This is called a figure in grammar.


Topic: Paragon
Definition:
PAR'AGON, n. [L. par,equal.]
1.  A model or pattern; a model by way of distinction, implying superior excellence or perfection; as a paragon of beauty or eloquence.
2.  A companion; a fellow.
3.  Emulation; a match for trial.
PAR'AGON, v.t.
1.  To compare; to parallel.
 The picture of Pamela, in little form, he wore in a tablet, purposing to paragon the little one with Artesia's length. [Little used.]
2.  To equal. [Little used.]
PAR'AGON, v.i.  To pretend comparison or equality. [Little used.]


Topic: Paragraph
Definition:
PAR'AGRAPH, n. [Gr. a marginal note; to write near or beyond the text; beyond, and to write.]  A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any portion or section of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one sentence or many sentences.  A paragraph is sometimes marked, but more generally, a paragraph is distinguished only by a break in the composition or lines.
PAR'AGRAPH, v.t.  To form or write paragraphs.


Topic: Paralipomena
Definition:
PARALIPOM'ENA, n. [Gr. to omit; beyond, and to leave.]
Things omitted; a supplement containing things omitted in the preceding work. The books of Chronicles are so called.


Topic: Parallax
Definition:
PAR'ALLAX, n. [Gr. to vary, to decline or wander; beyond, and to change.]  In astronomy, the change of place in a heavenly body in consequence of being viewed from different points.
Diurnal parallax, the difference between the place of a celestial body, as seen from the surface, and from the center of the earth, at the same instant.
Annual parallax, the change of place in a heavenly body, in consequence of being viewed at opposite extremities of the earth's orbit.


Topic: Parallel
Definition:
PAR'ALLEL, a. [Gr. against or opposite, and one the other.]
1.  In geometry, extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant. One body or line is parallel to another, when the surfaces of the bodies or the lines are at an equal distance throughout the whole length.
2.  Having the same direction or tendency; running in accordance with something.
 When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.
3.  Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; like; similar; equal in all essential parts; as a parallel case; a parallel passage in the evangelists.
PAR'ALLEL, n. A line which throughout its whole extent is equidistant from another line; as parallels of latitude.
 Who made the spider parallels design,
 Sure as De Moivre without rule or line?
1.  A line on the globe marking the latitude.
2.  Direction conformable to that of another line.
3.  Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; likeness.
 'Twixt earthly females and the moon,
 All parallels exactly run.
4.  Comparison made; as, to draw a parallel between two characters.
5.  Any thing equal to or resembling another in all essential particulars.
 None but thyself can be thy parallel.
PAR'ALLEL, v.t.  To place so as to keep the same direction, and at an equal distance from something else.
1.  To level; to equal.
2.  To correspond to.
3.  To be equal to; to resemble in all essential points.
4.  To compare.


Topic: Parallelogram
Definition:
PARALLEL'OGRAM, n. [Gr.]
1.  In geometry, a right lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel and equal.
2.  In common use,this word is applied to quadrilateral figures of more length than breadth, and this is its sense in the passage cited by Johnson from Brown.


Topic: Parallelopiped
Definition:
PARALLELOPIP'ED, n. [parallel and Gr. on, and a plain.]
In geometry, a regular solid comprehended under six parallelograms,the opposite ones of which are similar, parallel and equal to each other, or it is a prism whose base is a parallelogram. It is always triple to a pyramid of the same base and highth.  Or a parallelopiped is a solid figure bounded by six faces, parallel to each other two and two.


Topic: Parallelopipedia
Definition:
PARALLELOPIPE'DIA, n.  A genus of spars,externally of a determinate and regular figure, always found loose and separate from other bodies, and in the form of an oblique parallelopiped,with six parallelogramic sides and eight solid angles.


Topic: Paralogism
Definition:
PARAL'OGISM, n. [Gr. beyond, and reasoning; discourse, reason.]
In logic, a fallacious argument or false reasoning; an error committed in demonstration, when a consequence is drawn from principles which are false, or though true, are not proved; or when a proposition is passed over that should have been proved by the way.


Topic: Paralysis
Definition:
PARAL'YSIS, n. [Gr. to loosen, dissolve or weaken.]  Palsy; the loss of the power of muscular motion, or of the command of the muscles.


Topic: Parameter
Definition:
PARAM'ETER, n. [ Gr.] 
1.  The latus rectum of a parabola.  It is a third proportional to the abscissa and any ordinate, so that the square of the ordinate is always equal to the rectangle under the parameter and abscissa; but in the ellipsis and hyperbola it has a different proportion.
2. In conic sections, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate. In the parabola, a third proportional to any absciss and its ordinate.


Topic: Paramount
Definition:
PAR'AMOUNT, a.
1.  Superior to all others; possessing the highest title or jurisdiction; as lord paramount, the chief lord of the fee, or of lands, tenements and hereditaments. In England, the king is lord paramount, of whom all the land in the kingdom is supposed to be held.  But in some cases the lord of several manors is called the lord paramount.
2.  Eminent; of the highest order.
3.  Superior to all others; as, private interest is usually paramount to all other considerations.
PAR'AMOUNT, n.  The chief; the highest in rank or order.


Topic: Paranymph
Definition:
PAR'ANYMPH, n. [Gr. by, and a bride or spouse.]
1.  A brideman; one who leads the bride to her marriage.
2.  One who countenances and supports another.


Topic: Parapegm
Definition:
PARAPEGM, n. par'apem. [Gr.]  A brazen table fixed to a pillar, on which laws and proclamations were anciently engraved; also, a table set in a public place, containing an account of the rising and setting of the stars, eclipses, seasons, &c.


Topic: Parapet
Definition:
PAR'APET, n. [L. pectus.]  Literally, a wall or rampart to the breast or breast high; but in practice,a wall, rampart or elevation of earth for covering soldiers from an enemy's shot.


Topic: Paraphernalia
Definition:
PARAPHERNA'LIA, n. [Gr. beyond, and dower.]  The goods which a wife brings with her at her marriage, or which she possesses beyond her dower or jointure, and which remain at her disposal after her husband's death.  Such are her apparel and her ornaments, over which the executors have no control, unless when the assets are insufficient to pay the debts.


Topic: Paraphrase
Definition:
PAR'APHRASE, n. s as z. [Gr. beyond, and phrase.]  An explanation of some text or passage in a book, in a more clear and ample manner than is expressed in the words of the author. Such as the paraphrase of the New Testament by Erasmus.
 In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense.
PAR'APHRASE, v.t.  To explain, interpret or translate with latitude; to unfold the sense of an author with more clearness and particularity than it is expressed in his own words.
PAR'APHRASE, v.i.  To interpret or explain amply; to make a paraphrase.
 Where translation is impracticable, they may paraphrase.


Topic: Paraphrast
Definition:
PAR'APHRAST, n. [Gr.]  One that paraphrases; one that explains or translates in words more ample and clear than the words of the author.


Topic: Paraplegy
Definition:
PAR'APLEGY, n. [Gr. beyond, and stroke; to smite.]
That kind of palsy which affects the lower part of the body.


Topic: Parasang
Definition:
PAR'ASANG, n.  A persian measure of length, which Herodotus states to be thirty stadia, nearly four English miles; but in different times and places, it has been 30, 40 or 50 stadia.


Topic: Paraselene
Definition:
PARASELE'NE, n. [Gr. about or near, and the moon.]  A mock moon; a luminous ring or circle encompassing the moon, in which sometimes are other bright spots bearing some resemblance to the moon.


Topic: Parasite
Definition:
PAR'ASITE, n. [L. parasita; Gr. by, and corn.]
1. In ancient Greece, a priest or minister of the gods whose office was to gather of the husbandman the corn allotted for public sacrifices.  The parasites also superintended the sacrifices.
2.  In modern usage, a trencher friend; one that frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger on; a fawning flatterer.
3.  In botany,a plant growing on the stem or branch of another plant and receiving its nourishment from it, as the mistletoe.


Topic: Parasol
Definition:
PAR'ASOL, n. [L. sol.]  A small umbrella used by ladies to defend themselves from rain, or their faces from the sun's rays.


Topic: Parathesis
Definition:
PARATH'ESIS, n. [Gr.]  In grammar, apposition, or the placing of two or more nouns in the same case.


Topic: Paravail
Definition:
PARAVA'IL, a.  In feudal law, the tenant paravail, is the lowest tenant holding under a mean or mediate lord, as distinguished from a tenant in capite, who holds immediately of the king.


Topic: Parboil
Definition:
P`ARBOIL, v.t.
1.  To boil in part; to boil in a moderate degree.
2.  To cause little pustules or pushes on the skin by means of heat; as parboiled wretches.


Topic: Parcel
Definition:
P`ARCEL, n. [L. particula, particle, from pars, part.]
1.  A part; a portion of any thing taken separately.
 The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg.
2.  A quantity; any mass.
3.  A part belonging to a whole; as in law, one piece of ground is part and parcel of a greater piece.
4.  A small bundle or package of goods.
5.  A number of persons; on contempt.
6.  A number or quantity; in contempt; as a parcel of fair words.
P`ARCEL, v.t.  To divide into parts or portions; as, to parcel an estate among heirs.
 These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
1.  To make up into a mass. [Little used.]
To parcel a seam, in seamen's language, to lay canvas over it and daub it with pitch.


Topic: Parceling
Definition:
P`ARCELING, ppr.  Dividing into portions.
P`ARCELING, n.  Among seamen, long narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and bound about a rope like a bandage, before it is sewed.  It is used also to raise a mouse on the stays, &c.


Topic: Parcenary
Definition:
P`ARCENARY, n.  Co-heirship; the holding or occupation of lands of inheritance by two or more persons.  It differs from joint-tenancy, which is created by deed or devise; whereas parcenary, or co-parcenary, is created by the descent of lands from an ancestor.


Topic: Parcener
Definition:
P`ARCENER, n. [L. pars.]  Parcener or co-parcener is a co-heir, or one who holds lands by descent from an ancestor in common with another or with others; as when land descends to a man's daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or their representatives.  In this case, all the heirs inherit as parceners or co-heirs.


Topic: Parch
Definition:
P`ARCH, v.t.  [I know not from what source we have received this word.  It corresponds in elements with the Italian bruciare, to burn or roast. Qu. L. peraresco.]
1.  To burn the surface of a thing; to scorch; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.
2.  To dry to extremity; as, the heat of the sun's rays parches the ground; the mouth is parched with thirst.
P`ARCH, v.i.  To be scorched or superficially burnt; as, corn will dry and parch into barley.
1.  To become very dry.


Topic: Parching
Definition:
P`ARCHING, ppr. Scorching; drying to extremity.
1.  a. Having the quality of burning or drying; as the parching heat of African sands.


Topic: Parchment
Definition:
P`ARCHMENT, [L. pergamena; purgo]  The skin of a sheep or goat dressed or prepared and rendered fit for writing on.  This is done by separating all the flesh and hair, rubbing the skin with pumice stone, and reducing its thickness with a sharp instrument. Vellum is made of the skins of abortive or very young calves.


Topic: Pard
Definition:
P`ARD, n. [L. pardus.]  The leopard; or in poetry, any spotted beast.  Instead of pard, we generally use leopard,the lion-pard.  Pardale, from the Latin pardalis, is not used.


Topic: Pardon
Definition:
P`ARDON, v.t. [L. per and dono, to give; per having the sense of the English for in forgive, and re in L. remitto, properly to give back or away.]
1.  To forgive; to remit; as an offense or crime.  Guilt implies a being bound or subjected to censure, penalty or punishment.  To pardon, is to give up this obligation, and release the offender. We apply the word to the crime or to the person.  We pardon an offense, when we remove it from the offender and consider him as not guilty; we pardon the offender, when we release or absolve him from his liability to suffer punishment.
 I pray thee, pardon my sin. 1 Sam.15.
2.  To remit, as a penalty.
 I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.
3.  To excuse, as for a fault.
4.  Pardon me, is a phrase used when one asks for excuse, or makes an apology, and it is often used in this sense, when a person means civilly to deny or contradict what another affirms.
P`ARDON, n.  Forgiveness; the release of an offense or of the obligation of the offender to suffer a penalty, or to bear the displeasure of the offended party.  We seek the pardon of sins, transgressions and offenses.
1.  Remission of a penalty.  An amnesty is a general pardon.
2.  Forgiveness received.


Topic: Pardonable
Definition:
P`ARDONABLE, a.  That may be pardoned; applied to persons.  The offender is pardonable.
1.  Venial; excusable; that may be forgiven, overlooked or passed by; applied to things; as a pardonable offense.


Topic: Pardonableness
Definition:
P`ARDONABLENESS, n.  The quality of being pardonable; venialness; susceptibility of forgiveness; as the pardonableness of sin.


Topic: Pardoner
Definition:
P`ARDONER, n.  One that forgives; one that absolves an offender.
1.  One that sells the pope's indulgences.


Topic: Pare
Definition:
PARE, v.t. [L. paro; Gr. lame; to mutilate; Heb. to create; to cut off.  The primary sense is to thrust or drive, hence to drive off, to separate, to stop by setting or repelling, as in parry, or to drive off or out, as in separating or producing.]
1.  To cut off, as the superficial substance or extremities of a thing; to shave off with a sharp instrument; as, to pare an apple or an orange; to pare the nails; to pare a horse's hoof; to pare land in agriculture.
2.  To diminish by little and little.
 The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy.
When pare is followed by the thing diminished, the noun is in the objective case; as, to pare the nails.  When the thing separated is the object, pare is followed by off or away; as, to pare off the rind of fruit; to pare away redundances.


Topic: Paregoric
Definition:
PAREGOR'IC, a. [Gr. to mitigate.]
Mitigating; assuaging pain; as paregoric elixir.
PAREGOR'IC, n.  A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne.


Topic: Parelcon
Definition:
PAREL'CON, n. [Gr. to draw out.]  In grammar, the addition of a word or syllable to the end of another.


Topic: Parembole
Definition:
PAREMBOLE, n. parem'boly. [Gr. insertion.]  In rhetoric,the insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period.  It differs from the parenthesis only in this; the parembole relates to the subject,the parenthesis is foreign from it.


Topic: Parenchyma
Definition:
PAREN'CHYMA, n. [Gr. to suffuse.]
1. In anatomy, the solid and interior part of the viscera, or the substance contained in the interstices between the blood vessels of the viscera; a spungy substance.
 Parenchyma is the substance or basis of the glands.
2.  In botany,the pith or pulp of plants.


Topic: Parent
Definition:
PA'RENT, n. [L. parens, from pario, to produce or bring forth.  The regular participle of pario is pariens,and parens is the regular participle of pareo, to appear.]
1.  A father or mother; he or she that produces young.  The duties of parents to their children are to maintain, protect and educate them.
 When parents are wanting in authority, children are wanting in duty.
2.  That which produces; cause; source.
 Idleness is the parent of vice.
 Regular industry is the parent of sobriety.


Topic: Parentage
Definition:
PAR'ENTAGE, n.  Extraction; birth; condition with respect to the rank of parents; as a man of mean parentage; a gentleman of noble parentage.


Topic: Parental
Definition:
PARENT'AL, a.  Pertaining to parents; as parental government.
1.  Becoming parents; tender; affectionate; as parental care of solicitude.


Topic: Parenthesis
Definition:
PAREN'THESIS, n. [Gr. to insert.]  A sentence, or certain words inserted in a sentence, which interrupt the sense or natural connection of words, but serve to explain or qualify the sense of the principal sentence. The parenthesis is usually included in hooks or curved lines, thus.
 These officers, whom they still call bishops, are to be elected to a provision comparatively mean, through the same arts, (that is, electioneering arts,) by men of all religious tenets that are known or can be invented.
 Do not suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis.


Topic: Parentheticical
Definition:
PARENTHET'IC'ICAL, a.  Pertaining to a parenthesis; expressed in a parenthesis.
1.  Using parenthesis.


Topic: Pargasite
Definition:
P`ARGASITE, n. [from the isle Pargas, in Finland.]  A mineral of a grayish or bluish green, in rounded grains, with a dull, dun surface, rarely bright; or in crystals in carbonate of lime, in little plates mixed with lamellar mica; a variety of actinolite.


Topic: Parget
Definition:
P`ARGET, n.  Gypsum or plaster stone.
1.  Plaster laid on roofs or walls.
2.  Paint.
Parget is applied to the several kinds of gypsum, which when slightly calcined, is called plaster of Paris, and is used in casting statues, in stucco for floors, ceilings, &c.


Topic: Parhelion
Definition:
PARHE'LION, n. [Gr. near, and the sun.]  A mock sun or meteor, appearing in the form of a bright light near the sun; sometimes tinged with colors like the rainbow, with a luminous train.


Topic: Parietal
Definition:
PARIE'TAL, a. [from L. paries, a wall, properly a partition wall, from the root of part or pare.]  Pertaining to a wall.
1.  The parietal bones form the sides and upper part of the skull. They are so called because they defend the brain like walls.


Topic: Paring
Definition:
PA'RING, ppr.  Cutting or shaving off the extremities.
PA'RING, n.  That which is pared off; rind separated from fruit; a piece clipped off.
1.  The act or practice of cutting off the surface of grass land, for tillage.


Topic: Parish
Definition:
PAR'ISH, n. [Low L. parochia; Gr. a dwelling or near residence; near, and house, or to dwell; or more probably from the Gr. a salary or largess, an allowance for support; to afford, yield or supply, whence L. parocha, entertainment given to embassadors at the public expense.  If parish is to be deduced from either of these sources, it is probably from the latter, and parish is equivalent to benefice, living, as prebend, from L. proebeo.
1.  The precinct or territorial jurisdiction of a secular priest, or the precinct, the inhabitants of which belong to the same church.
2.  In some of the American states, parish is an ecclesiastical society not bounded by territorial limits; but the inhabitants of a town belonging to one church, though residing promiscuously among the people belonging to another church, are called a parish.  This is particularly the case in Massachusetts.  In Connecticut, the legal appellation of such a society is ecclesiastical society.
PAR'ISH, a.  Belonging to a parish; having the spiritual charge of the inhabitants belonging to the same church; as a parish priest.
1.  Belonging to a parish; as a parish church; parish records.
2.  Maintained by the parish; as parish poor.


Topic: Parity
Definition:
PAR'ITY, n. [L. par, equal.  See Pair and Peer.]
1.  Equality; as parity of reason.
2.  Equality; like state or degree; as a parity of orders or persons.


Topic: Park
Definition:
P`ARK, n. [L. parcus, saving.]  A large piece of ground inclosed and privileged for wild beasts of chase, in England, by the king's grant or by prescription.  To constitute a park, three things are required; a royal grant or license; inclosure by pales, a wall or hedge; and beasts of chase, as deer, &c.
Park of artillery, or artillery park, a place in the rear of both lines of any army for encamping the artillery, which is formed in lines, the guns in front, the ammunition wagons behind the guns, and the pontoons and tumbrils forming the third line.  The whole is surrounded with a rope.  The gunners and matrosses encamp on the flanks; the bombardiers, pontoon-men and artificers in the rear.
Also, the whole train of artillery belonging to an army or division of troops.
Park of provisions, the place where the settlers pitch their tents and sell provisions, and that where the bread wagons are stationed.
P`ARK, v.t.  To inclose in a park.


Topic: Parley
Definition:
P`ARLEY, v.i.  [L. fero, or pario.]  In a general sense, to speak with another; to discourse; but appropriately, to confer with on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, to confer with an enemy; to treat with by words; as on an exchange of prisoners, on a cessation of arms, or the subject of peace.
P`ARLEY, n.  Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; but appropriately, a conference with an enemy in war.
 We yield on parley, but are storm'd in vain.
To beat a parley, in military language, to beat a drum or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy.


Topic: Parliament
Definition:
P`ARLIAMENT, n.  Literally, a speaking, conference, mutual discourse or consultation; hence,
1.  In Great Britain, the grand assembly of the three estates, the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the commons; the general council of the nation constituting the legislature, summoned by the king's authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.  Primarily, the king may be considered as a constituent branch of parliament; but the word is generally used to denote the three estates above named, consisting of two distinct branches, the house of lords and house of commons.
The word parliament was introduced into England under the Norman kings. The supreme council of the nation was called under the Saxon kings, wittenage-mote, the meeting of wise men or sages.
2.  The supreme council of Sweden, consisting of four estates; the nobility and representatives of the gentry; the clergy, one of which body is elected from every rural deanery of ten parishes; the burghers, elected by the magistrates and council of every corporation; and the peasants, elected by persons of their own order.
3.  In France, before the revolution, a council or court consisting of certain noblemen.


Topic: Parlor
Definition:
P`ARLOR, n.  Primarily, the apartment in a nunnery where the nuns are permitted to meet and converse with each other; hence with us, the room in a house which the family usually occupy when they have no company, as distinguished from a drawing room intended for the reception of company, or from a dining room, when a distinct apartment is allotted for that purpose.  In most houses, the parlor is also the dining room.


Topic: Parody
Definition:
PAR'ODY, n.  [Gr. ode.]
1.  A  kind of writing in which the words of an author or his thoughts are, by some slight alterations, adapted to a different purpose; a kind of poetical pleasantry, in which verses written on one subject, are altered and applied to another by way of burlesque.
2.  A popular maxim, adage or proverb.
PAR'ODY, v.t.  To alter, as verses or words, and apply to a purpose different from that of the original.
 I have translated, or rather parodied a poem of Horace.


Topic: Paronomasy
Definition:
PARONOM'ASY , n. [from Gr. to transgress law or rule.]
A rhetorical figure, by which words nearly alike in sound, but of different meanings, are affectedly or designedly used; a play upon words; a pun.  [See Pun.]


Topic: Parotis
Definition:
PARO'TIS, n. [Gr.  See Parotid.]
1.  The parotid gland; a secreting salivary conglomerate gland below and before the ear.
2.  An inflammation or abscess of the parotid gland.


Topic: Paroxysm
Definition:
PAR'OXYSM, n. [Gr. to excite or sharpen; and sharp.]  An exasperation or exacerbation of a disease; a fit of higher excitement or violence in a disease that has remissions or intermissions; as the paroxysm of a fever or gout.


Topic: Parphrastictical
Definition:
PARPHRAS'TIC'TICAL, a.  Free, clear and ample in explanation; explaining or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not verbal or literal.


Topic: Parrel
Definition:
PAR'REL, n. [L. paro.  It coincides with apparel, which see.]
Among seamen, an apparatus or frame made or ropes, trucks and ribs, so contrived as to go round the mast, and being fastened at both ends to a yard, serves to hoist it.


Topic: Parridicious
Definition:
PARRIDIC'IOUS, a. [See Parricide.]  Pertaining to parricide; containing the crime of murdering a parent or child.
1.  Committing parricide.


Topic: Parrot
Definition:
PAR'ROT, n.
1.  The name of fowls of the genus Psittacus, of numerous species.  The bill is hooked and the upper mandible movable.  The hooked bill of the parrot is used in climbing.  These fowls are found almost every where in tropical climates.  They breed in hollow trees and subsist on fruits and seeds.  They are also remarkable for the faculty of making indistinct articulations of words in imitation of the human voice.
2.  A fish found among the Bahama isles, esteemed to be delicate food and remarkable for the richness of its colors.


Topic: Parry
Definition:
PAR'RY, v.t.
1. In fencing, to ward off; to stop or to put or turn by; as, to parry a thrust.
2.  To ward off; to turn aside; to prevent a blow from taking effect.
3. To avoid; to shift off.
 The French government has parried the payment of our claims.
PAR'RY, v.i.  To ward off; to put by thrusts or strokes; to fence.


Topic: Parse
Definition:
PARSE, v.t. p`ars. [from L. pars, part.]  In grammar, to resolve a sentence into its elements, or to show the several parts of speech composing a sentence, and their relation to each other by government or agreement.


Topic: Parsimonious
Definition:
PARSIMO'NIOUS, a. [See Parsimony.]  Sparing in the use or expenditure of money; covetous; near; close.  It differs from frugal, in implying more closeness or narrowness of mind, or an attachment to property somewhat excessive, or a disposition to spend less money that is necessary or honorable.
 Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long parsimonious war will drain us of more men and money.
[It is sometimes used in a good sense for frugal.]


Topic: Parsimony
Definition:
P`ARSIMONY, n. [L. parsimonia, from parcus, saving,literally close; Eng. park.]  Closeness or sparingness in the use or expenditure of money; sometimes used perhaps in a good sense, implying due or justifiable caution in expenditure, in which sense it differs little from frugality and economy.  More generally, it denotes an excessive caution or closeness; in which case, it is allied to covetousness, but it implies less meanness than niggardliness. It generally implies some want of honorable liberality.
 The ways to enrich are many; parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent, for it withholdeth men from works of liberality.


Topic: Parsley
Definition:
P`ARSLEY, n. [L. petroselinon; Gr. a stone, and parsley; stone-parsley, a plant growing among rocks.]  A plant of the genus Apium.  The leaves of parsley are used in cookery, and the root is an aperient medicine.


Topic: Parsnep
Definition:
P`ARSNEP, n. [L. napus, which occurs also in turnep.]  A plant of the genus Pastinaca.  The root of the garden parsnep is deemed a valuable esculent.


Topic: Parson
Definition:
PARSON, n. p`arsn.
1.  The priest of a parish or ecclesiastical society; the rector or incumbent of a parish, who has the parochial charge or cure of souls.  It is used in this sense by all denominations of christians; but among independents or congregationalists it is merely a colloquial word.
2.  A clergyman; a man that is in orders or has been licensed to preach.


Topic: Parsonage
Definition:
P`ARSONAGE, n. In America, the glebe and house belonging to a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance of the incumbent or settled pastor of a church.
1.  In England, the benefice of a parish, or the house appropriated to the residence of the incumbent.
Parsonically, in Chesterfield, is not an authorized word.


Topic: Part
Definition:
P`ART, n. [L. pars, partis.]
1.  A portion, piece or fragment separated from a whole thing; as, to divide an orange into five parts.
2.  A portion or quantity of a thing not separated in fact, but considered or mentioned by itself. In what part of England is Oxford situated?  So we say, the upper part or lower part, the fore part, a remote part, a small part, or a great part.
 The people stood at the nether part of the mount. Ex.19.
3.  A portion of number, separated or considered by itself; as a part of the nation or congregation.
4.  A portion or component particle; as the component parts of a fossil or metal.
5.  A portion of man; as the material part or body,or the intellectual part, the soul or understanding; the perishable part; the immortal part.
6.  A member.
 All the parts were formed in his mind into one harmonious body.
7.  Particular division; distinct species or sort belonging to a whole; as all the parts of domestic business or of a manufacture.
8.  Ingredient in a mingled mass; a portion in a compound.
9.  That which falls to each in division; share; as, let me bear my part of the danger.
    10. Proportional quantity; as four parts of lime with three of sand.
    11. Share; concern; interest.
 Sheba said, we have no part in David. 2 Sam.20.
    12. Side; party; interest; faction.
 And make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.
    13. Something relating or belonging to; that which concerns; as for your part; for his part; for her part.
 For my part, I have no servile end in my labor.
    14. Share of labor, action or influence; particular office or business.
 Accuse not nature, she hath done her part,
 Do thou but thine.
    15. Character appropriated in a play. The parts of the comedy were judiciously cast and admirable performed.
    16. Action; conduct.
    17. In mathematics, such a portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity. Thus 3 is a part of 12. It is the opposite of multiple.
Parts, in the plural, qualities; powers; faculties; accomplishments.
 Such licentious parts tend for the most part to the hurt of the English--
Parts, applied to place, signifies quarters, regions, districts.
 When he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece.  Acts.20.
 All parts resound with tumults, plaints and fears.
In general, parts is used for excellent or superior endowments, or more than ordinary talents.  This is what we understand by the phrase, a man of parts.
In good part, as well done; favorably; acceptably; in a friendly manner; not in displeasure.
 God accepteth it in good part at the hands of faithful man.ill part, as ill done; unfavorably; with displeasure.
For the most part, commonly; oftener than otherwise.
In part, in some degree or extent; partly.
Logical part, among schoolmen, a division of some universal as its whole; in which sense, species are parts of a genus, and individuals are parts of a species.
Physical parts, are of two kinds,homogeneous and heterogeneous; the first is of the same denomination; the second of different ones.
Aliquot part, is a quantity which being repeated any number of times, becomes equal to an integer. Thus 6 is an aliquot part of 24.
Aliquant part, is a quantity which being repeated any number of times, becomes greater or less than the whole, as 5 is an aliquant part of 17.
Part of speech, in grammar, a sort or class of words of a particular character. Thus the noun is part of speech, denoting the names of things, or those vocal sounds which usage has attached to things.  The verb is a part of speech expressing motion, action or being.
P`ART, v.t. [L. partio.]
1.  To divide, separate or break; to sever into two or more pieces.
2.  To divide into shares; to distribute.  Acts.2.
3.  To separate or disunite, as things which are near each other. Ruth 1.
4.  To keep asunder; to separate.  A narrow sea parts England from France.
5.  To separate, as combatants. Night parted the armies.
6.  To secern; to secrete.
 The liver minds his own affair,
 And parts and strains the vital juices.
7.  In seamen's language, to break; as, the ship parted her cables.
8.  To separate metals.
P`ART, v.i.  To be separated, removed or detached.
 Powerful hands will not part
 Easily from possession won with arms.
1.  To quit each other.
 He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.
2.  To take or bid farewell.
3.  To have a share.
 They shall part alike.  1 Sam.30.
4.  To go away; to depart.
 Thy father
 Embraced me, parting for th' Etrurian land.
5.  To break; to be torn asunder.  The cable parted.part with, to quit; to resign; to lose; to be separated from; as, to part with near friends.
 Celia, for thy sake I part
 With all that grew so near my heart.


Topic: Partake
Definition:
PARTA'KE, v.i. pret. partook; pp. partaken. [part and take.]
1.  To take a part, portion or share in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; usually followed by of, sometimes less properly by in.  All men partake of the common bounties of Providence.  Clodius was at the feast,but could not partake of the enjoyments.
2.  To have something of the property, nature, claim or right.
 The attorney of the duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney general.
3.  To be admitted; not to be excluded.
PARTA'KE, v.t.  To have a part in; to share.
 My royal father lives;
 Let every one partake the general joy.
[This is probably elliptical, of being omitted.]
1.  To admit to a part. [Not used.]


Topic: Partaker
Definition:
PARTA'KER, n.  One who has or takes a part, share or portion in common with others; a sharer; a participator; usually followed by of.
 If the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things-- Rom.15.
 Sometimes followed by in.
 Wish me partaker in thy happiness--
 If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Matt.23.
1.  An accomplice; an associate.
 When thou sawest a thief,thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Ps.1.


Topic: Partaking
Definition:
PARTA'KING, ppr. Sharing with others; participating. 
PARTA'KING, n.  An associating; combination in an evil design.


Topic: Parterre
Definition:
PARTERRE, n.  parta're.  In gardening, a level division of ground furnished with evergreens and flowers; sometimes cut into shell and scroll work with alleys.


Topic: Partial
Definition:
P`ARTIAL, a. [L. pars.]
1.  Biased to one party; inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more than the other; not indifferent.  It is important to justice that a judge should not be partial.
 Self-love will make men partial to themselves and friends.
2.  Inclined to favor without reason.  Authors are partial to their wit, and critics to their judgment.
3.  Affecting a part only; not general or universal; not total. It has been much disputed whether the deluge was partial or total.
 All partial evil, universal good.
4.  More strongly inclined to one thing than to others. [Colloquial.]
5.  In botany, subordinate; applied to subdivisions; as a partial umbel or umbellicle; a partial peduncle.  A partial involucre is placed at the foot of a partial umbel.


Topic: Partiality
Definition:
PARTIALITY, n.  parshal'ity.  Inclination to favor one party or one side of a question more than the other; an undue bias of mind towards one party or side, which is apt to warp the judgment.  Partiality springs from the will and affections, rather than from a love of truth and justice.
1.  A stronger inclination to one thing than to others; as a partiality for poetry or painting; a colloquial use.


Topic: Partially
Definition:
P`ARTIALLY, adv.  With undue bias of mind to one party or side; with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially.
1.  In part; not totally; as, the story may be partially true; the body may be partially affected with disease; the sun and moon are often partially eclipsed.


Topic: Partibility
Definition:
PARTIBILITY, n. [See Partible.]  Susceptibility of division, partition or severance; separability; as the partibility of an inheritance.


Topic: Partible
Definition:
P`ARTIBLE, a.  Divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible.


Topic: Participant
Definition:
PARTIC'IPANT, a. [See Participate.]  Sharing; having a share or part; followed by of.
 The prince saw he should confer with one participant of more than monkish speculations.
PARTIC'IPANT, n.  A partaker; one having a share or part.


Topic: Participate
Definition:
PARTIC'IPATE, v.i. [L. participo; pars, part, and capio, to take.]
1.  To partake; to have a share in common with others.  The heart of sensibility participates in the sufferings of a friend.  It is sometimes followed by of.
 He would participate of their wants.
2.  To have part of more things than one.
 Few creatures participate of the nature of plants and metals both.
PARTIC'IPATE,v.t.  To partake; to share; to receive a part of.
 Fellowship
 Such as I seek, fit to participate
 All rational delight--


Topic: Participation
Definition:
PARTICIPA'TION, n.  The state of sharing in common with others; as a participation of joys or sorrows.
1.  The act or state of receiving or having part of something.
 Those deities are so by participation, and subordinate to the Supreme.
2.  Distribution; division into shares.


Topic: Participial
Definition:
PARTICIP'IAL, a. [L. participialis.  See Participle.]
1.  Having the nature and use of a participle.
2.  Formed from a participle; as a participial noun.


Topic: Participle
Definition:
P`ARTICIPLE, n. [L. participium, from participo; pars, part, and capio,to take.]
1.  In grammar, a word so called because it partakes of the properties of a noun and of a verb; as having, making, in English; habens, faciens, in Latin.  The English participles having, making, become nouns by prefixing the to them; as the having of property; the making of instruments.  But all participles do not partake of the properties of a noun, as the passive participles for example, had, made.
Participles sometimes lose the properties of a verb and become adjectives, as willing, in the phrase, a willing heart; engaging, as engaging manners; accomplished, as an accomplished orator.
2.  Any thing that participates of different things. [Not used.]


Topic: Particle
Definition:
P`ARTICLE, n. [L. particula, from pars, part.]
1.  A minute part or portion of matter; as a particle of sand, of lime or of light.
2. In physics, a minute part of a body, an aggregation or collection of which constitutes the whole body or mass.  The word is sometimes used in the same sense as atom, in the ancient Epicurean philosophy, and corpuscle in the latter.  In this sense, particles are the elements or constituent parts of bodies.
3.  Any very small portion or part; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue; he would not resign a particle of his property.
4.  In the Latin church, a crumb or little piece of consecrated bread.
5.  In grammar, a word that is not varied or inflected; as a preposition.
Organic particles, very minute moving bodies,perceptible only by the help of the microscope, discovered in the semen of animals.


Topic: Particular
Definition:
PARTIC'ULAR, a. [Low L. particularis, from particula.]
1.  Pertaining to a single person or thing; not general; as, this remark has a particular application.
2.  Individual; noting or designating a single thing by way of distinction. Each plant has its particular nutriment. Most persons have a particular trait of character.  He alludes to a particular person.
3.  Noting some property or thing peculiar.
 Of this prince there is little particular memory.
4.  Attentive to things single or distinct; minute.  I have been particular in examining the reasons of this law.
5.  Single; not general.
6.  Odd; singular; having something that eminently distinguishes one from others.
7.  Singularly nice in taste; as a man very particular in his diet or dress.
8.  Special; more than ordinary.  He has brought no particular news.
9.  Containing a part only; as a particular estate, precedent to the estate in remainder.
    10. Holding a particular estate; as a particular tenant.
PARTIC'ULAR, n.  A single instance; a single point.
 I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal.
1.  A distinct, separate or minute part; as, he told me all the particulars of the story.
2.  An individual; a private person.
3.  Private interest; as, they apply their minds to those branches of public prayer, wherein their own particular is moved.  [Not in use.]
4.  Private character; state of an individual.
 For his particular, I will receive him gladly.  [Not in use.]
5.  A minute detail of things singly enumerated.
 The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. [Not in use.]
In particular, specially; peculiarly; distinctly.
 This, in particular, happens to the lungs.


Topic: Particularity
Definition:
PARTICULAR'ITY, n.  Distinct notice or specification of particulars.
 --Even descending to particularities, what kingdoms he should overcome.
1.  Singleness; individuality; single act; single case.
2.  Petty account; minute incident.
 To see the titles that were most agreeable to such an emperor--with the like particularities--
3.  Something belonging to single persons.
4.  Something peculiar or singular.
 I saw an old heathen altar with this particularity,that it was hollowed like a dish at one end, but not the end on which the sacrifice was laid.
5.  Minuteness in detail.  He related the story with great particularity.


Topic: Particularize
Definition:
PARTIC'ULARIZE, v.t.  To mention distinctly or in particulars; to enumerate or specify in detail.
 He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite,but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.
PARTIC'ULARIZE, v.i.  To be attentive to single things.


Topic: Particularly
Definition:
PARTIC'ULARLY, adv.  Distinctly; singly.
1.  In an especial manner.
 This exact propriety of Virgil I particularly regarded as a great part of his character.


Topic: Parting
Definition:
P`ARTING, ppr. [from part.]  Dividing; separating; breaking in pieces.
1.  a. Given at separation; as a parting kiss or look.
2.  Departing; declining; as the parting day.
P`ARTING, n.  Division; separation.  Ezek.21.
1.  In chimistry, an operation by which gold and silver are separated from each other by different menstruums.
2.  In seamen's language, the breaking of a cable by violence.


Topic: Partisan
Definition:
P`ARTISAN, n. s as z.
1.  An adherent to a party or faction.
2.  In war, the commander of a party or detachment of troops, sent on a special enterprise hence,
3.  By way of distinction, a person able in commanding a party, or dexterous in obtaining intelligence, intercepting convoys or otherwise annoying an enemy.
4.  A commander's leading staff.
5.  A kind of halbert.


Topic: Partite
Definition:
P`ARTITE, a. [L. partitus, from partio, to divide.  See Part.]
In botany, divided.  A partite leaf is a simple leaf separated down to the base.


Topic: Partition
Definition:
PARTI'TION, n. [L. partitio, from partio, to divide.]
1.  The act of dividing, or state of being divided.
2.  Division; separation; distinction.
 And good from bad find no partition.
3.  Separate part; as lodged in a small partition.
4.  That by which different parts are separated; as a partition of wood or stone in a building.
5.  Part where separation is made.
 No sight could pass
 Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
6.  Division of an estate into severalty, which is done by deed of partition.


Topic: Partner
Definition:
P`ARTNER, n. [from part.]  One who partakes or shares with another; a partaker; an associate; as, she is partner of my life, of my joys, of my griefs.
 Those of the race of Shem were no partners in the unbelieving work of the tower.
1.  An associate in any business or occupation; a joint owner of stock or capital, employed in commerce, manufactures or other business.  Men are sometimes partners in a single voyage or adventure, sometimes in a firm or standing company.
2.  One who dances with another, either male or female, as in a contra dance.
3.  A husband or wife.
P`ARTNER, v.t.  To join; to associate with a partner. [Little used.]
Partners, in a ship, pieces of plank nailed round the scuttles in a deck where the masts are placed; also, the scuttles themselves.


Topic: Partnership
Definition:
P`ARTNERSHIP, n. The association of two or more persons for the purpose of undertaking and prosecuting any business, particularly trade or manufactures, at their joint expense. In this case, the connection is formed by contract; each partner furnishing a part of the capital stock and being entitled to a proportional share of profit, or subject to a proportional share of loss; or one or more of the partners may furnish money or stock, and the other or others contribute their services. The duration of the partnership may be limited by the contract, or it may be left indefinite,subject to be dissolved by mutual agreement. A partnership or association of this kind is a standing or permanent company, and is denominated a firm or house. We say, A and B entered into partnership for the importation and sale of goods, or for manufacturing cotton or glass.
Partnerships may be and usually are associations of private persons, not incorporated. In other cases, the company is incorporated.  Banking companies in the United States are usually incorporated, and are essentially partnerships,but do not bear that name.  Manufacturing companies are also frequently incorporated.
1.  Joint interest or property.


Topic: Partridge
Definition:
P`ARTRIDGE, n. [L. perdix.]  A wild fowl of the genus Tatrao.  Latham arranges the partridge and quail in a genus under the name of Perdix, and assigns the grous to the genus Tetrao.  The partridge is esteemed a great delicacy at the table.
 The term partridge is applied in Pennsylvania to the bird called quail in New England, a peculiar species of Perdix; in New England it is applied to the ruffed grous, a species of Tetrao.


Topic: Parturiate
Definition:
PARTU'RIATE, v.i. [L. parturio, from partus, birth, from pario, to bear.]  To bring forth young.  [Little used.]


Topic: Party
Definition:
P`ARTY, n. [L. pars.  See Part.]
1.  A number of persons united in opinion or design, in opposition to others in the community.  It differs from faction, in implying a less dishonorable association, or more justifiable designs.  Parties exist in all governments; and free governments are the hot-beds of party.  Formerly, the political parties in England were called whigs and tories.
2.  One of two litigants; the plaintiff or defendant in a lawsuit.
 The cause of both parties shall come before the judges. Ex.22.
3.  One concerned or interested in an affair.  This man was not a party to the trespass or affray.  He is not a party to the contract or agreement.
4.  Side; persons engaged against each other.
 The peace both parties want, is like to last.
 Small parties make up in diligence what they want in numbers.
5.  Cause; side.
 Aegle came in to make their party good.
6.  A select company invited to an entertainment; as a dining party, a tea party, an evening party.
7.  A single person distinct from or opposed to another.
 If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony,
8.  In military affairs, a detachment or small number of troops sent on a particular duty, as to intercept the enemy's convoy, to reconnoiter, to seek forage, to flank the enemy, &c.is used to qualify other words and may be considered either as part of a compound word, or as an adjective; as party man, party rage, party disputes, &c.


Topic: Party-man
Definition:
P`ARTY-MAN, n.  One of a party; usually, a factious man; a man of violent party principles; an abettor of a party.


Topic: Pash
Definition:
PASH, n. [L. facies, face.]  A face.  [Not used.]
1.  A blow.  [Not used.]
PASH, v.t.  To strike; to strike down. [Not used.]


Topic: Pasigraphy
Definition:
PASIG'RAPHY, n. [Gr. all, and writing.]  A system of universal writing, or a manner of writing that may be understood and used by all nations.


Topic: Pasquin
Definition:
PAS'QUIN, n.  A mutilated statue at Rome, in a corner of the palace of Ursini, so called from a cobbler of that name who was remarkable for his sneers and gibes.  On this statue it has been customary to paste satiric papers.  Hence, a lampoon.


Topic: Pass
Definition:
P`ASS, v.i.  [Eng. pat, and as a noun, a pass, a defile, an ambling, pace; passen, to be fit, to suit; L. patior, whence passion, to suffer, and peto, competo, in the sense of fit; Gr. to walk or step, to suffer; The word pass coincides with L. passus, a step, and this is from pando, L. passus, a step, and this is from pando, to extend; n being casual, the original word was pado.
1.  To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another.  A man may pass on foot, on horseback or in a carriage; a bird and a meteor pass through the air; a ship passes on or through the water; light passes from the sun to the planets; it passes from the sun to the earth in about eight minutes.
2.  To move from one state to another; to alter or change, or to be changed in condition; as, to pass from health to sickness; to pass from just to unjust.
3.  To vanish; to disappear; to be lost.  In this sense, we usually say, to pass away.
 Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.
4.  To be spent; to go on or away progressively.
 The time when the thing existed, is the idea of that space of duration which passed between some fixed period and the being of that thing.
5.  To die; to depart from life. [Little used.]
6.  To be in any state; to undergo; with under; as, to pass under the rod.
7.  To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.
 Neither of these bills has yet passed the house of commons.
8.  To be current; to gain reception or to be generally received. Bank bills pass as a substitute for coin.
 False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.
9.  To be regarded; to be received in opinion or estimation.
 This will not pass for a fault in him, till it is proved to be one in us.
    10. To occur; to be present; to take place; as, to notice what passes in the mind.
    11. To be done.
 Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to defile them.
    12. To determine; to give judgment or sentence.
 Though well we may not pass upon his life.
    13. To thrust; to make a push in fencing or fighting.
   14. To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected. We saw the act, but let it pass.
    15. To move through any duct or opening; as, substances in the stomach that will not pass, not be converted into ailment.
    16. To percolate; to be secreted; as juices that pass from the glands into the mouth.
    17. To be in a tolerable state.
 A middling sort of man was left well enough by his father to pass,but he could never think he had enough, so long as any had more.
    18. To be transferred from one owner to another. The land article passed by livery and seizin.
    19. To go beyond bounds. For this we generally use surpass.
    20. To run or extend; as a line or other thing. The north limit of Massachusetts passes three miles north of the Merrimac.
To come to pass, to happen; to arrive; to come; to be; to exist; a phrase much used in the Scriptures.
To pass away, to move from sight; to vanish.
1.  To be spent; to be lost.
 A good part of their lives passes away without thinking.
To pass by, to move near and beyond. He passed by as we stood in the road.
To pass on, to proceed.
To pass over, to go or move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over to the other side.
To pass into, to unite and blend, as two substances or colors, in such a manner that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.
P`ASS, v.t.  To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness.
1.  To go through or over; as, to pass a river.
2.  To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.
3.  To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart.
4.  To cause to move hastily.
 I had only time to pass my eye over the medals, which are in great number.
5.  To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A to B by deed; to pass a note or bill.
6.  To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter.
7.  To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works.
8.  To procure or cause to go.
 Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.
9.  To put an end to.
 This night
 We'll pass the business privately and well.
    10. To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention.
 I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
    11. To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.
    12. To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.
    13. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill. Hence,
    14. To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.
    15. To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy.
    16. To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.
    17. To surpass; to excel; to exceed.
    18. To thrust; to make a push in fencing.
 To see thee fight, to see thee pass thy puncto.
To pass away, to spend; to waste; as, to pass away the flower of like in idleness.
To pass by, to pass near and beyond.
1.  To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault.
2.  To neglect; to disregard.
 Certain passages of Scripture we cannot pass by without injury to truth.
To pass over, to move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over a river or mountain.
1.  To omit; to overlook or disregard. He passed over one charge without a reply.
P`ASS, n.  A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as a pass between mountains.
1.  A passage; a road.
2.  Permission to pass, to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport.
 A gentleman had a pass to go beyond the seas.
 A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
3.  An order for sending vagrants or impotent persons to their place of abode.
4.  In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as , to make a pass at an antagonist.
5.  State; condition or extreme case; extremity.
 To what a pass are our minds brought.

 Matters have been brought to this pass--


Topic: Pass-parole
Definition:
P`ASS-PARO'LE, n. [pass and parole.]  In military affairs, a command given at the head of an army and communicated by word of mouth to the rear.


Topic: Passable
Definition:
P`ASSABLE, a.  That may be passed, traveled or navigated.  The roads are not passable. The stream is passable in boats.
1.  That may be penetrated; as a substance passable by a fluid.
2.  Current; receivable; that may be or is transferred from hand to hand; as bills passable in lieu of coin.  False coin is not passable.
3.  Popular; well received.
4.  Supportable.  [This should be passible.]


Topic: Passage
Definition:
P`ASSAGE, n.
1.  The act of passing or moving by land or water, or through the air or other substance; as the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a fowl; the passage of light or a meteor; the passage of fluids through the pores of the body, or from the glands. Clouds intercept the passage of solar rays.
2.  The time of passing from one place to another. What passage had you?  We had a passage of twenty five days to Havre de Grace, and of thirty eight days from England.
3.  Road; way; avenue; a place where men or things may pass or be conveyed.
 And with his pointed dart,
 Explores the nearest passage to this heart.
4.  Entrance or exit.
 What! are my doors opposed against my passage?
5.  Right of passing; as, to engage a passage on board a ship bound to India.
6.  Occurrence; event; incident; that which happens; as a remarkable passage in the life of Newton.  [See the Spanish verb, supra. This sense is obsolescent.]
7.  A passing away; decay. [Little used.]
8.  Intellectual admittance; mental reception.
 Among whom I expect this treatise will have a fairer passage than among those deeply imbued with other principles.
9.  Manner of being conducted; management.
 On consideration of the conduct and passage of affairs in former times--
    10. Part of a book or writing; a single clause, place or part of indefinite extent.
 How commentators each dark passage shun.
    11. Enactment; the act of carrying through all the regular forms necessary to give validity; as the passage of a law, or of a bill into a law, by a legislative body.
Bird of passage, a fowl that passes at certain seasons from one climate to another, as in autumn to the south to avoid the winter's cold, and in spring to the north for breeding.  Hence the phrase is sometimes applied to a man who has no fixed residence.


Topic: Passager
Definition:
P`ASSAGER, n.  A traveler or voyager; one who passes or journeys on foot, in a vehicle, or in a ship or boat.  This word is usually written corruptly passenger, and the first vowel is often short.


Topic: Passerine
Definition:
P`ASSERINE, a. [L. passer, a sparrow.]  Pertaining to sparrows, or to the order of birds to which sparrows belong, the Passeres.


Topic: Passibility
Definition:
PASSIBIL'ITY, n.  The quality or capacity of receiving impressions from external agents; aptness to feel or suffer.


Topic: Passible
Definition:
PAS'SIBLE, a.  Susceptible of feeling or of impressions from external agents.
 Apollinarius held even Deity to be passible.


Topic: Passing
Definition:
P`ASSING, ppr.  Moving; proceeding.
1.  a.  Exceeding; surpassing; eminent.
2.  Adverbially used to enforce or enhance the meaning of another word; exceedingly; as passing fair; passing strange.


Topic: Passing-bell
Definition:
P`ASSING-BELL, n.  The bell that rings at the hour of death to obtain prayers for the passing soul.  It is also used for the bell that rings immediately after death.


Topic: Passing-note
Definition:
P`ASSING-NOTE, n.  In music, a note introduced between two others for the purpose of softening a distance or melodizing a passage.


Topic: Passion
Definition:
PAS'SION, n. [L. passio, from patior, to suffer.]
1.  The impression or effect of an external agent upon a body; that which is suffered or received.
 A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.
2.  Susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
 The differences of moldable and not moldable, &c., and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions.  [Little used.]
3.  Suffering; emphatically, the last suffering of the Savior.
 To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts 1.
4.  The feeling of the mind, or the sensible effect of impression; excitement, perturbation or agitation of mind; as desire, fear, hope,joy, grief,love, hatred.  The eloquence of the orator is employed to move the passions.
5.  Violent agitation or excitement of mind, particularly such as is occasioned by an offense, injury or insult; hence, violent anger.
6.  Zeal; ardor; vehement desire.
 When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.
7.  Love.
 He owned his passion for Amestris.
8.  Eager desire; as a violent passion for fine clothes.
PAS'SION, v.i.  To be extremely agitated.  [Not used.]


Topic: Passion-week
Definition:
PAS'SION-WEEK, n.  The week immediately preceding the festival of Easter; so called because in that week our Savior's passion and death took place.


Topic: Passionate
Definition:
PAS'SIONATE, a.
1.  Easily moved to anger; easily excited or agitated by injury or insult; applied to persons.
 Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate.
2.  Highly excited; vehement; warm; applied to things; as passionate affection; passionate desire; passionate concern.
3.  Expressing strong emotion; animated; as passionate eloquence.
PAS'SIONATE, v.t.  To affect with passion; to express passionately. [Not used.]


Topic: Passionately
Definition:
PAS'SIONATELY, adv. With passion; with strong feeling; ardently; vehemently; as, to covet any thing passionately; to be passionately fond.
1.  Angrily; with vehement resentment; as, to speak passionately.


Topic: Passive
Definition:
P`ASSIVE, a. [L. passivus, from passus, patior, to suffer.]
1.  Suffering; not acting, receiving or capable of receiving impressions from external agents.  We were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
 The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas.
 God is not in any respect passive.
2.  Unresisting; not opposing; receiving or suffering without resistance; as passive obedience; passive submission to the laws.
Passive verb, in grammar, is a verb which expresses passion, or the effect of an action of some agent; as in L. doceor, I am taught; in English, she is loved and admired by her friends; he is assailed by slander.
Passive obedience, as used by writers on government, denotes not only quiet unresting submission to power, but implies the denial of the right of resistance, or the recognition of the duty to submit in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, is  suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet and yielding only to the impulses of grace.
Passive commerce, trade in which the productions of a country are carried by foreigners in their own bottoms.  [See Active commerce.]


